Sermons on Gospel Themes

Addressing the Bible's Dual Themes of Justification and Sanctification (Annotated and Illustrated)

Charles G. Finney

• Publisher: Aneko Press
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN:
  9781622457717
• Topic: Theology & Religion

All Christians and sinners should understand that the whole plan is complete. They should understand that the whole of Christ – His character, His work, His atoning death, and His ever-living intercession – belongs to each and every person and simply needs to be accepted. There is a full ocean of it. There it is. You can just as well take it as not. You are invited and urged to drink, and to drink abundantly! This ocean supplies all your need. As the Scriptures say, He is of God made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption (1 Corinthians 1:30). What do you need? Wisdom? Here it is. Righteousness? Here it is. Sanctification? Here you have it. It is all in Christ. Can you possibly think of anything needful for your salvation, moral purity, or your usefulness that is not here in Christ? Nothing. All is provided here. But salvation, to be real and available, must be salvation from sin. A religion that does not break the power of sin is a lie. If it does not drive out selfishness and lust, and if it does not bring about love to God and man, joy, peace, and the fruit of the Spirit, it is false and worthless. It can be of no use. That which does not bring about in us the spirit of heaven and make us godly, no matter where it comes from, or by what deception it is defended, is a lie, and if it is fled to as a refuge, it is a refuge of lies. If it does not produce a heavenly mind, expel a worldly mind, and detach us from the love of the world, it is a lie. If it does not produce in us the love required in the Scriptures, genuine love and worship of God and also love for His people – if it does not produce all those states of mind that fit the soul for heaven, then it completely fails of its purpose. * * * * Few preachers in any age have surpassed Charles Finney in clear and well-defined views of conscience and of man's moral convictions. Not many have distinguished the true from the false more closely or have been more skillful in putting their points clearly and prudently. Therefore, these sermons under God were full of spiritual power.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• God’s Love for a Sinning World
• In Trusting in the Mercy of God
• The Wages of Sin
• The Savior Lifted Up, and the Look of Faith
• The Excuses of Sinners Condemn God
• The Sinner’s Excuses Answered
• On Refuges of Lies
• The Wicked Heart Set to Do Evil
• Moral Insanity
• Conditions of Being Saved
• The Sinner’s Natural Power and Moral Weakness
• On the Atonement
• Where Sin Occurs, God Cannot Wisely Prevent It
• The Inner and the Outer Revelation
• Quenching the Spirit
• The Spirit Not Striving Always
• Christ Our Advocate
• God’s Love Commended to Us
• Prayer and Labor for the Gathering of the Great Harvest
• Converting Sinners Is a Christian Duty
• People Often Highly Esteem What God Abhors
• Victory over the World through Faith
• Death to Sin through Christ
• The Essential Elements of Christian Experience
• Charles G. Finney – A Brief Biography