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John Wesley audio sermons

admin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:47:03 +0000

Just recently I became aware of some Wesley video sermons, which revived an idea I had to do some audio recordings of some of John Wesley’s sermons in audio. Check them out if you prefer audio to reading. The text to his sermons are readily available on the web.

Be Aware of All Honey

admin — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:00:19 +0000

From a letter by John Wesley to Joseph Cownley, an early Methodist preacher.

I see a danger you are in, which, perhaps, you do not see yourself. Is it not most pleasing to me, as well as you, to be always preaching of the love of God? And is there not a time when we are peculiarly led thereto, and find a peculiar blessing therein?

Without doubt, so it is. But yet it would be utterly wrong and unscriptural to preach of nothing else.

Let the law always prepare for the gospel. I scarce ever spoke more earnestly here [he was in Ireland at the time of writing] of the love of God in Christ than last night. But it was after I had been tearing the unawakened in pieces. Go thou and do likewise. It is true the love of God in Christ alone feeds His children.

But even they are to be guided, as well as fed. Yes, and often doctored too. And the bulk of our hearers must be purged before they are fed. Else we only feed the disease.

Beware of all honey. It is the best extreme; but it is an extreme. I am your affectionate brother,

John Wesley

Striving for the Kingdom

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:58:56 +0000

Now, then, “strive to enter in at the strait gate,” being penetrated with the deepest sense of the inexpressible danger your soul is in, so long as you are in a broad way, — so long as you are void of poverty of spirit, and all that inward religion, which the many, the rich, the wise, account madness. “Strive to enter in;” being pierced with sorrow and shame for having so long run on with the unthinking crowd, utterly neglecting, if not despising, that “holiness without which no man can see the Lord.”
Strive, as in an agony of holy fear, lest “a promise being made you of entering into his rest,” even that “rest which remaineth for the people of God,” you should nevertheless “come short of it.” Strive, in all the fervour of desire, with “groanings which cannot be uttered. Strive by prayer without ceasing; at all times, in all places, lifting up your heart to God, and giving him no rest, till you “awake up after his likeness” and are “satisfied with it.”
To conclude. “Strive to enter in at the strait gate,” not only by this agony of soul, of conviction, of sorrow, of shame, of desire, of fear, of unceasing prayer; but likewise by ordering thy conversation aright, by walking with all thy strength in all the ways of God, the way of innocence, of piety, and of mercy.
Abstain from all appearance of evil: Do all possible good to all men: Deny thyself, thy own will, in all things, and take up thy cross daily. Be ready to cut off thy right hand, to pluck out thy right eye and cast it from thee; to suffer the loss of goods, friends, health, all things on earth, so thou mayst enter into the kingdom of heaven!
Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount- John Wesley