 Good morning everyone. Before we begin, can someone open us in prayer please? Father God we thank you, we bless you for this day father. We submit each one of us onto your loving hands. Father help us to know your will in everything we are doing Lord and thank you Lord. In Jesus name we pray. In case and apologies for starting late, we will just continue from where we stopped yesterday. So I think we stopped at the Welsh revival. She has cleaned. Okay, so we were just looking a little more in detail at some of the bigger revivals and the main reason for looking at these revivals is to observe like some of the some of the things that happened prior to the revival or during the revival things that we can take note of things that we can learn from whether good or bad for us to prepare ourselves as well for revival. So we looked at just two revivals yesterday. Today we look at we looked at three revivals yesterday. Today we look at maybe three more if we have the time. So 1904 was the Welsh revival. So the Welsh revival because it happened in Wales and during this time again there was a spiritual decline within the church. So there was not much church attendance. There were not many young people especially in the church and so there began to be some prayer in the churches praying to see a change in the church in the country as a whole as well. And one of the key people in this revival was Evan Roberts. Evan Roberts was a very young man but he had a deep desire to know God. So his heart was for God and he was pursuing God personally. Like he wanted to experience more of the Holy Spirit. He would spend hours and days in prayer just seeking God and desiring more of God asking God to fill him with the Holy Spirit. And he right from when he was a child he attended Sunday school he was memorizing scripture. From 13 years of age he began to pray asking for the Holy Spirit to fill him and praying for revival for himself. When he was about 26 years old he went away to Bible school and started to prepare for ministry and during his time in Bible school he felt this burden that he should be spending about seven hours a day in prayer and in studying scripture. So he committed himself to spending seven hours a day every day seeking God so spending that time with God. So it was during this time that he started to experience God moving in his life and there was an evangelist named Seth Joshua who's also on the slide. He had come to his Bible school and preached there and the students they were so impacted they wanted to go to one of Seth's evangelistic meetings and so they cancelled classes at the Bible school and went to one of these campaigns and during that time Ebon Roberts experienced the Holy Spirit just moving powerfully in his own life and he started to pray for hundred thousand souls to be saved and he felt that God was going to do that somehow. So during this time he went back to his Bible school and felt a burden for his home church and so he asked his school headmaster if he could go back and got permission to go back spoke to his pastor in his local church and his pastor was not very convinced that he should give him a chance to speak but he said okay after one of the meetings you can just share with whoever's willing to stay back and so after a prayer meeting they invited people to stay back and listen to whatever Ebon Roberts wanted to share and this was specifically with the youth. So 17 people stayed back this was October 31st 1904 17 people stayed back and Roberts just had a very simple message so he talked about confessing your sins making right any things that you've done wrong putting away any so if you're doing something in your life and you're not sure whether it's right to stop doing it so putting away any doubtful habits obeying the Holy Spirit and then confessing your faith in Christ publicly so he just preached that small message but the youth there were really impacted and all 17 of them responded to the gospel in that meeting so encouraged by that the pastor also asked Evans to continue sharing and so he shared for that week and then he shared for the following week and with that specific group of people he also encouraged them to pray for the Holy Spirit so he led them in this prayer he said oh send the Holy Spirit now for Jesus Christ's sake so they prayed that prayer and people experienced the Holy Spirit moving in that time soon there were people coming from outside of town because they were hearing news about the Holy Spirit moving here it started to be published in the papers about what God was doing so crowds of people were coming the streets were filled with people because they were waiting to get into the church and one reporter wrote in the newspaper a strange meeting which closed at 4 25 a.m and even then people didn't seem willing to go home so through the newspaper also news was spreading and people were coming in within the first five weeks 20,000 between 20 to 30,000 people were saved just within the first five weeks of the revival apart from thousands of people who were revived in their faith this 20 to 30,000 were new people coming to faith within two months 70,000 people were saved and by March 1905 which was three months later 85,000 people had been saved were recorded as being saved so we don't know how many apart from that so during this time there were other people who also started to help out with preaching the word teaching and most of it was focused on repentance prayer intercession and through them in history what all was happening in the revival was kind of consolidated so they continued to preach and teach the word of God they continued to meet for prayer they continued to intercede for people and so though some of the pictures there are a few of the people who were involved in the preaching that was happening apart from them there's also Evan Lloyd Jones and also somebody named Sidney Evans so if you remember the first thing that Evan Roberts prayed for when he felt the Holy Spirit kind of breaking through in his own life was for 100,000 people to be saved and he saw those 100,000 people converted through this revival so it was something that like a huge vision that God gave him and God himself accomplished through just someone who was so passionate for God it was just his own personal passion for God that made it possible so there was also a major social impact through this time there was a reduction in crime so judges didn't have much work policemen didn't have much work so they left their jobs and they they joined they actually started going to the church choir and singing the church choir because they didn't have work to do there was a reduction in drunkenness dropped to