Sermon Tone Analysis

*For several months God has been pressing on my heart the word Revival.

The more that word would come up the more it made me want to look it up and find out what it really means.

What does the Bible say, what churches say, and what does God say.

And mostly why would He put that word Revival on my heart so much.*

* I want to start off by telling you what Noah Webster 1828 American Dictionary says:*

*Revival: Return, recall or recovery to life from death.*

*2) Return or Recall to activity from a state of linger*

*3) Recall, return or recovery from a state of neglect.*

*4) An awakening of men to their spiritual concerns*

*Bible Definition*

*Revival is a work the sovereign God initiates to restore His repentant people to a right relationship with Himself.*

*    Now that we known what the word Revival means, open your Bible with me to the book of *

*Joel 2:28-29*

*/God’s Spirit Poured Out/*

*28**     “And it shall come to pass afterward*

*That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;*

* Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,*

*Your old men shall dream dreams,*

*Your young men shall see visions.*

*29**     And also on /My/ menservants and on /My/ maidservants*

*I will pour out My Spirit in those days.*

*/Pray/*

 

*Wow now that is exciting, See God is working through them (all flesh) to exalt His own Son Jesus as He seeks redeem a lost world through SPIRITUAL AWAKENING!!!!!!!!*

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*   God calls His people (His church) to know Him more intimately or a love relationship.

Then He works through us (the church) to bring a lost world to Him through an awesome SPIRITUAL AWAKENING.

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*With that being said turn to your neighbor and say Revival, you should see yourselves, you look board.

When you drive past a church and read on the sign Revival meeting April 4-8, what do you think about?

Does it excite you?

I’ll answer that for you, NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!*

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*I’ll answer that later,*

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*Church listen, the word Revival has been so watered down and used so much and done so often that it means nothing.

Only God can bring true Revival and it will not start in the church, it will start in the heart and the soul.*

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*Listen to this:*

*Isaiah 43:19*

*19**     Behold, I will do a ** **new thing,*

*Now it shall spring forth;*

*Shall you not know it?*

*I will even make a road in the wilderness*

*/And/** rivers in the desert*.

*Do we need a new thing in our churches today?

You bet we do and I do not mean a new religion or a new way to worship.

I mean people~/ Christians on fire for Christ.

People who are have a Revival on the inside, and when you’re having a Revival on the inside you can’t sit still, that fire can not stay on the, inside it must come out!!!!!!!*

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*The Bible talks in depth many Revival: *

*1)**Acts 11:19-21—The Revival of An-ti- ock (Antioch) where a significant or great number were brought to the Lord.*

*Just to let you know what a great number is, Antioch was the 3rd largest city in the Greco Roman world.

Rome, Alexandria in Egypt, then Antioch.*

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*  Plus Antioch was only 5 miles from the temples of the major pagan deities.*

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*2) Acts 18:8 –The Revival at Corinth that lasted 1 year and 6 months.*

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*But listen to what happened at Pentecost:*

*/Acts 2:37-41/*

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*/  /**//**/37/**//**/Now when they heard this, /**/ /**/they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?” /*

*/38/**/Then Peter said to them,  “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the 2remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

39For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

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*/A Vital Church Grows/*

*/40/**/And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.”

41Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them./*

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*About 3000 people were saved and added to the church: The promise refers to the Holy Spirit the Jesus received from the Father which He now pours out on others.*

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*What about the awesome Revival that happened at Ephesus*

*/ Acts 19:11-20/*

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*/Miracles Glorify Christ/*

*/11/**/Now  God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, 12  so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.

13 Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying,  “We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.” 14Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so.

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*/15/**/And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?”

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*/16/**/Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

17This became known both to all Jews and Greeks dwelling in Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

18And many who had believed came confessing and telling their deeds.

19Also, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all.

And they counted up the value of them, and it totaled fifty thousand pieces of silver.

20  So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed./*

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*People saw the power and the sheer awesomeness of God and were saved.

But did you know God is still in the Revival business today?

The problem is we do not hear about them.

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*   Probably the most famous, is the Azusa Street Revival.

This is what all Pentecostals talk about but it was more than just a Revival it was a renewal and reformation of the church as well.

There probably has not been another movement in church history, which has had greater impact on our church today.*

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* But another more recent account was the Argentine Revival.

A pastor of a little Baptist church realized that satan was attacking his church, so they recruited a team of 35-40 members to pray and fast Monday-Friday of certain weeks.

Then on one Friday night all 200 members joined together for a strategic intercession.

They took authority over this territorial spirit.

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*   At 11:45pm they all felt something break in the spiritual realm.

The evil spirit had left and the church broke out in to Revival and many souls were saved.

The year of this victory was 1987.*

*  Even in the mid 90’s right here we had the Brownsville Revival that lasted several years.

People from all over the world would come.

People would start lining up for church at 5am in the morning.

That were my wife and I were saved in 96.

See people would receive the Holy Spirit and go off and tell others, just as the scripture says *

*/Acts 1:7/*

*//**/7/**//**/And He said to them, /**//**/ “It is not for you to /**/know/**/ times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.

/**//**/8/**//**/but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and/**//**/Samaria, and to the /**/end/**/ of the earth.”

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*People were saved and went every where to spread the good news of Jesus Christ.

Now that’s Revival.

If you have it must come out!!!!!*

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*But now we know what it is how do we get it?*

*1st you must want it, not just say yeah that would be great but really want it.

People from all over the world would make there vacation plans around the Brownsville Revival.

Or just quite their jobs and go, they wanted it.*

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*I want you to underline this in your Bible and say this in your prayer everyday.

Turn to the book of:*