 Good morning, everyone. Welcome once again to the class on to the course on Christian history and missions and Today we would be covering on a few more revivalist from the 20 and the 21st centuries and we can We will begin to study on the revivals and the moments that took place in this 20 and 21st centuries, which is Which has an impact still over us. So to begin with, we are on page 62. So if you're following on notes, we are on page 62 and here we could study on Charles Fox Parham and Bethel Bible College in Topeka, Kansas This is not the Bethel College that we have at Reddington in our time But we're going to talk about the Bethel Bible College, which was in the time of Charles Fox Parham. So Charles Fox was a young man who lived between 1873 to 1929 He was an itrant evangelist who was longing for the outpouring from heaven that would make the church Powerful in word and in deed. That's nothing but in simple words saying that, you know, he wants to see The people being changed being transformed from Within and that can happen only by the power of the Holy Spirit. So in 1900 Charles Fox traveled from his base in Topeka, Kansas to various well-known ministries in the north and northeast including ministries of John Alexander Dewey And also A.B. Simpson, A.J. Jordan and Frank Stanford. These were some of the revivalists during his time So evaluating that he saw he became even more convinced that he needed a mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit because he realized that the ministry can move And grow and impact people only by the power of the Holy Spirit Now the minute he understood the minute he got this realization He started desiring more for the Holy Spirit. So what happened? In October 1900 together with his wife and sister-in-law Charles opened Bethel Bible College in Topeka, Kansas with about 40 students Not very easy to get students. We know that so he's got 40 students who had this burning desire to study the word So he started the college with 40 and prayer was the central focus of the school So just three days before New Year's Eve in 1900 Charles Fox encouraged all the students to study the subject of the baptism of the Holy Spirit So especially in the book of wax and search for the biblical evidence and how a person Could know for certain that one had truly received the baptism of the Holy Spirit So your ease You know is making each individual each student To literally have a tangible experience with the Holy Spirit as they search So the students concluded that the indisputable proof of the Pentecostal blessing was that people spoke with other tongues So what happened in the watch night service? Between 1900 and 1901 later that evening The Holy Spirit manifested himself with an unusual intensity Unusual experience that the students experienced. So it was about 11 p.m As the 20th century was about to dawn Agnes O's man who was a student at the school asked Charles Fox to pray for her that she might receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit in the manner They had observed in their study that is exactly the Holy Spirit on the day of pentecostal next chapter 1 and 2 So after a brief prayer She experienced the power of God coming on her And she began speaking in the Chinese language And was unable to speak in English for three days Now it's an unknown tongue for her This even stirred up the spiritual desire in Charles Fox and the others at Bethlehem Bible College Because they saw how the Lord is moving with this girl Agnes who had a very Simple and the earnest desire You see Lord honors the desire the earnest desires of a heart it does not Depend on how long you're in the Lord or how well you know about him How much knowledge you have about the scriptures. It's just a simple desire She earnestly prayed that she may experience the Holy Spirit in the way the disciples and the apostles who gathered in the upper room would Have had a desire grew in our heart and the Lord Who knew the desire fulfilled that desire He just poured the spirit upon her and it manifested but she's speaking in an unknown language So suspending normal activities They set the side an upper room where they waited on the Lord for the personal Pentecost So on Jan 3rd, 1901. Well, they continued to pray The student body and you know, Charles Fox experienced A mighty outpouring of the spirit with speaking in other tongues So what happened? Many others arrived at Bethlehem to see what was happening there See the New Testament when you see when Jesus moved When Jesus was walking on this earth when you were sharing and teaching to the people Wherever Jesus when there was a crowd a mighty crowd followed him a multitude followed him This is what the New Testament we read in the gospels The same way wherever the power of the Holy Spirit is People get attracted to Jesus They come they come to see what is happening Just like how the Samaritan woman invited the minute she had an encounter with Jesus at the well She went and called out the village saying come and see now Now when this student 40 students formed they started meeting into a room and they called it as a upper room And they started praying and expecting for the Holy Spirit to move among them Holy Spirit showed up to them But the Holy Spirit showed up to them. It was no more um You know hidden It was visible the manifestation of the spirit of the Lord was so visible that people started coming