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THE DOMINANT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS IN THE 1600s, AND JONATHAN EDWARDS AND GEORGE WHITEFIELD IN THE 1700s, WAS THAT FREEWILL IN SALVATION IS A FICTION. GEORGE WHITEFIELD PREACHED OVER 18,000 SERMONS IN THE FIELDS MOST OF THE TIME, TO 2 1/2 MILLION COLONISTS, WITH CROWDS OF OVER 20,000, SOMETIMES, AND THERE WAS A GREAT RELIGIOUS AWAKING THAT OUR FOUNDING FATHERS MOSTLY EXPERIENCED AS CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS, WHICH WAS THE UNDERPINNING OF OUR MIRACULOUS CONSTITUTION. GEORGE WHITEFIELD WAS THE EVANGELIST AND JONATHON EDWARDS WAS THE INFLUENTIAL PASTOR OF THE AWAKENING.

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

    • Religion & Spirituality

THE DOMINANT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS IN THE 1600s, AND JONATHAN EDWARDS AND GEORGE WHITEFIELD IN THE 1700s, WAS THAT FREEWILL IN SALVATION IS A FICTION. GEORGE WHITEFIELD PREACHED OVER 18,000 SERMONS IN THE FIELDS MOST OF THE TIME, TO 2 1/2 MILLION COLONISTS, WITH CROWDS OF OVER 20,000, SOMETIMES, AND THERE WAS A GREAT RELIGIOUS AWAKING THAT OUR FOUNDING FATHERS MOSTLY EXPERIENCED AS CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS, WHICH WAS THE UNDERPINNING OF OUR MIRACULOUS CONSTITUTION. GEORGE WHITEFIELD WAS THE EVANGELIST AND JONATHON EDWARDS WAS THE INFLUENTIAL PASTOR OF THE AWAKENING.

    PR.14-TRAPPED IN A SIN: OF DESIRING PARTIAL TRUTH BUT NOT THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH!

    PR.14-TRAPPED IN A SIN: OF DESIRING PARTIAL TRUTH BUT NOT THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH!

    IN THIS MESSAGE WE ASK THE QUESTION, EVEN IF THERE WAS AN ABSOLUTE TRUTH, DO WE DESIRE TO KNOW IT, AND IF NOT, IS THAT SIN TO GOD? IF THERE IS NO ABSOLUTE TRUTH, THEN THERE IS NO ABSOLUTE RIGHT OR WRONG, AND THEREFORE EVERYTHING IN THIS WORLD BECOMES RELATIVE AND IT ENDS UP BEING ONE PERSON’S OPINION AGAINST ANOTHER PERSON’S OPINION, THUS WHY CARE, LET US AS AMERICANS JUST DO WHATEVER WE WANT, FOR WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO TELL US WHAT TO DO, SINCE EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE. EVEN IF THE BIBLE WAS TRUE, WAS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH, IS THERE ANY WAY OF KNOWING IT IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH VIA UNDERSTANDING: FOR IF ONE PERSON READS THE BIBLE, HE GETS ONE INTERPRETATION, BUT IF ANOTHER PERSON READS THE BIBLE HE GETS ANOTHER INTERPRETATION AND WHO IS TO SAY ONE PERSONS INTERPRETATION IS RIGHT AND THE OTHER IS WRONG. THUS THERE IS NO WAY VIA UNDERSTANDING TO KNOW IF THE BIBLE IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH EVEN IF IT WAS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH. AFTER JESUS WAS INCARNATED HE CAME INTO TOWN AND PROCLAIMED TO BE THE EMBODIMENT OF THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH, BUT IT WAS THE BIBLE TEACHERS OF HIS DAY THAT WANTED HIM CRUCIFIED. SO IF JESUS CAME TO AMERICA TODAY AND SAID HE WAS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH WOULD WE DO ANY BETTER THAN THE NATION THAT WROTE THE BIBLE AND SPOKE OF THE COMING MESSIAH. BUT WE ALL, DO, INNATELY KNOW THERE IS AN ABSOLUTE TRUTH FOR HOW DID WE PUT A MAN ON THE MOON IF WE HAD NOT ABSOLUTE LAWS OF PHYSICS THAT WE MIGHT GET THE CORRECT MATHEMATICAL FORMULAS TO PREDICT THE FLIGHT PATH OF OUR SPACESHIP. CUTTING TO THE CHASE, IF JESUS IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH AS HE CLAIMED BUT, NONE OF US CAN KNOW IT FOR SURE, VIA UNDERSTANDING, HOW CAN WE COME TO KNOW HIM, KNOW FOR SURE EXPERIENTIALLY, THAT HE IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH. BUT THE PROBLEM IS, HOW MANY OF US AMERICANS BY NATURE DESIRE TO KNOW THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH FOR IF THERE WAS AN ABSOLUTE TRUTH THEN THERE WOULD BE AN ABSOLUTE STANDARD TO MEASURE OURSELVES BY WHICH THEN THAT WOULD ENTAIL CHANGE, AND CHANGE ALWAYS RUFFLES OUR FEATHERS FOR WE INNATELY BELIEVE THAT OUR FIG LEAVES OF MORALITY IS OUR TICKET INTO HEAVEN. BUT SHOULD WE NOT QUESTION THE PREMISE THAT OUR TICKET INTO HEAVEN IS: (LOVE, OR THE GOLDEN RULE, OR BE A DECENT PERSON, OR DO THE BEST WE CAN DO, ETC.) ALL FASTFOOD FREEWILL RELIGIONS, WHEN WE STRIP THEIR VAIL AWAY, IN REALITY BELIEVE THE FIG LEAVES OF MORALITY IS THEIR TICKET INTO HEAVEN AND IS THE BUILDING BLOCK OF THEIR FOUNDATION AND THEN PUT THEIR WEB OF SOPHISTICATED DOCTRINE ON TOP OF IT. BUT WE AS AMERICANS ARE COMFORTABLE WITH OUR FIG LEAVES OF MORALITY, ARE WE NOT, SO DON’T BOTHER US ABOUT SEEKING THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH, FOR WHY WAIST OUR TIME, IF IT IS NOT ACHIEVABLE VIA UNDERSTANDING. SO WHAT WE ARE THUS SAYING, IF JESUS REALLY IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND HE CANNOT BE KNOWN BY UNDERSTANDING, AND WE AS AMERICANS DON’T DESIRE TO KNOW THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH, THEN WE ARE DESIRING NOT TO KNOW JESUS, WHO IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND THAT IS SIN FOR JESUS COMMANDS US IN DR. LUKE CHAPTER 14: 24] Strive(AGONIZE) 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.
    [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. THUS LET US SEEK TO KNOW JESUS, THE ABSOLUTE TRU

