 Okay. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a new week as we begin our sessions. So, before we start today's class, let's just remind ourselves what we covered last week. Last week, we looked at why we are learning revivals, visitations, as moves of God. We looked at a few points. We looked at firstly, we want to become more like Jesus, to be more Christ-like, not only in our personal life, but also collectively as a church community. Then we also looked at when we study revivals, we ourselves will be revived in our spirit. Then we saw seasons of revival that God takes us through. Now, today we will start with what happens in a revival or an outpouring or a move of God. When we look through the book of Acts and then when we also look at church history, the different revivals, the different moves of God that happen, something very unique happened. That is, God was working above the normal, which means it was not a normal thing. Supernatural things were happening. Which not only impacted the believers, but it also impacted people who were in the society beyond those who are unsaved. So, it started just rippling. It was a ripple effect, just touching many people. So, in the book of Acts and through revivals in church history, we can recognize seasons of outpouring. So, now let's just look at a few points and try to understand what happens in a revival. So, last week we looked at why we are studying this revivals and a move of God, a visitation of God. Now, let's look at what happens when there is a revival or a move of God. I am on page 4 if you are tracking along with your notes. First point, there is a great revelation of who God is. Especially when there is a move of God, the Holy Spirit comes in power. We are filled with awe and wonder. He is a holy God. His love is so great. His power is so great. So, there is this new and a greater revelation of who God is. If we read in the book of Isaiah, the first few chapters of Isaiah, Isaiah is writing. He is writing to the Israelites. He is saying to the Jews. He is saying, you people have gone away from God. You are sinful in nature. All of a sudden, in Isaiah 6, Isaiah himself has this great revelation of God. What does he say after that? He says, oh, it's me. I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips. So, it was a great revelation. Before that, he was just telling people, you all are sinners. But there was a revelation of who God is. And so, during an outpouring or a revival of God's move, we are suddenly, God makes us aware of our weaknesses, of our sins, of our frailty, of the things that we so much desire which are of no use at all. So, first point, there is a great revelation of who God is. Second point, there is a heightened revelation of spiritual truths and realities. So, maybe we've heard hundreds of sermons before, but what we have heard and what we have read will come alive into our spirit, into our hearts when there is a revelation, when there is an outpouring of God's Holy Spirit among us. It's like this. Maybe we are reading the scriptures and the words will just jump off the Bible, meaning it just brings revelation, word after word, scripture after scripture. And there will be this passionate increase for this hunger to know more of God. I'm reminded of, we will study about this also later, William Booth, in the early 1700s, William Booth, he started the Salvation Army now. How he went about studying this is really interesting because one day he was just reading his Bible and John 316, which you and I, all of us know, this was John 316. So, he was just reading in John 316, God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten. So, as he read that, there was, the scripture was just brought alive into him and he thought, okay, I have to do something about this. God loved the world that he gave his son and there are so many people who don't believe, so we have to make sure that everyone get to believe and then he went on to start the Salvation Army and there was a great outpouring, a great work of God through the Salvation Army. So, when there is an outpouring or a move of God in our midst, there is a heightened revelation of spiritual truths. Third point, an increased passion and fervor and zeal towards spiritual things. So, of course, all of us have a passion, a zeal, but what happens when there is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit is that there will be an increased passion, increased zeal. So, maybe we are reading the Bible every day for half an hour, 30 minutes, and when there is a move of God, we're not going to stop. We say, hey, I want to read some more. It will go on for an hour. It can go on for one and a half hours, two hours. Why? Because there's this passion, this zeal that the Holy Spirit puts in each of us. And it could be even prayer, discipleship, fellowship, all these things. Witnessing, missions, there'll be an increased zeal and passion for God. And we'll learn about the Welsh revival later, but here's something interesting about the Welsh revival. It's really interesting. When the Welsh revival, the outpouring began, it was winter season, and people used to throng to the churches. So, during the Welsh revival, what they did was they had six AM services, so people could attend the six AM service, finish up by about eight AM, and then people can go back to their work, work the whole day. So, in the Welsh revival, and we know that England mostly it's raining, so