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  1. 0:01Genesis 26:18 tells us
  2. 0:03"Isaac dug again the wells of Abraham."
  3. 0:06In every generation, there have been revivals,
  4. 0:10massive moves of the Spirit
  5. 0:13that changed the course of history.
  6. 0:16In every revival, there were believers like you
  7. 0:20who chose to answer the call
  8. 0:23to become the one in their generation.
  9. 0:26Discover your call to be the one
  10. 0:29in your generation.
  11. 0:31We are about to take you
  12. 0:33face to face with history.
  13. 0:42You can't go very far in your revival research
  14. 0:46without running into this guy.
  15. 0:48Roberts Liardon, "God's Generals".
  16. 0:50Listen, if you want a full encompassing overview
  17. 0:53of revivals and through history,
  18. 0:55look into that.
  19. 0:56Look into his books, "God's Generals"
  20. 0:57but I gotta treat for you today because with me on the set
  21. 1:00is Roberts Liardon. Roberts.
  22. 1:02- Good to be here.
  23. 1:02- Thank you, thank you.
  24. 1:03Tell me as we're reaching across this,
  25. 1:05what is this you've brought with you?
  26. 1:07- Well that's a statue that I did of Smith Wigglesworth
  27. 1:10that I did years ago to raise money
  28. 1:12for our missions department and so I had
  29. 1:14a few extra ones left so I thought I'd bring you
  30. 1:18and the set to have a little statue of Smith Wigglesworth.
  31. 1:20Oh, thank you, thank you.
  32. 1:21- That's the way he was towards the end of his life.
  33. 1:23He was probably in his 70s in that time period.
  34. 1:28So that's his New Testament...
  35. 1:29- Thank you, thank you very much.
  36. 1:31- He would carry...
  37. 1:31- Yea,
  38. 1:32- so that's who he is.
  39. 1:33- I've got a lot of Roberts' stuff here so
  40. 1:36you can see, there is a plethora of literature here
  41. 1:39for you to look at and read so, take a look at it
  42. 1:41but I want to talk to you today,
  43. 1:43without getting into too much detail
  44. 1:45in the beginning...I want to talk about just revival
  45. 1:49in the history from all your research that you've done
  46. 1:52because we are of like breed here.
  47. 1:54- Okay.
  48. 1:56What is it that you see is the common denominator
  49. 1:59to where God moved
  50. 2:00in one of these great revivals?
  51. 2:02What is the common denominator?
  52. 2:03- There would be several.
  53. 2:04The first would be God uses the unlikely candidate
  54. 2:06to be the leader or the spark of it.
  55. 2:09Everybody I've studied
  56. 2:10should not have been who they became.
  57. 2:13There were reasons for their misconduct
  58. 2:15in their personal life or not the right education
  59. 2:19or they didn't have the right spiritual heritage
  60. 2:21and for some reason,
  61. 2:23God and them connected at the right moment and
  62. 2:25they were used to spark that particular thrust
  63. 2:29of God or the importance of God on that moment so...
  64. 2:31- Like who?
  65. 2:32- The guy right here.
  66. 2:34Smith Wigglesworth would be one.
  67. 2:35Wigglesworth. He couldn't even talk.
  68. 2:38I mean, you want to talk about Smith, he couldn't talk.
  69. 2:40His first part of his ministry was Salvation Army
  70. 2:43children's pastor taking the horse down the street
  71. 2:45and all the little kids would get a ride to church
  72. 2:47and a ride home that's how Smith started.
  73. 2:50Most of us don't realize that the Wigglesworth we know
  74. 2:53began after his wife's death when he was 57 years old
  75. 2:56and so when we talk about Wigglesworth,
  76. 2:58it's after 50 so everybody watching
  77. 3:00that think I'm 50 and over...Well Smith became
  78. 3:03the great Wigglesworth at 50 after his wife died
  79. 3:06so those are some of the basic ones.
  80. 3:09General Booth, the Salvation Army.
  81. 3:11Another gentleman that had just got the same,
  82. 3:14for worst terms kicked out of the Methodist Church
  83. 3:16because he was getting too many people saved
  84. 3:19and was disturbing that district areas churches
  85. 3:22stability and he had to quit
  86. 3:24bringing the lost into the church and
  87. 3:27he got kicked out because he wouldn't do it and
  88. 3:29he ran down the street and bumped into the tent meeting
  89. 3:32that began the Salvation Army.
