THE DOMINANT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS IN THE 1600s, AND JONATHAN EDWARDS AND GEORGE WHITEFIELD IN THE 1700s, WAS THAT FREEWILL IN SALVATION IS A FICTION. GEORGE WHITEFIELD PREACHED OVER 18,000 SERMONS IN THE FIELDS MOST OF THE TIME,
THIS MESSAGE IS A CONTINUED READING OF MARTIN LUTHER'S COMMENTARY ON THE BOOK OF ROMANS. WE HAPPEN TO BE ON MARTIN LUTHER'S CONTINUED COMMENTARY OF ROMANS 4: 7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.THERE IS NO GREATER COMMENTARY ON THE BOOK OF ROMANS THAN MARTIN LUTHER. HE IS VERY DEEP AND PARADOXICAL. THE NEW CREATION, WHICH IS PARADOXICAL IN NATURE IMMEDIATELY KNOWS WHEN HE BEGINS TO READ THIS COMMENTARY THAT MARTIN LUTHER'S WORDS ARE MATCHING HIS NEW CREATION NATURE. THIS COMMENTARY, BEING AS DEEP AS IT IS, CAN BE READ OVER AND OVER, EACH TIME LEARNING A LITTLE MORE. SO LET US BE READY TO BE IN FOR A BLESSING, AS WE STOP THE MESSAGE, RE-LISTEN AND THINKWHEN LISTENING TO MARTIN LUTHER, ALWAYS KEEP IN MIND THE FUNCTION OF LAW!BOTTOM LINE, IS: THE LAW CAN ONLY CONDEMN, THROWING US TO FEET OF JESUS CRYING OUT FOR MERCY, AS JESUS IS GIVING US A HAND UP, SAYING, FEAR NOT I HAVE FULFILLED MY FATHER'S COMMANDS FOR YOU, JUST BELIEVE ME BY FAITH IN MY RIGHTEOUSNESS AS YOUR TICKET INTO HEAVEN, BUT NEVER FORGETTING TO BE BE IN A STATE OF REPENTANCE OVER OUR ORIGINAL SIN. LIKE A BROKEN LEG, IN A CAST, WE KNOW WE WILL BE HEALED, SO WILL OUR CAST OF A BROKEN HEART OVER ORIGINAL SIN BE TAKEN OFF AT OUR PHYSICAL DEATH AND WE WILL NO LONGER BE WALKING WITH A SOUL LIMP. Martin Luther:“COROLLARYTo say: "God has obliged us to have grace and therefore to whatis impossible"is an inept and foolish way of speaking. I excuse the most blessed God. He is innocent of this deception. He has not done this. He has NOT OBLIGED us to HAVE GRACE, but he has OBLIGEDus to FULFILL THE LAWin order to give us HIS GRACEWHEN, HUMILIATED,we ask for it. But these men make grace into something that causes indignation and they imagine what is hateful. For what does itmean to say: God has obliged us to have grace, and he does notwant to accept the fulfillment of the law according to the substanceof the deed if it is not also fulfilled according to the intention ofthe lawgiver? Is this not the same as to say: Look, can we, then,fulfill the law without grace? Is it not enough that he has burdenedus with the law, without adding his demand that we should havegrace, as a new exaction? What arrogance! What ignorance of sin!What ignorance of God! What ignorance of the law! IN OTHER WORDS, DOES JESUS WANT US TO ADD UNTO HIS PERFECT FULFILLMENT OF HIS FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS TO HIM WHILE HE WAS HERE ON EARTH?ABSOLUTELY NOT! What arrogance! What ignorance of sin!What ignorance of God! What ignorance of the law! Thus, whenGod offers grace to us miserable creatures BECAUSEHE SEES that WECANNOT FULFILL his LAWand so that we may now fulfill it by the powerof grace, (FOOLISHLY, BELIEVE WE, THAT WE CAN ONLY FULFILL PART OF GOD'S LAW, JESUS THEN WILL FULFILL THE REMAINDER)THESE PEOPLE are NOT yet sufficiently humbled and they still do not know that the law cannot be fulfilled according to thesubstance of the deed as they themselves say. It may be, then, thatthey mean by "substance of the deed" an external action. But theydo not do this at all; they have reference also to an internal action.they subsume under "substance of the deed" a work that isdone for the sake of God from the heart by an act of the will thatis naturally educed. Fools that they are, they do not notice that thewill, even if it could, would never do what the law prescribes. Forit resists the good and inclines toward evil. This they certainlymust know in their own experience, and yet they talk so irrever-ently and sacrilegiously. For as long as it is reluctant toward thelaw, it is turned away from it and THUS DOES NOT FULLFILL ITConsequently, it needs GRACE to make it willing and cheerful toward thelaw.I was right, then, when I said that ALL our GOOD is OUTSIDE US;andCHRIST IS this GOOD.
WE WILL BE READING FROM MARTIN LUTHER COMMENTARY ON THE BOOK OF ROMANS. IN THIS MESSAGE MARTIN LUTHER CONCENTRATES ON ROMANS 4:3,7. THIS COMMENTARY OF MARTIN LUTHER'S IS THE BEST COMMENTARY EVER WRITTEN, IF YOU AREA NEW CREATION FOR MARTIN LUTHER DOES NOT NEED TO STUDY OTHER MEN'S DOCTRINE, BUT HE WRITES EXPERIENTIALLY FROM HIS OWN NEW CREATION. THE NEW CREATION IS PARADOXICAL IN NATURE AND OUR FASTFOOD FREEWILL THEOLOGIANS BEING NATURAL MEN THEOLOGIANS HAVE BEND THE SCRIPTURES TO FIT THEIR NATURAL MAN NATURE. BUT A NEW NEEDS NOT DO THAT BECAUSE HE IS A NEW CREATION AND PARADOXICAL IS NORMAL FOR HIM. JOHN BUNYAN , ANOTHER HEAVY WEIGHT BONDAGE OF THE WILL PREACHER SPENT 12 YEARS IN PRISON FOR PREACHING THE GOSPEL IN ENGLAND IN PRISON HE ‘GRACE ABOUNDING' HIS AUTOBIOGRPHY ON SALVATION AND HIS ALLEGORICAL BOOK SALVATION WHICH IS THE MOST DEFINITIVEAND ACCURATE ALLEGORY EVER WRITTEN ON SALVATION. JOHN BUNYAN IS CLOSER IN BONDAGE OF THE DOCTRINE THAN ALMOST ANYBODY ELSE. MARTIN LUTHER IGNITED THE BONDAGE OF WIIL DOCTRINE IN 1517 BY PUTTING ON THE DOOR THE WITTENBERG CASTLE IN WITTENBERG, GERMANY. MARTIN LUTHER WAS ALMOST MURDERED BUT DID NOT LOSE HIS LIFE AS DID PREDECESSOR JOHN HUS. JOHN BUNYAN WROTE PILGRIMS PROGRESS OVER A HUNDRED YEARS AFTER MARTIN LUTHER PUBLISHED HIS BOOK ENTITLED ‘BONDAGE OF THE WILL' IN 1524 IN RESPONSE TO ERASMUS WHO WROTE ‘FREEDOM OF THE WILL'. LET NOW LISTEN TO HOW MUCH JOHN BUNYAN LOVES MARTIN LUTHERS WRITING ON THE BOOK OF GALATIANS. “But before I had got thus far out of these my temptations, I did greatly long to see some ancient godly man's experience, who had writ some hundreds of years before I was born; for those who had writ in our days, I thought (but I desire them now to pardon me) that they had writ only that which others felt; or else had, through the strength of their wits and parts, studied to answer such objections as they perceived others were perplexed with, without going down themselves into the deep. Well, after many such longings in my mind, the God, in Whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand (one day) a book of Martin Luther's; it was his Comment on the Galatians; it also was so old, that it was ready to fall piece from piece if I did but turn it over. Now I was pleased much that such an old book had fallen into my hand, the which when I had but a little way perused, I found my condition in his experience so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart. This made me marvel: for thus thought I, This man could not know any thing of the state of Christians now, but must needs write and speak the experience of former daysBesides, he doth most gravely also in that book, debate of the rise of these temptations, namely, blasphemy, desperation, and the like; showing that the law of Moses, as well as the devil, death, and hell, hath a very great hand therein: the which, at first, was very strange to me; but considering and watching, I found it so indeed. But of particulars here, I intend nothing; only this methinks I must let fall before all men—I do prefer this book of Martin Luther upon the Galatians (excepting the Holy Bible) before all the books that ever I had seen, as most fit for a wounded conscience.
“May GOD thy gold REFINETill ALL SUCCESS BE NOBLENESS,And EVERY GAIN DIVINE.”America the BeautifulHOW IMPORTANT IS A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT, AND HOW JOSHUA USED IT, TO CONQUER THE LAND OF ISRAEL, TO OUR AMERICAN MILITARY OF TODAY?WE WILL TAKE A DEEP DIVE INTO THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT HOW IT CAN VASTLY STRENGTHEN OUR MILITARY. DOES OUR AMERICAN MILITARY BELIEVE THE FOLLOWING VERSE ANY LONGER?Proverbs 21: [31] The horse(CALVARY-F-47) is PREPARED AGAINSTthe DAY of battle: but SAFETY is of the LORD.SEE HOW JOSHUA, KING DAVID, KING HEZEKIAH, GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON, AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN BELIEVED THIS VERSE IN THIS MESSAGE BY THEIR ACTIONS. ABRAHAM LINCOLN:“Whereas it is the DUTY of NATIONSas well as of MENto OWN their “DEPENDANCE”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 RECOGNIZEthe SUBLIME TRUTH, ANNOUNCEDin the Holy Scriptures and PROVENby all history, that THOSE NATIONS“ONLY”are BLESSED whose God is the Lord;And, insomuch as WE KNOWthat by HISDIVINE LAWNATIONS, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not JUSTLY FEARthat the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land MAY BEbut a PUNISHMENTinflicted upon us forour presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our NATIONAL REFORMATIONas a whole people?GEORGE WASHINGTON:WHEN ENCAMPED AT VALLEY FORGE IN WINTER OF 1177-1778 GENERAL WASHINGTON, AMIDST MUCH HARDSHIP ASK HIS ARMY CHAPLAINS TO DO THE FOLLOWING:“Tomorrow being the day set apart by the honorable Congress for public thanksgiving and praise, and duty calling us all devoutly to express our grateful acknowledgments to God for the manifold blessings he has granted us, the General directs that the army remain in its present quarters, and that the chaplains perform divine service with their several regiments and brigades; and earnestly exhorts all officers and soldiers, whose absence is not indispensably necessary, to attend with reverence the solemnities of the day.AFTER THE FINAL VICTORIOUS BATTLE AT YORKTOWN IN 1781 GEORGE WASHINGTON, COMMANDED:“Divine service is to be performed tomorrow in the several brigades and divisions. The Commander-in-chief earnestly recommends that the troops not on duty should universally attend, with that seriousness of deportment and gratitude of heart, which the recognition of such reiterated and astonishing interpositions of Providence demand of us. IN THIS MESSAGE WE DISCUSS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT IN JOSHUA'S GREAT MILITARY VICTORIES IN TAKING OVER 7 NATIONS IN THE LAND CANNAN WHICH WOULD BECOME ISRAEL. WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE 10 COMMANDMENTS AT THE TIME OF JOSHUA?WHO IS THE LORD OF HOSTS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?WE WILL UNPACK THIS VERSE:[16] O (1)LORD of hosts, (2)God of Israel, that (3)dwellest between the cherubims, (4)thou art the God, even (5)thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth. KING DAVID SHOULD BE THE EXAMPLE TO OUR AMERICAN MILITARY: WHAT WAS HIS MOTIVATION IN SLEWING GOLIATH?LET US FIND OUT:1 Sam. 37: [47] And all this assembly SHALL KNOW that the LORD SAVETH NOT with SWORD and SPEAR: for the battle is the LORD's, and HE will GIVE YOU into our hands.[46] This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that ALL the EARTHMAY KNOW that there is a God in Israel.
WE WILL BE SPENDING MOST OF 2025 ON THE DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF ITS IMPORTANCE VERTICALLY SPEAKING, THAT IS SALVATION, BUT ALSO HORIZONTALLY SPEAKING, THAT IS THE MORAL WELL BEING OF AMERICA, AND THUS THE PRESERVANCE OF AMERICA. ORIGINAL SIN IS INEXTRICABLY TIED,NOT ONLY OUR PERSONAL SALVATION, BUT THE PRESERVATION OF AMERICA,BEING THE LAND OF HAPPINESS AND FREEDOM, AND NOT GOING THE WAY OF ROME. JONATHON EDWARD'S TREATISE ENTITLED ‘THE GREAT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN DEFENDED' WAS WRITTEN TO COUNTER DR. TAYLOR'S WORK DENYING THE INNATENESS OF ORIGINAL SIN. JONATHON EDWARDS WRITINGS ARE ABOVE MANY OF OUR HEADS AND THUS HARD TO UNDERSTAND, BUT IT IS GOOD FOR US AMERICANS TO ATTEMPT TO LISTEN ABOVE OUR HEADS THAT WE MIGHT GROW. WE MUST PUSH OURSELVES TO UNDERSTAND THE DIFFICULT THAT WHEN WE RETREAT BACK WHAT USED TO BE HARD IS NOW EASY. SO LET PUSH OURSELVES TO LISTEN TO PICK UP AN IDEA OR SO IN EACH MESSAGE EVEN IF MUCH OF IT WAS OVER OUR HEADS, THAT IS HOW WE GROW. JONATHON EDWARDS WRITES MICROSCOPICALLY AND THUS WE HAVE TO DO THE TELESCOPIC ON OUR OWN. THE FOLLOWING IS WHAT IS BEING READ AT THE END OF THIS MESSAGE. TO SHOW HOW DEEP JONATHON EDWARDS IS, ATTEMPT TO READ IT AND SEE IF YOU CAN SEE HOW IT APPLIES TO ORIGINAL SIN, HOW ORIGINAL SIN, WARPS OUR REASONING AND THUS OUR TEMPORAL NEEDS OVERRIDE OUR ETERNAL NEEDS. THIS WILL GIVE YOU AN IDEA HOW CAREFULLY YOU MUST LISTEN IN ORDER TO GET AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT HE IS PROVING. These things are often mentioned in Scripture as Evi|dences of extreme Folly and Stupidity, wherein Men act as great Enemies to themselves, as tho' they loved their own Ruin; And how can these things be accounted for, but by supposing a most WRETCHED Depravity of Na|ture? Why otherwise should not Men be as wise for themselves in spiritual and eternal Things…If any should say, 'Tis true, if Men gave full Credit to what they are told concerning eternal Things, and these appeared to 'em as real and certain Things, it would be an Evidence of a sort of Madness in them, that they shew no greater Regard to 'em in Practice: But there is Rea|son to think, this is not the Case; the Things of another World, being unseen things, appear to Men as things of a very doubtful Nature, In ANSWER, I would observe, agreeable to what has been cited from Mr. Locke, Though eternal things were considered in their bare Possibility, if Men acted rationally, they would infinitely outweigh all temporal Things in their Influence on their Hearts. And I would also ob|serve, that the supposing eternal Things not to be fully believed, at least by them who enjoy the Light of the Gospel, does not weaken, but rather strengthen the Argu|ment for the Depravity of Nature. For the eternal World being what God had chiefly in View in the Cre|ation of Men, and the Things of this World being made to be wholly subordinate to the other, Man's State here being only a State of Probation, Preparation & Progression, with respect to the future State, and so eternal Things being in Effect Men's All, their whole Concern: to un|derstand and know which, it chiefly was, that they had Un|derstandingdescriptionPAGE 62given 'em; and it concerning them infinitely more to know the Truth of eternal Things than any other, as all that are not Infidels will own; Therefore, we may undoubtedly conclude, that if Men have not Respect to 'em as real and certain Things, it cannot be for Want of sufficient Evidence of their Truth, to induce 'em so to regard them; especially as to them that live under that Light, which God has appointed as the most proper Ex|hibition of the Nature and Evidence of these Things: But it must be from a dreadful Stupidity of Mind, oc|casioning a sottish Insensibility of their Truth and Im|portance, when manifested by the clearest Evidence.
CAN WE AS AMERICANS BE LIKE KING DAVID, A MAN AFTER GOD'S OWN HEART, LIKE IN THE FOLLOWING PSALM:Psalm 119: [97] O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.[98] Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.[99] I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.[100] I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.[101] I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.[102] I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.[103] How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth![104] Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.[105] Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.[106] I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.[107] I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word. IN THIS MESSAGE WE WILL TAKE A DEEP DIVE INTO WHY IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO LOVE THE “LAW” OF OUR LORD IN THE WORD OF GOD, OVER EVERYTHING ELSE IN THIS WORLD, AND IF IT IS NOT, WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT!!!IN ORDER TO OBTAIN A HEART AFTER GOD'S OWN AS KING DAVID HAD,WE MUST FIRST,BE HONEST WITH OURSELVES, FOR WE KNOW WE LIE TO OURSELVES THE MOST, ESPECIALLY ABOUT ETERNAL LIFE. HAVE WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA EVER ASKED OURSELVES, ESPECIALLY THOSE OF US THAT GO TO CHURCH, DO WE LOVE JESUS MORE THAN OUR SPOUSE OR ANY OTHER PERSON? DOES JESUS REQUIRE THIS IN ORDER FOR US TO BE ONE OF HIS DISCIPLES? Dr. Luke 14: 25] And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them,[26] If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.[27] And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.[28] For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?[29] Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,[30] Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.[31] Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?[32] Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.SO JESUS SEEMS TO GET RIGHT UP IN THE FACE OF US AMERICANS WHO GO TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY, AND THEN LIVE THE REST OF THE WEEK LIKE THE WORLD. SO THEN WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA SAY TO OURSELVES, AFTER READING WHAT JESUS JUST SAID, CAN WE STILL SAY WE REALLY LOVE JESUS?SO WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC SAY TO OURSELVES, DOES NOT THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THERE IS ANOTHER NAME FOR JESUS WHICH IS “THE WORD OF GOD”?Revelation 19: [13] And he(JESUS) was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called “The Word of God”.and his name. SO WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC SAY TO OURSELVES,IF WE GO TO CHURCH AND SAY WE LOVE JESUS WITH ALL OUR HEART, WE SHOULD THEN LOVE “THE LAW OF THE LORD” IN WORD OF GOD AND WE SHOULD LOVE TO MEDITATE UPON IT DAY AND NIGHT, SHOULD WE NOT:BUT HOW MANY OF US AMERICANSLOVE “THE WORD OF GOD” (JESUS) MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IN THIS WORLD AS JESUS SAID ABOVE MUST HAPPEN IN ORDER TO BE ONE OF HIS DISCIPLES. CAN WE AS AMERICANS BE LIKE THIS:Psalm119: [97] O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.Psalm 1: [1] Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.[2] But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.LISTEN TO THIS MESSAGE AND FIND OUT!!!
