Revival Pt 6

0:02 Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. All good things must come to an end. Okay, Well, I don't know if this has been a good thing. I don't know if it's been a bad thing, but it's about to come to somewhat of an end. Good morning everyone. It is Friday, August third, twenty twenty four. It is currently eleven twelve am Central Time, and I am coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. Now, I know as a broadcaster there are a lot of things I do not do very well.

0:47 Like I there are a lot of things I do wrong. There's a lot of things I do that probably irritate a lot of people, and it's probably why some people choose not to listen. I know I can be somewhat repetitive. I can make a point and then repeat the point and repeat the point. I repeat the point. I have a tendency to do that because I'm trying to really drive home a point. But sometimes from a speaking perspective, from a broadcasting perspective, that repetitiveness can be probably irritating. Like I got the point, just move on. I get it. I understand that. I'm very aware of that weakness. I know that there are times I can absolutely say things in an incorrect way. I don't pronounce things correctly. I may stumble over how to say a word, things like that.

1:30 I know when I'm reading things, my public reading skills are not great. I tend to be a speed reader, so when I'm reading publicly, I'm just like skipping over words and who knows what, and my brain is like, but when you got to slow down when you're reading, you're going to be like blessed is that man who makes the Lord his trust and does not respect the proud nor such as turn aside to lies. You have to be very purpose you have to be very precise. I'm not very good at that, right, I'm not very good at times and probably keeping my emotions in check. Right, there's probably times I could be more effective in my communication if I wasn't, you know, a pounding things, getting mad and raising my voice at the same time. And there's probably some other there's not Probably there's a list of other things I don't do well. But at the same time, at the same time, I think there are some things I do pretty pretty well. I think, at least decently. I do some things. At least I think there's some things I do decently. I think the one thing is I've created a podcast that comes across much more real, much more hopefully authentic. It doesn't come across all you know, overly produced, It doesn't follow any normal template.

2:55 It's just a podcast. This is a podcast of It's really a story in a sense of a ciner with a microphone trying to figure out Christianity with all of you and inviting you to participate, inviting you to question, challenge, study, and inviting you a part of it. I think that that's unique. I think there's a unique aspect to that, right. I think a lot of podcasts follow a template. They're very produced, they're very polished, they're almost almost manufactured, like, oh, there's going to be two people, and there's going to be a host and a co host, and they're gonna do like there's some things that's just everyone follows a pattern. And I've blown up that template and said no, this is a the story of a man who's a sinner, very much a sinner, who has a microphone, who just is trying to figure out Christianity. Who falls and stumbles and gets angry and gets mad, who has you know, a you know, a seizure disorder all that. I try to be very authentic and very real, and I think that there's something to that. I also think that there is a condevei a free form nature to this podcast. Right, Hey, we're gonna do this, and the next thing, you know, we're off that turns into this, and that turns into this.

4:12 And sometimes it's like it's almost unplanned, right, it's like, hey, what's in store for us this week? In some cases I have no idea, Well let's try this. Sometimes I try things and they fall apart and I don't finish them. Like there's just a very it's a very real life feel to it. I'm a person with a microphone trying to figure it out. I come up with ideas and plans. Some work, some don't. There's always a like, well let's try this, and the next thing you know, we're off to this, and we're off to this. And so I think there's some aspects of the podcast I think that are positive. Now the listener determines to do the positive outweigh the negative, does the negative outweigh the positive, and many people choose not to listen, or many people I think the most frustrating thing is I think people draw conclusions not really understanding the nature of the podcast. I'm just a center with a microphone trying to figure out Christianity.

5:06 I'm just inviting you along. And yeah, do I have strong opinions, yes. Do I get emotional, yes, But I'm a real person. I don't claim to be and I don't claim to be anything other than a sinner. That's what I am, and the good and the bad is there. So I say all of that because this current thing that we're trying to do on Revival is a good example of that. Right is. Of course, whenever I do reviews of anything, I don't like to look at the material and advance right because then it kind of takes away the organic, authentic nature. It's like it's being produced. Well, I read this, and I did this, and I listened to this. Now let me talk about it, and it's like it's rehearsed. I like it to be like, hey, I got the sort of the Lord newspaper right here.

