Essential Ingredients for True Revival

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What is it and what are the essential ingredients necessary to see it in our day started for the line of fire with your host activist all the international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution Michael Brown was the director of the coalition of conscience have the resident of the fire school of Ministry get into the line of fire valves by calling 866-34-TRUTH.

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Your job is Dr. Michael Brown friends if you are concerned about the state of the nation direction of the nation. If you really want to see righteousness rise if you want to see America turn then revival is something of tremendous importance revival is something that is nonnegotiable. Revival is something that we must have not just a bunch of emotional church services, not just a special speaker coming in for a special meeting I'm talking about visitation. I'm talking about a spirit of repentance poured out I'm talking about God shaking us until the world around us is shaken welcome friends to the line of fire.

This is Michael Brown and his number to call 866-34-TRUTH 866-34-TRUTH 87884. Yes, I'm talking about revival a lot in recent months. It's been a great burden of my heart. The theme of my life for decades. I've had the privilege of being in the midst of a bona fide outpourings and revivals, one for period of months, and those for period of years visited places around the world where God is moving mightily. Every church history, and above all, I read the Bible and I and I look to the God of the Bible and read the Bible and alert to the God of the Bible.

I'm absolutely convinced that there must be more there must be more that that church as we know it. And as we generally experience in our spiritual life as we genuinely are generally experience it fall short, far short of what God speaks about the word of what's described. Yes, their battles, difficulties, obstacles yes there is opposition to suffering pain. In this role. Yes, we have our ups and downs understand all of that when I read the Bible, which is not there is a tease is not there just to set us up for disappointment which which is not there just to put carrot in front of us that they were never get that know their promises. There in their patterns and we see through the Old Testament dealings of God, national revival movements based on repentance and turning to God in his spirit being poured out. We see it in the New Testament we see the promises we see in church history.

Some of us have seen it in our own laws.

Revival personally turning us, changing us and it is our one and only hope as a nation have a book coming out throughout October revival redone great awakening is our only hope.

And I truly believe around the country that more and more believers who think others gotta be more that more and more believers are sick and tired of the status quo that more more believers have had it with church as usual. And even if they are blessed themselves.

They see the society collapsing at around us. Many of seen their own family members walk away from God and not believe any more so than the gotta be more.

This can be deeper encounter for them. So I'm going to go through some history with you today and go through some biblical principles even initially some video clips. If you have a question about revival.

If you have a question about the reality of revival what it is or pitfalls or obstacles or things you may have heard about past moves of God and you have genuine questions give me a call 866-348-7884 had the privilege of serving as a leader in the browser revival 1996 to 2000 begin Father's Day of 95 so you talking about something over 25 years ago. The privilege of being in the midst of that and just while speaking in in Fort Worth Texas this past Sunday woman came up to me and she's she started to speak to me with tears.

She said I went to the revival when I was 17. She said a group several groups of our churches. We we got together, the youth groups and things and and we went to Pensacola, Florida.

But she was resisted she was in a youth group achieved. She was not a believer. She had not surrendered to God and aplenty kids like that they have with their friends and all that but they they don't surrender the last God.

She said I was determined to set this up yesterday.

I was determined that I was not can respond to the article because she knew what was coming. She said I was determined I was knocking to give my life to Lord I was knocking to get saved she was in church and determine as a 17-year-old she was Doncaster in her life to the Lord. She said to me with tears.

So this is something friends that took place over 20 years ago is revival. Basically begin to wane in Europe around 2000. So you had it for 1/2 years of of of revival and outpouring it so Sue Thomason over 20 years ago. She said that's what I got saved.

She said I was determined not to. But when the altar call came. I went and got right with God and he said to her what happened to the other kids in the youth group she said, almost all of them were changed almost all of them were changed. This is what I'm talking about God moving so powerfully that lives are changed for decades he still hasn't affected countries.

A whole two ways. One, the light is shining, the churches come alive that the salt of the earth dysfunction resolve the light of the world's function is light, so we are living differently that has an impact on the world around us and then as we're sharing the gospel with more fervor and faith as the Holy Spirit is convicting people more deeply of sin, then what happens now sinners are drawn in and there made into real disciples and that begins to affect the world around us in righteous standards begin to rise. That's what true revival will be to awakening. Okay, Isaiah chapter 57 verse 15 says this for thus says the high and exalted one.

