No matter how large a number is, it is finite: it is always possible to mention a number that is larger. Scientists speak of the “googol.” It is a one, followed by 100 zeros. The googol is inconceivably large. But then think of the “googolplexes” which we believe is the googol raised to the googol-th power. It is said, that if this number were written out, there would not be space on earth to contain the pages required. In fact, they would more than fill our galaxy!
Friday September 9, 2022
Pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks;
for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Childlike prayer for the Spirit of prayer will little by little bring a change into our prayer life such as we had scarcely thought possible.
Without our noticing the change, prayer will become the unifying center of our busy and distracted lives.
All that we experience from day to day will draw our hearts and minds quietly and naturally toward God. A desire to speak with God about everything will arise from time to time.
The things we see and hear in connection with our dear ones, our friends, our enemies, the converted, the unconverted, in connection with things temporal and spiritual, little things and greater things, the easy and the difficult—all the observations and experiences which give form and content to our daily lives will begin in a natural and happy way to formulate themselves into prayer.
Two people who love each other have not really experienced the things of love until they have told each other of their experiences. So also in prayer. The Spirit of prayer unites your soul with God in such a way that you speak with God about your experiences even before you are through experiencing them, whether you do this only in petition, or in sighing, grieving, fervent desire, or in thanksgiving and adoration.
You will experience it as blessed release thus to be able to speak with God about everything in your daily life, especially to be able to speak with Him about it at once, while it is still warm with interest and of actual import.
It will dawn on you more and more that prayer is the most important task in which you engage. And that you cannot employ your time to better advantage than in prayer, either while you are resting or while you are working.
Wherever you are!
Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we can better understand Him.
All Scriptures Used are NKJV, New King James Version
Friday Reflecting
“The beloved of the Lord.” – Deuteronomy 33:12.
Who is the beloved of the Lord? It is one who believes in the love that God has toward him.… Peter had a great idea of his own love to Christ; “though all men forsake thee, yet will I not forsake thee”; but John was content to speak of himself as the beloved of the Lord. “O Daniel, greatly beloved,” said the angel to that man of God.… Do you hesitate to class yourself with Daniel and John? Tell me, is there any greater expression of the love of God, than was given in the surrender of His Son to Gethsemane, Gabbatha, and Calvary? Did Daniel or John ever receive any more affecting love token than this? Be only bold enough to know the love that was expressed when Christ tasted death for you, and you may without hesitation sit down beneath the same tree with Daniel and John, and expect them to listen while you speak of the Crucified One.
~ BOWEN
*Pastor’s Note: This is the third and last of the three parts of a message I posted on my first website back in the early 90s. I HAVE updated some of the Scripture references and the pictures were added for this posting. Thanks, and God Bless!
“DO NOT despise prophecies.” To many are teaching that this is in respect to the foretelling aspect of the spiritual gift of prophecy. However, that is not what Paul is speaking about, rather, he is exhorting and teaching about respect for the preaching/teaching of the Word of God with authority and anointing, which is the ministry gift of prophecy. That is why this phrase refers to the spoken Word of God. We are not to hold in contempt the preaching or teaching of the Word of God. The written Word should always be our standard of what is true and what is not. If someone teaches or preaches the Word, it is a high calling, but remember it is the Word that gives life and not the speaker. God has shown us in His Word all that we need to know about Him while we are on this earth; which includes the past and the future! You can only know someone intimately the more you know about them, their character and their nature. In His written Word, we have witness to the truth of all that God says, and witnesses to the very character and nature of God as our Heavenly Father. The Bible says that, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” – Romans 10:17. Belief in what the Father says and does and Who He is, comes from the written and spoken Word of God. Do not despise it if you wish to know just what He has in store for you as His child as well as Who truly loves you beyond measure!
“Test all things; hold fast what is good.” I love how the New American Standard Bible puts this same verse; “But examine everything; hold firmly to that which is good.” This verse is in direct relation with the previous verse. We are not to despise or hold in contempt, but we are also personally responsible for what we accept as “from the Lord.” The Apostle John, later on, in his Epistle, confirms exactly what the Apostle Paul is stating here, “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.” – 1 John 4:1. This was so foremost on the minds of the Apostles that they all made sure, Christ’s disciples didn’t accept everything blindly. Test what you hear, examine it, so as to verify that what you hear is truly in line with God’s Word. Once it’s been verified, hold on tightly to it!
