 Good morning, everyone. Welcome to BC201 course on Christian history and passions. Even before we could begin with our session, I request one of us to please lead us in the back. Anyone? Sally, Jeff, you know who your father is. Dear Heavenly Father, we come to you under the name of Jesus. We thank you for this beautiful day and for the class we are about to have. God, before we start our class, we fix our eyes on you, Jesus. We thank you, Lord, for taking up the cross for us. God, you have called us. You have chosen us. As we read about all these revivalists, as we come to know about them, Lord, help us to keep burning for you. Help us to have a great desire to do great things in this life for you, Jesus. I place each and every one of my classmates into your hands, Lord. Be with them. Guide them. You be their strength. You be their courage. I place Pastor Diana into your hands as she teaches us. Help us to open our mind and heart and listen to it and not just listen to it, but help us to be the doer of the word Jesus. You be with us and guide us in Jesus' name. I pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Jeffy. Well, as we're studying revival and moments, we'll continue to study the 20 and 21st century revivals and the moments that took place during that time. So as we're continuing to study on that, let's look into the revival that took place among the hippies, so-called the Jesus people in those days. So the hippies generation were very prominent in 1950s and 1960s. They saw scores of young people in the western world lost in rebellious nature. This particular group was addicted to many things. It could be for drugs, alcohol, free sex, eastern mysticism, and also communal living. So in the eyes of the mainstream, the losers, rejects, escapists, plain lazy people. And these people were looking for an easy way out. So we see that there was an unusual more of God began among their very subculture. That's how many turned to the Lord with large numbers of large number of people or hippies coming to faith in Christ. So this revival spark was activated through a person named Charles Chuck Smith in 1927 and his wife Kay Smith who reached out to the hippies in Costa Mesa, California. He started with a very small group of 25 people and they had a Calvary Chapel and set on to become a network of over 1,000 churches throughout the United States. And many hundreds were more joined in global. So he considered as one of the most influential figures in modern American Christianity. So many others were used powerfully of God in this revival among the young people of that generation. So this moment later came to know as Jesus moment. The name was changed to Jesus moment. And the people in it were referred to as Jesus people or simply they called it in their own terms as Jesus freaks. In fact, they made in the same attire like the Bell Botterms plus Bible equals Jesus Freak. So the Jesus moment began on the west coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970 and it spread primarily across North America, Europe and Central America. So we see that the Jesus moment influenced many church growth moments including Calvary Chapel churches or the Hope Chapel churches and the Vineyard churches, Fellowship House Church, Shoe Youth Revival Center and the many others also been impacted and carried over with this Jesus moment. And this Jesus moment also gave birth to contemporary Christian music starting with the Maranatha Singers from Hillsong. So Jesus culture and many others like one of the many highlights of the Jesus music was the use of guitar drums and use of chorus and dancing in the spirit. So some very well-known musicians and bands merged including Petra, Keith Green, Andre Crotch, Paddy Maguire, Phil Kierke and several other bands were merged. All at the moment, waved by late 1980, it had left a huge impact on the mainstream Christianity. Not only, you know, they reached the youth of that generation but many of them went on to lead large churches and Christian organizations but also influencing church life and Christian worship. So as the Lord moved in this set of people which were very hard to see that, you know, can their life be changed? Because they saw this hippies life is so miserable but then you see how one minister, Lord raised Costa to go and minister to this group of people, to the set of people and through them you see how Lord moved that there was a revival broke and many hippies life changed, transformed. It only didn't change the life and transform but it started impacting the complete country and the others globally. The same way, the similar way, God can inspire any of us in the class to pray for certain set of people. We may think like, what can I bring a change? It's one drop, you know, it matters even in a big ocean, they say. But then when you pray, when you lift up that earnest pray, God can change that prayer. God can multiply that prayer. He can revive, he can bring a revival through that prayer. Maybe I just one spark but then this one spark is enough to bring the revival fire among the group who said that you're great. Let's see what happened at 1970 at Hasbury College revival. So as we all are part of a college, we set time to pray but even the spray movement, God can spark a revival no matter where we are praying. It can be, we are praying at college, we're praying at our office, please, we're praying at home but then earnest prayer can definitely spark a fire for God. So what happened at Hasbury College in Belmont, Kentucky? So they seems to be praying for revival on the campus from a very long time and they also had encountered several revivals on their own campus. One was in 1905 and the other they encountered in 1950 and the other in 1958 and among others. So on Feb 3rd, 1970 during the regular chapel service team cluster, the renounce was scheduled to speak. So what happened? However, he felt led to invite the students to give personal testimonies instead of him sharing. So many on the campus had been praying for revival and were in an, you know, that expectant heart. So as soon as the invitation was offered or given to them, there was a large group of students waiting to speak. So there was a powerful more of God that broke over in that situation in the chapel time. So there was an awe of God's presence there. People started confessing their sins, repenting, sitting in silence before the