half so pubs taverns were closed down because there were no people who were drinking coal miners who were working in the area actually used to use a lot of bad language and they stopped using so much bad language in the time so much so that the horses that they ride didn't understand what they were saying because the horses were so used to hearing the coal miners using bad language while riding so just a huge impact on even transforming society in 1905 Evan Roberts kind of the whole all the work that he was doing was a little too much for him to bear and so he experienced some physical and emotional like a breakdown and then he withdrew from the revival but the work continued after that so one of the challenges was that he had taken that work up like too rigorously and it had affected him and his health so 20 years after the revival someone asked him if he thought Wales could experience another revival and his answer was yes but who will pay the price so just to talk about it involves a lot of sacrifice and we look at as we are looking at what are some things we learn from this revival one of the things being how to balance out how to get the kind of rest you need how to get the kind of support you need to avoid something like that where at the end of it you yourself are completely like you've lost your own health and so he kind of withdrew from public life after this revival but he continued to do work in his own space so some things we can learn from the revival prayer so they had started praying for revival seven years prior to when the revival actually broke out complete surrender and this is from Evan Roberts own personal life how he was a man who was completely surrendered to God an uncommon vessel so Evan Roberts is not a big preacher or anyone important before God used him he was just a young he was actually a very young person but because of being sold off for God God used him holy spirit fruit so just recognizing that was really a work of God it was not anything that was manufactured by a human being and then one very important point is the fruit consolidated that is because those teams of people went out and continued to keep the people they were ministering too strong in the word in prayer they continued to minister to people they were able to strengthen what had been started they didn't kind of let it go and dwindle off and so even five years after the revival took place about 75 percent of the people who had come to faith continued to remain in the church so 100,000 people were saved and five years later there was still about 75,000 people in the church so that's because they did a good job of strengthening what had been started next we look at the mukti mission so this is what happened in India with Pandita Ramabai so she was born in a brahmin family in 1858 and later became a christian they're not looking too much at her own personal journey of coming to faith but she started a house called the sharada sadhan a house of learning for brahmin widows so her experience was that her husband had died when she was very young and she saw how she was not cared for as a widow and she was the practice at that time was that they would get married very young and their husbands would be much older so the husband would die and then the widow would be very young and the widow didn't have much of a place in society there's no one taking care of them and they were just basically very looked down upon and not taken care of and so this burdened her and so she started this home for young widows by 1901 she had 2,000 girls staying with her in Pune as part of this home so in the 1890s there were people across India who began to pray for revival um and in 97 1897 a student volunteer movement started praying for started a day of prayer across India um at this time John Hyde who had also come to India had started these prayers prayers for revival um so Pandita Ramabai also wanted to see revival happen and she started to talk about she had a letter that she used to write called the Mukti prayer bell and she started to encourage people to pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit for about five years she was writing in her letters about praying for revival and started to spend time personally herself prayer in prayer and fasting during this time about 1200 girls in the home were baptized in the Holy Spirit in within two months and um as they heard about the revival in Wales and it's spreading to Shillong in India um they started to desire to see that happen in their midst as well and they started to meet daily for prayer and specifically praying for the power of the Holy Spirit to move in their midst um in 1905 when they were all gathered in prayer the Holy Spirit came in power and they began to there was a lot of weeping confessing of sins and more desire for the Holy Spirit there was speaking in tongues dreams visions prophecy miraculous supply of food the girls there felt that the fire of God was consuming them they felt like they were on fire and at this time there's a record of an American Methodist missionary named Minnie Abrams so she recorded about this experience that Pandita Ramabai had she said Pandita Ramabai was woken up at 3 30 a.m by one of the senior girls she saw fire on one of the girls and ran across with a pail of water only to realize that it was not a physical fire she saw all the girls on their knees weeping praying and confessing their sins it was a baptism of fire of the Holy Spirit the girls acknowledged that when the Holy Spirit came upon them they felt burning within sometimes almost unbearable they were transformed and then filled with joy and prayers and so so there are records of this of just like a powerful evidence of the Holy Spirit in their midst in all of these signs and wonders and so they started to spend a lot of time in prayer and Bible study and started to send out teams of people to preach the gospel a team of 60 women would go out every day into the villages to take the gospel to the surrounding to their neighbors and people around we also looked at this earlier how the chili revival was impacted by this so many Abrams who's here in that picture on the screen she wrote a book about this whole revival and sent it to her friend who was ministering in Chile at the time her friend reading that book was so inspired that they started to pray for a revival in Chile and the Holy Spirit moved in Chile and that led to the Pentecostal church being started there so so this revival basically spread from here to Chile just because of that book and the accounts of what God had done here in in Pandit Ram Bhai's home so just some things that we can take away from this there are major outcomes