Hello, thank you so much for joining me today for Give Him 15.

The title, The Mission Clearly Defined.

America and many other nations are about to experience mighty revivals accompanied by Great Reformation. This is extremely high on God's agenda. It is critical

that we understand these two phenomena from a biblical perspective. This will not occur simply because

God desires them to take place, but also because he has a people prepared to partner with him.

Understanding them is part of that preparation.

Therefore, I'm teaching on these two important concepts this week, though I have done so before.

They cannot be emphasized too much at this point in time.

Each post builds on the next, so if you haven't listened to or read yesterday's, please consider doing so.

Let's review briefly. In Genesis 1, 26, 7, and 8,

Adam and Eve were given two mandates. One, multiply God's family, and two, steward or govern or manage his earth.

Christ recommissioned the church to these assignments in Mark 16, 15 to 18, and Matthew 28, 18 to 20.

In Mark's gospel, he told us to preach the gospel, in order to see people saved. In other words, multiply his family.

When this happens with great momentum and large numbers of people coming to Christ, we refer to it as a revival.

In Matthew's commission, Christ instructed us to teach what he commanded in order to disciple nations, thereby

enabling them to once again steward, manage, govern the earth according to his ways. When this occurs on a broad scale, we call it

Reformation. The fact that we did not focus on both commissions in the charismatic slash Jesus

people movements, we focused only on Marx, caused us to lose much of the fruit of these

revivals. And I'll discuss that in Friday's upcoming post. In yesterday's post, I listed a few

comparisons between revival, Mark 16, and Reformation, Matthew 28, to help us understand the

differences. I want to give several more today and tomorrow, breaking them down into three

categories. Their goals, in other words, the goal of revival, and the goal of reformation, their messages,

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