 Okay. I'll just open us in prayer and then we can begin. Father, we thank you for this new week. We thank you Lord for leading and guiding us through all that we have been doing. Lord, through the weekend and the past week, we thank you that you are our teacher, that you are the one who gives us wisdom and understanding Lord to comprehend things that are so much higher than our human minds can comprehend. And so even as we begin this class today, we pray Lord that you would inspire hearts to believe you for greater things that as we hear the stories of people whom you have used Lord, you would still within our hearts desire for more of you we pray Lord that you would move in power we pray for lovely as she presents your blessings over her Lord and for each one of us gathered here to receive from you what do you desire to impact to us today Lord in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Thank you. Hello. Good morning everyone. Today I'll be presenting or may rather narrating a story about John Schillig. So I thought, let me do it a little different. I didn't prepare any presentation as such but I have hope my audio is fine. Yes. Let me just mute it. I think that maybe now. Yeah. Okay. So I just have one slide that I would like you to see then I'll start my presentation. I mean, I think you can see my I hope you can see my screen because I can't see you. So I'm assuming you can see my screen. I'll stop sharing in a bit. So today I would like to present about John Schillig. So I would want you to see how he looks. That's the reason I have put up this slide and starting with one of the court that he believed in. Do not impress in Christ in you. Let him live. Let him manifest himself. Let him find went through you. So I would rather introduce this person. Many of many of them introduce this person as a man of healing and he's one of the one of the fathers of faith that we would really inspired, inspired me in many different ways and I've heard about him read about him through many years now. And a little bit of background about John Schillig. He was born in Ontario, Canada. He's a Canadian around 1870. He was born and he has a very, very big family. So he has a lot of siblings and his parents were believers and Methodist at that point of time and they were very spiritual in nature as well. But they have, you know, I'm not sharing anything, Michael. Thank you. So to begin this story with the birth of John Schillig was 1870 in Canada and he has a huge family and all the family members has seen a lot of sicknesses and deaths throughout the years. He lost many of his siblings due to sickness and death which created a lot of despair and distress in himself and where when he was, you know, very young he had a he had a condition or a disease where he couldn't walk and when due to during that time Alexander Dobie we already we heard about him and we read about him in our last class who was a healing evangelist at that point of time when he they approached him and when he prayed or prayed for John Schillig and he was revived and he could walk again. Same thing happened with his sister when she was on his death bed and she died then they called Alexander for prayer and he said, you know, do not be afraid she will live God will revive her and it happened. So this created a kind of, you know, enthusiasm in John Schillig to see the God's power practically and literally in his life over the period of time. He joined the Methodist church and when he's married to his wife, he was and his wife was also in the similar position of a death bed situation and Alexander Dobie prayed upon her and she was revived again. Then this revelation stuck to John Schillig about who is causing the death, who is causing sickness that is Satan and not God. When that really stuck John Schillig, it is like a lightning of you know Jesus that he could see Jesus Christ being, you know, anointing him and anointing him with kind of a revelation of where the devil is being revealed and the Jesus is being like you know, being the light of what darkness that he has been under throughout these years and when he was asking God of like, you know, I wanted to be baptized with the Holy Ghost after listening to the many teachings, he would say that you talk about the old age from heaven and the power of God, why there is lightning in the soul of Jesus, the lightning of Jesus healed men by their flash, sin dissolves and disease flees when the power of God approaches. So Lake would also compare the anointing of God's spirit to the power of electricity, like just as man had learned the loss of electricity Lake, you know, discovered the loss of the spirit and as God's lightning rod, he would rise within God's calling to electrify the powers of darkness and solidify the body of Christ. So for him, it started with beginning strengthening his spiritual, you know, strengthening his spiritual understanding of who is Holy Spirit and what Holy Spirit can do. In his words, it says that, you know, it became easy for him to detach himself from the course of life so that while my hands and mind were engaged in the common affairs of every day, my spirit maintained its attitude of communion with God. So John Beleg was not, I did not start his life as a minister, he was not a ministering, but he was a businessman and he was into real estate and he was a quite successful businessman at the point of time, because he's the one who believes that he can also pursue God and also, you know, he can also do a secular job and he can be