Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15. The title of our post is Revival and

Reformation Part 2. Last Thursday, I began discussing the concepts of revival and reformation,

and paused the series on Friday to honor Reformation Day.

I stated last week that these two phenomena relate to Christ's great commissions, Mark 16 and Matthew 28.

I also pointed out that each of these commissions corresponds to one of the two mandates

God gave humankind through Adam and Eve, Genesis 1, 26 through 28.

The first of these assignments was to be fruitful and multiply.

Give me more kids, God said. The second was to steward,

manage, or govern the earth. You will represent my kingdom's government on this outpost of the kingdom,

he told them, if you did not watch or read Thursday's post, I strongly recommend that you do so.

You can find it here using this link.

Both of these assignments were interrupted at the fall.

God temporarily lost, one, his family, and two, his ambassadors on earth.

Jesus, of course, was sent to recover and restore both.

Regarding the first, he said in Matthew 16, 18, and 19, I will build my church.

The word build is Oikata Mayo, which means to build a family or household.

Very interesting word.

In choosing this word for build, Christ was saying, I've come to get the family back.

He followed this in Matthew 16 by calling his family the church.

I will build or catamil my church, where the concept is mentioned and introduced for the first

time in Scripture right here in Matthew 16. Church is the word ecclesia, which means called

out from or out of. It was not a building, worship service, or organization, or congregation. At that time in

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