Again, we must remain in communion with the Holy Spirit who will lead us and guide us into all truth. The Apostle John reiterates this even earlier in his epistle which you can read in 1 John 2:26-27. We can examine carefully by studying the scriptures in the light of what has been told us. Luke commended the Bereans because they searched the Scriptures daily, not to dispute Paul and Silas in their teaching, but to be sure that what they were hearing was true to the written Word. (See Acts 17:11). Just like in this modern age, it is easy to form an opinion of someone based on what another has said. But unless you develop a true relationship with that person yourself, you may be getting a tainted picture of that person. You may decide in your heart that the person in question is not worth getting to know. Wouldn’t it be a shame if that is how we view our Heavenly Father; by the things that some people are saying about Him. If we don’t take the time to get to know the real Father, in spirit and truth, then we’re the ones to miss out. We need to “hold fast” to that which we know is right. Just like a child who has received a new toy, it is almost impossible to wrench it from their grasp. We are to do the same thing concerning the “Truth” of our Heavenly Father.
“Abstain from every form of evil.” Evil is that which brings death and separation from God. It is a chasm between God and the believer that can’t be breached. If we have followed all the previous steps, and we are “walking” with God, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, the Anointed One, is abiding or residing within us. We will know all the subtleties of the evil that lurks our way. Paul said in Galatians 5:19-21, that if anyone practices or partakes of these deeds of the flesh that he lists, they shall not inherit the Kingdom of God. Jesus Himself, said that we cannot serve two masters. We cannot serve that which pleases us and that which pleases God. It has to be one or the other.
Seven short verses, and yet so powerful concerning our relationship with the Father. I hope that you also can see the keys to developing an intimate, personal relationship with your Father. Christianity as said earlier is not just a label, but it is a lifestyle; one that costs the true Christian his life; his life surrendered to God’s all perfect will. No, I myself, haven’t arrived yet. But just like Paul, (I’m) “Forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” – Philippians 3:13-14 (NASB).
Now in closing, look at the next two verses in 1 Thessalonians 5; “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will do it” (verses 23-24 NASB). After all is said and done, it is still God, our Father, who is doing the work in us. It is just a matter of you choosing to let Him complete it. He is already walking intimately with you; won’t you give up and walk intimately with Him?
Prayer for Thursday
Lord God, our Father in Heaven, we turn to You in these times when we are under so much stress and temptation and we witness the dire circumstances surrounding us. Let Your light glow in our hearts to give us firmness, patience, and perseverance throughout the time of testing, no matter how long it lasts. Your hand can and does change everything. Your hand can shorten the time we must wait until Your light shines out of the darkness of death and evil, until Your light reveals Your holiness, Your character and nature to Your children and to the whole world. You are our God and Father as You have promised, and remaining at Your side, we look to You in faith and trust as a child holding tightly to their parents hand. You will bring about goodness, justice, and mercy as You have promised, and so fulfill Your will. In the only name above all other names, in Christ Jesus, Your Son, we ask these things.
Amen.
The great projectiles which we fire in warfare, from the coast artillery, travel at a speed of about one mile per second. As the earth moves around the sun, it travels at a speed of about eighteen and one-half miles per second. Thus there is more than 300 times the energy in any part of the earth as it travels around the sun than there is in an equal mass of a great coast artillery shell.
Furthermore, some galaxies—each carrying billions of stars—travel as fast as 60,000 miles per second. What energy in creation!
Thursday September 8, 2022
2 Corinthians 10:5
Casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself
against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought
into captivity to the obedience of Christ.
Determinedly Demolish Some Things.
