Dearest Brethren

Greetings in the Lord.

First above all, I am nothing, but a little insignificant bond servant of the Lord. I write to you in weakness and humility, being crossed out by Jesus, I have nothing to say of myself but the Lord. All that I was and I am today, I count as a loss (1 Cor 8:2-3)

Do you think I know anything or have any scholarship (Acts 4:13)? No. I am full of errors and failings and only God is my help. I am unworthy to be the one to blow a revival whistle in my land-but this is God’s pleasure, not man’s.

I will not have anything to say about my testimony. Please lets begin where we are now (Acts 8:3) and nothing to be said of History for I have no interest in the past (Phil. 3:13-14) but the future.

Please welcome to revival.

In His Service,

Bro. Steven

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REVIVAL

Revival does mean so many things that people suppose; Revival simply means-A RETURN TO THE CROSS

Any revival movement or meetings that does not advocate for a return to the tradition of the cross is only a sounding gong, making noise for nothing in the name of Jesus.

First, to avoid being misunderstood, I want to state in black and white that I agree with the absolute inspiration and infallibility of the scriptures (2 Tim 3:16).

But the Bible is only PAPER and INK and without the spirit of God  (that authored it) to bring illumination upon the reader-its like a Muslim trying to teach from the bible-its nothing to him, but to them that have the mind of Christ, it’s the word of life.

As the scripture clearly testifies (Luke 10:26), the difference between what is written and what we read from it, is the very difference between hell and heaven. What has been written, has faithfully been transmitted to us by the moseretic scribes, but this one document given from God now divides (exegesis and oisogesis) us in millions of sects that we cannot have any unity of faith (Eph. 4:9-14).The Revival question is simple:

Where did the church fell of the way (Jer. 6:16)?

To this questions many things can be said in response, but none will be satisfactory until we put forth the second question:

Why did the church fell of the way (Gal. 3:1)?

The answer to the second question cannot be any other but one and the only essential one: The church fell of the way by abandoning the CROSS.

Try to imagine a Christ without a cross-what would he do at the Calvary without the cross? A Christian without a cross is not a Christian at all!

So what about the CROSS?

If any body says he knows Jesus, he must know the one with a cross. And if some one says he is a Christian he must be one with a cross:

1 Jn 2:6 states clearly-

6Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.

So how did he walk? Or what was his attitude as he lived? His attitude was that of humility, of submission of obedience to the father who had sent his to come here and die for all of us (Jn. 6:38, 5:30, 8:28-29, 12:49; Luke 8:21)

John 4: 34

 34"My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.

The work of Jesus was no other than the work of the cross. (Isa. 53)

John 18:37-38

 37"You are a king, then!" said Pilate.
      Jesus answered, "You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me."

For what reason was a Christian “born again”? A Christian is an apostle of the Lord Jesus (Jn 20:21) and must abide in the words of Jesus (Jn 15:5-8) and have the same mine and attitude:

I peter 4:1

 1Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin.

My life is my teaching. I teach nothing but the cross. The message, which you teach, will determine whether you are a revivalist or not. Salvation is not a quick fix it , easy do it your self acrobat or a quick believism of “ask Jesus” into your “heart” easy 1,2,3 fire into heaven.

Jesus did not teach such open sesames abracadabra stuff!

Salvation is a very difficult, distressing and painful walk, a journey that begins somewhere with conversion and daily resumes and ends in Golgotha; torture, crucifixion and death of the flesh and all its lusts.

So how did Jesus save people, or put another way-how do he guide people to enter to heaven? Was there any special category of people (Luke 23:40-43) or did he have only one way for all men? Did Peter, Paul and the early church fathers follow this model or did they do it another way?

There is only one way (Jn 14:6) and truth and all men must accept one and the only one salvation call. If you practice a different one in your church because of your own reasons-that’s yours and is not of Christ.

The most abused scriptures, besides Jeremiah () and Malachi (3:6-12) from which lying pastors find words to deceive people to give them money, is Romans 10:9, the salvations call put forward by the apostle Paul.

Paul teaches that we make confession to salvation-THAT IS A FACT. But Paul did not end there as many of us misunderstand his theology.

But even Demons believe (James 2:19; Mark 1:24; Luke 4:34), so the demons are believers in one God, Holiness, the Bible, Trinity and all those things that we talk about in Christian Theology. Yet the Devils don’t receive the message of salvation with FAITH and that same gospel they believe does not change them to be saved.

Jesus clearified that it is not the belief and confession that saves, but acting on that belief is what saves:

Matthew 7:21

 21"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' 23Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'

The so-called “Christians” cannot therefore come to the unity (Eph. 4:9-14) of faith because they are not saved and have nothing in common. They have not received the right Gospel as is written in the Bible (Luke 10:26) because they have rejected the love of the truth (2 Thess. 2:10-11) and turned to fables while by every appearance (2 Tim 3:5) they pretend to have Jesus with them in their meetings-they are all lost in the broad way.

I have no hermeneutics, no theology or philosophy of my own. I simply preach the (1 Cor: 1:18-20) foolishness of the cross.

It’s a terrible thing (Gal 1:6-8) that the church is presently teaching another Gospel and the foundation (2 Tim 4:3) of sound doctrine has been abandoned for heresies and fables thus a mass of confused and immature assemblies (Heb. 6:1-3) gathered in the name of Jesus.

Apostle John Daniel Knows of my teaching and passion for the cross and I write to you brethren no new things, but hose delivered to us by the spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord therefore, tell is clearly that if there is going to be any revival, it must be a return to the old RUGGED CROSS.

Today, Christianity is comodified, made cheap and available on sale such that every Tom, Dick and Hurry can be a steward (pastor) of God’s mysteries! And every trash on the street can be a believer!

If this end time revival must be of effect, there is a need to discover and expose the weeds and tares (false ministries and churches) and let their sins be known in public, and then help the saints to enter the (Matt. 7:13-20) narrow road that goes to life.

Brethren, heaven is not a place for every one. It is a place for only (Luke 12:32) a little flock.

Jesus would not give salvation to anybody until they have accepted the “terms and conditions” of salvation. Please study the scriptures below and see how Jesus made a disciple-How do you make a disciple yourself?

(Luke 14:25-33, 9:23-26, 9:58-62; Mark 8:32-38, 10:21; Matthew 10:33-39, 16:22-28; John 12:24-26)

There is nothing like the things that the church does today.