THIS MESSAGE CAN BE FOUND ACCOMPANIED WITH MUSIC IF YOU DOWNLOAD THE SPOTIFY APP AND PUT IN THE SEARCH BAR-BROKEN 3 JONATHON EDWARDS WRITES:SECT. III.OVERVIEWThat Propensity which has been proved to be in the Nature of all Mankind, must be a very evil, de|praved and pernicious Propensity; making it manifest that the Soul of Man, as it is by Nature, is in a corrupt, fallen and ruin'd State: which is the other Part of the Consequence, drawn from the Proposition laid down in the first Section.Question to be considered, in Order to deter|mine whether Man's Nature is not depraved and ruin'd, is not, Whether he is not inclined to perform as many good Deeds as bad ones? But, Which of these two he preponderates to, in the Frame of his Heart, and State of his Nature, a State of Innocence and Righteousness, and Favour with God; or a State of Sin, Guiltiness and Abhorrence in the Sight of God?—Persevering sinless Righteousness, or else the Guilt of Sin, is the Alternative, the Decision of which depends (as is confessed) according to the Nature and Truth of Things, as they are in them|selves, and according to the Rule of Right and of perfect Justice, Man's being approved and accepted of his Maker, and eternally blessed as good; or his being rejected, thrown away and cursed as bad. And therefore the Determi|nation of the Tendency of Man's Heart and Nature with respect to these Terms, is that which is to be look'd at, in Order to determine whether his Nature is good or evil, pure or corrupt, sound or ruin'd. If such be Man's Na|ture, and state of his Heart, that he has an infallibly ef|fectual Propensity to the latter of those Terms;; then it is wholly impertinent, to talk of the innocent and kind Actions, even of Criminals themselves, surpassing their Crimes in Numbers; and of the prevailing Innocence, good Nature, Industry, Felicity and Chearfulness of the greater Part of Mankind. Let never so many Thou|sands, or Millions of Acts of Honesty, good Nature &c.descriptionPAGE 28be supposed; yet, by the Supposition, there is an unfail|ing Propensity to such moral Evil, as in it's dreadful Con|sequences infinitely out-weighs all Effects or Consequen|ces of any supposed Good. Surely that Tendency, which, in Effect, is an infallible Tendency to eternal Destruction, is an infinitely dreadful & pernicious Tendency: And that Nature & Frame of Mind, which implies such a Tendency, must be an infinitely dreadful & pernicious Frame of Mind. It would be much more absurd, to suppose, that such a State of Nature is good, or not bad, under a Notion of Men's doing more honest and kind things, than evil ones; than to say, the State of that Ship is good, to cross the Atlantick Ocean in, that is such as cannot hold together through the Voyage, but will infallibly founder and sink by the Way; under a Notion that it may probably go great Part of the Way before it sinks, or that it will pro|ceed and sail above Water more Hours than it will be in sinking:—Or, to pronounce thatRoad a good Road to go to such a Place, the greater Part of which is plain and safe, tho' some Parts of it are dangerous, and certainly fatal to them that travel in it; or to call that a good Pro|pensity, which is an inflexible Inclination to travel in such a Way.SECT. V.The Depravity of Nature appears, in that the general Consequence of the State & Tendency of Man's Nature is a much greater Degree of Sin, than Righteousness; not only with respect to Value and Demerit, but Matter and Quantity.I Have before shewn, that there is a Propensity in Man's Nature to that Sin, which in Heinousness and Ill-desert immensely outweighs all the Value and Merit of any supposed Good, that may be in him, or that he can do.
THIS MESSAGE WE WILL LOOK AT THE #1 CULPRIT THAT BRINGS ALL TYPE OF MISERY IN OUR LIFE. RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX, THE MOMENT WE ARE BORN INTO THIS WORLD, THIS SIN BEGINS TO PLAGUE US, AND WE ARE COMPLETELY UNAWARE HOW DANGEROUS THIS EVIL PROCLIVITY CAN BE TO OUR LIVES, IF IT IS EMBRACED RATHER THAN REPENTED OVER. HANNAH WHO WAS BARREN, FERVENTLY PRAYED, AND GOD EVENTUALLY ANSWERED HER PRAYER AND GAVE HER A CHILD NAMED SAMUEL WHO BECAME A GREAT PROPHET, AND AFTER SHE CONCEIVED SHE PRAYED A PRAYER WHICH INCORPORATED MUCH OF THIS DANGEROUS SIN, AND MARY JESUS' MOTHER PROBABLY HAD THIS PRAYER MEMORIZED, FOR WHEN MARY WENT TO VISIT HER COUSIN ELIZABETH, WHO ALSO HAD BEEN BARREN AND THEN FINALLY CONCEIVED JOHN THE BAPTIST, MARY CAME TO VISIT HER, BEING PREGNANT WITH JESUS AND ELIZABETH WITH JOHN THE BAPTIST, AND SEEING THE HAND OF GOD IN BOTH HER AND ELIZABETH PRAYED A PRAISE SONG ALMOST IDENTICAL TO HANNAH'S PRAYER. THIS PRAYER ALSO INCORPORATED THIS DANGEROUS SIN AND ITS OPPOSITE. SO WHAT COULD THIS SIN BE, WHICH IS #1 ON GOD'S HATE LIST OF ORIGINAL SINS, THE #1 EVIL PROCLIVITY OF OUR HEART THAT GOD HATES SO MUCH, THAT WHEN THIS EVIL PROCLIVITY OF OUR HEART RAISES ITS UGLY HEAD, AND WE DO NOT FORBID IT AND REPENT OVER IT, BUT ENTERTAIN IT AND EMBRACE IT AND THIS EVIL BLACK CAT ESCAPES GOD IS SO ANGRY THAT HIS HAND OF DISCIPLINE IS SO HORRIFIC THAT THE INDIVIDUALS IN THE BIBLE WHO RECEIVED THESE PUNISHMENTS NO DOUBT WOULD NEVER AGAIN WANT THAT BLACK CAT TO ESCAPE. HEAR ARE EXAMPLES OF INDIVIDUALS WHO LET THIS DANGEROUS BLACK CAT ESCSPE OUT OF THEIR HEART. [10] Now therefore the SWORD shall NEVER DEPART from THINE HEART; Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I WILLRAISE UP EVIL AGAINST THEE out of thine OWN HOUSE, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. to thee it is spoken; The KINGDOM is DEPARTED from THEE, And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to EAT GRASS as OXEN, and seven times(years) shall pass over thee, UNTIL THOU KNOW that the MOST HIGH RULETH in the KIMGDOM of MEN, and GIVETH IT to WHOMSOVER HE WILL. The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon HIM: and he was driven from men, and did EAT GRASS as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his HAIRS were grown like eagles' feathers, and his NAILS like birds' CLAWS. 22] And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the ANGEL of the LORD SMOTE HIM, because he gave not God the GLORY, and he was EATEN of WORMS, and GAVE UP the GHOST. He was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the LEPROSY even ROSE UP in his FOREHEAD before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar, and the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was LEPROUS in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had SMITTEN HIM. And HE was a LEPER unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a LEPER; for he was cut off from the house of the LORDWE AS AMERICANS LIVE IN A FREE COUNTRY, BUT WE ARE ONLY FREE IF GOVERN OURSELVES, BUT WHAT SHOULD WE BE GOVERNING BUT OUR ORIGINAL SIN AND REPENTING OVER OUR ORIGINAL SIN BEFORE IT BECOMES AN ACT OF SIN, THEN AND ONLY THEN WILL WE BE THE MOST MORAL COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. LET US HERE FROM SOME OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS.This constitution is written for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other. John AdamsWe 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
HOPEFULLY THE READING OF JONATHON EDWARDS TREATISE ON ORIGINAL SIN WILL PUT QUESTIONS INTO OUR MIND TO HELP US AS AMERICANS TO AGAIN HAVE A NATIONAL DISCUSSION ON ORIGINAL SIN, FOR WE CANNOT BE SAVED APART FROM FEELING THE GUILT OF ORIGINAL SIN, THAT WE MIGHT SEE THE FUTILITY OF OUR FIG LEAVES OF MORALITY, AND THUS HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD BY WHICH IS OUR TICKET INTO HEAVEN, WHICH IS THE ONLY TICKET INTO HEAVEN. THUS IF WE HAVE QUESTIONS AFTER LISTENING TO JONATHON EDWARDS, POUND AWAY ON EVERY NUANCE OF ORIGINAL SIN, THAT IS A GOOD THING, FOR WE AS AMERICANS NEED AGAIN TO GET THIS DISCUSSION ON THE FRONT BURNER IN AMERICA, FOR WITHOUT FEELING THE WEIGHT OF ORIGINAL SIN NO MAN CAN BE SAVED. SOME QUESTIONS WE CAN BE MUSING UPON:THOSE WHO DENY THE SELF EVIDENT TRUTH OF ORIGINAL SIN, WILL ASK THE QUESTION SOMETIMES: IF MAN DOES MORE GOOD DEEDS THAN EVIL DEEDS HOW COULD A MAN BE TOTALLY DEPRAVED AND EVIL BY NATURE?OR HOW IS IT A MAN CAN DO ANY GOOD AT ALL IF HE IS TOTALLY EVIL? WHAT IF A SHIP'S MISSION WAS TO TAKE ITS PASSENGERS FROM NEW YORK HARBOR TO ENGLAND BUT THREE QUARTERS THE WAY THROUGH THE JOURNEY, THE PASSENGER SHIP SINKS AND ALL DIE, WOULD THE JOURNEY, BECAUSE IT MADE MORE THAN HALF WAY TO ENGLAND BE CONSIDERED A GOOD JOURNEY, OR BAD JOURNEY?WHAT ABOUT THE JOURNEY OF LIFE? WHAT IF WE LIVED THE FIRST 3/4's OF OUR LIFE WITHOUT SIN, AND AT THE 3/4's MARK WE SINNED, WOULD OUR LIFE JOURNEY BE CONSIDERED A SUCCESSFUL JOURNEY BY GOD, MAKING US FIT FOR HEAVEN?DOES GOD DEMAND PERFECTION OR DOES GOD BELIEVE IN PARTIAL CREDIT?Jonathon EDWARDS is writing this Treatise on Original Sin against a man with a P. H. D., DR. TAYLOR. HOW CAN THIS DOCTOR TAYLOR BE SO IGNORANT AND USE SUCH FALLIBLE ARGUMENTS IF HE IS THAT SMART? JONATHON EDWARDS WRITES:Surely that tendency, which in effect, is an infallible tendency to eternal destruction, is an infinitely and dreadful and pernicious frame of mind. It would be much more absurd to suppose, that such a state of nature is not bad, under a notion of men doing more honest and kind things than evil ones: the state of that ship is good, for crossing the Atlantic Ocean, though such cannot hold together through the voyage, but will infallibly flounder and sink, under a notion that it probably will go a great partof the way before it sinks….More absurd, than it would be to affirm, that a wife is a good wife to him, though she committed adultery, and that with the slaves and scoundrels sometimes, yet she did not do this so often as she did the duties of a wife. SECTION III OVERVIEWThat propensity, which has been proved to be in the nature of all mankind, must be a very evil, depraved, and pernicious propensity; making it manifest, that the soul of man, as it is by nature, is in a corrupt, fallen, and ruined state; which is the other part of the consequence, drawn from the proposition laid down in the first section.SECTION 3THE question to be considered, in order to determine whether man's nature be depraved and ruined, is not, Whether he is inclined to perform as many good deeds as bad ones? But, to which of these two he preponderates, in the frame of his heart, and the state of his nature, a state of innocence and righteousness, and favor with God; or a state of sin, guiltiness, and abhorrence in the sight of God? — Persevering sinless righteousness, or else the guilt of sin, is the alternative, on the decision of which depends — according to the nature and truth of things, as they are in themselves, and according to the rule of right, and of perfect justice — man being approved and accepted of his Maker and eternally blessed as good; or his being rejected, and cursed as bad. And therefore the determination of the tendency of man's heart and nature, with respect to these terms, is that which is to be looked at, in order to determine whether his nature is good or evil, pure or corrupt,
THIS MESSAGE IS TO THE BLUE COLLAR WORKERS AND ENTREPRENEURS OF AMERICA WHO HAVE COMMON SENSE!WHY DID JESUS COME INTO THIS WORLD AS A BLUE COLLAR WORKER (CARPENTER), AND CHOOSE BLUE COLLAR FOLLOWERS TO MOCK THE HIGHLY EDUCATED PHARISEE RULERS(THESE WOULD HAVE BEEN THE HARVARD, YALE, PRINCETON, MIT, STANFORD GRADS OF HIS DAY).SOMETIMES WE AS JOHN Q. OF AMERICA ASK SIMPLE QUESTIONS THAT THE ELITE DO NOT SEEM TO ASK, LIKE WHY AM I DYING, WHY AM I BORN AN INNATE LIAR. WHEN WE ASK OUR FELLOW AMERICANS WHY WE ARE DYING, WE GET ANSWERS LIKE: OLD AGE; NOT EATING HEALTHY; DRUGS; DROWNING; CAR ACCIDENTS; RARELY AIRLINER ACCIDENTS; MURDER; WARS. BUT WHEN WE MENTION TO OUR FELLOW AMERICANS THAT THESE ARE ONLY SURFACE ANSWERS, FOR WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE, WHAT IS THE ONE UNDERLYING CAUSE THAT IS CAUSING US ALL TO DIE, ALL WE GET IS A BLANK STARE, THE DEER IN THE HEADLIGHT SYNDROME. DO WE NOT AS AMERICANS WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF CERTAIN TEMPORAL DISEASES SO WE CAN CHANGE OUR BEHAVIOR TO AVOID ACQUIRING THAT DISEASE. SO KNOWING THE TRUE CAUSE OF DEATH WILL CHANGE OUR BEHAVIOR WILL IT NOT. BUT IS IT NOT MOST IMPORTANT FOR OUR AMERICAN LEADERS TO KNOW THE REAL CAUSE DEATH? IN THIS MESSAGE WE WILL FIND OUT THE REAL CAUSE OF DEATH, IT WILL INFLUENCE OUR MORAL BEHAVIOR GREATLY FOR LIBERTY IS UNSUSTAINABLE APART FROM MORALITY. WE AS AMERICANS NEED TO GIVE TRUTHFUL ANSWERS TO A CHILD'S QUESTION OF WHY HE/SHE IS BORN TO DIE, AND BORN INTO THIS WORLD AS AN INNATE LIAR AND THAT LYING CANNOT BE ERADICATED? BUT SHOULD WE NOT ASK AS AMERICANS HOW IT IS POSSIBLE THAT OUR LEADERS THEMSELVES DO NOT KNOW THE ANSWER TO THESE TWO SIMPLE QUESTIONS. HOW COULD THESE HIGH IQ AMERICANS NOT HAVE ON THE TIP OF THEIR TONGUE, THE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS AND BE ABLE 100% DEFEND IT?IF WE DON'T KNOW THE REAL CAUSE OF OUR DEATH, THEN HOW COULD WE KNOW THE SIGNIFICANCE OF EVERY FUNERAL WE GO TO, WHAT IS THE WARNING SIGNS OF THAT FUNERAL? CAN WE ANSWER THAT QUESTION IF WE DON'T KNOW THE REAL CAUSE OF OUR DEATH? JESUS CAME INTO THIS WORLD AS A BLUE COLLAR WORKER AND CHOSE 4 UNEDUCATED FISHERMAN AND A TAX CHEAT TO MOCK THE RELIGIOUS RULERS, THE PHARISEES OF HIS DAY. WHY WOULD HE DO THAT, BUT FOR THE FACT HE KNEW THE PHARISEES WERE CORRUPT, BUT EVEN A BIGGER QUESTION IS WHY WOULD HE USE BLUE COLLAR FOLLOWERS TO TAKE ON THE ELITE. IN MT. 24:1-2 JESUS PREDICTED THE NATION WOULD DESTROYED AND IT WAS IN 70 A. D. BY TITUS THE ROMAN. EVERY STONE OF THE TEMPLE WAS TORN DOWN AND JOSEPHUS REPORTED ABOUT 1.1 MILLION MASSACRED. ISRAEL DID NOT RETURN AS A NATION UNTIL 1948 JESUS, THE BLUE COLLAR CARPENTER, UPBRAIDS THE ELITE PHARISEESTAX COLLECTOR MATTHEW 23: [26] Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.[27] Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.[28] Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.30] And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.[31] Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.[32] Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.[33] Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?[34] Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:[35] That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.[36] Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
JONATHON EDWARDS PUBLISHED HIS TREATISE ENTITLED, ‘THE GREAT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN DEFENDED' IN 1758 JUST 18 YEARS BEFORE OUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, MOSTLY WRITTEN BY THOMAS JEFFERSON IN 1776 AND JUST 11 YEAR MORE YEARS BEFORE OUR CONSTITUTION WAS APPROVED IN 1787. JONATHON EDWARDS COMPLETELY DISMANTLES DR. TAYLOR'S BOOK IN WHICH HE DENIES INNATE ORIGINAL SIN. “John Taylor's Scripture Doctrine of Original Sin was published in 1740. Taylor wrote the book in 1735.” THUS DR. TAYLOR'S BOOK WAS FLOATING AROUND OUR 13 COLONIES FOR 15 YEARS BEFORE JONATHON EDWARDS DID A GREAT SERVICE TO AMERICA BY REFUTING DR. TAYLOR'S DENIAL OF INNATE ORIGINAL SIN IN HIS BOOK, ‘ THE GREAT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN, DEFENDED. IT WAS AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY THAT THE CITIZENS OF OUR 13 COLONIES WERE 100% CONFIDENT THAT THE FOUNTAIN FROM WHICH ALL EVIL IN THIS WORLD FLOWS AND IN OUR COUNTRY IS RIGHT OUT OF THEIR OWN HEARTS. JONATHON EDWARDS WORK ON ESTABLISHING THE INNATENESS OF ORIGINAL SIN HELPED GREATLY IN GETTING THE APPROVAL OF OUR CONSTITUTION WITH ALL ITS CHECKS AND BALANCES WRITTEN MOSTLY BY JAMES MADISON A GRADUATE OF NEW JERSEY COLLAGE WHICH WOULD EVENTUALLY BECOME PRINCETON.BUT SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING FEELING THE WEIGHT OF ORIGINAL SIN, IS AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY IN ORDER THAT WE MIGHT FLEE TO THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD BY FAITH AS OUR TICKET INTO HEAVEN, NOW THAT WE KNOW OUR FIG LEAVES MORALITY, OUR SECURITY BLANKET, IS WORK OF FUTILITY, AND THUS IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US AS AMERICANS TO UNDERSTAND AND STAND STRONG AND UNWAVERING IN OUR KNOWLEDGE OF ORIGINAL SIN IS SIN BEFORE IT BECOMES AN ACT OF SIN. WHEN WE AS AMERICANS ARE REPENTING OVER OUR ORIGINAL SIN BEFORE IT BECOMES AN ACT OF SIN, WE ARE WAY AHEAD OF THE CURVE IN ESTABLISHING AMERICA AS THE MIST MORAL COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. THE GUILT OF ORIGINAL SIN IS NOT ONLY AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY FOR OUR SALVATION BUT HORIZONTALLY, “IS” AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY THAT OUR CHILDREN ARE TAUGHT THAT THE FOUNTAIN FROM WHICH ALL EVIL COMES IN THIS WORLD IS RIGHT OUT OF THEIR OWN HEART AND IF THEY DON'T KEEP THE EVIL BLACK CATS OF THEIR HEART FROM ESCAPING THROUGH REPENTANCE, THEY CAN SAY BYE, BYE TO THE FLOURISHING OF THEIR TALENTS, ESPECIALLY IF THEY GET HOOKED ON DRUGS. IN KING COUNTY, IN WHICH IS SEATTLE, WA. THERE WERE 1067 OVERDOSES IN 2023. IF WE DIVIDE 1067 BY 365 THAT MEANS KING COUNTY WAS AVERAGING 3 OVERDOSES PER DAY WHICH MEANS WE WERE AVERAGING 3 FUNERALS PER DAY WITH GRIEVING FAMILY MEMBERS AND RELATIVES. OUR CHILDREN NEED TO BE TAUGHT THAT THEIR CONSCIENCE IS THEIR PROTECTOR WHICH HELPS KEEP OUR EVIL BLACK CATS FROM ESCAPING FROM OUR HEART. WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD ANY OF US AMERICANS WANT TO FOOLISHLY GET HIGH IN ORDER TO NEUTER OUR CONSCIENCE: THAT IS VERY DANGEROUS IS IT NOT.