5:54 I just noticed there's an article here on the Holy Spirit in Revival. Well, I'm gonna break this down into small sections. We'll do a series on Revival using this article. Now, I have no idea where it's gonna go. We're gonna find out together, and then we read it together, and then it takes its wild twist and turns, and the next thing you know, we're doing a challenge on Charles Finny All because like it, because it all kind of interconnects. Sometimes the connection you may see sometimes I don't even know if there's a connection, But I love how one thing kind of just grows into another thing. You never really know where things are going. It's not all mapped out. Now. Maybe if I mapped it out, scheduled it out, it could I could be much more successful, But then it would destroy the nature of what this is supposed to be.

6:46 It really, this is this is me. This is a center with a microphone, just trying to kind of figure out Christianity in real time with you. And I don't know if there's if there's room for it. I don't know if there's a place for it. There's probably not a market for it. But there's a part of me that feels there's enough uniqueness to it there's got to be it's got to appeal to some people. I just don't think some people get what I'm doing. But it's okay. But this article, now, this is one of those situations where hey, let's try this, let's do this. And now we reach to the end of this article that we've been working on and I'm looking at going how do I do this episode? There's nothing here do I just not If I don't do the next part, no one's really going to care. But then I don't care because I got to finish the article. So what do I do?

7:38 What I do? So here we are and I'm going to figure this out. But here is what I'm going to do. I'm going to start this in kind of a different way. I could just go to the last couple of paragraphs finish it up in probably five minutes, but I went back to the beginning of the article. If you have a piece of paper, I want you to write down how many times we're going to go through and count. I want you to write down how many times this article on revival references the Book of Acts. I want you to count how many times this article on revival references the Book of Acts Are you ready, here we go. Number one. You can write down each reference Acts four thirty one. Acts four thirty one. This is the key article. And I say article again, this printed sermon, and I keep referring to it as an articles, which is not really fair, this printed sermon. The first reference is Acts four thirty one, which says, and when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together, and they were all filled with the Holy ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness. There is reference number one, all right, reference to see the second reference. Now, sadly, I've been using this article so much the page is starting to come apart and words are now missing from it. I couldn't even go back and read this now if I want to. I've literally worn out the front of this article. Okay, but all right, I see next here. So there's one from the Book

9:09 of Acts. Then we have some from Matthew, all right, Then it says, jump to page sixteen, page sixteen, all right, And then we have some in John all right. We have some in Ephesians. A right, So we have Ephesians. Then we have Galatians, all right, So we only have one so far in Acts. There oh wait, we come to Acts. We then we come to page seventeen. Here we have a second reference to the Book of Acts, Acts chapter two, verse forty two. And they continued steadfastly in the apostles, doctrine and fellowship, and then breaking of bread and in prayer. All right, So we have two references to the Book of Acts so far. All right.

9:53 Then we have a third reference to Acts chapter two, just the whole chapter an Acts chapter four. All right, so there's four references to the Book of Acts. There's four references. Then we have Acts chapter nine. There's five references to the Book of Acts. Then we have a reference to X one eight. I think that's six. That's six. Then we have another reference to Ax one eight, so that would be seven. We have a reference to Acts four thirty three. That would be eight if I'm counting correctly. All right, Uh, then I think that's all on that page. Then we go to so I think that's eight references.

10:36 Then we go to page twenty two. Yeah, I think there's a total of eight references to the Book of Acts. Eight references to the Book of Acts, and a sermon on revival. Now, why do I point that out? I think that's eight references. Eight references. If I get the number wrong, I apologize. I tried to give you some of those references. Was just like an Acts chapter two or in Acts chapter four. It doesn't give a specific verse, but just referencing the whole chapter. Acts one eight is referenced twice. So hopefully we got I think we got most of those. I think eight references. Now you may think that that's significant, you may think it's insignificant. I find it significant because I believe that when many people speak of revival in twenty twenty four, in your church, maybe even my church Christian friends, you know, when they start talking about revival, I think many inevitably will use the Book of Acts to support some of their ideas about revival. To this is what revival looks like. This is what we need. It's the Book of Acts. The Book of Acts. We need the Book of Acts. That is revival. And I'm here to say that there are philological and hermoneutical issues with pointing to the Book of Acts when talking about modern day revival. Now, before I read these last couple of paragraphs, what I want to do is challenge the use of Acts when people talk about revivals in twenty twenty four, because I believe it's

12:09 philologically and hermoneutically problematic. All right, Does that sound like a plan? All right? Claiming the Book of x as somehow a how to guide for revival today raises several philological and hermeneutical problems. Now, I already believe this, and I've already tried to articulate this through this entire series going through this because every time they've made a reference to as, I've challenged the use of these verses in the Book of Acts. But here's an additional source agreeing with me to some level. Right, So here's the first problem they see. This is the they're going to give us a list of philological and hermeneutical problems and somehow looking to the Book of Acts as a how to about revival. Right. Number one, Everyone should know. Number one.