This is a common picture of the Lord in the book of Isaiah. Obviously, after his vision of the Lord, high and lifted up in Isaiah 6. This is indelibly written in his consciousness the rest of his life. For thus says the high and exalted one who inhabits eternity eternity, whose name is holy is the staggering description he himself is high and lifted up. He inhabits eternity. They always was and always will be your your future is known to God better than your past. He inhabits eternity's name is holy, so his very essence in being is holy. What is he say I dwell in a high and holy place. You think that's this hopeless rust's over for us to know we can never attain to that I dwell in the high and holy place, yet also with a contrite and humble spirit or with the one who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and revive the heart of the contrite, so the high and exalted, holy one of Israel, who dwells in a high and holy place also dwells with those who are contrite and humble in spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and revive the heart of the contrite. Okay, let's think about that if we want to talk about essential ingredients. If we are really going to see revival.

We tell you to upfront must have honesty and we must have humility say to get if we are really to see revival visitation. We must have honesty and we must have humility, we are often self deceived. Truth be told we are deceived by the way we want things to be. We are deceived by outward appearance. We are deceived by having short memories, forgetting the past and past realities and we see in the book of Revelation is Jesus is speaking to the churches in Asia minor seven congregations were churches of different cities starting in Ephesus and and and ending with with Laodicea was to say Ephesus you persevere. You endured hardship you haven't and might deny my name you tested those who claim to be apostles, and they were in Ephesus seems like a fine church. Yes then Jesus as I have this against you left your first love. Remember the height from which you fall in and do what you did at first it was a review cancer from you, which will no longer be a congregation no longer exist. You left your first love.

But they seem to be a solid group of believers and they could say look, we've done this, and we've done that and Jesus commends the bullet and yet what mattered most is where they were the weakest was Jesus in the Sardis in Revelation 3 you have an appearance of being alive, and yet your dad who outward appearances can be deceiving. Somebody can be walking down the street looking perfectly fine and died of a heart attack. One minute later outward appearance is very deceiving.

You might see someone weeping and weeping. You don't know or are they weeping and hopelessness are they weeping in repentance. Are they weeping and pain that outward emotions could mean different things. What is Jesus able Laodicea know the verse as well. You say I'm rich increased in wealth and have need of nothing to think of this. This is their self perception.

There must've been good stuff happening. Things must've look good.

Outwardly, there must've had numbers of the must've had prosperity early must've had favor with man. They their self-assessment.

You say I'm rich increased in wealth and have need of nothing that was their self perception. Jesus who sees reality who sees pastor are big ministries who sees pastor big buildings who sees pastor fancy wardrobes who sees Pastor a slick music who sees pastor large following Susie's past our outward smiles. Jesus says you don't realize that your wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, make their self-assessment were rich increased in wealth have need of nothing. The assessment of the Lord your wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.

Therefore buy from me gold refined fire. Therefore buy for me. I salve for your eyes you can see if were going to have revival starting our own lives there must be honesty.

God show me where I'm really in years past decades past where where I had left my first love and and scholarship had become an idol them alive. Always a committed serious believer in weight. One way after another. In fact, I would challenge him anyways.

The way Nancy on our family lived against the way many on fire believers live in terms of quality decisions we made in caring for poor and needy, and in doing many good works at NMI was devoted to the word teaching and all of that and yet I had let my first love.

And when anyone tried to speak to me about that, or tell me something was missing.

I would hear it. I wouldn't hear they were wrong. Why because I was proud. I was proud there must be honesty and honest assessment and then humility to recognize that the what you'll never see revival. If you don't recognize something's wrong and you'll never recognize your need for revival without honesty.

Lord, give us your assessment that our assessment Lord, give us your assessment.

How are we doing your site is what matters. Honesty will be over by the Expo line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown your voice and more cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown.

Darkness is our anyways. Societal darkness is getting darker. My focus those on getting the light to shine brighter. That's I will fix the darkness 866-34-TRUTH Michael Brown welcome to the broadcast I believe you're not only going to be inspired challenge, but informed as well. I posted this just a little before the show on Twitter so we just have our first few hundred responses, but I asked this question on Twitter, in your view was the single most important thing that must change.

If America is to have a healthy future. Feel free to write in your own view. If it's not represented here so I gave four choices with the most important thing that must change if Americans have a healthy future revival in the church, ousting bad politicians more righteous judges racial reconciliation overwhelming 86.4% said revival in the church 5.8% of ousting bad politicians more righteous judges that was 2.2% racial reconciliation 5.6%, the understanding of so many who responded is that if you want to see change come if there is to be real racial reconciliation will we have problems and issues in America it if were to see change in the political realm of Florida to see more righteous justices appointed things like that that the key is a revived church because that is what is now going to spread to the rest of society.