the salt and light in both the worlds as well. So I think this is similar we see in our church setting as well, there's some, one of the principles that we follow as a church. So once, once John Gilec reached to this point, when he felt that God is calling him to, you know, step into the ministry, he actually sold all of his assets, having nothing to him. And when God told him to move to Africa that point of time, he was having zero rupees in his hand and he has a family and one of his friends to accompany with him to Africa. This is one of the wonderful stories where he was praying, it was always mentioned the material, how much of a material I have been referred, studied and researched about him. It was mentioned couple of times that when he prayed in his secret closet, God has answered him. When he prayed that he needs like my $2,000, some random person sent some $500 draft to him in order sufficient for his African trip. And when he arrived in Africa, God took care of his needs amazingly and it was mentioned that they have seen a huge amount of healings happening, miracles happening, people being saved in Africa. And it was an amazing one decade that he was there. It was a powerful, powerful ministry that God has given to John Gilec. Throughout this, the one fascinating thing I would really say highlight is he always says it's not about the manifestations, but it's about, it's always about his close walk with God. When he, his close walk with God resulted in what God has called him to do. And it really fascinates, even though he's seeing such a huge ministry and such a thing is happening, but he still sticks to the, what is the root of it, sticks to what is his main purpose of having that close walk and communion with God. Even though he was trained a little bit under Alexander doing his early years, but after learning about what is happening with his lifestyle, he detached himself from those kinds of ministries and he has become an individual evangelist where he traveled to Africa. And then during his time in Africa, there were a lot of people used to wait at his home, like a day and night thousands and thousands of people to wait to see that, you know, he would come, he would come and he would really touch them and they will be experiencing his healing power. I mean, and he always maintained, I mean, make sure that he has directed people to God, not to himself. That is, that is one of the fascinating thing about John Gilec. Even through his ministry, he never said no to anybody who came for prayer. And he went through any difficult situations he never stood back. But because he always believed, when you put your faith in the word of God and you act upon it, God will be doing his work. There is no other way that you, you know, come back. After his after his ministry in Africa, unfortunately, he loses his wife due to heart attacks. And then he comes to Spokesman, where they have started the healing rooms, where healing and people whom he trained are called healing technicians. And it is such a technical word at that point of time itself, where people used to come to this healing rooms and they used to be prayed for. And the people who did not get the healing immediately, they used to stay there and people used to pray and read the word, confess the word to them continuously. And until they get healed, they used to stay and then go back. So here we see two techniques that he used. He believed in instant, you know, the immediate healing of Jesus Christ, also the process that may be involved in for many other reasons as well. So due to John Gilec, the particular city in the US was considered as the most healthiest city because of the power of the Christ being displayed to John Gilec. That's why he is called a man of healing. Going forward, the story goes where the it really caught the attention of the press, attention of everybody around the around the alias. And they used to come and really inspect that he's if this is a bluff or is really the heathens are happening. So John Gilec was not afraid to confess his faith at any point of time. He was not, he was very bold enough to say that you can come and check whomever you want. You bring your lawyers, your doctors, you bring your press reporters, everybody, they had a committee made. And he said, I'm going to give you 100 people who bought healer. You can take testimony from them. And when they really spoke to two people, they were like, not required anymore, we believe it. And it was printed and distributed in every part of the country of US at the point of time. And these healing rooms also continued and later John Gilec married to another person and they had a good life and children, all of that. And he wanted people to learn how to minister in healing. That's why he used to train the people in the word of God and how he used to minister. And those are also called the healing technicians. And all throughout his life, he has only depended on one thing who is Holy Spirit and in absolute surrender to God and his close walk with God, these three things that he never left. One of the main regrets we would, I mean, he would say that, you know, because of his completely involvement in ministry, he was, you know, not able to give enough proper attention to his first family. And which led, you know, there is some kind of grace that he carried when his wife passed away, because of more nutrition, because she has to continuously supply food for everybody. She comes with the limited resources she has, and so much of physical