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0:01[Music]
0:07he was kicked out of the Nazarene Church
0:10for preaching on the baptism the Holy
0:11Spirit evidence of speaking in tongues
0:13from being removed from the Nazarene
0:15Church he went down the street and built
0:18the most famous Church in Pentecostal
0:20history 312 Azusa Street this is William
0:23J Seymour the founder of the modern
0:24Pentecostal movement
0:26I'm Roberts Larry and this is God's
0:27General's
0:29[Music]
0:37[Applause]
0:37[Music]
0:42we're about to look at one of the
0:44greatest stories of the modern times and
0:46specially in church history look at what
0:48we call the Azusa Street revival the two
0:51personalities we're gonna look at is
0:52Charles Parham and William J Seymour
0:55Charles Parham was born in Iowa where
0:57Billy Sonny would also be born a few
1:00years later and Seymour be born in
1:02Central Louisiana the other thing about
1:04them one was born the north one was born
1:06the south but also one was white and one
1:09was african-american
1:10and you have to remember at this time in
1:12American history the black and white
1:14communities did not work together the
1:16Jim Crow laws were in force there was
1:19still a lot of prejudice going on a lot
1:21of the mistreatment of the African
1:23American community but God had chosen
1:25something wonderful to happen in the
1:27world and chose the two unlikely
1:29characters to use them as the leaders of
1:32the modern Pentecostal movement let's
1:34begin with Charles Parham now Charles
1:36Parham was a Methodist and he was as a
1:40child he was sick and God had healed him
1:42he was very sick at one time he said
1:45that he was so thin and frail that you
1:47could hold his hand up they did have
1:49modern lines to a candlelight and he
1:51could count the bones in his hand that's
1:53how frail he was because of the
1:54illnesses that he'd suffered as a child
1:56and he'd heard about Dowie and a few
1:59other people had healing ministries and
2:01went to involve himself in them and find
2:04out how they worked and what was
2:05happening because he'd experienced
2:08hitting but he doesn't did not know how
2:09to minister healing so he goes up desire
2:12and likes dowing he goes to another man
2:14in Rockford Illinois who thought he was
2:16Jesus jr. or he was Jesus incarnate and
2:19didn't quite follow him but he did go
2:21see him and he comes back to Kansas and
2:24begins Bethel healing rooms which were
2:26similar to doughies healing rooms in
2:28Chicago where people would come and ask
2:31for healing and he would pray for him
2:33and give him scriptures and help him
2:34walk from sickness into health and and
2:36that's how he began his ministry there
2:39in Kansas in more of what I call the
2:41modern part of his life then he also
2:43decided that you know we need a Bible
2:45School you know Bible schools are good
2:47it used to be that the Bible schools
2:50produced some of the great leaders of
2:52all the nations of the world
2:53and I still think if we run the bible's
2:55goes right we can produce some of the
2:56great leaders for the modern world too
2:58so he put him advertisement in the
3:00Topeka Kansas newspaper and said all
3:03those who want to come and learn the
3:05Bible come together whatever money you
3:07have we'll put it into a big common
3:09account and we'll all live off of it
3:11together on common grounds so I don't
3:14know that happened today but back in the
3:16early 1900s it worked so the ad went out
3:19people came they had $500 they put it in
3:22the common account and they had a
3:24hundred they put it there whether they
3:26had to be put into the common account
3:27and they came to learn the Bible
3:28Charles parm and a few other teachers
3:31begin to to teach them and share with
3:34them what they knew about the scriptures
3:35but they also had chosen the place to
3:38hold the school at a place called stones
3:40falling now the reason why it's called
3:42stones Follies are called the men by
3:44then mr. stone was trying to reconstruct
3:47a european-style
3:48I would call it not a castle but a a
3:51large European home and he ran out of
3:54money and didn't quite get to finish it
3:57so it was called stones folly was his
3:59joke it was his mistake it was his mess
4:02so Charles Parham was gonna hold a
4:04special meeting in another part of
4:06Kansas and told all of his students that
4:08while he was gone and it was close to
4:10New Year's while he was gone he wanted
4:12him to study the book of Acts and the
4:15question he wanted them to answer was