they would come at five AM, hold umbrellas, and stand outside the church in a queue so that they get a place to sit in, and five AM. And then the church services begin at six AM, finish by about seven, thirty, eight, then they would go on to carry on their own work. Now, this normally would not happen every time. But what happened? There was an outpouring, there was a passion, a zeal, everyone wants to go to church, everyone wants to hear the word of God, learn the word of God. So, this is something that happens. Fourth point, an increased gathering of the unsaved. So, we see this in the book of Acts. Jesus has died, he's resurrected, he's gone, he's given the commission to his disciples. Now, Peter preaches his first sermon, and 3000 people are saved, and increased gathering into the church. Then the lame person was healed, again another 4000 added. So, in no time, there were about 7000 people pledging allegiance to Jesus, and the church was growing in an increased manner. So, even when we look at a move of God, when we look at a revival and outpouring of God's Spirit, one thing is like a magnet, the glory of God will come upon communities, upon people. People who may not have believed Jesus for the entire life, in a minute, in a second, they say, yes, I believe this, I accept this, and begin to walk in this new calling that God has for them. So, it's interesting to see that mostly, where there's revivals, outpourings, there has been an influx of people being saved and brought into God's kingdom. Fifth point, an increase in supernatural manifestations, unusual miracles. Now, this is common, this is a common aspect that we will see. Remember this, where the Holy Spirit is, and where there is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, there will be supernatural signs, wonders, manifestations of the Holy Spirit. It goes together, there's an increase of the anointing of the power of the Holy Spirit, then there's an increase in miracles and manifestations and supernatural work. And this happened in the book of Acts, when we see that Peter's shadow was healing people. So, if you picture this, it was a supernatural work of God, it happened just one time, it didn't happen all the time. But because of this people began to say, hey, Peter's coming, so they would bring all their sick, they'd line them up, and Peter would walk, and the shadow would bring healing. So, it was an unusual manifestation of the Holy Spirit. Another example is during the early 1950s, there was a preacher, an evangelist, a healing minister named Brother A. A. Allen. Now, there are a few videos of him on YouTube, you may be able to find it, Brother A. A. Allen, and God called him towards the healing ministry. And God used him very powerfully, and he would just bring people up on stage, and they are like lame people who are lepers, with all kinds of infirmity. And he would just say, in the name of Jesus, I command you, rise up and walk out, command this infirmity to be bound, to be loosed from his body. It was just a simple prayer, but there were supernatural works. So, I want to encourage you to get time, read about Brother A. A. Allen. It was a great move of the Holy Spirit during that time. Sixth one, we see when there is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, there's a powerful transformation of society. So, it's not only that, you know, the church or the body of Christ is impacted and it, you know, the body of Christ grows, which is good. But the outpouring of the Spirit affects the people around, affects the society. Social evils begin to diminish, and righteousness and truth will prevail in the land. If we read the smitten outpouring, we may look at it briefly, but in the smitten outpouring, it's funny, and it's happened in many revivals too, where the revival has become so powerful that the entire society, 95 to almost 98 percent of them are believers, and what's happening? There's no crime in the city or in the state. There's no crime. And so, you know, there's a couple of books where it mentions that, you know, the police, the cops don't have any work to do, because there's no crime. And so, the police were asked, okay, to fill in duty time, you go and sit and be part of the church services. And it's a fact. It's true. Why? Because there was this, the Holy Spirit, the move of God just went out into society. People were convicted of their sins, and there was no, you know, crime happening in the society. And so, it's true that a move of God affects the society as well. The seventh point, when there is a move of God, there is an increase in equipping, in, you know, sending out ministers and starting of new missions, new churches, all of this planting of, you know, mission fields, new ministries, all of this will take place. Now, it's not that, you know, it's important to understand this. When we are part of an outpouring or a release of the Holy Spirit, it is important to understand that, okay, we are not to be comfortable in where we are. Okay, God, we thank you for this revival, help us to grow. Yes, that's good. But remember, the commission, the commission that Jesus gave us was to go and make disciples. So, usually in a revival, there is an increased, you know, a move where there's new ministry starting, there are new churches, there are new believers who are transformed into leaders. And so, it's not only a habitation, but it's also a spread of God's fire. So, these are a few points