  90. 3:34So these are the most unlikely people usually
  91. 3:37at a place where the low point.
  92. 3:38Ms. Kuhlman at the worst moment of her life
  93. 3:41is when God gave her the great healing mantle.
  94. 3:43- What was the worst moment of her life?
  95. 3:45- Well she had a great ministry and
  96. 3:47she married the wrong man and it was ended in divorce
  97. 3:50and she walked to a dead end street in California
  98. 3:53and she said to Jesus, "I have nothing.
  99. 3:55All I have left is that I have my love for You.
  100. 3:58If You can use that, use that please"
  101. 4:00and that was the moment God does,
  102. 4:01"Yea. I have an anointing.
  103. 4:03I've been trying to get it in a year and I've asked 3 guys
  104. 4:05and they've said, "No". Would you do it?"
  105. 4:07And she said, "Yes".
  106. 4:09And that became the beginning of Kathryn Kuhlman.
  107. 4:14I want His smile.
  108. 4:17I want His favor.
  109. 4:21I want Him to fold me close to His heart.
  110. 4:27I want Him to look down.
  111. 4:30I want His services all over me.
  112. 4:33The crowd is leaning and I go back to an empty dress room
  113. 4:40and I take off the long drape dress
  114. 4:44and I take my feet out of the shoes.
  115. 4:51I think of just one thing.
  116. 4:54Did I please Him?
  117. 5:00Did I do my best for Him?
  118. 5:05Have you seen that anywhere else where
  119. 5:07someone felt they were not or got a word from God
  120. 5:10that they weren't the first choice?
  121. 5:12- There are those that may comment like that in different
  122. 5:14...especially in healing revivals
  123. 5:16in some Pentecostal leaders.
  124. 5:18They felt like they weren't God's first,
  125. 5:20second or third choice.
  126. 5:21I think Kathryn was so large because she would tell it.
  127. 5:24"I was not"...You know how she talked,
  128. 5:26"I wasn't God's first choice.
  129. 5:28I was not even His third choice.
  130. 5:30I was His fourth choice".
  131. 5:32And so you know, I like to interview
  132. 5:33the 3 men that said "no" to that mantle.
  133. 5:35- Right.
  134. 5:36- Are you nuts?
  135. 5:38Look what she got and God was trying to get her in there.
  136. 5:40So you have that as a common denominator,
  137. 5:42the most unlikely people,
  138. 5:45coming out of some of the most worst moments or
  139. 5:47saddest moments of their life and they reach and God reaches
  140. 5:50and this divine thing happens
  141. 5:52and it sparks a great move.
  142. 5:54- All right, let me do this.
  143. 5:56I'm going to go through some names
  144. 5:59and I want you to give me your snapshot
  145. 6:01of each one of these guys. Okay?
  146. 6:03- I hope I know them all.
  147. 6:04And there are not in necessarily a certain order
  148. 6:06or chronological order. Okay?
  149. 6:08- Okay.
  150. 6:09- Jack Coe.
  151. 6:10Uh...
  152. 6:11A very wonderful man that began
  153. 6:14out of hurt and rejection.
  154. 6:16God anointed him but died at the height of his career
  155. 6:19because of mismanagement of his personal life.
  156. 6:22He did not manage his health and thus he died
  157. 6:25in a 90-year-old body.
  158. 6:27When they did the autopsy on him,
  159. 6:28he had the body of a 90-year-old man.
  160. 6:30He was overweight and he did the big tent thing.
  161. 6:33Had the great gift of faith but did not know
  162. 6:36how to deal with his own personal challenges which led--
  163. 6:38to an early departure.
  164. 6:40Hagin and Oral Roberts both said
  165. 6:43he had the greatest gift of faith of anybody they knew...
  166. 6:46- But regardless, 38 is way too young to leave.
  167. 6:49- He just got going.
  168. 6:50Think if he got to be 70 and then went to heaven,
  169. 6:53what he could have done.
  170. 6:54- Right.
  171. 6:54- And so...
