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Come, hear
CONFERENCE ON REVIVAL
M this gifted expositor and
exhorter
of
Scripture.
Pastor
David
is
well
tent evangelism and church planting. as
JUNE 3 0 THRU JULY 4
Ominister the Word of God and
equipped to
well as reaching overseas to preach in reOur speakerfor theitily Conference will
has had theMevident blessing of God upon
cent years in Russia the Republic of Georbe Dr. David W. Dickerson. pastor of the
hisministry.Enot only in Georgia but across
gia India and Brazil.
Peachtree Baptist Church, Senoia GA. and
the nation in
conferences
and
camp
meetC
president of Peachtree Baptist Christian
RandyBane proclaims the doctrines of
ingsand onOthemission fields. where hehas
labored in such places as Egypt India and
Gods grace faithfully within a framework of
School and Georgia Baptist College and
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Theological Seminary. Pastor David. as heis Wales.
expository preaching. His ministryisalways
fresh as he draws form the well of Scripture
affectionately called is a true man of God
with a pastors heat and possessing a burLeading themusicininistryagain wiNbe In his pmdamation of Christ.
den forreformation and revival oftheChurch
Mr. Gordon Smith,professorof rnusic(semi(condmredonpage 4)
retired) at Piedmont Bible college. Wnstonin these dark days.
Salem, NC. Brother Smith has been with us
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at Maranatha almost as long as I have and
musicthat glorifiesChrist. I will be moderating and speaking in the morning sessions.
CONFERENCE ON REVIVAL
AUGUST 11 ' M U 1 5
Dr. David Dickerson
TheAugust conference will see a new
face at Maranatha. Randy Bane, evangelist
from Zirconia NC. Brother Baneis a young
man with the wisdom of manyhissenior in
age. Since his student days at Tabernacle
Baptist BibleCollege. Greenville.SC,Brother
Randyhasevidenced the gift of evangelist in a full and ever widening outreach of
the gospel. Beside an itinerart ministry in
Evan. Randy Bane
THE REVIVAL PULPIT
KNOWING M E REVIVER IN REVIVAL
'Tint I rnay !mow tan and the power of hn
resurrection. and the fellowship of his suffer
kigs being made conformable unto his death'
(Phil 3:10)
How often can I be said of us that we can't
see the scenery for the trees"? Especially is this
true in spiritual matters We seek the blessing
but neglect the Blesser. In our churches across
the land there is a periodic cry from the pulpits
'We need a reviver From time to time a prayer
is heard in our prayer meetings "Lord, send a
revival." i n some circles reports of "revival
blessings" come to us Upon examination of
most of them we find few marks of biblical
andM n etintesta
mpentence
with ai t s
and
gloty
of
the Lord Jesus Christ There is talk
t n
of world. wide revival in churches that know little
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or nothing of local church revival. We wish for
n
revival in our churches corporately. yet so few
b
i brevival
l i c in their personal lives Could it be
know
e
p
we are looking in the wrong direction?
t =How are we going to have the burden and
passion that has always marked revival praying?
Are concerts of prayer for revival a likely pot
sibdity in our churches? We can call for prayer
for revival, but It is plain that we cannot work up
revival burden and enthusiasm Where do we
begin? It is evident it must begin in invididuals It
must begin in me. But where do I start? How doI
have personal revivaP How can I become an
instrument in the reviving of the Church? The
answer is the Lord Jesus Christ He is the Head
of the Church. the source of her life and power
(Eph 4:15.16). Paul s desire, expressed in our
text reveals it a t The answer is found in
knowing Christ
The third chapter of Philippians reveals Paul's
desire for knowledge in the first nine verses the
apostle compares his knowledge of Christ with
He
tlt:ttn
himself to have gained with a knowledge of
Christ loss
Y e afor the excellency of the knowledge of
Christ
d o uJesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered
the loss of all things, and do courst them but
b d e
dung, that I may win Christ* (vs. 8). Not only
s
s Christ eclipse all else. but He makes all sub
does
asUtutes for Him to be refuse Paul repudiated the
nrighteousness of the flesh (vss. 7. 8b1 and env
dbraced the righteousness of faith (vas 8c, 9).
