Glorious as Pentecost's Christ-ignited fires were, there was more to the story: fiery faith always ignites fiery opposition! But if believers are willing to withstand this heated opposition, God always causes their fires of faith and devotion to grow hotter and wider! And we must also understand another key fact: only God's people can stop the rushing fires of revival. Sadly, this has happened all too frequently when hotly revived Christians cool off. Why? They reacted wrongly to resistance or persecution. Or, they seduced by immorality or heresy. Have you realized that unchecked sin checks revivals? That carnal attitudes – of envy, ministerial competition, sectarianism, and so forth – if not snuffed out by pastoral correction, will snuff out even God's hottest, most powerful heavenly revival fires? And that, for this reason, every Christian needs to learn how to overcome adversity God's way? Then neither external adversities nor internal carnality will overcome us and quench the precious revival fires the Holy Spirit so graciously ignites?