Brian Simmons: Let the Spark of Repentance Light Revival Fires (Acts 2:38)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 2021-07-30

Brian Simmons: Let the Spark of Repentance Light Revival Fires (Acts 2:38)
Quotes: “Every revival in America since Charles Finney can be traced back to that one man's anointing. He was the revivalist of America. Ulysses Grant at his funeral, said these words, "There has never been a man in America, that has changed our nation more, to make us a Christian nation." The president of the United States said that at his funeral. He was an awakener.”

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My experience as a former fundamentalist, I don't mean Evangelical I mean, fundamentalist, OK?
We had a very legalistic church environment. I noticed, amazingly, the more legalistic a church becomes, the more immorality is in that church. Believe me, I've seen this principle work many times, hidden sin in the fundamentalist church, because there's no way to share that. There's no confession.

But in our type of experience in churches today, we likewise have no place of repentance. And beyond that, we even go to the point where it's wrong to repent, because Jesus repented for you on the cross and all of your sins are gone. You just need to keep in mind that your sins are gone and forget the religiosity of repentance. And it's theology that's gaining ground – as in, “no hell, no repentance.”

And yet the Bible says that we minister to those who are weak in their faith in hopes that they would repent and be converted and come back to the Lord. And we're told to confess our fault or sins. We are told to confess those one to another, and that will bring you healing. We'll have physical healing, when you're sick, by confession of sin.

We've eliminated that whole concept. And when I had a visitation from the Lord a few years ago, the Lord came to me in a dream and he told me these words, "I am going to restore the principles of Charles Finney's revival. I'm going to reignite and finish what he began, except on a greater scale."

So the Lord told me in this encounter, that there were principles of revival that needed to be taught.
[The whole city of] Rochester, New York, was virtually converted. To this day, there are schools, hospitals, and streets named after Charles Finney. Up until about 1930, which would be about 75 to 80 years after Finney died, Rochester, New York, was considered the, best city and America to live. It was the... I mean, Rochester, New York bro? Like get a fur coat or two. and a lot of snowblowers.

It was because of the influence of Finney had endured long after his death. He would have revival meetings in Rochester. Trains would be filled at Penn Station out of New York. Trains would be filled with people, to travel hours, to be told how wicked they are (laughs). And New York chased him. He was a walking carrier of glory. Finney carried such a power and anointing, wherever he went, cities were shaken. Communities turned upside down. Churches like absolutely multiplied in 60, 90 days, multiplied in converts. 

Every revival since Charles Finney can be traced back to that one man's anointing. He was the revivalist of America. Ulysses Grant at his funeral, said these words, "There has never been a man in America, that has changed our nation more, to make us a Christian nation." The president of the United States said that at his funeral. He was an awakener. He was a dispenser of the divine. The splendor of God radiated out of him for miles and miles in radius. Can you imagine being such a lightning rod of glory, that people, what, 30, 40 miles from here? Would that be Detroit? 

Can you imagine Detroit getting under the sway of all mighty God, the power of heaven, where people cried out on the streets, stop their cars, get a kneel on the curbs, weeping! I have got to get rid of my sins! I'm feeling the heavenly glory! All because Finney was 30, 40 miles down the road. That's the effect he had. And he called it is years of burning, which lasted about 15 years.

He teamed up with a pastor nicknamed Father Nash, who was anointed to pull heaven down when he prayed. Finney would go nowhere until Nash had come and broken up the fallow ground, with prayer and intercession. So the whole model of interceding before and after a meeting came through Finney.

And Father Nash was so anointed, Finney would always point to that prayer warrior for paving the way in prayer. He was such an amazing man that when Father Nash died, Finney hung it up! He said, “I'm going to go be a Bible college president.” He went to Oberlin College, and he basically quit the evangelistic ministry. Why? Because the generator of glory passed away.