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Did Someone Say Revival?

I have heard a lot of people saying that want to experience a real revival and renewal of the things of God in the US. Well, we definitely need to experience a revival, since the American church is half-dead, it needs to be renewed; but how shall this come to pass??

2 Chron 29:1-11

In order for the Israelites to experience revival and renewal, a few things  had to transpire-

The priests had to be sanctified. vs. 5

In the OT he priesthood was restricted to the qualified descendants of Aaron alone. Their distinctive activity was to offer sacrifices and intercession to God on behalf of His people and to communicate with God.

These priests had followed the course of the previous King of Judah Ahaz, who did evil in the sight of the Lord, therefore they had to be sanctified again.

Sanctified means to be set apart for God’s purposes. They needed to confess and be cleansed of their sins in order to lead God’s people into holiness.

In Christ, we have been made a priest before God. YOU ARE A PRIEST! Say, “I am a holy priesthood”

1 Peter 2:5New King James Version (NKJV)

you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:9New King James Version (NKJV)

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

If we as the church are going to experience revival and renewal, we have to sanctify ourselves before the Lord.

Although this was an Old Testament command for a particular occasion, it can well be applied also to the New Testament Christian’s whole life in Christ. The words “sanctify” and “make holy” are the same. In both Testaments, the meaning is essentially to “set apart” unto God.

In one sense, the process of sanctification is a work that God does in us, for Christ “is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification” (I Corinthians 1:30). “We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all” (Hebrews 10:10).

Yet in another (though similar) sense, we must sanctify ourselves, for the Scripture commands: “As He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation” (I Peter 1:15). This command to be sanctified, holy, set apart, has many very practical and physical implications. For example: “This is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication” (I Thessalonians 4:3).

Just how can we sanctify ourselves? In the upper room, Jesus prayed for His followers thus: “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth” (John 17:17). In the same vein, Paul reminds us that Christ “loved the church, and gave Himself for it; That He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word” (Ephesians 5:25,26). It is Christ who sanctifies us-positionally by His sacrificial death, then day-by-day through application of His word (the Holy Scriptures) to our lives. Our part in this sanctification process is simply to read, believe, and obey His word.

The Cleansing of the house of the Lord vs.5,18

The church is the Body and house of the Lord.

We must remove those things in the church that are clearly contrary to God’s will as r...