 Okay. Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to another class. Shall we just begin with a word of prayer and then we'll begin with that class. Could one of us please lead us in prayer? Any one of us please lead us in a time of prayer? Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus, Father, God, we give you glory, give you praises, O Lord Father, for the precious day, precious time, O Lord Father, to come together to listen from your word, O Lord Father, Lord Jesus. Thank you, Lord Father. This time, O Lord Father, as we get to know, O Lord Father, Lord Jesus, about the history of Lord Father, Lord Jesus, the martyrs of Lord Father, Lord Jesus, in Christianity, O Lord Father. Thank you, Lord Father, Lord Jesus, the passion and compassion the people have showcased, O Lord Father, over the period of time, O Lord Father, they build the foundation, O Lord Father, on which we can stand today, O Lord Father, Lord. We give you glory for all of this, O Lord Father, and as we learn more of it, O Lord Father, Lord Jesus, open our heart and mind to receive it, O Lord Father, Lord Jesus. I invite you, O Lord Father, Lord Jesus, to let the same passion, O Lord Father, be generated within us, O Lord Father, Father, we commit pastor into your hand, O Lord Father, speak through him, O Lord Father, Lord Jesus, bless him with the wisdom, knowledge, understanding, O Lord Father, that all that he imparts, O Lord Father, Lord Jesus, by the power of this Holy Spirit, O Lord, we give you glory and praise, O Lord Father. Thank you, Father, Lord Jesus, for you are gracious unto us, in the mighty and much-less name of Jesus, I pray, amen. Amen, amen. Thank you, Anitha. Okay, so let's continue from where we picked up yesterday. Yesterday we looked at how God raised up reformers within the church. Now, remember the background that we shared, the backdrop was the Roman Catholic church is taking prominence, is taking power. There was immorality, there was sin, there was idol worship, wrong kinds of teaching. Relic worship, praying to saints and all these things had come up within the church. The reading of the Word, the ministry of the Word, the work of the Holy Spirit, all the genuine move of God had been suppressed. And we saw that the Roman Catholic church was against people from reading the Word or studying new churches. They were against all of this. And so that did not cause an end to the church. We saw yesterday that God raised up such wonderful leaders, John Wycliffe, John Huss, Savon Rolla. All of these people, Ulrich Wigley, who went on to Switzerland and did a wonderful ministry. Martin Luther, who gave his 95 thesis about the grace of God and we're justified by grace and not through any works. And so we saw all these wonderful things, wonderful people who are willing to give their lives for the sake of the gospel. Another interesting thing that we also looked at was God raised up leaders who were highly intellectual. So it should encourage us to pursue a greater level of knowledge, greater level of understanding. Yes, we always say that God chooses the unqualified and makes them qualified and all that. That's good. Yes, he does, but that does not mean that we stay unqualified. He expects us. And when we look at, for example, William Tyndale, he was so brilliant in his studies. And they all had comfortable lives, living in different countries of the world. They didn't have to take up this. They didn't have to have the burden for the church and write and then put their lives on the line. They could have done anything else and been successful in that because they were very well off. But we see that the Lord used them and it's so wonderful that they were willing to give their lives for the sake of the gospel. And what William Tyndale did, he translated the entire Bible into English from the original Hebrew to the Greek, sorry, from the original Hebrew to English and the original Greek to English. So in one of his quotes that we looked at yesterday, he said that, I will make sure that even the plowmen in the fields will have their own Bible to read from and study from. And so God was still moving. The Roman Catholic Church, the Romans together, all of them were trying to suppress the work, but God was raising up these leaders. Let's continue on on page 37 as these things are happening. If you picture it in your mind's eye, you can see that the enemy is working, trying to suppress the work of God. But here we're also seeing that God is working even more powerfully. So it's like the Roman Catholic Church doesn't know what to do. What can they do? They say, okay, we'll kill anyone who goes against the Roman Catholic Church, but these people are unafraid. Okay, do what you have to do. We will do what God is telling us to do. So it looked like the Roman Catholic Church was in power, but they were not because these people were willing to do whatever it takes to make sure the gospel reaches out to many people. And so this is where the start of Protestants came into being. A Protestant is nothing but somebody who protested the work of the Roman Catholic Church. They protested against all these kinds of doctrines and teachings within the Catholic Church that was happening at that time. So let's continue to look at the lives of few of the leaders, reformers who began to, again, continue to do greater works within the Church even though the Roman Catholic Church was in power. So let's look at John Calvin. I'm sure many of us may have heard of John