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  REVIVAL CONFERENCE VICTORIA 2010
  by Alan Martin
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the need for repentance, brokenness, and
revival in the church to glorify Jesus Christ. It calls for a deep
cleansing of hearts, a transformation of joy to mourning, and a drawing
near to God for His favor. The speaker expresses a burden for a genuine
manifestation of God's power and a clear witness of Jesus Christ's
righteousness and love in the church.

Topics: "Repentance", "Revival in the Church"
Scripture References: James 4:8, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Psalm 51:17, Ezekiel 37:4, Acts 3:19, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Ephesians 4:15, John 15:8, Joel 2:28, Romans 12:2

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This sermon emphasizes the need for repentance, brokenness, and revival
in the church to glorify Jesus Christ. It calls for a deep cleansing of
hearts, a transformation of joy to mourning, and a drawing near to God
for His favor. The speaker expresses a burden for a genuine
manifestation of God's power and a clear witness of Jesus Christ's
righteousness and love in the church.

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CONTENT
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Greetings to those of you who have gathered there in Victoria, Canada,
from Alan Martin in southeast Missouri and the saints that gather with
me here. We're dear friends of Greg Gordon and the burden of God to see
the church revived and strengthened and purified so that Jesus Christ
can be glorified in the church, in our generation, is just something
dear to our hearts. And we don't come from ones that have an experience
of that.

We just come from ones who've been or being granted repentance
currently, acknowledging that we have not glorified Jesus Christ and
that his name has not been honored through our lives and the disunity in
the church. The lack of a clear testimony of righteousness in our
community. And we're humbling our hearts and crying out and seeking a
thorough brokenness in our own fellowship.

And we join with all of those who gathered to cleanse their hands and
purify their hearts and change their laughter to mourning and their joy
to gloom and draw near to God so that God can draw near to us. And his
favor can once again so rest upon a group of people that we don't just
claim he's with us, that those outside the walls of our gathering see
that the Lord is with us. Where the hand of the Lord is upon his
servants again, like it was upon Nehemiah and Ezra and John the Baptist,
where we can be a clear witness of the testimony of Jesus Christ, of his
righteousness, of his love, of the unity of the faith and of the unity
of the spirit that brings him glory.

And we're burdened about this. And so we're joining with you. We'll be
praying for you that God would grant a deep brokenness and faith that
the spirit of the Lord can be poured out.

And that the dry ground can become fertile and that even that the bones
that have been dry and scattered by the prophetic word of the Lord Jesus
Christ, by men who've been broken and contrite and trembling at God's
word, filled with the spirit of God and his burden. Prophesying,
speaking the truth in love and seeing repentance granted to those that
are in their hearing so that faith is born again for the glory of God to
come and be again manifested in the meetings of the churches all over
the world. But especially in our country, in our area, that we don't
just talk about a theory, but an actual reality that we can testify from
others who come in our midst and experience the conviction of God where
they fall down and cry out, having been convicted of their sins.

Surely God is among you of a truth and that people just make a
confession of faith, but there is a genuine conversion and become new
creatures in Christ where the name of Jesus Christ is glorified by his
power being manifested in the new creations they are being made by the
evident spirit of God's work on their lives. Our hearts are with you. We
long to see God's spirit poured out, and if it's poured out there before
it's poured out on us, we will rejoice that the name of Jesus Christ
will be magnified and glorified among you.

It's a race for us. It's a race to humble ourselves and cry out till God
pours out his spirit and righteousness upon us.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/cyvN4-yqbx0.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/alan-martin/revival-conference-victoria-2010/
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