Deliverance from sin is not deliverance from human nature. There are things in human nature, such as prejudices, which the saint has to destroy by neglect; and other things which have to be destroyed by violence, that is, by the Divine strength imparted by God’s Spirit. There are some things over which we are not to fight, but to stand still in and see the salvation of God; but every theory or conception which erects itself as a rampart against the knowledge of God is to be determinedly demolished by drawing on God’s power, not by fleshly endeavor or compromise (v. 4).
It is only when God has altered our disposition and we have entered into the experience of sanctification that the fight begins. The warfare is not against sin; we can never fight against sin: Jesus Christ deals with sin in Redemption. The conflict is along the line of turning our natural life into a spiritual life, and this is never done easily, nor does God intend it to be done easily. It is done only by a series of moral choices. God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices. These choices are continually in antagonism to the entrenchments of our natural life, the things which erect themselves as ramparts against the knowledge of God. We can either go back and make ourselves of no account in the Kingdom of God, or we can determinedly demolish these things and let Jesus bring another son to glory.
Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we can better understand Him.
All Scriptures Used are NKJV, New King James Version
Thursday Reflecting
Moses finished speaking. – Deuteronomy 32:45.
So we all shall do some day. Moses knew it was the end for him; we may not know when our end is at hand. Any word of ours, spoken amid glee and merriment, may be our last. If we always thought of this would it not make us more careful? Would we ever say an unkind word to a friend, if we felt that we may never have an opportunity to unsay it or atone for it? Would we ever utter an angry, untrue, or unclean word, if we only remembered that it may be the last utterance our lips shall give forth? We want to have beautiful endings to our life, to leave sweet memories behind us in the hearts of those who love us. We want our names to be fragrant in the homes on whose thresholds our footfalls are wont to be heard. We want the memory of our last words in our friends’ ears to live as a tender joy with them as the days pass away. We can be sure of all this only by making every word we speak beautiful enough to be our last word. For with any sentence we may come to the end of our speaking.
~ J. R. MILLER
*Pastor’s Note: This is the second of the three parts of a message I posted on my first website back in the early 90s. I HAVE updated some of the Scripture references and the pictures were added for this posting. Thanks, and God Bless!
“PRAY without ceasing.” Wait a second, what? I work, I have school, I don’t have time to be praying all the time. Let me ask you something. While your body is so busy with all the things you have to do, what is your spirit doing? Remember that prayer is communication with the Father. God is a Spirit. God communes with man, Spirit to spirit. We are made in His image, we commune with God the same way; our spirit to His Spirit. Yes, we can pray vocally. Yes, He hears us. But He also knows our needs before we pray. He knows what is in our hearts before we speak it. He knows what is in our thoughts before we vocalize it. If our thoughts are directed His way are we not entering into spiritual communion with Him. How much more personal and intimate is that type of communion when it is just you and Him alone in your thoughts? David said in Psalm 19:14, “Let the words of my mouth and the, meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer.” (Emphasis is mine.) David understood the principle of communing with God, spirit to Spirit. The problem in our society today is that we have allowed the enemy to keep us so busy that we don’t even give thought to the Lord. You absolutely cannot have an intimate relationship with anybody without communication. Because we were created to be primarily spiritual beings we can choose to meditate on His presence continually with us or we can choose to ignore the fact that He is continually with us. Remember His words, not mine; “I will never leave you” (Hebrews 13:5). Yes, we need that quiet time also; but let’s not ignore the fact that we can continually be communicating with our Father, we can pray without ceasing if we practice focusing our mind on Him.
“In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:18. This is almost an exact repeat of what Paul says to the Ephesians in his letter to them (Ephesians 5:20). Now let’s reason this out. Paul says to give thanks in everything. Everything? Think about it. If you are a Christian, that isn’t just a label or a title to mention to everyone. You are abiding in the anointing of Christ Jesus. One of my favorite passages in Psalms says this, “The steps of a man are established by the LORD, And He delights in his way. When he falls, he will not be hurled down, Because the LORD is the One who holds his hand.” – Psalm 37:23-24 (NASB). The implication is that a righteous man, one in right standing before God, has his paths or steps, established or ordained by the Lord, and the Lord is delighted when a man follows those paths. Notice that the next verse, which not many people choose to quote, says that “when he falls,” not if he falls. The Lord knows that we will make mistakes, but He won’t let go of us. Therefore, knowing that the Lord is holding my hand, no matter what, I can be thankful in all things. Even if circumstances aren’t the best in your life, be thankful that God, your Father, won’t let you be hurled down, face first, for He holds your hand. Now concerning intimate relations with the Father, what can be more intimate than to know He is in constant contact with you? Always holding your hand! Remember also that it is God’s will in Christ Jesus for you. A sure sign of intimacy is surrendering your will to His.
