SUDDENLY THERE CAME A SOUND FROM HEAVEN

The Holy Ghost was outpoured and 120 people were filled with the mighty power of God, changed and charged by the Spirit of God.  It was shocking and unbelievable to the onlookers who were stunned and shaken by Peter’s anointed preaching.  Mighty conviction and repentance impelled three thousand of them to surrender to Christ that day.

This amazing scene reveals two urgent needs in the church today: The need for REVIVAL and the need for EVANGELISM.

Our world has changed. Culture has shifted further and further into a dark abyss of iniquity, led by the prince of the power of the air and spiritual wickedness in high places. Through God believers are empowered for victory with mighty, spiritual weapons. But who, and how many in the church are in spiritual condition to rise to the challenge?

The desperate need of the church today is for spiritual revival, for Holy Ghost conviction of sin, for an awakening of prayer and obedience, and a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And we can have it.

Leonard Ravenhill declared:  “The only reason we don’t have revival is because we are willing to live without it!” “That is our problem. We have become too comfortable, too lazy, too apathetic and too indifferent.”

With urgency, let our strong cries be raised in earnest, prayer to God, like the Prophet Habakkuk: “O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years.”

THEN LET THE “GO YE” OF CHRIST… motivate obedience to his Great Commission.

Evangelism, a burning desire to take the Gospel to the lost and win them to Christ is the second great need of the church today

Revival is God crying to lethargic Christians: “Wake up — and get to work.” Evangelism is an awakened church crying to sinners: “Repent — and be saved.” For more see GOING WITH THE GOSPEL.