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 COMMANDMENTS

WAS 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 GO

TO 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.

1. ​ 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 THEOLOGIANS UPSIDE DOWN. THESE QUESTIONS ARE AXIOMATIC QUESTIONS. FOR EXAMPLE, WHAT IS A SIMPLE AXIOMATIC QUESTION THAT ALL OF US 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 US 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 , LUTHER ADDRESSES THIS QUESTION IN HIS BOOK ENTITLED ‘ BONDAGE OF THE WILL’ IN RESPONSE TO 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 LAW 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 STRENGTH

or of GOOD. The WHOLE that the LAW DOES, according to the testimony of Paul, is to MAKE

KNOWN 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,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.

1. ​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)
2. ​Is my heart eager to learn of “any wicked way” in me?
3. ​Are my motives for self-examination correct—that I might be led “in the way everlasting”?
4. ​Is it important for me to know whether or not I live in a state of sin?
5. ​Do I live in the gratification of some lust, either in thought or in deed?
6. ​Do I live in the omission of some known duty?
7. ​Am I sinning against the light of my conscience in some way, by going on in known sins?
8. ​Have I been careful, watchful, and diligent in observing myself for evidence of sin in commission or omission?
9. ​Have I lived in some way which is inconsistent with my Christian profession, and is not suitable for disciples and followers of Jesus?
10. ​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.

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[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 AND

VERTICALLY. WE WILL FIND THAT FREEDOM HORIZONTALLY SPEAKING IS A SELF EVIDENT TRUTH. MAY THIS MESSAGE BE THE IMPETUS IN MAKING US, JOHN Q. PUBLIC

OF 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.