Calvin. Now he was a devout Catholic, a young man, extremely brilliant. He studied in the University of Orleans and he was very attached or he loved the teachings of Martin Luther. So he was able to study his books, Martin Luther's books, and he came to a conclusion that this is the truth. He was justified by faith and all of this and so there was a change within him. So he began to become an evangelist. He went to different places, evangelizing, sharing the gospel and for many years he went about doing that and for most of his life he spent writing material. So he wrote plenty of new materials and he wrote about Christian history. So this is early 1500. So he wrote about reformers prior to him and the work that they did and so he was able to impact the Church in many ways. He wrote extensively. He made pamphlets. He made commentaries on the scriptures, especially in the New Testament and at the age of 27 he was able to come up with a systematic way of studying the gospel. So earlier on in our Bible college we had a subject called systematic theology many years back but we don't have that now. So it was basically the systematic way of studying the Bible and John Calvin was the one who came up with this and he carried many missionaries. He trained many people, many missionaries to go into different parts of the world and through him the city of Geneva was transformed. Now John Calvin is known for his, not sure if we may have read about him but he is known for his talks on predestination in Christ. So even if we read about John Calvin's books he emphasizes the predestination and also Paul writes about it in Ephesians chapter 1 verse 5. He says we are predestined in Christ. Romans 8 again he writes and he says we are predestined through the Holy Spirit. And so what he focused on was, John Calvin what he focused on was if we believe in Jesus, if we are accepted in him we are predestined to receive the blessings that come along with being a child of God. And so that was his focus. So he wanted to make sure that the believers know that we don't have to, once we are in Christ we don't have to come to his presence by any works. We don't have to cry and please God because we're already predestined in him. God has ordained that we would be blessed when we are in his kingdom, when we are partakers of his kingdom. So he was able to do a wonderful work as well. Again John Calvin his ministry was short-lived. It was only three years of evangelism but as I said Lord of his work was writing commentaries and his books went all across through different churches and it was a blessing to him, to the churches as well. But he died of old age. He was not martyred but he died of not old age. He died of a sickness and so he lost his life very early. But the impact he made was really great. And following on John Knox another wonderful, wonderful man, a very bold preacher and God chooses him to reform Scotland. Now here's the picture again. Let me draw a picture or let me paint a picture for each of us. You've got the center which is Rome and then you've got churches all across the world. Like what we saw in the second and third century church. So everywhere there is church. There are churches. But there are also Roman influences in all these places because the Pope is the leader of the church. So when I'm talking about the church I'm saying the Roman Catholic church. So there was Roman influences everywhere. So in every part of the world, whether it is Africa, whether it is England, whether it's America, whether it's Europe, wherever Asia, there was Roman influence. So it was not like okay you go to this country it's going to be easy. You can do whatever you want. The Roman Catholic church would make sure that they will try and we studied about it. They would capture them and try to get rid of those who are trying to do any good work within the church. So here God chooses John Knox for Scotland. Now John Knox is known for his bold praying. He's a very courageous man. One of the prayers that he made was, Lord, give me Scotland or else I will die. Give me Scotland. It was a time when Scotland was completely in a mess. In the sense there was the spiritual morality was down. Churches were following a religious pattern. There was immorality in the church and outside the church. And so John Knox had a burden and he said give me Scotland lest I die. And of course he was a Scottish clergyman and he was a theologian. He began to read. He began to write a lot of effort in studying the Gospels. And what he did was John Knox would begin prayer movements, small prayer movements, few people and they would gather together and they would pray. They would spend time praying for days and days and days for hours together. And finally, you know, some kind of revival happened. Thousands of people started coming into the church. Now when I say thousands of people, it could be, you know, people from the Roman Catholic Church understanding, okay, this is what it is. This is the true gospel. I need to go here. I need to understand. And it could be people from other faiths as well coming into the church. But together, thousands of people began to come into the church. And, you know, it is said that the Queen of Scotland has said that I don't fear the armies of Europe, but I fear John Calvin when he kneels down to pray. So that was the effect, sorry, John Knox when he kneels down to pray. So John Knox was able to reform Scotland. Right? Just as something was dying, God raised up somebody and, you