Lord, praying and weeping and singing. So it was as though the Lord has walked in. The presence was so tangible in that room. Now we see people didn't want to leave this place. The 1500 seat of chapel was completely packed. So classes were canceled for a week but even after classes resumed on Feb 10 huge auditorium was left open for prayer and testimonies. So the news of the revival spread across through various mediums like the newspapers and the television across the United States. So people were hearing the news. People flocked into Vilpa to worship along with the students. So Hasbury students and the faculty became very familiar. They were invited around the States to share on what was happening in the college. So wherever the Asperians traveled revival followed them. By the summer in 1970 the revival had reached more than 130 other colleges, seminars at the Bible schools and many churches according to the published account it spread from New York to California even to South America. Always remember the revival is something like the fire that is contagious, that spreads wherever the people are moving and carrying that fire. So no matter how long our prayer is no matter how we pray but when we pray with an earnest heart seeking God for a revival the Lord will definitely answer that prayer the Lord will definitely break through and you know he will make his presence tangible for us, tangible for us. With that I will move on to Rodney Howard Brownie in 1992. So it is called as the Laughing Revival. So Rodney Howard Brownie was a South African evangelist who had moved to US in 18, sorry, 1987. So just after two years in April 1989 while he was ministering in a church at Clifton Park, New York the Lord sent a revival of signs, wonders and miracles that took place in that meeting which resulted people being saved healed delivered and many were encountering the presence the tangible presence of God which was in a very unusual way. So this continued for a very long time and they say even today and early in 1992 they had something called a Holy Laughter that is the joy of the Lord the people went on laughing there was a burst of laugh within them during the time of worship so it would also break out even during the revival meetings so consequently they were termed as this the whole revival was termed as the Laughing Revival so in 1993 Randy Clark a vineyard pastor at the time who was hungry and desperate for more of God heard of Rodney Howard Rodney's revival meetings what was happening there so Randy Clark went to this meeting he attended this meeting and he met Rodney and Rodney prayed for Randy Clark for maybe over five times and he was very hungry for more of God once Randy Clark returned to his own church at St. Louis God began to release that supernatural outpouring in his church service aspect so even during the regional vineyard pastors meeting news of this reached other pastors in the vineyard churches including Pastor John and Carol are not in parental so you see this is always a fire revival is always contagious you cannot contain that you cannot keep it just for your church for your city, for your place the fire spreads and we see how it spreads to different places through pastors so what happened when the vineyard church pastor John and Carol are not in parental heard about it they came over they came over and they were ministered so even then they had been praying for the more of God so John and Carol were hungry for God and they went to experience what God was doing in the other churches in different places so a high water mark was a powerful impartation of John and Carol are not received in November 1993 from Claudio Fredzin when God was using powerfully in Argentina so in John's mind they had the picture of all of God as one way they would see a large number of people would be saved healed along with this burst of laughter that is nothing but along with the joy of the Lord coming into them so they want to see such things happen in their own church as well so in John 1994 they were hosting a four day conference of revival with Randy Clark so the pastor of the vineyard Christian fellowship in Louisiana, Missouri on the opening of that very night it was on a Thursday Jan 20th 1994 they were about 120 people in attendance does this remind us of something 120 people, where do we remember? we gathered class, anyone know? here it was 120 people we gathered together first to the upper room yes yes in Acts chapter 1 and 2 we see that there were 120 people gathered in the upper room for the time of Pentecost I felt like we need to have little bit of interaction with the class I just posted so what happened? when they had this meeting along with Randy Clark with 120 people in attendance in their church and they started to share his testimony the Randy Clark started sharing his testimony the ministry time began where Randy gave an invitation for people to come to the altar and share their experience and that was the time when the people started experiencing an unusual presence of God that moved into the room so what happened? when you see the manifestation of God, there is always science wonders and miracles at that place people began shaking trembling some fell over the floor under the power of the Holy Spirit some were bursting out in love some were crying loud some started speaking in tongues and some were overcome by God's presence even before reaching the platform to receive prayer so those who were sitting were touched and fell to the floor unable to get up for several hours so people present in an adjoining room doing a Bible study also felt an unusual presence fell to the floor and began praising God the meetings, the falling light kept increasing in number and an unusual more of God continued so the revival did not come in the form it was an expected so in fact this was an unusual with people laughing, crying rolling and having strange manifestation but the key was they were experiencing and being touched by the Father's love and receiving emotional and physical healing so it is reported that by the end of 1995 6 lakh people had visited Toronto from almost every nation of the globe so they were about 900 first time conversions in that same year many churches and ministries around the world had been impacted by this Toronto blessings so some of these included the Holy Trinity Brompton church in UK and the Bethlehem church in Redding