QUESTION SUMMARY!WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA ASK OURSELVES: IF GOD CALLS US, WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD HE ONLY CHOOSE SOME OF US?WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE JOUNT-HEIRS WITH THE CREATOR OF THIS UNIVERSE?WHY DID GOD CALL JUDAS BUT DID NOT CHOOSE JUDAS?CAN WE AS AMERICAN CALL OURSELVES CHRISTIANS, AND YET DENY WE ARE SPIRITUALLY MARRIED TO CHRIST?WHAT WILL OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN SAY TO US AS AMERICANS IF WE COME TO THE MARRIAGE SUPPER WITHOUT OUR WEDDING GARMENT ON?PLUS MORE QUESTIONS BELOW.IN THIS MESSAGE WE WILL TAKE A DEEP DIVE INTO WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE AND RAMIFICATIONS OF THE FACT, THAT AS NEW CREATIONS, WE ARE JOINT HEIRS WITH CHRIST, AND THEN WE WILL SEGWAY INTO ANOTHER DEEP DIVE INTO THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB: WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WEDDING GARMENT. DO WE AS AMERICANS KNOW WHETHER OR NOT IT IS NECESSARY FOR US TO BE SPIRITUALLY MARRIED TO CHRIST IN ORDER TO BE A CHRISTIAN. IS BEING SPIRITUALLY MARRIED TO CHRIST A CRUCIAL PART OF BEING MADE A NEW CREATION? WHY IS IT ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL THAT WE HAVE ON THE WEDDING GARMENT?IS THIS VERSE REALLY TRUE?Romans 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.WHAT ABOUT THIS VERSE? (WHY IS GOD SO HARSH ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE HAVING ON THE WEDDING GARMENT?)Matt. 22: [11] And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:[12] And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a WEDDING GARMENT? And he was speechless.[13] Then said the king to the servants, BIND HIM hand and foot, and take him away, and CAST HIM into OUTER DARKNESS; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.[14] For MANY are CALLED, but FEW are CHOSEN.GOD SEEMS TO REALLY RAMP OF THE DIRE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT HAVING ON A WEDDING GARMENT!!!WHAT IS THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF THIS WEDDING GARMENT?IS IT POSSIBLE TO BE CONVERTED OR BORN AGAIN OR MADE A NEW CREATION IF WE DON'T FIRST HAVE ON THE WEDDING GARMENT?AGAIN, WHAT IS THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WEDDING GARMENT: WHY WITHOUT IT WE CANNOT BE MARRIED TO CHRIST?WE WILL ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS AND MANY MORE IN THIS MESSAGE.
EXCERPTS FROM WHITEFIELD SERMON!I will tell you by the word "righteousness," I understand all that Christ hat done, and all that Christ hath suffered: or, to make use of the term generally made use of by sound divines, "Christ's active, and Christ's passive obedience;" put those two together, and they make up the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. My dear friends, thus stood the case between God and man: at first God made man upright. It likewise signifies inward holiness, wrought in us by the blessed Spirit of God. But, I believe, the word righteousness in my text signifies, what, I trust most, I should be glad if I could say, all who attend this night, will be glad to hear of: What is that? It is what all reformed divines, that have clear heads and clean hearts, call an imputed righteousness, or the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ to be imputed to poor sinners upon their believing: and, if you ask me, what I mean by an imputed righteousness, not to shoot over you heads, but rather, if God shall be pleased to make me, to reach your hearts, I will tell you by the word "righteousness," I understand all that Christ hat done, and all that Christ hath suffered: or, My dear friends, thus stood the case between God and man: at first God made man upright. He saw God wielding his flaming sword, and his hand taking hold of vengeance; the Lord Jesus Christ saw the sword ready to be sheathed in the blood of the offender; when no eye could pity, when no angel or archangel could rescue, just as God was, as it were, about to give the fatal blow, just as the knife was put to the throat of the offender, the Son of God, the eternal Logos, says, "“Father, spare the sinner; let him not die; Father, Father, O hold thy hand, withdraw thy sword, for I come to do thy will; man has broken thy law, and violated thy covenant: I do not deny but man deserves to be damned forever; but, Father, what Adam could not do, it thou wilt prepare me a body, I in the fullness of time will go, and die for him; he has broken thy law, but I will go and keep it, that thy law may be honored; I will give a perfect unsinning obedience to all thy commandments; and that thou mayst justify ungodly creatures, I will not only go down and obey thy law, but I will go down and bleed; I will go down and die: here I am; I will step in between thee and sinners, and be glad to have thy sword sheathed in my heart's blood for them."So that when Christ's righteousness is here spoken of, we are to understand "Christ's obedience and death," all that Christ has done, and all that Christ has suffered for an ELECT world, for all that will believe on him. And blessed be God for this righteousness! Blessed be God for the epithet which in the text is put to this righteousness; it might be called a blessed righteousness, it might be called a glorious righteousness, it might be called an invaluable righteousness; but the angel calls it an everlasting righteousness: God give you to take the comfort of it!I said before, so I tell you again, the righteousness of Jesus Christ is an everlasting righteousness: it is wrought out for the very chief of sinners. Ho, every one that thirsteth, let him come and drink of this water of life freely. Are any of you wounded by sin? Do any of you feel you have no righteousness of your own? Are any of you perishing for hunger? Are any of you afraid ye will perish forever? Come, dear souls, in all your rags; come, thou poor man; come, thou poor, distressed woman; you, who think God will never forgive you, and that your sins are too great to be forgiven; come, thou doubting creature, who art afraid thou wilt never get comfort; arise, take comfort, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of life, the Lord of glory, calls for thee: through his righteousness there is hope for the chief of sinners, for the worst of creatures. What if thou hadst committed all the sins in the world? What if thou hadst committed the sins of a thousand…
THERE ARE MANY OF US AMERICANS THAT ARE NOT INTERESTED IN HALF THE TRUTH OR EVEV 99.9% OF THE TRUTH, BUT ARE INTERESTED IN 100% OF THE TRUTH OR IN OTHER WORDS WE ARE INTERESTED IN THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH, FOR IF THERE IS NO ABSOLUTE TRUTH THEN THERE IS NO ABSOLUTE RIGHT OR WRONG,AND THUS THERE IS NO ABSOLUTE STANDARD TO MEASURE OURSELVES BY, AND AS A RESULT WE AS AMERICANS ARE ALL GUESSING ABOUT OUR SALVATION. ON THE OTHER HAND THERE ARE MANY OF US AMERICANS WHO DON'T MIND GUESSING,FOR IF WE KNEW THE ABSOLUTE STANDARD,IT WOULD STRIP US OF OUR SECURITY BLANKET OF THE FIG LEAVES OF MORALITY AS OUR TICKET INTO HEAVEN. SO WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA, BEING THE SIMPLE PEOPLE OF AMERICA THAT WE ARE ASK OURSELVES SIMPLE QUESTIONS. IS IT IN OUR DNA TO THINK THAT IF THERE IS A HEAVEN WOULD HEAVEN BE HOLY AND THERE SEEMS TO BE AN INNATE ANSWER IN THE DNA OF US AMERICANS, GIVING US A RESOUNDING YES TO THAT QUESTION. SO WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA SAY TO OURSELVES CAN GOD ALLOW ANY OF US AMERICANS INTO HEAVEN WHO ARE NOT HOLY. THEN WE ASK OURSELVES WAS KING DAVID LYING TO US WHEN HE SAID THAT HE WAS HOLY?Psalm 86: [1] Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.[2] Preserve my soul; for I am HOLY: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.WAS FORMER MR. MORALITY LYING WHEN HE SAID THAT HE AND HIS EPHESIAN BRETHREN WERE HOLY?Ephesians 1: [4] (PARTICIPLE)According as he hath CHOSEN “US” in him BEFORE the foundation of the world, (IN ORDER)that we should be HOLY and WITHOUT BLAME BEFORE HIM in love: [5] Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of HIS WILL. SO WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA SAY TO OURSELVES, KING DAVID WAS AN ADULTERER, HOW IN THE WORLD COULD HE BE HOLY?FORMER MR. MORALITY CALLED HIMSELF A WRETCHED MAN AS A BELIEVER, HOW COULD HE ALSO CALL HIMSELF HOLY?Rom. 7: 24] O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?NOW THESE QUESTIONS THAT WE ARE ASKING AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA ARE CERTAINLY NOT UNREASONABLE ARE THEY?SO THEN WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA ASK OURSELVES ANOTHER SIMPLE QUESTION. WAS JESUS LYING, WHEN HE SAID THAT WE COULD, AS AMERICANS, GO TO HEAVEN BY KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS. MATT. 19: 16] And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I MAY HAVE ETERNAL LIFE?[17] And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into (ETERNAL)life, KEEP the COMMANDMENTS.WAS FORMER MR. MORALITY LYING WHEN HE SAID WE WON'T GO TO HEAVEN BY KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS OR THAT IS BY WORKS WE NOT GO TO HEAVEN?Ephesians 2: [8] For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:[9] Not of works(NOT BY KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS ARE WE SAVED SO THIS LEADS US TO THE QUESTION IN MESSAGE. WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE COMMANDS OF GOD AFTER WE ARE SAVED IF GRACE CANCELS WORKS AND WORKS CANCELS GRACE? Ro. 11: [6] But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA BEING THE SIMPLE PEOPLE WE ARE, WE SAY TO OURSELVES IF WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE, THAT IS SAVED BY NOT FOLLOWING THE COMMANDS OF GOD, WOULDN'T WE BE HYPOCRITES TO SAY WE NOW FOLLOW THE COMMANDMENTS AFTER WE ARE SAVED, FOR IF WE DID FOLLOW THE COMMANDMENTS AFTER WE ARE SAVED, WE WOULD BE CANCELING GRACE WOULD WE NOT. SO THE QUESTION IS: WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE COMMANDMENTS AFTER WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE, IF FOLLOWING THE COMMANDMENTS CANCELS GRACE?THAT IS A SIMPLE AND REASONABLE QUESTION IS IT NOT. ALL CHRISTIANS AND PASTORS SAVED BY GRACE SHOULD KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION SHOULD THEY NOT?EVEN FORMER MR. MORALITY HIMSELF ASKS THIS SAME QUESTION:Rom. 3: [31] Do we then make void the law through faith(AFTER WE ARE SAVED BY FAITH)? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. WE WILL TAKE A DEEP DIVE INTO THIS VERSE IN THIS MESSAGE!!!
THERE IS A MOVIE ENTITLED, ‘ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE' WHICH IS A SECULAR MOVIE BUT IS WELL WORTH WATCHING. IN THIS MOVIE, THERE ARE TWO LIGHTS, BUT ONE OF THEM IS HIDDEN. ONE LIGHT IS SEEN BY ANY WHO ARE LISTENING TO THIS PROFESSOR BROADCAST ON HIS RADIO, BUT THERE IS ANOTHER LIGHT THAT IS HIDDEN IN HIS BROADCAST THAT ONLY A FEW CAN SEE. SO SOME OF THE PEOPLE LISTENING ONLY SEE ONE LIGHT, BUT A FEW SELECT PEOPLE SEE BOTH LIGHTS. THE SAME IS TRUE IN CHRISTIANITY. MOST OF US DURING THE CHRISTMAS SEASON ENJOY THE LIGHT OF THE SON OF MAN AND EVEN SOME OF US MAY HAVE FAITH IN THE SON OF MAN WHO WE KNOW TO BE THE SON OF JOSEPH AND MARY, A CARPENTER; A BLUE COLLAR WORKER WHO HAD A 3 YEAR MINISTRY AND CALLED OTHER BLUE COLLOR WORKERS TO JOIN HIM, LIKE 4 FISHERMAN AND A TAX CHEAT WHO FOLLOWED JESUS AS HE DID MANY MIRACLES LIKE: HEALING SOME OF THE LEPERS, MAKING THE BLIND TO SEE, THE LAME TO WALK, HE WALKED ON WATER, RAISED LAZARUS FROM THE DEAD, WAS CRUCIFIED, HE HIMSELF ALSO ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND WE AS NATURAL MAN AMERICANS MAY HAVE FAITH ON ALL WHAT THE SON OF MAN HAS DONE BY THE POWER OF GOD AND THINK WE ARE CHRISTIANS, NOT KNOWING THAT WE MUST HAVE FAITH ON THE SON OF GOD WHO IS “ALL THE LIGHT WE CAN NOT SEE”, THIS LIGHT IS HID FROM US AND THIS IS WHY JESUS SAYS THE FOLLOWING: TAX COLLECTOR MATTHEW 11: [25] At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast HID these things from WHO?the wise and prudent, AND REVEALED THEM TO WHO?and hast revealed them unto BABES. 26] Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.[27] All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and NO MAN knoweth the Son, BUT WHO?but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, BUT WHO?save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.IN THIS MESSAGE WE WILL TAKE A DEEP DIVE INTO “ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE” MENTIONED IN THE FOLLOWING VERSE:FISHERMAN JOHN 3:[19] And this is(=)the condemnation, WHAT IS = TO OUR CONDEMNATION AS NATURAL MAN AMERICANS?that light (SON OF GOD, WHO IS ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE)is come into the world, and men(NATURAL MAN AMERICANS)loved darkness rather than light(SON OF GOD)WHY?because their(NATURAL MAN AMERICANS)deeds were evil(ANYTHING LESS THAN PERFECT).[20] For every one that doeth evil hateth the light(SON OF GOD), neither cometh to the light, WHY?lest his deeds should be REPROVED.WE WILL FIND IN THIS MESSAGE THAT THERE SEEMS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE ELECT, WHO DON'T YET KNOW THEY ARE THE ELECT, THERE IS SOMETHING IN THEM THAT IS NOT SATISFIED WITH 99,999 % OF THE TRUTH BUT DESIRES WITH ALL HIS HEART TO KNOW 100% OF THE TRUTH, AND IS RELENTLESS IS SEEKING THAT TRUTH, AND WILL GO THOUGH WHATEVER HE HAS TO IN ORDER TO FIND THAT TRUTH, YET KNOWING THAT ALL HIS EFFORTS WOULDN'T BE A FACTOR IN WHY THE TRUTH WAS EVENTUALLY REVEALED TO HIM. ST. AUGUSTINE SOUGHT THE TRUTH FOR YEARS BEFORE CHRIST WAS REVEALED TO HIM BY HIS FATHER IN HEAVEN. “Truth, Truth, how inwardly even then did the marrow of my soul sigh for thee when, frequently and in manifold ways, in numerous and vast books, [the Manicheans] sounded out thy name though it was only a sound! And in these dishes -- while I STARVED for THEE -- they served up to me, in thy stead, the sun and moon thy beauteous works -- but still only thy works and not thyself; indeed, not even thy first work. For thy spiritual works came before these material creations, celestial and shining though they are. But I was hungering and thirsting, not even after those first works of thine, but after THYSELF the TRUTH. JOHN BUNYAN, THE AUTHOR OF, PILGRIMS PROGRESS, THE MOST DEFINITIVE AND ACCURATE BOOK WRITTEN ON SALVATION, WRITES IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY:“This scripture made me faint and fear, yet it kindled fire in my soul. That which made me fear, was this; lest Christ should have no liking to me, for He called whom He would. But oh! the glory !”
THIS MESSAGE BY JONATHON EDWARDS IS PROBABLY THE MOST FAMOUS SERMON HE EVER PREACHED. HE PREACHED IT FIRST IN HIS OWN CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON MASSACHUSETTS, BUT THIS SERMON FOUND ITS FAME WHEN JONATHON EDWARDS PREACHED IT IN ENFIELD, CONNECTICUT ON JULY 8, 1741 AMIDST THE FURTHERANCE OF THE GREAT RELIGIOUS AWAKENING. THERE WAS SUCH AN OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT IN THAT CHURCH THAT HE WAS NOT ABLE TO FINISH THE SERMON. THIS MESSAGE IS A FIRE AND BRIMSTONE SERMON, WHICH IN AMERICA TODAY WOULD BE SHOCKING,BECAUSE THE KNOWLEDGE OF ORIGINAL SIN HAS BEEN DOWNPLAYED BY OUR FASTFOOD FREEWILL THEOLOGIANS, AND THUS, MOST OF US AMERICANS DO NOT KNOW THAT THE FOUNTAIN FROM WHICH ALL EVIL IN THIS WORLD FLOWS IS RIGHT OUT OF OUR OWN HEART, AND THUS WE AS AMERICANS DO NOT SEE THAT IT IS OUR SIN NATURE THAT IS CONDEMNING US TO HELL. MARTIN LUTHER'S STATEMENT: ‘THE DAMNED ARE SUFFERING SO SEVERELY, BECAUSE THEY WERE UNWILLING TO BE DAMNED' SEEMS UNREASONABLE TO MOST OF JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA TODAY, UNLESS WE PAUSE FOR A MOMENT AND ASK OURSELVES A QUESTION: WOULD ANY OF US AMERICANS EVER HAVE BELIEVED THAT GOD WOULD UNLEASH SUCH HORROR UPON THIS EARTH, BY ADAM SIMPLY BREAKING ONE COMMANDMENT. RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX, RIGHT OUT OF THE FIRST FAMILY, ADAM AND EVE'S OLDER SON, CAIN, MURDERED THEIR YOUNGER SON, ABEL, AND ALL OF US AMERICANS ARE DYING BECAUSE WE HAVE BEOKEN GOD'S COMMANDMENTS. IT IS UNBELIEVABLE IS IT NOT THAT GOD COULD UNLEASH SUCH HORRORS OF WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS, RAPE, MURDER, THEFT, ADULTERY, HOMOSEXUALITY, etc., FOR 6000 YEARS, ON US AMERICANS, FOR ADAM AND EVE BREAKING JUST ONE COMMANDMENT: AND IF GOD IS TO BRING SUCH PUNISHMENT TO US AMERICANS EVERYDAY AS IS WITNESSED BY OUR LOCAL NEWSCASTS, MAYBE JUST MAYBE GOD IS GOING TO CARRY OUT THE TORMENTS OF HELL HE SAYS HE WILL IN THE SCRIPTURES, AND THUS WE AS AMERICANS OUGHT TO THINK TWICE, MAYBE THRICE, THAT THE PUNISHMENT OF HELL IS NOT AN EMPTY THREAT, BUT A REALITY: MAYBE WE OUGHT TO INQUIRE OF GOD-TRUTH?JESUS HIMSELF SPEAKS THE GNASHING OF TEETH: DR. LUKE 13: 23] Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,[24] Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.[25] When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:[26] THEN shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.[27] But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity(SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS).[28] There shall be WEEPING and GNASHING of TEETH, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and YOU YOURSELVES THRUST OUT.[29] And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.[30] And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.Isaiah 66: 24] And they shall go forth, and LOOK upon the CARCASSES of the MEN that have TRANSGRESSED AGAINST ME: for THEIR WORM shall NOT DIE, neither shall THEIR FIRE be QUENCHED; and THEY shall be an ABHORRING unto all flesh. [15] For, behold, the LORD will COME with FIRE, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to RENDER his ANGER with FURY, and HIS REBUKE with FLAMES of FIRE. [16] For by FIRE and by HIS SWORD will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the SLAIN of the LORD shall BE MANY.[17] They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.[18] For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
SHOCKING? IS IT TRUE APART FROM ELECTION, NO AMERICAN CAN BE SAVED?LET US HEAR FROM THE GREAT GEORGE WHITEFIELD AS HE REBUKES HIS GOOD FRIEND JOHN WESLEY, THE FOUNDER OF THE METHODIST CHURCHES: “Dear Sir( JOHN WESLEY), for Jesus Christ's sake, consider how you dishonour God by DENYING ELECTION( JESUS CHOOSES US WE DON'T CHOOSE HIM). 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. ANOTHER SHOCKER FROM THE GREATEST AMERICAN EVANGELIST AND MAYBE OF ALL TIME, WHO PREACHED OVER 18000 SERMONS FROM 1740-1770 TO OUR AMERICAN COLONISTS, THE GREAT GEORGE WHITEFIELD WRITES:“As GOD can SEND a NATION( AMERICA) or people NO GREATER BLESSING than to GIVE THEM FAITHFUL, SINCERE, and upright MINISTERS(BONAGE OF THE WILL PREACHERS) , so the GREATEST CURSE that God can POSSIBLY SEND upon a people(FASTFOOD FREEWILL PREACHERS) in this world, is to GIVE THEM OVER to BLIND, UNREGENERATE, CARNAL, LUKEWARM, and UNSKILLED GUIDES.”THE AXIOMATIC DIVIDING LINE IN SALVATION IS THIS: WHICH IS TRUE? ELECTION, THAT IS, ‘GOD'S FREE GRACE' OR THE FASTFOOD FREEWILL DOCTRINE, THAT IS, ‘MAN'S FREE WILL'. IN THIS MESSAGE WE LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN OF, PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, BY FAR THE GREATEST ALLEGORY EVER WRITTEN ON SALVATION, AND TAKE A DEEP DIVE INTO GRACE ABOUNDING, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN BUNYAN, WHICH PILGRIMS PROGRESS IS SHADOWED AFTER, TO HELP US AS AMERICANS LEARN HOW TO AGONIZE INTO, STRAIT IS THE GATE, WHICH IS ALMOST UNHEARD OF IN AMERICA TODAY, FOR OUR FASTFOOD FREEWILL THEOLOGIANS, WHO ALMOST CONTROL ALL OUR CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN AMERICA TODAY, OFFER US A FASTFOOD JESUS, WITH NO STRUGGLE WHATSOEVER. WITH THE FASTFOOD FREEWILL DOCTRINE BLANKETING AMERICA, WHO ELSE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR MORAL MELTDOWN, BUT THE DOMINANT CHURCH IN AMERICA, AS WE MORALLY SPIRAL DOWNWARDS OUT OF CONTROL: THERE SEEMS TO BE NO END IN SIGHT TO THE DEPTHS OF DEPRAVITY WE CAN FALL AS AMERICANS. BECAUSE OF THIS MORAL MELTDOWN IN AMERICA ALL OF US AMERICANS NEED HOPE: THUS WE ALL AS AMERICANS NEED TO KNOW WE ARE ALL BORN INTO THIS WORLD WITH THE SAME HOPE, THAT JESUS MIGHT FIND US, BEFORE WE DIE PHYSICALLY, AND MAKE US A NEW SPIRITUAL CREATION, NO MATTER WHAT THE DEPTHS OF DEPRAVITY WE MAY HAVE FALLEN INTO, NOR HOW MUCH MORALITY WE MAY HAVE ACHIEVED, FOR BY ELECTION, WE ALL HAVE THE SAME CHANCE OF BEING SAVED. FOR NONE OF US KNOW WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE BEEN BEEN ELECTED BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. IN THIS MESSAGE WE WILL BEGIN WITH A REVIEW OF OUR LAST MESSAGE WHICH WAS BASED UPON ROMANS 7:[1] Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?THEN WE WILL STRUGGLE TOGETHER ALONG WITH JOHN BUNYAN TO ENTER THE STRAIT GATE, TO LEARN FROM HIM NEVER TO GIVE UP THE SEARCH TO HOPEFULLY BE FOUND BY JESUS, BECAUSE WE WERE GIVEN TO JESUS BY HIS FATHER BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, & AS JOHN BUNYAN GOES THROUGH HIS UPS AND DOWNS WE CAN BE COMFORTED AS WE GO THROUGH OUR UPS AND DOWNS. LET BE COMFORTED BY JESUS' OWN WORDS:JOHN 6: [35] And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.[36] But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.[37] All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.[38] For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.[39] And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.[40] And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which SEEETH the Son(OF GOD), and believeth on him, may have ETERNAL LIFE.