to the bible college to see What was happening So others received the baptism and the Holy Spirit I think some of them have joined now Okay Some of them Okay, so we see that Many arrived at the Bethel to see what was happening and others received the baptism and the Holy Spirit and Took the message to others. They became the carrier of the word So this continued through the spring of 1901 by fall in 1901 The building used for the Bethel bible college was sold And the Bethel school came to an end maybe due to many reasons So Charles moved to a rented house in Kansas City And he traveled around the country preaching the baptism and the Holy Spirit and divine healing because Wherever the spirit of the Lord is there is science wonders miracles and healing and deliverance happen So in the winter of 1905 we see param opened a new bible school in houston Like the one he ran in topeka, Kansas So it was in houston That william jaymore attended the college We was exposed to the truth on the baptism of the Holy Spirit So william jaymore was later used in azusa street revival in los angeles Okay, so with that We will move on to the next person called william jaymore who studied in this college at houston under the leadership of Charles fox and we will look into him like how his life was impacted Has he earnestly seeked God? So william jaymore Lived between 1870 and 1922 And he was a prominent american african religious leader in the early 20th century Let me check if you can see the presentation Okay Like now it's clear So he was ordained minister and a son of freed slave So he's regarded as one of the founders of the modern pentecostalism So samer was one of the most in uh influential leader in this time and he was born on may 2nd 1870 in center will lose the anna Within the saint mary's parish. So his parents were born Uh, uh, born recently freed slaves and Simon samor and phyllis salabar that was uh, they were the parents of william samor So during samor's Childhood his family had affiliation with the baptist and the catholic churches So on september 4th 1870 He was baptized in a catholic Ceremony of at the church at the assumption in franklin louisiana So not much is known about his early life except that he was raised in poverty Uh, he's from a meager background received very Little formal education and he claimed to have uh visions from god So during his years as a young man, he traveled You know traveled greatly so in 1895 when he was about 25 year old Samor moved to indianapolis in indiana While working as a waiter in upscale restaurant and hotels So he joined simpson chapel methodist Church, which was the african and american congregation of the predominantly white methodist church So In 1900 he moved to simpson adi, ohio where he joined the church of god Restoration movement, which was also called the evening light saints So the group was part of the growing holiness moment that embraced a Radical doctor that included faith healing and a belief in the eminent return of christ And even that would indicate by the integration of the race and worship So during samours time, they were a lot of race issues among the black and white They were always A problem among them the group also believed in the doctrine of this Many other things like sanctification or the concept of dating Back to 19th century protestantism and many other believed this group had Okay, yeah so Slowly Farrow encouraged samor because samor was a person in in thirst of knowing god more He want to study the word for which he was forbidden Like he didn't have the opportunity because there was a race issue among the people However, he contacted he came in touch with One mr. Farrow and he encouraged samor to get in touch with charles Forks param who had a bible college to join his bible college for him to study the word so Knowing charles fobs, he was a white evangelist who ran a bible college in texas And samor was interested in the concept of speaking in tongue. So They were hearing more about you know revival breakthrough revival breakout in many places And they always speaking in new tongues. They also heard about the pentecostal experience. So here Samo was Samo increased the desire To know more about speaking in tongues and also have an experience of speaking in tongues So with that desire whatever samo had with him the savings or Whatever the household he had he sells everything and he moves to To this place to Kansas to pika to To attend the bible college under the leadership of charles forks param Who had founded the first pentecostal bible school in that city and thought about speaking in tongues so Yeah, so samor asked param. So after joining the bible college samor asked param if he would join the bible college for which uh charles forks agreed but because of his Segregation was then i mean because of his color. He was a black samo was black. Uh, so Charles forks ran a school with many whites in his bible school So he could not because of the racism during his time Though charles wanted to be uh, you know to accept samor and teach him the word But because of the other students who were not in the level of thinking He had to request samor to be seated outside the class and attend the bible college Just imagine there's a class of students Okay, you are studying the word of god But samor just because of his color He's sitting outside the class and studying now He yarned so much for the