Rev. Cyril A. Stevens – Sermon 0093A recorded on September 26, 1979 teaching from Jeremiah 3:1-5 – Why Does Revival Tarry? – Part 2.
Pastor Cyril A. Stevens explores the reasons why spiritual revival tarries and presents a remedy for this drought. Using Jeremiah 3:1-5 as a foundation, Stevens identifies four reasons for the absence of revival: spiritual adultery and idolatry, conformity to the world, inward pollution and uncleanness, and hardness and lack of concern. He then shifts to the positive, outlining a three-fold remedy: believing in God’s willingness to forgive and bless, getting right with God through repentance, humiliation, renunciation, confession, and dedication, and engaging in persistent prayer. Pastor Stevens emphasizes the transformative power of grace and the necessity of dealing with sin in order to experience a true outpouring of the Holy Spirit.