IPaul forfeited all things that he might a
cdate Christ and have this to be found i n f s
(vs
9).
oe
Paul
did not stop with this knowledge but
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s
;
utented to know more (vs 10). He wanted an
nIntimate relationship with the risen Lord and
tSaviour. Jesus Christ, He wished to know the
aPerson elide Lord, the power et His We and
lthe passion of His love.
l THE PERSON OF HIS LORD.
t "That I may know Him" Mote first of all die
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Importance of this statement. Paul put first
things first He put knowing Christ above all
things The message to us is cleat Knowing
Christ must come above potec above Spirit
fulness, above success even above revival
We often make much of the gifts to the neglect
of the Giver. In our seeking for m i ni we often
miss the Review The apostle knew that if he
knew Christ rightly, he would have power. Spirit
fulness. success in Gods will and revival. Christ
Jesus is all these things! There is no blessing
short of Me or beyond had
Here is a good check point for spiritual et
periencea Where does the Lord Jesus Christ tit
111,
4:2. 3). There is much talk of deeper e
-ences today and much said about the Holy
iSpirit
t p e nBut
. is the emphasis upon the expert.
ences the Holy Spirit or upon the Son of God?
Certainly the doctrine of the Holy Spirit is a truth
of Scripture and the illuminating Spirit of truth
will reveal the teachings concerning His Person
and work to the student of the Word But the
Holy Spirit has come to testify of Christ and to
glorify Him (John 16:13. 14). if Christ is not
glorified the Spirit of God is not in it if attention
Is drawn to self and not Christ the experience is
at "best" flesh and may be demonic
The same holds true for our quest for revival.
Revival is Christ! To know him is to know revival
Roy Hession makes this observance "is it not
significant that when there is patently an at
perience of revival in lives those revived do not
talk about revival but rather about Jesusr The
Lord Jesus Christ is Revisal. Hession states "It
may be asked, are we not, then, to pray for
revival? Our first tesponsibiNty is to be revived
ourselves and to have a testimony that we have
come to the end of our struggle and that we have
as w i t h
fellowship can pray that what God has done in
our hearts He will do in other's hearts in ever
widening circles We are not, then, praying for
revival as something that has not yet come. but
as Someone Who has already come to our
hearts if to none others yet Revival has begun
(and it has begun. even if the Reviver has come
only to one heart), and it is now a matter of it
spreading The beachhead for new life este!,
fished in but a few hearts needs now to be
extended to other hearts and to that end will
God use our testimony and willingness to se*
giving quite as much as our prayers Such
prayers however, will be offered by those who
know they have found both the Way and the
End the striving and tenseness that character
lee so much of our praying for revival vAll be
absent and a calm confidence and boldness
will take their place"
Note next the intimacy in Pots statement" know Him." There are a number of synonyms
Paul could have used for knowing There is
oldie meaning "to perces.* intellectuallyy, COM
mon knovdedge• (1 Them 4:1). Mother is
epi tome* Ra
t o f t or by contact' (Acts 10:20). Still another
is
k amdamd.
n o w "to know by logical analysis" ( Eph.
517).
b y But the verb he uses here is abash* experiencially" Paul wanted to know
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Christ by personal experience. The righteout
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n God
t by faith issues into a desire to know
ness
a n cmore
Christ
e and more. The link between int
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puted
and imparted righteousness is the Holy
Spirit.
Who leads us to Christ The apostle
b
wanted
to know. not Just the facts about Christ,
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i fLU w i t h and of Him
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a
concept
of knowing God involved revering him
rand being concecrated to Him (Pim. :7; 9: 10;
n I 12). It is a personal intimate practical
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spiritual knowledge Paul desired
How sad that most of present day Christianity
is just facts and figures ( and often iktie of true
Bible facts). There is a need for sound Bible
teaching and expository preaching i n our
churches But few have advanced from Christ
lanky indoctrine to Christianity in practice. To
put k more acurately to Christ Inexperience and
Christ living through us in practice Do vm imow
Him? Revival is knowing the Revival
Knowing Christ further implies knowing
U. T H E POWER OF HIS LIFE.
"Thot I may know hint. and the power of his
resanaction."