word of god Nothing of this mattered samor He humbled himself saying that It's fine. I will sit outside the school I will sit outside the college and study So day after day samor came to the college. He sat out and studied So param would only allow samor to listen To lessons through an open door or a window So samor attendance did not last very long why? because of this uh separation But then still you see many of them in the college Witnessed and uh, you know, they were uh Enable to pray in tongues But samor was not able to but still he had this desire to pray in tongues So this desire did not quench and As samor was there in the class he slowly became friend with the other white students in the class So as the college went Uh as the courses went month after month he was offended by child's folks racism As I believe that racial integration in worship was a was a sign of christ written But through child's folks samor appeared to have learned more about Speaking in tongues So he's looking at the positive side in the bible school about Knowing more about the holy spirit and knowing more about the gift of speaking in tongues and this effect and his exposure to Parv's teaching so particularly concerning In the coastal moment what he learned at the college was a white spread In u.s. Those days. So while he was leaving in houston samor also met Neely terry a woman who had moved from los angeles and who was part of the holiness Movement that was happening at this place in houston. So what happened next is um That samor was either led to los angeles by this women Neely terry or he traveled there on his own but what I also read in the other articles about samor was that Samo got to know that there was a Opening for a pastor in a different city Okay, that is at los angeles. So you got to know through Neely terry and he wanted to move there now samo is not from a very rich background where he didn't have Any help or he didn't have even money to buy his flight ticket to move to that place But then the students in the college where he studied at houston They collected the money for samor and bought him a ticket and sent him to Los angeles to serve there in one of the church as a pastor Well, even though samor didn't complete his course at Charles folk's bible college or he had the experience of the The holy spirit baptism of speaking in tongues. He still Grabbed the opportunity of becoming a pastor and he moved. He was led and he moved to a different place so he traveled there on his own and Terry that is nearly terry's description of what was happening in the city Religious community. She explained it to him. So on february 22 1906 We see that samo preached in this new church at los angeles He preached who had been ex and what happened there? He preached more about the it is a baptist church Second baptist church in that city and he preached more on the holiness Holiness and the holy spirit and speaking on tongues. So samor's sermon extoll the importance of an Interracial religion community and of speaking in tongues as a sign of the holy spirit. So what happened? The church leaders were very upset as he concluded the sermon and That evening he was supposed to come back and share the word in the evening service So when he came back To the same church in the evening the church was literally locked They shut samor out of the church So following this lockout samor Didn't even know way to go because he was new to this place And this was the church that he hoped for to serve in he came all the way And his very first sermon closed the opportunity for him to continue in the ministry So he stood outside the church not knowing what to do I'm sure he knows what to do. Isn't it you would have just seeked god asking god you let me hear now i'm out What should I do? When he was standing there in the campus of the church There was a couple mr. And mrs. Richard asbury Okay, they came and they met him And finally they asked samor If he can come along with him to his to their place and share more about Speaking in tongues will share more about the holy spirit and the experience of speaking in tongues So he went along with them to his house and few other people who were like minded Who who who heard the message of samor and meant meant who were touched by his message Joined samor at this House so there were two three people gathered in their house and they started Praying they started listening. They started studying on the holy spirit and on the experience of the pentecost So samor along with the others also desired to speak in tongues as he shared more and more one fine afternoon when they were having a lunch During the lunch table the spirit of the lord showed up over there They started speaking in tongues same over there for the very first time started speaking in tongues He was moved by the holy spirit And everyone who were present there around the table started experiencing the holy spirit And they started to flow in the gift of tongues. So what happened? Many people gathered in this house and there were no more space and they started to look out for a different place So when they started to look out for a different place, they Quickly found a place in azusa street. I'll just show that Yeah, it is a corner building on the azusa street, which was a church before later this the Later for some reason they sold the church and this was occupied by a horse stable Where there was lot of