“Do not quench the Spirit.” We’ve all heard the expression that “the Holy Spirit is a perfect Gentleman.” He will never cause you to do something against your will. It is Him who shows us the truth in the beginning and then we have to ask Him to lead us to Christ Jesus; but when we ask Him, He takes it seriously that we are going to follow His leading! It is Him who fills us to overflowing, but only after we ask Him. These people who claim that the Spirit takes control of them are unstudied and immature in the Word. They do not have a grasp of the Holy Spirit’s place in the Godhead nor the manner in which He leads the child of God.
In John’s Gospel, in the 14th and 15th chapters, the Holy Spirit is called the “Comforter” in the English translations. In the original Greek, the word used is “paraclete.” The root of this word implies the ideas of: “Helper, Advisor, Exhorter, One who gives strength, Encouragement and Intercessor.” The Holy Spirit is all these things. Jesus called Him the “Spirit of Truth,” (John 14:17; 15:26). He is that part of God’s Spirit that reveals all truth to believers. He is the Spirit that communicates truth to our spirits; the very Spirit that Paul said not to “quench.” The word quench in the original Greek means to “extinguish,” literally or figuratively; to go out, the same tense in which we use it today. In other words, we can extinguish the Holy Spirit’s influence in our lives. We can, by a matter of choice, refuse to accept His Counsel, Encouragement, Intercession and Strength. In Isaiah 63:10 and Ephesians 4:30, the word speaks about grieving the Holy Spirit. He is grieved due to sin on our part and especially that of rebellion. Grieving means to mourn, and mourning only happens when something precious has died or has been lost. We can become dead to the Holy Spirit by the choices we make. Death is a lack or cessation of the ability to commune or communicate. Let’s keep our spirits alive to the Holy Spirit, the very Spirit of Christ Jesus and the Father. The promise and the guarantee, is to lead us, direct or establish our paths, into all truth.
Prayer for Wednesday
Lord our God, remind us again and again of what You have done in our hearts and lives to make us certain of the resurrection. Help us to live in this certainty with total confidence and assurance and to hold fast to everything good and great which You bring into our lives. Grant us the assurance that we are gaining ground in the battle for the redemption of those who are still in darkness and in the shadow of death. May we find joy in what You have bestowed upon us in the here and now. Give us patience in our struggles. Give us hope for all that has gone wrong, because even what is in darkness is still in Your hands because we know that all things work together for our good. In the end everything must be brought to the light so that all humankind may glorify Your great and most holy name.
Amen.
French scientists have built high in the Pyrenees the world’s largest solar furnace. This amazing furnace, with its complex of nearly 20,000 mirrors, can concentrate enough sunlight to create temperature in excess of 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
According to Time, “Anchored against a reinforced concrete office and laboratory building, the huge concave mirror consists of 8,570 individual reflectors. For the furnace to operate efficiently, these small (18 inches square) mirrors must be precisely adjusted so that light will converge exactly at the parabola’s focal point 59 feet in front of the giant reflector.
“It takes only a minute for the powerful light from the reflector to cut a fiery hole through 3/8-inch-thick steel plate.”
Wednesday September 7, 2022
Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
The secret of joy is not to wait until you feel happy, but to rise, by an act of faith, out of the depression which is dragging you down, and begin to praise God as an act of choice. This is the meaning of such passages as these: “Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, rejoice”; “I do rejoice; yes, and I will rejoice.” “Count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations.” In all these cases there is an evident struggle with sadness and then the triumphs of faith and praise.
