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- While Wesley’s sermons begin with theological exposition — with a careful definition of key (and typically contested) ideas of Christian faith — they always conclude with the practical implications of receiving and acting upon (or not) those ideas.
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Jun 9, 2020 · Wesley’s sermons have particular authority because these were the main way he taught Methodist doctrine and belief. “The Way to the Kingdom” is the seventh sermon of the Wesleyan Standard Sermons. The sermon is divided into two parts. The first part defines the kingdom of God.
Wesley famously concludes his sermon “On Faith” (based on Hebrews 11:6) with this exhortation: I exhort you, Lastly, who already feel the Spirit of God witnessing with your spirit that you are the children of God, follow the advice of the Apostle: Walk in all the good works whereunto ye are created in Christ Jesus.
- The Means of Grace
- Free Grace
- On Working Out Our Own Salvation
- The Spirit of Bondage and of Adoption
- Salvation by Faith
- The Scripture Way of Salvation
- The Circumcision of The Heart
- The Great Privilege of Those Born of God
- The Righteousness of Faith
- The Great Assize
Text: Malachi 3:7 Ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. It is common knowledge that the Wesleys were high church Anglicans and considered various practices of the faith as means or channels by which divine grace is conveyed to responsive believers. They derived their high churchmanship from their parents, Samuel and Susanna...
Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things. Introduction Albert Outler remarked that this sermon is noteworthy for helping to spark a major schism in the ranks of the English Evangelicals. When the Evangelical Revival broke out in the late 1730s, there was no...
Text: Philippians 2:12-13 Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do of his good pleasure. This landmark sermon needs to be understood against the backdrop of the 1770 Minutes Controversy between the Wesleyan Methodists and the Evangelical Calvinists. At the 1770 Conference Wesley ...
Text: Romans 8:15 Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba Father. Introduction When the Evangelical Revival began in the 1730s, the concept of three spiritual states was one way that evangelicals sought to convince their listeners of their need for new birth by fa...
This famous sermon of John Wesley has been labeled his “evangelical manifesto” (Albert Outler). Wesley always included it first in his publications of sermon collections, and for good reason. For Salvation by Faithenunciates in the clearest terms what he often called his “new gospel.” Here is the sermon: Salvation by Faith Background The story of W...
Text: Ephesians 2:8 Ye are saved through faith. (KJV) When John Wesley experienced evangelical conversion in 1738 he published a sermon proclaiming his new view of salvation by faith in Christ. Titled, Salvation by Faith, Wesley declared that saving faith is trust in Christ’s death and resurrection. He added that salvation is enjoyed right now, in ...
Text: Romans 2:29 Circumcision is that of the Heart, in the spirit, and not of the letter. The Circumcision of the Heart is a landmark sermon on several counts. The dean of Wesley scholars, Albert Outler, was certainly correct that it stands out as “one of Wesley’s most careful and complete statements of his doctrine of holiness.” But the sermon do...
Text: 1 John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not sin.(KJV) Wesley was a committed Arminian his entire life. He derived it from his parents – Samuel and Susanna – and his High Church Anglicanism. The Anglican Articles of Religion were formulated in the 16th century and included articles that upon their face supported both a Reformed and Arminian i...
Text: Romans 10:5-8 Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.” But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down) “or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’” (that is, to bring Christ up from the d...
How do you visualize the final judgment? What events will lead up to it? Where does it take place? What events follow? John Wesley visualized the subject in graphic terms. Introduction In 1758 Wesley was invited to preach a sermon before Sir Edward Clive, the puisne justice of the common pleas at Bedford, England. He titled the sermon The Great Ass...
Feb 16, 2012 · In his 1739 sermon, “Free Grace,” which ignited the first round of public controversy with Whitefield, Wesley wrote, “So directly does this doctrine tend to shut the very gate of holiness in general, to hinder unholy men from ever approaching thereto, or striving to enter thereat.”
Table of Contents. An Introduction. Sermon 1 - Salvation By Faith - Eph 2:8. Sermon 2 - The Almost Christian - Acts 26:28. Sermon 3 - Awake, Thou That Sleepest - Eph 5:14. Sermon 4 - Scriptural Christianity - Acts 4:31. Sermon 5 - Justification By Faith - Rom 4:5. Sermon 6 - The Righteousness Of Faith - Rom 10:5-8.
To state that Wesley’s thoughts on perfecting grace are rebuffed by Scripture itself with proof being Pharaoh, simply isn’t understanding, not just what Wesley says, but how all of God’s grace plays-out in the human experience.
Sep 8, 2021 · Wesley then transitions the sermon from description to an evangelistic calling. He calls the readers and hearers of the message to self-examination to where they stand. He asks his audience:
