UBR-05 Applying Revelation 2-3 Greatest NT Revival, CT Studd, Roman Persecutors. Die Triumphant
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There is no heart God
There is no heart God can’t change. There is no life, no past, no sin, no stain, no failure, and no habit that God can’t change if you will let Him. Are you letting the Lord change you? Are you responding? Is Jesus Christ controlling you more each day?
One of my favorite illustrations of what God wants to do is the documented change that took place in a generation of people from 1910-1931. To understand what God can do when He changes a heart turn with me now to Galatians 5.19. As I read these verses let me introduce you to the people of the 8 tribes that C. T. Studd worked among for 21 years. Their biography was written by the Apostle Paul in Galatians 5.16-21 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, (these headhunting tribes constantly stole women, violated them, and treated them as their own personal livestock – and had done so for generations); idolatry, sorcery , (the cannibals were lovers of the dark, they were worshipping demons, fearing spirits, and total servants of the Devil and had been for centuries); hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, (these tribes men killed for sport, loved to eat the flesh of their enemies, swore oaths of revenge and hatred, and had no regard for human life); selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; (these primitive savages lived to eat, drank themselves drunk, danced naked around the fires to the worship of their spirit masters, and sank in revelry until they passed out to sleep on the ground until daylight.) of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God .
So modern history testifies to what will happen to those who accept the Word. To illustrate that go back with me to 74 years ago this month, and meet a living legend named CT Studd. After serving 15 years in China and 6 in India, he invested his final 21 in the heart of Africa’s vast, dark jungles among the fierce, cannibal, head-hunting pygmies.
Once a lean and fit professional athlete, C.T. is now gaunt and emaciated. He is hunched over, halting with each step. But in July 1931 he is surrounded by thousands of glistening black bodies wearing banana leaves. The pygmies of the heart of Africa’s jungles have come to hear their beloved Bwana for the last time. He speaks to them only after over two hours of singing the songs he had so lovingly taught them:
“Wounded for me, wounded for me,
there on the cross He was wounded for me,
gone my transgressions and now I can sing,
all because Jesus was wounded for me!”
There in front of his cot sit 5,000 former headhunters.
Once their bodies were the habitation of dark, foul fiends from the pit – now they are temples of the Living God.
Once they were naked and grossly immoral lovers of darkness — now they are not only clothed in Christ but also modestly clothed in banana leaves.
Once they lived as a continuation of generations of murderer, years of darkness, and lives of savagery – now before their beloved father in the faith they sit in an immense sea of white-toothed smiles.
Once they were all mortal enemies, never without the weapons of war. But no weapons of war are left, only the bond of love. With faces turned heavenward these former enemies sit shoulder to shoulder, singing of the sweet by and by and that beautiful shore they will someday see.
That congregation of saints were converted and transformed by the Lord through the simple, passionate preaching of the truth of God’s Word in the Bible. Why have believers all through the ages seen lives transformed by the preaching of the gospel? Because they simply obeyed what Jesus left them and us to do.
What about America today? The same sins abound, we just call it by different names. We are surrounded by a nation of individuals who seem to try to get their own way all the time. Listen to the list Paul gave and the modern form of these sins our culture has developed.
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For more of Dr. John Barnett's Bible teaching messages go to DiscoverTheBook.org
One of my favorite illustrations of what God wants to do is the documented change that took place in a generation of people from 1910-1931. To understand what God can do when He changes a heart turn with me now to Galatians 5.19. As I read these verses let me introduce you to the people of the 8 tribes that C. T. Studd worked among for 21 years. Their biography was written by the Apostle Paul in Galatians 5.16-21 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, (these headhunting tribes constantly stole women, violated them, and treated them as their own personal livestock – and had done so for generations); idolatry, sorcery , (the cannibals were lovers of the dark, they were worshipping demons, fearing spirits, and total servants of the Devil and had been for centuries); hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, (these tribes men killed for sport, loved to eat the flesh of their enemies, swore oaths of revenge and hatred, and had no regard for human life); selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; (these primitive savages lived to eat, drank themselves drunk, danced naked around the fires to the worship of their spirit masters, and sank in revelry until they passed out to sleep on the ground until daylight.) of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God .
So modern history testifies to what will happen to those who accept the Word. To illustrate that go back with me to 74 years ago this month, and meet a living legend named CT Studd. After serving 15 years in China and 6 in India, he invested his final 21 in the heart of Africa’s vast, dark jungles among the fierce, cannibal, head-hunting pygmies.
Once a lean and fit professional athlete, C.T. is now gaunt and emaciated. He is hunched over, halting with each step. But in July 1931 he is surrounded by thousands of glistening black bodies wearing banana leaves. The pygmies of the heart of Africa’s jungles have come to hear their beloved Bwana for the last time. He speaks to them only after over two hours of singing the songs he had so lovingly taught them:
“Wounded for me, wounded for me,
there on the cross He was wounded for me,
gone my transgressions and now I can sing,
all because Jesus was wounded for me!”
There in front of his cot sit 5,000 former headhunters.
Once their bodies were the habitation of dark, foul fiends from the pit – now they are temples of the Living God.
Once they were naked and grossly immoral lovers of darkness — now they are not only clothed in Christ but also modestly clothed in banana leaves.
Once they lived as a continuation of generations of murderer, years of darkness, and lives of savagery – now before their beloved father in the faith they sit in an immense sea of white-toothed smiles.
Once they were all mortal enemies, never without the weapons of war. But no weapons of war are left, only the bond of love. With faces turned heavenward these former enemies sit shoulder to shoulder, singing of the sweet by and by and that beautiful shore they will someday see.
That congregation of saints were converted and transformed by the Lord through the simple, passionate preaching of the truth of God’s Word in the Bible. Why have believers all through the ages seen lives transformed by the preaching of the gospel? Because they simply obeyed what Jesus left them and us to do.
What about America today? The same sins abound, we just call it by different names. We are surrounded by a nation of individuals who seem to try to get their own way all the time. Listen to the list Paul gave and the modern form of these sins our culture has developed.
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For more of Dr. John Barnett's Bible teaching messages go to DiscoverTheBook.org
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