This is what's happened historically, this is what is absolutely critical that the lack of light or the defectiveness in the light must be addressed so let let me give you some information. Let me give you some pictures for you as this is been a life burden and in a major reason I'm on the radio and and on TV and unanchored it is, is to help stir your hearts in this way, and interestingly, our ministry has has 3Rs right 3Rs right 3R's are with right three arts first revival in the church. Second, gospel based revolution in society.

So, moral and cultural possible risk revolution and third redemption in Israel seen the Jewish people say we began to survey those who follow our ministry and ask which of the ORs which remain reason for connecting with us and I knew fermented Butte, equally all but my thought was, because we deal so much with the moral and cultural issues and in many people with Torah commentary on that the that that would be number one or Jewish because of our specialization. Jewish apologetics in reaching Jewish people with the good news and in teaching the church about Jewish background. Things like that. Interestingly, consistently it's been the first dark revival so 40 something percent saying yeah they connect with us first and foremost for that are word revival, and then the others about equally divided around 30 percentage close to that for gospel based revolution, society, and redemption. This off. I found that interesting. All that to say that so many recognize the need for fresh visitation for fresh outpouring and not just it localized in one church but all over America so let me let me take you through is a business before, but we can think getting into more depth today and those that are watching you can watch RS Dr. Brown YouTube channel or Facebook page Esther Carranza SK dear Brown, you can watch a slot if you didn't know that on YouTube or Facebook and I'll actually be putting up slides for you to watch everyone listening. You'll hear me loud and clear. But if you're watching you get to see these as well. Okay so my definition of revival that I've used my working definition for many years now. Revival is a season of unusual divine visitation, resulting in deep repentance, supernatural renewal and sweeping Reformation the church so first and foremost, it's a season of unusual divine visitation God coming in extraordinary and unique ways. Was it resulted deep repentance that encounter with God leads us to repent what we repented both what if something was wrong we would need revival so God's presence because we realize how far will we drifted from him or how much sin there is in our lives or compromise or fear of man or whatever is beaten down with the world by the world deep repentance supernatural renewal. We come alive in Seles and full of passion and sweeping Reformation of the church that major changes come the need to change along with the radical conversion of sinners in the world.

If it's true revival that it's going to bleed out. It's gonna flow out.

It's gonna flood out into the world with radical conversion of sinners family member see what happens to people you're sharing the gospel to work.

See what happens. God is begins to visit people in their homes and workplaces and so on. Radical conversion of sinners in the world, often producing so as a result of the church coming to life and radical conversion of sinners.

This often produces moral, social and even economic change in the local or national communities just were Charles Finney said revival presupposes that the church is sunk down in a backslidden state so you can have revival without backsliding. First, and the revival consists in the return of the church for her backsliding's in the conversion of sinners and explains revival always includes conviction of sin on the part of the church and skipped out a little bit. He says backslidden Christians will be brought to repentance. Revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God is his third point he makes Christians will have their faith renewed while they are in a backslidden state they are blind to the state of sinners.

Their hearts resort is marble.

The truth of the Bible appears a dream made middle be true. There conscious and the judge was central but their faith does not see it standing out in bold relief and all the burning realities of eternity. But when the entrance revival.

They no longer see men as trees walking but they see things in the strong light which will renew the love of God, their hearts, 1/4 point Finney made etc. revival breaks the power of the world and of sin over Christians 1/5 point. He says when the churches are those awakened and reformed the Reformation, the salvation of sinners will follow the worst of human beings are softened and reclaimed and made to appear as lovely specimens of the beauty of holiness.

So some descriptions of revival.

The Welsh revival 1904 1905. Listen to this description from G. Campbell Morgan. He says this it if you and I could stand above Wales looking at you would see fire breaking out here and there and yonder. And somewhere else without any collusion or prearrangement. It is a divine visitation which God, let me say this reverently, in which God is saying to us.

See what I can do without the things that you are depending on see what I can do an answer to a praying people see what I can do through the simplest who are ready to fall in line and depend wholly and absolutely upon the here and here's an example from the ministry of affinity 1825).