  172. 6:55- Good, okay next one.
  173. 6:58Smith Wigglesworth.
  174. 7:00- Uneducated.
  175. 7:02Never finished into a formal education...
  176. 7:04Had his first experience with the Holy Spirit
  177. 7:06in a grandmother's Methodist...
  178. 7:08shout Methodist revival meeting...
  179. 7:11Got enthused with the Holy Spirit because
  180. 7:14people were getting healed in the Alexander Boddy's meetings
  181. 7:17in Sunderland and he didn't like the "tongues"
  182. 7:21stuff but he stayed around long enough
  183. 7:23to fall into it we could say and when he got Spirit filled,
  184. 7:27his stuttering left and so he began to
  185. 7:31minister, like I said a moment ago.
  186. 7:33His ministry really did not begin until after his wife died.
  187. 7:37When Polly died on the doorsteps of the church,
  188. 7:40he of course went ahead and buried his wife
  189. 7:44and was grieving
  190. 7:45and across in his home at 70 Victor Rd. was a stack about 4 or 5 inch stack of envelopes
  191. 7:51and these were invitations for Smith to come and preach
  192. 7:54because before he didn't travel around the world much
  193. 7:56because he had a church and a wife and family
  194. 7:58and so he stayed around Europe, mainly England
  195. 8:01and so he dried up his tears
  196. 8:04and picked up his grieving heart and said,
  197. 8:06"I'm gonna go" and he began to answer those invitations,
  198. 8:09which led him into the worldwide ministry
  199. 8:12of bringing the Holy Spirit to South Africa
  200. 8:14and New Zealand and Australia,
  201. 8:16the man that initially brought that movement there and
  202. 8:19he had a great personality...
  203. 8:21had a Yorkshire type of accent...
  204. 8:25and they asked him one day because he's known
  205. 8:28for his abruptness.
  206. 8:29- Right.
  207. 8:31- Now he didn't do that all the time but he did it enough
  208. 8:32to where it's legendary
  209. 8:34and they asked him one time.
  210. 8:35"Why do you hit people?"
  211. 8:36He goes, "I don't hit people.
  212. 8:37I hit the devil, they just get in the way".
  213. 8:38And so his personality was such that it worked on that.
  214. 8:43Brother Sumrall, my spiritual father said in
  215. 8:45the years he went to visit Smith at his home.
  216. 8:48He never met anybody else going to the house
  217. 8:50to meet Smith.
  218. 8:51Old great men usually die alone because no one
  219. 8:54seeks out their wisdom and so hopefully people
  220. 8:57watching will find the living generals today
  221. 9:00of Wigglesworth's stature
  222. 9:02and go and say, "What can we learn?
  223. 9:04Tell me that story again where you prayed for me."
  224. 9:06I've been to people today that they're home alone
  225. 9:09and they did great things for God and
  226. 9:11they should not be alone.
  227. 9:12Great men and women should be surrounded
  228. 9:14by young men into future generals.
  229. 9:16- Amen to that. That is so true.
  230. 9:18All right. You touched on my next one.
  231. 9:19My next one is Lester Sumrall.
  232. 9:21God is not giving us a spirit of fear...
  233. 9:24That thing that just runs all of the whole total human spectrum,
  234. 9:28hurt you in every place.
  235. 9:30Then he says, "But God is given us 3 things.
  236. 9:32You ought to underline them.
  237. 9:33This is II Timothy 1:7.
  238. 9:36And I'd like to supplement a few words
  239. 9:38if you don't mind.
  240. 9:39But God is given us a Spirit of power.
  241. 9:42Not a Spirit of fear but a Spirit of power.
  242. 9:45Now the word "power" has to do with authority.
  243. 9:47Has to do with 2 things: energy and authority.
  244. 9:50First authority.
  245. 9:52God is giving us a Spirit of authority.
  246. 9:54That's the reason we speak so positively
  247. 9:56because we know, you see.
  248. 9:58We know.
  249. 10:00God hasn't giving you a Spirit of fear.
  250. 10:01He's giving you a Spirit of authority
  251. 10:03that you know.
  252. 10:04You speak it and it has to be done.