IN THIS MESSAGE, JONATHON EDWARDS, GIVES A VISION OF WHAT A RIGHTEOUS STATESMAN SHOULD STRIVE TO BE THROUGH THE SCRIPTURES, AND AT THE END OF THIS MESSAGE, APPLIES IT TO HIS UNCLE JOHN STODDARD, WHOSE FATHER WAS THE WELL KNOWN SOLOMON STODDARD, HIS WIFE'S FATHER, WHOSE CHURCH, JONATHON BECAME THE PASTOR OF AFTER SOLOMON STODDARD'S DEATH. THIS MESSAGE WAS PREACHED JUST 2 YEARS BEFORE HE WAS DISMISSED FROM HIS GRANDFATHER'S CHURCH FOR HE OPPOSED THE HALF WAY COVENANT IMPOSED BY HIS GRANDFATHER, ALONG WITH A SERIES OF SERMONS ENTITLED ‘RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS' WHICH, IN DETAIL PORTRAYED ALL THE TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF AFFECTIONS OR SIGNS WE CAN HAVE, MAKING US THINK WE ARE A CHRISTIAN WHEN IN REALITY WE ARE NOT, BECAUSE SATAN IS THE ULTIMATE COUNTERFEITER, AND OUR HEART IS DESPERATELY WICKED, AND DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS, AND THUS THESE MESSAGES COULD NOT HELP, BUT TO MAKE SOME UNCOMFORTABLE IN HIS CONGREGATION. THESE SERMONS WERE PUBLISHED IN A BOOK IN 1746. THE GREAT BONDAGE OF THE WILL RELIGIOUS AWAKING WAS IGNITED IN HIS CHURCH IN 1734, BUT BY THE 1740'S SATAN WAS SOWING MANY TARES AMONGST THE WHEAT AND THUS IT WAS HARD TO TELL THE TRUE CHRISTIANS FROM THE FALSE: THUS RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS WAS WRITTEN TO HELP THE COLONISTS TO HAVE DISCERNMENT FOR TRUE CHRISTIANITY IS SPIRITUAL WARFARE AT ALL TIMES. JONATHON EDWARD'S DISMISSAL WAS NOT AN EASY THING FOR HE HAD 11 CHILDREN. BUT JESUS WARNS US OF HOW CONTROVERSIAL TRUE SPIRITUAL WARFARE REALLY IS AS OPPOSED TO THE FALSE FREEWILL CHURCH WHERE WE ARE IN CONTROL OF OUR OWN SALVATION AS OPPOSED TO THE BONDAGE OF THE WILL DOCTRINE, WHICH IS BASED ON PREDESTINATION. JESUS WARNS HIS DISCIPLES IN MATTHEW 10: [2] Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;[3] Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;[4] Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.[5] These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:[6] But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.[7] And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. 16] Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.[17] But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;[18] And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.[19] But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.[20] For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.[21] And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.[22] And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.[23] But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.[24] The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.FORMER MR. MORALITY WRITES IN ROMANS 8: [33] Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's ELECT? It is God that justifieth. [35] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?[36] As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.[37] Nay, in all these things we are more than conquers…, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
IN THIS MESSAGE WE WILL TAKE A DEEP DIVE INTO A VERSE WRITTEN BY FORMER MR. MORALITY, HIMSELF, TO HIS BRETHREN IN ROME: Rom.7 [1] Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath DOMINION over a man AS LONG as he LIVETH?WE CAN THINK OF THE BIBLE AS A WAGON WHEEL PUZZLE. WE CAN THINK OF THE HUB OF THE WHEEL AS THE DEFINITION OF SALVATION AND THE 66 SPOKES OF THE WAGON WHEEL AS THE 66 BOOKS OF THE BIBLE. THEN WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA SAY TO OURSELVES IF WE WERE SATAN, WHO IS THE ULTIMATE COUNTERFEITER, WHAT PART OF THE BIBLE WOULD WE COUNTERFEIT, BUT SALVATION, WHICH IS THE HUB OF THE WHEEL. SO THEN WE ASK OURSELVES WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY IS THE TICKET INTO HEAVEN?DOES THE BIBLE HAVE JUST ONE ANSWER OR DOES IT HAVE SEVERAL SEEMINGLY CONTRADICTORY ANSWERS. IS JESUS LYING WHEN HE SAYS THAT THE TICKET INTO HEAVEN IS: KEEP THE COMANDMENTS. Matt. 19: [16] And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?[17] And JESUS said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, KEEP the COMMANDMENTSWAS PAUL LYING WHEN HE WROTE THAT NOT BY FOLLOWING COMMANDMENTS ARE YE SAVED BUT BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH. EPHESIANS 2: (8] For by GRACE are ye SAVED through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9] NOT of WORKS(NOT BY FOLLOWING THE COMMANDMENTS), lest any man should boast.WAS DR. LUKE LYING WHEN HE WROTE: BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THOU SHALT BE SAVED. Acts 16: 31] And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.NOW WHAT ABOUT THE VERSE THIS MESSAGE IS BASED ON: IS IT A LIE: E: Rom.7 [1] Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath DOMINION over a man AS LONG as he LIVETH?DO WE HAVE TO DIE A SPIRITUAL DEATH AND RISE AGAIN AS A NEW CREATION TO GOTO HEAVEN. ALL THESE PIECES ALONG WITH OTHERS, DO NOT CONTRADICT ONE ANOTHER, BUT ARE IMPORTANT PIECES OF THE WAGON WHEEL PUZZLE, THAT MUST BE PUT INTO THE HUB OF THE WAGON WHEEL WHICH DEFINES SALVATION. THESE VERSES ABOVE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE HUB OF THE WHEEL PIECES WHICH MUST BE PLACED IN THE HUB OF THE WHEEL TO GET A FULL PICTURE OF SALVATION. IN THIS MESSAGE WE WIL PLACE THE PUZZLE PIECE: Rom.7 [1] Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath DOMINION over a man AS LONG as he LIVETH?
IN THIS MESSAGE JONATHON EDWARDS MAKES IT ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT THE NEW CREATION IS NOT A TWEAKED NATURAL MAN , BUT A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CREATURE WITH ITS OWN SET OF UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS: JUST AS A DOG AND CAT HAVE SOME SIMILARITIES, BOTH HAVE PAWS AND FUR, YET COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CREATURES, WITH DIFFERENT IMBRED ABILITIES, PERSONALITIES, & MANY OTHER DISTINGUISHABLE PECULIARITIES, & SUBTLETIES: UNDER THE HOOD THEY ARE DISTINCT CREATURES, POLES APART, AND LIKEWISE ARE WE AS TWEAKED NATURAL MAN AMERICANS, ARE POLES APRT FROM WE WHO ARE SPIRITUAL NEW CREATIONS. WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT? WE AS AMERICANS MUST COME TO REALIZE THAT SATAN IS THE ULTIMATE COUNTERFEITER, OFFERING US TO BE A TWEAKED NATURAL MAN BY OFFERING US A FASTFOOD FREEWILL JESUS, WHO MAY HELP US PULL OUT OF THE POLLUTIONS OF THE WORLD, BUT SATAN WANTS US IGNORANT OF THE FACT THAT THERE IS A BONDAGE OF THE WILL JESUS, IN WHICH WE MUST WAIT ON OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN TO REVEAL THE TRUE JESUS TO US, WHEREIN WE ARE NOW MADE A NEW AMERICAN SPIRITUAL MAN WHICH UNDER THE HOOD HAS CHARACTERS 100% DISTINGUISHABLE FROM OUR NATURAL MAN CHARACTERISTICS. LET US TAKE A FEW EXCEPTS FROM JONATHON EDWARDS SERMON:The SPIRIT of GOD acts in a VERY DIFFERENT manner in the one case from what he doth in the other. He may indeed act upon the mind of a natural man, BUT he acts in the mind of a SAINT as an INDWELLING VITAL PRINCIPAL. He ACTS upon the mind of an UNREGENERATE person as an EXTRINSIC , OCCASIONAL AGENT; for in acting upon them, he doth NOT UNITE himself to them; notwithstanding all his influences that they may be the subjects of, they are still sensual, having not the Spirit, Jude 19. But he unites himself with the mind of a saint, takes him for his temple, actuates and influences him as a new, supernatural principle of life and action. There is this difference, that the Spirit of God, in acting in the soul of a godly man, exerts and communicates himself there in his own proper nature. Holiness is the proper nature of the Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit operates in the minds of the godly by uniting himself to them, and living in them, and exerting his own nature in the exercise of their faculties. The Spirit of God may act upon a creature, and yet not in acting communicate himself. The Spirit of God may act upon inanimate creatures; as the Spirit moved upon the face of the waters in the beginning of the creation;[Pg 26] so the Spirit of God may act upon the minds of men many ways, and communicate himself no more than when he acts upon an inanimate creature. For instance, he may excite thoughts in them, may assist their natural reason and understanding, or may assist other natural principles, and this without any union with the soul, but may act, as it were, as upon an external object. But as he acts in his holy influences and spiritual operations, he acts in a way of peculiar communication of himself; so that the subject is thence denominated spiritual.This spiritual light primarily consists in the former of these, viz., a real sense and apprehension of the divine excellency of things revealed in the word of God. A spiritual and saving conviction of the truth and reality of these things arises from such a sight of their divine excellency and glory; This light, and this only, has its fruit in an universal holiness of life. No merely notional or speculative understanding of the doctrines of religion will ever bring to this. But this light, as it reaches the bottom of the heart, and changes the nature, so it will effectually dispose to an universal obedience. It shows God's worthiness to be obeyed and served. It draws forth the heart in a sincere love to God, which is the only principle of a true, gracious and universal obedience. And it convinces of the reality of those glorious rewards that God has promised to them that obey him.
IN THIS MESSAGE WE WILL FURTHER EXPLAIN THE TWO QUESTIONS WHICH COMPLETELY TURN THE APPLECART OF OUR FASTFOOD FREEWILL FRIENDS AND THEOLOGIAN UPSIDE DOWN. THESE QUESTIONS ARE AXIOMATIC QUESTIONS. FOR EXAMPLE, WHAT IS A SIMPLE AXIOMATIC QUESTION THAT ALL OF AMERICANS KNOW THE UNDENIABLE ANSWER TO? WHAT IS THAT QUESTION BUT WHEN WE ASK OUR FELLOW AMERICANS THE FOLLIWING QUESTION: ARE YOU A LIAR? THAT IS AN AXIOMATIC QUESTION THAT NONE OF AMERICANS CAN SAY NO TO, AS LONG AS WE ARE IN OUR RIGHT MIND. THE TWO QUESTIONS WHICH DESTROY OUR FASTFOOD FREEWILL FRIENDS AND THEOLOGIANS DOCTRINE OF SALVATION ARE:1. DO WE AS AMERICANS HAVE A FREEWILL TO ACCEPT OR REJECT JESUS OR IS OUR WILL BOUND IN SALVATION?2. WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF LAW AFTER WE ARE MADE A NEW CREATION WHEN WORKS CANCELS GRACE AND GRACE CANCELS WORKS? THIS QUESTIONS JUST DEMOLISHES THE FREEWILL DOCTRINE AND THE KING OF THE REFORMATION ADDRESSES THIS QUESTION IN HIS BOOK ENTITLED ‘ BONDAGE OF THE WILL' IN RESPONSE THE ERASMUS WHO WROTE THE BOOK ENTITLED ‘FREEDOM OF THE WILL' IN 1524. THE NATURE OF THE SPIRITUAL NEW CREATION IS TOTALLY PARADOXICAL IN NATURE. THE SPIRITUAL NEW CREATION KNOWS INNATELY HOW TO USE THE LAW AND DOES NOT NEED TO BE TAUGHT HOW TO USE THE FOR IT IS AS EASY FOR HIM AS IT IS FOR A BABY TO BREAST FEED. IN ROMANS 7:14 FORMER MR. MORALITY WRITES THAT THE LAW OF THE NEW CREATION IS SPIRITUAL AND THAT IS WHY THE NATURAL MAN CHRISTIAN IS CLUELESS OF THE TRUE FUNCTION OF THE LAW FOR THE NATURAL MAN CHRISTIAN IS NOT SPIRITUAL AND ONLY THE SPIRITUAL KNOW HOW TO INNATELY USE THE LAW. MARTIN LUTHER, WHO WAS KING OF THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE AMONGST THE REFORMERS WRITES: “Wherefore, the WORDS of the LAW are SPOKEN, NOT that they MIGHT ASSERT a. the POWER of the (FREE)WILL, but that they might ILLUMINATE the BLINDNESS of REASON, that it MIGHT SEE that its OWN LIGHT is NOTHING, and that the POWER of the WILL is nothing. "BY the LAW (saith Paul) is the KNOWLEDGE of sin," (Rom. iii. 20.): he does NOT SAY-is the ABOLITION of, or the ESCAPE from SIN. The WHOLE NATURE and DESIGN of the LAW is to GIVE KNOWLEDGE ONLY, and that of NOTHING ELSE ‘EXCEPT of sin, but NOT to DISCOVER or COMMUNICATE any POWER whatever. For KNOWLEDGE is NOT POWER, NOR does it COMMUNICATE POWER, but it TEACHES and SHOWS how GREAT the IMPOTENCY must there be, where there is NO POWER. And WHAT ELSE can the KNOWLEDGE of SIN BE, but the KNOWLEDGE of our EVIL and INFIRMITY? For he DOES NOT SAY-by the LAW comes the KNOWLEDGE of STRENGTHor of GOOD. The WHOLE that the LAW DOES, according to the testimony of Paul, is to MAKEKNOWN SIN. that man, by the WORDS of the LAW, is ADMONISHED and TAUGHT what he OUGHT to DO, ALSO NOT WHAT he CAN DO: that is, that he is BROUGHT to KNOW his SIN, but NOT to BELIEVE that HE HAS any STRENGTH in HIMSELF. Wherefore, FREIND Erasmus, as often as you THROW in my TEETH the Words of the LAW, so often I throw in yours that of Paul, "BY the LAW is the KNOWLEDGE of SIN,"-NOT of the POWER of the WILL. Heap together, therefore, out of the large Concordances all the IMPERATIVE WORDS, (COMMANDS) into one chaos, provided that, they be not WORDS of the PROMISE but of the REQUIREMENT of the LAW ONLY, and I will immediately declare, that by them is always shewn what men OUGHT to DO, not what THEY CAN do, or DO DO, And even common grammarians and EVERY LITTLE SCHOOL-BOY in the street knows, that by VERBS of the imperative mood, nothing else is signified than that which OUGHT to be DONE, and that, WHAT “IS” DONE or can be done, is expressed by verbs of the INDICATIVE mood. Thus, therefore, it comes to pass, that YOU THEOLOGIANS, are so SENSELESS and so many degrees BELOW EVEN SCHOOL-BOYS, that when you have CAUGHT HOLD of one IMPERATIVE verb you INFER an INDICATIVE sense, as though WHAT was COMMENDED were immediately and even necessarily DONE, or POSSIBLE to be DONE. But how many slips are there between the cup and the lip! So that, what you command to be done, and is therefore…
THIS MESSAGE IS PART 2 OF THE PREVIOUS MESSAGE ENTITLED ‘GOD GLORIFIED IN MAN'S DEPENDANCE'. JONATHON EDWARDS MAKES THE FOLLOWING VERSE WRITTEN BY FORMER MR. MORALITY TO HIS BRETHREN IN CORINTH COME ALIVE: 1 COR. 1: [29] That no flesh should glory in his presence. SO THE QUESTION WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA MUST ASK OURSELVES IS: WHEN DO WE AS AMERICANS NOT GLORY IN CHRIST'S PRESENCE, FOR NOT GLORYING IN CHRIST'S PRESENCE IS A NECESSITY NOT ONLY AS A NEW CREATION BUT IN BEING MADE A NEW CREATION. THIS MESSAGE IS DEEP, AND WELL WORTH LISTENING TO. THIS MESSAGE WILL ALSO LIST SOME OF JONATHON EDWARDS PROPOSITIONS OF SELF EXAMINATION TO HELP US TO SELF EXAMINE OURSELVES IN ORDER TO KEEP OURSELVES IN A STATE OF REPENTANCE. Do I manifest an attitude of openness toward God that would invite him to “Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my thoughts”? (Psalm 139:23-24)Is my heart eager to learn of “any wicked way” in me?Are my motives for self-examination correct—that I might be led “in the way everlasting”?Is it important for me to know whether or not I live in a state of sin?Do I live in the gratification of some lust, either in thought or in deed?Do I live in the omission of some known duty?Am I sinning against the light of my conscience in some way, by going on in known sins?Have I been careful, watchful, and diligent in observing myself for evidence of sin in commission or omission?Have I lived in some way which is inconsistent with my Christian profession, and is not suitable for disciples and followers of Jesus?Have I allowed myself to become blinded by the deceitful nature of habitually gratified sin?