hay and you know, it was a cattle stable And here the money that they had could only afford them to get this place. So they took this place and The the the members who was along would say more Cleaned this place because I feel that this place was in a mess And they cleaned up this place and they set up a church Church setup like they put the pulpit The aisle was set the benches was arranged and made a Church setup which they changed the warehouse and a horse stable into a church building And they furnished it with few interiors what they could effort. So With the pulpit and the aisle and the The chairs in place they started to conduct service in this place So what happened they started to conduct three service in a day Seven days a week and the last day was commemorated with 24 hours of prayer People started flooding in into this place because they started experiencing the more of the Holy Spirit People started to come and this place became very prominent during the time 1906 and 1909 And it became a huge catalyst for the expansion of the Pentecostal moment So there were many Leaders or many pastors traveled from different place To Los Angeles to Azusa Street into this building to experience the Holy Spirit And everyone who came there carried the fire of the revival with them So that's how the revival spread to different places from this one place So Azusa Street became a catalyst to break out revival In different places So Azusa Street revival was always filled beyond Capacity as it attracted many people thousands of people coming him. So it was a very wild scene So it started attracting the press and the media and the press coverage only generated More interest in the revival. So Seymour's congregation continued to grow And he ordained many ministry leaders. He established many churches. He launched the newspaper The newspaper was called as the apostolic faith and he introduced this in september 1906 and the publication went viral throughout nation and international So during this three-year peak period the church managed to exert a profound influence. So Seymour's message Was disseminated across the country So people seemed impressed that Seymour had realized his vision of a completely integrated religious community And many religious leader who visited the church took the Pentecostal teaching back to their own Congregation and to their own city and place where they came from So what happened later? So the pentecostalism went on to flourish across the country And the Azusa mission's importance slowly diminished So after 1909 the revival was no longer attracted large crowds. That is after three years slowly It started coming off And it came down. There were few problems within the organization started rising Among the faithful factors from which, you know, they were Influenced so Seymour's followers were put off by the throne. He had built for himself So what happened? Seymour slowly things started Dropping off from his church. So the church hugely had a successful newspaper that is the apostolic faith, which was very famous Had to face some kind of Substantial problem for which Seymour Okay, a problem after Seymour got married to Jenny evensmore on May 13th, 1908 So the papers administrative assistant Clara Lump moved to Portland Oregon So what happened because she moved they need another papers editor So Seymour appointed another editor and she took her the papers Okay, Clara Lohman moved to Portland Oregon where she became the papers editor. She became the editor and she Took with her the papers large subscription list And after that the paper failed under a leadership So Seymour was never able to recover from that valuable list. So problems started increasing and in 1911 Seymour was traveling and Seymour was traveling to different places because Azusa street no more people were coming into the street for him to share the word So he started carrying the word and traveling on missions to different places and Yeah, and We see that during his last days that Seymour spent the final years of his life traveling across the country speaking mostly To the black audience and in 1915 he published a handbook on the doctrines and discipline of the azusa street Apostolic faith mission of los angeles But his influence as a religious figure was waning out by then So Seymour died on september 28 1922 with a sudden heart attack in Los angeles and he was buried at the evergreen cemetery at Los angeles so after his death his wife jenny became the pastor of the church and she continued her husband's work until she died So this is all about william seymour But what we can learn from william seymour was in his younger age He suffered a chicken pox due to which he lost his site in one of the eyes left eyes and Uh, and he also faced a lot of racism So despite his weakness of uh, you know only one single sighted Color he did not give up on knowing the word studying the word He sold all the things that he had To study the word and experience the holy spirit So the desire of him knowing the word and uh studying the word and knowing the holy spirit Made a great impact the spirit of the lord started moving in them. So when the revival burst in azusa street as a leader We need to be very vigilant how to hose the revival How we were mindful when the revival was started We need to be mindful on the handling the revival during the time and also when it is coming down We need to set