13:01 If you've listened to me for any period of time, you should know this is a major issue I have with Christians and pastors when it comes to the Bible. Pastors and Christians inevitably go to a passage of scripture that is descriptive and they make it prescriptive. We must never forget this hermeneutical principle of descriptive versus prescriptive descriptive, and the Book of Acts is descriptive in nature. The Book of Acts is descriptive in its nature. The Book of Acts is primarily a historical narrative describing the early Church's actions and experiences. The Bible is filled with historical narratives, which is just simply describing what happened. We run to these historical narratives and we somehow make themtive. Oh, if we, if we will, if we will believe God and in a sense walk around our problem seven times, the walls of our problems will fall. Stop it. Jericho is not a prescription for how to deal with your problems. That's ridiculous.

14:16 It's descriptive. And so wait, they run to the Book of They run to the Bible over and over and take descriptive historical narratives that make them prescriptive. That's got to stop. In preaching and preaching is the look. I don't blame the average person in the pew who's trying to figure out how to study the Bible. In many cases, they learn these bad ways of studying the Bible from their pastor standing in the pulpit who takes historical narratives that are descriptive and make them prescriptive. Stop it all right, if you teach in your church, tell everyone grab their bibles and just start randomly flipping the pages and just start reading. And then ask everyone descriptive or prescriptive? Descriptive or prescriptive, and put a D or a P next to it. Is it descriptive or prescriptive? You'll have You could start probably a war in your Sunday school class at church. A historical narrative describes. Listen, it records what happened, not necessarily what should happen in every context. To treat acts as prescriptive, a prescriptive manual for revival can misinterpret its genre. A historical narrative is a specific genre of literature.

15:36 You don't take historical narratives and make them prescriptive. Are there maybe lessons that can be gained? Yes, but we make them prescriptive, saying hey, if this is what we can do and we'll get this kind of a result. No, no, no, no, that's not the case. It's describing what happened, right, Well, what do we do when when Jesus you know, in the boat, and their storm came upon him, and he's sleeping in the boat. Well, the boat represents our lives, and the storms represents the trials and tribulations, and all we have to do is trust Jesus and he will say peace to the storm, and your storm and your life will go away, will become still and silent. Just stop that nonsense. It's describing what happened. It shows Jesus is more than just a man. He is divine because he had control over nature. It's not prescribing that if I just simply will trust Jesus in the boat of my life, it will calm all the storms. That's ridiculous.

16:34 It makes for good preaching. It's horrible hermoneutics now, as a result, when you do the descriptive versus prescriptive, this leads to a hermoneutical problem of confusing descriptive text. What the early Church did with prescriptive texts, commands or guidelines For the church today, not everything described an ax is intended as a model for believers. The end. Stop the confusion. This article quotes acts over and over, and remember I pointed out what's eight times? At least eight times it quotes from the Book of Acts, and this printed sermon on revival as acts is somehow the key to understanding revival.

17:26 It is not. It quotes passages and what did it do? I demonstrated, well the place shook. Are you saying that the physical locations? If we get revival, the building is going to shake? And then, of course what did they do? They skipped the verses as said they didn't have anything, They didn't have any possessions. They sold everything and had everything in common. People were like, no, we don't want that. Well, then stop quoting the Book of Acts. So the first problem is descripted versus prescriptive. Second historical context historical context. When it comes to the Book of Acts, we need to understand the Apostolic era was unique. The Apostolic era was unique. When you're reading the Bible and you find yourself historically in the Apostolic era, you are in a unique era. That era is over. We do not have the Apostolic era to day. The last Apostle died. The Apostolic era is over. Stop comparing thinking anything that that was as relevant for today because we're not in that era.

