MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN BY BRINGING BACK THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF EARLY AMERICA: GEORGE WHITEFIELD

ROYAL ROAD BY MARTIN LUTHER:

This, therefore, is the Royal Road and the way of peace in the spirit: really to know and to hate sin(ORIGINAL SIN) and so to walk in the FEAR of God, lest he count it(ORIGINAL SIN) and permit it to rule in us, and at the same time to pray for his MERCY that he free us from it and not impute it to us. The FRAR of God cuts off the way at the right which leads TO SECURITY AND VAIN SATISFACTION…

IN THIS MESSAGE MARTIN LUTHER TIES TOGETHER IN HIS ROYAL ROAD HOW THAT THE NEW CREATION MUST WALK IN THE FEAR OF GOD BECAUSE OF ORIGINAL SIN AND MUST WALK IN THE MERCY OF GOD BECAUSE OF ORIGINAL SIN.

MOST PASTORS IN AMERICA NEVER PUT ORIGINAL SIN ON THE FRONT BURNER!!!

WHY WOULD THAT BE WHEN JESUS HIMSELF PUTS ORIGINAL SIN ON THE FRONT BURNER?

JESUS GETS UP IN THE FACE OF THE PHARISEES, THOSE WHO ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN CLEANSING THE OUTSIDE OF THEIR CUP, BUT NOT THE INSIDE OF THE CUP (ORIGINAL SIN) FIRST AND THEN THE OUTSIDE OF THE CUP (ACTS OF SIN) WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE CLEAN.

MT. 23: [25] Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

[26] Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup(ORIGINAL SIN) 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.

JESUS ALSO GETS UP IN THE FACE OF THE PHARISEES BECAUSE THEY HAVE OMITTED WEIGHTIER MANNERS OF:

1. ​LAW
2. ​JUDGMENT
3. ​MERCY (MERCY CANNOT BE DETACHED FROM FEAR)
4. ​FAITH

MT. 23: [23] Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these

LET US REVIEW:

MARTIN LUTHER TIES TOGETHER IN HIS ROYAL ROAD THAT THE NEW CREATION MUST WALK IN THE FEAR OF GOD BECAUSE OF ORIGINAL SIN AND MUST WALK IN THE MERCY OF GOD BECAUSE OF ORIGINAL

Martin Luther writes:

Those at the right, who have rid themselves of the fear of God, sin through their sense of security, and those at the left, who have given up the mercy of God, sin through their despair. These do not know that this internal sin(Original Sin) cannot possibly be taken away in this life, but this is precisely what they want. The former, on their do not know that it is to those who do not fear God that this sin is imputed. Both, then, do not know this sin and do not properly attend to it. As I have said, they are concerned only about actual sin, believing that it must be purged out so that one can become pure. And if this does not happen, those at the left think that they are lost. But the others at the right believe themselves saved because they regard themselves as pure, while in fact, it is impossible for anyone to be without any actual sin so long as that radical and original sin remains.

ROYAL ROAD

This, therefore, is the Royal Road and the way of peace in the spirit: really to know and to hate sin and so to walk in the fear of God, lest he count it and permit it to rule in us, and at the same time to pray for his mercy that he free us from it and not impute it to us. The fear of God cuts off the way at the right which leads…

HOW NOT TO FALL AS A CHRISTIAN.

WE WILL TAKE A DEEP DIVE IN THIS MESSAGE IN HOW NOT TO FALL IF WE ARE ONE OF GOD’S ELECT THAT IS SAVED.

FISHERMAN PETER WRITES:

2 PETER 1: 10] Wherefore the rather, brethren,

GIVE DILIGENCE

to make your CALLING and ELECTION SURE:

for IF ye

DO THESE THIMGS,

ye shall NEVER FALL:

FISHERMAN PETER BEGINS THIS EPISTLE BY WARNING HIS BRETHREN NOT TO FALL FOR MANY OF THE SAINTS DO FALL AND END THEIR LIFE IN DISGRACE AS A BELIEVER, AND HE DOESN’T WANT THAT TO HAPPEN, FOR HE IS GOING TO BE DEPARTING FROM HIS BODY SOON, AND HE, OUT OF EXPERIENCE, WANTS To GIVE THEM 7 THINGS THEY CAN DO, TO DIE, NOT IN DISGRACE, BUT IN BRINGING HONOUR TO OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

SO PETER WARNS THEM:

2Peter 1: [10] Wherefore the rather, brethren,

GIVE DILIGENCE to make YOUR CALLING and ELECTION SURE:

for if ye DO THESE THINGS ye shall NEVER FALL.

WHAT THINGS?