exhaustion. So he would say that if one thing I could really do it, that I wanted to be for my kids and for my wife, that he rectified when he got married again to another person, he made sure that he always been around his family and he gave that a priority to his family. When you see his life, I would say you cannot really point out, you know, this went wrong with him. And it was such a surprising thing, apart from the family situation that he, you know, that he faced and he rectified, realized and rectified in the coming years, we could not say, okay, there is a fall that happened for John Chile. He was consistent in his ministry. He was consistent in his walk with God and he was a man of integrity. He was a man of word and he was a man of faith. So when we look at him and I always get inspired so much, like if God could do through a person like John Chile, you know, just because he believed in the Word of God and he asked God for his anointing. He didn't go out by himself doing something, but he asked God for his anointing. One of his prayer was, God, if you will baptize me in the Holy Ghost and give me the power of God, nothing shall be permitted to stand between me and 100 fold obedience. It is such a statement that, you know, obedience, we read in scripture like obedience is greater than sacrifice, which he found out the right interpretation and he, in fact, he actually followed it. So on an overall, I think my times, we came to the, I want to summarize it like John Chile is a person of obedience to God. He's a person of integrity and character that who completely dependent on God. He might make some mistakes, but he never, never let himself down, but he came back. He realized his mistakes and he worked upon it and he had almost four, five decades of ministry altogether. He pastored several churches. He's an apostle who has, you know, who has established many churches over all the parts of US and he's a person who believes that if you have faith in the Word of God and by the power of the Holy Spirit, that God will be, you know, displayed through and he always believed in, you know, exposing God as this glorious triumphant, not just not just an invisible God, but a visible God who can do works by the power of the Holy Spirit. So yeah, that's about John Chile. If you have any questions or you want more information, you can always, you know, ask me and you should also read about him in a much detailed way. There is a lot of information and it's very, very inspiring. I always feel, oh, if God could do through him and it is very similar because we also work. We also do ministry. We also are, you know, desiring the same thing that God could work through us as well. So yeah, thank you. Thank you for this opportunity. Thank you, Ravli. Yeah, even as I've been preparing for class, I think there's so much more that you can study about each of these, each of these revivalists and each of their stories is so powerful. So if you all have the opportunity to read more apart from what we're covering in class, because that's obviously limited by time. Yeah, it would be really good for you to go back and do more study. So we will continue from where we stopped last week. Just share my screen. Okay, so we had stopped last week. We, I mean, we covered a lot in last week's class. So right up to 1934, where we ended with the Wycliffe Bible translation. So William Cameron Townsend who had started that. So 1949, we read about revival in the Hebrides Islands. So at that point of time, in the Hebrides Islands specifically, I'll just quickly switch to the next slide so you know where it is. So that's England, Scotland and above that there's this group of islands called the Hebrides Islands. So the revival happened there. It's a very tiny, tiny place. But God still moves in the tiny places. Praise God. So yes. So in the mid 1900s, the church had come to a place of spiritual dryness. And so we see that being the state oftentimes before people begin to pray for revival and recognize that they need a move of God. So at this point, there were no young people attending church. And there were these two sisters, which you see in the picture on either side of so the in between is an evangelist named Duncan Campbell who was also used in the revival. And on either side of him is Peggy and Christine Smith. So they were two very elderly ladies. Peggy Smith was 84 years old and blind. And Christine Smith was 82 years old and had was suffering from arthritis. So they had very good reasons to just relax for the rest of their lives. But they began to have a burden to pray for the church and to pray for revival within the church. And God gave them a vision that he was going to send revival, specifically through this verse in Isaiah 44. For I will pour water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground. I will pour out my spirit on your offspring and my blessing on your descendants. So with that having that vision, they went and spoke to the pastor of their church. And he also like encouraged them and they started praying three times a week from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. So people would gather in different places Peggy and Christine would pray in their home. People would meet in different places and pray for three days a week 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. As they were praying one night suddenly God just began to move powerfully. And around 3 a.m. there were 600 people who gathered at the church. These were people who were in bed at the