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  WHY IS GENUINE REVIVAL IMPORTANT FOR THE CHURCH IN OUR GENERATION？
  by Edgar Reich
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of revival in the church,
highlighting the need for awakening and following the Word of God. It
addresses the lukewarmness and lack of evangelism within the church,
stressing the significance of sharing faith and producing new believers.
The speaker reflects on personal shortcomings in truly following Jesus
and the necessity for a life transformation to bear fruit. The message
calls for a revival that leads to reaching out to others with the gospel
amidst the judgment of God upon the nations.

Topics: "Revival", "Evangelism"
Scripture References: Revelation 3:15, Matthew 28:19, John 15:8, Romans 1:18, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Ezekiel 22:30

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of revival in the church,
highlighting the need for awakening and following the Word of God. It
addresses the lukewarmness and lack of evangelism within the church,
stressing the significance of sharing faith and producing new believers.
The speaker reflects on personal shortcomings in truly following Jesus
and the necessity for a life transformation to bear fruit. The message
calls for a revival that leads to reaching out to others with the gospel
amidst the judgment of God upon the nations.

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Thank you for your question. Revival is incredibly important for the
church because the church has been quiet. Evil is coming in like a
flood.

We see that the judgment of God has started in America and we only know
of a God of love and the God of justice who will also repay sin is never
mentioned. And so we're only used to a God of love and we all hope that
things go away on its own, but they won't. And the church is asleep.

The church is lukewarm, needs to be revived, needs to be awakened, needs
to follow the Word of God because there it is spelled out. It's a manual
for us on what we are to do and how we are to live and that we are to
share our faith. And 97 percent of people, even in the church, they will
never share Christ with others.

And Christianity is dependent on new birth, on new babies. And who will
have them? Is it the sheep of the flock? The sheep accepts the shepherd
to do it, but it's really that the sheep must produce new sheep. And so
the church no longer does what Jesus says.

If you follow me, I will make you fishers of man. So I have concluded
for myself that I was not really following Jesus. And it was a terrible,
terrible thing for me to discover that I thought I was a good Christian
and I was following him.

But there were no results. No one heard the good news. And so my life
had to change.

And the awakening and revival in a church will cause for the body of the
church to reach out to others, to share Christ with them. And instead,
we get overwhelmed with our circumstances. And I mentioned before that
the judgment of God is upon our nations in North America.

And you might ask, why is that? Well, the Bible gives us a clear answer.
In Romans chapter one, it says, the wrath of God will come upon us when
we turn to ungodliness. And then he said, he's going to give us a
debased mind.

And I can only conclude all of the debased minds of people I would
consider responsible, even for normal family life. They are voting at
the highest level of governments for evil against God. And for me, that
is just a sign of the judgment of God falling upon our nations.

So we as a church have to rise.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/Vs0ZcXoYfks.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/edgar-reich/why-is-genuine-revival-important-for-the-church-in-our-generation/
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