[5] And beside this, giving all diligence,

add to your faith virtue;

and to virtue knowledge;

[6] And to knowledge temperance;

and to temperance patience;

and to patience godliness;

[7] And to godliness brotherly kindness;

and to brotherly kindness charity.

[8] For if THESE THINGS

BE IN YOU AND ABOUND,

they make you that

ye shall neither be barren

nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

[9] But

he that lacketh THESE THINGS is blind,

and CANNOT SEE AFAR OFF,

and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

FISHERMAN PETER IN THIS 2ND EPISTLE TELLS US HE IS ABOUT TO DEPART FROM HIS TABERNACLE, OR HIS TENT, OR HIS BODY WHICH HE NOW DWELLS: NOTICE HE DOESN’T SAY HE IS DYING, BECAUSE HE ISN’T, BUT HE IS SIMPLY DEPARTING FROM HIS DEAD BODY.

2 Peter 1: [13] Yea, I think it meet,

as long as I am in this tabernacle,

to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

[14] Knowing that shortly

I must put off this my tabernacle,

even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

[15] Moreover I will endeavour

that ye may be able

after

my decease

to have THESE THINGS always in remembrance.

[16] For we have not

followed cunningly devised fables,

when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

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 THINK

WHEN 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:

“COROLLARY

To say: "God has obliged us to have grace and therefore to what

is 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 OBLIGED

us to FULFILL THE LAW

in order

to give us HIS GRACE

WHEN,

HUMILIATED,

we ask for it.

But these men make grace into something that causes indignation

and

they imagine what is hateful.

For what does it

mean to say:

God has obliged us to have grace,

and he does not

want

to accept the fulfillment of the law

according to the substance

of the deed

if

it is not also fulfilled

according to the intention of

the 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 burdened

us with the law,

without adding his demand that we should have

grace, 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, when

God offers grace to us miserable creatures

BECAUSE

HE SEES that WE

CANNOT FULFILL his LAW

and

so that

we may now

fulfill it by the power

of 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 the

substance of the deed as they themselves say.

It may be, then,

that

they mean by "substance of the deed" an external action.

But

they

do not do this at all;

they have reference also to an internal action.

they subsume under "substance of the deed"

a work

that is

done for the sake of God from the heart

by an act of the will

that

is naturally educed.

Fools that they are,

they do not notice that the

will,

even if it could,

would never do what the law prescribes.

For

it resists

the good and inclines toward evil.

This they certainly

must know in their own experience,

and yet they talk so irrever-

ently and sacrilegiously.

For as long as it is reluctant toward the

law,

it is turned away from it and

THUS DOES NOT FULLFILL IT

Consequently,

it needs GRACE

to make it willing and cheerful toward the

law.

I was right, then,

when I said

that ALL our GOOD is OUTSIDE US;

and

CHRIST IS this GOOD.

WE WILL BE READING FROM MARTIN LUTHER’S 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 TO BEND THE SCRIPTURES TO FIT THEIR NATURAL MAN NATURE. BUT A NEW CREATION 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 ENGL AND IN PRISON HE WROTE ‘GRACE ABOUNDING’ HIS AUTOBIOGRPHY ON HIS SALVATION AND HIS ALLEGORICAL BOOK, PILGRIM’S PROGRESS OF SALVATION WHICH IS THE MOST DEFINITIVE

AND ACCURATE ALLEGORY EVER WRITTEN ON SALVATION. JOHN BUNYAN IS CLOSER IN THE BONDAGE OF THE WILL DOCTRINE THAN ALMOST ANYBODY ELSE. MARTIN LUTHER IGNITED THE BONDAGE OF WIIL DOCTRINE IN 1517 BY PUTTING ON THE DOOR THE 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 days

Besides, 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 REFINE

Till ALL SUCCESS

BE NOBLENESS,

And

EVERY GAIN DIVINE.”

America the Beautiful

HOW 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 AGAINST

the 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 NATIONS

as well as of MEN

to 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 RECOGNIZE

the SUBLIME TRUTH,

ANNOUNCED

in the Holy Scriptures

and PROVEN

by all history,

that THOSE NATIONS

“ONLY”

are BLESSED

whose God is the Lord;

And, insomuch

as WE KNOW

that by HIS

DIVINE LAW

NATIONS, like individuals,

are subjected to punishments

and chastisements in this world,

may we not JUSTLY FEAR

that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land

MAY BE

but a PUNISHMENT

inflicted upon us for

our presumptuous sins,

to the needful end

of our NATIONAL REFORMATION

as a whole people?

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 EARTH

MAY 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|derstanding

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given '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 AMERICANS

LOVE “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!!!

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JONATHON EDWARDS WRITES:

SECT. III.

OVERVIEW

That 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.

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be 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.