Romans 15:17-18 - How to Judge a True Revival (02/26/2023)

Morning everybody. Don't worry, Dad's still coming up. I'm not going to be taking too much time here. I just wanted to share something kind of cool with you guys before we got started. First of all, I definitely think we need to continue to just reign the Paul Davis has made it to the big leagues for now into eternity.

He's such a humble guy. I don't care what anyone else says, he brought the governor to town. So we'll keep, we should keep that going for as long as possible. Um, y 'all want to turn to Psalm 127 for a sec.

Children as a Blessing and the Coming Baby

Um, gosh, there's so much to share, really. I mean, it's kind of crazy. The Lord, uh, in my very short time here on earth has given me a number of kind of incomprehensible, uh, blessings. And I, you know, there's, I could, I could start, of course, with my parents, my grandparents, just the family I had the privilege of growing up with my siblings, obviously getting to come to this school that again has just reached the big leagues.

Um, and you know, just one after the other. And in hindsight, it gets more and more obvious, um, as I get older, just kind of how peculiar the, the blessings that I've received have been. And of course, I'm more grateful for them every time it comes.

Um, of course you could say I reached peak blessing when I met Ashton about a little over 10 years ago. And you think, well, Ben, what about the kids? Well, without her, there's no kids. So, uh, she was kind of the pinnacle, um, of all of it.

But of course, uh, with her, um, there have been so many more over the last 10 years. Uh, of course our kids is at the top of that list on Thursday of this week, we're going to be moving into a house, uh, that we've been working on building for the last four years.

Uh, and it's been quite the, uh, quite the journey there. So you'll be praying for us in that regard because we'll be doing a big move, um, here in just a few days. But there's another very specific measure of blessing that the Lord has, um, you know, given me, um, or he has given me as, as a way to measure my blessings that I never anticipated.

Certainly not in my, you know, teen years leading up to marriage, even into marriage, you know, perceptions are a weird thing because you see, you know, people around you and you, maybe you have an idea of, uh, what the future may hold, but you really never know because of course his plan is always way better than yours.

So in every regard, it turns out being different in a better way. Um, and in this regard, this is actually something that, you know, we were, we have always been extremely confident about, and yet the Lord still has done it in a way that is just so much better than, than I could have ever done.

And this passage here actually speaks to it. Um, Psalm 127, and if this is coming from Solomon, so this is the wisdom of Solomon we're talking about here, Solomon and go on down to verse three, it says, low children are an heritage of the Lord.

That's that word heritage literally means inheritance. This is a portion of the inheritance from the Lord himself. Getting to be a steward over his children is an unbelievable thing. Low children are an heritage of the Lord and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man, so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them. They shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

This has certainly been true for me for the past seven plus years, coming up on eight with little Gemma back there, Gemma and then Parker, Fern, and then Ada. And just a couple of weeks before we move into, um, this again, this home that we've been building, we've been, you know, getting ready, cultivating, uh, for our family to just, you know, live in bliss out next to mom and dad, um, for the rest of our lives.

We find out we're going to be welcoming our fifth into the family, uh, in just a few months. And we do know, we already know it will be a son. And so Parker will be, had his prayers answered because he's been praying for a baby brother since about the time Ada was born.

Go figure. It was, uh, quite the homecoming because we didn't find out with Fern or with Ada, which was a blast. We, we loved, uh, you know, being surprised. Um, but he was really counting on Ada being a baby brother.

And so we brought her home, uh, the first couple of minutes, um, he was a little upset. Now it was all better the second we said he got to be the first one to hold her and he couldn't be the best big brother to his two little sisters.

And of course, little brother to Gemma, but baby brother is coming. And, um, let's see, it'll be sometime around the end of September, maybe even the beginning of October, dad, you never know. It might have another convergence of birthdays.

Um, but come around that time, we'll be welcoming Jack Fisher Mitchell, uh, to Park Meadows Church. And Jack, of course, will be a new name that we're introducing the family, but Fisher being, uh, after the late great brother Otis.

So, uh, we couldn't be more excited. And I just wanted to share that with everyone. You sure you don't want to change that to middle name Davis? Oh man. Congratulations, Ben and Ashton. We're so happy.

