Unchanging character of true revival 2 Chronicles 29:36 (Preached in Sixmilecross FPC in a service marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the FPC of Ulster) The Old Testament accounts of revival are given for our encouragement and our protection. First of all, they show us that the Lord is able to visit His people with revival in the midst of the most discouraging circumstances. Secondly, the Old Testament accounts show us the marks and character of an authentic move of God's Spirit. Therefore we should not be deceived. As we look back tonight on the wonderful events of the 50s and 60s, I wish to do so in the light of the chapter before us. Here is a chapter that records the wonderful reviving of true religion in Judah at a time when it had all but died out. The Holy Ghost's epitaph of Hezekiah's father shows just how low spiritual life had sunk in the days of Ahaz. "And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem. And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers," 2 Chronicles 28:24-25. Into this spiritual quagmire came Hezekiah yet within a very short time the spiritual atmosphere of Jerusalem and Judah had wonderfully changed. I wish to trace the marks of that time of change and show that such were the character of the events at the time of the founding of the FPC in 1951 and its wonderful enlargement in the 1960s.