  253. 10:08I would be telling you about a witch doctor
  254. 10:12in the morning service that I interviewed
  255. 10:15this last week.
  256. 10:16One of the most prominent witch doctors
  257. 10:19in the whole of Africa and
  258. 10:22when we got through the interview
  259. 10:24for an hour and a half,
  260. 10:26I said, "You feel anything remarkable
  261. 10:28or unusual about me?"
  262. 10:30I hadn't told him who I was yet.
  263. 10:31I just asked questions.
  264. 10:34That witch doctor said, "Well Reverend..."
  265. 10:38He didn't know naturally that I was a Reverend.
  266. 10:41He says, "Behind you is a light that I have to observe
  267. 10:46as is you are very strong man."
  268. 10:49He said, "I would never cross you."
  269. 10:51That's all?
  270. 10:55God is not giving us a Spirit of fear.
  271. 10:56He's giving us a Spirit of power
  272. 10:58that's even recognized by people who worship the devil.
  273. 11:02He said, "I would never want to cross you."
  274. 11:05And so God is giving us a Spirit of authority
  275. 11:09in the world that we live in today.
  276. 11:11Don't you wish we used it?
  277. 11:13Lester Sumrall carried a degree of Smith's mantle anointing.
  278. 11:19The last time Sumrall went to see brother Smith,
  279. 11:23the war was on.
  280. 11:24World War II was on and he had to get out of England.
  281. 11:26The British have sent him a letter to go home.
  282. 11:28So he went to his house to say goodbye
  283. 11:30and in the foyer area of Smith's home,
  284. 11:33he told him immediately, "Get on your knees",
  285. 11:35and Smith laid his hands on his shoulders and began to pray
  286. 11:39and brother Sumrall said he cried
  287. 11:41until the tears off of Smith's cheek would hit
  288. 11:44Sumrall's forehead and asked God to give him a portion
  289. 11:47of what he carried and that's the date
  290. 11:49that brother Sumrall lost fear.
  291. 11:52He was the boldest and most fearless man
  292. 11:54that I had ever met.
  293. 11:55- So he was fearful before that.
  294. 11:56- Well, in some degree, yes but he made the comment
  295. 11:59after that to me that he never had a fear
  296. 12:01that he ever dealt with.
  297. 12:02Again it's one of those things that just kind of happened.
  298. 12:04- And he was a bold guy.
  299. 12:05- He was gruff.
  300. 12:06I use the word "gruff".
  301. 12:07- Yea, gruff is the good word.
  302. 12:09- Not mean, or rough but gruff.
  303. 12:11It's between gruff.
  304. 12:12You had to know him.
  305. 12:13Understand, part of that was he's Irish, he's an apostle.
  306. 12:18He's also--got a certain degree of punch to him.
  307. 12:21All that wound up together created the gruffness of brother Sumrall.
  308. 12:24What he is known for besides...
  309. 12:27He only knew Smith for 3 years...3 to 4 years.
  310. 12:30The man that nobody ever talks about is Howard Carter.
  311. 12:32He was his spiritual father
  312. 12:33which is an unsung hero of the Pentecostal movement but
  313. 12:38to go back to Sumrall,
  314. 12:39what was great with Sumrall's ministry
  315. 12:41was the Filipino revival.
  316. 12:43The Philippines never had a Protestant revival
  317. 12:46until the great deliverance of Carlita
  318. 12:49with brother Sumrall in the 1950s and...
  319. 12:52I don't have time to go there but the great revival there
  320. 12:55came because he cast the devil out of a girl
  321. 12:57being bitten by an evil spirit
  322. 12:58- Uh huh,
  323. 12:59- and the mayor gave him
  324. 13:00anything he wanted out of appreciation
  325. 13:02and he asked for the city square that seated
  326. 13:05--stood about 150,000 people
  327. 13:07and so after 6 weeks of revival,
  328. 13:09after that deliverance,
  329. 13:11there was over 150,000 conversions in six weeks
  330. 13:15and Protestantism exploded in the Philippines
  331. 13:18and he built at that time
  332. 13:20the largest Protestant church in all of Asia.
  333. 13:22After Sumrall's great church became Cho...
  334. 13:26was the next great church in Korea.
