THIS MESSAGE IS THE LETTER GEORGE WHITEFIELD WROTE TO HIS DEAR FRIEND JOHN WESLEY WITH GREAT RELUCTANCE FOR IN TODAYS WORLD, IF GEORGE WHITEFIELD WAS AN ICONIC PREACHER OF THE 1900’s IT WOULD BE LIKE GEORGE WHITEFIELD DISMANTLING THE ICONIC FASTFOOD FREEWILL EVANGELIST BILLY GRAHAM, THE RELIGIOUS ICON OF 1900’S IN AMERICA.
SO WHO IS AT FAULT HERE IN AMERICA BUT THE BONDAGE OF THE WILL EVANGELISTS WHO NEVER STEPPED UP TO THE PLATE TO DISMANTLE THE FASTFOOD FREEWILL DOCTRINE OF BILLY GRAHAM WHICH IS EASILY PROVED BY SELF EVIDENT TRUTHS TO BE A DOCTRINE IS BUILT UPON A FOUNDATION OF SAND AND THUS DECEITFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE TO AMERICA.
WHITEFIELD DECLARES TO WESLEY:
“Dear Sir,
for Jesus Christ's sake,
consider how you dishonour God by denying election.
You plainly make
salvation depend not on God's free grace,
but
on man's free-will.
And if thus, it is more than probable,
Jesus Christ would not have had the satisfaction of seeing the fruit of his death in the eternal salvation of one soul.
Our preaching would then be vain, and all invitations for people to believe in him would also be in vain.
But, blessed be God,
our Lord knew for whom he died.
There was an eternal compact between the Father and the Son.
A certain number
was then given him as the purchase and reward of his obedience and death.
For these he prayed (Jn. 17:9), and not for the world.
For these elect ones,
and these only,
he is now interceding,
and with their salvation he will be fully satisfied.
I purposely omit making any further particular remarks on the several last pages of your sermon. Indeed had not your name,
dear Sir, been prefixed to the sermon,
I could not have been so uncharitable as to think you were the author of such sophistry.
You beg the question, in saying that God has declared, (notwithstanding you own, I suppose, some will be damned)
that he will save all— i.e., every individual person.
You take it for granted (for solid proof you have none) that God is unjust,
if he passes by any, and then you exclaim against the "horrible decree":
and yet, as I before hinted,
in holding the doctrine of original sin,
you profess to believe that he might justly have passed by all.
Dear, dear Sir, O be not offended!
For Christ's sake be not rash!
Give yourself to reading. Study the covenant of grace. Down with your carnal reasoning.
Be a little child;
and then, instead of pawning your salvation, as you have done in a late hymn book, if the doctrine of universal redemption be not true;
instead of talking of sinless perfection, as you have done in the preface to that hymn book, and making man's salvation
to depend on his own free will,
as you have in this sermon; you
will compose a hymn in praise
of sovereign distinguishing love.
You will caution believers against striving to work a perfection out of their own hearts, and print another sermon the reverse of this, and entitle it "Free Grace Indeed."
Free, not because free to all;
but free, because God may withhold or give it to whom and when he pleases.
Till you do this, I must doubt whether or not you know yourself. In the meanwhile, I cannot but blame you for censuring the clergy of our church for not keeping to their articles, when you yourself by your principles, positively deny the 9th, 10th and 17th.
Dear Sir, these things ought not so to be. God knows my heart, as I told you before, so I declare again, nothing but a single regard to the honour of Christ has forced this letter from me. I love and honour you for his sake; and when I come to judgment, will thank you before men.
AS WE MENTIONED IN THE LAST MESSAGE , THE 2ND PERSON OF THE TRINITY WEARS MANY HATS ONE OF WHICH IS THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF ALL THE MILITARIES OF THIS WORLD, THUS HE IS THE ONE WHO CHOOSES WINNERS AND LOSERS.
JESUS, ALSO, THE 2ND PERSON OF THE TRINITY WEARS ITHE HAT OF THE KING OF KINGS. ALL THE KINGS OF THIS WORLD WHETHER OR NOT THEY KNOW IT REPORT TO HIM, KING JESUS, KING OF THE KINGS, AND THUS LIKE PRESIDENT TRUMP HE IS THE CHIEF MAGISTRATE OF THE NATION AS WELL AS THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER.