I'm going to be a grandpa. That'll be number 13, which means we have to have another one because that's not a good number. So we have to have another one. So I'm just putting the word out. So it'll need to be a girl, actually, a very good number.

13 is what now? Well, in that sense, it's a good birthday. It's a good birthday number. We're not, we're not superstitious anyway, are we? We don't care what number it is. Well, that's, that's great news.

We were so excited to get it. And, uh, Parker got his prayers answered and that's awesome. Um, Paul, you're, uh, yes. Oh, that's awesome. Yes, it is. Well, good for him. He learns the Lord is hearing his prayers at a young age.

That's important. Well, yeah, Paul and anguish back there. Cause I told them they they've asked me to pray to start the thing with the governor off. And I told Paul, I didn't think the Lord wanted me to, so he's going to have to do it.

He said, I don't think the Lord wants me to, he wants you to. And I said, I think he wants you to. So while I was sitting up here, I think I'll do it for you, but you're going to have to pray. Charlotte's going to have a cat back there, but you're going to have to pray for me because my, my fear was, I don't pray.

Um, I don't like to pray public prayers that are scripted or, or statements or sermons, but they need to be actual prayer. And I'm afraid I'll be politically incorrect accidentally or on purpose or whatever.

And, uh, so I was struggling with how to make that be a real prayer and not get in trouble because, uh, we're, we're going to have a mixed crowd. There's going to be a lot of public school teachers in there to protest.

There's going to be a lot of the enemy in there. And I tend to preach and pray against the enemy. So it could be a problem. But, um, if I do, you can just come up, take my coattails, pull me off and finish the prayer.

How about, is that a deal? Will you do that? Okay. All right. All right. Um, well, I didn't think the Lord wanted me to, but I'm not sure about it, but I felt a little bit more peace about it while I was sitting down there.

Um, when I saw that you really were not interested in doing it for whatever reason, but, um, anyway, so how many students were here when you guys came? Ninety? And what was kindergarten?

Kindergarten? Kindergarten? Yeah, it was down to four. So four or five? Two full time and two normal. Four? See, I've said six, but it's four. And what is it now?

Oh, I don't know. I don't know. It's the Lord blessing us when we met you. That's what that is. But, uh, anyway, I've never seen anybody that's both good with parents and kids like he is. And that's what's, and listen, you, you, I don't know how you do it, but you're able to make friends with the community and your pastor is not good at that.

So God's used you to do that. And, uh, you know, they, they don't, they don't think we're a cult group anymore. And, uh, got them fooled, don't we? No, I'm kidding. Uh, anyway, so you've done an awful lot for the whole community and for the church here in our school, obviously.

So it's gonna, it's gonna be awesome Monday. And so if I get to pray, then I'll be praying for Paul Davis a lot in front of everybody, governor. I'll tell your whole life story in my prayer. And so you can reconsider if you don't want me to do it.

Just let me know. Anyway, we're happy about this. We know it's a miraculous thing that he's coming here to, to, uh, and that he asked our school to host this meeting. So be there if you can be, uh, we need all of us there and, uh, it's going to be a great night.

All right. Pray, pray for Katie and Dave as they help, uh, coordinate some of it. Uh, a lot of it. Uh, we thought the governor's team would do most of it and they're doing a lot of it, but, um, they came to the right person.

Katie, you can hit that up. Just great. Thank you for doing that. I know it's a lot of hard work. All right. So let's pray and we'll get started this morning. We're going to actually be moving on out into new territory in the book of Romans.

The Word of God, the Spirit, and the Context of Romans 15

That's awesome. Isn't it? Let's pray Lord. Thank you so much for your word. And we ask your spirit to teach us your word today in Jesus name. Amen. We're actually, we'll be starting somewhere around Romans 15 verse 17, because verse 16 was our launching pad that took us, took us off into everything.

The Bible teaches about the believer priest and the tabernacle and the temple and all that and what it pictured. And so we're done with that study now, but let me, it's been a while since we were actually in Romans.

Let me just hit the high point. So you remember the context that we're in, because it's never good to preach anything out of context. So the first thing that I'd like to mention about chapter 15, that we've already covered is it talks a lot.

There's this theme that goes throughout the chapter. It actually goes through the whole Bible, especially the new Testament, old Testament as well. About the importance of two things for salvation and for growth.