HOW DOES THE VERTICAL BECOME RIGHT, BUT WHEN THE VERTICAL BECOMES SPIRITUAL?WHEN THE VERTICAL IS SPIRITUAL, THE HORIZONTAL WILL BECOME GOOD. BUT HOW DOES THE VERTICAL BECOME SPIRITUAL? CAN THE SPIRITUAL SIDE OF JESUS BE KNOWN BY UNDERSTANDING, OR ONLY BY REVELATION? HOW DOES THAT AFFECT THE HORIZONTAL NATIONAL?IN THIS MESSAGE WE WILL TAKE A DEEPER DIVE INTO THE VERTICAL AND TIE IT BACK TO THE SUCCESS OF THE HORIZONTAL, AND HOPEFULLY GIVE US SOME INSIGHT IN HOW TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. IN THE 1831, THE FRENCH PHILOSOPHER ALEX DE TOCQUEVILLE MADE A VISIT TO AMERICA TO SEE IF HE COULD DISCOVER WHAT MADE AMERICA GREAT. HIS CONCLUSION WAS THE FOLLOWING:I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers—and it was not there. . . . . in her fertile fields and boundless forests—and it was not there. . . . .in her rich mines and her vast world commerce—and it was not there. . . . in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution—and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with RIGHTEOUSNESS did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is GREAT because she is GOOD, and if America ever ceases to be GOOD, she will cease to be GREAT.LIKEWISE THE QUEEN OF SHEBA(PRESENT DAY YEMEN) MADE A VISIT TO ISRAEL TO SEE IF THE RUMORS OF KING SOLOMON'S ISRAEL WERE TRUE IN ABOUT 950 B. C. 2Chr.9[1] And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.[2] And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.[3] And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,[4] And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; THERE was NO MORE SPIRIT in HER. [5] And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:[6] Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.[7] Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.[8] Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.[9] And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.
THIS MESSAGE INCLUDES A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF JONATHON EDWARDS AND AN INTRODUCTION WHICH MAKES IT CLEAR THAT COMPLETE DEPENDANCE UPON THE WILL OF OUR CREATOR SETS US FREE FROM ALL OPPRESSION, EVEN THAT OPPRESSION, WE MAY HAVE PLACED UPON OURSELVES. ISN'T THAT WHAT WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA DESIRE, TO BE FREE AGENTS, NO MATTER WHAT OUR CIRCUMSTANCES MAY BE. 100% ACCOUNTABILITY TO OUR CREATOR FIRST & FOREMOST, GIVES US THAT FREEDOM WE DESIRE BOTH HORIZONTALLY ANDVERTICALLY. WE WILL FIND THAT FREEDOM HORIZONTALLY SPEAKING IS A SELF EVIDENT TRUTH. MAY THIS MESSAGE BE THE IMPETUS IN MAKING US, JOHN Q. PUBLICOF AMERICA DESIRE TO BE TRULLY FREE THROUGH 100% ACCOUNTABILITY, FIRST AND FOREMOST, TO GOD, BY ACKNOWLEDGING OUR ABSOLUTE NEED OF TOTAL DEPENDENCY UPON OUR CREATOR, UPON THE WILL OF OUR CREATOR, BY SELF EVIDENT TRUTHS.
IN THIS MESSAGE WE JUXTAPOSE THE VOYAGE OF THE PILGRIMS ON THE MAYFLOWER WITH THE APOSTLE PAUL IN BONDS UPON A PRISON SHIP, BOUND FOR ROME, FOR WITH THE JEWS DESIRING TO KILL HIM, HE APPEALED TO CEASAR TO BE TRIED IN ROME. WE WILL FIND IN THE PILGRIMS WEAKNESS BECAUSE OF THE TREACHEROUS JOURNEY, GOD AGAIN AND AGAIN DELIVERED THEM. FOR EXAMPLE, WILLIAM BRADFORD, WHO BECAME THE GOVERNOR OF THE PLYMOUTH PLANTATION IN MASSACHUSETTS WROTE AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR JOUNEY AND THEIR HABITATION ENTITLED ‘OF THE PLYMOUTH PLANTATION 1620-1647' WHERE HE WRITES OF AN INCIDENT WHERE ONE OF THE PASSENGERS ABORAD THE MAYFLOWER ROUTINELY MOCKED THE CHRISTIANS, FOR ONLY 35 OF THE 102 PASSENGERS WERE OF THE FLOCK OF JOHN ROBINSON THEIR PASTOR. THE ACCOUNT OF THIS INCIDENT READS AS FOLLOWS FROM WILLIAM BRADFORD'S BOOK: “ These troubles being blown over, and now all being compact together in one ship, they put to sea again with a prosperous wind, which continued divers days together, which was some encouragement unto them; yet, according to the usual manner, many were afflicted with seasickness. And I may not omit here a special work of God's providence. There was a proud and very profane young man, one of the seamen, of a lusty, able body, which made him the more haughty; he would alway be contemning the poor people in their sickness and cursing them daily with grievous execrations; and did not let to tell them that he hoped to help to cast half of them overboard before they came to their journey's end, and to make merry with what they had; and if he were by any gently reproved, he would curse and swear most bitterly. But it pleased God before they came half seas over, to smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died in a desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrown overboard. Thus his curses light on his own head, and it was an astonishment to all his fellows for they noted it to be the just hand of God upon him.” GOD MADE IT CLEAR TO THE OTHER PASSENGERS ABOARD THAT HE SUBDUES THEIR ENEMIES AND THAT THEY AUGHT TO BE CAREFUL WHAT THEY SAY AND DO TO THESE PILGRIMS. LIKEWISE WE WILL FIND THAT GOD WORKED IN THE SAME WAY FOR THE APOSTLE PAUL, BEING HELD AS A PRISONER, ABOARD A PRISON SHIP, BOUND TO ROME. IT IS OF UTMOST NECESSITY THAT WE AS AMERICAN PARENTS TEACH OUR CHILDREN THE HISTORY OF REFORMATION COUPLED WITH ITS DOCTRINE FOR THE LEFT POLITICALLY AND THE LEFT CHURCH DESIRES TO ERASE IT. IT IS THE DOCTRINE OF THESE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS THAT CAME TO AMERICA THAT UNDERGIRDED THE MOMENTAL FUTURE SUCCESS OF AMERICA. THIS DOCTRINE OF THE BONDAGE OF THE WILL MUST AGAIN BECOME DOMINANT IN AMERICA, AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS THE TRUE KING JESUS WILL AGAIN BE DOMINANT.
THE QUESTION THAT WE AS AMERICANS MUST ASK OURSELVES, IS, WHY IS IT SO HARD FOR US TO DESIRE TO ASK OURSELVES WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE A TRUE CHRISTIAN OR JUST A PROFESSING CHRISTIAN, WHEN, IF THE BIBLE IS TRUE, THEN OUR SOUL IS AT STAKE? WOULDN'T ALL OF US AMERICANS WANT TO KNOW “FOR SURE” IF WE ARE GOING TO HEAVEN OR NOT? BUT WE ASK OUR FELLOW AMERICANS THIS QUESTION, THEY ALREADY HAVE THEIR SECURITY BLANKET ON, AND THUS THE CONVERSATION DROPS DEAD. SO WE ASK THE QUESTION, WHY IS IT, WE ARE SO COMFORTABLE THAT WE ARE FIT FOR HEAVEN WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY SCRIPTURES WARNING US THAT STRAIT IS THE GATE AND NARROW IS THE WAY. SO WHAT IF WE HAPPEN TO BE ONE OF THE FEW THAT IS CONCERNED THAT WE MIGHT BE UNFIT FOR HEAVEN AND ARE ACTUALLY CONCERNED THAT WE MIGHT BE UNFIT FOR HEAVEN, IS IT TRUE THAT IT IS NOT US THAT IS DRAWING US TO FIND OUT BUT OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN. Jn. 6: 44] NO MAN can COME to ME, EXCEPT the Father which hath sent me DRAW HIM: and I will raise him up at the last day. [65] And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me(JESUS) except it were GIVEN unto him of my Father(BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD). SO IT APPEARS THAT IF WE ARE CONCERNED OF THE STATE OF OUR SOULS IT IS BECAUSE WE ARE BEING DRAWN TO THE TRUE JESUS AND NOT THE FAKE JESUS, WE SHOULD BE VERY THANKFUL. BUT HOW DO WE KNOW IF WE ARE BEING DRAWN TO THE TRUE JESUS AND NOT THE FAKE JESUS. JONATHON EDWARDS IN HIS BOOK, WHICH THE NARRATOR IS READING FROM IN THIS PODCAST GIVES US AN EXHAUSTIVE INSIGHT INTO WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE BEING DRAWN TO A FAKE JESUS OR THE TRUE JESUS. EVERY ONE OF US AMERICANS THAT IS INTERESTED IN THE STATE OF HIS SOUL SHOULD READ JONATHON EDWARDS BOOK ‘RELUGIOUS AFFECTIONS' THOROUGHLY TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE NOT DECEIVED OURSELVES. BOTH JESUS AND FORMER MR. MORALITY WARN US ALSO TO EXAMINE OURSELVES, THAT IS THE STATE OF OUR SOUL. FORMER MR. MORALITY WRITES:2Cor. 11: [13] For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.[14] And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.[15] Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.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?Heb. 6:[4] For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,[5] And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,[6] If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.JESUS COMMANDS:MATTHEW 7: [21] Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.[22] Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?[23] And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.[15] Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.[16] Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?[17] Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.[18] A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.[19] Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.[20] Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.FISHERMAN PETER WARNS US:2Pet.2 1] But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, denying the Lord
IN THIS MESSAGE, ALONG WITH MANY OTHER TOPICS, WE LOOK IN DETAIL INTO WHY WE ARE NOT CONVICTED OF THE SIN OF UNBELIEF AS NATURAL MAN AMERICANS, WHY WE NOT CONVICTED THAT OUR SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SIN, & AND WHY WE ARE NOT CONVICTED THAT UPCOMING DEATH IS A SIGN WE ARE BORN INTO THIS WORLD ON DEATH ROW, NEEDING A PARDON, BEFORE WE DIE PHYSICALLY. JN. 16: [7] Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.[8] And when he is come, he will REPROVE the world of SIN, and of RIGHTEOUSNESS , and of JUDGMENT:[9] Of sin, because they believe not on me(UNBELIEF)[10] Of righteousness(SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS), because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;[11] Of judgment, because the PRINCE of this world(SATAN) is judged.WHY IS IT AS NATURAL MAN AMERICANS, WE AS NATURAL MAN AMERICANS THINK WE CAN BELIEVE ON CHRIST BY FAITH, THAT IS, THAT WE ARE ANY DIFFERENT THAN THE JEWS, AT THE TIME OF JESUS, WHO UTTERLY REJECTED JESUS, THOUGH HE WAS EXACTLY THE MESSIAH THE OLD TESTAMENT PORTRAYED HIM TO BE? HOW COULD THE THEOLOGIANS, THE PHARISEES, AT THE TIME OF JESUS, MISS IT, AND THUS COMMON SENSE TELLS US IF JESUS CAME TO AMERICA TODAY, WE AS WELL AS THE THEOLOGIANS OF AMERICA TODAY WOULD REJECT JESUS ALSO. THE NATION OF ISRAEL AT THE TIME OF JESUS HAD BEEN SO LONG UNDER A FASTFOOD FREEWILL DOCTRINE THAT JESUS PREDICTED THAT ISRAEL WOULD BE WIPED OUT, WHEN INMATTHEW 24:1-2 HE PREDICTED EVERYSTONE OF THE TEMPLE WOULD BE TORN DOWN, WHICH IS THE SAME AS SAYING THAT EVERY STONE OF OUR AMERICAN CAPITOLWOULD BE TORN DOWN. JUST ABOUT 40 YEARS AFTER JESUS MADE THISPREDICTION, TITUS THE ROMAN IN 70 A. D. CAME IN MASSACRED OVER A MILLION OFTHE ISRAELITES AND TORE DOWN EVERY STONE OF THE TEMPLE AND ISRAEL DID NOT BECOME A NATION AGAIN UNTIL ABOUT 1900 YEARS LATER. Mt. 24:[1] And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.[2] And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
JONATHON EDWARDS WAS THE PASTOR OF THE CHURCH IN NORTH HAMPTON MASSACHUSETTS, WHERE THE GREAT RELIGIOUS AWAKENIMG WAS IGNITED IN 1734. AT THAT TIME GEORGE WASHINGTON, JOHN ADAMS AND THOMAS JEFFERSON WERE LESS THAN 10 YEARS OLD IN 1740 AND THUS GREW UP AMIDST THE GREAT AWAKENING FOR GEORGE WHITEFIELD FURTHERED THE GREAT AWAKENING FOR HE PREACHED OVER 18000 SERMONS, ABOUT 15/WEEK FROM 1740-1770. BENJAMIN FRANKL RECORDS IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY THAT ONE TIME GEORGE WHITEFIELD CAME INTO PHILADELPHIA AND BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ESTIMATED THAT ABOUT 30,000 WERE IN ATTENDANCE. BUT BY 1746 JONATHON EDWARDS DETERMINED THAT SATAN HAD SOWED MANY TARES AMONGST THE WHEAT AND SO HE WROTE THE BOOK, ENTITLED RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS, TO HELP THE COLONISTS DETERMINE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TRUE CHRISTIAN AND A PROFESSING CHRISTIAN. THE DOCTRINAL STATEMENTS DURING THAT PERIODOF TIME WERE MUCH MORE DETAILED THAN THEY ARE TODAY, BUT EVEN WITH THOSE DETAILED DOCTRINAL STATEMENTS IT WAS NOT ENOUGH AND THUS JONATHON EDWARDS FELT COMPELLED TO WRITE RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS TO HELP THE COLONISTS MORE EASILY DIFFERENTIATE THE TRUE CHRISTIAN FROM THE PROFESSING CHRISTIAN. IN AMERICA TODAY THE DOCTRINAL STATEMENTS ARE SO WEAK AND WIDE OPEN THAT YOU COULD DRIVE A SEMI THROUGH THEM. TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA HOW MUCH MORE DETAILED THE DOCTRINAL STATEMENTS WERE AT THE TIME OF OUR AMERICAN REVOLUTION LET US LOOK AT THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH DOCTRINAL STATEMENT WHICH IS CALLED THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION AND PRINCETON WAS PRESBYTERIAN. HERE ARE SOME EXCERPTS TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF HOW DETAILED AND COMPREHENSIVE IT WAS. The Westminster Confession of Faith (WCF, 1646) Table of Contents Chapter I. Of the Holy ScriptureChapter II. Of God, and of the Holy TrinityChapter III. Of God's Eternal DecreeChapter IV. Of CreationChapter V. Of ProvidenceChapter VI. Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment thereofChapter VII. Of God's Covenant with ManChapter VIII. Of Christ the MediatorChapter IX. Of Free WillChapter X. Of Effectual CallingChapter XI. Of JustificationChapter XII. Of AdoptionChapter XIII. Of SanctificationChapter XIV. Of Saving FaithChapter XV. Of Repentance Unto LifeChapter XVI. Of Good WorksChapter XVII. Of The Perseverance of the SaintsChapter XVIII. Of the Assurance of Grace and SalvationChapter XIX. Of the Law of GodChapter XX. Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of ConscienceChapter XXI. Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath-dayChapter XXII. Of Lawful Oaths and VowsChapter XXIII. Of the Civil MagistrateChapter XXIV. Of Marriage and DivorceChapter XXV. Of the ChurchChapter XXVI. Of the Communion of the SaintsChapter XXVII. Of the SacramentsChapter XXVIII. Of BaptismChapter XXIX. Of the Lord's SupperChapter XXX. Of Church CensuresChapter XXXI. Of Synods and CouncilsChapter XXXII. Of the State of Man After Death, and of the Resurrection of the DeadChapter XXXIII. Of the Last Judgment CHAPTER IX. Of Free Will. III. Man, by his fall into a state of sin, has wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation: so as, a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto. CHAPTER III.—Of God's Eternal Decree. VI. As God has appointed the ELECT unto glory, so has He, by the eternal and most free purpose of His will, foreordained all the means thereunto. Wherefore, they who are elected, being fallen in Adam, are redeemed by Christ, are effectually called unto faith in Christ by His Spirit working in due season, are justified, adopted, sanctified, and kept by His power, through faith, unto salvation. NEITHER are ANY OTHER redeemed by Christ, effectually called, justified, adopted, sanctified, and saved, but the elect only.
HOW MANY OF US AMERICANS ARE COMPLETELY WEARY OF GOING DOWN DEAD END STREETS AND WHEN WE COME TO THE END OF THAT DEAD END OF THAT STREET, WE MUST THEN TRAVEL ALL THE WAY BACK TO ITS ENTRANCE, AND THEN GET BACK UPON ROAD OF THE JOURNEY OF LIFE AND THEN TO BLINDLY MAKE ANOTHER LEFT HAND TURN INTO ANOTHER DEAD END STREET. KING SOLOMON WRITES IT THIS WAY IN HIS PROVERBS: Prov. 14: [12] There is a WAY which SEEMETH RIGHT unto a man, but THE END THEREOF are the WAYS of DEATH.Prov. 16: [2] ALL the WAYS of a MAN are CLEAN in HIS OWN EYES; but the LORD WEIGHTETH the SPIRITS.Prov. 12: [15] The WAY of a FOOL “IS” RIGHT in HIS OWN EYES: BUT HE that HEARKENETH unto COUNSEL “IS”(=) WISE. BUT THE QUESTION IS WHICH COUNSEL SHOULD WE LISTEN TO: OURSELVES? Prov. 28: [26] HE that TRUSTETH in HIS OWN HEART “IS”(=) a FOOL: BUT whoso WALKETH WISELY, he shall be delivered. CAN WE TRUST OUR HEART? JEREMIAH: 17: [9] THE HEART “IS”(=)DECEITFUL “ABOVE” “ALL” THINGS, and DESPERATELY WICKED: “WHO can KNOW it?MOSES WRITE:Gen. 6: [5] And GOD saw that the WICKEDNESS of man was GREAT in the earth, and that EVERY IMAGINIATION of the THOUGHTS of HIS HEART was “ONLY” EVIL CONTINUALLY. SO WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA SAY TO OURSELVES, IT DOES'NT SOUND ADVISABLE TO TRUST IN OURSELVES, SO WHO THEN SHOULD WE TRUST IN, WHO SHOULD WE COUNSEL WITH?WE SAY TO OURSELVES, IF THERE IS NO ABSOLUTE TRUTH, THEN THERE IS NO ABSOLUTE RIGHT OR WRONG AND EVERYTHING BECOMES RELATIVE, BECAUSE IT BECOMES NOTHING MORE THAN ONE PERSON'S OPINION AGAINST ANOTHER. BUT WOULDN'T IT BE NICE IF WE COULD COUNSEL WITH THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH, BUT COMMON SENSE TELLS US THAT THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH CANNOT BE KNOWN VIA UNDERSTANDING. AN THUS IS IT POSSIBLE TO KNOW THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH VIA UNDERSTANDING. IF JESUS IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH WOULDN'T IT BE WONDERFUL TO HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST SO WE COULD ELIMINATE GOING DOWN THOSE ENDLESS DEAD END STREETS?WE WILL EXPLORE THESE QUESTIONS AND MORE IN THIS MESSAGE. FORMER MR. MORALITY WRITES THIS TO HIS BRETHREN IN CORINTH:1COR. 2: [14] But the NATURAL MAN RECEIVETH NOT the things of the Spirit of God: WHY?for they are FOOLISHNESS unto him: NEITHER can he know them, WHY? because they are spiritually discerned(ONLY A SPIRITUAL NEW CREATION CAN UNDERSTAND THE SPIRITUAL).[15] But he that is SPIRITUAL(MAN) judgeth ALL THINGS, yet he himself is JUDGED of NO MAN.[16] For WHO hath known the MIND of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But “WE”have the “MIND” of Christ.SO FORMER MR. MORALITY IS SAYING THAT BOTH HE AND HIS CORINTHIAN BRETHREN HAVE THE “MIND” OF CHRIST.
