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The Authority of True Revival Monday, January 31, 2022.

Introduction.

A.W.

Tozer once said that if Revival means more what we have going on now, then we most certainly

do not need Revival, but we do in fact need Revival, and I want to write about what

that might be exactly, and then pursue that theme I want to describe some of the fruit

of Revival.

The short of it is that Revival involves a qualitative change, and not a mere quantitative

change.

It is not a bit more renewed energy, but more like life from the dead.

The thing we would notice first is not that there would be more churches, although there

would be more churches, but rather we would notice the fact that the flavor of everything

would be different.

The aroma would be different.

The air would be different.

Life from the dead is always different.

First some distinctions.

Some Christians might agree with me that we most emphatically need an awakening, but

would object to the word Revival as tired and overused.

Anyone who is driven through the Bible belt during Revival season knows that the word

in some quarters has come to me in a week of nightly meetings with a guest preacher from

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