The hapilicadassa of this are many it means
knowing Christ as Lord "Therefore let all the
house of Wail know assuredly, that God hath
made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified.
both Lord and Christ' (Acts 2:36). Meeting the
risen Christ in regenerating power on the road to
Damascus Paul fell down before Him and and
to dor (Acts
It also means knowing Christ as the basis lot
righteousness "Who was delivered for our
offences. and was raised again for ow just*
cation" (Rom 425; of11Cot 521: Col 2:12).
The power of His resurrection can mean the
power that raised Christ from the dead. This is
the standard of power available to and operative
in the believer. Paul prayed that all saints would
have a full lamMedge of this power. "The eyes of
your understanding being enlightened that ye
may know what is the hope of his calling, and
what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in
the saints. And what is the exceeding greatness
of his power to ut ward who believe according
to the working of his mighty power. Which he
wrought in Christ. when he raised him from the
dead, and set him at his own right hand in the
heavenly places' Mph. 1:18-20). In verse 19
Paul uses four different words for power.
"Power is denamis. "inherent power, natural
ability" ( from which we get" dynamic. dynamo.
dynamite); " working" is energela " operative
power"(from which we get" energy"); mighty*
is thetas, " manifest strength:" and the last
word. " power." is 'schuss " strength power as
an endowment" Wuest translates the verse
"And what is the super abounding greatness of
His inherent power to us who are believing ones
as measured by the operative energy of the
manifest strength of His might." Talk about
power! The same power that raised the Lord
Jesus from the deed and set Him in the heaven
lies to be the Head of ail things to the Church
( Eph. 120-23) and raised the said from his
condition of spiritual death to be seated together
with Him in the heavenlies (Eph. 2:1-7) is the
power that is worlds. in us( Epk 320). Away
with our viruses and uribekvkis accephwice of
substandard Chrisdarilly! May we banish from
our talk all Christ dishonouring statements.
such as "We can't have revive, because we are
in the last days"! There is no excuse for any
Christian not to experience personal revival.
The power of His resurrection can further
mean the power his resurrection life givekgre
powerful resurrection We H O W lie
(Col 3:4; John 14:6; I John 5412). The Spire
that raised our Lord from the deed dwells in us
Rom. 8:1 I). and we are able to "walk in new
ness of ( Rom. 6:4). It is overcoming power.
The word is dunamis which we said means
" inherent power." it is" power which overcomes
resistance." the Lord Jesus Christ is now on
resurrection ground. far beyond temptation. the
world of sin, the testings of humanity To know
Him in the power of His resurrection is to be
living on the victory side. "Knowing that Christ
being raised from the dead dieth no more death
hath no more dominion over him. For in that he
died, he died unto sin once but in that he liveth.
he liveth unto God. likewise reckon ye also
yourselves to be dead indeed unto sirt but alive
unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not
sin therefore reign in your mortal body that ye
should obey it in the lusts therof ' (Rom. 6:912).
The power of His resurrection means fruit
unto God as well. **Wherefore, my brethren, ye
also are become dead to the law by the body of
Christ that he should be married to another.
this man strong. whom ye see and know yea,
the faith which is by him hath given this perfect
soundness in the presence of you all" ( Acts
3:15. 16). "And when they had prayed, the place
was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost
and they spoke the word of God with boldness.
And the multitude of them that believed were of
one heart and of one souk nether said any of
them that ought of the things which he poe
sessed was his own; but they had al things
common. And with great power gave the scot
ties witness of the resurrection of the Lord
Jesus" (Acts 4:31-33). See also Acts 4:10-1Z
5:219-32 10:38-44; 1329-39. Oh. that we
might again know and tee* to Christs resit
recdon life and power!
But knowing Christ also denotes knowing
THE PASSION OF HIS LOVE
"That I may know him...and the M o o d *
of his sufferings being made conformable
unto his death." See what is included with
cross of Christ? his lot this reason, that he wants
us to see that in desiring to follow Him as faithful
cross' bearers we we not left alone: He keeps
fellowship with us we are not copying a dead
Model but are walking in fellowship with a living
Saviour"
What is involved in the fellowship of His
sufferings? Our Lord suffered in rejection for the
redemption of lost mankind. The theme of
Philippians is fellowship in the gospel (1:5, 6).