a good leaders in place and also the leadership should be good In umawa you are appointing Even in the book of acts you see even to serve the food The apostles the apostles or the disciples were looking at the people who were filled with the holy spirit to put them in certain position So as a leader we need to be very mindful of choosing people in your ministry We need to be mindful. We need to be prayerful. We need to see god Does this person carry the vision of what you carry? We need to check certain things and then put the people under leadership if you have a wrong person in the leadership You see slowly everything fades away Okay, so with that we will move on to the next person We'll talk about even robits Okay, who was the uh catalyst for welch revival? So even robits lived between 1878 and 1951 The story of evil uh even robits and the welch revival of 1904 to 1905 That is about a year was a most thrilling Revival but also the most sad and sobering in all the revival history So on one hand we see 100 000 souls in wales coming to christ in just nine months From november 1904 to august 1905 So this was the beginning of the worldwide revival that assured hundreds thousands more into the kingdom of god On the other hand we see even robits The principal revivalist of this more of god becoming deceived Deluded and finally suffering a nervous breakdown Which took him out of the public limelight to live the life of a normal Furthermore the fruit of the revival in wales We soon lost through criticism fear of deception And a welch theology which suppressed the assurance of salvation So within a generation there were no signs that a revival had ever occurred And there were some important lessons For 21st century christians to learn from here. So let's look into Look into his early life and how he Encounted the holy spirit and how we joined the bible college and how the revival took place Even robits was born and raised in a welch galvanist methodist family in logborn So on um gal morgan and Karma tensure border as a boy. He was unusually serious and very diligent in his christian life So you you see there's a discipline and him so he memorized the verses of the bible And was a daily attender of the morire chapel A church about a mile from his home So even at 13 years of age he began to develop a heart For a visitation from god and he later wrote I said to myself I will have the spirit and throughout all Weathers and in spite of all difficulties. I went to the meeting So for 10 or 11 years I've prayed for revival I could sit up all night to read or talk about revival It was the spirit who moved me to think about revival. That was beautiful, isn't it? So after working in the coal mines and then as a smith he entered a preparatory college at the new castle As a candidate for the ministry it was 1903 and he was 25 year old And it was at this time that he Earnestly sought the lord for more of his spirit and he believed that He would be baptized in the holy spirit and sometimes his bed shook at his prayer as his prayers were Answered and the lord began to wake him at one am for a divine fellowship When he would pray for four hours Returning to bed at 5 a.m for another four hours sleep And we see that he visited a meeting Where said joshua was preaching and heard the evangelist Lord bend us Very beautiful, isn't it? Lord bend us So the holy spirit said to even that's what you need to pray And at the following meeting even experienced a powerful filling of the holy spirit And he said that you know, uh, I felt a living power of Providing my bosom and it took my breath away and my legs trembled exceedingly This living power became stronger and stronger as each one prayed until I felt it would tear me apart My whole bosom was a turmoil and if I had not prayed it would have burst I fell on my knees with my arms over the seat in front of me My face was bathed in Preparation and the tears flooded in streams I cried out Bend me bend me It was God's commanding love which bent me What a wave of peace flooded my Bosom I was filled with compassion For those who must bend at the judgment and I wept So following that the salvation of the human soul was solemnly impressed on me And I felt a blaze with the desire to go through the length and breath of wales to Tell of the saviour. So one encounter with the Lord One encounter with the Lord changed Uh, even Robert's life He could not no more be a normal human. He started sharing the word to everyone What happened? The studies began to take second place He began praying for 100 000 souls and a two vision which encouraged him to believe it would happen So he saw a lighted candle and behind it the rising sun So he felt the interpretation was that present blessing were only a lighted candle compared with the blazing glory of the sun So later all whales would be flooded with the revival glory And in the other vision that he saw A close friend Sydney even staring at the moon and even asked what he was looking at And to his surprise he saw it too and he was and And it was an arm that seemed to be outstretched from the moon down to whales And he was no doubt that revival was on its way So He didn't stop with that He continued to pray about these visions and expect a revival to be birthed in whales He then felt that he need to return to his hometown and conduct meetings with the young people of Lauga With permission from the minister He began