know, brought restoration there. Then we see in France. So now we saw in Scotland, now in France, the Reformation, that is this whole thing of, you know, you don't have to, you should reform from the Catholic Church and be true to what the Word of God says. So this Reformation began to make inroads into France. Right? Now, the idea of Reformation in France was very good. People accepted it, but even though people accepted it, there was intense persecution. Roman Catholicism, you know, they suppressed the work of God. They suppressed these people. And what happened was the French Protestants were even more, you know, they took one step ahead in the sense they said that God is everywhere in the Scripture. The Holy Spirit has given us gifts to all of us. And so there is gifts of the Holy Spirit. You can speak in tongues. There's working of miracles. You know, there is visions. There's prophetic utterance. There's supernatural phenomena. All these things should be, you know, present in the church. And there should be the power of the Holy Spirit within the church. Now, after seeing all of this, you know, I can just picture the Roman Catholic Church says, we need to get rid of this whole thing immediately. Because they've taken it one step ahead, not only teaching of the Word of God, but here now the gifts of the Holy Spirit, additional things happening. And so through this, France was impacted very powerfully because of, you know, the gifts of the Holy Spirit. There was science, miracles and wonders. It is said that something similar to the first century church happened in France, if we study of the early 1500s. It is said that, you know, people were, you know, coming out of their house, out of hospital. Sick people would come out of hospitals and stand outside and wait for these preachers to come and pray over them. Because these preachers weren't allowed inside the hospital. So they would somehow try and get the, you know, patients out and then they would pray and many people were healed. So such was the move of God in France. And so a lot of people began to call these, you know, French pastors and leaders and these reformers as French prophets given by God. So again, we see that God is continuing to do a work there. Right. From there we go into John Fox. Now John Fox was in, from Boston in England. And just before the reformation began, you know, it was during the time when Martin Luther had posted his 95 thesis in Germany. And John Fox, what he did was, he's known for his book, Fox's book of martyrs. He was able to write about those who died in the, you know, in the fourth century, fifth, fourth century church during the dark ages, during the reformation, those who were martyred for the sake of the gospel. So he wrote this book, Fox's book of martyrs. And it's a classic. It's even available now. I remember when I was in Bible college, many years back, I was getting my hands on this book, Fox's, John Fox's book of martyrs. And it really stirs you up because of, because what we are doing now is just an overview, but in his book, he writes about, you know, the challenges that these missionaries and reformers faced and how they were able to do a work and how they, that death did not deter them one bit. They were not afraid of it at all. And it was really encouraging to read that book. And so he wrote this book, Fox believed that Christian history has to be continued on from the Old Testament as well and had to be documented so that people know, like even the very fact that we are studying church history now, so many years later, you know, because it's important that we as ordinary Christians or we need to know the unfolding of how God's plan is and how God uses certain principles in building up his kingdom. So that was John Fox's ministry of writing about history and the martyrs of the old. Now, in after a couple of years, something very important happened, right? King James came into power. Now, this King James was what he decided was he said, okay, why is all this happening? Why is this so much of bloodshed? Why is there so much of, you know, disagreements and arguments and wars between each other? Let us resolve this. The whole issue is the Bible and, you know, within you Christians itself, there's so much of war. Why all this? So King James being a Roman influenced by the Roman people, King James, he said, okay, let's make an end to this and how long are we going to, you know, hear the Catholic Roman Catholic Church is saying, you know, we are in power. The Pope is the leader here. The other side, there are some people coming up, writing the Bible and doing some great works of God. And then these people are killing them. And it's all looking so bad. So let's try and resolve this matter. So King James, he summoned a meeting. He said, okay, representatives from the Roman Catholic Church and all the other groups, right, whatever groups, Anabaptists or Anglican or Protestant or whatever method is, whoever is there, everyone, representatives come and we will solve this problem of religious intolerance. And so what he did was he got everyone together and a person named John Reynolds was kept in charge to preside over the meeting. And long story short, what they decided was, okay, we will write what is important in the Bible, right? We will translate it. No commentaries, no additional notes. What is important, right? So what they did was they chose five translations, Dindale, Matthew, Coverdale, Great Bible and the Geneva Bible. So these were five