on what happens in a revival, right? So, what we'll go to is, we'll go to chapter two and we'll look at the book of Acts, right? Now, I know most of us have been reading the book of Acts and it's a lovely book to read and we can enjoy reading that. So, let's look at the second chapter, journey through the book of Acts, meaning what happened, right? We can safely say that, you know, there was a revival, there was an outpouring of God's Holy Spirit, but what happened in the book of Acts, right? Most of us know, you know, Acts chapter two, outpouring of the Holy Spirit, but what happened after that, right? And what are the things that we can learn from the book of Acts, right? If I'm going too fast, please let me know and I will slow down too. You can just let me know. Okay, everyone with me, right? Yes, Pastor. Okay, okay. So, let's look at the book of Acts chapter two. Now, the book of Acts records about 40 years of God's move of the Holy Spirit, right? Now, when we look at Acts chapter two, God's Spirit moved in Jerusalem and then on the day of Pentecost, what happened, the outpouring, then the habitation, the fire spread from Jerusalem into Asia Minor, into Europe, and different parts of the world, and finally, even to Rome. So, an interesting point is that fire in the book of Acts did not die out. It was not like a temporary thing, okay, 3000 people, and then they were struggling. No, the church just began to enlarge, 3000 became 7000. I'm sure it would have grown larger than the church spread into Antioch, went into Asia Minor, into Europe. So, the move of the Holy Spirit was evident in the book of Acts, and you will learn more even in the New Testament survey and other subjects, you will learn in detail from the book of Acts. But let's look at what the Holy Spirit can do through people and communities as he empowers us to be part or to be involved in a revival and a move of God. Some important points, there's three important points here. One accord in prayer. We see that in the book of Acts, it opens with this, 120 disciples are fervently praying in the upper room, spent 10 days in prayer, but what were they doing? They were praying in one accord. One accord in prayer. So, there was, I'm sure we've all heard this, right? One accord to be in one mind. So, it was not like one person was saying, okay, let's pray for this, you know, the city of Jerusalem, or let's pray for my family, let's pray for the sick people. No, they were in one accord. What was that one thing that they wanted? They wanted the move of God in that city, in their lives, right? Two important things that we can learn from this. One accord is being one heart, one mind. Now, a lot of people, you know, young people, especially in our church here, they ask me, oh, God did such wonders before. Is he able to do it now? Yes, he's able to do it now. But why is it that we don't see, you know, an outpouring or an outpouring or a powerful revival like in church history? I think the main reason is because there is no oneness, right? I believe that, you know, it's a sad thing, not everywhere, but it's true, because everyone is so involved in their own ministries, which is good, but there should be this one accord in the body of Christ, right? To, in prayer, there should not be any personal agenda. And when we let go of all these, we will see a move of God, a powerful move of God, right? The second thing that we see here is there was continuous collective prayer, right? Now, as a pastor of a church, I know this and the things that we notice, if we have a worship evening, you will have a good number of people coming for the worship evening. But if we have five days of fasting and prayer, you'll have about three or four people turning up. Why is it? Have you ever wondered, you know, why? Because prayer is not very interesting, trust, you know. But here's the thing, if we are to see a move of God, if we have to see the power of God move, we have to be people of prayer. The ten who were in the, spending 10 days, they were in continual prayer, right? Continuous prayer in one accord. So we have to be able or willing to take up this, right? So I told my, you know, our church people, this is why, this is why we are, you know, not seeing a revival because we have, it's, we can't blame it on God, why you're not doing it. It is our responsibility, right, to pray and to be in one heart and one mind. Two, we see that there was an outpouring of the Spirit. Now the outpouring was not for entertainment purposes, right? The outpouring was to empower the disciples, right? If you remember, you know, the disciples, none of them were there when Jesus was dying. All of them are gone, running away, maybe they were afraid that they would get caught next. Peter, none of them were there. Peter, James, John, John was there, but the others, none of them were there. But after the outpouring, we see the same disciples who were fearful, were ready to even die for the sake of Jesus, right? Why? Because the Holy Spirit empowered them, right? And this empowerment was accompanied by supernatural phenomena, right? Supernatural phenomena. So if we look at the book of Acts, what happened in Jerusalem, it was, it was something extraordinary. What happened? That Jerusalem usually has about 100,000 people, residents who live there, but it was, it was the time of the feast, right? So you have the Passover, then you have the feast of the first fruits, and on the 50th day