IF WE CAN BE ALLOWED TO LOOSELY MAKE THE COMPARISON, KING JESUS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF THESE NATIONS AND THEIR PRESIDENT OR KING AND HE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING SURE EACH NATION IS UNDER HIS LAWS OF HAPPINESS AND FREEDOM. IF THEY ARE NOT, JUDGMENT WILL BE COMING.
JESUS AS KING OF KINGS GETS RIGHT TO THE POINT WITH RELIGIOUS RULERS, THE PHARISEES, OF ISRAEL.
MAT. 12: 34] O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
[35] A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
[36] But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
[37] For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
[38] Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
[39] But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
[40] For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
[41] The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
[42] The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN TOTALLY UNDERSTOOD HIS POSITION AS PRESIDENT THAT IS WAS HIS DUTY, AND OUR NATIONS TO BE TOTALLY DEPENDENT UPON THE OVERRULING POWER OF GOD(KING OF KINGS & THE LORD OF HOSTS) THAT WE AMERICANS MUST THAT OVERRULING OF GOD WITH A REPENTANT HEART AND PROCLAMATION 97 IS EVIDENCE OF IT.
Proclamation 97—Appointing a Day of National Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer
March 30, 1863
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Whereas the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the supreme authority and just government of Almighty God in all the affairs of men and of nations, has by a resolution requested the President to designate and set apart a day for national prayer and humiliation; and
Whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that
those NATIONS ONLY
are blessed whose God is the Lord;
And, insomuch as we know that by His divine law nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people?
It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness…
I do by this my proclamation designate and set apart Thurs the 30th day of Apr
.
BRITAIN’S MERCIES & BRITAIN’S DUTY!
GEORGE WHITEFIELD INTERRWINES THE CHURCH AND NATION LIKE NO OTHER PREACHER, SO SUCCINCTLY & ACCURATE, CAN SO PREACH. IT IS BEAUTIFUL TO LISTEN TO.
LET US THINK ABOUT AMERICA AS HE PREACHES FOR THE MOST PART TO BRITAIN AND APPLY HIS PRINCIPLES TO AMERICA.
THE QUESTION IS, OUT OF THE OVER 18,000 SERMONS HE PREACHED TO OUR 13 COLONIES, HOW IS IT, THAT THIS IS THE ONLY SERMON AVAILABLE THAT HE INTERTWINES CHURCH AND STATE, NO SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. COULD IT BE THAT THOSE WHO SUPPORT SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE HAVE KEPT THESE MOST LIKELY POWERFUL GEORGE WHITEFIELD’S SERMONS FROM THE AMERICAN PUBLIC TO KEEP SEPARATION OF CHURCH & STATE ALIVE?
OUR FOUNDING FATHERS CERTAINLY BELIEVED THAT THE CHURCH IS INEXTRICABLY TIED TO THE STATE.
No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders. Samuel Adams
Man will either be governed by the Bible or the bayonet. John Adams
We have staked the future of our civilization and all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and everyone of us to govern ourselves; to control ourselves; to sustain ourselves according to the 10 Commandments of God.
JAMES MADISON
SO LET US A TAKE A COUPLE OF EXCERPTS, TO GIVE US A TASTE, AND THEN LET US GET STARTED WITH THE SERMON.
“This to me does not seem to be one of the most unfavorable circumstances which have attended this mighty deliverance; nor do I think you will look upon it as a circumstance altogether unworthy your observation. Had this cockatrice indeed been crushed in the egg, and the young Pretender driven back upon his first arrival, it would undoubtedly have been a great blessing. But not so great as that for which you lately assembled to give God thanks; for then his Majesty would not have had so good an opportunity of knowing his enemies, or trying his friends. The British subjects would in a manner have lost the fairest occasion that ever offered to express their loyalty and gratitude to the rightful sovereign. France would not have been so greatly humbled; nor such an effectual stop have been put, as we trust there now is, to any such further Popish plot, to rob us of all that is near and dear to us. “Out of the eater therefore hath come forth meat, and out of the strong hath come forth sweetness.”