Paul was concerned with the futherance of the
gospel message (1:12) and minisoy (125). He
exhorted the Philippien church t o stand
untied for the faith of the gospel ( 1:27). Surely
fellowship sidt Christ's sufferings must inciude
sharing His burden for a lost world. It is a fellowship in His work
Could It not be that we steno( seeing personal
and corporate revival today because there is no
willingness on the part of the people of God to
know Christ in the passion of His love? We want
the joy of Christ and the life of overcoming. but
knowing Christ and power. It means suffering
we do not want the cross and the burdens that
go with it. W e want the blessings but not the
bui r 1 1 1
1 Wowing
: V e t Ow
t eist and suffering with Ovid. Pew
rant
to
pay
e l l i t i l the
i price of suffering and death to
experience the power of Christ ( a 11 Cot
t
12:930). Does it not seem strange to us to have
i death follow resurrection? No this is the order of
n spiritual
t a i r experience. Our Lord died and rose
again. We are raised to We in order to die Only
the living can de We go through the empty
tomb to take our piece on the cross with Him.
To know Him In the fellowship of His suffer
ings means "joint- partidpadom" sufferings for
righteousness through identification with Christ
(Cot 124; Rom. 8:17; I Cox 1 1 2428; 12:
10).
Knowing Him and the power of His resurree
don and the fellowship of His sufferings includes
being conformed to His death. " Being made
conformable" (summosphoo) denotes "to
bring to the same form with some other per
son." This is not just referring to physical death
but Christ's idnd of death ( Phi 2:5-8). The
Scripture is speaidng of self-emptying conformity to the spirit of His life and death.
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0 Whin God Asks with revival power there is
1also
1 revival passion. We dose with the testi
many of Even Roberts. the instrument mightily
1
used of the Holy Spirit in the Welsh Revival. in a
1certain morning meeting which he attended.
1the evangelist in one of his prayers besought the
1Lord that He would "bend us" The Spirit
to soy to Roberts "That's what you
1seemed
1
1need,
1 to be bent" Here is the experience as he
6told "I felt a living force coming into my bosom.
This grew and grew. and I was almost bursting.
.
My bosom was boiling. What boiled in me was
the verse *God cornrnendeth His love' I fell on
my knees With my arms over the seat in front of
me; the tears and perspiration flowed freely I
thought blood was gushing forth." Certain friends
approached to wipe his face. He still kept pray
ing. "CI Lord, bend met Bend met" Then
suddenly the glory broke in. Ms Roberts went
on "Aber I woe bent, a wave of peace come over
me, and the audience sang. 'I Hear Thy Wei
come Voice.' And as they sang I thought about
the bending at the Judgment Day and I was
filled with compassion for those that would have
Let us remember that this is included with
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1 " 1 1e1 " l Vl ei iT not go through this alone. .1 A
r (Rom.
In other words. it means rholiness of lift
Me
Motyer comments "First let us ask why he
Chrisdikeness Revival is Christ a revived saint
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m " 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 speaks
1 1 1 of
1 the resurrection of Christ before he
is Outstare!
His death? Surely he has revers
g
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 has
1 1mentioned
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The Impact of such truth is tremendous in
ed the events of our Lords experience? indeed
li
. m
v of
fact the Bible reveals that this1is1the
source
he has, but with a deliberate purpose For
elr
revival power. On the day of Pentecost. Peter
Christ death preceded resurrection. but for the
am
testified to the fact that the powerful Holy Ghost
Christian who sets out to follow his Lord along
had been sent by the resurrected Christ. "This
i tot
this path the power of the risen Christ is the first
Jesus hath God raised up whereof we all are
fact of his experience. Thus as we watt the path
of Christikeness in an apostolic determination
witnesses
Therefore
being
by the right
ofo
f
God exalted,
and having
received
t h e band
Father
to be made like him, even to the extent of
the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed
sharing His sufferings His risen power is made
forth this, which ye now see and hear" (Acts
available to strengthen. keep and lead us
232. 33).
through."
The resurrection of Christ was the message of
He goes on: "More than that. however. is
power in the New Testament Church. "And
available. For again, before he spoked
Idled the Prince of life. whom God hash raised
ing
in his death* Paul referred to
- blike
e chim
o m
from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. And
'sharing'. or lefiowship in. His sufferings. Why
his name through faith in his name hath made
does he thus make a double reference to the
1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 =
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:salvation of souls became the
l burden of my
heart.