time and they suddenly got woken up, got dressed and went to church. They didn't understand fully what they were doing or why they were doing it. But they just felt drawn to go to the church. And from that time on people started to arrive at the island from different parts taking buses and coming to the island without anyone saying anything. No one told them anything about anything that's happening. It was just the presence of God that was drawing them to this place. So as people started to gather for this prayer Peggy and her sister again had a vision about an evangelist who would come in from outside and preach in the church. And so they again shared this with their pastor and he invited Duncan Campbell who was an evangelist conducting meetings in a different island at that time. He sent out an invitation to him and he said I'm right in the middle of evangelistic meetings in these islands so I'm not going to be able to come. But the sister said if God has revealed it he will come. God will work it out. And so within 10 days Duncan Campbell ended up at Hebrides Islands because his evangelistic meetings got cancelled where he was and God used him powerfully in this time. So the first night that he arrived they took him straight to the church and he was preaching there and nothing significant happened. People were there for an hour and 45 minutes. They listened to him preach and they went home. After he left there was a young person in the church who just felt that they should pray and throughout this time of praying for revival they had been praying that verse from Isaiah 44 because God had given them that verse. So he stood there in the middle of the aisle and he began to pray. He prayed that verse and within 15 minutes they saw crowds of people who had arrived at the church just after they had closed the service. So there were people who had gathered from all over the place. There was actually a story of 100 people who had gathered at they were at a party and right in the middle of the party God just convicted them and felt they all felt that they need to go to church. So from the party they all left and arrived at the church. So they then conducted a meeting for all these people who arrived. So from 11 p.m. that night till 4 a.m. these people were ministered to and as he was leaving this meeting and going back to his hotel room at 4 p.m. someone called him to the police station because people had gathered there at the police station. Some 300 people had gathered and they were all just they also didn't fully understand why they were there but they all felt the draw of God to come there. So he went to the police station and preached and ministered to them. During this time God was moving supernaturally so people would fall into trances. They would we repent over sin. There was God was moving through the neighboring towns through that town of Lewis itself where the revival started. There's one story from 1957 to 1958 where four there were four girls in the early 20s. God used them powerfully. They actually ministered to people who were in pubs and they became famous for emptying pubs on the island because of their ministry. So there was so much of God moving without anyone kind of publicizing it. So all of these stories of people just gathering at the police station people gathering at the church. No one had said anything. It was just the presence of God that was drawing people and from here it started it spread out of this island to other towns to other countries as well. We move on from here to okay so this was sorry I didn't change slide but yeah some of the things we covered. 1952 Jim Elliott was a missionary to South America so he is very young when he went out as a missionary and he was joined by Pete Fleming. He worked three years with a group of people called the Kichwas and after three years he and a group of so a group of five people moved to start a minister to another tribe called the Aukas and just six days after making contact with this group all of them were killed. So it was a tribal group right so anyone who came from the outside were viewed as people who were were endangering them and so they killed them. But just one quote from him missionaries are very human folks just doing what they asked simply a bunch of nobody's trying to exalt somebody. So he died at a very young age he was 27 when he died but even in that short time he inspired many many people because he was a young person who was passionate for God and went out by himself to answer God's call. 1965 to 1975 this was a revival that started among the hippies so during that time it became quite common in the western culture for young people to get into the hippie movement and what was part of the hippie movement was rebellion against authority so all kinds of authority whether it was government or church or whatever rebel against authority lots of them were into drugs alcohol free sex eastern mysticism communal living so they were living together in community and all of this was being practiced as a community okay so practicing so eastern mysticism was a lot of the what we see on meditation a lot of the occult all of those things were being practiced within this group of people they were also viewed by society as rejects as losers as people who were just kind of taking an easy way out from life they were avoiding responsibility because it was all young people so they were viewed as young people who didn't want to take responsibility who had just kind of taken an easy way out of doing anything