The food was ministry in the town of New York Mills. His brother-in-law invited him to visit the local cotton factory which was in charge when Finney, who was known for his preaching. The area entered the factory's glance fell upon a girl who admit adjustable comment to her friend. The evangelist describes what would happen next. He says when I came within eight or 10 feet of her. I looked solemnly at her. She observed it was quite overcome and sank down and burst into tears. The impression caught almost like powdered not gunpowder in the few moments all in the room were in tears the feeling spread through the factory.

The owner said to the superintendent stop the mill and let the people attend to religion is more important that our souls should be saved in this factory should run revival and through the mill with astonishing power in a few days.

Nearly all were converted this. This is why we talk about revival and the desperate need for today great awakening 1741. One of the famous accounts Enfield New England was here that one of the most remarkable revivals to place God begun to stir the New England area out of its worldliness, apathy and unbelief in the mid-1730s, the town of Enfield remained untouched Jonathan Edwards to bring philosopher, theologian, and shortly before his death.

President of Princeton University was scheduled to preach there one Sunday before the code preaching today. He read his text monotone without gestures because his eyes it was so poor he held the pages pressed up to his face. Coronation was a casual goblets bunch, but the neighboring town had been in deep travail the previous night forgot to extend his mercy on the group on that Sunday, July 8, of 1741 is Edwards what it read his famous message sinners in the hands of an angry God, something extraordinary began to occur. The fear of God fell, the congregants began to see themselves as hopelessly lost dangling by a thread over the jump jumping fires of hell to visit vivid sermon sooner, some screaming, crying out, fainting that Edwards had to order them to be quiet so this message could be heard began unconsciously to cling to their pews and grasp hold of the pillars of the church so as not to slip into hell. These were the days the first great awakening in her led friends I preached the congregation not far from there old many years ago, probably in late 80s and early 1990s and end the pastor had done his research for his seminary degree on on the fruit of the great awakening and studied what happened in that town at and it was recorded after the kiss was summer time was in July. I think it was summertime. Windows were open people's homes that he said for days it was recorded that you can hear people weeping and groaning and wailing and repenting in their homes after the messages please. That's what happens.

Conviction comes friends. That's what happens when the fire falls. America must have it church of America must have message may not be exactly the same in every way, the recall repented, must be there to light a fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by calling 86. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. I have seen mighty outpourings of the spirit with my own eyes I been witness over period of years to God moving in tremendous power with deep repentance, deep conviction of sin. Radical conversions people changed at this from moment because of a temporary emotional high.

But change for years and years and years, people who were service a branded by the fire, branded by holy firebrand by an encounter with God. 25 years ago and they been serving on the mission field for over 20 years in living sacrificially to share the gospel with others. That's what you call lasting change. People dramatically converted and set free from sin and following Jesus ever since. That's what you call radical change. Hey friends, welcome to the line of fire.

This is Michael Brown look. I am not on the radio primarily to be another conservative talking had me talk politics we call culture all the time, but always from a gospel base kingdom base viewpoint.

I'm not on the radio simply to be another Bible teacher there so many fine voices pastors leaders teaching on on the radio I I'm not here primarily for those purposes up.

I'm here for the purposes of the gods given me, for you right if you know if you go to a Chinese restaurant you expect Chinese are going to tie restaurant expect Italian your reader with their specific reason to listen to one music station for certain music and another for other music. I'm here to help stir your hearts revival. I'm here to help cultivate gospel base moral and cultural revolution. I'm here to help point you to the salvation praying for the salvation of the lost sheep of the house of Israel in recent days, focusing more and more on the topic of revivalists as I I'm personally pressing and more to God for something fresh in my own life and something fresh in the church and I'm seeing it around the country little signs all not massive revival note hasn't happened yet. It was happening we know about it.

Little signs of pouring here outpourings here repentance breaking here a sustainment of the spirit. There things are happening in a moment I want to take you back into some services from years ago and play some video clips for you but but first we go back in time. The second great awakening the early 1800s after the Revolutionary war. There was real time of spiritual backsliding in America James admin or has articulated how bad things got that there were three college campuses in America. All of them found it is Christian campuses in the decades before you go.

These campuses and not find a single professing Christian you talk to the 200 something students and they they were members of the foul language club or some like that but there were no professing Christians, I mean just just up a bad spiritual state. God began to move the West was the wild West. So here's a description from Cane Ridge. This is what Cambridge Kentucky. One of the, the famous outpourings that took place 1801 Cane Ridge on the Western frontier, an astounding 20,000 people from the sparsely populated frontier regions had gathered together for special six day outdoor camp meeting.