4:17what were the signs or the significant
4:19signs of somebody being spirit-filled
4:22now they didn't know anything that we
4:25know today nor did Charles Farmiga
4:27thought it was a good assignment and so
4:29he goes away and hold his meaning comes
4:31back close to New Year's Eve of 1900 and
4:35he finds all of the students in the
4:39chapel area praying and seeking the
4:42baptism the Holy Spirit with the
4:43evidence of speaking in tongues
4:45he thought what is that so he caught
4:48them all in stop the prayer meeting for
4:51a moment and asked for what's going on
4:53give me a report on what you're doing
4:55and why you're doing it so all the
4:56students begin to say the assignment you
5:00gave us we conclude by the scriptures
5:02that when somebody is filled with the
5:04Holy Spirit
5:05or baptized in the Holy Spirit there is
5:08a biblical record that one of the
5:10initial first initial signs is that they
5:13speak with other tongues and it is a
5:15language from heaven it's a spiritual
5:17language it is a language and not known
5:20in the earth today it's from heaven and
5:22so they went over the scriptures and
5:25parem listened and so he said all right
5:28he wasn't quite for sure about it
5:30because he had not yet begin to study
5:32the scriptures himself but you know he
5:35did not want to stop the fervor or the
5:37zeal that the students had but he was a
5:39little concerned and there was a woman
5:41named agnes osmond i've always liked her
5:43name Agnes Agnes Osmond came up to
5:46brother parm and said let your hands on
5:48me and I'm I ever see the Holy Ghost and
5:50speak with tongues heaven where the poem
5:53goes well I'm not quite sure I want to
5:54do this because I don't know how to pray
5:57that kind of prayer for you to receive
5:58the Holy Ghost and I'm not as sure as
6:00you are that this is really what's true
6:02because he had not researched the
6:03scriptures on this subject back yet it's
6:06the first time he's hearing about it but
6:08because of a persistent woman which most
6:10women are persistent she kept pushing
6:12him in a polite way and finally he
6:14agreed to pray for so he praises lays a
6:17hands on her some way and and prays for
6:19her to receive the Holy Spirit and to
6:21receive the evidence of the Holy Spirit
6:23and and he goes I didn't know what was
6:25gonna happen or not so as they finished
6:28the prayer II took his hands off of her
6:29and him and the other two were standing
6:31by just kind of looked at her and for a
6:33few moments nothing happened and so they
6:35just kind of said there that oh well you
6:36know finding all of a sudden they record
6:38that she kind of got a little bit of a
6:40smile and a glow came on her and she
6:43begin to speak in an unknown language
6:45but they could tell that it was
6:47spiritually could tell it was a language
6:49it was spoken with distinction and so
6:52the first person in Topeka Kansas to
6:55speak in tongues of the modern
6:56Pentecostal movement was a woman named
6:59Agnes and so now that's nice not the
7:02great part of the story that's one big
7:04part but the next part and God gave her
7:06the ability to speak in a perfect
7:08Chinese dialect and write it in the
7:11early days of Pentecost they believed
7:14that you would speak into heaven
7:16and if God called you to Africa or China
7:19or South America or someplace in the
7:21world
7:21he even give you the language of the
7:23people he recalled to supernaturally
7:25that's what is why penny call spread so
7:28rapidly around the world because of that
7:30belief and it happened it was as soon as
7:34a god denomination that took that out of
7:36their doctrine of belief that's why you
7:38get received the Holy Spirit spoke in
7:40tongues and that was it
7:41the Assemblies took out the belief
7:43system that you also got a language of
7:45the earth as a part of your calling part
7:48of your missionary so that's why most of
7:50the Pentecost after the formation of the
7:52denominational time periods of Pentecost
7:54they didn't believe that but the
7:56original group from Topeka and Missouri
7:58they believed it and so Pentecost begin
8:02to come alive in modern America and so
8:05what happened like in every movement
8:07some people didn't like it so some
8:09students live some people persecuted
8:11they call them crazy names but it got so
8:14famous and so controversial that the
8:17United States government sent linguist
8:19from DC down to Kansas
8:22to see if it'd be true when the
8:25government linguist came they found
8:27different dialects of Asian languages of
8:30African languages and they found that