you have Pentecost, right? So that small city, Jerusalem, which usually has about 100,000 people, that week or that whole, almost that whole, I would say maybe 50 days, there were about 500,000 people gathered there, people from different parts of the city, right? Different parts of, different places, they've all come to Jerusalem. Why? Because it's the festival time, right? So you have the Passover, which commemorates, you know, what God did through Moses and the blood of the Lamb was put on the doorpost. So there's a grand celebration of the Passover. Then is the feast of the first fruits, which is the people come and they say, they bring their offerings, their first fruits, and they say, God, this is the first fruits that we have received. And so again, there's a celebration. And from the first fruits on the 50th day is the Thanksgiving. It's called the Pentecost. It's to say thank you for the fruits of our labor. And so on this 50th day, people witnessed the move of the Holy Spirit, right? Now we got, if we read the book of Acts, we see there were three different kinds of responses from the people, right? Some were confused saying, hey, what is happening here? There's just speaking something random and they're just screaming and what's happening. Maybe they're drunk. Some were amazed and marveled. Oh, there's something happening here. Wow. And then we see that Peter preached the gospel. They were amazed and they accepted that gospel. But the others also mocked at what happened. Now, remember, maybe God can use you and me in a revival, in an outpouring of God. Not everyone will accept what is happening. People may mock you. People may make fun of you. People may say, this is something that doesn't make sense. Remember that if it's a genuine move of God, there will be lives touched. People will mock. People will make fun. People may not understand, but we continue in what the Holy Spirit is leading us to. Now, a very important point to understand as we study this is in Acts chapter two, Joel prophesies, sorry, Peter is saying, in Joel chapter two, it says that my people, they shall have visions. They shall have dreams. They will prophesy and all of this. Now, the Holy Spirit is telling Peter, this is that he's taking this situation of the outpouring and he's saying, this is what Joel wrote about. Now, picture this, if you see, there was no visions, nobody had dreams and nobody was prophesying in the Book of Acts. But how did Peter say, this is that, an important lesson to learn. Now, the supernatural manifestation of God does not have to be identical to what happened before. Now, we may, after this, we go on to read about a few examples in church history, how God moved. Now, just because the move of God is not like that, doesn't mean it's not the Holy Spirit working. The Holy Spirit can work in His own way and when He does so, He may do it in different ways. He may do it in a similar way as well. But we are to be open to it. I remember last week, Sister Rupa was mentioning that they started the worship thing. It may not be something that is identical to what happened in the church history or whether it was a move of God, yet it is a move of God. It is an outpouring of God. There can be a revival through it. So, we don't judge what the Holy Spirit is doing or how He's doing it. So, these are a few points. Any questions? If not, we can just continue. Okay. I have a question, Pastor. Go ahead, Charles. I am talking about the oneness. Because as you shared there, that people are asking you that the God who did the miracles and the moves in the early church, is He able to do it today? And you answer them that it's because of the lack of oneness. But the works are so diverse. The offices have been, I can say, they have been separated. In the early church, the offices of prophetic teacher, so and so, all the offices were working together as one. But now they have been separated. You will find apostles so and so is having a church. Prophets so and so is having a church. Instead of all those offices working together in one particular church, they are pulled. Now, what can we do? Is it a matter of prayer or we need to engage in teachings so that these people come back and work together? Thank you, Pastor. Yeah. That's a good question, Charles. So, yes. Firstly, we should be established in the fact that what God did before, it's the same Holy Spirit that's working now. So, yes, He can do the same wonders, miracles. Yes, it can happen. But you were saying that there are different ministries and now it's all, people are focusing on their own ministry. So, I would say this. The book of Corinthians, Paul writes and he says, we have many bodies, many parts of one body, but we work together so that the body functions well. He writes, he just goes on to explain, you know, the hand and the legs have to work together in coordination. So, I believe also in another place in the book of Acts, he says, the believers, you know, spend time in prayer and teaching of the Word of God. So, Charles, to answer your question, two things are important. One is we need to teach the Word of God, right? We need to make people understand that we are not building our own, you know, our own kingdoms, but we are all part of God's kingdom. And two, I think we need to come to a place of humility where we say, you know, whether you're a prophet, whether you're a pastor, whether you're a teacher, we are all one. And so, for that