The crowds were addressed by many different preachers from different denominations using fallen logs and the like for their pulpits here some eyewitness reports quote stepped up on a log like you have a better view of the surging sea of humanity. The scene that presented itself. To my mind was indescribable at once I saw at least 500 swept down in a moment, as if a battery of a thousand guns had been open the pond and then immediately followed shrieks and shouts that rent the very heavens might say Mike, that sounds pretty intense now is intense. These moments are intense when God begins to move with Zach a fit and are just nice little church basket.

The lovely servant that when God moves scissor shake. It's just the reality, there will be emotion set emotionalism which is just based on a carnal or soulless reaction to outward stimuli know you're talking about God changing the heart and out of that heart change. There's an emotional cry. Here's another count on Sabbath for the meeting Sunday night. I saw both 100 candles burning at once, and I suppose I saw 100 persons of all ages from 8 to 60 years at once on the ground crying for mercy. The sensible the week learned and unlearning the rich and the poor are subjects of friends. This is why we read about these things in history. This is why we talk about this is what we say revive us again O Lord from the Hebrides 1949 to 1952, off the coast of Scotland. I've known men, Duncan Campbell reported out in the fields. Others at their weaving looms so overcome by the sense of God that they were found prostrate on the ground hear the words of one felt the hand of God upon him the grass beneath my feet and the rocks around me seemed to cry, flee to Christ for refuge.

Campbell said this this supernatural illumination of the Holy Spirit led many in the Hebrides revival to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ before they came near to any meeting connected with the movement, he said I have no hesitation in saying that this awareness of God is the crying need of the church today fear the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. But this cannot be worked up by any human effort, it must come down the me to stop for a moment and reflect on that the awareness of God, the consciousness of God.

There is nothing more important for the church right now and for society some years back Rabbi smoothly asked me to debate about the subject is homosexuality, America's greatest moral crisis.

I said, I'm happy to debate you on that, but my answer is going to be no. I will absolutely say that the gay activism is the greatest threat to freedom of religion, speech and conscience, yes, but no I will not say homosexuality is the greatest moral crisis in America. What I said when Nancy and I would talk about it. We had that the exact same answer.

Lack of consciousness of God lack of consciousness of God. That is the greatest moral crisis and obviously the greatest spiritual crisis in American this would Campbell said that the awareness of God is the crying need the church did okay just just going back to to history from some previous accounts of revival cold formalistic preaching never raise the dead, only a demonstration of divine power will do that suggested place in the days of Whitfield when I was a common site for sinners to cry out is in the agony of death yet revival is going to bring a motion with it because people are getting it radically touched by God during the great Scottish revival in 1850 when James Turner, the fiery fiery Methodist preacher went down to' to preach.

So great was the conviction of sin that many businesses had to close down in order that the people might get right with God. Large numbers of drunkards were charged by the power of God's meetings lasted from 14 to 18 hours. Sinners hearing their loss condition swooned away but came around praising God for acceptance about this prayer. Revival 1857 1858 ships as they drew near the American ports came within a definite zone of heavenly influence ship after ship arrived with the same tale of sudden conviction and conversion your they got near to where revival is happening.

The presence of God was in one ship a captain in the entire crew of 30 men found Christ out at sea, because the spirit was being put out all over and enter the harbor rejoicing revival broke out on the battleship North Carolina through four Christian men who had been meeting in the bowels of the ship for prayer. They are praying down there no one on the ship knows it. God knows he begins to pour out his Spirit mean these are remarkable accounts. All this to see here. One evening they were filled with the spirit burst into song, ungodly shipmates, who came down to mock were gripped by the power of God and the laugh of the scornful was soon changed into the cry of the penitent. Many were smitten down and a gracious work broke out the continued night after night so they had to send ashore for ministers to help in the battle should become a Bethel house of goddesses related by Arthur Wallace is the remarkable let's see here.

Let me let me give you my own personal account from a service to browse revival January 31, 1997 I was so moved and stirred. When I got home from the meeting be to 230 in the morning set of a got to write this out again to capture what I'm feeling right now. I've just come from the beautiful presence of the Lord from a night of glorious baptismal testimonies incredible stories of wonderfully change lives a night of sovereign visitation night of deep sweeping repentance of radical encounters with the living God of public acts of repentance from young people throwing their drugs and needles into the garbage to old people distorting the cigarettes a night of weeping under conviction and rejoicing a newfound freedom, a night when the spirit fell upon the children in the side room and told her intercession and wailing permeated the sanctuary a night when Jesus was exalted in the midst of his church.