the meeting encouraging prayer for the outpouring of the spirit in Moriah So the meeting slowly increased in number and powerful waves of intercessions swept Over those who gathered there. So what happened during those meetings? The Holy Spirit gave even four requirements that were later to be used through the coming revival So the first one very important thing. Okay, let's remember this Even as each of us pray for a revival Confession of all known sin repentance and reinstitution obedience and surrender to the Holy Spirit public confession of Christ. I repeat the four points That the Holy Spirit gave evens It the Holy Spirit said these are the four requirements That you can use it for the upcoming revival and therefore were confession of all known sin Confession of all known sin second repentance and reinstitution repentance and reinstitution obedience and surrender to the Holy Spirit And the fourth one was public confession of Christ The spirit began to be outpoured and there was weeping shouting crying out joy and brokenness Some would shout out no more Lord Jesus or I will die This was the beginning of the Welch revival The meeting then moved to wherever even fell led to go and those traveling with him were Predominantly female the young girls would often begin meeting with intense intercession And they were urged to surrender to God by giving testimony. So even would even Often be seen on his knees pleading for God's mercy with tears And the crowds would come and be moved upon by waves After wave of the spirit's presence So there was a spontaneous prayer confession testimony and songs erupted in all the meeting wherever even held it across the veils So what happened? They were exhaustion and breakdown So he was clearly exercising spiritual gifts and was very sensitive to the Holy Spirit He became unsure of the voice he was hearing Then he broke down and withdrew from public meeting This is a followed and further physical and emotional breakdown ensued him So understandably the converts were confused Was this God Was even Robert God's man or was he Moved by Any other spirit He fell into a deep depression later he was invited to uh Corvandals at Jesse Pen Lewis home at Woodlands and it is claimed that Mrs Jesse Pen Lewis used evens name to propagate her own ministry and message So she supposedly convinced him that he was deceived by evil spirits and over the next few years He was co-authorized with even Uh war on saints and he published in 1913 and this book clearly delineates the confusion She had drawn even into So it left It's Reed is totally weary of any spiritual phenomenon of any kind or degree Rather than giving clear guidance regarding discerning the evil power It brought into questioning anything that may be considered or that might be described as Holy Spirit activity So even stayed at this Jenna spends home for eight years Giving himself to intercession and private group counseling So around in 1920 even moved to Bridgeston and lived alone until he returned to his beloved Wales When his father fell ill in 1926 he began to visit Wales again and he eventually moved there in 1928 when his father died so nothing much is known of the years that followed So even finally died at the age of 72 and was buried behind Mariah Chapel on Jan 29th 1951 So What are we learning from his life may his life be both As an example that the more he desired from his childhood for a revival And the more he seeked God Lord showed up the revival was birthed in them through him but As a leader he failed how to host the revival How to raise ministry leaders? And how we should not given to other Teaching or ministering he gave into Jenny When she said that he was deceived by the evil spirit And later you see he took into a different tangent So we need to seek God at all time And mainly very important thing is when the revival births we need to maintain a humility Keep ourselves submissive to the spirit have a check And also have a accountable godly men and women in the ministry So that we are watched we are comfortable. There's nothing wrong Nothing goes wrong in the ministry and we need to be We need to remain true to the calling So use the gifts God has given But we need to be wise to steward the revival to steward the body of Christ which God has given Okay, with that we will end the session Can I end the session with a word of prayer? Can anyone from the class pray? Shall we pray? Yes, please Father we want to say thank you We just want to bless your holy name for this great teaching Thank you Lord for your daughter whom you have used this morning for us Thank you for the revival Which we have experienced this morning That you receive all the glory in the mighty name of Jesus Christ Lord, thank you for the your songs you have used in the past That we see their record today and father with axolot and the same fire The same mantu that fall on them letting fall on us in the mighty name of Jesus That you will spray your gospel across all the nations In the name of Jesus Christ Will not be left behind in the name of Jesus Christ Lord, I pray this morning that as we have heard your word Lord, please begin to speak to us O Lord In the mighty name of Jesus Christ Thank you my father and please strength your daughter more strength our lecturers more strength our apostle more We pray amen Amen amen amen Thank you so much for joining in today's session. Thank you. God bless