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Corporate Confession and Repentance - Part 1
Richard Owen Roberts

Richard Owen Roberts (1931 - ). American pastor, author, and revival scholar born in Schenectady, New York. Converted in his youth, he studied at Gordon College, Whitworth College (B.A., 1955), and Fuller Theological Seminary. Ordained in the Congregational Church, he pastored in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and California, notably Evangelical Community Church in Fresno (1965-1975). In 1975, he moved to Wheaton, Illinois, to direct the Billy Graham Center Library, contributing his 9,000-volume revival collection as its core. Founding International Awakening Ministries in 1985, he served as president, preaching globally on spiritual awakening. Roberts authored books like Revival (1982) and Repentance: The First Word of the Gospel, emphasizing corporate repentance and God-centered preaching. Married to Margaret Jameson since 1962, they raised a family while he ministered as an itinerant evangelist. His sermons, like “Preaching That Hinders Revival,” critique shallow faith, urging holiness. Roberts’ words, “Revival is God’s finger pointed at me,” reflect his call for personal renewal. His extensive bibliography, including Whitefield in Print, and mentorship of figures like John Snyder shaped evangelical thought on revival history.
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In this sermon, the preacher begins by describing a scenario of a young girl getting married to an older man, emphasizing the importance of finding the right partner in God's eyes. He then transitions to discussing the significance of passing down the stories of God's mighty acts to future generations. The preacher highlights the lack of personal experiences with God's miracles among many Christians and the need for the Bible to guide and reveal the true nature of miracles. He concludes by emphasizing the importance of recognizing and understanding God's laws of nature and the role of divine intervention in our lives.
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...suggested that just keeping with the pinnacle thing may be a sign that even those who heard it, when they invited me, they put the third and last one, and yet that was the only one. So as I was seeking the change of Jules, here it is. Let anything like this tell your sons about it. Let your sons tell a righteous judge the most obvious thing anyone knows. But Jules has took this invasion of love. And, now just to help us, in which neither, there's another record, where they come, want to know I'm the one who wrote it, right on the verb. Maybe in the 8th, 10th, isn't that what some tell their sons? Invasion of their sons. And the next generation I knew. I don't know what possessed me to think everything seems to work. I landed on my feet. You were lost. Dad! He said, the angel! And I said, that angel! That night, when I was getting ready for bed, soul went to bed saying, as I, when we speak of a mighty act, now here it is, awake, and deep, and well, it has made my mind awake, it has stripped and barren, no congregation present, and with every tongue, and the alphabet, I hear these words again, well, like a virgin, Gertrude was, Gertrude says, was thankful, well, opens the great offering, for the day of the Lord is here, the feast, oh, how the people wander, aimlessly, they groan, there's no pasture for them, even the flock of sheep, the fire has been aflame, has burned up, many who have rested, they're soldiers, notice now, these words, a day of clouds, I believe, Joel is, they're aware, somehow, a mass, of great darkness, advances, an army, so, like a mighty people, there are those, that a bird gives, but on the army, they do not cry, when they burst through the defenses, they do not pray, lose their breath, the day of the Lord, I have spoken to you of, when the word shall, there seems to be always, I'm speaking to you of, when are the, we ought to take his course, if I, if I sin today, and don't judge, and God judges, then God judges, and the sin of the, I repeat, God, is never, some read the account of David's sin, the bad sheep, and the son, time after time, people, they say, oh, if I sin, you see, there are two, in the medial judgment, in the personal, in which nobody, in the medial judgment, will, did Peter say to Adam, this is your life, it appears that, he wouldn't even have to use, in this account, how many sons, there can be, in the system, yet even now, it's returned to me, with all the power, and, men, you're hot, and not your girls, now, I'll return, great system, who knows, whether he will not, return,
Corporate Confession and Repentance - Part 1
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Richard Owen Roberts (1931 - ). American pastor, author, and revival scholar born in Schenectady, New York. Converted in his youth, he studied at Gordon College, Whitworth College (B.A., 1955), and Fuller Theological Seminary. Ordained in the Congregational Church, he pastored in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and California, notably Evangelical Community Church in Fresno (1965-1975). In 1975, he moved to Wheaton, Illinois, to direct the Billy Graham Center Library, contributing his 9,000-volume revival collection as its core. Founding International Awakening Ministries in 1985, he served as president, preaching globally on spiritual awakening. Roberts authored books like Revival (1982) and Repentance: The First Word of the Gospel, emphasizing corporate repentance and God-centered preaching. Married to Margaret Jameson since 1962, they raised a family while he ministered as an itinerant evangelist. His sermons, like “Preaching That Hinders Revival,” critique shallow faith, urging holiness. Roberts’ words, “Revival is God’s finger pointed at me,” reflect his call for personal renewal. His extensive bibliography, including Whitefield in Print, and mentorship of figures like John Snyder shaped evangelical thought on revival history.