humility to come in, we have to pray, right? Because it's easy to be humble when we are small, the ministry is small, but as the ministry is growing, you have thousands of thousands of people, you know, say, okay, I am prophet this, I'm prophet that. So, what happens is it comes division, right? And so, I believe Charles to answer that, you know, it's a good question. So, one is prayer and teaching of the Word of God, which is very essential, and two, to walk in humility. You know, you can teach the Word of God and pray and all of it. But if we are not walking in humility, again, there's going to be division, there's going to be this whole thing of, you know, I am better or this ministry is better and that ministry is better. But so, this is important prayer and teaching of the Word of God and two, to walk in humility. I hope that answers your question, Charles. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you. Okay, so let's, okay, Christopher has raised his hand. Go ahead, Christopher. Yes, Pastor. So, I wanted to understand what are some of those, some of those motivated, motivation characteristics that make people, oh, sorry, men have got to, you know, to start churches in the first place, there's so many of them already and what makes them, you know, want to continue with that, you know, with that approach. So, I just wanted to understand from, you know, as a pastor, what is your view on that, you know, what are some of the motivation, I think you've already mentioned about, you know, humility, when you said humility, I mean, I think one of the motivations would be pride, you know, pride of starting a church. But what are some of the other ones, if you could please make more detail. Yeah, nice question. Thank you, Christopher. So, I would say there are a couple of reasons. Now, first reason is, you know, God has told you, you know, as a young boy or as a young person, God has, you know, revealed it to you that this is something you have to start a church and it's happened, there are few people, there are people that I know that, you know, for example, Pastor Ashish, he knew that God had called him to start a church. So, he knew, right? And then, there are other reasons why people like to start, right? One is they like to preach, right? They just like to preach the word, right? It may not be a calling of being a pastor, they like to preach the word, genuine reason. Another reason could be that they like to be on the spotlight, like they like to be on the stage, right? That's the second reason. Another reason, another reason could be that people, you know, this is funny because I spoke to a young man and a couple of years back and a young man, maybe it's about 25 years old, and you're saying, Pastor, you pray for me because I want to start the church. And I said, but you're serving in this church, right? You're serving here and you're doing well here. Has God told you to start a church? He said, yes, God has told me and God has told me that, you know, I will start this church, a new church and the church will be better than this church. And the moment he said that, I was taken aback, but I told him, see, you know, I remember speaking to this young man and I told him, see, it's not about, you know, being better than someone, right? It's not, yes, you are young and God has called you, but it's not about, you know, your church being better than this church. So it's about the calling of God, right? There are plenty of, again, Christopher, there are plenty of people that I've spoken to where they are pastors and two years after starting a church, they've shut down the church. Why? Because they could not handle the pressures or the church was not growing. Now, I wouldn't say that they were not called, but there could be reasons where they were, they did not pursue God. Now, church growth is not easy, it takes time, it takes effort. So there are plenty of reasons why people start churches. There was another funny reason, a young man, right? It's interesting to know this, but it's true. I think we get to speak to some people and I asked him, why do you want to start the church? I always ask people, why do you want to do this? So I said, why do you want to start the church? So he said, no, because I like to, Monday to Friday, I don't have to do anything. I just have to pray for people. I can pray for them over the phone. And I just go visit them a few times. That was his answer to me. He was just being truthful. He didn't want to work Monday to Friday. Another person said, this is very funny, another person said, because I would like to wear, you know, a suit and a blazer and be, I don't get a chance to wear that. So I can wear these on, wear it on Sunday. So that was the answer. And, you know, I was taken aback, but these are some of the reasons why people start churches. But there are the genuine work of God, where people, you know, they, God has called them, there's a vision, there's a call, there's a upon their life and, you know, God begins to really work in their life. So, so yes, Christopher, there are, these are some of the reasons, right, that I could think of. Yeah. Okay. Samuel, go ahead, Samuel. So while I don't know if we are getting off topic or, you know, if there is something in continuation this topic, like, so we're discussing about starting church and the reasons, the right reasons and the wrong reasons for starting churches. I'm wondering, like, let's say, yeah, you