8:32this speaking in tongues was had a
8:35language base to it but it was not an
8:37Earthling language they could identify
8:38so we have government officials
8:41authenticating that it is a language and
8:43that there is other languages there and
8:45with agnes osmond you could go to their
8:47store cuz a sunny day in kansas you will
8:48find the original paper that she wrote
8:51the Chinese dialect out that when God
8:53gave her the language it's still there
8:55preserved in Kansas and so this is how
8:58the modern Pentecostal movement began
9:00now all of a sudden of course the devil
9:03fights everything God's doing
9:05mr. stone wanted to kick out harm and
9:07all of these people and Charles Parma
9:10said I wouldn't do that if I was you
9:12because God will judge you and mr. stone
9:14as I don't believe any of that and kicks
9:16them out well when they move out
9:19stones mentioned where they had the
9:21school and they had the outpouring burnt
9:23to the ground and to this day on the
9:26spot where stones mansion stood it's
9:28still a bare lot in Topeka Kansas so I
9:31guess when God curses something it's a
9:33its curse for a long time they leave
9:35Topeka Kansas and they go to Houston
9:37Texas and he starts his revival meetings
9:39and a school there now Charles Parham to
9:42get his crowd to come to his revival
9:44meetings would dress up in Bible
9:45characters and do parades down the
9:47streets of Houston as was other towns
9:49he'd preach and that's how he would get
9:51the attention of the people to come
9:53Charles problems nany came up to
9:55Annapolis Indiana to meet her friends
9:57and family and one of her friends was
9:58William J Seymour it's gonna come on
10:00major character in the Pentecostal
10:02movement he's a waiter in a restaurant
10:03there she meets up with him and tells
10:06him about what's happening with Charles
10:08Parham Bible days are here again the
10:10Apostolic faith has returned to the
10:12world primitive Christianity has come to
10:15America and he was excited about that
10:17because he was one of the few people
10:18that was trying to be on the edge of
10:20what God was doing at that time he was
10:23so enthused by what she was telling him
10:24he left his job packed his bag and moved
10:28to Houston Texas to be a part of the
10:30Bible School that Charles problem had
10:31just opened seymour travels to Houston
10:34Texas to be a part of Charles Parham Bob
10:36the first problem they face is that
10:39William J Seymour is an african-american
10:41man he was a part like I said earlier
10:44his parents were slaves when he was born
10:45and he had smallpox as a child so his
10:49face was scarred she always kept a
10:51little beard on his face to cover up the
10:53scars he was blind in one of his eyes
10:55but that wasn't the problem the problem
10:57was in the days that he was alive and
11:00going to Charles promised Bible School
11:01was the Jim Crow laws was enforced in
11:04America for you they don't know what Jim
11:06Crow laws are as simple as would have
11:08said is the black and the white people
11:09can't be together in the same room they
11:11can't sit next to each other they can't
11:13be in the same facility and so to
11:16accommodate the law of the land they
11:18leave the door of the school open or the
11:20window open and Charles harmless sit in
11:22the hallway and hear the lectures but he
11:25couldn't be in the classroom and the
11:26other white students and when it got
11:28real hot here you go outside and sit
11:30outside under the window and they leave
11:31the windows open hear the lectures that
11:33way now some people have tried to make
11:35this to be more of a racial issue than
11:38what it was I think this I think they
11:41were victims of the culture and of the
11:42time and I think that this next thing
11:45I'm about to tell you explains that
11:46these people were not prejudiced they
11:47were just the way life was them the
11:50first person to graduate in that class
11:52to receive an invitation to preach was
11:54Charles farms most famous student to be
11:57was William Seymour
11:58so William Seymour got an invitation to
12:01come to LA to preach a Nazarene Church
12:03didn't have enough money to get there so
12:05all the white students help take up an
12:07offering to buy him the train ticket to
12:09get him to LA so my thoughts are this if
12:12they were that prejudiced and mad at him
12:14being black they wouldn't take enough
12:15money to help him get to LA so my
12:17thoughts are they were victims of the
12:19time and of course we want them to be
12:21different but this is what happened the