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    “THE” BELOVED OF GOD!!!

    “THE” BELOVED OF GOD!!!

    The GRAND INQUIRY is then, how shall I KNOW that I am one of “THE” BELOVED of the Lord? The NATURAL MAN never minds the love of God; he FLATTERS HIMSELF he LOVES God NATURALLY, that the love of God is a plant that grows in NATURE’S GARDEN; BUT a SPIRITUAL PERSON does not so. What does the king take notice of me? does the king look pleasant up|on me in a drawing-room? am I called to wait upon him? am I beloved of this, and that, and the other person? if I am, let God go, I care not; if I have but the love of this and that courtier, I care not whether God loves me or no; THIS WILL NOT DO for an AWAKENED SOUL; and THEREFORE the grand enquiry, and INE PROOF of a person's BEING AWAKENED is, HOW shall I KNOW whether God loves me or not? why try; I am persuaded of it, that we may as well know that God loves us, and we love God, as we may know that the sun shines at noon-day; how shall I know it but by the effects of this love, by the fruits of it? That great man, Dr. Watts, who was called the sweet singer of Israel, says, "we should go first to the grammar-school of faith and repentance, before we go to the university of predestina|tion:" whereas the devil would have them go first to the university, to examine whether they were elected or rejected, or no: they should do as a good woman once did, when satan tempted her, and wanted to distress her, that there were but few to be saved; she said, if there were but two to be saved, she would strive to be one of them. Surely I am belov|ed of the Lord, if my natural enmity against the Lord is slain. How do I know I love a person? how can you prove that you love me? why, say you, I hated you the other day: how many people met I with the other day, that could a few weeks ago have pulled me out of Tottenham-court, but God has over|come their hearts. The person now 〈◊〉
    his former enmity, and when that enmity is removed, and you are reconciled to them, cannot you know that you love them? and if God has removed that enmity to Christ out of your hearts, surely you are one of the beloved of the Lord. We are the beloved of the Lord, if we are brought to abhor and renounce that which stands between us and the Lord; I mean, our cursed self-righteousness. BY GEORGE WHITEFIELD

    • 58 min
    SAVING AMERICA IS NOT AS HARD AS WE MIGHT THINK!

    SAVING AMERICA IS NOT AS HARD AS WE MIGHT THINK!