so Alan Anderson wrote an article about this and he wrote some of the major outcomes that revival lasted in India for two years this Mukti Mission revival lasted for two years and it set the stage for the Azusa Street revival which started in 1906 so all of these signs and wonders that we saw here in the Mukti revival proceeded what happened in the Azusa Street revival and they saw similar things happening there women played a significant role in this revival and in this revival also there was much more openness to other Christians to other denominations than we see in the other Pentecostal revivals so these were just some things to note that was different from other Pentecostal revivals so women playing a big role about inclusiveness so other church bodies other denominations being included and then how this impacted Chile as well so three things that we can take away from this revival is again prayer prayer was such a important part of revival breaking out stewarding the revival so although this revival had broken out Pandita Ram Bhai didn't actually start to tell people outside about the revival it was happening inside Mukti Mission for a long time before they decided okay they'll start to send teams out and go and tell other people about it because she wanted to protect what God was doing and they wanted to kind of strengthen the girls themselves before sending them out and starting to tell other people about it and then spreading the revival so once they had done that they then took the revival to other places and started to evangelize and share about what God was doing so just those three things that we can take away from this revival I think this is the last revival we look at today this is the Azusa street revival so this is a key revival in the starting of the Pentecostal movement the assemblies of God church and one thing that was written by Cecil M. Robbeck about the Azusa street revival is Azusa Street is a fountain that produced a global movement that has changed the face of Christianity forever so what happened here impacted the church worldwide because of just this exposure to the Holy Spirit how the Holy Spirit moves and how we can expect the Holy Spirit to continue moving in the church which had stopped so much since the Book of Acts right for thousands of years there we had not seen the Holy Spirit moving in that way and so the Azusa street revival is very important because of that so we look at William Seymour he was born to parents who were slaves in the US in Louisiana and he contracted smallpox when he was a child and lost vision in one eye during this time he was conducting evangelistic missions initially when he came to faith he went to a Bible college I'm not sure if you all remember we talked about Charles Parham who had he had started a Bible college where the students experienced Holy Spirit moving so that first Bible college closed down and then he opened another one which is where William Seymour attended and so right in his Bible college he was exposed to the Holy Spirit teaching on the Holy Spirit about the baptism of the Holy Spirit about praying in tongues and so he learned about all of that but he had not personally experienced it so he went to pastor a small church in California and as he was pasting that church he he was invited to travel to another another place in California and he at that time heard about the baptism of the Holy Spirit and praying in tongues and and sorry I'm lost here a little bit so he he was preaching about all of that but they didn't agree with what he was preaching about because he'd learned that in Bible college so in this in his church they didn't agree with it and so they told him that he could no longer pastor the church so he started a home Bible study and started to do that right from his house he started to teach in his house started prayer meetings in his house with about 15 African Americans who were coming who joining with him during that time they experienced a powerful move of the Holy Spirit and they saw people who started speaking in tongues they actually even laid hands on someone and that person was so filled with the Holy Spirit he just fell to the floor as if he was dead in that meeting so during this time they they saw tongues being one of the major things that were given to them but it spread within the group there was his wife she would also sing in tongues he himself experiences the Holy Spirit coming and falling on him and he fell on the floor in the same way fell as if dead and began to speak in tongues so although until that time he had not experienced himself he had been preaching and teaching about it but during this meeting is when he also experienced it so more people started to hear about it and started to come to see what was happening they as the news spread they were they would come to these services to experience what God was doing so they had so the church started to grow and they were meeting in at Seymour's home they continued to meet there but April 18th is when the Azusa Street revival was reported in the newspapers so we'll read a little bit about that so he writes one of the reporter who reported on it he writes prior to my meeting with Paahim I mean we see more writes about meeting with Paahim who was that the school Bible college leader he says the Lord had sanctified me from sin and had led me into a deep life of prayer assigning five hours out of the 24 every day for prayer this prayer life I continued for three and a half years when one day as I prayed the Holy Ghost said to me there are better things to be had in the spiritual life but they must be sought out with faith and prayer this so quick in my soul that I increased my hours of prayer to seven out of 24 and continued to pray on for two years longer until the baptism fell on us so again we see as Evan Roberts as well there was this commitment to personally spend time in prayer and spend seven hours a day in prayer which is a huge huge commitment what is it yes yeah so yeah just a huge sacrifice right seven hours a day to spend seven hours a day in prayer so this is one thing that was very very key in the Azusa mission was that there was a lot of prayer that was happening apart from the actual meetings that were happening so apart from the time he was spending preaching to the people he was praying outside and spending time preparing him his own self spiritually and that was what led to even the Holy Spirit just guiding everything that he was doing so John G Lake described William Seymour this way he said God had put such a hunger into that man's heart that when the fire of God came it glorified him I do not believe any other man in modern times had a