know, because you have some experience in the field. So apart from God's calling, so I think the number one reason is God calls you to plant a church or puts in your heart that, you know, I will start a church from you. So that, that is one. But let's say I had to check myself, check and see, like, they're already churches. Like now I think anywhere we go, it's not that that place does not have a church. But I'm thinking what should be, what should be some of the few things that I need to be mindful of that that sort of validate as starting church for the right reason. And it's not that I want to start a new doctrine, like, like, let's say, I'm part of a charismatic church, but I somehow don't link to that. So I think I'm thinking of all the divisions that are there. So there's, I think one primary division is charismatic versus non charismatic church. And let's say, how does a person from a charismatic church then start a non charismatic, is that a sufficient reason, like having a different doctrine? Or I think I'm just thinking along what should be the right reasons for starting. Okay, yeah, that's that's a good question. So Samuel, if even if you look at church history, he has a, you know, interesting thing, you know, the there's a powerful move of God, people are getting healed, wonderful ministry, churches are growing and all of this. But as I mentioned, there was a lot of, you know, conflict between church leaders, right? And the main reason why a lot of revivals just, you know, we will look later on on, you know, there were some revivals that just burst it out. And it just died, like, in a few days. And the reason was there was conflict between the two leaders, or maybe the three people who have started the ministry, right? And so when we, when you say that, you know, the right reasons, for example, you said the charismatic to starting a now doctrine could be one of the reasons, right? It could be one of the reasons. So for example, let me give you an example, I know of a person who said, I don't believe in speaking in tongues, but I believe that that stopped in the book of acts, but he believes in everything else, right? He was part of our church for some time. And he believed in everything else, right? He believed in the healings, miracles, everything, you know, the Word of God, but he didn't believe that the gifts are still functioning, right? And so he believed that, and he's a very powerful man of God, right? He was a young man. He would preach really well. He led the worship also really well, genuine, good work that God is doing through his life. But there was this whole issue. So I did try to explain to him, I told him, see, this is what it is. The Holy Spirit is still at work in us. He comes with the gifts of the Spirit and we can move with the Holy Spirit. But somehow it did not go through to him. And he did speak to other ministers of God as well, but it didn't work out. So it was a complete doctrinal issue. And then he said, I think I have to go and I want to start my own church, right? And so he did that, right? We are still in talking terms, like we're not set or anything. We still talk to each other. We're still the friends and, but he started his own church. Why? Because it was a doctrinal issue. So as I mentioned, Samuel, there are many reasons doctrinal issue is one of the reasons as well, right? Now, whether it is a genuine thing. Now, we cannot say that, okay, because you don't believe this, you are wrong, right? It could be that God will, you know, speak to them, minister to them. And there may be a change of heart. God can bring revelation. You know, what's interesting we see now is there are new kinds of teachings. Or as you were saying, there's so many churches, so many ministries. Some of, I was really, I was in a shock when I read, not read when I saw a video of a prominent Bible teacher, and we leave the name unnamed, but a prominent, very, very prominent Bible teacher. And he went on to say that, you know, there's not going to be a rapture, right? And he's got his own Bible college, he's got his own wonderful ministry, wonderful teacher of God. He said that there's not going to be a rapture. And so, yes, doctrinal issues will be there. And there will be times when people will separate from us because of doctrinal issues as well. So our part is to stick to the word, teach them the word, and that's the most that we can do. Just as a follow, what I'm thinking is, you know, in the 17, 1800s or just a couple of decades back, like we look at missionaries, we look at most people who started revivals, these happened in places where there were no churches or there were churches, but like for namesake, traditional, so these people went in there, a lot of conversion happened, church planting happened because people, the local people didn't have access to the word of God. Not all of them were educated, not all of them could read. So like William Cary himself, he came to India. No church. So he started, he printed Bibles, and that's a powerful revival. And it's something new. It's like, you know, how mobile phones are introduced and everyone's now has to have a smartphone. But I'm thinking, so now, so I'm looking at two big issues. So one is revivals, starting revivals, calling or praying for revivals and being ready. You know, I want to start revival, I want to be a part of a revival, like I want God to use me as a revival. So that's one. But then the other one is at the