Revival Is For The Redeemed

[3] One of the greatest tragedies of the Church in our day is the empty altar. Going to the church altar to pray and repent is almost unheard of in the modern-day church service. Vance Havner once noted:

Repentance is almost a lost note in our preaching and experience, and the lack of it is filling our churches with baptized sinners who have never felt the guilt of sin or the need of a Savior...We are trying to get young people to say, “Here am I” before they have ever said, “Woe is me!”(14)

IV. THE CULMINATION OF REVIVAL

A. Our Supplications Will Be Heard.

2 Chron.7: 14c “…then will I hear from heaven…”

B. Our Sins Will Be Forgiven.

2 Chron.7: 14c “…and I will forgive their sin…”

C. Our Situation Will Be Helped.

2 Chron.7: 14c “…and will heal their land.”

Theme: As we examine the topic of revival, notice…

I. THE CHOICE OF REVIVAL

II. THE CANDIDATES OF REVIVAL

III. THE COST OF REVIVAL

IV. THE CULMINATION OF REVIVAL

End Notes:

(1) James A. Stewart, Invasion Of Wales By The Spirit Through Evan Roberts, Copyright 2004, 1963 by Revival Literature, Asheville, NC 28816, Allrights reserved; pgs. 15-16.

(2) James A Stewart.

(3) Robert Coleman.

(4) Vance Havner.

(5) James Packer, Your Father Loves You, Harold Shaw Publishers, 1986.

(6) Olney Hymns, William Cowper, from Cowper’s Poems, Sheldon & Company, New York.

(7) Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Holy, QuickVerse 2006, Version 10.1.

(8) Charles H. Spurgeon.

(9) Source unknown. Acquired from pastorlife.com.

(10) Ibid.

(11) Lanetta Chapin.

(12) Ibid.

(13) Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Holy, QuickVerse 2006, Version 10.1.

(14) Vance Havner.