Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves,‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. Luke 3:8
A man that has truly repented is truly regenerated… there is, as it were, a new creation wrought in your hearts. If your repentance is true; you are renewed throughout, both in soul and body; your understandings are enlightened with the knowledge of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ; and your wills, which were stubborn, obstinate, and hated all good, are obedient and conformable to the will of God. Indeed, our deists tell us that man now has a free will to do good, to love God, and to repent when he will; but indeed there is no free will of any kind in any of you but to sin; no, your free will leads you so far that you would, if possible, pull God from the throne… But when you are turned to the Lord by evangelical repentance, you will is changed; your obedience, now hardened and benumbed, shall then be quickened and awakened; your hard hearts shall then be melted, and your unruly affections shall be crucified. Thus, by that repentance, the whole soul will be changed. You will have new inclinations, new desires, and new habits.
George Whitefield Daily Readings, Randall J. Pederson, ed., Christian Focus Publications, 2010, from the April 25 reading.
A man that has truly repented is truly regenerated… there is, as it were, a new creation wrought in your hearts. If your repentance is true; you are renewed throughout, both in soul and body; your understandings are enlightened with the knowledge of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ; and your wills, which were stubborn, obstinate, and hated all good, are obedient and conformable to the will of God. Indeed, our deists tell us that man now has a free will to do good, to love God, and to repent when he will; but indeed there is no free will of any kind in any of you but to sin; no, your free will leads you so far that you would, if possible, pull God from the throne… But when you are turned to the Lord by evangelical repentance, you will is changed; your obedience, now hardened and benumbed, shall then be quickened and awakened; your hard hearts shall then be melted, and your unruly affections shall be crucified. Thus, by that repentance, the whole soul will be changed. You will have new inclinations, new desires, and new habits.
George Whitefield Daily Readings, Randall J. Pederson, ed., Christian Focus Publications, 2010, from the April 25 reading.
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