And that is the word of God and the spirit of God, the Holy spirit, right? Those two things. So that in Romans chapter 15, four, it says for whatsoever things were written a four time, that means old Testament were written for our learning that we, through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

So it talks about how the old Testament is important for those of us who live in the end times, which is us because it brings light to the new Testament doctrines and gives many colors of meaning. And you've heard me say it a million times, but where would we be without the old Testament?

We wouldn't know much detail at all. It brings all the detail to everything we know and believe in everything we're taught from scripture. So that starts off talking about the word of God. And then Romans 10, 17 says, so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

So obviously this book is important in salvation. We cannot be saved without faith and faith cometh by the hearing of the word of God. Right? And so even the old Testament, Romans 10, 17 is old and new Testament.

And then the second important thing we saw in this chapter is the importance of the Holy spirit in salvation and growth. And so verse 13 in Romans chapter 15, verse 13 says, now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing.

So it all has to do with how faith comes around, right? That you may abound in hope. That's another word that's very similar, like a synonym of faith that you may abound in hope through the power of the Holy spirit.

So now you have the second ingredient. So you have the word of God and you have the Holy spirit. And those are mentioned by even Jesus Christ himself in John three, five, he says, truly, truly, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water.

That's the word of God and the spirit. He cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. Ephesians 5, 26 talks about the washing of the water of the word. So we know when Jesus says the water, he's talking about the word of God.

So unless you have the word of God and the spirit of God, Jesus says you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. And so we see these things and the third important point and that little theme of the water and the spirit goes throughout this chapter, but throughout really the whole Bible.

So it's, it's a hugely important thing. A lot of people don't know how salvation even works. And I've got some interesting information. If I can get to it today, later, it'll surprise you, I think, but some people do know how it works.

And a lot of people don't. The third major point that I see in this is around verse five, it starts talking about it. Chapter 15 of Romans verse five, it says, be like-minded. Now you have to understand the context.

Paul is talking to Jew and Gentile and telling that, that crowd to be like-minded. Well, it's hard for a Jew and a Gentile to be like-minded. You can think of other racial problems in the world and it's hard for people to be like-minded for whatever reason.

I think it's because Satan loves division, right? So anything he can think of to make us be divided, he'll use it. Race is big in that. Not among Christians, but in the world, it's huge. So Paul is trying to let the Jews know, hey, God, we'll save a Gentile, right?

And that's right here. And it's everywhere in Paul's writings, but it's certainly right here. Starts with chapter 15, verse five, where he tells them to be like-minded one toward another, according to Jesus Christ.

All right, so now verse chapter six, I'm sorry, chapter 15, verse six says that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify God. That's the reason he wants them to be like-minded, that you may glorify God by being in unity.

One mouth, one mind, glorify God, the Jew and the Gentile. So see, people pull these verses out of context all the time and use them to prove stuff they want to prove. And they seldom put it in the context of Jew versus Gentile, which is always the context of these in Paul's writings.

So now we see that these purposes, that the Father may be glorified, lead us to another exhortation, especially important if we understand the context of the Jew and the Gentile and the Jew thinking God won't save a Gentile and Paul correcting them again and again.

So the fourth thing that I see, and it falls in line with this being one-minded, he says, receive one another. What does that mean? See, if you don't understand the context, he's telling the Jews, hey, you need to receive the Gentiles.

They're sitting among you here, and they're one with us. They're actually part of the Abrahamic covenant Paul later taught them. The Jew had no idea that God would save a Gentile. And so here he's telling them once again, receive one another in verse seven, wherefore, receive you one another as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

And Galatians 3 .28 says there's neither Jew nor Gentile. That's what Paul means, but he's telling that to the Jews. Gentiles were clueless. They don't care. They love everybody, love the Jew, love each other.

They didn't know about this, but the Jews knew about it. They called the Gentiles dogs, you know? And so Paul's having to correct them. This is not how it is now. We're one. We are one in Christ. And Paul reinforces this point by showing that Christ was a minister to the circumcision and to the Gentile.

And that happens in chapter 15, verses eight through 12. And we've already covered all that. So we'll cover it again. But he quotes Isaiah chapter 11 in the book of Romans there, as he talks about how it predicted, it prophesied that Jesus would come and save the Gentiles.