The Pretender's eldest son is suffered not only to land in the North-West Highlands in Scotland, but in a little while he becomes a great band. This for a time is not believed, but treated as a thing altogether incredible. The friends of the government in those parts, not for want of loyalty, but of sufficient authority to take up arms, could not resist him. He is permitted to pass on with his terrible banditti, and, like the comet that was lately seen, spreads his baleful influences all around him. …
But now the Almighty interposes. Hitherto he was to go, and no further. Here were his malicious designs to be staid. His troops of s sudden are driven back…
This time, manner, and instruments of this victory, deserves our notice. It was on a general fast-day, when the clergy and good people of Scotland were lamenting the disloyalty of their persidious countrymen, and, like Moses, lifting up their hands, that Amalek might not prevail. The victory was total and decisive. Little blood was spilt on the side of the Royalists. And, to crown all, Duke William, his Majesty's youngest son, has the honor of first driving back, and then defeating the rebel-army. A prince, who in his infancy and youth, gave early proofs of an uncommon bravery and nobleness of mind; a prince, whose courage has increased with his years. Who returned wounded from the battle of Dettingen, behaved with surprising bravery ….
AS WE, AS AMERICANS, WATCH THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES EMPTY OUT IN EUROPE AND THEN BEING REPLACED WITH MUSLIMS, COMMON SENSE TELLS US JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA, THE SIMPLE PEOPLE OF AMERICA, THAT OUR LORD JESUS IS NOT BLESSING THE FASTFOOD FREEWILL CHURCH THAT DOMINATES EUROPE AND AMERICA, BECAUSE IT DOES NOT REPRESENT, HIM, BUT A FALSE CHRIST. MARTIN LUTHER, THE KING OF THE REFORMATION, IN HIS BOOK ‘BONDAGE OF THE WILL’, WRITTEN IN 1524, IN OPPOSITION TO ERASMUS’ BOOK ‘FREEDOM OF THE WILL’, WRITES THAT ‘FREEWILL IS A FICTION’, EVEN COMMON SENSE TELLS US SO.
SO WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA BEING THE SIMPLE PEOPLE OF AMERICA SAY TO OURSELVES, IF THE PILGRIM’S RISKED THEIR LIVES ON THE MAYFLOWER IN COMING TO AMERICA IN 1620 TO BEGIN A NEW NATION, THEY MUST HAVE BELIEVED THAT THE CHURCH COULD NOT BE UNTIED FROM THE NATION THEY WERE GOING TO CREATE. SO THEN WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA BEING THE SIMPLE PEOPLE OF AMERICA SAY TO OURSELVES WHAT CHURCH DOCTRINE WERE THESE FAMOUS PILGRIMS UNDER AND SHOULD NOT WE AS AMERICANS BE UNDER THE SAME DOCTRINE. WAS THERE DOCTRINE COMPLETELY CONTRARY TO THE DOMINANT DOCTRINE OF AMERICA TODAY? ANSWER - YES!!!
IN THIS MESSAGE WE WILL FIND THE CHURCH IS INEXTRICABLY TIED TO THE NATION-THEY ARE ONE.
PRESIDENT TRUMP IS SPENDING CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF TIME BRINGING BACK THE TRUE CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS OF HIS OFFICES: OF COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF OUR MILITARY, OF CHIEF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, OF CHIEF MAGISTRATE, AND OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER WHICH HAVE BEEN CO-OPTED BY THE DEEP STATE OF THE UNELECTED.
IF THE ORIGINAL INTENT OF THESE OFFICES OF THE PRESIDENCY, ARE NOT IN LOCKSTEP WITH THE CONSTITUTION, THE ORINAL INTENT MUST BE MADE AGAIN KNOWN TO US JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA, SO WE KNOW HOW TO PRAY.
LIKEWISE WE MUST COME TO UNDERSTAND, AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA THE OFFICES OF THE 2ND PERSON OF THE TRINITY, JESUS, WHO IS THE LORD OF HOSTS WHICH COMPARABLE TO PRESIDENT TRUMP AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF OUR AMERICAN MILITARY. WE MUST COME TO KNOW WHAT AUTHORITY JESUS HAS AS KING OF KINGS WHICH IS COMPARABLE TO PRESIDENT AS THE CHIEF MAGISTRATE.
BUT IN THIS MESSAGE THE BULK OF TIME WILL BE SPENT ON THE OFFICE OF JESUS AS THE LORD OF HOSTS AND PRESIDENT TRUMPS RELATIONSHIP TO THE LORD OF HOSTS, WHETHER HE KNOWS IT NOT, AND HOW VERY IMPORTANT HE KNOWS ABOUT IT WHETHER OR NOT HE IS A CHRISTIAN FOR EITHER WAY HE WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE TO THE LORD OF HOSTS.
