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sense of my actual sins and natural deformity humbled me exceedingly; and then
the freeness and riches of God’s everlasting love broke in with such light and
power upon my soul, that I was often awed into silence and could not speak.
This
however, is my comfort, “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.
He saw me from all eternity; He gave me being; He called me in time; He freely
justified me through faith in His blood; He has in part sanctified me by His
Spirit; He will preserve me underneath His everlasting arms till time shall be
no more. Oh the blessedness of these evangelical truths! These are indeed
gospel; they are glad tidings of great joy to all that have ears to hear.
These, bring the creature out of himself. These, make him hang upon the
promises, and cause his obedience to flow from of a principle of love.
Satan
will accuse me; my answer shall be, The Lord Jesus is my righteousness; how darest
thou to lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? I stand here, not in my own,
but His robes; and though I deserve nothing as a debt, yet I know He will give
me a reward of grace, and recompense me for what He has done in me and by me,
as though I done it by my own power. Oh, how ought this to excite our zeal and
love for the holy Jesus.
--George Whitefield,
From his Journals
Recorded in George
Whitefield, Vol. 1, p.404, 406
What is your testimony?
A great Sunday post Gregg. Did you not post you letter "M" yesterday? I looked for it but couldn't find it.
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Excellent! I must look up 'George Whitefield' for I do not know who he was. Happy Sunday! ☺
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