12:23white students took up an offering and
12:25since Seymour out to LA to preach
12:28Seymour arrives in Los Angeles after a
12:30long train ride and it's a Nazarene
12:33Church passion by a woman Marik's had an
12:36except for the Parliament the first
12:38night he preached acts 2 1 through 4
12:41about the day of Pentecost and when the
12:43day of Pentecost had come and they
12:45received the Holy Ghost they spoke in
12:47tongues
12:47well the Nazarene
12:49quite believe that specially the
12:50password so they didn't tell him to go
12:53away he came back the next night to
12:54preach and they found the locked doors
12:56of the church with chains on it and a
12:59note telling him to go away
13:01can you imagine you've been called out
13:03to preach a revival meeting halfway
13:05across the country you preached the
13:07first night and you yourself have not
13:09spoken in tongues yet but you believe in
13:11it and you're preaching it and they
13:13close out the meeting that I've been
13:15telling you by just locking the doors
13:16and leave it a note and saying go away
13:18well there was a couple in the church
13:20that lid that 2:14 Bonnie Brae Street in
13:23Los Angeles the house still stands the
13:25day you go by and see it and they asked
13:27brother Seymour would you come and
13:29preach to us about the Holy Ghost we
13:31like it and so he goes to their house
13:33for one of the biggest reasons he has no
13:36place else to go and he has an
13:37invitation so he goes and starts a home
13:40meeting or a cell meeting and he starts
13:42talking to them about the Holy Spirit
13:43and speaking in tongues and what they
13:45saw in Kansas what they saw in Houston
13:48and what the scriptures were about it
13:49and a child started speaking in tongue
13:52and then the waiting's are speaking in
13:54tongues I'm pretty soon people begin to
13:56get through it the Holy Ghost and they
13:57begin to talk about it and the house
13:59fills up and so the house is full so
14:02they leave the front door open so all
14:03the folks who cooking it in fact I sit
14:05on the front porch and listen through
14:06the door in the window well when the
14:08front porch fills up they have open up
14:10the side window so you got people on the
14:12side of the house on the porch filled up
14:14and Pentecostals have always been loud
14:17people when you look at a family you
14:19have some children in her studious and
14:21some kind of it's mischievious and some
14:23are loud
14:24well the Pentecostals from day one had
14:27been the loud children in the body of
14:28Christ so when they got through with the
14:30Holy Ghost at midnight or 11 o'clock or
14:321 o'clock in the morning they just
14:34didn't speak in tongues quiet they did
14:36it loud and they screamed and they
14:37clapped and they yelled and they ran
14:39down the street and woke up all the
14:40people and so this crowd of you know
14:43three or four hundred it grew to about
14:44600 or so kept being noisy and the
14:47neighbors couldn't sleep they started
14:49calling the police take care of these
14:50crazy religious fanatics and so Seymour
14:53and some of the brothers decide
14:55they had to move the meeting because
14:57there's not enough space and they're
14:59causing trouble and it's they don't want
15:01to cause trouble they're gonna quite um
15:03down low so they're in between these
15:04then it's time to move
15:05and so they hunt for a building and he
15:08becomes the most famous address in
15:09pentecostal history
15:10it's 3/16 Azusa Street Azusa Street at
15:14one time was a horse stable and then it
15:16had become a church building and then
15:18see more about it and they had to go in
15:20and clean it up and so Seymour and the
15:22guys went there and had to get rid of
15:23all the hay there had been a fire in it
15:25so around the roof and around the edge
15:27of the walls
15:28there was black smut and up above that
15:30there was a two-story building so that
15:32was the first storey and up above
15:33it's where Seymour lived and had what
15:36you would call a counseling room for
15:37those who need more prayer and help so
15:40upstairs he lived and had a counselor
15:42who downstairs was a place where they
15:43held the meeting the pulpit in the
15:45beginning was two chicken crates on top
15:48of each other and the rest were just
15:49playing snailed together for people to
15:51sit on and they were didn't have proper
15:53chairs like we have here or what you
15:54have in your church it was a very what
15:57you call maybe quit put together but it
15:59had a lot of money so this got what they