California and the Heidi Baker Heidi and Roland Baker of Iris ministries and over 20 years there on and the various other ministries continued with the outbreak of revival part of this in the present revival of present and God's glory started going upon them that was wonderful isn't it? the revival was carried ministries were birthed people who attended the meetings with Randy Clark they went back and you know ministries were birthed the revivals were impacting their city their nation this is how the Lord worked in the season we also see revival in India Shalom revival what happened? well in 2006 between 2006 to 2007 there was a revival fire of the 1904 belge revival that reached the castle hills in Shalom which is a capital state of Macalaya so in 1906 and from there spread across north east India so in the preparation of this centennial two years prior the Presbyterian church started engaging in prayer for another visitation of the revival started in 19 in April 2006 among the huge gathering of 150,000 people at the Marang Presbyterian church so during the afternoon prayer service of the revival sanitary commemoration people continued to sing and pray for hours even in the rain the revival spread in the region affecting many other local churches mostly the Presbyterian so people came under the conviction of the Holy Spirit and they miraculously converted and it was just not only the people were transformed or receiving Jesus as the Lord and Savior their life was transformed but they also saw the city the whole place were impacting like the drunkards were delivered from the bondage that they were into for many years they also saw the broken families were restored back to normal it was something very unusual that was spreading across the city and among the people so they were a lot of unusual events were reported with the children and others seeing the vision of Jesus or the Evan and the hell and even the regular classes in the schools were disrupted as the Holy Spirit descended on the children they began to sing and cry and pray spontaneously so the plane wouldn't and also in one of the church in Malki Presbyterian Church which is in Shillok this incident happened on September 5th of 2006 where a plane wouldn't cross it began to glow all of a sudden and it didn't happen just for a few seconds another day but then this glow started glowing and it continued to glow for several days so you see whenever there is an earnest prayer for revival our God is our God as per the scripture he says I hear what you pray I answer your prayer so God is asking us today in the class earnestly can you pray for revival as we are listening to different revivals that is taking place God is asking us can you pray I want to revive your city the place the way you stay in the church or ministry all we need is that spark of prayer that earnest prayer that God is asking we had a similar kind of incident that took place at our Bible college in 2017 that was a year when we started with the supernatural time of prayer in the afternoon after our classes so we finish our classes from morning 9 to 12 then from 12 to 1 we have time of supernatural prayer we call it a supernatural time of prayer where we all our students come together all the first year, second years those days we had only 2 years okay so the first years and second years we all came together the hall we started praying used to pray day after day for God to minister to us so one day in the afternoon it is a normal time on that day which is after our classes we took a break and we went and during the lunch time there was not many students at the college they all have gone to the hostels to have lunch during the lunch time I was there at my desk one of the student he finished his lunch early and he entered his classroom he was in the second year so he entered the class and he just started strumming the guitar I just heard him strumming the guitar they used to practice it was some of the instruments of the afternoon time he used to practice so as he was strumming in few seconds it was not a usual okay beat and then he started to sing he started to sing holy holy holy that's all he just started singing holy holy he just sang holy he didn't go on to the next dance out to the next line he just kept singing holy holy holy and it was continuous and there was no one in the classroom he was alone singing in few minutes the others finished the lunch break and slowly they started coming to their respective classrooms the first years went to the first year classroom the second year went to the second year classroom so it was time for us to start with our afternoon practical session but I heard something not usual the song continued and it continued again and again holy and I see even the others join in to sing so I felt there was something happening I felt there was a shift in the atmosphere when I entered the class by the time I entered the second year I saw few of them were on their knees few were fallen on the floor and the others were crying and weeping into this classroom so I didn't want to disturb what was happening and I sensed there was a presence of God unusual presence of God in the classroom so immediately I went to the first year class and I said guys come just join our second year and let's pray together the minute I invited the first year students to join into the second year classroom the students as they entered the second year classroom they started falling down I don't know what happened I'm just witnessing all this with my bare eyes the student entered the second year classroom the first year students they just fell in the presence of God they were just falling some were crying and weeping all of a sudden it was like somebody entering into the presence of God immediately there was a change immediately there was a manifestation and the song started I mean they continued the worship leader was leading from the initial he started to sing again I saw the presence of God and this room was the classroom was getting crowded because they were all on the floor and crying and weeping I thought we need to get into a larger place into a bigger hall so slowly I went in and I requested the worship leader can you move to the hall somehow we made a place in the floor for him to walk through because there were students lying on the floor and as he moved through slowly I requested everyone to join in the hall the prayer