Charles G. Finney

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41.) Lecture 9 - MEANS TO BE USED WITH SINNERS.
      TEXT.--Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen. --ISAIAH xliii:10. IN the text it is affirmed of the children of God, that they are his witnesses. In several preceding lectures I have been dwelling on the subject of Prayer, or that department of means for the promotion of a revival, which is intended to move God to ...read more

42.) Lecture 10 - TO WIN SOULS REQUIRES WISDOM.
      TEXT. --He that winneth souls is wise. --PROVERBS xi. 30. THE most common definition of wisdom is, that it is the choice of the best end and the selection of the most appropriate means for the accomplishment of that end--the best adaptation of means to secure a desired end. "He that winneth souls," God says, "is wise." The object of this eve ...read more

43.) Lecture 11 - A WISE MINISTER WILL BE SUCCESSFUL
      TEXT. --He that winneth souls is wise. --PROVERBS xi. 30. I PREACHED last Friday evening from the same text, on the method of dealing with sinners by private Christians. My object at this time is to take up the more public means of grace, with particular reference to the DUTIES OF MINISTERS. As I observed in my last lecture, wisdom is the ch ...read more

44.) Lecture 12 - HOW TO PREACH THE GOSPEL.
      TEXT. --He that winneth souls is wise. --PROVERBS xi. 30. ONE of the last remarks in my last lecture, was this, that the text ascribes conversion to men. Winning souls is converting men. This evening I design to show, I. That several passages of Scripture ascribe conversion to men. II. That this is consistent with other passages which ascr ...read more

45.) Lecture 13 - HOW CHURCHES CAN HELP MINISTERS.
      TEXT. --And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses's hands were heavy, and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon: and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side and the other on the other side: and his hands were steady un ...read more

46.) Lecture 14 - MEASURES TO PROMOTE REVIVALS.
      TEXT. --These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city and teach customs which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans. --ACTS xvi. 20,21. "THESE men," here spoken of, were Paul and Silas, who went to Philippi to preach the gospel, and very much disturbed the people of that city, because they supposed the pre ...read more

47.) Lecture 15 - HINDRANCES TO REVIVALS.
      TEXT. --I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you."-- NEHEMIAH vi. 3. THIS servant of God had come down from Babylon to rebuild the temple and re-establish the worship of God at Jerusalem, the city of his fathers' sepulchres. When it was discovered by Sanballat and c ...read more

48.) Lecture 16 - THE NECESSITY AND EFFECT OF UNION.
      TEXT. --Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth, as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.--MATTHEW xviii. 19. SOME weeks since, I used this text, in preaching on the subject of prayer meetings. At present I design to enter more into the spirit and meaning of the te ...read more

49.) Lecture 17 - FALSE COMFORTS FOR SINNERS.
      TEXT.--How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood.--JOB xxi. 34. JOB'S three friends insisted on it that the afflictions which he suffered were sent as a punishment for his sins, and were evidence conclusive that he was a hypocrite, and not a good man as he professed to be. A lengthy argument ensued, in whi ...read more

50.) Lecture 18 - DIRECTIONS TO SINNERS.
      TEXT --What shall I do to be saved.--ACTS xvi. 30. THESE are the words of the jailor at Philippi, the question which he put to Paul and Silas, who were then under his care as prisoners. Satan had, in many ways, opposed these servants of God in their work of preaching the Gospel, and had been as often defeated and disgraced. But here, at Philippi ...read more

51.) Lecture 19 - INSTRUCTIONS TO CONVERTS.
      TEXT. --Feed my lambs.--JOHN xxi. 15. YOU, who read your Bibles, recollect the connection in which these words are found, and by whom they were spoken. They were addressed by the Lord Jesus Christ to Peter, after he had denied his Lord, and had professed repentance. Probably one of the designs which Christ had in view, in suffering Peter to sin ...read more

52.) Lecture 20 - INSTRUCTIONS TO CONVERTS (continued).
      TEXT.--Feed my lambs.--JOHN xxi. 15. I REMARKED on this text in my last lecture, and was obliged, for want of time, to omit many of the points which I wished to present in regard to the INSTRUCTION OF YOUNG CONVERTS. To-night I propose to continue the subject by noticing, I. Several other points upon which young converts ought to be ins ...read more

53.) Lecture 21 - THE BACKSLIDER IN HEART.
      TEXT.--The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways.--Prov. xiv. 14. I CANNOT conclude this course of lectures, without warning converts against backsliding. In discussing this subject, I will state, I. What backsliding in heart is not. II. What backsliding in heart is. III. What are evidences of backsliding in heart. IV ...read more

54.) Lecture 22 - GROWTH IN GRACE.
      TEXT--But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.--2 Pet. iii.18. I must conclude this Course of Lectures by giving converts instructions on the subject of growth in grace. I shall pursue the following method: I. What is grace, as the term is here used? II. What the injunction "to grow in grace" does not ...read more

55.) Legal Experience
      TEXT.--The 7th chapter of Romans. I HAVE more than once had occasion to refer to this chapter, and have read some portions of it and made remarks. But I have not been able to go into a consideration of it so fully as I wished, and therefore thought I would make it the subject of a separate lecture. In giving my views I shall pursue the following ...read more

56.) Legal Religion
      TEXT:-- "Who is on the Lord's side?" --Exodus xxxii. 26. LAST Friday evening, you will remember, that in discoursing from this text, I mentioned three classes of professors of religion; those who truly love God and man, those who are actuated solely by selfishness or at most by self-love in their religious duties, and those who are actuated only ...read more

57.) Letters On Revival--No. 1
      To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Beloved in the Lord:--Many of you are aware that several years since a series of Lectures on the subject of Revivals was published through the columns of the N. York Evangelist. These Lectures were preached by me to my own congregation in the city of N. York, and repor ...read more

58.) Letters On Revival--No. 2
      To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: I have observed, and multitudes of others also I find have observed, that for the last ten years, revivals of religion have been gradually becoming more and more superficial. All the phenomena which they exhibit testify to this as a general fact. Ther ...read more

59.) Letters On Revival--No. 3
      To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: I have already intimated that pains enough have not been taken to search the heart and thoroughly detect and expose the sinner's depravity, so as to make him see the need of the gospel remedy. If I am not mistaken there has been in many cases an erro ...read more