16:01could make Church out of it and it began
16:03to happen
16:04Azusa Street lasted three and a half
16:07years every night and every day it never
16:11ceased there was always a service or
16:13someone seeking the baptism the Holy
16:15Spirit with the evidence speaking in
16:17tongues for three and a half years
16:19non-stop now you have a problem going to
16:21church for a whole week or for a
16:24three-day weekend rival meeting can you
16:26imagine for three and a half years night
16:28and day you have services and you have
16:31ministry to do you know a lot of people
16:33say we want a revival I don't think you
16:35do I think what you want as a visitation
16:37you want God to come and visit you for a
16:38couple of days and then leave so you go
16:40back and do what you want to do a
16:41revival is 24 hours work it's working to
16:46keep the meetings going
16:47take care of the hunger of the people
16:49take care of the needs all the things in
16:50his work so the revival hits you're
16:53asking for more work and more work and
16:55more work but it should be exciting work
16:57Azusa Street has some great stories one
17:01time the fire department was called
17:02because some of the people around the
17:04zoo solved flames on top of the building
17:06and so the fire department was not
17:08our modern with the big trucks they came
17:10with the horses another thing to come to
17:11put out the fire and they realized there
17:13was no fire and what the people saw
17:15Seymour said was the flames of Pentecost
17:17on top of the building
17:18so I always found it amazing that people
17:21saw fire thought it was an actual fire
17:23they called the fire department they
17:24came to put it out and there was no fire
17:26but about 600 people seeking God on the
17:28altar trying to receive the holy doesn't
17:30speak with tongues the other thing that
17:32I find amusing about Azusa Street is
17:34that people said that three or four
17:36blocks away sometimes this pull will
17:38come on then mark some would grab them
17:40and they wouldn't know why they'd be
17:42coming into the building and they'd come
17:43in and get saved or get healed so that
17:45pull of the holy spirit begin to have an
17:48occurrence around three or four blocks
17:50around Azusa Street now Azusa Street is
17:53not problem-free
17:54wherever there's people there's problems
17:56where there's a little God there's a
17:58devil trying to cause trouble
17:59Azusa Street at its height all over the
18:02world people are coming they have a
18:04magazine called the Apostolic state has
18:05over 50,000 subscriptions to it
18:08they met out monthly to give reports
18:10about people receiving the Holy Ghost
18:11and miracles and teachers from brothers
18:14Seymour so many things are happening but
18:16then of course here comes the problems
18:18first problem number one William Seymour
18:22falls in love with a nice they named
18:23Jeannie and they get married then one of
18:26his secretaries gets mad because it gets
18:28married and takes the medalist and lose
18:30to Portland Oregon so why did he do that
18:33and why did that happen well she did it
18:35because she felt like many of the early
18:37Pentecostals the Lord's coming back so
18:39soon you shouldn't get married and me
18:41distracted with your married life from
18:43the work of the Lord so when Seymour got
18:45married that made her mad and she took
18:47the Mentalist and went off to Portland
18:49McGinn her own ministry that is still
18:51functioning today in Portland Oregon
18:52that was the first problem the second
18:55problem is William Seymour has invited
18:57Charles Parham to come and hold meetings
18:59at Azusa Street because he looks at
19:02mother plumb as a spiritual father had
19:04the first invitation parem says known he
19:07goes to Zion
19:08Illinois's Dowie City because that was
19:10where the main focus of religious
19:13activity was at that time in America and
19:15so he wanted to go there and bring
19:17Pentecost to Zion but this is a mistake
19:20that he makes he should realize that the
19:22cloud
19:22moved from Chicago to LA to one of his
19:26own spiritual sons brother Seymour at
19:28Azusa Street so he misses it by about a
19:30year he finally shows up when he gets to
19:33his oozes Street he notices a couple
19:35things which I believe are legitimate he
19:37notices number one that there is a lot
19:38of fleshly activity and some demonic
19:42activity and the emotionalism was a
19:44little bit too high he film and so he
19:46tried to bring some constructive
19:48criticism and an instruction to brother