translations. So we will take these five translations and we will compile it together, taking only what is important, no extra notes, no additional points, no commentaries, nothing. Just these five versions of the Bible. And we'll have a group of about, I forget how many people, but I think it's about 40 people. Somewhere around 40 people. And so everyone will be assigned certain books and they will go ahead and translate these books. So they came up with this whole idea and so this work continued for two years and nine months. Now after this, they came back together and they said, okay, let's look at it. Everyone were happy. Everyone said, okay, this looks good, but this should be made available for everyone. Even every Christian should be able to get this one. So King James said, okay, what we'll do is we will replace all the Bibles that have gone out, all the translations and we will make this the King James Bible, named it after himself, even though he didn't know anything about it. King James Bible will be replaced by any other Bible that's there around. So now this is a big moment in church history. The King James Bible is printed and replaced in the main churches and also later on he said that we will also make these Bibles available for everyone, whoever is a Christian, whoever wants to buy these Bibles can buy it and study it. Now this was wonderful, right? Because now the people, the lay Christians could freely go and get a copy of their Bibles. So they didn't have to be afraid, whose version do I buy? Should I buy this version? Should I buy that version? They can just buy the King James authorized version and that's how the King James version came into being. Of course, the one that we read now has many additions gone through, many changes, many word translations and it's interesting. You remember the prayer of William Tyndale in, you know, we studied about it, the great man who translated the Bible from Hebrew to English and Greek to English. He said that, you know, I will make sure that even the plowman will have a Bible and he was martyred for that. A few years later, about 80 to 100 years later the Bible is made available for each and everyone where even the plowmen were able to go and purchase a Bible and use it for their personal needs. So, you know, and the interesting thing is they also, now later on as the translations took place they also considered William Tyndale's version and they refer to that also to make improvements to the King James version. So the King James version would be the version, the standard English Bible for the next 350 auditors and as I said there were small changes made but then even those changes were not like made just random person chosen. No, it was a whole committee which came together, they saw it, they read it, whatever changes were made only if it was approved it would go on for printing. So this was a great year for the Christians. Now some of us may wonder, at least I wondered so what about the Roman Catholic Church? Did they go against this whole thing of getting the King James version authorized? They had no choice because the King is saying King James was in control, he was in charge there. I'm sure they would have thought, okay, why are we doing this? It's the Pope who's in control, nobody should get the Bible. I'm sure they would have tried and gone against this idea but you can't stop the work of God. If God decides something, as I was reading this, I was reminded of in the Old Testament, God chooses a heathen king to rebuild the temples, the temple of the Old Testament. So God here chooses a king who has no idea probably what's in the Bible. He just wanted peace in the place that he's living. He just wanted things to just get back to normal probably and so he said, okay, let's come up with this but it's wonderful that this happened. So for the next about 350 odd years, people had their own Bibles, they could have had Bible studies at home, the churches began to flourish, many groups were formed. Of course, there was Anglican, there was Methodist, there was Protestants, the Quakers, different kinds of groups were there. Now there were, I would say there were challenges with these groups. Each of them had different thoughts and ideas but the main point was everyone had a Bible. So they could go back to the Bible, read and see if they're in line with God's Word. Now if we get into deeper church history, it is during this time that new kinds of thoughts, new kinds of revelations came up with, people came up with, where people said they were the incarnate Jesus. Some people came up saying that I was the incarnate of, there were few women during those early 1700s who claimed to be the incarnate of Mary and so all these ideologies and wrong teachings did come up but what was a safe thing was people had the Word of God so of course not all of them went to the Word and looked into the Word and made sure that things were right but some of them just followed blindly but the Word of God was available for all of them. So from here on, it doesn't mean that now the Bible is out so everyone are fine, everyone can just follow and... No, so God continues to raise up leaders, God continues. When we study this, it reminds us of the Old Testament. God continually raises up prophets. So there were phases, there were good phases and then there were bad phases and then there were good phases, there were bad phases. So even when we read through all through the Old Testament, you've got these phases of certain