Are You Ready Too?
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Azusa Street, Welsh Revival
Minorities, Poor Coal Miners
It didn’t begin in a seminary where they study God, it happened at a prayer meeting at a home where they waited on God
More books were written about the Holy Spirit in the 1890s than all history
Born of a former slave in Louisiana, moved to Indiana then Ohio, lost an eye to smallpox.
Then since he didn’t have enough persecution he started seeking baptism of the Holy Spirit and praying in tongues
44 While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word. 45 And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles.
Goes to Bible School With a man named Charles Parham, but because of segregation laws he has to sit outside the room and listen.
Preached it before he had it
1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, by descent a Mede, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans— 2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.
3 Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. 4 I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession, saying, “O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,
He was invited to pastor and preach at a church in Los Angeles, but he preached on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and then speaking in tongues. While he was at dinner they padlocked the church shut. He was now homeless and penniless
7 To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?
Seymour really lived by this verse. He took no offense but began to fast and pray again for revival and Baptism in the Holy Spirit. The Cross kept him from getting bitter.
2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.
17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. 18 Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.
Lived with the Lees and continued together to fast and pray for 10 days. Lees felt ill and asked Seymour to pray for him, he began to feel better so he asked him to pray with him for the Baptism. He came up glowing and praying in tongues!
2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Jenny Moore got baptized in the home meeting got up and started playing the piano, she didn’t know how to play the piano. Fully yielded
Seymore wasn’t even first to receive, 3 days later.
People overflowed to the porch which collapsed
They outgrew the house so much that the city told them they had to get a building! Azusa Street Mission was originally a church then it was converted to a stable until Seymour bought it. In a completely undesirable area of town. It only sat 200 people on wooden plank seats, dirt floors, flies, smells, no a/c, no deodorant.
9 services a day for 6 years
No speaker platform, no mics, no instruments
Every Person was a potential participant
26 What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
At Azusa Street Black, Hispanic, Asian, and White all worship together crossing cultural lines that were impossible at the time
Most Integrated church in all Los Angeles
Spontaneous but not uncontrolled
Seymour would wear a shoebox until it was time to move
Holy Spirit Lordship over the meetings like Evan Roberts
12 Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
Wall of crutches canes and braces, arms growing out, eyes opening.
Sister with a broom and dustpan
Fire Department called because the building was on fire. The shekinah glory just staying on the ground.
Thousands of missionaries going out to Canada, Africa, Asia, across the U.S.
Amy Semple Macpherson, John G Lake, Smith Wigglesworth, Maria Woodworth Etter
Dealing with FLakes
The jerks, Slain in the spirit, demons manifesting, shouting, singing, tongues, healings, prophecies
Spiritual Father Parham getting locked out
You can’t win people by abusing their church or pastor, if you get to preaching against churches you will find a sweet spirit of Christ lifting and a harsh judging spirit Of division in it’s place. We are simply a voice shouting behold the Lamb of God when we commence shouting something else the. Christ will die in you. For when people run out of the love of God they begin to start preaching else, Preaching dress and meats, and doctrines of men and against other churches. Let us seek peace and not confusion. The moment we feel we have all the truth or more than anyone else we will dry.
14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Humbly Correctable, Writing in tongues, Experience is subject to the Word
12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Evidence of Baptism in the Holy Spirit isn’t speaking in tongues, the evidence is Love.
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
Durham and Seymour split over doctrine
Then the editor of his newsletter and secretary of the church leaves with the 25,000 address mailing list and begins to publish in Oregon and collect the donations
Baptism of the Holy Spirit sets men and women free from bondage
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Ends With less than 30 people attending, without money. How many you running?
“We are not yet up to the fullness of the Former Rain and that when the Latter Rain comes, it will far exceed anything we have seen!”
Rev. William Seymour, the leader of the Azusa Street Awakening, also prophesied that in 100 years there would be an outpouring of God's Spirit and His Shekinah Glory that would be greater and more far reaching than what was experienced at Azusa.
Parham on the opposite side of the country prophesied the same thing
23 When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them. 24 And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them, 25 who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit,
“ ‘Why did the Gentiles rage,
and the peoples plot in vain?
26 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers were gathered together,
against the Lord and against his Anointed’—
27 for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, 28 to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. 29 And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness, 30 while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” 31 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.