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  WHY IS GENUINE REVIVAL IMPORTANT FOR THE CHURCH IN OUR GENERATION？
  by Don Longworth
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of revival for the
current generation, highlighting two key reasons. Firstly, the need for
God to receive the glory He deserves from the church, drawing parallels
to the story of Samson's loss of strength and the mockery faced by
Israel. Secondly, the significance of passing on a legacy of God's power
to the next generation, ensuring that the works of the Lord are known
and carried forward into eternity.

Topics: "Revival", "Legacy of Faith"
Scripture References: Joel 2:13, Joel 2:14, Malachi 1:11, Deuteronomy 4:9, Psalm 145:4

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of revival for the current
generation, highlighting two key reasons. Firstly, the need for God to
receive the glory He deserves from the church, drawing parallels to the
story of Samson's loss of strength and the mockery faced by Israel.
Secondly, the significance of passing on a legacy of God's power to the
next generation, ensuring that the works of the Lord are known and
carried forward into eternity.

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Revival is important for our generation, I think, for two reasons.
Number one, God isn't getting the glory that he should out of our
church, out of the churches. I think of the church now in our generation
similar to how Samson was in his baldness, being grinding grain, going
in circles, and the Philistines looking at them making a mockery of
Israel and the name of the Lord was brought into disrepute.

The world doesn't ask like they once asked of Samson, what is the secret
of your strength? God isn't getting his glory. When I read in Joel, you
know, that famous passage that talks about rending your hearts and not
your garments, return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and
compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from
sending calamity. And the question says, who knows, he may turn and have
pity and leave behind a blessing.

What are those blessings? Grain offerings and drink offerings for the
Lord your God. In other words, the point is that we want to bring
something to God. We want to glorify him.

What do we have? But before all this generation and the godlessness of
this generation, no one is asking, what's the secret of your strength to
the church? And the church isn't bringing anything to God in this
generation. No drink offerings, no grain offerings to the Lord. And the
other part of why it's important that there should be a revival in this
generation is that every generation passes on to the next generation a
legacy of the power of God.

And if we do not, I think of our lives like a rock that is thrown into a
river or a pond. It's gone and all that's left is ripples. We're not
trying to make history.

We're trying to form eternity. And what we pass on to others, this is
why Moses said, teach these things to your children, that they would
know the works of the Lord, so that we can pass on things into eternity,
make a difference in eternity. So for our generation, this is important.

And for the sake of the glory of God, revival is important.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/0JyaA4YFVnY.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/don-longworth/why-is-genuine-revival-important-for-the-church-in-our-generation/
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