IF YOU SEE THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS MESSAGES, PLEASE SHARE IT, FOR IT IS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE FOR THE SURVIVAL OF AMERICA. IN THIS MESSAGE WE WILL SHOW BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT THAT ABRAHAM LINCOLN UNDERSTOOD IT AND TOOK ACTION TO HELP AMERICA AT THAT TIME TO BE REPENTANT BEFORE THE LORD OF HOSTS WHICH UNDOUBTEDLY LED TO HIS VICTORY.
WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA BEING THE SIMPLE PEOPLE WE ARE, WE ASK SIMPLE QUESTIONS:
CAN WE LEGITIMATELY CALL OURSELVES, AS AMERICANS, CHRISTIANS, IF WE ARE NOT LITERALLY MARRIED TO CHRIST.
SO THEN WE SAY TO OURSELVES, THAT WE AS AMERICANS WHO ARE MARRIED, LIVE TOGETHER DO WE NOT?
THUS COMMON SENSE TELLS US THAT IF WE, AS AMERICANS, DO NOT LITERALLY LIVE TOGETHER WITH CHRIST, THEN WE WOULD NOT BE MARRIED TO CHRIST, WOULD WE?
FORMER MR. MORALITY WROTE TO HIS BRETHREN IN ROME:
Ro. 7: [4] Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be MARRIED to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
SO IF FORMER MR. MORALITY CONFIRMS THAT IF WE ARE A TRUE CHRISTIAN WE ARE MARRIED TO CHRIST, BUT DOES FORMER MR. MORALITY BELIEVE THAT WE LITERALLY LIVE TOGETHER?
Gal. 2: 20] I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ LIVETH IN ME: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
BUT WHAT IF CHRIST DOES NOT LIVE IN WE AMERICANS THAT CALL OURSELVES CHRISTIANS?
2Cor. 13: [5] Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ IS IN YOU, except ye be reprobates?
SO WE AS AMERICANS NEED TO EXAMINE OURSELVES TO OBSERVE TO KNOW IF CHRIST LITERALLY LIVES IN US OR NOT.
RO. 8: [6] For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
[7] Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
[8] So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
[9] But ye are not in the flesh,
but in the Spirit,
if so be
that the Spirit of God DEWELL IN YOU.
Now if any man have not
the Spirit of Christ,
he is NONE of HIS.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD IN THIS SERMON BEAUTIFULLY ELABORATES UPON THIS VERSE:
Isaiah 54:For thy Maker is thine husband.
“And therefore, the marriage state,
especially by the apostle Paul,
is frequently made use of, to figure out to us the real, vital union, between Jesus Christ and regenerate souls.
This is termed by the apostle,
Eph. 5:32, “A great mystery.”
But great as it is, we must all experience it, before we can say assuredly, that
“our Maker is our husband.”
For what says our Lord, in that prayer he put up to his Father before his bitter passion?
“Father, I will that those whom thou hast given me, shall be where I am, that they may be one with thee; even as thou, O Father, and I are one, I in them, and they in me, that we all may be made perfect in one.”
O infinite condescension! On ineffable union!
Hence it is, that believers are said to be members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. Hence it is, that the apostle speaking of himself, says,
“I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” What an expression is that? How much does it comprehend?
And, that we might not think this was something peculiar to himself, he puts this close question to the Corinthians; “Know ye not, that Christ is in you, unless you be reprobates?”
Agreeable to what he says in his epistle to the
Colossians; “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
And hence it is, that our church, in the communion-office, directs the minister to acquaint all those who receive the sacrament worthily, that they are one with Christ, and Christ with them; that they dwell in Christ, and Christ in them.
Words that deserve to be written in letters of gold, and which evidently show, what our reformers believed all persons must experience, before they could truly and assuredly say, that “their Maker is their
Pass we on therefore to the
Second general head, under which I was to show, what duties of love they owe to Jesus Christ, who are so happy as to be able to say, “My Maker is my husband.”
IN OUR LAST MESSAGE WE ADDED THE KNOWLEDGE OF ELECTION TO VIRTUE PART 1
IN THIS MESSAGE WE ARE ADDING THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD TO VIRTUE.