just continued maybe we started at 1.30 they started and it went on till about 3.30 I'm not too sure of the time how long it went on and in the hall maybe we were 20 to 25 of us both classes put together they prayed they cried they started singing praying it went on and maybe around I'm not sure of the time we stopped at certain time maybe 3.30 that is about 2 hours of prayer they stopped then I requested the students to share the experience and they started to share about the experience that they had they saw Jesus walk through in midst of them they saw heaven open they had witnessed angels ascending and descending some of them were convicted of they said and some of them in that meeting they were birds to write songs they started to write songs and some of them they were gifted with the prophetic visions they could share whenever they started the worship Lord started ministering to them and they started prophesying purely to people with the visions with the clarity of the places even they have not visited they started ministering to students with much clarity so the Lord started ministering to people some of them they were just filled with the love of God things changed things changed and and from then on from that year until now at our college on campus we continue with our supernatural time of prayer and we see the Lord faithfully faithfully ministering to our students during this time so let's move on back to our class in 2015 we also see another revival in India we are talking about India revival in India through pastor Satish Kumar who began with the Calvary temple church with 25 people in 2005 and in 2015 the church attendance grew to 130,000 and it started growing so how did this happen so the emphasis of the Calvary temple was preaching and teaching God's word so the use of media through the use of media and several other mediums he could greatly enhance the reach of what God was doing through Calvary temple so to know more personally about the founder of this church he was born in 1971 in a very poor family in Hyderabad India so Satish Kumar took to the streets as a young age and he fell in that company so his parents were greatly concerned about his well-being and his future excuse me so one day Satish Kumar heard a street preacher share about Jesus and he also witnessed people people's life was started to change so when he looked over that situation he also made a prayer Lord is it possible that you could change me and then with that he attended a prayer meeting so in the prayer meeting they offered him altar call and he came forward to come at his life to Jesus so Kumar Satish Kumar joined a church and he started to serve in the church in different activities it can be in any area like voluntary service in the church and slowly he started equipping himself and he also was part of Indian Evangelical mission that is the IEM where they were known for the Evangelical missionary work so at the age of 21 Kumar started a vibrant youth fellowship group and he named them as Calvary Youth Mission so in 95 he sensed that he has received the call from God to build a very large mega church but in realistic nothing was significantly materialized with them for next 10 years so in 1995 he received the call so what he did he also Satish Kumar also started television ministry which he could not sustain because it was costing him financially big and he could not sustain that amount which he required to run that ministry so he traveled to many places to raise funds he went to US but he was not very successful in getting that amount and on ongoing donations so in 2005 Satish Kumar started the Calvary Temple church with about 25 members and by 2015 that is about in a decade the church group the church group 113,000 members and it added 60,000 in the last 3 years alone so in 2018 membership at Calvary Temple stands at 195,000 people so despite opposition from various group including agencies of the local government Kumar urged his team of followers to build the the mega church in a recording time he sense that Lord has called him to build the church in 52 days just like how God instructed Nehemiah from the Old Testament to build the wall of Jerusalem in 52 days just how strategically Nehemiah plant the people and how he worked day and night and how he face encounters from the local people in a similar way Satish Kumar also faced problem from different people locally among the government and the others but then as he prayed and he believed that he believed that Lord would help him to complete complete this church building project within 52 days and he also encouraged the people to be part of this construction as he encouraged the church people to be part of the construction he was also one of them so he was there from laying the foundation to building the pillar to do everything the church work continued night and day so it was very as a leader he was there he was there practically putting his hands into the cloud and trying to build this building to happen so as he was there exactly in 52 days Lord strengthened them to complete this mega building church which has the capacity of nearly 18000 to sit in natural it is impossible for anyone to get this church constructed in 52 days Lord helped Lord helped people people just flooded in to help pastor people just came in as church people folks, workers, laborers everyone they were just there to get this building project built and done in 52 days so the church the church was not built in 52 days sorry what it says is the church was built in 52 days but it was very difficult to be built in 52 days but it only happened by God it only happened by God though pastor Satish Kumar faced lot of challenges lot of problems during this construction time but as God promised him to build the church in 52 days the promise was kept the promise was kept and pastor Satish Kumar says it is definitely the Lord doing He gives all glory to God so they conduct 3 to 4 service in a day in the local language of Telugu and there is one service in English the church grew drastically and now they have about 2 lakhs people in their church as members so this is one of the way that the Lord moved through pastor Satish Kumar of the Calvary Temple church which is standing strong the ministry is still growing and flourishing so what are some of the key observations that we see in this revival we see that the reformation revival