SBS | 1st Quarter of 2023 | CPAD –  Adults  – THEME: ENVIVAL YOUR WORK - The call of the Scriptures to the brokenness and power of God |Sunday Bible School | Lesson 09: The Pentecostal Revival in Brazil Slides prepared by Celso Napoleon

1. THE PENTECOSTAL
REVIVAL IN BRAZIL

2. GOLDEN TEXT
“And those who heard were baptized in the
name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had
laid his hands on them, the Holy Ghost came
on them. and they spoke with tongues and
prophesied.” (At 19.5,6)

3. PRACTICAL TRUTH
God poured out the great Pentecostal
revival in Brazil. He can revive his people
once more.

4. DAILY READING
• Monday – Acts 1.8 The mission of the Christian Church is carried out
from the inside out
• Tuesday – Rev 3.7 When God opens a door, no one closes
• Wednesday – Mt 5.10 Blessed are those persecuted by the Gospel
• Thursday – Mk 16.18 Signs and wonders are the marks of spiritual
revival
• Friday – Mk 16:20 Lively preaching is followed by signs and wonders
• Saturday - 1 Co 2.4 Revival is confirmed "in demonstration of the
Spirit and power".

5. CLASS BIBLE READING Acts 19:1-7
1- And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was in Corinth,
Paul, having gone through all the upper regions, came to
Ephesus, and, finding some disciples there,
2- He said to them: Did you already receive the Holy Ghost
when you believed? And they said to him: We have not
even heard that there is a Holy Ghost.
3- he asked them, then: In what are you baptized, then?
And they said, In the baptism of John.

6. 4- But Paul said: Surely John baptized with the
baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe
in him who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus
Christ.
5-And those who heard were baptized in the name
of the Lord Jesus.
6- And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the
Holy Ghost came upon them; and they spoke in
tongues and prophesied.
7- These were, in all, about twelve men.

7. INTRODUCTION
The arrival of the Pentecostal Movement in Brazil changed
the spiritual reality of this country unquestionably and
irreversibly in terms of liturgy, proclamation of the Gospel,
manifestation of God's power with signs, prodigies and
wonders. Coming from the United States, the missionaries
Daniel Berg and Gunnar Vingren arrived in Brazilian lands
in 1910. Through the instrumentality of these servants,
God started the greatest spiritual revival in Brazilian lands.
The Pentecostal Revival in Brazil is what we will study in
this lesson. KEYWORD: PENTECOST

8. Daniel Berg (1884-1963) Gunnar Vingren (1879-1933)

9. I- THE MOVEMENT OF ACTS IS
REPEATED IN BRAZIL
1-Pentecost* among the saved. In Acts 19.2 there is a question
from the Apostle Paul to the disciples in Ephesus: “Did you
already receive the Holy Ghost when you believed?”. This
question can also be asked like this: “Having believed, did you
receive the Holy Ghost?”; and also: “Did you receive the Holy
Ghost after you believed?”. The modalities of the same question
reveal a fact according to the context of the passage of Acts
19.1-7: the disciples of Ephesus were baptized in the name of the
Lord Jesus, that is, they already had saving faith; then they
received the baptism in the Holy Ghost through the laying on of
hands.

10. I- THE MOVEMENT OF ACTS IS
REPEATED IN BRAZIL
2- The fullness of the Holy Ghost. As we saw in a previous
lesson, there are two distinct experiences in the book of Acts of the
Apostles: 1) the experience of salvation; 2) the baptism in the Holy
Ghost. In Acts 19, we see these two experiences very clearly: first,
the disciples were baptized in water and then received the Holy
Ghost with the laying on of hands. This receiving had physical
evidence of tongues and prophecy (Acts 19:3). The Baptism in the
Holy Ghost experience is so different from salvation that it can be
physically identified through tongues as confirmation of the “gift of
God”. This is what happened to the disciples in Ephesus.

11. I- THE MOVEMENT OF ACTS IS
REPEATED IN BRAZIL
3- Called by God. Something similar happened here in
Brazil through Daniel Berg and Gunnar Vingren. By God's
direction, the two Swedish missionaries arrived in Brazil on
November 19, 1910. At the beginning of the 20th century,
the existence of historic or traditional churches
predominated. Consequently, there were many Christians
who had experienced salvation in Christ but had never
experienced the Baptism in the Spirit like the first believers
in Acts.

12. I- THE MOVEMENT OF ACTS IS
REPEATED IN BRAZIL
God used Daniel Berg and Gunnar Vingren to show these
Christians that they could no longer ignore the blessed
person of the Holy Ghost. The glorious experiences of
Acts of the Apostles began to be repeated in Brazilian
lands. It was possible to be a Christian with more spiritual
fervor.

13. SYNOPSIS I
In Brazil, there was a call from God for a people to
live in the fullness of the Holy Ghost.

14. II- THE BIRTH OF A NEW MOVEMENT
1- The preaching of the Pentecostal revival. The
preaching of the missionaries drew the attention of the
traditional churches, causing discomfort and concern. They
were not well accepted by the pastors of the historic
churches. Sister Celina de Albuquerque, a member of a
traditional church, accepted the message of Baptism in
the Holy Ghost and made the decision to stay at home,
praying to God to confirm that that doctrine was correct.

15. II- THE BIRTH OF A NEW MOVEMENT
Thus, Sister Celina Albuquerque received the gift of God
and, therefore, is considered the first Brazilian baptized in
Espírito Santo in our country. Other brothers joined her
and were also baptized in the Holy Ghost. Unfortunately,
the direction of the church of which these brothers were
part, did not agree with that spiritual revival and promoted
a meeting to confirm who would agree with the
missionaries' message.