IS IT POSSIBLE FOR THOSE OF THE FREEWILL DOCTRINE TO BELIEVE IN THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD?
CAN AMERICA CONTINUE TO BE BLESSED WITHOUT ITS PEOPLE BELIEVING AS A WHOLE IN THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD?
DID ABRAHAM LINCOLN BELIEVE IN THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD?
TODAY IS August 7 AND THUS LET US TURN TO PROVERBS Chapter 7.
TODAY IS August 4th AND THUS LET US TURN TO PROVERBS Chapter 4
MANY OF US AMERICANS CARE FOR THE TEMPORAL NEEDS OF OUR BODY, BUT NEGLECT TO CARE FOR THE ONE THING NEEDFUL, THAT IS, THE NEED TO CARE FOR OUR SOUL.
ALL OF US AS AMERICANS KNOW WE ARE DYING, AND THUS WE PREPARE FOR OUR DEATH, BY SAVING FOR OUR RETIREMENT, ETC. , AND MAYBE A SUDDEN DEATH WITH LIFE INSURANCE, AND WE CARE FOR OUR TEMPORAL NEEDS BY EATING HEALTHY, EXERCISE, ETC.
BUT THE QUESTION IS, WHAT ARE WE DOING TO CARE FOR OUR SOUL, FOR OUR SOUL IS IMMORTAL, IT IS NOT GOING TO DIE, BUT WHEN IT DEPARTS FROM OUR BODY OUR BODY IS CONSIDERED DEAD.
SO THEN WHAT HAPPENS TO OUR SOUL?
OUR UPCOMING TEMPORAL DEATH OF OUR BODY IS A SIGN THAT OUR SOUL WILL EXPERIENCE ETERNAL DEATH IF WE HAVEN’T EXPERIENCED THE ANTIDOTE OF BREAKING GOD’S COMMANDMENT.
AND THUS THE QUESTION THAT WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC ASK, IS, WHY IS OUR BODY DYING?
WOULD IT NOT BE THE SAME REASON WHY ADAM DIED: HE BROKE A COMMANDMENT.
THUS WOULD NOT THAT BE WHY WE AS AMERICANS ARE DYING, WE HAVE BROKEN A COMMANDMENT.
SO IT APPEARS THAT WE AS AMERICANS ARE BORN INTO THIS WORLD ON DEATH ROW.
SO OUR BODY DYING, IS SIMPLY A WARNING TO US THAT WE ARE UNDER THE JUDGMENT OF GOD, BUT THE QUESTION IS, WHAT IS THE ANTIDOTE TO DEATH, IF BREAKING A COMMANDMENT OF GOD LEADS TO ETERNAL DEATH.
WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA BEING THE SIMPLE PEOPLE WE ARE SAY TO OURSELVES, THE ANTIDOTE TO DEATH WOULD BE THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT IS CAUSING DEATH, AND THEREFORE WHAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF BREAKING A COMMANDMENT BUT NOT BREAKING A COMMANDMENT.
BUT IF ALL OF US AMERICANS BREAK GOD’S COMMANDMENTS, WAS THERE EVER A MAN THAT DID NOT BREAK GOD’S COMMANDMENTS?
ANSWER?
2Cor. 5: [21] For he(JESUS’ FATHER hath made him(JESUS) to be sin for us, who knew no sin( KEPT HIS FATHER’S COMMANDMENTS PERFECTLY)
WHY?
(IN ORDER) that we
might be made
the righteousness(PERFECT OBEDIENCE OF JESUS) of God in him.
THEREFORE HOW DOW WE OBTAIN THE ONE THING NEEDFUL FOR OUR SOUL.
WE AGONIZE TO OBTAIN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD BY FAITH BEFORE WE DIE PHYSICALLY AND THAT WILL BE THE ANTIDOTE TO ETERNAL DEATH.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD IN THIS SERMON EHORTS US AS FOLLOWS:
The care of the soul is the one thing needful, because “without it, you cannot avoid a state of eternal misery, which will be aggravated, rather than alleviated by all your present enjoyments.”