kings where things went well and then certain kings where things were just very bad and so the same way in church history, this was a good phase, 350 years, good phase. So what happens after this? A person named George Fox and he was a founder of a group called the Quakers in England. So John Fox was from childhood, he had this desire to study more of God's Word. He would spend a lot of time personally praying and he wanted to experience God. He didn't want it to just be a form of religion and so what he did was he wanted to experience the manifestation of God's power like the Holy Spirit working in him and what he did was he began to write this book called The Book of Miracles where he wrote about the accounts of miracles, healings and charismatic gifts and persecutions and all these things that happened and as he began to write this, many of them took to this writing and said yes, we need the manifestation of the Holy Spirit. Now that we have the Word of God, we need to ask God to manifest his spirit among us so what he did was he would start meetings, prayer meetings and Bible studies and it is said that in his Bible studies people began to receive healing. People began to experience visions and dreams and prophetic utterances and all the gifts of the Holy Spirit began to manifest and this generation came to be known as a generation of the charismatic phenomena. The 1600s began to be known as the charismatic movement and this Quaker's movement began to spread like wildfire. So everyone wanted the gifts of the Holy Spirit, maybe for good reasons or for bad reasons but so they started spreading. Everyone wanted to be part of this. Everyone wanted to see the gifts of the Holy Spirit speak in tongues and see miracles and all of these things and so what he did, John Fox, was he raised up 56 traveling preachers and he said all of you go and whatever we have studied, whatever we are doing here go preach it in different parts of the world and so within a couple of years there were about 60,000 people pledging allegiance to the Quakers. Now they did not go against the Word of God, they did not teach any wrong doctrine but their emphasis was more on gifts and prophecy and Word of knowledge and healings and all of it which is good, nothing wrong about it but what happened was the teaching of the Word slowly declined and we will not go into what happened to the Quakers later on but there was a move of God from England the move of the Quakers went into America and also went into Europe and thousands of people began to go through this whole charismatic phenomena so it is here that charismatic Christians gave birth but they did not know it was charismatic the Word was not something that they knew earlier on just for our study calling it they were the charismatic Christians and so from here on comes the 1700s now the 1700s we would say is the most powerful times in church history the most powerful times because God raised up such wonderful missionaries who impacted the world and even now their names are written in church history they are written in bold because they were great great men of God and these were all normal simple people who God used and so let's look at some of them the early 1700s saw the first great awakening in North America now when we use the word great awakening we will see the first and the second and third great awakening too simply means that an awakening of the church an awakening of something that is dead like our reformation an awakening of something that is already there but it's sleeping so God used two great men in the great awakening in North America so during the 1700s there was a moral decline there was a spiritual decline there were series of wars that were happening all across the world shortage of churches, no ministers, no people coming into churches many existing churches itself were the institutionalized church they had no power and there was nothing happening it was completely like a dry dead situation one of the main reasons was because of war there were constant wars that were happening during that time and so people were seeing death people were seeing lives being killed they were seeing war in their own eyes and so it probably demoralized them so what is the point of going to church or what is the point of praying and when we are seeing death in our own eyes people dying, children dying, innocent lives and so the whole thing in North America the whole fervor of God and the move of the Holy Spirit was dampened because of this war now God raised up two wonderful men first one is Jonathan Edwards now Jonathan Edwards was the pastor of a church in Northampton just a few people in his church but he did something he began to pray he said God we need a move in North America we need a spiritual awakening in North America so what he did was he was in Northampton, North America, Massachusetts and what he did was he began to pray and he formed a team and he said they would all sit down and pray for an awakening intense prayers day and night there were times when those prayers would go on continually for days and eventually an awakening poured out from there suddenly people started to experience the move of the Holy Spirit suddenly people started coming to church and then in a year or so thousands of people started coming to the church in Northampton in Jonathan Edwards church he began to preach on repentance he began to preach on heaven and hell and combined it with the grace and the mercy of God and people would flock