We're going to be ending this section now, verses 9 to 12.

We've been in here for weeks, many weeks actually.

But now we're going to be finishing off this section.

And we've been looking at this mini series titled Getting Real with God and Man.

And as I've been stressing, I think that is going to be the actual key to and if America is going to experience revival.

Remember what revival means, folks. Revival means that the church wakes up. That's what revival means.

You can't have revival unless you first have been vived.

You got to be vived.

That is given life.

And then when life begins to wane in the life of the church, the church needs re-vival.

And when the church is revived, then what happens is believers get serious about God and they also become burden for the lost. You can't separate the two. That's why revivals cause the church to be

healthy and strong and when revival happens, the church cannot be contained within the walls of the church.

God will take the witness of the church out into the world.

And then what is the result of revival?

Awakening.

Revival will always precede an awakening.

What's an awakening?

An awakening is when the lust sees the church so attractive in its position and in its gospel

message that the world, you read in the book of Acts, when those who encountered Paul

or Peter in whatever they were doing, the world said,

what must I do to be saved? Remember that? You've read that. What was going on? A revived

church full of the Holy Spirit becomes so attractive even to a lost world that there'll be

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