important with their lives during this time Charles Smith also known as Chuck Smith started to minister two hippies in Costa Mesa California along with his wife K Smith and he is considered one of the most influential figures in modern American Christianity because he reached out to these group this big large group of people who were like completely rejected by society but in doing that transformed a lot of Christian culture itself because these people had such a huge impact on Christian culture when they came to Christ and we look at how they had that impact so some of the ways that people reached out to them was they started coffee shops so through coffee shops they started to minister to these young people and they also started a Christian version so because they had this communal living they also had a Christian communal living center so where people who were coming out of drugs were coming out of this movement had a place to stay and they were being ministered to so it was called the living room many hundreds of hippies started to give up drugs give up all of the things that they were practicing and turning to Jesus and starting to share that with others so apart from Chuck Smith another very important person that was used was one of the first converts from the hippie movement his name was Lonnie Frisbee so he was part of the group that started this living room movement and he was very very powerful in evangelistic work that was done among the hippies so this started to be called the Jesus movement also they were called the Jesus people or Jesus Freaks I don't know if you've heard the song Jesus Freak but all of that is coming out of this movement it's by a band called DC Talk okay let me try and change slide okay so these are some of the things that happened because of this group of people so as they became as they kind of started following Jesus the spread of this conversion impacted parts of North North America Europe Central America so right up to the 1970s people from 60s to the 70s this revival was spreading across these parts of the western world and different churches that were really impacted I listed here Calvary Chapel Church Hope Chapel Church Vineyard Church Fellowship House Church Shiloh Youth revival center so lots of churches that are well known today actually were impacted by this movement a lot of contemporary Christian music started during this time because these young people were so into music that when they came to Christ music came out of that right so the Maranatha Singers Hillsong Jesus culture all of these are products of this revival the use of guitar and drums dancing in the spirit the use of choruses so before this there were mostly hymns within the church but using more contemporary music all of that came out of this time and then some bands that came out of this were Petra, Keith, Green, Andre, Crouch, Barry, Maguire, Philly, Phil Keege so lots of the music I don't know how many of you are familiar with all of this but definitely in my generation all of this was very very very popular so all of this came out of this the Jesus movement and then impacted contemporary music for us today within the church so even though by the late 1980s the movement itself didn't continue with the same kind of power that it had had it had a huge impact on the church as a whole on Christian worship and on how how the church continues to worship today okay my mouse is a little uh here we move to the 1970 Asbury College revival so very recently also we were talking about revival at Asbury College so there is a history of revival that has happened in Asbury so we have a few years here 1905, 1950, 1958 we are looking at 1970 and then more recently in 2000 was it 2022 it wasn't 22 right so 23 okay okay so so that's been a place that God has just chosen to use to take revival into other parts of the world in the 1970 revival Asbury is a Christian college so there are regular chapels that happen from Monday to Friday like supernatural hours here and so this was part of their regular chapel service as they gathered for service the dean of the school was supposed to share but he felt at that time that he should invite students to come and share their testimonies and so when he invited them there was a like a long line of students that gathered and they all came in turn sharing for revival already there had been preparation for revival so there had been prayer happening on campus for revival to happen so they were already in this place of expectation for God to move and so this invitation for people to come and share was something that was already had been prepared for in prayer and so as they came and started sharing one of the students came up was a third year student who shared about his own personal life he said I feel like until now I have not been fully I have not given my life fully to Christ I've not like fully been for Jesus and I want to make that commitment now and then he invited other students who wanted to make that commitment to also come to the altar and was at that time that people like a large group of students started to move towards the altar and people started to weep to repent confess their sins it was a very student led revival meaning that it was the move of God among the students itself not something that was led by the administration and some of the ways that they described this was that as if God himself had walked into the room at that point people didn't want to leave the chapel at all there it's a hundred it's a 1500-seater auditorium