I felt I had to add something to what I just said.
God does not really have an old way of doing things and a new one. All that God does is new. When God chose Abraham (father of every Jew according to the flesh), Abraham was a Gentile. That was a new thing at the time, but when God again chose the Gentiles, that was considered by the Jew as a new thing. That is because the first new thing has become an old thing, but God never really changed the way He did things.
When God comes to a place people react differently to His presence. You see that often when reading the accounts of past revival, some become very stressed over sin, others are taken in rapturous joy, some sing, some weep. Why is that?
It is simply because we are not all at the same walk in life. When God meets a sinner who had made a wreck of his life, fallen to drug addiction, demon worship, and now is about to take his own life. God may not manifest Himself to that sinner as the righteous, and holy judge who demands account for past wrongs, at least at that moment He may not. God may show Himself as a God of grace and love. While He may manifest Himself as a God of holiness and judgment who demands restitution and public confession to a complacent, pleasure loving church member who is feuding with his brother.
You may apply that same principle to Revivals.
Ask yourself what kind of people is the revival targeting, because that will define the reaction you see and the message you hear preached.
This is not something new. It may appear new to us, but if you read the Bible carefully you will find that Jesus did not address the woman caught in adultery the same way He did the rich young ruler.
However, as the speaker said, there are common characteristics to every genuine move of God among these is that it produces holy lives.