Nothing can be more evident from the word of the God of truth. It there plainly appears to be a determined case, which leaves no room for a more favorable conjecture or hope. “The wicked shall be turned into hell, even all the nations that forget God,” Psalm 9:17. “They shall go away into everlasting punishment, Matt. 25:46, into a state where they shall in vain seek death, and death shall flee from them. Oh! brethren, it is a certain, but an awful truth, that your souls will be thinking and immortal beings, even in spite of themselves. They may indeed torment, but they cannot destroy themselves. They can no more suspend their power of thought and perception, than a mirror its property of reflecting rays that fall off its surface. Do you suspect the contrary? Make the trial immediately. Command your minds to create from thinking but for one quarter of an hour, or for half that time, and exclude every idea and every reflection. Can you succeed in that attempt? Or rather, does not thought press in with a more sensible violence on that resistance; as an anxious desire to sleep, makes us so much the more wakeful. Thus will thought follow you beyond the grave, thus will it, as an unwelcome guest, force itself upon you, when it can serve only to perplex and distress the mind. It will for ever upbraid you, that notwithstanding all the kind expostulations of God and man, notwithstanding all the keen remonstrances of conscience, and the pleadings of the blood of Christ, you have gone on in your folly, till heaven is lost, and damnation incurred; and all, for what for a shadow and a dream?
TODAY IS JULY 27 AND THUS LET US TURN TO PROVERBS 27.
TODAY IS JULY 25 AND THUS LET US TURN TO PROVERBS 25
TODAY IS JULY 23 AND THUS LET US TURN TO PROVERBS 23
HOW TO DISMANTLE OUR FASTFOOD FREEWILL FRIENDS FICTIONAL DOCTRINE OF FREEWILL BY SIMPLY DIVING INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF WHY THE APOSTLE PAUL LOVED SO MUCH OF WRITING ON THE DOCTRINE OF ELECTION, FOR IN THAT DOCTRINE HE EXPERIENCED THE LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST WHICH WAS FAR SUPERIOR THAN ANY HUMAN LOVE WHICH HE NEVER EXPERIENCED AS A FASTFOOD FREEWILL THEOLOGIAN.
IF WE THINK OF THE BIBLE AS A WAGON WHEEL WITH 66 SPOKES AND THE HUB OF THE WHEEL AS THE DEFINITION OF SALVATION, WE CAN SEE THAT IF WE WOULD BE THE ENEMY OF THE TRUE CHURCH, ALL WE WOULD HAVE TO DO TO CORRUPT THE CHURCH WOULD BE TO CORRUPT THE DEFINITION OF TRUE SALVATION AND WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO THE 66 BOOKS OF THE BIBLE BUT THEY WOULD BE CORRUPTED.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT SATAN DOES HE CORRUPTS THE HUB OF THE WHEEL AND HE THEN CAN PULL THE LEVER ON THE LAZY BOY FOR THE 66 BOOKS OF THE BIBLE WILL BE CORRUPTED.
AND HOW CAN SATAN EASILY DO THIS, BUT BY CONVINCING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT THE WILL IS FREE IN SALVATION AND AMERICA WILL THEN EVENTUALLY END UP UPON THE ASH HEAPS OF HISTORY.
AND THUS THE GREATEST THING WE AS AMERICANS CAN ADD UNTO OUR VIRTUE IS IS TO ADD KNOWLEDGE WHICH IS NOT, THAT THE WILL IS FREE IN SALVATION, BUT BOUND IN SALVATION: THEN AMERICA WILL AGAIN BECOME THE MORAL BEACON OF LIGHT TO THE WORLD.
WHY IS IT THAT FORMER MR. MORALITY, THE APOSTLE PAUL, LOVED TO WRITE ON SALVATION BY ELECTION.
WE WILL FIND THIS OUT THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION IN THIS MESSAGE.
BY LISTENING TO THIS MESSAGE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO ARM YOURSELVES WITH KNOWLEDGE IN HOW TO EASILY DISMANTLE YOUR FASTFOOD FREEWILL FRIEND’S DOCTRINE WHICH IS A FICTION.
TODAY IS JULY 16 AND THUS LET US TURN TO PROVERBS 16
TODAY IS JULY 14 AND THUS LET US TURN TO PROVERBS 14!!!
TODAY IS JULY 12 AND THUS LET US TURN TO PROVERBS 12
TODAY IS JULY 9th AND THUS LET US TURN TO PROVERBS 9.