into the church actually read about this great awakening it is said that in Jonathan Edwards church there were only about 200 odd people who could fit in the church thousands of people would come and so he had a difficulty and he began to look out for places they had many services people would leave their work so for example people were working they would stop working and they would go hey why Jonathan Edwards has come to preach and so there was this intense desire of knowing God's word then he towards the end of his ministry he wrote this wonderful and the most famous sermon the sermon outline is available on Google you can read it it's called The Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and this was the one sermon where it is said that hundreds of people except Jesus because of that sermon now history says that Jonathan Edwards he looked as a very ugly looking man he had big boils on his face he had a big nose with boils on his nose short and stout and his preaching style was said that it was very boring because what he would do was he would write his sermons down and he would come in front of the congregation and basically read that sermon now before that we see that people like William Tyndale John Calvin and all these people John Wickliffe, John Hust they were so filled with the Holy Spirit the way they preach was so much of empowerment and they were passionate about their preaching but Jonathan Edwards was not so he would just read his entire message so he used to read this he read the message Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God said that people sitting in the congregation felt that hell was opening and they were running away from that place and they were running towards the altar to give their lives to Christ he was just reading the sermon so it was not about how well he preached or what are the examples he used but it is about the Holy Spirit that worked inside him and Jonathan Edwards did a wonderful, wonderful ministry in North America thousands, thousands of people the great awakening in North America saw more than 30 to 40,000 people gathered in churches what was dead no churches, no ministries now North America is flourishing with 40, 50, 60,000 believers when I say now is when the time Jonathan Edwards came so what he did there was an awakening of the church so I was really encouraged with this man because Jonathan Edwards he did not depend on eloquence of speech he did not feel that okay I need to of course eloquence we need to we as pastors and those who are serving here we need to prepare our sermons we need to do well practically make the right sentence construction preach with intensity but that's not priority right if some of us may feel that I can't preach like this person or I can't preach like that person the way they give examples the way they are so emphatic in the way they give their message it's not about the physical way of giving out the message it is the power of God that is at work that will change lives so never feel that I cannot do that none of us should feel that okay I'm not like them God has used you in your own special way like Jonathan Edwards there was nothing good to look at him it is said that he would put his candle near the altar during that time and he would because his eyesight was poor the lights in the church were not bright enough for him to read his sermons he would put his candle and he would go right face would go right into his notes he wouldn't even look up there were times that he would look up and he would see that everyone on the ground crying and weeping and mourning but he would just continue to read his sermons how is that? that's the power of God right so I want to encourage each of us let us not ministry go after the the whole thing of being stylish and not preaching how people should appreciate it it's not about people it's not about the way we preach but it is about the work of the Holy Spirit Jonathan Edwards spent hours and days in prayer that's why when he went on the pulpit even though he read a sermon people were falling on their knees crying and weeping and so that should be our desire another man that God used was George Whitfield he was also a wonderful man he was a friend of the Westleys he was a gifted preacher and a communicator unlike Jonathan Edwards he was not somebody who was denominationally prejudiced which means he didn't say okay I'm from this Methodist or Quakers or I'm an Anglican nothing even though he was an Anglican he did not look at denominations now he traveled extensively across America everywhere he went shopkeepers farmers people who worked again closed their shops they shut down business and they went to the hall why George Whitfield has come George Whitfield is also history he says that he was a short fat man very unpleasant in his looks and very cut off in his speech but people would stop their work this man has come and he's preaching there so whether they were Christians or people from other faiths they would go and Whitfield preached to thousands 30,000 people at one place 40,000, 50,000 people there was this one time that you know this happened in church history where George Whitfield was supposed to go to a place and preach and the auditorium was 30,000 sitar and they thought that okay they should be able to get about 20 to 25,000 people who should come for the meeting that town had only about 70,000 people who resided in that town so they said okay maybe 25,000 people could come but what happened was when the