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Ezra Sparks a Spiritual Revival
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professedly Christian world. Thousands regard it as weakness to
place full confidence in the Bible. They think that spiritualizing and
explaining away its most important truths is a proof of learning.
God calls for a revival and a reformation. The words of the Bible
alone should be heard from the pulpit. In many sermons today there
is not that divine power which awakens the conscience and brings
life to the soul. The hearers cannot say, “Did not our heart burn
within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened
the Scriptures to us?”
Luke 24:32
. Let the word of God speak to the
heart. Let those who have heard only tradition and human theories
hear the voice of Him who can bring renewal that leads to eternal
life.
The Reformers, whose protest has given us the name of Protes-
tant, felt that God had called them to give the gospel to the world.
To do this they were ready to sacrifice possessions, liberty, even life
itself. In the face of persecution and death, they and their followers
carried the Word of God to all classes, high and low, rich and poor,
learned and ignorant. In this last conflict of the great controversy,
are we as faithful as the early Reformers?
“Blow the trumpet in Zion... . Let the priests, who minister to
the Lord, weep ...; let them say, ‘Spare Your people, O Lord, and do
not give Your heritage to reproach.’”
Joel 2:15-17
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