Pr. 9: [17] Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
[18] But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
This message is entitled: The Continued Reading of Pilgrim's Progress, Part 1, which includes. Section 1, entitled Cristian's Deplorable Condition, and Section 2 entitled Evangelist Directs Christian. The book, Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory on Salvation, written by John Bunyan, who was a Bondage of the Will preacher, in prison in England for preaching the gospel, and while he was in prison, he wrote Pilgrim's Progress, published in 1678, and still in print today, has been one of the most read Christian books in the world. Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory on salvation, and is the most accurate portrayal of salvation in an allegorical format ever written. This book is worth reading over and over again, for what does Satan do, but he counterfeits salvation. If we think of the Bible as a wagon wheel with 66 spokes representing the 66 books of the Bible, and the hub of the will representing salvation, Satan counterfeits the hub of the wheel, and that is all he has to do to corrupt the 66 spokes, and that is how he destroys the true church. He never lets his foot off the accelerator, and thus the bondage of the will church must press its foot harder on the accelerator to continue to further define salvation more accurately in order to keep ahead of Satan's counterfeiting. John Bunyan in Pilgrim's Progress will put us way ahead of the curve in detecting how Satan counterfeits the scriptures, and thus every American should have a copy of Pilgm's Progress and read it over and over, not to replace our meditation on the Word of God, but to be a supplement. Pilgrim's progress is an allegory, and in this allegory, practically every paragraph, and sometimes every sentence, there is a hidden scripture that goes with it. And those of us that have read our Bibles day and night over years, every time we read Pilgrim's Progress, we will see the hidden meaning behind what John Bunyan is saying, because we will see the scriptures that he is referring to, for we know our scriptures. Thus in the following messages, a commentary will be given showing the Scriptures underlying the hidden meaning that we might understand the meaning of the allegorical sentences and paragraphs. Those of you that continue to listen throughout these several messages, you will be way ahead of the curve in detecting how Satan counterfeits so that you might avoid those false churches and ignorantly embrace their false doctrine. Those churches that have a false hub of the wheel, a false definition of salvation, a counterfeited salvation, what happens but the 66 spokes are tainted, that is the 66 books of the Bible are tainted, and thus without an accurate definition of salvation, we will be sucked into churches that have a false doctrine. And if we follow that false doctrine and end up in hell, what good did those churches do for us. they did us no good at all. So Satan is not stupid. He will always counterfeit salvation first and if he has accomplished that in a nation, if his false doctrine becomes dominant, he can pull his lever on the lazy boy, for the nation is going to go astray. ,
Like the moon being a reflection of the sun, so the morality of the nation is just a reflection of the doctrine of the church. Thus a dominant false doctrine will make America immoral.
If you are a brand new creation, you're going to just love this book because when he begins to describe in an allegorical format, conversion, it will match your own conversion you've been truly converted. And hardly anywhere else can you find such an accurate description of what it's like to become a new creation. It is just wonderful, and it will give you great confirmation of your own conversion. And you will quickly learn how to detect others who have been falsely converted, because John Bunion does a great job of showinging us what a false conversion looks like juxtaposed to a true conversion.
IN THIS MESSAGE WE WILL DELINEATE THE DIFFERENCE OF HOW THE BONDAGE OF THE WILL DOCTRINE ADDS VIRTUE TO ITS FAITH JUXTAPOSED TO HOW THE FASTFOOD FREEWILL DOCTRINE ADDS VIRTUE TO ITS FAITH.
ALSO IN THIS MESSAGE WE WILL INCORPORATE EXCERPTS OF PILGRIMS PROGRESS IN OUR DEFENSE. HERE IS AN EXCERPT FROM PILGRIM’S PROGRESS:
“Hope. Another thing that hath troubled me, even since my late amendments, is, that if I look narrowly into the best of what I do now, I still see sin, new sin, mixing itself with the best of that I do. So that now I am forced to conclude, that notwithstanding my former fond conceits of myself and duties, I have committed sin enough in one day to send me to hell, though my former life had been faultless.
Chr. And what did you do then?
Hope. Do! I could not tell what to do, till I brake my mind to FAITHFUL; for he and I were well acquainted: and he told me, "That unless I could obtain the righteousness of a Man that never had sinned, neither mine own nor all the righteousness of the world could save me."
Chr. And did you think he spake true?