GOD'S FREE GRACE IN THE SALVATION OF SINNERS, PROVED FROM THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL BY GEORGE WHITEFIELD!!!GEORGE WHITEFIELD HAD TO CONFRONT HIS DEAR FRIEND JOHN WESLEY, FOUNDER OF THE METHODISTS CHURCHES ABOUT DENYING GOD'S FREE GRACE(ELECTION) AND EMBRACING MAN'S FREE WILL. BELOW ARE EXCERPTS FROM GEORGE WHITEFIELD'S LETTER OF REBUKE TO HIS FRIEND JOHN WESLEY. December 24, 1740Very dear brother,God only knows what unspeakable sorrow of heart I have felt on your account since I left England last. Whether it is my infirmity or not, I frankly confess, that Jonah could not go with more reluctance against Nineveh, than I now take pen in hand to write against you. If nature was to speak, I would rather die than do it; and yet if I am faithful to God, and to my own and others' souls, I must not stand neutral any longer. I am very apprehensive that our common adversaries will rejoice to see us differing among ourselves. But what can I say? The children of God are in danger of falling into error. No, indeed numbers have already been misled, whom God has been pleased to work upon by my ministry; and a greater number are still calling aloud upon me to also voice my opinion. I must then show that I know no man after the flesh, and that I have no partiality, James 2:9 any further than is consistent with my duty to my Lord and Master, Jesus Christ. This letter, no doubt, will lose me many friends. From such considerations as these, I think it my duty to bear a humble testimony, and to earnestly plead for the truths which I am convinced are clearly revealed in the Word of God. In the defense of it, I must use great plainness of speech, and treat my dearest friends on earth with the greatest simplicity, faithfulness, and freedom, leaving the consequences of all to God.O dear Sir, what kind of reasoning—or rather sophistry—this is! Has not God, who has appointed salvation for a certain number, also appointed the preaching of the Word as a means to bring them to it? Does anyone hold election in any other sense? And if so, how is preaching needless for those who are elected, when the gospel is designated by God himself to be the power of God unto their eternal salvation? Romans 1.16. And since we do not know who are elect and who are reprobate, we are to preach promiscuously to all. For the Word may be useful, even to the non-elect, in restraining them from much wickedness and sin. However, it is enough to excite us to the utmost diligence in preaching and hearing, when we consider that by these means, some—even as many as the Lord has ordained to eternal life—shall certainly be quickened and enabled to believe. And whoever attends to this, especially with reverence and care, who can tell whether he may not be found among that happy number?Second, you say that the doctrine of election and reprobation tends to directly destroy holiness, which is the end of all the ordinances of God. "For" (says the dear mistaken Mr. Wesley) "it wholly takes away those first motives to follow after it, so frequently proposed in Scripture: the hope of future reward and fear of punishment, the hope of Heaven and fear of Hell," etc.I thought that one who carries perfection to such an exalted pitch as dear Mr. Wesley does, would know that a true lover of the Lord Jesus Christ would strive to be holy for the sake of being holy, and work for Christ out of love and gratitude, without any regard for the rewards of Heaven or fear of Hell. You remember, dear Sir, what Scougal says, "Love's a more powerful motive that moves them."Dear Sir, these things should not be so. But I hope the Lord will show you this before you go from here. O how I long for that day! If the Lord should be pleased to make use of this letter for that purpose, it would abundantly rejoice the heart of, dear and honored Sir.Yours affectionate, though unworthy brother and servant in Christ,George Whitefield
HOPEFULLY THIS MESSAGE WILL HELP US NOT BE SATISFIED WITH BEING A TWEAKED NATURAL MAN CHRISTIAN, WHICH IS NO CHRISTIAN, BUT GREATLY ENCOURAGE US AND GIVE US A GREAT HOPE TO BE A NEW CREATION EXPERIENCING THE POWER OF THE NEW CREATION TO BREAK ANY ADDICTION AND ALSO A GREAT DESIRE TO EXPERIENCE THE EXPERIENTIAL LOVE OF JESUS THAT SURPASSES ALL HUMAN LOVE BY FAR, THAT IS A PERSONAL LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST THROUGH FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM, THAT A TWEAKED NATURAL MAN WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE. FORMER MR. MORALITY, ONE OF THE WORST PERSECUTORS OF JESUS CHRIST AND HIS FOLLOWERS, CAME TO EXPERIENCE THIS SUPERNATURAL LOVE THAT WAS THE DRIVING FACTOR BEHIND HIS ENTIRE MINISTRY TO THE GENTILES. HE EXPRESSES THIS IN HIS LETTER TO HIS ROMAN BRETHREN. RO. CHAPTER 8: [35] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? [36] As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. [37] Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. [38] For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, [39] Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus.
MANY OF US WHO HAVE ATTENDED CHURCH GROWING UP HAVE HEARD JOHN THE BAPTIST SAY, IN REFERENCE TO JESUS, BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD. THOSE OF US THAT KNOW OUR BIBLES KNOW THAT JESUS, BEING CALLED THE LAMB OF GOD, IS THE SAME AS SAYING THAT, JESUS “IS” THE PASSOVER LAMB THAT THE JEWS HAD BEEN WAITING FOR, TO ARRIVE, FOR 1500 OR SO YEARS. SO WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA SAY TO OURSELVES, WHAT IS THE PASSOVER OR THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER? WAS JESUS CRUCIFIED ON THE PASSOVER, MEANING THAT GOOD FRIDAY COINCIDES WITH THE PASSOVER? IN ABOUT 1500 B. C. GOD TOLD MOSES TO GO BACK TO EQYPT, WHICH HE FLED FROM, BACK TO SPEAK TO THE PHARAOH, POSSIBLY SAME PHARAOH, IN WHOSE HOME HE GREW UP IN, WHOSE DAUGHTER RESCUED MOSES FROM A BABY ARK, HIS PARENTS PUT HIM, SO THAT HE WOULDN'T BE KILLED BY THE PHARAOH WHO ORDERED ALL BABY JEWISH BOYS TO BE KILLED BECAUSE THE JEWS WERE INCREASING IN POPULATION, TOO RAPIDLY, AND HE THOUGHT THEY WERE BECOMING A THREAT TO HIS PEOPLE. EVEN IT WASN'T THE SAME PHARAOH MOSES GREW UP UNDER, IT STILL, IS A POWER PLAY BY GOD ON THE POWERFUL PHARAOHS. GOD COMMANDED MOSES, THE BABY, WHO SURVIVED THE BABY SLAUGHTER, AFTER BEING GONE FOR 40 YEARS, TO GO BACK, TO THE PHARAOH AND DEMAND HE LET HIS PEOPLE, SLAVES OF THE PHARAOH, GO, BUT THE PHARAOH REFUSED AND SO GOD PUT 9 PLAGUES UPON THE EGYPTIANS, BUT THE PHARAOH DID NOT LET THEM GO. SO GOD PUT A 10TH PLAGUE ON THE EGYPTIANS, THAT IS KILL ALL THE FIRST BORN SONS, AS A REMINDER OF THE KILLING OF BABY JEWISH BOYS, WHICH MOSES SURVIVED. GOD THEN INSTRUCTED MOSES TO TELL HIS PEOPLE, THAT EACH FAMILY WAS TO SACRIFICE A LAMB ON THE 14TH OF THE MONTH OF NISAN, AND PUT THE BLOOD OF THAT LAMB ON THE DOORPOSTS OF THEIR HOME, AND IF THEY DID THAT, THE LORD WOULD “PASSOVER” THEIR HOME AND NOT LET DESTROYER KILL THEIR FIRSTBORN. Exodus 12: [1] And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, [2] This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. [3] Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: [4] And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. [5] Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: [6] And ye shall keep it up until the 14th day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. [7] And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. [22] And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. [23] For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. [26] And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? [27] That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD's passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped. 1500 YEARS LATER, JESUS, THE PASSOVER LAMB, ON FRIDAY THE 14TH OF NISAN, GOOD FRIDAY, WOULD BE ROASTED IN THE WRATH OF HIS FATHER ON THE CROSS FOR THE ELECT, TO SET THEM FREE FROM THE CURSE OF THEIR ORIGINAL SIN WITH FAITH IN CHRIST'S FULFILLMENT OF THE LAW FOR THEM.
IN THIS MESSAGE WE WILL COMPARE AND CONTRAST TWO MEN WHO HATED JESUS CHRIST WITH A PASSION, SAUL AND FREDERICK NIETZSCHE, BUT WITH OPPOSING OUTCOMES: ONE WHOSE WRITINGS HELPED CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEATHS OF 70-85 MILLION IN WWII, FOR HIS WRITINGS OF A MASTER RACE MADE GERMANY RIPE FOR HITLER'S GOAL OF RAISING UP A PURE GERMAN MASTER RACE. NIETZSCHE WROTE: ‘PARABLE OF A MADMAN' HERE ARE SOME EXCERPTS: “Whither is God?" he cried; I will tell you. We have killed him—you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how did we do this? …Do we hear nothing as yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God? Do we smell nothing as yet of the divine decomposition? Gods, too, decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him…What after all are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchers of God? IN OTHER WRITINGS HE WROTE: “Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity…This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the blind will be able to see. . . . I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough,--I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race…Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive…The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence - here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for ‘laws.' “ AND THE OTHER, SAUL, WHO HELPED HAND GOD OVER TO BE CRUCIFIED OUT OF ENVY; HE CONSENTED TO THE STONING OF STEVEN; HE MADE HAVOC OF THE CHURCH, ENTERING INTO EVERY HOUSE, HALING MEN AND WOMEN COMMITTED THEM TO PRISON; HE BREATHED OUT THREATENINGS & SLAUGHTER AGAINST THE DISCIPLES OF THE LORD AND WENT TO THE HIGH PRIEST AND DESIRED OF HIM LETTERS TO DAMASCUS TO THE SYNAGOGUES, THAT IF HE FOUND ANY THIS WAY WHETHER THEY BE MEN OR WOMEN, HE MIGHT BRING THEM BOUND TO JERUSALEM. BUT ENDED UP SPREADING THE GOSPEL TO THE GENTILES THROUGHOUT THE MEDITERRANEAN AND CHANGED THE WORLD, WHOSE WRITINGS, 13 OF THE 27 BOOKS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, ALONG WITH OTHERS, CULMINATED IN THE PILGRIMS COMING TO AMERICA IN 1620, THE WRITING OF OUR CONSTITUTION IN 1787, THE FORMING OF THE GREATEST NATION KNOWN TO MANKIND, AMERICA.
“NATURAL MEN HAVE A VEIL UPON THEIR HEARTS, THEY CANNOT SEE THE HIDDEN BEAUTIES THAT ARE IN A BELIEVERS SOUL; THEY LOOK UPON THEM AS THE MEANEST (LOW IN RANK OR BIRTH) OF ALL MEN, AND MANY THINK THEY DO GOD SERVICE TO CURSE THEM”…(WHO DID JESUS FIRST APPEAR TO WHEN HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD?) “OUR SAVIOUR AROSE VERY EARLY IN THE MORNING, HE LONGED TO BREAK THROUGH THE BANDS OF DEATH, HE LONGED TO PAY HIS DEAR DISCIPLES A VISIT; HE DID NOT GO TO HIS MOTHER, BUT HE PAID A VISIT TO ONE THAT WAS A COMMON PROSTITUTE; HER SENDS HE WITH THE MESSAGE HE WAS RISEN…ALTHOUGH YOU HAVE MARY MAGDALEN'S LUSTS IN YOU, LET THEM NOT KEEP YOU FROM CHRIST; AWAY, AWAY TO CHRIST, HE IS WILLING TO RECEIVE YOU….OH THAT HE WOULD COME TO YOU ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK.” BY GEORGE WHITEDIELD
IN THIS MESSAGE WE ASK THE QUESTION, EVEN IF THERE WAS AN ABSOLUTE TRUTH, DO WE DESIRE TO KNOW IT, AND IF NOT, IS THAT SIN TO GOD? IF THERE IS NO ABSOLUTE TRUTH, THEN THERE IS NO ABSOLUTE RIGHT OR WRONG, AND THEREFORE EVERYTHING IN THIS WORLD BECOMES RELATIVE AND IT ENDS UP BEING ONE PERSON'S OPINION AGAINST ANOTHER PERSON'S OPINION, THUS WHY CARE, LET US AS AMERICANS JUST DO WHATEVER WE WANT, FOR WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO TELL US WHAT TO DO, SINCE EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE. EVEN IF THE BIBLE WAS TRUE, WAS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH, IS THERE ANY WAY OF KNOWING IT IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH VIA UNDERSTANDING: FOR IF ONE PERSON READS THE BIBLE, HE GETS ONE INTERPRETATION, BUT IF ANOTHER PERSON READS THE BIBLE HE GETS ANOTHER INTERPRETATION AND WHO IS TO SAY ONE PERSONS INTERPRETATION IS RIGHT AND THE OTHER IS WRONG. THUS THERE IS NO WAY VIA UNDERSTANDING TO KNOW IF THE BIBLE IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH EVEN IF IT WAS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH. AFTER JESUS WAS INCARNATED HE CAME INTO TOWN AND PROCLAIMED TO BE THE EMBODIMENT OF THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH, BUT IT WAS THE BIBLE TEACHERS OF HIS DAY THAT WANTED HIM CRUCIFIED. SO IF JESUS CAME TO AMERICA TODAY AND SAID HE WAS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH WOULD WE DO ANY BETTER THAN THE NATION THAT WROTE THE BIBLE AND SPOKE OF THE COMING MESSIAH. BUT WE ALL, DO, INNATELY KNOW THERE IS AN ABSOLUTE TRUTH FOR HOW DID WE PUT A MAN ON THE MOON IF WE HAD NOT ABSOLUTE LAWS OF PHYSICS THAT WE MIGHT GET THE CORRECT MATHEMATICAL FORMULAS TO PREDICT THE FLIGHT PATH OF OUR SPACESHIP. CUTTING TO THE CHASE, IF JESUS IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH AS HE CLAIMED BUT, NONE OF US CAN KNOW IT FOR SURE, VIA UNDERSTANDING, HOW CAN WE COME TO KNOW HIM, KNOW FOR SURE EXPERIENTIALLY, THAT HE IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH. BUT THE PROBLEM IS, HOW MANY OF US AMERICANS BY NATURE DESIRE TO KNOW THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH FOR IF THERE WAS AN ABSOLUTE TRUTH THEN THERE WOULD BE AN ABSOLUTE STANDARD TO MEASURE OURSELVES BY WHICH THEN THAT WOULD ENTAIL CHANGE, AND CHANGE ALWAYS RUFFLES OUR FEATHERS FOR WE INNATELY BELIEVE THAT OUR FIG LEAVES OF MORALITY IS OUR TICKET INTO HEAVEN. BUT SHOULD WE NOT QUESTION THE PREMISE THAT OUR TICKET INTO HEAVEN IS: (LOVE, OR THE GOLDEN RULE, OR BE A DECENT PERSON, OR DO THE BEST WE CAN DO, ETC.) ALL FASTFOOD FREEWILL RELIGIONS, WHEN WE STRIP THEIR VAIL AWAY, IN REALITY BELIEVE THE FIG LEAVES OF MORALITY IS THEIR TICKET INTO HEAVEN AND IS THE BUILDING BLOCK OF THEIR FOUNDATION AND THEN PUT THEIR WEB OF SOPHISTICATED DOCTRINE ON TOP OF IT. BUT WE AS AMERICANS ARE COMFORTABLE WITH OUR FIG LEAVES OF MORALITY, ARE WE NOT, SO DON'T BOTHER US ABOUT SEEKING THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH, FOR WHY WAIST OUR TIME, IF IT IS NOT ACHIEVABLE VIA UNDERSTANDING. SO WHAT WE ARE THUS SAYING, IF JESUS REALLY IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND HE CANNOT BE KNOWN BY UNDERSTANDING, AND WE AS AMERICANS DON'T DESIRE TO KNOW THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH, THEN WE ARE DESIRING NOT TO KNOW JESUS, WHO IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND THAT IS SIN FOR JESUS COMMANDS US IN DR. LUKE CHAPTER 14: 24] Strive(AGONIZE) to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. [25] When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: [26] Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. [27] But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. [28] There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out. [29] And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. [30] And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last. THUS LET US SEEK TO KNOW JESUS, THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH!!!
The GRAND INQUIRY is then, how shall I KNOW that I am one of “THE” BELOVED of the Lord? The NATURAL MAN never minds the love of God; he FLATTERS HIMSELF he LOVES God NATURALLY, that the love of God is a plant that grows in NATURE'S GARDEN; BUT a SPIRITUAL PERSON does not so. What does the king take notice of me? does the king look pleasant up|on me in a drawing-room? am I called to wait upon him? am I beloved of this, and that, and the other person? if I am, let God go, I care not; if I have but the love of this and that courtier, I care not whether God loves me or no; THIS WILL NOT DO for an AWAKENED SOUL; and THEREFORE the grand enquiry, and INE PROOF of a person's BEING AWAKENED is, HOW shall I KNOW whether God loves me or not? why try; I am persuaded of it, that we may as well know that God loves us, and we love God, as we may know that the sun shines at noon-day; how shall I know it but by the effects of this love, by the fruits of it? That great man, Dr. Watts, who was called the sweet singer of Israel, says, "we should go first to the grammar-school of faith and repentance, before we go to the university of predestina|tion:" whereas the devil would have them go first to the university, to examine whether they were elected or rejected, or no: they should do as a good woman once did, when satan tempted her, and wanted to distress her, that there were but few to be saved; she said, if there were but two to be saved, she would strive to be one of them. Surely I am belov|ed of the Lord, if my natural enmity against the Lord is slain. How do I know I love a person? how can you prove that you love me? why, say you, I hated you the other day: how many people met I with the other day, that could a few weeks ago have pulled me out of Tottenham-court, but God has over|come their hearts. The person now 〈◊〉 his former enmity, and when that enmity is removed, and you are reconciled to them, cannot you know that you love them? and if God has removed that enmity to Christ out of your hearts, surely you are one of the beloved of the Lord. We are the beloved of the Lord, if we are brought to abhor and renounce that which stands between us and the Lord; I mean, our cursed self-righteousness. BY GEORGE WHITEFIELD
HOW CAN WE AVOID JESUS SAYING TO US: “And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” Matt. 7:[22] Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? [23] And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
IN THIS MESSAGE WE WILL SEE A TOTALLY DIFFERENT JESUS THAN OUR FASTFOOD FREEWILL THEOLOGIANS HAVE PRESENTED TO US. WE MAY BE SHOCKED TO HOW JESUS GETS “UP IN THE GRILL” OF THESE JEWS WHICH BELIEVED ON HIM. THE BONDAGE OF THE WILL JESUS IS TOTALLY A DIFFERENT JESUS THAN THE FASTFOOD FREEWILL JESUS. IN THE BONDAGE OF THE WILL WORLD, EVERY CHURCH IS A SPIRITUAL WAR ZONE AND ITS MEMBERS SHOULD COME TO CHURCH TO SPIRITUALLY REFUEL AND IN LOVE ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER IN THEIR SPIRITUAL WARFARE. JESUS KNEW HE WAS FIGHTING IN A SPIRITUAL WAR FOR HIS LIFE AND THUS HE FOUGHT LIKE A SPIRITUAL WARRIOR. DOES THAT MEAN HE WAS NOT A GOD OF LOVE? ABSOLUTELY NOT! BUT HE KNEW HIS ENEMY AND THE DESTRUCTION HIS ENEMY WAS CAPABLE OF IF HE WAS TO SPEAK THE TRUTH. FORMER MR. MORALITY ALSO KNEW THAT EVERY CHURCH WAS A SPIRITUAL WAR ZONE FOR HE WARNED HIS YOUNG PASTOR TIMOTHY THE FOLLOWING IN 1 TIMOTHY 1: [18] This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest WAR a good WARFARE. 1 TIM. 6: [12] FIGHT the good FIGHT of faith, LAY HOLD on ETERNAL LIFE, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. [2]These things TEACH and EXHORT [3] IF any MAN TEACH OTHERWISE, and consent not to wholesome words, EVEN the WORDS of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, and to the DOCTRINE(ELECTION) which is according to godliness; [4] He “IS” PROUD, KNOWING NOTHING, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, [5] Perverse disputings of MEN of CORRUPT MINDS, and DESTITUTE of the TRUTH, SUPPOSING that GAIN is GODLINESS: FROM SUCH WITHDRAW thyself. [6] But GODLINESS with contentment is great gain. [7] For WE BROUGHT NOTHING into this WORLD, and it is certain we can CARRY NOTHING OUT [8] And HAVING FOOD and RAIMENT let us be therewith CONTENT. [9] But THEY that will be RICH FALL into TEMPTATION and a SNARE, and into many FOOLISH and HURTFUL LUSTS, which DROWN MEN in DESTRUCTION and perdition. [10] For the LOVE of MONEY is the ROOT of ALL EVIL: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. [11] But thou, O man of God, FLEE these things; and FOLLOW after RIGHTEOUSNESS , godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. [12] FIGHT the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. [13] I GIVE thee CHARGE in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession; [14] That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. HOPEFULLY THIS MESSAGE WILL BEGIN TO CHANGE THE NARRATIVE OF HOW WE AS AMERICANS SEE JESUS, NOT AN EMASCULATED JESUS, BUT A JESUS THAT KNEW HIS WORDS WERE GOING TO CAUSE NOT ONLY A SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION BUT WOULD UPSET THE NATIONAL APPLE CART AS DID MARTIN LUTHER IN 1517 WHEN HE PUT HIS 95 COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON THE DOOR OF THE CASTLE CHURCH IN WITTENBURG, GERMANY AND THEN IN 1524 IN HIS MOST IMPORTANT BOOK ENTITLED ‘BONDAGE OF THE WILL' WROTE THAT FREEWILL IS A FICTION, CULMINATING IN THE PILGRIMS COMING TO AMERICA IN 1620 WITH THE BONDAGE OF THE WILL DOCTRINE. LET US AMERICANS GET BEHIND THE BONDAGE OF THE WILL DOCTRINE OF EARLY AMERICA THAT WAS THE SPIRITUAL BACKBONE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN ORDER TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
I, GEORGE WHITEFIELD, SHALL FIRST ENDEAVOR TO PROVE THAT EVERY MINISTER, BEFORE HE PRETENDS TO HAVE ORDERS TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, FROM A FULL EVIDENCE OF A WORK OF CONVERSION PASSING UPON HIS SOUL, OUGHT TO BE ENABLED IN SOME DEGREE TO SAY, “THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, AN HATH ANOINTED ME PREACH THE GOSPEL.”2. I SHALL SHOW YOU WHAT THE GOSPEL IS, WHICH MINISTERS THUS QUALIFIED ARE TO PREACH. 3. I SHALL SHOW YOU THE PERSONS WHOM THIS GOSPEL IS TO BE PREACHED, NAMELY, “THE POOR, THE BROKEN HEARTED, THE CAPTIVES, THE BLIND, AND THE BRUISED. 4. I SHALL MAKE APPLICATION OF THE WHOLE, HOPING WHILE I AM PREACHING, THE PEOPLE OF GOD WILL LIFT UP THEIR HEARTS TO JESUS CHRIST; AND WHO KNOWS BUT WE MAY HAVE AN ACCEPTABLE MORNING OF THE LORD.