18:33 The events and acts occurred during a unique period in redemptive history. The Apostolic Age marked by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, Pentecost miracle. Okay, well, let's go through this. The Apostolic era era was marked by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, Pentecost miracles, and the foundational work of the apostles. The events were unrepeatable in many ways and tied to the specific context of the Church's birth. That's why those miracles so many. And again, this is such a charismatic problem, he he he, We're we want, we want the Book of Acts today. No, yet, you can't have it today because it was a unique era. Now many people who are not charismatic kind of do the same thing they were under the Book of Acts and say we want the same thing today with everyone. You know, the next time someone gets ready to open up the Book of Acts, slap their hands and say, who whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa woa Are you sure you know what you're doing?

19:31 Do you sure you know how to read this descriptive versus prescriptive? And then understand it's a unique historical context. The culture and temporal temporal context of the early Church differs significantly from today, directly applying the practice of the early Church. Without accounting for these differences can lead to problematic applications. It's a unique period of time. How are you going to apply some of this? You got miracles happening that are not happening today. You got things happening that are not happening today. I've told the story countless times.

20:17 A person worked for me when I was in charge of a specific section at the hospital. She was the part of the praise and worship team at one of the local charismatic churches that just happened to be right off the freeway, And when I drove to work to the military base, I would drive right past that hospital that church. Now I would listen to the sermons from that church because someone worked for me who attended that church, and well, they would like to talk doctor and theology to me, or are sometimes about the sermons. So I would like to keep up with what they're listening to. So it could be somewhat prepared for a meaningful conversation. Instead of just reacting ignorantly, I could react with knowledge.

20:57 It didn't take a lot of time, you know, I would just go to the website, get the sermon, and then you know, try to listen to it on the way to work on Monday, if it was already available, and then if she if she mentioned it, great, If she didn't, I didn't bring it up. I left it alone. But if she mentioned it, I was ready to go. Well, one particular Sunday, the pastor appreached I cannot wait for the day that people drive past this church and they see. The tongues of fire above this building and that the building is shaking because the power of the Holy Spirit has fallen on this church. And I was like this most he literally believes Acts Chapter two is repeatable. This is ridiculous. It was a one time thing. So sometimes I would give her a heart time. And this is where I'm not very godly, Like, hey, still haven't seeing those tongues of fire above the building? Been driving by every day? Well, I don't even know how many years that was, what eight years ago, ten years ago, and how many years ago it was now it was a long time ago. There's still been no tongues of fire above the building. The building still hasn't shaken, it's still there. It's no none of it. It was all just it's just bad theology. So when we come to the Book of Acts. We have to understand the difference between descriptive and prescriptive. We have to understand Apostolic era a unique historical context. Number three, the Theology of the Holy Spirit AX portrays the Holy Spirit's work in a

22:29 dynamic and sometimes spontaneous way. Claiming acts is somehow a how to to revival might imply that we can control or manufacture the Spirit's movements, which undermines the sovereignty and freedom of the Spirit's work. Misunderstanding of spiritual gifts. There is a potential danger in assuming that the miraculous gifts and signs and acts are normative for all periods, leading to possible misinterpretation of how the Spirit works today. If you have a theology of the Holy Spirit and that the Holy Spirit is third person of the Trinity one God, three distinct person's father, son, and Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit is divine and sovereign. The Holy Spirit works not according to our manipulative techniques are our plans. It works according to the way the Holy Spirit decides to work. And not only that it's the Holy Spirit was working and that unique Apostolic era the Holy Spirit was operating and unique supernatural very visible way as what as a means to authenticate the apostle, the apostle, apostolic authority, and the apostles messages the Holy Spirit. There was to authenticate that the apostles were God's spokesman. At that time, the Bible was not complete. There was the need for the Apostolic authority for the foundation of the early Church. Well, you had to authenticate who the real apostles were. The signs and wonders and miracles did that. So the Holy Spirit

24:00 work had a specific purpose for a specific time. It also was doing things to demonstrate to the Jews that the Gentiles had truly experienced salvation. So there was a unique historical context that explains the unique nature of the Spirit's work at that time that is not obviously manifested today ecclesiology and missology or you're basically the mission of the church missiology. I guess I could see it that way when we go to the Book of Acts. So we have when we go to the Book of Acts, we got to remember descriptive versus prescripted historical context, and we got to understand what the Holy Spirit was doing.