Now, this is what is meant—in part, at least—by the sacrifice of praise. A sacrifice is that which costs us something. And when a man or woman has some cherished grudge or wrong and is harboring it, nursing it, dwelling on it, rolling it as a sweet morsel under the tongue, and quite determined to enjoy a miserable time in selfish morbidness and grumbling, it costs us no little sacrifice to throw off the morbid spell, to refuse the suggestions of injury, neglect and the remembrance of unkindness, to rise out of the mood of self-commiseration in wholesome and holy determination, and say, “I will rejoice in the Lord”; I will “count it all joy.”
Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we can better understand Him.
All Scriptures Used are NKJV, New King James Version
Wednesday Reflecting
“The secret things belong to the Lord our God. – Deuteronomy 29:29.
Be not curious to search into the secrets of God; pick not the lock where He hath allowed no key. He that will be sifting every cloud may be smitten with a thunderbolt; and he that will be too familiar with God’s secrets may be overwhelmed in his judgments. Adam would curiously increase his knowledge; therefore Adam shamefully lost his goodness: the Bethshemites would needs pry into the ark of God; therefore the hand of God slew about fifty thousand of them. Therefore hover not about this flame, lest we scorch our wings. For my part, seeing God hath made me His secretary, I will carefully improve myself by what He has revealed, and not curiously inquire into or after what He hath reserved.
~ ADAMS
*Pastor’s Note: This is one of the articles I wrote and posted for my very first website in the mid 90s soon after I got my first computer. I thought it might interest my readers to read some of my first posted writings, especially as it’s been a while since I have posted any of my older ones. I HAVE updated some of the Scripture references, but all in all, it is pretty much as I posted them on my very first website. The pictures were added for this posting, though.
This will be posted in three parts over the next three days due to the original length of it. Thanks, and God Bless!
ADAM did it. Enoch did it, Noah did it, Abraham did it, even King David did it; and most assuredly, Jesus did it. What did they do you may ask? They all walked with God as their Father. At least some point in their lives they had or developed an intimate relationship with God as their Father. You can’t read through the Bible and not recognize those that had that type of relationship. The Apostles had it after following the example that Jesus laid before them. The Bible is very clear when Paul writes, “Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction . . .” – 1 Corinthians 10:11 (NASB). The whole Bible was given to us as a road map to the purpose and plan of God in our lives individually and corporately. The Bible, taken as a whole, is stating thematically and emphatically, the Love of God, our Creator, for His creation.
The word “walk” in the English translation of the Bible is used in a variety of applications dependent upon the context of the Scriptures to which it is applied. The Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible though, gives it’s original meaning as follows: “along with, apace of, behave, be conversant, to live.” In the majority of the scriptures relating to our relationship with God as our Father, the meaning of “walking, walked, or to walk with God” means to live or be conversant with God.
To walk, or not to walk, is still the question we face in our day to day lives. It still remains a matter of choice. Always has been, and always will be. Adam threw that choice away, and yet, the ability to walk with the Father was not lost. After walking with God for 365 years, the Bible says, the Lord took Enoch to be with Him. “And he was not, for God took him.” – Genesis 5:24. Noah was saved by the water, through the flood because he chose to “walk” with God. The times we are living in have been likened to the times of Noah because of the rampant, senseless violence and hypocrisy that flourishes, as well as the casualness and apathy in mankind as if tomorrow will never end, and yet in the midst of his time, Noah was able to have an intimate relationship with the Father. There’s no excuse for us not to have the same relationship. It was a matter of choice in Noah’s day, and it’s a matter of choice in our day.
John 4:24 records Jesus as saying, “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” Paul commands, he doesn’t ask, “I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh,” and then a bit later, “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit” (see Galatians 5:16, 25).
There again is the correlation between walking and living. When I worship God, I am putting His worth above all other things in my life. My desire to commune with Him is more important than any other thing in my life. Kathryn Kulman repeatedly stated that to have that kind of relationship with God was expensive. It costs everything. Are we willing to give everything? Think of the rewards if we do!