  335. 13:28So the first great huge church in Asia
  336. 13:30was Sumrall and the tens of thousands and so we had that
  337. 13:34and so at the height of that...
  338. 13:36- And you know, they are still talking.
  339. 13:38They are still--When you go to the Philippines,
  340. 13:39you can still see evidence.
  341. 13:41People have pictures of that in their home.
  342. 13:44- Yea and it was the event that allowed
  343. 13:47all Protestant churches to thrive.
  344. 13:48- Right.
  345. 13:50- He dealt with the principality and power.
  346. 13:51He dealt with the national power there with that deliverance.
  347. 13:55Somehow that power and that deliverance
  348. 13:57and that thing with that girl
  349. 13:59knocked that thing back to where it's still not back
  350. 14:02and so it was a very interesting thing
  351. 14:04and at the height of it,
  352. 14:05the height of that church, height of that revival,
  353. 14:07God told him to come back to America
  354. 14:09and so it seems like every place Sumrall gets to going,
  355. 14:12he gets and at the height of it,
  356. 14:14God sends him someplace else and he came back home
  357. 14:18and he actually did more to help young ministers
  358. 14:20than anybody else I know for the end of his life
  359. 14:23and I was glad to say that he was my spiritual dad
  360. 14:25and I had a good relationship with him.
  361. 14:27He told me when I was right.
  362. 14:28He told me when I was wrong
  363. 14:29and it was good to have that in your life.
  364. 14:30- Yea, absolutely.
  365. 14:31There is a lot of wisdom in that.
  366. 14:33Okay, next up, A. A. Allen.
  367. 14:36Look at this child.
  368. 14:37[Crowd reacting]
  369. 14:41Six years old.
  370. 14:44Can't walk.
  371. 14:46How many would like to see this poor little kiddy
  372. 14:48healed tonight.
  373. 14:49Look at that.
  374. 14:51[Crowd cheering]
  375. 14:52Oh my God.
  376. 14:54Have you ever seen anything like in your life?
  377. 14:57[Crowd cheering]
  378. 14:59- No!
  379. 15:01Yes, honey.
  380. 15:02[Crowd applauding, awing]
  381. 15:05Poor little baby, oh, oh...
  382. 15:08[A. A. Allen shaking his head]
  383. 15:12Oh God, [Crying]
  384. 15:15I'm praying for this baby tonight.
  385. 15:18God, lift the curse and let this baby
  386. 15:20begin to grow
  387. 15:22and become normal.
  388. 15:26Hold him, honey.
  389. 15:27Oh God, oh oh oh...God.
  390. 15:31[A. A. Allen praying with emotion]
  391. 15:39In the name of Jesus, make him normal.
  392. 15:42Make him whole.
  393. 15:44Let him walk.
  394. 15:46Let him talk in Jesus mighty name, I ask
  395. 15:49for the Glory of God.
  396. 15:51Make him normal in Jesus' name.
  397. 16:01Lord Jesus, make his legs hold him up tonight.
  398. 16:05Let these legs hold him up tonight, Jesus.
  399. 16:08Oh God,
  400. 16:11Yes Lord.
  401. 16:14Say amen.
  402. 16:15[Crowd cheering, applauding] - Amen.
  403. 16:16Say amen.
  404. 16:17[Poeple cheering] - Yes!
  405. 16:18- Say amen!
  406. 16:19[Crowd cheering]
  407. 16:26Everybody say "Amen"!
  408. 16:27[Crowd] - Amen!
  409. 16:30And I'd like for you right there in your homes
  410. 16:32to sing with me.
  411. 16:37Everybody sing it.
  412. 16:38Sing it everyone.
  413. 16:39♪♪ In the sweet by and by,
  414. 16:47♪♪ We shall meet on that beautiful shore;
  415. 16:54♪♪ In the sweet by and by,
  416. 17:02♪♪ We shall meet on that beautiful shore.
  417. 17:10♪♪ In the sweet by and by,
  418. 17:18♪♪ We shall meet on that beautiful shore;
  419. 17:26♪♪ In the sweet by and by,
  420. 17:34♪♪ We shall meet on that beautiful shore.
  421. 17:44[People cheering]
  422. 17:51Can you say amen with me?
  423. 17:52[Crowd] - Amen!
  424. 17:54- Do you love Jesus tonight?
  425. 17:55[Crowd shouting] - Amen!
  426. 17:57- Sing it one more time.
  427. 17:59Let dedicate it to all that had been saved
  428. 18:02while they watch this telecast.
  429. 18:04In the sweet by and by we shall meet
  430. 18:07on that beautiful shore.
  431. 18:09And I'd like to know that everyone of you in your home there today
  432. 18:13are singing with me.
  433. 18:14Ready to do it. And one of these days, when you get up yonder,
  434. 18:18the pearly gates open wild,
  435. 18:21you're gonna see us coming down, the golden streets.
  436. 18:24[Piano]
  437. 18:26♪♪ In the sweet by and by,
  438. 18:35♪♪ We shall meet on that beautiful shore;
  439. 18:43♪♪ In the sweet by and by,
  440. 18:51♪♪ We shall meet on that beautiful shore.
  441. 18:59[Crowd cheering with song in background]
  442. 19:22One of the greatest miracle ministries
  443. 19:25in the last of the great Voice of Healing Revivals,
  444. 19:30a man that was raised by moonshine parents
  445. 19:33who put liquor in his bottle,
  446. 19:35when he was a baby to make him quiet
  447. 19:38and got saved by a track or got provoked by a track
  448. 19:41that led him to a church of a lady preacher
  449. 19:43that got him saved and turned him around
  450. 19:46and he went to see Oral Roberts here in Dallas
  451. 19:49because he was passing Corpus Christi, Texas
  452. 19:51because the church wanted a pastor to kind of get revived.
  453. 19:54Well it revived him so much, he left the church
  454. 19:56and began the great A. A. Allen revival ministries
  455. 19:59and he had some phenomenal miracles.
  456. 20:00I mean, he was one of the most persecuted.
  457. 20:02That is a true statement because of the miracles
  458. 20:04also because he integrated his tent.
  459. 20:07He also was prophetic.
  460. 20:09He began to tap into the prophetic thing
  461. 20:11that we know about today: prophetic music,
  462. 20:14things like we call it prophetic music
  463. 20:16but music that can move in the spirit, I'd say it that way
  464. 20:20because he goes down as one of the greats.
  465. 20:22And nobody divided up the pie.
  466. 20:25He is one of the most wonderful guys.
  467. 20:26- Amen to that.
  468. 20:27Okay. R. W. Schambach.
  469. 20:31Are you listening to me, folks?
  470. 20:33There is trouble in the land but there is still hope
  471. 20:37for the people of God.
  472. 20:39Let them worship their false gods.
  473. 20:41I'm not bowing down to any false god.
  474. 20:44God is God!
  475. 20:46[Church cheering]
  476. 20:47And He is the same today as He was 2000 years ago
  477. 20:51and He is the answer to everyone of our problems.
  478. 20:55You don't have any trouble.
  479. 20:59All you need is faith in God.
  480. 21:03The true successors of brother Allen's ministry is anointing
  481. 21:06...Stewart got the machines and the paper.
  482. 21:09Schambach got the mantle in my opinion.
  483. 21:13He was able to pick that up and continue it
  484. 21:16and be able to come into another generation
  485. 21:18which would be mine, your generation.
  486. 21:20- Yea.
  487. 21:21- And he was one of the received authentic tent preachers
  488. 21:24of our time which were very few in those days.
  489. 21:26The era was over.
  490. 21:28It seems like God always leaves 1 or 2...
  491. 21:30that are successful that keeps that all thing alive for some reason
  492. 21:35and he was that and you know, "You don't have any problem
  493. 21:37which is more faith in God".
  494. 21:39His radio show and great, great man.
  495. 21:41He came to my church a couple times and preached
  496. 21:45and he never spoke negative
  497. 21:47about brother Allen which I always respected.
  498. 21:50He would always say, "I never knew him like that."
  499. 21:53And maybe never did and I guess it was
  500. 21:56a different time because I asked him
  501. 21:57all the controversy that we've just mentioned but he always...
  502. 22:01If you go to carry a mantle from somebody,
  503. 22:03you must not become --be negative
  504. 22:06against the thing that you carry.