24:44 We need need a good theology of the Holy Spirit and how the Holy Spirit was operating during that Apostolic era era. Next ecclesiology a missiology the early Church's structure, communal living and practices described an axe communal sharing, speaking and tongues are sometimes treated as a blueprint. However, these practices may not be normative or applicable in the same form today. Well, clearly we don't believe Matt daily. We don't meet daily. They sold all of their possessions and had a kind of a communal sharing and a communal living. We don't do that. So you can't go to the Book of Acts and say I'm going to grab this part and ignore that part. In many cases, it's the very next verse. And the missionary strategy and methods of the apostles were tailored to their context and led by the Spirit. Treating them as a fixed method for revival can ignore the need for contextualization in today's mission fields. Well, we don't go to we don't get our missiology from the Book of Acts. It was unique. It was the Apostolic era and a specific historical context. That's why a lot of people will go to Acts two and say, if we will all be in one accord and pray the Holy Spirit will fall like an axe too. No, it won't, because that was a prophesied event. Going back to the Feast of Pentecost was pointing to what happened on that day when that time had come. It happened, and it was fulfilled the end. It's not repeatable and

26:15 we can't follow some kind of their their methods. Next, there's some philological implications. Revival in the Church is generally understood as a sovereign act of God, not something that can be humanly orchestrated by following a specific pattern. Viewing acts as a manual could lead to a workspace approach to revival, which conflicts with the understanding of grace and divine initiative. So if we go through these number one, one of the problems when sermons and pastors look to acts and when Christians look to as acts for revival, they're confusing descriptive versus prescriptive. They don't understand the unique historical context that have a proper theology of the Holy Spirit, understanding how the theology how the Holy Spirit was working in that unique era. They seem to completely mess up ecclesiology of missiology by trying to take this unique situation and make it applicable today. While picking and choosing what they want to be applicable, they have they their strong philological implications by basically denying the sovereignty of God in Revival and thinking of something that is man made. All right, Yeah, and I could go with more. I think that's enough.

27:35 I think that's enough. I've got. I've got like more. I got like three or four more points. But I think that'll get you, get you to where I want you to get. That is, whenever you see anything on revival, I don't. Whenever there's a book on revival, an article on revival, or you're hearing a sermon on revival. Count how many times they reference Acts. Count how many times they reference the Book of Acts, And almost inevitably they're going to be guilty of a lot of those philological and hermoneutical issues. You can't be referencing the Book of Acts for revival in twenty twenty four because you're completely mishandling the text. Now, with that said, the dramatic conclusion what you've all been waiting for Page twenty two of the June seventh, twenty twenty four issue of the sort of the Lord newspaper. Are you ready? We are down to the last section called the Holy Spirit and Revival, and it's going to tell us what revival is. It's going to tell us revival is three different words. They all start with a P. They're going to argue that revivals are personal, revivals are practical, and revivals are powerful.

29:08 All right, Are you ready? Here we go. Revivals are personal. Revivals concern you and the Lord. Revivals concern your heart condition, and revival will kill jealousy, envy, and fault finding. Now, I do believe revival is personal you. It's you, and we kind of talked about this. Where I think true revival is true revival is is when you see God as he truly is, then you see yourself as you truly are, and then you are broken, You are humbled and humiliated by your condition, and then this drives you passionately to Christ for his for comfort and peace and for the hope of imputed righteousness. And then hopefully from that you are then have a greater passion and desire for God. Now, I one hundred percent reject that revival is going to immediately kill jealousy in the and fault finding revival is not going to kill jealousy in the and fault finding. Why revival doesn't kill the sinful nature.

30:13 Revival simply makes you awake to the reality of your sinful nature. And then you and you say else, So what some people think it will make you awake to your sinful nature, So then you will then engage in moral reform, and you'll reform your life and you'll be better. No, revival drives you to Christ and his imputed righteousness, and then out of such, out of such, almost you're so grateful. It's almost an attitude of gratefulness of what Christ has done for you, saving you in spite of all of your fault finding, your jealousy, your envy, and all of those things inside of you. Then you hopefully are more motivated to pursue Christ. But it doesn't transform your nature.