And he quotes that to the Jews to remind them, hey, your book is the one that says this is going to happen. And then he says, I'm the apostle to the Gentiles and God's using me to make this happen. Had to be a very powerful argument that he gave to these Jews.

And of course, in the power of the Holy Spirit and holding up the book of Isaiah in front of them and reading their own book to them and saying, here it is, it's happening in front of your eyes right now.

So welcome these Gentile brothers. They're your brothers. So this is kind of what the chapter starts out being about. And when we get down to, you know, about verse 15, he starts telling them that he is the apostle to the Gentiles.

He says, nevertheless, brethren. Now there he kind of talking to his Jewish brothers. Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort as putting you in mind because of the grace that is given to me of God, that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles.

Now, how can his Jewish brothers have already accepted the fact that he's an apostle? How can they bad mouth the Gentiles when he just tells them in front of everybody, I am the apostle to the Gentiles.

They pretty much have to accept the Gentiles now. And they did in the parts of the world where Paul was able to speak. The fifth thing I see is that Paul taught us how to judge a church movement. And this is, I'm going to spend a little time with that today.

How to judge a church or a church movement, or perhaps say something that claims to be a revival. That's kind of important because we've been hearing whispers of a revival going on in the United States, in the state of Kentucky.

Have you heard about it? You hear about it everywhere on the internet. And so verse 14 of chapter 15 is important with regard to this. He says, and I, myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren. So he's talking about the church at Rome and Paul saying, I'm persuaded that you are real.

You're not fake. You're not just faking things. You're actually real Christians. I'm persuaded of you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness. These are symptoms of true Christianity and true revival.

You're full of goodness. You're filled with all knowledge. You can't have that if you're not in the word, right? And that's a hard thing for fake Christians to do is to be in the word, unless they're studying it academically and they get it all wrong when they do that.

So you're full of knowledge, able also to admonish one another. And the scripture makes it clear that the only way you can admonish another Christian is with scripture. So the Roman church at that time was in the word and strong in the word.

And he said, so, you know, I'm persuaded of you, brethren. So that little passage teaches us to look for goodness, knowledge, wisdom, and a group of people that are in the word. The word of God is really important component of that formula that Paul looked at to be persuaded that they were real.

So what about the Asbury revival in Kentucky? Let's talk about that for a minute. Everyone is, some people are calling it the third great awakening in the United States. So now we're comparing it to Whitfield and Moody later on and, and even Spurgeon and people like that in history.

And even Billy Sunday in more modern times, when Billy Sunday would come through a town, he was a, he was an alcoholic, professional baseball player in the early 1900s. Who was so drunk one day he was sitting on the curb, totally drunk and across the street just happened to be a door was open and inside that door was a preaching meeting going on.

And it was probably salvation army, if I remember right, meeting going on and he was listening and he stumbled in there and he got saved. And he not only got saved, he became an evangelist and he was an athlete.

So he would get up on the stage. He would go city to city in this country and he would run across that stage and slide like sliding to the base. So he's not thrown out, you know, where he slides while he's got the microphone, if they had them back then, while he was making a point.

So he was all over the platform. Imagine Myron Golden. He was a, he was a Caucasian Myron Golden. That's what he was. Billy Sunday was like that. But you know what would happen? He would stay in a place for anywhere from seven to 14 days.

And when he would leave, the bars would close down. The houses of prostitution would be closed. People on the streets would be singing hymns going down the street from store to store. It totally changed the community after he was gone.

For long periods of time, sometimes for years, the community would be changed. That is the sign of true revival. That is not what's happening in this so-called third awakening. So let me read you a part of an article that I clipped as I was studying this thing this week to try to find out the truth about it.

And I clipped this out of the New York Times. And it quotes, I'm just going to quote here part of this story, quote, Elijah Drake, a student at the seminary. Now this, this revival started in a Bible college there.

And that's why they're calling it the Asbury Revival. It's the name of the school. And that's where it started. A young man who is in charge of preaching to the kids every week when they have to come to chapel.

I saw his sermon that they say started it. And I told you about that a little bit last Sunday. I was able to watch that. But, um, so Elijah Drake is a student at this seminary and it's talking about, this is, they, they interviewed him for this article.

