SF074 - WHEN REVIVAL COMES (Habakkuk 3 2)

@PAGE NUMBER = SF074

@TITLE = WHEN REVIVAL COMES

@LEVEL ONE = HABAKKUK 3:2

@LEVEL ONE = INTRODUCTION

@ILL TITLE = THE "SLEEPWALKER"

@ILL TEXT = Some time ago the Associated Press released an item about a 52‑ year‑old man who went sleepwalking in Pasadena, California. Clad only in his nightclothes he was carrying an alarm clock which was set to ring at 6 a.m. The story concluded with these words:  "The police beat the clock in waking him!"

@ILL TEXT = Aren't there millions of people blindly groping around in a daze, spiritually "sleepwalking," not knowing where they are going or what they are doing?  Some may think that in the future they will repent, and that circumstances then will alert them.

@ILL TEXT = But many of these poor souls will never hear such a warning.  What a rude awakening will be theirs as they pass through the portals of death, only to find that it is too late to make peace with God through the Lord Jesus Christ.  They will stand condemned by the Judge of all, having dozed away the opportunities of grace!

@LEVEL TWO = We Have Been Rocked Asleep By The World

@LEVEL TWO = We Need A Spiritual Awakening

@SCRIPTURE = 1CO 15:34<R>Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

@PAGE NUMBER = Page 2

@LEVEL ONE = 1A. GOD'S WORD WILL BE HEEDED

@ILL TITLE = STATISTICS ON THE BIBLE

@LEVEL FOUR = 66 percent of Americans believe there is no such thing as absolute truth

@LEVEL FOUR = 93 percent of all households own one or more Bibles

@LEVEL FOUR = 12 percent of adults read Scripture every day

@LEVEL FOUR = 57 percent do not read the Bible at all during a typical week

@LEVEL FOUR = 84 percent of SB believe the Bible is the inerrant Word of God

@LEVEL FOUR = 8 percent of SB participate in family daily worship

@LEVEL FOUR = 34 percent of SB participate in individual daily worship

@LEVEL TWO = 1B. The Word Of God

@SCRIPTURE = "LORD" = Jehovah ‑ self existent or eternal

@SCRIPTURE = "speech" = announcement, fame or reputation

@SCRIPTURE = 2TI 3:16 <R>ll scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

@LEVEL TWO = 2B. The Will Of God

@SCRIPTURE = "heard" = to hear intelligently implies obedience

@SCRIPTURE = JAM 1:22 <R>ut be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

@PAGE NUMBER = Page 3

@LEVEL ONE = A. GOD'S WORK WILL BE HONORED

@SCRIPTURE = "work" = refers primarily to God's acts in history, not his acts of creation.

@LEVEL TWO = 1B. Work of Revelation

@SCRIPTURE = JOH 14:9<R>Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

@LEVEL TWO = 2B. Work of Redemption

@SCRIPTURE = TIT 2:14<R>Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

@ILL TITLE = FORGIVEN

@ILL TEXT = Fred Blom.  Although he was converted as a child, as he grew older he chose the wrong friends.  Becoming involved with them in a serious crime, he was arrested and sent to prison.  During his confinement, he recalled the blessed relationship he had once enjoyed with the heavenly Father.  So, confessing his sins to the Lord, he experienced His forgiveness and was restored to fellowship with Him.

@ILL TEXT = When his case came up for review by the parole board, Fred hoped for an early release.  But the decision went against him. Rather, he fixed his hope on something more wonderful than walking out of a prison's iron gates.  He began joyfully anticipating the pearly gates of heaven."He the pearly gates will open, so that I may enter in; for He purchased my redemption and forgave me all my sin."

@PAGE NUMBER = Page 4

@LEVEL TWO = 3B. Work of Reclamation

@SCRIPTURE = ROM 8:22<R>For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

@SCRIPTURE = REV 21:4 ‑5<R>And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

@ILL TITLE = A NEW PITCHER

@ILL TEXT = During the late 1800s, English evangelist Henry Moorhouse made several trips to America to preach.  On one of these occasions, he was taking a walk through a poor section of the city when he noticed a small boy coming out of a store with a pitcher of milk.  Just then, the boy slipped and fell, breaking the pitcher and spilling the milk all over the sidewalk.Moorhouse rushed to the youngster's side and found him unhurt but terrified.  "My mama'll whip me!" he cried.  The preacher suggested that they try to put the pitcher back together, but the pieces of glass would not stay together.  The boy kept crying.

@ILL TEXT = Finally, Moorhouse picked up the youngster and carried him to a nearby store where the preacher purchased a new pitcher.  Then he returned to the dairy store and had the pitcher washed and filled with milk.  With that done, he carried both the boy and the pitcher home.  Putting the youngster down on his front porch, Moorhouse handed him the pitcher and asked, "Now will your mama whip you?"  A wide smile spread upon his tear‑stained face, "Aw, no sir, 'cause it's a lot better pitcher than we had before."

@PAGE NUMBER = Page 5

@LEVEL ONE = 3A. GOD'S WRATH WILL BE HALTED

@LEVEL TWO = 1B. Wrath Deserved

@SCRIPTURE = "wrath" = Comes from a root meaning to quake or shake which is used to describe God's anger

@SCRIPTURE = EPH 2:3<R>Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

@SCRIPTURE = ROM 6:23

@LEVEL TWO = 2B. Mercy Desired

@SCRIPTURE = "remember" = to pay attention to

@SCRIPTURE = "mercy" = compassion

@LEVEL TWO = What do we want...

@ILL TITLE = 1C. Stay of execution

@ILL TITLE = PRISONER ANALOGY

@ILL TITLE = 2C. Son by adoption

@LEVEL FOUR = This word "mercy" carries with it the idea of God choosing you.

@LEVEL ONE = CONCLUSION

@SCRIPTURE = "in the midst of the years" = now in my lifetime

@LEVEL TWO = God want to send revival now

@PAGE NUMBER = Page 6

@ILL TITLE = THE LAMB AND THE LION

@ILL TEXT = In his book Discover Yourself in the Psalms, Warren Wiersbe recalls a story told by an evangelist he heard many years ago. It went like this:

@ILL TEXT = "In a frontier town, a horse bolted and ran away with a wagon that had a little child in it.  Seeing that the child was in danger, a young man risked his life to catch the horse and stop it.  The child who was rescued grew up to become a lawless man, and one day he stood before a judge to be sentenced for a serious crime.

@ILL TEXT = The prisoner recognized the judge as the man who, years before, had saved his life, so he pled for mercy on the basis of that experience.  But the words from the bench silenced all his pleas: 'Young man, then I was your savior; today I am your judge, and I must sentence you to be hanged.'"

@LEVEL TWO = We must

@LEVEL THREE = Heed God's Word

@LEVEL THREE = Honor God's Work