31:01 Revival just makes you awake to how bad your nature is and convicts you of it, and then you but you, But it doesn't make you simply start trying to live better. So that's what everyone always thinks. Oh I had this great revival service. Oh I was so emotional, it was so powerful. Now I'm gonna read my Bible I'm gonna go to church, I'm gonna witness, I'm gonna be better, I'm gonna stop looking at porn. I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that, and then to last for five minutes. Revival should not lead to moral reformation. It should lead to a greater trust in the imputed righteousness of Christ. Or you find peace, you find comfort, and then because you were so filled with gratitude for that imputed righteousness, hopefully then passionately you'll move forward and trying to grow closer to God. But it's not going to eliminate the sinful nature, but it is personal. Revivals are practical, This is number two. Revivals straighten out a lot of strange ideas.

32:09 Revivals will bring about correct behavior in financial matters. Revival will correct your actions towards others and cause you to live pure, clean lives. So in both of these personal and practical, you can see what they're under it. They think revival is simply moral reform. If there's revival, look what's going to happen. Look at all the things they say. Revival's going to get rid of, Revival's going to get rid of jealousy, Revival's going to get rid of envy. Revival's going to get rid of fault finding. Revival's going to correct behavior in financial situations. It's going to correct your actions towards others, and it's going to cause you to live a pure, clean life that is utterly ridiculous.

32:50 It may do some of these things in a very temporary way because you were so impacted by the emotional experience. That's why people, that's why some Christians are constantly looking for the next conference, for the next revival, because they need their next they need that next hit they need. It's like a drug. I need shoot me up right here, Come on, inject me so that I can get that unemotional Those endorphins will be released. So now, yeah, I'm gonna live for God. And then no revival should make you run to Christ to find comfort and peace in his imputed righteousness. Now, don't we wish that we could just have a revival and then we have a revival service, and then you look out in the congregation and guess what inside all of those people, there's no more jealousy, there's no more envy, there's no more fault finding. There's now correct behavior in all financial matters. They their actions towards each other have now been corrected, and they are all now living pure, clean lives. What it basically sounds like is that revival is the means to perfectionism. That's not true. This is why I hate, This is why I'm such a I'm against church camps, and almost almost inevitably,

34:22 i'm against all church camps. My kids never went to church camp. I don't. I never sent a kid to church camp for my church. We did not participate because I don't like kids being taken away from their home for a week in the summer, whatever how long. And then they're isolated, right, They're separated, isolated and indoctrinated and in many cases manipulated, and they come back emotional, Oh, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do and then what the last two three weeks. Teenagers are easy, are very emotional already, and you've got adults pulling the strings to manipulate that emotion. They say they're doing it for God, but I think the sac logical damage that happens to kids is absolutely horrific. Now, there are some church camps that may not use that such a manipulative and doctorate in doctrinating isolating kind of technique.

35:14 They may do it on much more. Just say, hey, we're gonna come have some good times. We'll talk about Jesus. It'll be a week away from your parents, you can have some fun, you can meet some other Christians, and hopefully we'll just have a fun, good relaxing time. No pressure, no manipulation. Now there's probably ones that can do that in many cases. Why do you spend all that money to send them off to camp? Well, I don't know, Just I don't know. Well, we can have a whole discussion about that. But so revivals are personal and practical. Next, they're powerful. The Holy Spirit makes it so. They are powerful enough to change a man's life completely. So there you see back to the powerful thing. See, it's powerful, But the power is what not to drive you to a deeper appreciation and rely it's upon the imputed righteousness. No, it's powerful to make you basically perfect. I mean this article is basically claiming, Hey, you get revival, you get perfection, you get basically a perfect Christian life. A revival is powerful enough to change a home completely. We have seen this over and over it's going to change a home completely, But does it now? Again, Revival is for Christians to be awoken. This is not about conversion. Are is he now referring to? Is this article now making revival about conversion? Now?

36:40 Conversions are witnessing or evangelism may be a side effect of now people who have a greater appreciation for God's imputed righteousness and God's grace wanting to share that good news with others. Revivals are powerful enough to call a young man out of the world and lead him to follow Christ to the ends of the earth. My plea is for every Christian to let the Holy Spirit have the right of way. My plea is for every Christian to let the Holy Spirit have the right of way. So now the Holy Spirit is not sovereign. The Holy Spirit can be stopped by you and by me. I speak this to parents, to young people, to children, all who are dwelt by the Holy Spirit. May we let him have his way with us. The end, I told you there wasn't much left that concludes this. Look this printed sermon and the June seventh, twenty twenty four issue of Sort of the Lord newspaper. I'm going to now put this all back together, the paper will ultimately start falling apart because I've used it so much. But there we go. Hey, I love as much as I mean, I disagree with that article outright. I just think that