Yes, of come from the holy presence of the Lord in the browse revival on January 31, 1997 the spirit moves the tears flow the Lord touch the demons fled. This is what happens when revival is in the land at the end of the night amid shouts of joy in victory amidst the sound of the newly redeemed enjoying their first moments free from captivity. I turned to my dear friend, evangelist Steve Helen said we don't have to quote from the history books about revival is here seeing it before our eyes.

Who can describe a night like this can describe what it's like to be so caught up with God in heaven is virtually here you can almost sense the sound of the judge knocking at the door. What you say when young men come to the platform begin to throw with her earrings and another wants counsel because he does not remove his eyebrow ring and another tosses out as condoms, while another throws his knife into the trash. What can you say we can say when a thousand people respond to the altar call and stay there for two hours getting right with God. We can you say when the prayers we pray for your nation. Prayers for the real thing for genuine visitation for bona fide outpouring the hype that sensational is not a superficial show, but an awakening of historic proportions with this person being answered before your eyes and you know that you know your country will be shaken. What can you say what can you say when all you want is Jesus pleasing him a total delight when you just have to tell everyone about God's great salvation when since we this temptation is utterly repulsive to we just can't find the words to express to the Lord.

How utterly wonderful he is, how he really is rollerball looking say the sacred time like this. It is too precious to fully describe two intimate to wholly communicate with me here, human speech and the wonder we get letters like this Rev. Alex Buchanan from England after visiting the revival.

I have prayed for revival for 51 years, five months and 15 days. I have led and raised up revival prayer movements through most of these years. At last I have seen at the Brownsville acrylic Symington. So God's salvation.

After many years and asked if he could depart in peace, you can now see how encouraged I was with. We come back. I want to play the clip to clips from that very service. I just described. I want you to see some of what I saw at night it's the line of fire with your host activist, author, international speaker, and Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution get into the light of ironbound by calling 6643 here again is Dr. Michael Brown so that service that I referenced January 30 97 one of the most secret meetings I was in my entire life. We had powerful worship when on Friday night, followed by water baptisms incredible powerful testimonies, gut wrenching transformations and then back to worship in an altar call to people get right with God and in the service just broke out of even the normal order that we were used to mean services 156 hours what would happen but the repentance just broke out with calls to get right with God and turn from sin and people began to flood the altar and the need to stay there and and then more came and more came in.

So if you could. We were one of the first waves that came one of the first few hundred, you were you there on your knees for couple hours and many just heads down, praying, crying out the whole time and after powerful repentance and then time of rejoicing. Then it it went back when we got word of some of the kids church workers, their kids may between six and 12 and they were involved in different aspects of ministry each night so the kids would come to the service with them and they be in a back room and they might be playing them up doing schoolwork or they might be watching service and is the spirit just broke out so dramatically. I miss in it happened when I taught that morning. They been a tremendous break out of repentance after 12 unholiness to pastors that morning and then I felt the day before and the children's ministry meeting at that the spirit had just fallen.

So when God began to break out the way he did. The service that the children's pastor just went back with those kids and said he would just go watch the service and the sin spirit fell on them and they begin to weep and wail and cry out and and then when that was reported to us then we were just loop Dan's one of the ushers went back to us with a mic to where the kids were and they were they were just oblivious to what was going on around. They were on their faces, weeping and wailing and praying for the lost. We heard that through the sanctuary was going to play some for you, but it's just sacred and to just hear the kids screaming and wailing and crying without being there in the midst of it unwanted cheapen it all, but then after that after more praying and crying and weeping before the Lord is more repentance a Steve Hill then went and did something he never did before. But let's listen to what happened that night. Everyone in this place. You got some cigarettes cause or in your car magazines pornography. What is friend you on your bag. I know we never know. This is now bring out the trash to go friend.

We never done this basic care is a right here, Fred, and want to open up the next 15 minutes of the service you coming bring any garbage that you have if you're wearing a bracelet that belonged to a boyfriend and he bracelet for you and your whereabouts are a married woman and you look at that bracelet.