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t . that Lime! was oni fire with a desire
to
- go through all Wales. and ifeit were possible. I
was willing to pay God for the privilege of
r
i
goingThusthe knowiege of Christ
brought the
c made him a
power of His resurrection, which
participator in Christ's sufferings
i for the souls of
men. Is this our desire and prayer?
is this the
e
knowledge we earnestly cravef and hunger for?
This is revival burden and praying!
o
RevivaL in the sense of wide-spread spiritual
o
awakening. is a sovereign act of God. May we
l and world- wide
continually pray for corporate
revival! Personal revival is a kprivilege of every
soul that knows Christ. Revivalt is Christ! May we
know personal revival by knowing
the Reviver!
h
"The people that do know their
God
shell be
e
strong. and do exploits" Da n I 1 :32).
--R. H. Lescelius
(continued from page 1)
I will again be moderating the conference
and speaking in the morning sessions. Make
plans to attend. Please intercede for the
conference weeks.
Both Conferences begin on their respective Monday nights, the first day being
open for guests to arrive and settle in.
Evening services will continue from Monday through Friday at 7:30. Morning sessions will be at 0 :0 0 and I I :00 Tuesday
through Friday. The cost for the week is
$1.50 registration per attendee. Expenses
will be provided through the freewill offerings of Gon obedient people.
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It is easy to learn the 'doctrine of personal
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dark and bitter hill of self-renunciation. Here
many are called but few are chosen. For
every one that actually crosses over into the
Promised Land - there are many who stand
for a while, and look longingly across Jor-
dan, and then turn sadly back to the cornparadve safety of thesandywastesof the old
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Each summer-we have two-IsAaminatba- A W. Tozer
,
sponsored youth camps that continue the
- was not pleasant to him. H e
emphasis of our conferences for the benefit Paul's thorn
prayed
to
of the young people of our churches.
,be rid of it. But when he found it
had come to stay, he made friends with it
4
swiftly. It was no longer how to dismiss, but
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how to entertain.
He stopped groaning and
1
began gloiying
I t was clear to him that it
SENIOR A N D JUNIOR CAMPS was Gocrs0will, and that meant new opporJULY 7 THRU 1 2
tunity, new
. victory, new likeness to Christ.
What GodAmeans is always too good to be
This summer Senior Camp, for ages 13 lost, and is worth all it costs to learn. Let us
.
up. and Junior Camp. for ages 9 through learn swiftly
as we may. Time is short.
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12. will be the same week. Our speaker will
,
- Maine B. Babcock
be Dr. Bill Finnigan of Youngstown, OH. Dr.
Finnigan has been with us before for both
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telARANATHA YOUTH CAMPS
conferences and camps and is much loved
by all who know him. The Lord has recently
moved Brother Bill and his wife, Chris, from
Georgia, where he taught at the Georgia
Baptist College and Theological Seminary,
to Youngstown to work with the YoungO w n 13018114
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Camp will r un fr om Monda y noon
14
through Saturday breakfast. P ric e per
camper for the week is $60.00.
WHERE IS MARANATHAT
Maranatha is located on Buffalo Creek, two
miles south of Worthington in the beautiful
hills of Western PA Worthington is on Route
422, five miles west of Kittanning and seventeen miles east of Butler. I t is forty miles
northeast of Pittsburgh.
For more information write us at Box J.
Worthington. PA 16262. or call (41212975581.
GRACE GAZETTE
0 brother, prziy1 I n spite of Satan. pray'
Spend hours in prayer. Ra th e r neglect
friends than not pray rather fast and lose
breakfast, dinner, tea and supper and sleep
too - than not pray. And we must not talk
about prayer. We must pray in right earnest.
WELCOME
We welcome the Robert Gains family as
our new caretakers at Maranatha. Brother
and sister Gains and their boys moved onto
the grounds this spring from Virginia. Pray
for them as they take this step of faith.
Jim and Marsha Turner and girls have
moved into their new home, and Jimisnow
pastor
d e
Baptist
a terrific Job for us. We praise the Lord for all
the caretakers He has given us over the
years, who all have labored so faithfully in
this minisny.
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