16. II- THE BIRTH OF A NEW MOVEMENT
At that meeting, 9 brothers stood up and were asked to
leave the church. Thus begins a history of persecution that
would mark the Pentecostal Movement in Brazil.

17. Celina Albuquerque (1874 – 1969)

20. II- THE BIRTH OF A NEW MOVEMENT
2- Growth and pursuit. The persecutions against
Pentecostals were great, as Jesus said (Mt 5.10). They took
place in the liturgical sphere among others. For example, in
the first baptisms, in Pará, some enemies of the work tried
to prevent the baptismal act. There are records that one of
them even pulled out a dagger to attack the missionary
Gunnar Vingren.

21. II- THE BIRTH OF A NEW MOVEMENT
It was Sister Celina who prevented the crime by throwing
herself in front of the perpetrator. Other records show
that, in Mosqueiro, in the interior of the state, a preaching
house was surrounded and stoned. Believers had to leave to
protect themselves. Stories like these abound in the
unfolding Pentecostal Movement in Brazil. However, the
Lord gave many deliverances to his people (Sl 34.7).

22. II- THE BIRTH OF A NEW MOVEMENT
3- Divine cures. If there were persecutions and difficulties
at the beginning of the work, there were also glorious
interventions by God in the lives of his people. In the
Journal of a Pioneer, written by Missionary Gunnar
Vingren, see the following account: “a sister was healed of
an incurable lip disease.”

23. II- THE BIRTH OF A NEW MOVEMENT
A paralyzed man who was dying and could no longer speak
was healed and later came to our services. A child, who was
dying with a fever, was healed. An old man who had
suffered from hernia for nine years was healed. Another
man, who had been sick many months with a fever and his
whole body was swollen, was both healed and baptized
with the Holy Ghost.

24. II- THE BIRTH OF A NEW MOVEMENT
He also received the gift of prophecy [...] a man who saw
his son die, immediately took him in his arms and began to
call on the name of the Lord. Immediately, the child came
back to life. The wife, when she saw what happened, gave
herself to the Lord ”. These are some of the many
powerful signs that marked the Pentecostal Revival in
Brazil. They were the signs of God confirming the
preaching of our pioneers (Mark 16:20).

25. SYNOPSIS II
The birth of the new Movement in Brazil had Pentecostal
preaching, growth, persecution and divine healings

26. III- THE EXPANSION OF THE
PENTECOSTAL REVIVAL
1- A centrifugal model. The spiritual revival made our
church in Brazil seek a centrifugal growth model, that is,
from the inside out. They started cults in a house, in a small
hall, in a neighborhood, in a city; Pentecostals evangelized
through the streets, homes, schools, hospitals. Further
ahead, the brothers sought a larger location to meet the
expansion of the work.

27. III- THE EXPANSION OF THE
PENTECOSTAL REVIVAL
And the Lord saved, healed, baptized in the Holy Ghost.
The Pentecostal Revival was growing in a way never seen in
our country. What Jesus promised was happening: “But you
will receive power when the Holy Ghost comes upon you;
and you will be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all
Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth ′′ (At 1.8).

28. III- THE EXPANSION OF THE
PENTECOSTAL REVIVAL
2- An accentuated growth. Pentecostals in Brazil do not grow
because they look for people in other churches, but grow because
they evangelize and disciple them through the Gospel of Christ.
According to IBGE data in 2010, evangelicals were made up of
approximately 42 million people. Of that number, the
overwhelming majority are from the Pentecostal tradition.
Certainly, the next IBGE survey confirms the upward trend. All
of this was the fruit of the mighty Pentecostal Revival that God
sent to our nation.

29. SYNOPSIS III
There was a model of centrifugal growth and, therefore,
the Pentecostal movement had a sharp growth

30. CONCLUSION
Before the Pentecostal Revival on Brazilian soil, what
dominated the religious scenario was the doctrinal system
of the historic churches that did not admit the baptism in
the Holy Ghost, with an evident sign of speaking in new
tongues, as well as the exercise of spiritual gifts. These
spiritist manifestations, based on the Word of God, are
marks of the true Pentecostal Revival in Brazil.

31. REVIEWING THE CONTENT
1- What fact is revealed according to the context of Acts 19.1-7?
A: The disciples of Ephesus were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, that is,
they already had saving faith; then they received the baptism in the Holy Ghost
through the laying on of hands.
2- What was repeated in Brazilian lands?
A: The glorious experiences of Acts of the Apostles would be repeated in Brazilian
lands.
3- How did the preaching of the missionaries draw attention?
A: The preaching of the missionaries called the attention of the traditional churches,
causing discomfort and concern. They were not well accepted by the pastors of the
historic churches.

32. REVIEWING THE CONTENT
4- Name a case of divine healing described in the Diary of a
Pioneer.
A: A man who saw his son die, immediately took him in his arms
and began to call on the name of the Lord. Immediately, the child
came back to life.
5- What model of growth was present in our church in
Brazil?
A: The spiritual revival made our church in Brazil seek a model
of centrifugal growth, that is, from the inside out.

33. SBS | 1st Quarter of 2023 | CPAD – Adults –
THEME: ENVIVAL YOUR WORK - The call of
the Scriptures to the brokenness and power of
God |Sunday Bible School | Lesson 09:
The Pentecostal Revival in Brazil
Slides prepared by Celso Napoleon