You remember the affair you had with that boy married woman now with children it's time to get rid of friend cigarettes, alcohol, seems anything you have not see anything that's brought you away from God. Now the time anything saying you been involved in gangs anything that's brought you away from God. It's time right now and drop it right here right so he opens it up in the same in the overflow in the chapel. People start coming off their thrown out drugs there throwing out noticed all kinds of things and things from past affairs and unclear in this stuff that's on them there in the church services are going to the car and getting it throwing it away and that's when the guy came up to be easy at this eyebrow rings and I want to get rid of this out with the disease is apparently some is part of his own rebellion and I met a guy.

Subsequently, city I was in the mall I mythic I was get the library taken I was days later and in it was it was just it was remarkable to see so this is after the weeping after the repentance and then we started the saying and we started to rejoice.

It just just a little feel of the joy they can break out as people are still coming up and I'm in the one lady she just had pockets Foltz kept opening another pocket more junk liquor here nephrologist took a whole call just screw it away. Just this one more little glimpse of them a little feel of what happened that night and you may hear the songs and so it's a little hokey, but you forget set free and so were to say enough is enough and make it a break with sin in the past. This is after hours of repenting weeping and crying out into seeding event joy breaking out Seattle what happens people you meet many of them 27 years later. That was 25 years later talk about lasting transformation. To this day as I travel around the world. I meet people. It's a I was there, and here's what God did friends just think of God moving powerfully all over America.

He's looking for people who be honest, will humble themselves will say, God, something's missing. There must be more is looking for people who be desperate enough to welcome him when he comes in power when he comes with conviction when he comes with the spirit will be welcome him will we beg Jesus to leave with the people of the Gadarenes did. I have been so focused on what I'm ensuring with anyone look over at our phone lines but let's get a call in from Deborah and Maple Grove, Minnesota. Welcome to the line of fire.

Hi Dr. Brown I know I'm working short on time here, but I thank you so much for this program and I just want to quickly once again this morning conviction that the Lord brought me just an individual at the church. We are inherent by judging one another by shaming one another by shaming the law by making people feel guilty and ashamed of their misrepresenting the Lord to keep and I just want to apologize to people out there with me to been turned off from the Lord because of the way we and Heidi and pride in condemning and quick to judge. And I want to tell you that Jesus is beautiful he will never shame you when you bring your spent will help you on and I'm just sorry I have apologized hard and repenting on behalf of the church and just realized that these people judging and tearing apart. Jesus loves them.

He wants them and it's no different than many calls to about curving up the land of Israel that he had just convicted again yeah I are about. I think Eric and you Deborah. Sin is sin, and when the Holy Spirit convicts the loss of sin is intense realize how unclean we are not naked and ashamed. We are which then causes us to run to him that from him. But you're right when when we are so self-righteous and haughty when when we don't start by confessing our sin to be one thing if we were perfectly righteous to be one thing if our house is perfectly in order to be one thing if we did have scandals with elitist be one thing if we didn't have rampant no-fault divorce pornography in the church would be one thing if all of our kids were on fire for God and be one thing if we were walking all in unity of the one thing if the church was modeling racial reconciliation and so on. The factors were not that the sins of the world are so common in the church rather than us changing the world, the world's changed us so when we then in a heartless way condemn others without saying, hate starts with us starts with the light not shining brightly. We get low and humble ourselves and then confront sin and then callouts it then call unrighteousness Menards people to repent.

Yes we we feel naked and ashamed. When conviction comes, but that's not God pushing us away that's got Singh come near me or forgive you. Cleanse you, washing the Deborah, thank you for the call of sin. So many times but many a pastor came to the Brown's revival.

Many a pastor came, bringing his church's congregation with lots of people come down several buses carpool relay flyer wherever they're coming from large numbers in the past using the need to bring them because they need to repent.

They need to get right with God. My people need God.

You know, I'm the pastor on the good guy. I'm in shape. They need God. Many a pastor they would tell me I'd see it with my eyes. They were the first to report the thing that you get all derogation there are so convicted that your that you're the first to go running to get right with God, you're the first to sing God have mercy on me a sinner at and I've heard from so many they said I felt like I got saved all over again. That's why started to broadcast was saying. We must have honesty and humility. If we are really to see revival for really to see God move there must be honesty.

Ask God by his word by his spirit to speak to honestly so that you can have an accurate view of where you are and then ask for the grace to humble yourself, get low sees that correction change will come, lasting change. Who knows revival might spark in you. Another program powered by the Truth Network