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REVIVAL&REFORMATION
A revival of true godliness among us is the greatest and most urgent of all our needs.
Selected Messages 1:121.
Consider how I love Your precepts; revive me, O Lord, according to Your lovingkindness. The entirety of Your word is truth, and everyone of Your righteous judgments endures forever.
Are signs and wonders always evidence of the Holy Spirits working? Can we base our faith on signs and wonders alone? What role might signs and wonders have in a false revival? Is it possible that the devil can create a false religious excitement and leave the impression that a genuine revival has occurred?
1. God Will and Love (1 John 2:3-6) 2. Faith and Ministry (2 Thessalonians 2:9-12) 3. Fruits and Gifts (1 Corinthians 12:4-7)
Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandment. He who says, I know Him, and does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keep His word, truly the love of God is reflected in Him. By this we know that we are in Him.
All true spirituality is focused on knowing God and doing His will. The Holy Spirit leads us into the Word. The Word of God is the foundation and heart of all true revival. The essence of true revival is discovering Gods will as manifest in Gods Word.
Any so-called revival that focuses on experience rather than commitment to obey Gods Word misses the mark completely. The Holy Spirit will never lead us where Gods Word does not.
Revival is all about knowing Jesus. It is a reawakening of the spiritual faculties of the soul. It is a personal and vital experience with the Savior. Knowing God leads to keeping His commandments. Loving God leads to loving one another.
The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs and lying wondersamong those who perish, because they did not receive the love of truth. God send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,who did not believe the truth.
One of the challenges of true revival is breaking through the icy surface of cold formalism while at the same time avoiding the fiery flames of fanaticism. Formalism is rigidly locked in the status quo. It is satisfied with the external husks of religion while it denies the living reality of faith.
Fanaticism tends to go to extremes. It goes off on religious tangents. It tends to be unbalanced, focusing on one aspect of faith to the neglect of all others. Fanaticism is often self-righteous and judgmental.
False revivals often place their major emphasis on miracles. Genuine revivals focus on ministry. False revivals emphasize spectacular signs and wonders; genuine revivals recognize that the greatest miracle is a changed life.
When the desire for the spectacular is far more important than the desire for a new life in Christ, the mind is open to deception. Spectacular signs and marvelous wonders can never take the place of understanding and then following Gods Word.
Now there are diversities of gift, but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all.
The gifts of the Holy Spirit might be divided into two large categories: some gifts are qualities, other gifts are callings. Both categories serve a similar purpose. They have been imparted by the Holy Spirit to strengthen the spiritual life of the church and equip it for its mission.
Any so-called revival that has little interest in the fruit of the Spirit, but is obsessed with possessing the gifts of the Spirit, is dangerous. If God gave the gifts of the Spirit in abundance to believers who were not manifesting the fruit of the Spirit, the church would become the center of selfish exhibitionism.
Beware of movements that concentrate on the gifts and power of the Holy Spirit rather than on obedience to Gods will and a transformed character that reveals the fruit of the Spirit.
It is the absence of the Spirit that makes the gospel ministry so powerless. Learning, talents, eloquence, every natural or acquired endowment, may be possessed; but without the presence of the Spirit of God, no heart will be touched, no sinner be won to Christ.Christs Object Lessons 328.