38:11 article is the greatest example of how messed up Christians thinking is on revival. But you know what, I would still tell you to get a subscription to it because even though I disagree with it, guess what we just did. We've now done what seven hours maybe eight hours? I don't even know how many hours of discussion about revival based off that article. So when it comes to revival will end with this. Revival Number one cannot be based on the Book of Acts because if you're basing it on the Book of Acts, there are a long list of philological and harmoneutical issues that comes along with that. So don't be so whenever you hear people talk about revival, if they're referencing the Book of Acts over and over and over, you almost inevitably know their view of revival is flawed because they are committing phil logical and harmoneutical errors based on the Book of Acts. Number two, Revival is not about moral reformation. Revival is about being awoken to your sinfulness, your apathy, your spiritual complacency, your spiritual issues, and it forces you to flee to Christ, fall at his feet, retrusting in his blood and his imputed righteousness.

39:24 Then arising with a heart filled with gratitude of that grace and mercy, and hopefully you take a step following Christ a little bit better and a little bit more passionately. That is a revival. Revival does not change your nature. It does not eradicate the old nature. It just awakens you to the reality of your nature and the reality of your spiritual state, not so that you will reform your life, but that you will run to Christ, define the forgiveness and peace in him, then, at a gratitude, hopefully seek to walk closer with Him. There. We have completed this. Now here's what's going to happen. Here's what's going to happen our series on Revival. Now we'll switch.

40:22 We've covered the main article. We've now deviated off into our Charles Finnie challenge, so that Charles Finnie messages will be in the sermon's two point oh app challenge. Remember all of this. The rest of this weekend, you're supposed to be looking up sermons on Charles Finny, because Charles Finni is the father of kind of a modern day revivalism. A modern day revivalistic ideas come from Charles Finny. Charles Finny was not a Christian. Charles Finny was a complete and utter heretic. We've already looked at his theology, and so when you talk about revival, you got to talk about Charles Finny because many Christians, their views on revival comes from Finny, and Finny was a complete heretic. All right, So we've looked, did all of that all of this week. All the rest of this weekend, you're going to be listening to sermons this series on Revival. What we will do is anytime I want to review something, there's a news story about a revival, or there's a sermon about a revival, or if even on the sermons two point oh app hey a church is having revival meetings, we may review some of those messages and we'll just put all revival related content probably in this series on Revival.

41:29 That's probably what we will do. Of course, it's always flexible, but we've covered a lot of things and the main thing I think we've seen is the utter that when you talk about revival, you almost inevitably are talking about someone manipulating, twisting and abusing the Book of Acts and creating great philological and harmoneutical error. And how they deal with the Book of Acts. That is a major, major, major issue here, all right, And they confuse revival with moral reform, right, I think I could be repetitive, as I said at the beginning, sometimes that can be don't want to be. So what's your what's your mission? If you choose to accept it, Well, now you just need to focus on Charles Finnie. So grab the Sermon's two point oh app look for messages on Charles Finni. We've reviewed, we've reviewed kind of a part of one and almost a complete other. So we've already done that review. You see some of the messages on Finnie and the Revival series, and you see the other ones in the Sermon's two point oh app series. Because while are things kind of morph and they take on different persu you know, different purposes, which serves these other series better. So look for all of those messages and uh, yeah, that's what we're gonna that's what we're gonna work on all right, Sunday, it will all be about the therefore is in the Book of Romans. We've looked at the four Greek words that are that are that are used, that are translated therefore in the Book of Romans, and how they are you

43:01 have kind of uniquely different focuses. So we've done that. Now we're just going to work on the their force and hopefully we will see. We're just going to go through the entire Book of Romans, and if I said acts, I apologize the entire Book of Romans looking at all of their force. So that's what else we'll do. I don't know if we're gonna get if we can get something else done today, we will see. We need to get back to Ephesians four. We still got that to finish up. So I'm trying to finish up a lot of things and then we'll just see what happens. All right, Thanks for listening, make it. May it be a fun Charles Finny weekend and yeah, there we go. Thanks for listening. Everyone, have a great Friday, a great weekend. God bless