Revival or Revolt?

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Cornerstone Chapel

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 16 July 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Wherever Christ is preached there is usually one of two responses—either revival or revolt. When the light of Jesus is turned on, it confronts the darkness of whatever it touches. If the response is contrition and humility, the result is revival. But if the response is confusion and hostility, the result is revolt. In Acts 19, we see both responses. Pastor Gary compares the revolt in Ephesus to our current culture, and highlights five points of revival that are still true today.

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0:00.0	For today, we're going to be chapter 19 of the book of Acts. So if you have your Bibles, if you would turn in your Bibles to Acts chapter 19, if you didn't happen to bring a Bible with you, maybe you're new to church and you can, I'm sure, find it on your phone. Just look up Acts chapter 19. I'm going to start reading at verse 11. And I am going to be reading a lot of this chapter.
0:24.3	We'll read from verse 11 down through the end, so bear with me as I read through it, but I needed
0:29.9	to read most of this chapter in order to get the context of the events that are happening
0:35.8	here. So this is Acts 19. I'm going to start at verse
0:39.2	11. It says, now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul so that even handkerchiefs or
0:48.5	aprons were brought from his body to the sick and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.
0:56.1	Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name
1:02.8	of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, we exercise you by the Jesus
1:09.6	whom Paul preaches. Also, there were seven sons of Sceva.
1:15.6	Sceva was a Jewish chief priest who did so. And the evil spirit answered and said,
1:23.5	Jesus I know and Paul I know, but who are you?
1:28.6	Ladies and gentlemen, it is a bad day when a demon sasses you and puts you in your place.
1:37.9	See, these guys didn't have a personal relationship with Jesus, but they're going around invoking the name of Jesus,
1:43.3	trying to cast demons out of people, and the demons speak up like, Jesus we know, Paul we know, but who
1:49.4	are you? I mean, that's a humbling thing when a demon has to sass you. Verse 16, then the man in
1:57.0	whom the evil spirit was, leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them,
2:03.5	so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. Do you know what's worse than having a
2:09.9	demon sass you? Is to have a demon-possessed guy beat you up. And so these guys run away, you know, naked and bleeding.
2:20.3	Can you imagine if you're doing this and you have to go home and give an explanation to your wife?
2:25.5	Like, why are you naked and bleeding?
2:27.2	Well, I got beat up today.
2:29.7	Who beat you up?
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