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Category Archives: Revival
Revival X Recap Video
ByThe best week of the year for many, of your life for those of you who got saved! Let us remember what God has done among us and may the revival continue until the day Jesus comes! We will be with the Lord!
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The One We Have Pierced
ByIf you had to write a song about Heaven, what would you say?
I had to ask myself this question as I set out to write a song for Revival X. Should I talk about what Heaven will be like? Should the song be full of streets of gold, pearly, gates, and a tree of life? I did not know.
I eventually asked myself, “ What am I looking forward to most about Heaven?” Finally I had found a question I could answer! I cannot wait to see Jesus face to face and be with him forever! I had to make the song about that!
As I thought about seeing Jesus, one phrase kept popping into my mind: “they will look upon the one whom they have pierced.” This phrase comes from
Zechariah 12:10
Him Whom They Have Pierced
10 “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. (ESV)
, which says,
“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps for a firstborn.”
When we finally see Jesus, we will weep as we realize that he is the one we have pierced. Our sin nailed him to the cross, and we will feel the weight of that more fully than ever before. Thankfully, one of the most precious promises about heaven is that God “will wipe away every tear from their eyes.” We may experience tears as we see Christ for the first time, but he is going to wipe those away and invite us into glory to be with him forever! After thinking through these things, the chorus was easy to write:
We will look upon the One we have pierced//He will wipe away all our tears//The earth will be restored//Sin will be no more//We will be with the Lord
The verses were much harder to write. I found myself asking the same questions over again. Eventually, the answer became clear: make them about Jesus.
The first one focuses on what Jesus did for us.
Jesus Christ, Perfect One//Slain for us you were//Spotless Lamb took our sin//Wrath of God endured//We cannot help but marvel at your amazing grace//Savior, how we long to see you face to face
The second verse focuses on who Christ is now and what he will do in the future.
Jesus Christ, Risen One//Exalted King and Lord//Coming again on the clouds//To reign forevermore//We cannot help but fall to our knees and sing your praise//Savior, how we long to see you face to face
The bridge expresses how this Christ-centered praise will never end.
Forever we will sing//Hallelujah to our King//Eternal praises will ring
I hope this song ministers to you and stirs up your heart to praise Christ – “The One We Have Pierced.”
The One We Have Pierced
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Revival Photobooths Up!
ByRevival X Sunday Night
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Here are a few photos from Sunday Night at Revival X! You can see the full gallery here and there will be photos posted on Facebook tonight! (Look for Bobby to be tagged). Keep checking back soon as there will be more to come!
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Revival X-citement
By12 And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them. (ESV) – 
Nehemiah 8:12
How do you keep a Revival going? The same way it got started: The Bible!
This week we saw an overwhelming response to the preaching of God’s Word. (If you read the entire chapter of
Nehemiah 8
Ezra Reads the Law
8:1 And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the Lord had commanded Israel. 2 So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, on the first day of the seventh month. 3 And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand. And the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law. 4 And Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden platform that they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right hand, and Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam on his left hand. 5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was above all the people, and as he opened it all the people stood. 6 And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God, and all the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground. 7 Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, the Levites, helped the people to understand the Law, while the people remained in their places. 8 They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.
This Day Is Holy
9 And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law. 10 Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” 11 So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Be quiet, for this day is holy; do not be grieved.” 12 And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.
Feast of Booths Celebrated
13 On the second day the heads of fathers’ houses of all the people, with the priests and the Levites, came together to Ezra the scribe in order to study the words of the Law. 14 And they found it written in the Law that the Lord had commanded by Moses that the people of Israel should dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month, 15 and that they should proclaim it and publish it in all their towns and in Jerusalem, “Go out to the hills and bring branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make booths, as it is written.” 16 So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at the Water Gate and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim. 17 And all the assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and lived in the booths, for from the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the people of Israel had not done so. And there was very great rejoicing. 18 And day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read from the Book of the Law of God. They kept the feast seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the rule. (ESV)
it is a great Old Testament example of this.) Students cried. They rejoiced. They professed repentance and faith. And they worshipped louder than I have ever heard before.
But anyone can feel the “mountain-top” camp excitement. What’s the difference between emotional excitement and genuine revival? Well, if God has truly done a work in our hearts then we will stay close to him. We will continue to seek his face in the Word and prayer.
And we have a great chance to do this together right here at churchforhighschoolers.com. This summer we will continue through the Minor Prophets with the book of Nahum! I hope many who went to Revival will join us in reading the chapters every day and leave comments on what they are learning about God! Also don’t miss True North this weekend where we will look at God’s Word together again.
It is amazing to see what God can do with his people when we spend a week together getting into the Bible! What could he do with us if we were like that all of the time? Revival starts and continues with the Bible! Let’s encourage one another to be in the Word ever day!
Leave a comment if you are “committed” to reading the Bible with us on this website and get ready for a lot of updates: pictures from camp, Pastor Ben’s new song and camp videos too! Let the REVIVAL spread to all the high schoolers of Orange County!
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