Hope. Had he told me so when I was pleased and satisfied with mine own amendments, I had called him fool for his pains; but now, since I see my own infirmity, and the sin that cleaves to my best performance, I have been forced to be of his opinion.
Chr. But did you think, when at first he suggested it to you, that there was such a man to be found, of whom it might justly be said, that he never committed sin?
Hope. I must confess the words at first sounded strangely; but after a little more talk and company with him, I had full conviction about it.
Chr. And what did you do then?
Hope. I made my objections against my believing, for that I thought he was not willing to save me.
Chr. And what said FAITHFUL to you then?
Hope. He bade me go to him, and see. Then I said, "It was presumption;" but he said, "No; for I was invited to come".
Then I asked him, what must do when I came; and he told me, I must entreat upon my knees, with all my heart and soul, the Father to reveal him to me.
told him that I knew not what to say when I came; and he bid me say to this effect, "
“God be merciful to me a sinner, and make me to know and believe in Jesus Christ; for I see that if his righteousness had not been, or I have not faith in that righteousness, I am utterly cast away. Lord, I have heard that Thou art a merciful God, and hast ordained that Thy Son Jesus Christ should be the Saviour of the world: and moreover, that Thou art willing to bestow him upon such a poor sinner as I am (and I am a sinner indeed); Lord, take therefore this opportunity, and magnify Thy grace in the salvation of my soul, through Thy Son Jesus Christ. Amen."
Chr. And did you do as you were bidden?
Hope. Yes; over, and over, and over.
Chr. And did the Father reveal the Son to you?
Hope. No, not at first, nor second, nor third, nor fourth, nor fifth; no, nor at the sixth time either.
Chr. What did you then?
Hope. What? why I could not tell what to do.
Chr. Had you no thoughts of leaving off praying?
Hope. Yes, and a hundred times twice told.
Chr. And what was the reason you did not?
Hope. I believed that it was true which had been told me; to wit, that without the righteousness of this Christ, all the world could not save me.
and thus it was: one day I was very sad, I think sadder than at anyone time in my life, and this sadness was through a fresh sight of the greatness and vileness of my sins. And as I was then looking for nothing but hell, and the everlasting damnation of my soul,
suddenly,
as I thought, I saw the Lord Jesus looking down from heaven upon me, and saying, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved…
Yea, I thought, that had I now a thousand gallons of blood in my body, I could spill it all for the sake of the Lord Jesus.
WHAT WAS THE VERSE OF PROMISE THAT ADAM AND EVE HUNG ON BY FAITH TO KNOW THAT THEY WERE SAVED?
2PETER 1: [4] Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
[5] And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
FISHERMAN PETER HAD KNOWLEDGE FROM JESUS THAT HE WOULD DIE SOON, BUT WHAT WAS ON HIS MIND BUT HIS FLOCK, WORRYING THAT THEY MIGHT FALL, THUS HE WRITES THIS EPISTLE TO GIVE THEM 7 THINGS, IF THEY WILL DILIGENTLY APPLY TO THEMSELVES, THAT THEY WILL NEVER FALL. IN THE LEAD UP TO THESE 7 THINGS HE SPEAKS TO THEM ABOUT THE EXCEEDING GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES AVAILABLE TO THEM.
WE WILL BE WARNED
HOW FAITH CAN MADE VOID
AND THE PROMISE OF NONE EFFECT.
FISHERMAN PETER THOUGH BEING AN UNEDUCATED FISHERMAN PACKS A LOT OF DOCTRINE INTO THIS BRIEF LETTER.
PETER WAS A NEW CREATION & LIKE ALL NEW CREATIONS YOU CAN TELL HOW HE ATE, SLEEPT & DRANK THE PROMISES OF GOD AND THAT IS WHY FISHERMAN PETER SAYS THE FOLLOWING:
2 PETER 1: [4] Whereby are
given unto us
exceeding great and precious promises:
WHY?
that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
[5] And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
BUT FORMER MR. MORALITY SAYS THIS:
ROM. 4: [13] For the promise,
that ABRAHAM should be the heir of the world,
was not to Abraham, or to his seed,
through the law,
but through the righteousness of faith.
[14] For if they which are of the law be heirs,
FAITH is made VOID , and the PROMISE made OF NONE EFFECT.
WE WILL TAKE A DEEP DIVE INTO VERSE 4 OF 2PETER.