Uh, they went around asking the students, you know, what's happening. Tell me how to change your life so forth. So here's, here's just one example. Elijah Drake, a student at the seminary stopped by the first afternoon when he heard that a group had gathered there, he stayed until two in the morning and returned the next day.

So after the preacher preached this very standard operating procedure sermon, it was a sermon on love out of Roman chapter. What'd I say last week? 12 or 13. Yeah. 12 or 13. And he leaves and the music group leaves only trio of people.

They leave to go to lunch. And I think seven students stayed in this Elijah Drake, Drake walked in at that moment, seven students stayed and prayed. And that's how this started. Okay. So he walks in early on, on this thing.

And, uh, he stayed till two that morning. And, and, uh, Elijah Drake says this, he says, it's been a very sacred space. He said, and then the article continues. Drake is gay. You hear what I said? Drake is gay.

So he's a homosexual or as the Bible would call it a sodomite, right? So Drake is gay and said he had reconciled at the revival with a fellow seminarian. He had once clashed with over politics. He described as right wing homophobia.

So this revival calls the right wing seminary student, uh, to realize he was homophobic and that he should make up and get along with a homosexual. Who's there to learn, to be a preacher at this seminary.

All right. So where did the goodness go that Paul talked about when he saw the Roman church? I'm persuaded because I see number one, goodness. That's not what we see here. Now that's not the, they're not all homosexuals at this revival meeting.

But my point is they are received as just part of the group and the normal part and, and no rebuke of it in, in the preaching, no rebuke of it, no cleansing of sin. Listen, if you don't think it's a sin, read Romans chapter one, it listed with 20 other sins.

There are 20 sins listed in Roman chapter one, homosexuality is one of them. So one thing we know from history is revival is all about repentance from sin. Just as I described the Billy Sunday meetings, whole groups of people would be changed, uh, when it's real genuine revival, not persuaded that it's okay to stay the same.

You see the difference? I think you do. I'm preaching to the choir here. I'm sure. Some got awfully quiet in here though. It's interesting. I think there's a chance that some, that some folks even among our church have been thinking this was genuine revival.

It's not, it's not genuine revival at all. If you study the history of revival. So Drake, who is pursuing ordination as a pastor in the free Methodist denomination said the first days of the revival were a period of real healing and unity between homosexuals and straight people.

I added the last phrase, but that's what he meant. Healing and unity. That is not what happens in true revival. Healing, healing happens and unity happens, but not between sin and getting rid of sin. It's a whole different story.

Now that is, that article is called Woodstock for Christians. Revival draws thousands to Kentucky town by Ruth Graham and Jesse Barber of the New York Times, February 24th, 23. And I've got the URL for it.

Now I found something even more interesting. I found on YouTube, a talk about this by a person who studied it, who went and interviewed students, went to the place to talk to people that were all involved with it and so forth.

And the title of this was the Asbury revival, eight crucial questions we need to ask. And this is by a group. Some of you may have heard of evangelist, Ray Comfort. How many of you have heard of him? Pretty good, isn't he?

We may not agree with every single thing about him, but we probably would agree with at least four points that he believes, if you know what I'm talking about. Kirk Cameron, who was a child movie star, who Ray Comfort talked into becoming an evangelist and he became an evangelist.

And then this interesting person you've probably never heard of, a radio host called Todd, and I hope I pronounce it right, Friel, F-R-I-E-L, Friel, all right. So it was Friel who was doing this talk.

Now, if you've never heard this gentleman speak, the first 10 seconds you've been going, whoa, he's really interesting. He's just an unusual speaker. Very, very unusual. He definitely, you never, he never loses your attention just because he's such an unusual speaker.

So he starts to speak about the eight crucial questions that we ought to be asking. Now, before I read those eight questions, I want to read something about this gentleman, because I went and looked into these three men to see if they're somebody we should even listen to.

So I go out and I find on the internet that there are Christian people all over the country condemning Todd Friel. And the condemnation for him, again and again, as I see people chatting about it, is that he teaches that when you pray the Lord's prayer, it doesn't save you.

Isn't that interesting? I don't mean the Lord's prayer, I mean the little dear Jesus come in my heart and save me, amen, that prayer, that that doesn't save you. And I thought, well, I hope he's learned to add it doesn't unsave you, but I don't know if he's learned that yet.