    WE AS AMERICANS BY THE MERCY AND GRACE OF GOD HAVE BUILT AN AMERICA THAT HAS BEEN THE BEACON OF LIGHT FOR FREEDOM AROUND THIS WORLD, BUT WE HAVE FORGOTTEN, THAT APART FROM MORALITY, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TRUE FREEDOM, AND NOT ONLY THAT, BUT GOD, WHO IS SLOW TO ANGER, WILL JUDGE AMERICA IF WE ARE NOT NATIONALLY LED TO REPENTANCE: LIKE INDIVIDUALS, NATIONS MUST REPENT, IN ORDER TO RECEIVE AGAIN THE BLESSINGS OF GOD: WE NEED TO RAISE UP A NATIONAL LEADER LIKE ABRAHAM LINCOLN WHO PROCLAIMED A NATIONAL DAY OF HUMILIATION, PRAYER, AND FASTING, ON APRIL 30TH, 1863, WHICH TURNED HIS TWO YEARS OF BATTLES LOSSES INTO TWO YEARS OF VICTORY TO EVENTUALLY FREE THE SLAVES. LET US AS AMERICANS PRAY FOR LEADERS ACROSS THIS LAND ESPECIALLY A PRESIDENT FOR 2024 ELECTION, WHO WILL PUT US AGAIN UNDER GOD’S LAWS OF FREEDOM, AND LEAD A WILLING AMERICA TO A NATIONAL DAY OF HUMILIATION, FASTING, AND PRAYER, THAT OUR FAMILIES, EDUCATION SYSTEM, AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS WILL AGAIN PUT THEMSELVES UNDER GOD’S LAWS OF FREEDOM & HAPPINE, AS A RESULT HAVE PEACE WITH GOD, AND THE JOY IT WILL BRING. HOW IS IT AS AMERICANS OF 2024 WE HAVE FORGOTTEN THAT OUR CONSTITUTION WAS NEVER WRITTEN FOR AN IMMORAL PEOPLE, AND NOT LOOKED AGAIN TO OUR FOUNDING FATHERS WHO IN UNISON KNEW THE IMPORTANCE OF MORALITY FOR THE SURVIVAL OF OUR COUNTRY. 1 This constitution is written for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.John Adams. 2. No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders. 3. Religion and morality are the indispensable supports to good government. George Washington. 4. If the people lack the virtue of self government their destiny will be despotism. James Madison
    5. Man will either be governed by the Bible or the bayonet. John Adams
    6. JAMES MADISON WHO IS SAID TO BE THE FATHER OF OUR CONSTITUTION WROTE THE FOLLOWING ABOUT US AS AMERICANS NECESSITY OF BEING A SELF GOVERNING AND SELF RELIANT PEOPLE. “We have staked the future of our civilization and all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and everyone of us to govern ourselves; to control ourselves; to sustain ourselves according to the 10 Commandments of God"
    James Madison
    7. DR. JEDIDIAH MORSE:Father of American GeographyTo the kindly influence we owe that degree of civil freedom and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys. In proportion as the genuine effects of Christianity are diminished in a nation...in the same proportion will thepeople of that nation recedefrom the blessings of genuine freedom...I hold this to be truth confirmed by experience; and it follows that all efforts made todestroy the foundation of our Holy Religion ultimately tend to the subversion also of our political freedom and happiness. Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown our present republican forms of government( and all the blessings which flow from them) must fall with them.
    —- Jedidiah Morse—-
    8. Let [ministers] and philosophers, statesmen, and patriots unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls—inculcating in the minds of the youth—the love of their country; of instructing them in the art of self government — and in short leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.
    9. Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious fre

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    EXPOSING THE FREEWILL CHURCH—STRAIT IS THE GATE AND NARROW IS THE WAY.

    EXPOSING THE FREEWILL CHURCH—STRAIT IS THE GATE AND NARROW IS THE WAY.

    HOW CAN WE AVOID JESUS SAYING TO US: “And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” Matt. 7:[22] Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
    [23] And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

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    TRAPPED IN A SIN-PT. 13-THE SIN OF FALSE BELIEF BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN PRESENTED AN EMASCULATED JESUS!

    TRAPPED IN A SIN-PT. 13-THE SIN OF FALSE BELIEF BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN PRESENTED AN EMASCULATED JESUS!