restoration missions and the church growth that took place in the revival we also saw there has been a season of global revival that took place so like we saw I am just giving highlights of what we have already covered about these revival so we saw the season of revival the great awakening time and it did not stop there we also saw the second great awakening revival and then we saw another awakening there is a third great evening which fell across North America and Europe we also saw how the revival moved from New York to the other places to Northern Ireland Wales, Scotland, England Jamaica, South Africa and then we saw there was another revival that is Pentecostal Revival that took place and even the Pentecostal Revival swept across the globe almost on every continent so what we understand here that God is releasing his power just not in one region but he is spreading it he is replicating it to the other regions of the world in the pattern of working that we see in the revival revival is always a fire that has been caught and moved from one place to the other and we also see during this revival the Lord is moving the church forward disciplining the people the city, the state this transformation ministry leaders have been raised new ministries have been birthed during this time of revival Thirdly we also see that those ignited by the revival became the carrier of the revival so they were individual missionaries who have been caught up with this revival fire and they became the carrier of the revival to their own regions and we also see fourthly focused intentional pursuit of God often paves the way for revival but the set of people or the group of people when they were focused and intentionally raising prayer with an earnest heart asking God revive me revive my place, revive my church revive my people you see God answering their prayer and coming in this presence that group or the individual prayer was earth which paved the path the way for revival fifth we see sharing revival stories often ignits revival this is very important this is one of the reason why we share the revival stories and after each revival story we are just applying it we are just looking into how it can affect us how it can happen in our own time how revival can happen in them through us because it's not to do with us it's to do with the Lord all we have to do is come to the Lord with an earnest prayer so when we come to the Lord with earnest prayer God uses that to stir our hearts stir people's hearts stir the city church everyone's heart and here we see the revival revival fire ignits and burns so today as we have heard the revival and the moments which took place in 20 and 21st century and common people like us who just prayed just like us and the Lord did great signs and wonders and miracles about that today class we are listening week after week we come and we hear how the Lord let just not be only the hearer of the word or hearer of the miracles the hearer of the revival fire that has been spreading can we also pray can we also pray asking God God let the revival happen in them through us let that fire spark in them through us can we pray but I I have missed one person in this that is Paul who had the biggest church and have the biggest church even now this is the biggest church and he was from a Buddhist background Buddhist background and at a very young age at the age of 17 he received Jesus as the Lord and savior when a young girl from a school minister to have prayed for him and he was healed from the tuberculosis that he was suffering from which was you know he was almost in his death bed but when this girl continued to come and pray kneel next to him and pray and she shared about the Jesus of the Bible and gave him the Bible the one who was so you know against Jesus started to hear and receive Jesus as the Lord and savior and he was also healed from the tuberculosis this one incident simple act changed his heart revived his heart he was a simple boy from a slum in Korea when Lord touched him he didn't have any great knowledge he started reading and he joined one of the Bible school that was run there by the English people and he learned English very fast and he started to study in a very simple way the church in his own home with a small table inviting people but the Lord so greatly because his heart was to reach out for people for Jesus he want to know the gospel of Jesus touched and healed people is real because he healed him the very impact the very understanding that he had about Jesus the very understanding that he had about God was so huge just that he wants to know to know about this real God and here you see today this church is the world's biggest church which has 2 billion members to know more I recommend you to please log in and search on David Yongecho or Paul Yongecho it's both are his name he just had a name change at some point of his time from Paul Yongecho to David Yongecho please read about his personal encounter with the Lord and what made him to do what he did he did face lot of challenges in the ministry but nothing stopped him from serving God and God lifted him up through him the ministry grew in South Korea and you see that is the biggest church across the world, across the globe of 2 billion being the members of the church so I know we have run out of time so can I request one of us to please pray so that we can end this class with a word of prayer we can pray for a revival we can ask God revive us, let it be a revival in and through us, in our city in our church now please through us anyone, anyone can pray would you like to pray? yes, let's pray Father we thank you for this time Lord we once again for your presence as we heard today about us used to your people mightily in different areas different seasons, different years we pray of God in this generation help us also to be channel of your glory, channel of your presence and we would impact people around us of God and better with city that we reside, we pray of God that let there be revival in our places that the atmosphere change of God when we walk and we pray Lord Jesus let the glory of God manifest as your people walk and do your word Lord Jesus help us to work out the salvation help us to live like you we pray of God enable and make you each one of us to be channel of your glory God in Jesus name we pray Amen thank you so much for joining into this session thank you, good bless