19:50Seymour and they got at odds with each
19:53other and split Karam believes as in the
19:55street and goes to the part of LA and
19:57holds on a holds a meeting and continues
20:00to preach and this is the first big
20:02split that happens in his industry that
20:04begins its decline now historians today
20:07talk about this split and that Seymour
20:10was a racist now I'm not totally
20:13agreeing that that's a total factor here
20:15I believe that it could be a small
20:16factor but I do believe that there was
20:18an issue with spiritualism and the
20:20altars of the street there was a degrees
20:22of emotion ISM going on that Seymour and
20:24parem did not find a way you discuss and
20:27how to resolve that instead they got
20:29upset with each other and they split
20:31historian today many use it as a means
20:34of saying he was against the black guy
20:35and white guy tried to take over that
20:37might have been there but that was not
20:39the first and the initial problem
20:41between the two the reason why it was
20:43tough for probably Seymour to make the
20:45corrections that parem wanted was
20:47because of the view of the day toward an
20:50akram african-american person here is a
20:52uneducated african-american man in the
20:55time of Jim Crow laws that God chose now
20:59to me that's a big statement the world
21:01may say we don't believe this we don't
21:03like that but God said I do and God
21:05chose a little black men to be the
21:07leader of the Pentecostal movement in
21:09modern times that's a statement and God
21:12chose him because he was telling the
21:13whole world I will use who I want to use
21:15how I want to use them which means so as
21:17there's hope for all of us and so the
21:20great thing about Azusa Street was that
21:22the Holy Spirit baptism of the evidence
21:25of speaking in tongues returned and
21:26stayed with the modern church that's the
21:29biggest and the greatest thing about it
21:31after these collisions these problems
21:34and a few other smaller issues Azusa
21:37Street begin the decline in attendance
21:38one because of the problem between him
21:40and parem and there was no
21:42communications to the magazine the
21:43mentalist had been stolen so people
21:45didn't know that it was still going so
21:47the attendants begin to go down but
21:49people who were touched by the street
21:51went around the world and began to go to
21:53Norway to Sweden to different parts of
21:56Africa and Asia so it began to spread so
21:58the purpose of us the street continues
22:01the purpose was to announce that the
22:03holy spirit and its baptism has returned
22:05to remain and all the blessings and the
22:07benefits of it has come when we look at
22:10us as a street today it is the birth of
22:13the most powerful religious movement in
22:15the 1900s probably in the last 200 years
22:18the Pentecostal movement is the largest
22:21movement of the Protestant people people
22:24group in any other group it's bigger
22:26than the Methodist it's bigger than the
22:27Baptist there are tongue talkers all of
22:30the world there's Catholic Charismatic
22:31there's Lutheran's that speak in tongues
22:33there's Methodist now so you put all
22:35them together they are the largest
22:37Protestant group in the world in less
22:39than a hundred and fifty years
22:41Pentecostals who were despised they used
22:44to think of you prayed in tongues who
22:46had a mental disease they used to think
22:48of you who was spoke in tongues you had
22:49a demon they were people who preached
22:51against them and told them to stay away
22:53from these meetings my grandmother was
22:56born again in spirit from Akron Ohio and
22:58she can remember that when people find
23:00out that she spoke in tongues they would
23:01cross the street and a walk on the other
23:03side because I didn't want to get the
23:04germ and there was an idea that you got
23:07around these people you get this disease
23:08Charles Parham would advertise it and
23:11say you know if you don't want to come
23:13to the meeting germs can be delivered to
23:14your house we've played off of that but
23:16I wanted to want to say I'm so glad that
23:18brother Seymour and brother parem party
23:20to what they did let's take the good
23:22that they did learn from their mistakes
23:24so we don't keep repeating in our time
23:26and let's not be ashamed to be a tongue
23:28talking group of people not be ashamed
23:30to be a loud group because we've always
23:32been loud enjoy the Holy Ghost and do
23:35what he tells you to do with no shame
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