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Intro:
John 16:5–7 (NKJV)
5 “But now I go away to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’
6 But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.
7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth.
It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.
Today, we will continue with the thought, [People God Trusts], the title of my message is [Trust with Revival].
Who ever has trouble remembering something?
When I was a teenager, Pastor Tucker told me write my memories, my messages, my ideas, and my experiences on paper.
He told me, there will come a day when you will not remember everything?
Yeah right, is what I thought, but I did not dare say that out loud.
Then when I moved to Salem, Pastor Davis told me the same thing, make sure you write it all down, get a journal, one day you will want to look back and remember everything that has happened.
It was the second time someone I respected tell me to write down my memories and thoughts.
At the time, that didn’t make sense, I could remember:
where I preached
the pastor and family’s names
what I preached at that church
what I wore at that church
what all happened at that church
Even though I did not think that I would need to help remembering, I listened.
I look back and I am so glad that I did, for some reason, I do not remember EVERYTHING like I thought I once would.
I have some tricks that help me, specifically writing and repeating.
If there is something I need to remember, I will put it on paper and say it over and over.
For some reason that seems to help me remember.
Then, when the time is right, whatever it was, will come back to my memory, I credit a lot of that to writing and repetition.
I cannot say for certain that this was Jesus’s intention in John 14-16, but I noticed something, He kept repeating Himself.
In three passages of Scripture, we read of Jesus speaking of the coming HELPER or COMFORTER.
Why did Jesus repeat Himself so much?
Jesus spoke this to His disciples on the Thursday night before His death.
He knew the whirlwind of experiences the disciples would soon face.
Within the next twenty-four hours they would watch either up close or from a distance the:
betrayal
arrest
denial
trial
beating
crucifixion
burial of Jesus
Then three days later they would meet Him in His resurrected body.
Jesus knew all of the emotions they would experience in a short amount of time.
So He repeated Himself over and over and John wrote it down:
I will ask the Father to give you another helper
The Father will send the Helper, the Holy Spirit and He will teach you
The Helper will come to you from the Father
I have to go away, if I do not the Helper will not come
What is Jesus’s point— the Holy Spirit will come help you in my absence.
And the Holy Spirit did come.
On the day of Pentecost, God breathed life and power into the New Testament church.
The 120 were filled with the Spirit, spoke in tongues, and it brought 3,000 to Christ that day.
Everything was great, but could it happen again?
Could the miraculous, supernatural power of the Spirit really come upon them over and over.
I want to look this morning and see how God REVIVED the Early Church over and over.
Supernatural life came into the Church on the Day of Pentecost.
The Helper came, but was He there to stay?
Today, I want to look at Acts 3 and 4 and see how the Early Church lived in a way that God could trust them.
He trusted them enough to continuously pour out His Spirit and revive them!
As we’ve noticed every week, throughout Scripture, God desired to fulfill His plan and purpose.
For some reason, instead of just doing what He wanted to do, He decided to use people.
He opted to work through people He could trust to accomplish His will.
It is easy to trust God, but does God trust us?
He can never love us more than He does right now, but He can trust us more!
I want God to trust our church with revival!
So let’s look at how Peter and John lived in Acts 3 and 4 and see if we can discover the type of person God can trust with revival!
I have three points, [A Revival of Demonstration], [A Revival of Declaration], and [A Revival of Dedication].
Let’s begin
1.
A Revival of Demonstration
We’ve already established that Jesus promised to send the Helper and He came on the day of Pentecost.
But what happened after that?
Peter and John continued living their lives, and it was time to go to the Temple to pray.
As they prepare to enter into the by the Beautiful Gate, they hear a man crying out for help.
The man was crippled, unable to walk.
It was part of Jewish custom that they gave alms or offerings to the poor and disabled.
The crippled people would strategically wait by the Temple hoping people would be generous to them.
On this particular day, this crippled man awaited some sort of gift, but he was in for a surprise.
Peter, who did not have money to help, had something better.
He looked at the man and commanded him to walk.
Whose authority did Peter use?
He spoke in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
In their culture, a name was important.
Someone’s name represented that person’s authority.
Peter knew this, merely calling on the name of Jesus, Peter had confidence that God would demonstrate His power to heal!
Jesus was widely recognized by His demonstration of God’s healing power.
This was also not the first time that God used Peter or John to heal someone.
But this time was different.
Jesus was gone to heaven and this was the first encounter Peter and John had in dealing with someone who was lame from birth.
I can’t help but wonder if the words of Jesus came back to their memory?
Did the Spirit remind them, Jesus promised you the Helper, I, the Holy Spirit am your helper.
Their experience shows that the demonstration of God’s healing power was not limited to the life of Christ.
When the same Holy Spirit who was in Jesus came upon the Early Church, demonstrations of power followed.
Acts 3 shows us that God’s power was not dead!
God sent a revival of the demonstration of the power and Spirit upon Peter and John!
Who would like to see a revival of demonstration in our church?
2. A Revival of Declaration
After the man at the gate recieved healing, Peter used the opportunity to preach.
Many people experienced the work of the Holy Spirit.
Not everyone approved though.
The religious leaders arrested Peter and John and placed them into jail over night.
Perhaps they thought that would intimidate them and sober them up from there erratic behavior.
Not so, they wanted to know how they had such power to demonstrate that type of work?
Notice the words in Acts 8— THEN PETER FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT!
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