more wonderful deluge of God in his life than God gave to that dear fellow and the glory and power for real Pentecost swept the world that black man preached to my congregation of 10 000 people when the glory and power of God was upon his spirit and men shook and trembled and cried to God God was in him so people could see the Holy Spirit as he was preaching as he was ministering they could see the power of God at work in him and it was through his own personal spiritual life and through what he had allowed God to do in him that other people were impacted through his preaching and through his work so through this the church started to impact other local churches in the area about 50 percent of African American people that congregation was about 50 percent African American there were Latino people so it was a mix of a lot of different people from different places Japanese whites Native Americans all of them coming and joining this church and being impacted powerfully by the power of the Holy Spirit so within three months what they had started off with with about 15 people had reached 500 and 700 people and in 1906 about 1500 people had started to join the regular services another thing was that this revival was very planned and organized so they had staff they had volunteers they had membership they had a statement of faith they had a board of trustees and they had their own organization they had a property that they owned so there was a lot of a lot of organizational work that they had done to continue the work that they started so they would have staff planning meetings on Monday mornings and as the revival grew there were apostolic faith churches that were established and other congregations started to join these Monday morning meetings they they appointed staffs they had a state director they had city evangelists they had they had different people running different parts of the work that had happened to continue that work and to continue to establish the work that had started spreading the fire so evangelists who had been empowered in this revival started to go out into other parts of the nation so four four months after this revival they started to go out into other other cities other parts and share about what God was doing so south and then from there they started to send out missionaries to other parts of the world so south america africa europe asia the movement spread to all of these places and it took root in over 15 nations and by 1914 every city of america of 3000 or more in every area of the world so all of these places had been affected by this revival at the same time there were challenges that they faced so there was criticism of what was happening so the media newspapers others who didn't understand what was happening were were critical of what was going on some churches who lost members they were also unhappy about about that and so they were criticizing what was happening some churches had to close down because they had lost members and then local pastors also who didn't understand they were not familiar with the move of the holy spirit they also wrote against the revival but one thing that was very sad was that the his bible college leader charles parham himself visited the revival and then started to speak against it and also because there was a mixing of races there were people from different races attending that was something that was difficult for society to accept some people because they were seeing the holy spirit move in ways that they were not familiar with they were uncomfortable with that and so they started to talk badly about it and so all of these things were also challenges that were faced during the revival and apart from this revival happens in revivals as well so the revival continued for about three years and it had been carried around the world but because there was some challenges that they faced it started to kind of dampen what what god had been doing so one of the leaders broke away and took many churches with her claiming that the revival had moved to another part and so she she kind of broke away from what was happening there were other people who started to try to start the same revival in other places so there was division that happened between the leaders and so the church kind of reduced and what that azusa street mission church reduced to a small black congregation rather than that diverse group of people that was meeting before it just became a small congregation but simo continued to be the senior pastor until his death and then his wife served as a pastor after his death until she died and then finally the mission was sold and yeah it was that space was sold and that church didn't continue to meet after that so just a few things that we can take away from this revival again william simo was not someone who was an expected revivalist because he was not a big preacher not a well-known person at all but god chose to use him he was just someone who was humble and who was personally desperate for god and so god used him and the people among whom the revival started were an insignificant group of people it was just 15 african-americans who were at that time very looked down upon in society but god started to move in their midst another thing was that they allowed the Holy Spirit to move as he pleased so it was very spontaneous they allowed whatever the Holy Spirit was doing they allowed the Holy Spirit to do in their midst which was what allowed allowed freedom in their worship and allowed god to move powerfully in them there was strong organization right so they they were able to spread information through the newspapers they were sending out evangelists and missionaries and doing outreach on the streets so so just good organization good leadership by william simo as well but eventually there was some breakdown and one thing that we can learn is to need the need to guard what has been given so there was some jealousy pride greed strife that came into the leadership team so it's important to be able to have leaders who are mature to be constantly guiding the leadership team and making sure that they are not staying away from the vision of what y'all are doing as a as a church and so that was what finally led to the church breaking down and the church eventually closing as well so we'll close with this um we'll continue from chapter six next week yeah because of division among the leaders uh because they started to have fighting within or jealousy within uh trying to lead away some of the churches uh all of that led to breaking down of the church as a whole okay uh anyone want to share any thoughts or any anything okay then we'll close for today thank you all for joining us