  505. 22:07You've got be be able to hold it correctly
  506. 22:09or it begins to diminish and sometimes fades.
  507. 22:12- That is...What you just said is a mouthful.
  508. 22:15You've got to be able to carry it.
  509. 22:16- Yep.
  510. 22:17- Wow.
  511. 22:18- Part of it is to understand a bit of the demand.
  512. 22:20Every mantle has its great things
  513. 22:23like if you carry a Kathryn Kuhlman mantle
  514. 22:25which began--which came down from Maria Etter.
  515. 22:27It came from Etter to McPherson, to Kuhlman
  516. 22:30and then to Benny Hinn carries some...
  517. 22:32All of them had the same type of miracle power,
  518. 22:34the same type of draw
  519. 22:36and they all have the same problems.
  520. 22:37They had divorce problems and at the end,
  521. 22:39they had that heart and health problems.
  522. 22:41Every single of them so there is a certain spirit
  523. 22:44that Lucifer assigns to buffet mantles.
  524. 22:47Certain kinds of mantle so if you carry something
  525. 22:50from someone, you better know the good
  526. 22:52and the bad of it so you can outsmart the bad
  527. 22:55and know how to punch it and go around and not fall into it.
  528. 22:58Every single one of them.
  529. 22:59If we had time, we can go through all of them
  530. 23:01and I can show you exactly
  531. 23:03how great it was and they all had the same problems.
  532. 23:06- Right.
  533. 23:07What about...All right.
  534. 23:10Let me think where I want to go to next
  535. 23:11because we have like 8 different directions here.
  536. 23:14All right.
  537. 23:15Well, let's just say. Oral Roberts.
  538. 23:16- Another study.
  539. 23:18He didn't want to be a preacher.
  540. 23:20He wanted to be the governor of Oklahoma
  541. 23:21was his desire in life.
  542. 23:23He did not want to be a poor little Pentecostal.
  543. 23:26He ran away from home
  544. 23:27and collapsed on the basketball court in a basketball tournament
  545. 23:30coughing up parts of his lungs.
  546. 23:33He had tuberculosis which in those days,
  547. 23:35you were going to die.
  548. 23:36- Yeah.
  549. 23:37- And God healed him in a tent meeting
  550. 23:39about the size of this studio.
  551. 23:41He was the last one to be prayed for
  552. 23:43and God brought Oral Roberts on the scene to bring
  553. 23:46the Pentecostal church from the wrong side of the tracks
  554. 23:48to the right side of the tracks.
  555. 23:50He finally was able to bring education and anointing together.
  556. 23:54- What do you mean when you say, "The wrong side of the tracks
  557. 23:56to the right side of the tracks?"
  558. 23:57- Early Pentecostals were looked upon as
  559. 24:00uneducated, rude, loud, not orthodoxed,
  560. 24:05all the things--When you go from classical
  561. 24:08Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian,
  562. 24:11him singing, preaching the classical way
  563. 24:14and all of a sudden, for the first time in a 1000 years,
  564. 24:18you're allowing emotion to be a part of
  565. 24:22your worship service so if you felt a song,
  566. 24:24you could get happy and say, "Amen", or you could clap your hands
  567. 24:27and then the anointing came on you
  568. 24:29and you go, "Um" and run down the aisle.
  569. 24:31Now and all of a sudden, that began to be allowed
  570. 24:33that's why early Pentecostals would say,
  571. 24:35you know, "You can feel it but just don't be led by it".
  572. 24:39It's all right to feel it so when Pentecost came along,
  573. 24:42they were preaching, "God I hear You today."
  574. 24:43Bible days are here again.
  575. 24:45That faith like the apostles have returned
  576. 24:47and you can get your miracle and
  577. 24:49the gifts and the fruits and the grace are here
  578. 24:51and they "Oh" and they begin to get it
  579. 24:54and so these are the educated people
  580. 24:56looking down on these folks who are shouting
  581. 24:58as they are getting out of their wheelchairs
  582. 24:59and their churches are growing.
  583. 25:01Oral Roberts comes along and begins with class
  584. 25:04and dignity and education
  585. 25:06and then begins to tap into the cultural things of the day
  586. 25:09because usually most people who have a revival
  587. 25:12are anti-culture.