    IN THIS MESSAGE WE WILL SEE A TOTALLY DIFFERENT JESUS THAN OUR FASTFOOD FREEWILL THEOLOGIANS HAVE PRESENTED TO US. WE MAY BE SHOCKED TO HOW JESUS GETS “UP IN THE GRILL” OF THESE JEWS WHICH BELIEVED ON HIM. THE BONDAGE OF THE WILL JESUS IS TOTALLY A DIFFERENT JESUS THAN THE FASTFOOD FREEWILL JESUS. IN THE BONDAGE OF THE WILL WORLD, EVERY CHURCH IS A SPIRITUAL WAR ZONE AND ITS MEMBERS SHOULD COME TO CHURCH TO SPIRITUALLY REFUEL AND IN LOVE ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER IN THEIR SPIRITUAL WARFARE. JESUS KNEW HE WAS FIGHTING IN A SPIRITUAL WAR FOR HIS LIFE AND THUS HE FOUGHT LIKE A SPIRITUAL WARRIOR. DOES THAT MEAN HE WAS NOT A GOD OF LOVE? ABSOLUTELY NOT! BUT HE KNEW HIS ENEMY AND THE DESTRUCTION HIS ENEMY WAS CAPABLE OF IF HE WAS TO SPEAK THE TRUTH. FORMER MR. MORALITY ALSO KNEW THAT EVERY CHURCH WAS A SPIRITUAL WAR ZONE FOR HE WARNED HIS YOUNG PASTOR TIMOTHY THE FOLLOWING IN 1 TIMOTHY 1: [18] This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest WAR a good WARFARE. 1 TIM. 6: [12] FIGHT the good FIGHT of faith, LAY HOLD on ETERNAL LIFE, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. [2]These things TEACH and EXHORT
    [3] IF any MAN TEACH OTHERWISE, and consent not to wholesome words, EVEN the WORDS of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, and to the DOCTRINE(ELECTION) which is according to godliness;
    [4] He “IS” PROUD, KNOWING NOTHING, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
    [5] Perverse disputings of MEN of CORRUPT MINDS, and DESTITUTE of the TRUTH, SUPPOSING that GAIN is GODLINESS: FROM SUCH WITHDRAW thyself.
    [6] But GODLINESS with contentment is great gain.
    [7] For WE BROUGHT NOTHING into this WORLD, and it is certain we can CARRY NOTHING OUT
    [8] And HAVING FOOD and RAIMENT let us be therewith CONTENT.
    [9] But THEY that will be RICH FALL into TEMPTATION and a SNARE, and into many FOOLISH and HURTFUL LUSTS, which DROWN MEN in DESTRUCTION and perdition.
    [10] For the LOVE of MONEY is the ROOT of ALL EVIL: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
    [11] But thou, O man of God, FLEE these things; and FOLLOW after RIGHTEOUSNESS , godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
    [12] FIGHT the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
    [13] I GIVE thee CHARGE in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
    [14] That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. HOPEFULLY THIS MESSAGE WILL BEGIN TO CHANGE THE NARRATIVE OF HOW WE AS AMERICANS SEE JESUS, NOT AN EMASCULATED JESUS, BUT A JESUS THAT KNEW HIS WORDS WERE GOING TO CAUSE NOT ONLY A SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION BUT WOULD UPSET THE NATIONAL APPLE CART AS DID MARTIN LUTHER IN 1517 WHEN HE PUT HIS 95 COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON THE DOOR OF THE CASTLE CHURCH IN WITTENBURG, GERMANY AND THEN IN 1524 IN HIS MOST IMPORTANT BOOK ENTITLED ‘BONDAGE OF THE WILL’ WROTE THAT FREEWILL IS A FICTION, CULMINATING IN THE PILGRIMS COMING TO AMERICA IN 1620 WITH THE BONDAGE OF THE WILL DOCTRINE. LET US AMERICANS GET BEHIND THE BONDAGE OF THE WILL DOCTRINE OF EARLY AMERICA THAT WAS THE SPIRITUAL BACKBONE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN ORDER TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.

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    THE DUTY OF A GOSPEL MINISTER BY GEORGE WHITEFIELD

    THE DUTY OF A GOSPEL MINISTER BY GEORGE WHITEFIELD

    I, GEORGE WHITEFIELD, SHALL FIRST ENDEAVOR TO PROVE THAT EVERY MINISTER, BEFORE HE PRETENDS TO HAVE ORDERS TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, FROM A FULL EVIDENCE OF A WORK OF CONVERSION PASSING UPON HIS SOUL, OUGHT TO BE ENABLED IN SOME DEGREE TO SAY, “THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, AN HATH ANOINTED ME PREACH THE GOSPEL.”2. I SHALL SHOW YOU WHAT THE GOSPEL IS, WHICH MINISTERS THUS QUALIFIED ARE TO PREACH. 3. I SHALL SHOW YOU THE PERSONS WHOM THIS GOSPEL IS TO BE PREACHED, NAMELY, “THE POOR, THE BROKEN HEARTED, THE CAPTIVES, THE BLIND, AND THE BRUISED. 4. I SHALL MAKE APPLICATION OF THE WHOLE, HOPING WHILE I AM PREACHING, THE PEOPLE OF GOD WILL LIFT UP THEIR HEARTS TO JESUS CHRIST; AND WHO KNOWS BUT WE MAY HAVE AN ACCEPTABLE MORNING OF THE LORD.

    • 1 hr 12 min

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