I believe there is a way, according to Scripture, that we can develop the lifestyle that walks in daily communion, or fellowship, with the Father. It is found in seven verses at the end of 1 Thessalonians. Many people read these scriptures and look at them as just closing remarks of Paul; and yet I believe if practiced they hold the key to developing an intimate, life changing relationship with the One who loves us more than any of us can comprehend. Following these scriptures will take practice, effort, endurance, and choice. They will most assuredly take a lifetime.
The Apostle Paul wrote, “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies. Test all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:16-22.
“Rejoice always;” the first in a series of instructions necessary to “walk” with God. The word rejoice means: to share your joy, to be joyous, to be full of joy. Remember that to worship God, we must do it in spirit and truth. Paul also says in Galatians that joy is a “fruit” of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22). Fruit comes from sowing and planting seed. We plant joy, by sharing with others, and thus, more joy is produced in us. What is the benefit of joy? Nehemiah told us in his writings, “The joy of the Lord is your strength.” – Nehemiah 8:10. We gain spiritual strength from rejoicing and we are able to rejoice because of the Lord’s joy in each of us. The enemy cannot defeat a people who rejoices and remember, the Lord inhabits the praises of His people. Want more joy in your life? Rejoice always!
Prayer for Tuesday
Dear Father in Heaven, how shall we thank You for all You give to us, Your children, for the great wisdom and power You hold in readiness for us if we are childlike? We want to be glad in Your presence. We do not want to weep and complain, though tears often threaten to come. We simply want to ask You to protect us, Your children. Protect all Your children on earth. Let the pain that breaks over them be taken away, for the sake of the whole world to the glory of Your name. Even when we must follow a hard road, let all the suffering we endure become part of the fight that brings in the Kingdom of Heaven, bringing Your purpose to the earth and great mercy to all peoples, bringing to all the world the wonderful forgiveness that enables men to be reborn, until at last all are called Your children. Sustain us. Help us. Bless us. May the Savior always live among us, may His Holy Spirit continue reviving and strengthening us in body and soul. In the name of our Savior and Redeemer, Jesus Christ, we seek You.
Amen.
Egypt is located at the southern end of the “land bridge” connecting the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa. The value of this piece of real estate in the Middle East has been proved by centuries of fighting.
Egypt was powerful and splendid in ancient times. But from the 6th century BC onwards, the splendor and might of Egypt dwindled to a shadow. In fact, there are few stronger contrasts in any inhabited country than that of the ancient glory, dignity, power and wealth of Egypt and its later insignificance.
But prophecy tells us that Egypt will again be “rich” at the end times. This would attract the south-ward invasion of the King of the North. Two news items may further elucidate:
Mineral riches that have been found in and under the Sinai, and, the existence of a huge oil basin extending from Libya’s Sirte Basin to the Suez Gulf.
These are all part of the spoils that Gog and Magog will try to wrench from the Middle East (See Ezekiel 38:12).
Tuesday September 6, 2022
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh, that my head were waters, And my eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep
day and night For the slain of the daughter of my people!
As ye stand on any of the hills around, and behold this monstrous city lying in the valley, say, “O London, London! how great thy guilt. Oh! that the Master would gather thee under his wing, and make thee his city, the joy of the whole earth! O London, London! Full of privileges, and full of sin; exalted to heaven by the gospel, thou shalt be cast down to hell by thy rejection of it!” And then, when ye have wept over London, go and weep over the street in which you live, as you see the sabbath broken, and God’s laws trampled upon, and men’s bodies profaned—go and weep! Weep, for the court in which you live in your humble property; weep for the square in which you live in your magnificent wealth; weep for your neighbors and your friends, lest any of them, having lived godless, may die godless! Then go to your house, weep for your family, for your servants, for your husband, for your wife, for your children. Weep, weep; cease not weeping, till God has renewed them by his Spirit. And if you have any friends with whom you sinned in your past life, be earnest for their salvation. George Whitefield said there were many young men with whom he played at cards, and spent hours wasting his time when he should have been about other business. When he was converted, his first thought was, “I must by God’s grace have these converted too.” And he never rested, till he could say, that he did not know of one of them, a companion of his guilt, who was not now a companion with him in the tribulation of the gospel. Oh, let it be so with you!
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