AS WE HAVE MENTIONED MANY TIMES, SATAN IS THE ULTIMATE COUNTERFEITER. THE REFORMATION CENTERED ITSELF AROUND THE FACT THAT TRUE CHRISTIANITY WAS AN INWARD REALITY FOR JESUS HIMSELF SAID: DR. LUKE 17: [21] BEHOLD, the KINGDOM of GOD “IS” WITHIN YOU. FORMER MR. MORALITY, ONE THE MOST ZEALOUS FASTFOOD FREEWILL THEOLOGIANS BEFORE HIS CONVERSION, AFTER HE WAS CREATED A NEW CREATION, CONFIRMS THIS IN A LETTER TO HIS BRETHREN WHEREIN HE WRITES: 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(ONE OF THE WORST PERSECUTORS OF THE CHURCH BEFORE I “WAS MADE” A NEW CREATION) and gave himself for me. I FORMER MR. MORALITY, AS A ZEALOUS PHARISEE HATED JESUS CHRIST WHEN HE WAS HERE ON EARTH, FOR HIS POPULARITY, AND HIS WORDS WERE RUFFLING MY SECURITY BLANKET. HE TOLD ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES, NICODEMUS ABOUT THIS INNER RELIGION WHEN HE SAID THIS TO HIM: JN. 3: John.[31] There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: [3] Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, EXCEPT a MAN be BORN again, he CANNOT SEE the KINGDOM of GOD. [4] Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be BORN when he is OLD? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? SO THE REFORMATION WHICH WAS IGNITED BY MARTIN LUTHER IN 1517 AND SPREAD THROUGH EUROPE, CULMINATED IN THE PILGRIMS COMING TO AMERICA IN 1620, THE PURITANS IN 1630, HARVARD ESTABLISHED IN 1636; YALE 1701; COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY(WHICH EVENTUALLY BECAME PRINCETON) IN 1746; THE GREAT SPIRITUAL AWAKENING IGNITED IN JONATHON EDWARDS CHURCH IN 1734, AND FURTHERED BY THE GREATEST EVANGELIST IN AMERICAN HISTORY, GEORGE WHITEFIELD, WHO PREACHED OVER 18,000 SERMONS MOSTLY IN THE FIELDS FROM 1740-1770; THE GREAT TREATISE ON ORIGINAL SIN IN 1758 by JONATHON EDWARDS. THE CENTRAL THEME OF ALL THESE THEOLOGIANS, GROUPS AND INSTITUTIONS WAS THAT RELIGION WAS AN INNER EXPERIENCE NOT JUST AN OUTER PERFORMANCE. IT WAS THE INNER EXPERIENCE(THE NEW CREATION) THAT DROVE THE OUTER EXPERIENCE VIA FAITH THROUGH THE EXPERIENTIAL LOVE OF THE SAVIOUR. JESUS TOLD MY COLLEAGUE NICODEMUS THAT HE HAD TO BECOME BORN AGAIN IN ORDER TO SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD, THAT IS, TO SEE THE SPIRITUAL JESUS THAT WAS STANDING RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM FOR JESUS WAS THE EMBODIMENT OF THE SPIRITUAL KINGDOM OF GOD. BUT WHEN JESUS SAID “BORN” AGAIN WHAT DID MY COLLEAGUE THINK, THAT IS RIGHT, HE THOUGHT OF HIS NATURAL BIRTH, FOR ISN'T THAT WHAT ALL OF YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU HEAR THE WORD BORN, YOU THINK OF YOUR NATURAL BIRTH OR THE BIRTH OF SOME CREATURE: AND HOW MUCH FINGERPRINTS OF COOPERATION DID YOU HAVE ON YOUR NATURAL BIRTH? DID GOD GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE HIM A THUMBS UP OR DOWN:YOUR RACE; THE COUNTRY YOU WOULD BE BORN INTO; THE FINANCIAL STATUS OF YOUR PARENTS; DRUG INFESTED PARENTS OR MORAL PARENTS; ETC.? NO SIR YOU JUST SHOWED UP HERE ON EARTH. SO MY COLLEAGUE NICODEMUS WAS AT LEAST PRACTICAL AND NOT DECEITFUL FOR HE KNEW IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE HIMSELF BORN: “can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born.” BUT I FORMER MR. MORALITY, NOW THAT I AM BORN AGAIN, KNOW HOW SPIRITUALLY DUMB I WAS AS A FASTFOOD FREEWILL THEOLOGIAN, FOR I NOW REALIZE HOW DECEITFUL SATAN IS AND I WROTE ABOUT THIS TO MY BRETHREN IN CORINTH: 2COR. 11: [14] for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT I HAD NO FINGERPRINTS OF COOPERATION ON BEING BORN AGAIN. BUT SATAN DUMBS DOWN THE NEW CREATION BY PUTTING FINGERPRINTS OF COOPERATION ON THE NEW CREATION SO YOU NATURAL MAN AMERICANS CAN CONTROL YOUR SPIRITUAL BIRTH WHICH IS NONSENSE. CHARLES FINNEY IN 1830 IGNITED A FASTFOOD FREEWILL SPIRITUAL AWAKENING AND BILLY GRAHAM WAS MENTORED BY HIS WRITINGS. IN THIS MESSAGE THESE MEN WILL BE JUXTAPOSED TO WHITEFIELD AND EDWARDS. CAUT. THIS MESSAGE MAY RUFFLE YOUR FEATHERS!
READ THE TITLE OF THIS SERMON SEVERAL TIMES AND PONDER ITS MEANING: NEGLECT OF CHRIST THE KILLING SIN! IF GEORGE WHITEFIELD ALONG WITH JONATHON EDWARDS WERE KNOWN AS THE SPIRITUAL LEADERS OF THE GREAT RELIGIOUS AWAKENING WHICH WAS IGNITED IN JONATHON ESWARDS' CHURCH IN 1734 AND FURTHERED BY GEORGE WHITEFIELD FROM 1740-1770, WHY IS IT THAT MOST ALL OF US NATURAL MEN AMERICAN AND CHURCH MEMBERS HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THESE MEN, BUT FOR THE FACT THAT THE DOCTRINE OF THESE MEN IS IN OPPOSITION TO THE FASTFOOD FREEWILL PASTORS OF AMERICA TODAY OF TODAY WHICH BLANKET AMERICA AND CONTROL THE RELIGIOUS NARRATIVE: THE WRITINGS OF THESE MEN WOULD EXPOSE THE FASTFOOD FREEWILL DOCTRINE AS A FICTION. THE FASTFOOD FREEWILL JESUS AND THE JESUS OF THE BONDAGE OF THE WILL ARE TWO TOTALLY DIFFERENT JESUS', ONE OF THEM IS NO JESUS, BUT A FABRICATION OF SATAN FOR SATAN IS THE ULTIMATE COUNTERFEITER OF JESUS' AND FALSE RELIGIONS. IF JESUS IS THE KING OF KINGS AND ONLY DESIRES OF US AS AMERICANS TO MAKE HIM KING OF AMERICA AGAIN BY MAKING HIS DOCTRINE DOMINANT IN AMERICA AGAIN: THEN HE WOULD REPAIR OUR MORAL MELTDOWN AND WOULD BE THE HEALING OF OUR DECLINING POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS WHICH ARE METHODICALLY AND EVILLY BEING TORN DOWN PIECE BY PIECE BECAUSE THE TRUE KING JESUS IS NO LONGER KING OF AMERICA. LET US AS AMERICANS PUSH OUT THE DOCTRINE OF THE KING OF KINGS THAT THIS COUNTRY MGHT BE SAVED: LET US REESTABLISH THE VERITABLE, FUNCTIONAL, SPIRITUAL KING OF AMERICA BY MAKING THE DOCTRINE OF THE BONDAGE OF THE WILL DOCTRINE DOMINANT, THUS WHEN THE TRUE JESUS IS DOMINANT, ALL OUR EDUCATIONAL AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS WILL PIECE BY PIECE WILL AGAIN BE PUT BACK TOGETHER AS A PUZZLE OF FREEDOM IS COMPLETED, THAT WE AS WELL AS THE WORLD MIGHT AGAIN ENJOY THE EMBLEMATIC PORTRAYAL OF NOT ONLY HORIZONTAL FREEDOM BUT ALSO VERTICAL FREEDOM. Daniel 2: 47] The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your GOD is a GOD of gods, and a LORD of KINGS, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret. [48] Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon. 1Sam. 12: 12] And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God WAS YOUR KING. [19] And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that WE DIE NOT: for WE have ADDED unto ALL our sins THIS EVIL, to ASK us a KING (WHEN WE ALREADY HAD THE TRUE KING JESUS) PSALM 47 [1] O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. [2] For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a GREAT KING over all the earth. [3] He SHALL SUBDUE the people UNDER us(AS AMERICAN) and THE NATIONS UNDER our FEET. [4] He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. ISAIAH 9: [6] For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the GOVERNMENT shall be upon his shoulder: and HIS NAME shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace
AS WE HAVE MENTIONED MANY TIMES A DOG AND A CAT BOTH HAVE EYES, EARS, BOTH CAN SMELL, BOTH HAVE FUR AND PAWS, BUT A DOG BARKS AND A CAT MEOWS: A DOG AND A CAT HAVE SOME SIMILARITIES, BUT ARE TWO TOTALLY DIFFERENT CREATURES. WE CANNOT TAKE A DOG AND TWEAK IT TO MEOW: IT AIN'T GOING TO HAPPEN. DID THE DOG OR CAT HAVE ANY INPUT BEFORE GOD CREATED IT; DID GOD ASK THE DOG, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE: MAN'S BEST FRIEND OR MAN'S SECOND BEST FRIEND. BOTH THE DOG AND THE CAT JUST SHOWED UP HERE IN THIS WORLD JUST LIKE WE AMERICANS DID. THE NEW SPIRITUAL CREATION IS THE SAME, IT JUST SHOWS UP IN THIS WORLD WITH NO FINGERPRINTS OF COOPERATION, JUST LIKE WE NATURAL MAN AMERICANS DID. WE NATURAL MAN AMERICANS BEGET NATURAL MEN, WE CANNOT BEGET SPIRITUAL NEW CREATIONS, ONLY THE SPIRIT CAN BEGET SPIRITUAL NEW CREATIONS ON AN UNKOWN, DAY, TIME AND PLACE. IN AMERICA TODAY THE NEW CREATION HAS BEEN DUMBED DOWN BY OUR FAST FOOD FREEWILL THEOLOGIANS AND OUR FASTFOOD FREEWILL FRIENDS TO BE NOTHING MORE THAN A TWEAKED NATURAL MAN WITH A DOUBLE SET OF FIG LEAVES OF MORALITY. THE NEW CREATION CAN GIVE US 100% DELIVERANCE FROM ANY ADDICTION BY NATURE FOR THE NEW CREATION IS NOT LIKE A DOG FUTILELY ATTEMPTING TO MEOW. THE KING OF MORALITY, FORMER MR. MORALITY, WHO MOST LIKELY WAS THE RICH YOUNG RULER, WHO CAME RUNNING TO JESUS, AND KNEELING DOWN TO HIM, RHETORICALLY ASKING JESUS: WHAT MUST I DO TO OBTAIN ETERNAL LIFE, EXPECTING TO GET AN ATTA-BOY, WAS DISMANTLED BY JESUS, HEARTLESSLY IT APPEARED, BY CONVICTING HIM THAT HE WAS IN VIOLATION OF THE FIRST COMMANDMENT AND THUS COULD NOT FOLLOW GOD OR JESUS. IT TOOK BEING BEGET BY THE SPIRIT MANY YEARS LATER BEFORE HE COULD SUDDENLY FORSAKE ALL AT AN UNKNOWN TIME, DAY AND PLACE, AND WE WILL TIE THAT TO GOD COMMANDING ADAM NOT TO EAT OF THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL ASKING OURSELVES WHY GOD CALLED THE FORBIDDEN TREE, THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL. DID ADAM KNOW EVIL BEFORE HE ATE OF THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT AND HOW THAT TIES TO JESUS SAYING THAT A GOOD TREE CANNOT BARE EVIL FRUIT NOR A CORRUPT TREE GOOD FRUIT AND HOW THESE NEXT TWO VERSES ARE TIED TO THE GOOD AND CORUPT TREE. 1 Jn 3: [9] Whosoever is born of God(NEW CREATION, NOT A TWEAKED NATURAL MAN) doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he CANNOT sin, BECAUSE he is BORN of God(NEW CREATURE). 1JN 1: [8] If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth(JESUS) is not in us. FORMER MR. MORALITY WRITES 2COR. 5: [17] Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature(NOT A TWEAKED DOG TRYING TO MEOW): old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new( NEW SPIRITUAL CAT THAT ACTUALLY MEOWS, A NEW CREATION WITH TOTALLY DIFFERENT CHARACTERISTICS THAN THE NATURAL MAN, A NEW CREATION WITH POWER TO BREAK ANY ADDICTION BECAUSE THE NEW CREATION EXPERIENTIALLY EXPERIENCES THE LOVE OF CHRIST WHICH FAR SURPASSES ANY HUMAN LOVE. EPH. 3: [17] That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, [18] May be ABLE to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; [19] And to KNOW the LOVE(EXPERIENTIALLY) of Christ, which PASSETH knowledge, (IN ORDER) that ye might be FILLED with all the FULNESS of God. [20] Now unto him that is ABLE to do EXCEEDING abundantly ABOVEALL that WE ASK or THINK, according to the power that worketh in us, [21] Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. ALL THIS AN MUCH MORE IN THIS MESSAGE.
THE FAMILY CAN BE THOUGHT OF AS HORIZONTALLY SPEAKING A MINI NATION AND VERTICALLY SPEAKING AS A MINI CHURCH. TO OUR CHILDREN OUR FAMILY IS THE FIRST MINI CHURCH AND MINI NATION OR GOVERNMENT THEY WILL KNOW. AS WE HAVE MENTIONED IN MANY OTHER MESSAGES WE HAVE A CHOICE AS AMERICANS TO PUT OURSELVES UNDER GOD'S LAWS OF FREEDOM AND HAPPINESS OR MAN'S LAW WHICH EVENTUALLY LEADS TO TYRANNY. THE SAME IS TRUE WITH THE FAMILY: WILL WE PUT OUR FAMILY UNDER GOD'S LAWS OF FREEDOM AND HAPPINESS OR MAN'S LAWS OF TYRANNY? BY DEFINITION EVERY LAW HAS A CREATOR OR SUPERIOR OF THAT LAW WHO ENFORCES THAT LAW AND AN INFERIOR WHO OBEYS THAT LAW. WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, WHO WROTE A VERY INFLUENTIAL BOOK AT THE TIME OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ENTITLED COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND, AND HE WROTE IN THAT BOOK THE FOLLOWING: “MAN, confidered as a creature, muft neceffarily be fubject to the laws of his creator, for he is entirely a dependent being. A being, independent of any other, has no rule to purfue, but fuch as he prefcribes to himfelf; but a ftate of dependance will inevitably oblige the inferior to take the will of him, on whom he depends, as the rule of his conduct.” SO IT IS OBVIOUS FROM THIS DEFINITION THAT OUR CHILDREN ARE THE INFERIOR, THE DEPENDENT AND WE THE PARENTS ARE THE SUPERIOR. NOW THE QUESTION IS, WILL WE AS THE SUPERIOR PUT OUR FAMILY UNDER GOD'S LAWS OF FREEDOM AND HAPPINESS OR OUR OWN LAWS THAT WE PRESCRIBE TO OURSELVES, AND OUR FAMILY, MAKING OURSELVES SUPERIOR OVER GOD'S LAWS OF HAPPINESS AND FREEDOM. BUT TO PUT OURSELVES AS THE SUPERIOR UNDER GOD'S LAWS OF HAPPINESS AND FREEDOM WE HAVE TO KNOW GOD'S LAWS OF HAPPINESS AND FREEDOM, AND KNOW THE DIFFERENCE IN HOW THE LAW IS USED VERTICALLY AND HOW THE LAW IS USED HORIZONTALLY. BUT IF WE ARE NOT CONCERNED ABOUT NOT ONLY THE TEMPORAL NEEDS OF OWN SOULS WILL WE BE CONCERNED ABOUT THE TEMPORAL NEEDS OF CHILDREN'S SOULS AND LIKEWISE WITH THE VERTICAL. MOST OF US AMERICANS WILL TAKE CARE OF THE TEMPORAL NEEDS OF OUR CHILDREN, BUT WILL OUR HORIZONTAL LAWS FOR OUR FAMILY REST THEIR ULTIMATE AUTHORITY UPON DIVINE LAWS. SECONDLY IF WE AS PARENTS ARE NOT WORRIED ABOUT OUR SOULS VERTICALLY WILL WE BE WORRIED ABOUT THE SOULS OF CHILDREN VERTICALLY SPEAKING? IF THEIR IS NO ABSOLUTE TRUTH CONCERNING OUR SOULS, THEN THEIR IS NO ABSOLUTE RIGHT OR WRONG AND THUS OUR GUESS IS JUST AS GOOD AS THE NEXT GUY'S GUESS, AND THUS WE ARE ALL AS AMERICANS JUST GUESSING ABOUT OUR SALVATION AS WELL AS THE SALVATION OF OUR CHILDREN'S SOULS. BUT IS THERE ANY WAY TO KNOW THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH FOR IF ONE OF US AMERICANS READS THE BIBLE, HE GETS ONE OPINION, AND ANOTHER OF US AMERICANS READS THE BIBLE, HE GETS ANOTHER OPINION, SO WHO IS TO SAY ONE PERSONS OPINION IS BETTER THAN THE OTHER'S OPINION. BUT COMMON SENSE TELLS US THERE IS AN ABSOLUTE TRUTH, FOR JUST THE LAWS OF PHYSICS ALONE TELL US THERE IS AN ABSOLUTE TRUTH FOR HOW ELSE COULD WE HAVE PUT A MAN ON THE MOON. BUT IT IS ONE THING TO KNOW THERE IS AN ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND ANOTHER THING TO “KNOW” THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH, FOR MAYBE THERE IS SUCH A THING AS: “ALL THE LIGHT THAT WE CANNOT SEE.” SO AS WE LISTEN TO GEORGE WHITEFIELD'S MESSAGE ON, THE GREAT DUTY OF FAMILY RELIGION, MAYBE WE CAN KEEP IN THE BACK OF MINDS THE COMMENTS ON THE FAMILY WRITTEN ABOVE.