word went out George Whitfield is preaching 50,000 people came the entire city the town was empty right the town itself was empty where's everyone gone everyone has shut down business why George Whitfield has come and 50,000 people yes as Tarun has mentioned no microphones now we've got all the microphones and 50,000 people can hear no microphones so what they would do is they would rush into that place because they want to go in front they want to hear and here's the amazing thing I also wonder maybe some of them couldn't even hear what he was saying but the move of the Holy Spirit was there people were convicted and there was this one time you know there was a stampede kind of place and few of them lost their lives and it was then when George Whitfield said we need to be more organized we need to we thank God for what he is doing but we need to be more organized so then they got in structure okay let's make a maximum let's do some kind of thing where the first 20,000 or the first 30,000 people will only be allowed in the morning in the afternoon and in the evening so people would choose and so that way there would be no difficulties George Whitfield preached more than 3,000 sermons all across America 3,000 sermons and more touching many lives again North America was awakened by the move of God so we see that God used these two simple men one to them not very good in their looks or the way they were but both simple men are powerful in the Holy Spirit and then what happens is in Germany we see that God uses this man named Count Zinzadov now he was a reformer just like John Huss and Germany began to experience the work of the Holy Spirit of course what they did is they replicated what happened in North America of spending time in prayer, personal prayer and all of it and this continued on this prayer movement continued on for 100 years and this birth many missions, many missionaries many pastors were formed in Germany so there was this revival in Germany as well okay let's quickly do the Methodist Revival just an overview and then we will close now the Methodist Revival happened in England we know John Wesley and his brother Charles Wesley basically how it was founded was both were in college they had a very deep desire for the word of God and to preach the word and so it says that John would tell his brother Charles we have a break now in the universities when they both were studying they would say you play a song Charles would play a song and John will come up and preach and so they will do that Bible study group in the college in the universities few people would come then they started from there it went outside the campus from 6 in the evening to 9 so Charles Wesley would lead the worship John Wesley would come and preach and so this happened every Wednesday and Friday and once a week they would have communion but all of this was happening it was growing but John Wesley was not satisfied so he said I want to go to different places and minister he went to another place in Georgia he went there nobody accepted what he was preaching it was a failed missionary journey and then after that he returned to England and he found an assurance during a small prayer in a church he accepted Jesus again as his personal savior he calls it his second experience and then we know that John Wesley did a wonderful ministry preaching more than 50,000 sermons and traveling more than 250,000 miles on horseback finally doing so much to the Methodist church starting the Methodist movement the reason they were called Methodists because John Wesley was very very methodical in the way he conducted his services so we'll pick up from next week is it okay is everyone okay with this is it too much information I know we've been doing so many people is it okay is everyone okay with this are you able to you know take things okay good it's very inspiring it's wonderful it's wonderful first me when you were speaking I was looking at such men like someone just reading and people were attached I am seeing the move the way the Lord uses men in his own way he uses Peter in another way now he uses that one in another format so he never lacks Methodist thank you so much praise God praise God, praise God Charles alright so I think we have passed our time can anyone of us please close in prayer anyone hello father we thank you for bringing this what happened in the past in the church history and missions Lord how wonderfully you worked in the past as you work in the heart of the heathen king desired us to build the temple Jerusalem Lord you work in the heart of King James to bring about the Bible and make it available to every person who wants to read the word Lord through this it is about a great spiritual revival your temple was built in the heart of each and every person Lord thank you for what you have done in the past thank you for the inspiring ministries you have heard about Jonathan Edwards Whitefield and even John Wesley Lord these true incidents that happened in the past inspire us father Lord instills great faith in us and pushes us forward to do the ammunition how filling this world help us Lord to take from these what happened in the past and that he may use it for the in our times in Jesus name you thank you Lord for what Lord how filling to teach us whatever we have every one of us Lord may take it to heart and it may work in us for the in Jesus name you are on lead thank you so much Mr. Manohar thank you everyone have a wonderful week ahead God bless you all thank you