and was packed for the next eight days and eight nights continuously there was worship happening in the hall so people were coming up and sharing their testimonies and people were praying classes were cancelled for that week and even after that the hall was left open for people to come and share their testimonies from the college there were hundreds of students who traveled to other campuses traveled to churches telling them about what was happening here and wherever they went revival would happen on those college campuses and in those churches and was not it was not through any powerful preaching it was just students sharing their own testimony of what they had experienced what they had seen on their campus in fact someone was sharing from asbury that it seemed that the more normal the student was a student who was least known among the college at that time those were the kinds of students that God was using to spark the revival in other places so from here it's spread it's recorded to have spread to 130 other colleges seminaries bible schools and churches in the US and it's spread from New York to California so that's the east course to the west course and then even to South America can somebody just check on time for me because I don't have my 43 okay just let me know when we are done okay so 1980 looking at revival in Argentina so there was one man named Carlos Anacondia who was a businessman but he had gone he had become an evangelist who got used powerfully through this time as he was preaching thousands of people would accept Christ there were signs wonders healings deliverances so Argentina actually has experienced many revivals the first was in 1949 then there was another one in 1954 and then this one in 1980 so during this revival there was a lot of occultic practice that was happening in the culture at that time and there was a lot of demonic activity so this picture that you see here is actually them ministering to someone who this became a normal part of these revival meetings so when this when Carlos was preaching before he preached a sermon he would speak directly to the demons and command them not to disrupt the meetings because that was very common where there would be demonic disruptions to the meetings so he would command them not to disrupt and that the gospel would be able to be preached clearly to the people he would then preach the gospel and then he would again minister to those who were under any kind of demonic oppression during the time there was so much demonic activity that there would be they had a separate room a separate space where anyone who was manifesting in any way showing any signs of being being demonized or being possessed they would take them to the separate place and people would be ministering to them there are two people ministering to one person so there was a lot of deliverance that happened through this revival in Argentina from here so now we move into 1982 present day and what has happened from the 1980s onwards is that we've seen a lot of mega churches so churches that are growing powerfully not just attacking people with things that are worldly but attacking people through preaching of the word through demonstrations of the Holy Spirit and so there's been a huge growth in churches since this time oh sorry I think did my this slide show okay I'll just share again so here we see one of the largest churches that's still one of the largest churches today in the world so this is in Korea and South Korea and is led by Pastor Yongi Cho it's called the Yoida Full Gospel Church in Seoul Korea so this church was in 1928 there was a lady named Mary C Ramzi so she was baptized in the spirit at Azusa Street and then she moved to Korea and she started the first Pentecostal Church in 1928 in 1958 is when Yongi Cho started this church the Yoida Full Gospel Church in Seoul in a slum there and when he started it there were five people who gathered for the first meeting but by 2023 now there are nearly 900,000 members within the church and within the whole of South Korea there's been a huge growth of Pentecostal churches specifically and the main contributors to these churches growing is prayer and is also the teaching of the word there's healing there's miracles there's dependence on the Holy Spirit and within this church specifically a use of cell groups so there's a huge very big importance given to cell groups so it's through these cell groups that people are discipled and people are growing and so they see that as very key to the growth of the church and then the use of mass media as well has been very key in the growth of the church so this is one of the largest churches in the world in our book we have two other churches mentioned which we look at later but there's also another church in Nigeria that more recently has grown and is now considered one of the largest churches the top three churches in the world it's called the Living Faith Church also known as Winners Chapel it has thousands of branches spread across the African continent and beyond the church has a over five million members in total that is all these different branches together founded by Bishop David Oya Depo and situated in the city of Lagos Nigeria so the main campus seats 50,000 people but weekly attendance is 200,000 and the church will soon be building another building which is larger so they can seat more people 19 we'll go okay are we at closing time or yeah okay we'll continue tomorrow then from where we stopped so 1983 thank you all see you tomorrow