WANTED: REFORMERS AND REVIVALISTS - Part 1

FRIDAY, 10TH NOVEMBER, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

Topic: WANTED: REFORMERS AND REVIVALISTS

MEMORIZE: "And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up" (John 2:17).

SCRIPTURE READING: John 2:12-17

"12 After this He went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days. 13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15 And when He had made a scourge of small cords, He drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; 16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise. 17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up."

EXPOSITION:

WANTED: REFORMERS AND REVIVALISTS

1. Why Revivalists are needed?

a.  Merchandise of religion and worship  v16.

b. Institutionalized worldliness and idolatry in the temple vv14-16.

c. Changing the purpose of the Church from spiritual to pseudo- spiritual and mundane vv14-16.

d. Worshipping and serving God without regard to Biblical standards vv14-16.

e. Deviation from the true purpose of the Church. In this text a house of prayer was turned to a house of merchandise Matthew 21:23. 

f. Emphasis on mere outward worship without deep piety and spirituality.

g. What other unscriptural things could you observe in the text and in the churches today?

PRAYER POINT: I. Lord, make me a reliable reformer that You can trust and engage in this generation in Jesus Name.

ii. Lord, I hereby submit myself to the study of your word so that I will know clearly your word, way and will.

iii. Holy Spirit, move in your church and make the children, youths and adults burning lights in this generation.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  John 19-21.

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