  588. 25:13If you're smart, you don't have a mixed culture
  589. 25:16and revival together so you can go straight into it.
  590. 25:18In those days, the "hellevision" called the TV,
  591. 25:22- Yes...
  592. 25:22- From the Pentecostal...
  593. 25:23American government asked the denominations
  594. 25:27to send responsible people to help govern this new medium
  595. 25:31of television when it first began
  596. 25:33and 90% of them did not even want nothing to do with it.
  597. 25:36- They refused.
  598. 25:37- And so we inherited the mess of that generation
  599. 25:40but Oral Roberts decided he wanted to be on
  600. 25:44that little black box of TV and he couldn't find anybody
  601. 25:49in the Christian Full Gospel circles
  602. 25:51who understood television.
  603. 25:52He had to go to Hollywood and ask 3 guys
  604. 25:54and this is where the term Hollywood preacher came from.
  605. 25:56It was a slap against Oral
  606. 25:58- Right,
  607. 25:59- and so he didn't have nobody.
  608. 26:01He didn't have TV cameras like you and the guys back here.
  609. 26:03It didn't exist.
  610. 26:04He had to go and find somebody and all of a sudden,
  611. 26:08it began to work and he found the camera guys
  612. 26:10and the people that could do it
  613. 26:11and he began to go on TV.
  614. 26:13And there was a young man named Lonnie Rex who lives in Houston
  615. 26:16who got him supernaturally
  616. 26:19bumped into the FCC kind of guy at the time.
  617. 26:22They got Oral Roberts connected to go on
  618. 26:24hundreds of stations in a short matter of time
  619. 26:26because they wouldn't want to put Oral on
  620. 26:28and he turned it and they were at where they met
  621. 26:32at a Rolls-Royce car show...
  622. 26:33Wow...
  623. 26:35because Lonnie Rex and that guy both loved Rolls-Royce cars
  624. 26:38and they were the last 2 to walk out of that show
  625. 26:41in Tulsa that day.
  626. 26:42- Wow.
  627. 26:43- And that's how, it happened.
  628. 26:46When I started this journey
  629. 26:47of learning about revivals, it took a lot of time.
  630. 26:49I had to look at books, I had to look at videos,
  631. 26:52I had to scour the internet.
  632. 26:53Listen.
  633. 26:54Here the Revival Radio TV team has taken all of that effort out.
  634. 26:58All you've got to do is go to our website:
  635. 27:00REVIVALRADIOTV.COM.
  636. 27:02Here you can contact us, you can watch episodes,
  637. 27:05you can sign up to be on our email list and
  638. 27:07you will get an email every week about
  639. 27:09what's happening and special videos.
  640. 27:11But I want to show you a special feature
  641. 27:13that's on the website
  642. 27:15and that's the timeline.
  643. 27:16Now on this timeline, you can see it in 3D,
  644. 27:20where it looks like that or you can see it in 2D
  645. 27:21and you can actually scroll through history
  646. 27:26of revival. Is that cool?
  647. 27:27You can go through here and you can see what God did.
  648. 27:30So let's go here for instance...
  649. 27:33Right here--Let me see a good one
  650. 27:36where I want to stop.
  651. 27:37Okay, 1926.
  652. 27:39Voronaev Pentecostal Christians
  653. 27:41of Evangelical Faith first conference.
  654. 27:43I can find out more information about
  655. 27:44what happened in Russia.
  656. 27:46The Pentecostal leaders gathered in Odessa, Ukraine
  657. 27:49for an assembly.
  658. 27:50You know, it's amazing when you start into this.
  659. 27:53You see how God vowed
  660. 27:54from one revival to the next,
  661. 27:56how He plucked people out from one part of the world
  662. 27:59and put them in somewhere else.
  663. 28:00This is a feature you want to take advantage of.
  664. 28:03So go to the website, would you?
  665. 28:04REVIVALRADIOTV.COM,
  666. 28:07look on that, sign up for all of the updates that we get
  667. 28:10and take advantage of this timeline,
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  669. 28:12Until the next time,
  670. 28:13remember,
  671. 28:14BE THE ONE.
  672. 28:16♪ [Music]

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