Maryland Men of Faith 2025: Do Justly

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Seminars

Joe Reeves

How to Make Disciples?

Ron Clouzet

The Experience of Personal Revival

David Buruchara

True Self-Care: Guarding the Man, Growing the Mission

Michael Verlus

The Last Man Standing

Eric Walsh

Sanctified or Sexualized

King, Priest or Coward?

What is a Man of God?

The title of this presentation is Christ in You, the Experience of Personal Revival.

And you could come at this from a number of angles and there's a lot to be said about it.

So I have selected some of the things that we're going to talk about and that may create some questions and so if we come at the end and we still have time we'll deal with those questions but Hopefully it'll be clear enough throughout.

You probably have read my bio that's in the program there.

So if you haven't, you might want to so you know a little bit of the context regarding this seminar.

I've been in ministry for 45 years and I've been a pastor and I've been a professor most of my life, academic administrator, I've been a missionary, I've been an evangelist, so the whole full length of ministry range.

And I'm happy to be here talking about this subject.

1 preacher I respect a great deal and you would all recognize his name if I mentioned it, said once, we preachers preach what we preachers need to hear.

And that's 1 of the reasons why this topic is important to me.

Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us the opportunity to meet together today.

And I pray that your Holy Spirit may be with us and that you guide us in our thinking, in our processing, and that your Spirit may make an impression in our heart in a way that no 1 else can do.

I just want to mention that some of these thoughts...

Come from that book, Adventism's Greatest Need.

Getting to Know the Holy Spirit is another book on baptism.

I'm not sure if this is still being sold, but certainly the first 1, the major 1, these are some of the other books that the ABC has.

1 is written for secular people, the other 1 is a primer on understanding prophecy, and the latest 1 is on a ministry of prayer in the Church.

What does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

To do justly is the result of something else.

You cannot, as fallen human beings, we cannot do justly normally.

Something needs to happen in us so that we may be doing justly.

Remember when they went down with the disciples of Jesus down to Jerusalem from Galilee?

And they noticed that the Samaritans were not making room for Jesus and his disciples.

And John and James so innocently said, Lord, you want us to pray so that fire may come down from heaven to destroy them, just like Elijah.

He says, you do not know what spirit you're of.

In other words, the spirit of God did not inspire that in you.

It is the spirit of the enemy that inspired, the spirit of vengeance that inspired that in you.

This is the same guy who is called, who is known as the beloved disciple, who wrote probably the greatest epistle on love that you can find in the Bible, 1 John.

So something happened to John from this experience till later when he was writing what he wrote.

In 1 of the most beautiful chapters you can read from Ellen White's The Acts of the Apostles is a chapter on the conversion of John and that was not overnight.

It was a life process and that might be 1 of the reasons why God kept him alive to be 90 or 95 because for some of us it takes a little longer to catch on.

That is why John eventually wrote the 1 chapter that deals squarely on the new birth.

Chapter 3 of John, the encounter between Jesus and Nicodemus.

And he said, Jesus said, you need to be born again.

We think of, when we hear those expressions, We think of people out in the street, people who are far away from God, people who may have a life of crime or something.

He said that to somebody who knew God and taught other people about God.

And he said to him, you must be born again.

In fact, Nicodemus thought for 3 years about what Jesus said that night before he really fully understood it.

So, revival is necessary for all of us actually.

And revival is not something that is passing.

The concept of revival in the Bible is a concept of absolute change.

It comes from the verb to revive, which is from Latin to live again.

Re is again, vive is to live, to live again.

The implication is, whatever it is that you were experiencing before, that was not life.

I checked in the Bible all the expressions that say, revive me.

All of them in the book of Psalms and most of them, about 9 out of the 12, are from Psalms 119, which is famous not only for being the longest Psalm, but for being a psalm about God's Word basically in its various forms.

So I'm going to read this quickly and then I'm going to summarize that and if you want to wait until the summary it might make more sense.

In Psalm 71 20, you who have shown me great and severe troubles shall revive me again and bring up again from the depth of the earth.

Not you might do this, not I'm asking you to do this.

The second 1, my soul clings to the dust.

And that comes up several times according to your word.

Okay, the third 1 is turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things and revive me in your way.

How applicable this is today more so than ever in the history of humankind when there's pornography so accessible and so affordable and there are so many distractions, so many worthless things that we spend our time looking at.

So obviously spending time looking at worthless things militates against any possibility of revival.

That's why it says turn away my eyes from that.

Behold, number 4, I long for your precepts, Revive me in your righteousness.

You would expect that maybe saying revive me in your love when you're loving kindness.

And that concept is repeated several times in the Psalms.

In verse 88, Revive me according to your loving kindness, so that I may keep the testimony of your mouth.

Revive me according to your loving kindness remember the prayer confession by David after Bathsheba says you know yes according to your loving kindness according to the multitude of your tender mercies, right?

In verse 107 of Psalm 119, I am afflicted very much, revive me, O Lord, according to your word.

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