But here's interesting. I read a little excerpt from something he taught. It says, brace yourself for this one with very few, if any exceptions, anyone who asked Jesus into their hearts to be saved is not.

If you ask Jesus into your heart, because you were told that that is what you have to do to become a Christian, you were misinformed. And then he goes on to talk about the true gospel and how it really works and how God has to call you.

And he's a five point Calvinist and a great teacher of the word. I think he hasn't had the experience I did where he needs to add to that, but doesn't unsave you if you pray that prayer because it's the calling.

I mean, you probably got saved before you left the pew and came down to pray the prayer. That's the point. He needs to add that, but he doesn't know it yet. Maybe I'll give him a phone call. Well, here are the eight points.

Oh, he wrote that little quote I gave you is in something he wrote called 10 reasons not to ask Jesus into your heart. And I'm sure he explains what he means by that. Doesn't mean it's wrong to ask Jesus into your heart, but he's explaining what the true gospel is and how it actually works.

But anyway, I thought, wow, that's, I didn't know anybody talk like that around the country, but that's pretty cool. Okay, so here's the eight questions he wants us to ask about this revival. First of all, the school itself claims that eight revivals have occurred there since 1890.

His question is, why is this happening at other universities? Why is it always this university where the revivals start and happen? Is this a favored university of the Holy Spirit? Why does it happen so regularly here?

Could it be manipulated? Why not anywhere else? I think that's a great question. I've asked that question many times to charismatics about, well, why doesn't God give us this gift of tongues in our church?

Why is it, do you have to have the sign out front? It has to say charismatic or Pentecostal on it, and then God will bless with that gift? Because that's the only place I see it. Why is that? I've asked that question many times.

So he asked the question about why is revival only always starting here. Number two, part of the Wesleyan holiness movement, which is what this group is, the Wesleyan movement means Methodist, and there are many good Methodists in the country, but there are just like Baptists, there are some bad groups too.

But this is a group called the holiness, Wesleyan holiness movement. They don't have a practice of preaching against sin, such as homosexuality. They don't practice against judgment or talk about the judgment of God much.

They don't talk about the need for repentance, all of which have been present in historical revivals in this country and in England and in the world. Not present with this group, he points out. Some have reported that the gospel was not the centerpiece of this revival.

There weren't people giving the gospel and seeing scores and scores of people saved. Charlotte and I were, well, we weren't part of it because we had just gotten saved. We hadn't moved back to Mahea, but my mentor, Dr. Freeman, was in a revival meeting in Mahea in the spring that I was saved, but I wasn't at the meeting.

I wish I had been, but over a hundred people were saved at it. And it was supposed to be a four-day meeting. And as he left town, God made his brand new Cadillac stop. It just died on the road and wouldn't start.

And he said, Lord, if you want me to go back, I will. And he turned it and it starts. So he turned around and went back and told the pastor and the pastor said, we'll stay then. We'll invite everybody to come back tonight.

Turned into a 14-day meeting with over a hundred people saved. And that is the hallmark of revival. You have people in the community, not in the church. The church people are supposed to already be saved, right?

But as God begins to come down on the place and people hear about it and their friends and family come that are lost, they get saved. That's not what's happening at this revival. And I knew it wasn't as I watched it.

If you think about it, well, I don't want to steal his thunder. He'll get to this point in a minute. So some have reported that the gospel was not the centerpiece of this movement. Number three, Todd Bentley.

And I don't know if you know him. I don't tend to know the false preachers because I don't listen to him. Sean, I can't even pronounce his last name, fought, but it's pronounced, I mean, it's spelled F-E-U-C-H-T of Bethel church and Shane Claiborne have supported this movement.

And he showed pictures of these guys in this video where they were preaching and their faith healers that do really weird things on the stage. I mean, really weird things. And these guys are supportive of this meeting that tells you something about it right there.

And then number four, he says other Bible colleges report similar outbreaks, but why not any secular colleges? Or why not any more conservative Bible colleges that are not charismatic or Pentecostal? What is revival anyways?

The fifth point he makes, what's the proper definition of revival? Well, one thing you sometimes see is people are fired up to walk in holiness, which means if they have sin in their life, they lay that at the altar, so to speak, and walk away from it.