same time, there's the whole issue of so many churches and probably some of the churches wanted to start a revival. Our churches have become the churches that has been there for good 50, 60 years, UCNIC and like whatever churches. So these churches have become too traditional now and it's become more like, so let me start a new and start a revival. But then that is again causing more divisions. It's kind of like a juxtaposition where, you know, for the with the intent of revival, I'm ended up creating more divisions. So thank you. Yeah, yeah, Samuel. So I would like just impress one thing, right? I believe the reason why we're not seeing kind of an outpouring a revival is another reason is because people are after a revival, right? Now we should not, as believers and leaders, we should not be after a revival, but we need to be after God, right? So remember, our quest, we study that to be more like Jesus. So even in church history, William Carey, you use the example of William Carey. William Carey pursued after God. His mind was not set on a revival. I probably didn't know what revival was or his mind was not set on an outpouring or miracles and all of that. His mind was set on Jesus, right? I need to be more like Jesus. I want Jesus to be, you know, manifested in my life. And, you know, the focus was Jesus more than revivals, miracles and all of that. But now what is happening is we've kept Jesus aside and we're saying, okay, we want the miracles, we want the prophecies, we want the word of knowledge, we want all these wonderful things that is attached to the Holy Spirit, but pursuing of Jesus is gone down. So it should be the other way around, right? The more we pursue Jesus, the more we are after Him, the more we, you know, focus on Him rather than, you know, the outpouring and all of it. That will automatically bring in the outpouring or a revival of God. So I believe that we should remember this, you know, that it should be more of Jesus. And right now, when you look at ministries, all ministries, we all pray for revival. That's good. But the focus is not, okay, you know, I want to see hundreds, thousands of people coming and then, you know, miracles and a wonderful stage with thousands of people. That's not the focus. The focus is to be more like Jesus. And out of that flows the other things, right? Automatically, right? If we are focused more and we're on Jesus and spending more time in the word of God and all of that, automatically you will have a revival or an outpouring. But I believe that the modern church has, we have reversed it, right? Because it's good to hear, you know, healings and prophecies. It sounds nice, right? But then the pursuing of God has become lesser, right? So it should be the other way around. And I just thought I'll leave you with that. That beautifully summarizes that. That's a beautiful summary. Thank you. Thank you. Rupa, you can go ahead. We have two minutes left. Thank you, sir. Just I want to add a point. As you said, it's more about perceiving Jesus. And I also say, in revival, you see God glorified. And people don't see Rupa or they don't see Samuel or Paul ministering. But they would see Jesus walking on this earth and he will be magnified and glorified in our midst in a true revival. So we are seeking revival that we would bring Jesus glorified and magnified into our midst that people may turn to him and be saved. That's what I just wanted to add. Yeah. Thank you, Rupa. That's true. All right. So we've come past our time. But here's what I want to do. I want to encourage each one of you. What we'll be doing tomorrow is we will be looking at the book of Acts, right? We will divide it into three sections. But from today, I would encourage you to start reading on the life of Apostle Paul, because what we will do is Paul was a carrier of revival. So we will learn how he, spread this outpouring, right? We see that he started off from Jerusalem, his first missionary journey. He went on four missionary journeys doing a wonderful work of God. So I encourage you just try to find time and begin to read from Acts 13 to Acts 28 is talk about Paul's life, Acts 13 to Acts 28. So just maybe you can start reading one chapter a day. And so it will help us even in our study. So we will be on the same page. So we'll stop now. We'll pick up from next week, sorry, tomorrow. We will pick up from the book of Acts. We'll see what revival, how the revival was there and what we can learn from all of this, from the book of Acts. So all right, let's just pray and we will close. Father, we want to thank you for this class. Lord, we thank you for your move among us. Lord, we thank you for your Holy Spirit that is still working in our midst to God. And Lord, we pray God, even as we study about revivals and look at church history, study from the word of God, I pray that you will continue to revive our hearts, revive our spirits. Lord, that there will be a greater hunger, a greater desire to know more of your God. We thank you, God, for all these things that have been made available for us to study your God. I pray, Lord, that you bless each of us, bless the students as they begin this new week of study of this course of God. I pray that you will be with them, fill us all with your spirit of wisdom and understanding of God. We give you all the praise and glory. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you all. Have a wonderful day and I'll see you tomorrow. God bless.