MOST ALL OF US AMERICANS KNOW WE ARE IN A MORAL MELTDOWN IN THIS COUNTRY AND MANY OF US ARE FRANTIClALLY TRYING TO SAVE THE NATION, FOR WE SEE OUR POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, K-12, AND EVEN OUR ELITE UNIVERSITIES BEING METHODICALLY DISMANTLED. WE AS AMERICANS ALSO KNOW THAT THE FAMILY IS THE FIRST GOVERNMENT THAT OUR CHILDREN WILL EXPERIENCE AND MILLIONS OF FAMILY MINI GOVERNMENTS ARE GOING DOWN IN THE FLAMES OF DIVORCE. OBVIOUSLY THIS AMERICAN INSTITUTION OF THE FAMILY IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE A FAILURE AND OUR CHILDREN ARE LOSING FAITH IN THIS INSTITUTION AND ARE SIMPLY BYPASSING MARRIAGE AND LIVING TOGETHER AND BECAUSE OF THE FAILURE OF THIS INSTITUTION ARE DESIRING LESS AND LESS TO HAVE CHILDREN. SO WE IN THIS MESSAGE GO BACK TO THE VERY BEGINNING, TO THE VERY FIRST MINI GOVERNMENT OF ADAM AND EVE AND ALLOW THEM IN THE FIRST PERSON TO TELL US HOW SORRY THEY ARE FOR DOING WHAT THEY DID TO PUT THE HUMAN RACE INTO SUCH A STATE OF UNNECESSARY STATE OF OF MISERY, BUT ALSO GIVE HOPE THROUGH THEIR OWN PERSONAL TESTIMONIES OF SALVATION, AND HOW THEY FOUND MOTIVATIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THEIR OLDEST SON MURDERED THEIR YOUNGER SON. HOPEFULLY THEIR TESTIMONIES WILL HELP CHANGE TODAY'S NARRATIVE OF THE CHURCH AS WE AGONIZE TO ENTER IN AT STRAIT AS THE GATE AND NARROW IS THE WAY AND FEW BE THAT FIND IT BECAUSE OF THE POWER OF UNBELIEF IMBEDDED IN US. “Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is divine. Far from being rivals or enemies religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistance.” James Wilson
WE CAN THINK OF THE BIBLE AS A SPIRITUAL SKYSCRAPER OR A SPIRITUAL WAGON WHEEL WITH THE HUB OF THE WHEEL AS SALVATION DEFINITIVELY DEFINED, AND THE SPOKES OF THE WHEEL AS THE 66 BOOKS OF THE BIBLE, AND LIKEWISE THE FOUNDATION OF THE SPIRITUAL SKYSCRAPER AS SALVATION DEFINITIVELY DEFINED. ALL OF US AS NATURAL MAN AMERICANS ARE BORN INTO THIS WORLD WITH SATAN AS OUR SPIRITUAL FATHER AND THUS IN ORDER FOR US NATURAL MAN AMERICANS TO GO TO HEAVEN WE MUST BE ADOPTED BY OUR SPIRITUAL FATHER IN HEAVEN. THUS WE AS NATURAL MAN AMERICANS SHOULD BE DESIRING THAT JESUS WOULD LEAD CAPTIVITY CAPTIVE, THAT IS WE SHOULD BE PRAYING THAT JESUS THE STRONGER MAN SHOULD COME TO THE ELECT OF US NATURAL MAN AMERICANS AND BIND THE STRONG MAN ARMED WHICH IS, SATAN HIMSELF, IN ORDER THAT JESUS MIGHT TAKE CAPTIVE THOSE OF HIS ELECT AMERICANS WHO ARE IN CAPTIVITY TO SATAN THAT WE MIGHT BE ADOPTED BY OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN. BUT THE PROBLEM IS, IS THAT OUR SPIRITUAL FATHER SATAN DOES NOT WANT US TO KNOW THAT HE IS OUR SPIRITUAL FATHER, AND THUS HE, BEING A LIAR BY NATURE, IS THE KING OF COUNTERFEIT RELIGIONS. SATAN KNOWS THAT ALL OF US NATURAL MAN AMERICANS ARE BORN INTO THIS WORLD BELIEVING THAT OUR FIG LEAVES OF MORALITY ARE OUR TICKET INTO HEAVEN AND THUS OFFERS US A COUNTERFEIT SPIRITUAL SKYSCRAPER RELIGION, WHICH LOOKS SOPHISTICATEDLY AND SPIRITUALLY HOLY, BUT IN REALITY IS SET UPON THE FALSE FOUNDATION OF THE FIG LEAVES OF MORALITY. GEORGE WHITEFIELD COMES ALONG IN THIS MESSAGE AND TORPEDOS THAT FALSE FOUNDATION OF MORALITY BY EXPLAINING VERY SIMPLY BUT COMPLETELY THE FOLLOWING VERSE: JOHN 16: [8] And when he(THE HOLY SPIRIT) is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE MESSAGES WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY FOUNDATIONAL TO THOSE OF US WHO DESIRE TO BE ELECTED AND THUS THIS MESSAGE SHOULD BE LISTENED TO OVER AND OVER UNTIL IT IS 100% UNDERSTOOD. THE CONVICTION OF THE SINS GEORGE WHITEFIELD IS SPEAKING IN THIS MESSAGE, IS THE FIRST SIGN THAT OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN IS DRAWING US TO HIS SON THAT HE MIGHT REVEAL HIS SON TO US BY MAKING US A NEW CREATION. JESUS SAID THIS TO FORMER MR. MORALITY: ACTS 9: [3] And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: [4] And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? [5] And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: IT IS HARD for thee to KICK against the PRICKS(BEING CONVICTED OF HIS SIN). [6] And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?AND WHEN PETER PREACHES HIS FIRST MAJOR SERMON, HE SPEAKS OF THESE “PRICKS” ACTS 2: [14] But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: [36] Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. [37] Now when they HEARD THIS, they WERE PRICKED in their HEART, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? [38] Then Peter said unto them, REPENT, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye SHALL RECEIVE the GIFT of the HOLY GHOST.
THE MAIN THRUST OF THIS MESSAGE PROVES BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT THAT THE HORIZONTAL(THAT IS, THE FATE OF AMERICA) IS INEXTRICABLY TIED TO THE VERTICAL(WHICH CHURCH IS DOMINANT IN AMERICA). SOME OF THE QUESTIONS WE BEGIN TO ANSWER ARE: CAN RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIBERTY SUBSIST SEPARATELY, THAT IS, DO THEY RISE AND FALL TOGETHER? AS AMERICANS, HOW ARE WE CREATED EQUAL HORIZONTALLY SPEAKING AS OPPOSED HOW ARE WE CREATED EQUAL VERTICALLY SPEAKING? DOES GOD BELIEVE IN NATIONS OR A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT? HOW IS THE CORRECT FUNCTION OF THE LAW VERTICALLY SPEAKING DETERMINE THE SUCCESS OF AMERICA HORIZONTALLY SPEAKING-IN OTHER WORDS, IF WE THINK OF THE CHURCH AS THE SUN AND AMERICA AS THE MOON, THEN AMERICA'S MORAL MELTDOWN IS SIMPLY A REFLECTION OF THE FALSE DOCTRINE OF THE DOMINANT CHURCH IN AMERICA. SAMUEL ADAMS, 2ND COUSIN TO JOHN ADAM'S WRITES: “It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. The RELIGION and PUBLIC LIBERTY of a people are intimately connected; their interests are interwoven, they CANNOT subsist SEPARATELY; and THEREFORE they RISE and FALL together. For this reason, it is always observable, that those who are combin'd to DESTROY the people's LIBERTIES, PRACTICE every ART to POISON their MORALS” AT THE TIME OF SAMUEL ADAMS WHEN OUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND CONSTITUTION WERE WRITTEN, THE REFORMATION DOCTRINE WAS DOMINANT(BONDAGE OF THE WILL DOCTRINE AS OPPOSED TO THE FREEWILL DOCTRINE THAT IS DOMINANT IN AMERICA TODAY).
IF WE WERE SATAN, THE ULTIMATE COUNTERFEITER, AND WE THOUGHT OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD AS A SKYSCRAPER, WHICH PART OF THE SKYSCRAPER WOULD WE COUNTERFEIT: IT WOULD BE THE FOUNDATION, WOULD IT NOT? BUT IF WE WERE SATAN WE WOULD NOT WANT JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA TO KNOW THAT WE HAD COUNTERFEITED THE FOUNDATION AND THUS WHAT WOULD WE DO, BUT WE WOULD DIVERT JOHN Q. PUBLIC'S ATTENTION FROM THE COUNTERFEIT FOUNDATION BY GETTING JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA TO QUARREL OVER THE NON ESSENTIALS LIKE THE COLOR OF THE CARPETING OR WALLS, THE LIGHT FIXTURES ETC. THIS SUMS UP WHAT GEORGE WHITEFIELD LABORS TO GET ACROSS TO THE AMERICAN COLONISTS IN PREACHING ON THE FOLLOWING VERSE- ROM. 14: [17] For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but RIGHTEOUSNESS, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. BUT WE SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISED THAT SATAN IS THE ULTIMATE COUNTERFEITER: 2COR. 11: [13] For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. [14] And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. [15] Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA, BEING THE SIMPLE PEOPLE THAT WE ARE ASK SIMPLE QUESTIONS LIKE WHO IS THE AUTHOR OF THE FAMILY; WAS THE FIRST FAMILY MADE UP OF A MALE AND A FEMALE; WHY DID GOD DRIVE THE FIRST FAMILY FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN; WAS THERE A MURDER IN THE FIRST FAMILY; WHAT WAS THE MOTIVATION BEHIND THAT MURDER; DID THAT MURDER HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE DOCTRINE OF ELECTION; AS PART OF THE CURSE FOR EVE'S DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD, DID GOD PUT EMNITY OR HATRED BETWEEN THE SEED OF SATAN AND THE SEED OF THE SEED OF EVE; HOW IMPORTANT IS IT FOR OUR CHILDREN TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ELECTION AND THE FASTFOOD FREEWILL DOCTRINE; HOW REAL IS THE DOCTRINE OF ELECTION AND IS IT EASILY PROVED; HOW IMPORTANT IS THE DOCTRINE OF ELECTION TO THE SURVIVAL OF AMERICA? AFTER HEARING THIS MESSAGE IT WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT FOR US NATURAL MAN AMERICANS TO EVER AGAIN EMBRACE THE FASTFOOD FREEWILL DOCTRINE. ALSO WE WILL BEGIN TO PROBE INTO HOW THE DOCTRINE OF ELECTION MAKES US AS AMERICAN CHRISTIANS INEXTRICABLY TIED TO THE WELL BEING OF AMERICA, FOR CHRISTIANITY IN OUR NATION BECOMES AS IMPORTANT AS CHRISTIANITY IN OUR FAMILY. ABRHAM LINCOLN WRITES: 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 repentence 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.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD WRITES: “Among the many heinous sins for which this nation is grown infamous, perhaps there is no one more crying, but withal more common, than the abominable custom of profane swearing and cursing. Our streets abound with persons of all degrees and qualities, who are continually provoking the holy one of Israel to anger, by their detestable oaths and blasphemies: and our very children, "out of whose mouths," the psalmist observes in his days, "was perfected praise," are now grown remarkable for the quite opposite ill quality of cursing and swearing. This cannot but be a melancholy prospect, for every sincere and honest minister of Jesus Christ, to view his fellow-creatures in; and such as will put him on contriving some means to prevent the spreading at least of so growing an evil; knowing that the Lord (without repentance) will assuredly visit for these things. But alas! what can he do? “ THEN WE ALSO WILL HEAR FROM NATAN COLE, EYE WITNESS OF A GEORGE WHITEFIELD APPEARANCE AND HOW GEORGE WHITEFIELD HELD HIS AUDIENCE SPELLBOUND. “Then on a Sudden, in the morning about 8 or 9 of the Clock there came a messenger and said Mr. Whitefield preached at Hartford and Wethersfield yesterday and is to preach at Middletown this morning at ten of the Clock, I was in my field at Work, I dropt my tool and I had in my hand an ran home to my wife telling her to make ready quickly to go and hear Mr. Whitefield preach at Middletown, then run to my pasture for my horse with all my might; fearing that I should be too late; having my horse I wish my wife soon mounted the horse and went forward as fast as I thought the horse could bear, and when my horse got much out of breath I would get down and put my wife on the Saddle and bid her ride as fast as she could and not Stop or Slack for me except I bad her and so I would run until I was much out of breath; and then mount my horse again, and so I did several times to favour my horse; we improved every moment to get along as if we were fleeing for our lives; all the while fearing we should be too late to hear the Sermon, for we had twelve miles to ride double in little more than an hour and we went round by the upper housen parish. [On the road to the sermon] And when we came within about half a mile or a mile of the Road that comes down from Hartford, Wethersfield and Stepney to Middletown; on high land I saw before me a Cloud or fogg rising; I first thought it came from the great River, but I came near the Road, I heard a noise something like a low rumbling thunder and presently found it was the noise of Horses feet coming down the Road and this Cloud was a Cloud of dust made by the Horses felt; it arose some Rods into the air over the tops of Hills and trees and when I came within about 20 rods of the Road, I could see men and horses Slipping along in the Cloud like shadows and as I drew nearer it seemed like a steady Stream of horses and their riders, scarcely a horse more than a length behind another, all of a Lather and foam with sweat, their breath rolling out of their nostrils every Jump; every horse seemed to go with all his might to carry his rider to hear news from heaven for the saving of Souls; it made me tremble to see the Sight, how the world was in a Struggle; I found a Vacancy between two horses to Slip in min and my wife said law our cloths will be all spoiled see how they look, for they were so Covered with dust, that they looked almost all of a Colour Coats, hats, shirts, and horses.
HAVE WE EVER ASKED OURSELVES WHY WE, THE INHABITANTS OF THIS EARTH DO NOT SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE AND HAVE A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT RATHER THAN SEPARATE NATIONS WITH DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. WAS THERE EVER A TIME WHEN WE ALL SPAKE THE SAME LANGUAGE. AFTER THE FLOOD THERE WERE ONLY 8 HUMAN SAPIENS LEFT ON THE EARTH, NOAH AND HIS FAMILY, IN WHICH HE HAD 3 SONS AND THEIR WIVES, WHO WERE COMMANDED TO BUILD 3 SEPARATE NATIONS. SO WE HAD 4 FAMILIES MAKING UP THE 8 WHO SURVIVED THE FLOOD WHO ALL SPAKE THE SAME LANGUAGE. Gen.9 [1] And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. [2] And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. 18] And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. [19] These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. Gen. 10: 32] THESE are the FAMILIES of the SONS of NOAH, after their generations, in their NATIONS: and by these were the NATIONS DIVIDED in the EARTH after the FLOOD. Gen.11 [1] And the WHOLE EARTH was of ONE LANGUAGE, and of ONE SPEECH. [4] And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. [5] And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. [6] And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now NOW NOTHING will be RESTRAINED from them, which they have IMAGINED to do. [7] Go to, let us(TRINITY) go down, and there CONFOUND their LANGUAGE, that they may NOT UNDERSTAND one another's SPEECH. [8] So the LORD SCATTERED them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and THEY LEFT to BUILD the city(ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT). [9] Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there CONFOUND the LANGUAGE of ALL the EARTH: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. WHAT WE JUST READ IS THE LONG WAY, WITH RECEIPTS, TELLING US THAT GOD BELIEVES IN INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, AND NATIONS AND DESPISES A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT. THIS MESSAGE IS A PICK AND SHOVEL DISCOURSE ON BUILDING A FOUNDATION FOR THE FAMILY WHERE WE WILL INTEGRATE THE THOUGHTS OF FISHERMAN JOHN, FORMER MR. MORALITY, ISAIAH, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, GEORGE WASHINGTON, ST. AUGUSTINE, WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, AND JOHN BUNYAN AS WE BEGIN TO BUILD A FRAMEWORK OF LAWS FOR THE FAMILY, THE BLUEPRINT OF THE FAMILY IF WE PLEASE!!!
ARE WE AS NATURAL MAN AMERICANS BORN INTO THIS WORLD AS TEMPLES OF THE LIVING GOD? WHAT WOULD BE OUR ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION? MOST OF US AMERICANS WOULD PROBABLY SAY NO, WOULD WE NOT? THEN THE QUESTION IS, DO WE HAVE TO BECOME TEMPLES OF THE LIVING GOD IN ORDER TO GO TO HEAVEN? GEORGE WHITEFIELD, IN THIS MESSAGE PAINTS A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE OF WHAT THE EXPERIENCE IS LIKE OF BEING, AS A BELIEVER, THE TEMPLE OF THE LIVING GOD. 2 COR. 6:[14] Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? [15] And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? [16] And what AGREEMENT hath the TEMPLE of GOD with idols? for “YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE LIVING GOD ; as God hath said, I WILL DWELL in THEM, and WALK in THEM; and I WILL be THEIR God, and they SHALL be MY PEOPLE.
TRUE OR FALSE: “MAN, CONSIDERED AS A CREATURE, MUST BE SUBJECT TO HIS CREATOR, FOR HE IS ENTIRELY A DEPENDENT BEING. A BEING INDEPENDENT OF ANY OTHER, HAS NO RULE, BUT SUCH AS HE PRESCRIBES TO HIMSELF; BUT A STATE OF DEPENDANCE WILL INEVITABLY OBLIGE THE INFERIOR TO TAKE THE WILL OF HIM, ON WHOM HE DEPENDS, AS HIS RULE OF CONDUCT. AND CONSEQUENTLY, AS MAN DEPENDS ABSOLUTELY UPON HIS MAKER FOR EVERYTHING, IT IS NECESSARY THAT HE SHOULD IN ALL POINTS CONFORM TO HIS MAKER'S WILL.” HOW DEPENDENT ARE WE ON OUR MAKER AND HOW WILL THIS AFFECT HOW WE SET UP OUR FAMILY, FOR OUR FAMILY IS A MINI NATION AND THUS THE FIRST GOVERNMENT OUR CHILDREN WILL EXPERIENCE, A MINI GOVERNMENT OF LAWS. WILL THOSE BE GOD'S LAWS OF FREEDOM AND HAPPINESS OR MAN'S LAWS WHICH LEAD TO TYRANNY. OUR AMERICAN CONSTITUTION WAS WRITTEN FOR AN IMPERFECT PEOPLE NOT A PERFECT PEOPLE, WILL OUR MINI NATION THAT IS, OUR FAMILY GOVERNMENT, BE WRITTEN FOR IMPERFECT OR PERFECT FAMILY MEMBERS. WE WILL BEGIN TO EXPLORE ALL THIS IN THIS MESSAGE