Charles G. Finney

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101.) Power From On High 3 - The Enduement Of The Spirit
      Since the publication in the Independent of my article on "The Power from on High" I have been confined with protracted illness. In the meantime I have received numerous letters of inquiry upon that subject. They relate mostly to three particular points of inquiry: 1. They request further illustrations of the exhibition of this power. 2. They ...read more

102.) Power From On High 4 - Enduement Of Power From On High
      In this article I propose to consider the conditions upon which this enduement of power can be obtained. Let us borrow a little light from the Scriptures. I will not cumber your paper with quotations from the Bible, but simply state a few facts that will readily be recognized by all readers of the Scriptures. If the readers of this article will rea ...read more

103.) Power From On High 5 - Is It A Hard Saying?
      In a former article I said that the want of an enduement of power from on high should be deemed a disqualification for a pastor, a deacon or elder, a Sabbath school superintendent, a professor in a Christian college, and especially for a professor in a theological seminary. Is this a hard saying? Is this an uncharitable saying? Is it unjust? Is it ...read more

104.) Power From On High 6 - Prevailing Prayer
      Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality. I do not know how better to approach this subject than by relating a fact of my own experience before I was converted. I relate it because I fear such experiences are but to ...read more

105.) Power From On High 7 - How To Win Souls
      "Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee." 1 Timothy 4:16. I beg leave in this article to suggest to my younger brethren in the ministry some thoughts on the philosophy of so preaching the gospel as to secure the salvation of souls. They are the resu ...read more

106.) Power From On High 8 - Preacher, Save Thyself
      "Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine, continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee." I Timothy 4:16. I am not going to preach to preachers, but to suggest certain conditions upon which the salvation promised in this text may be secured by them. 1st. See that you are constrained by love to ...read more

107.) Power From On High 9 - Innocent Amusements
      We hear much said, and read much, in these days, of indulging in innocent amusements. I heard a minister, some time since, in addressing a large company of young people, say that he had spent much time in devising innocent amusements for the young. Within a few years I have read several sermons and numerous articles pleading for more amusements tha ...read more

108.) Power From On High 10 - How To Overcome Sin
      In every period of my ministerial life I have found many professed Christians in a miserable state of bondage, either to the world, the flesh, or the Devil. But surely this is no Christian state, for the apostle has distinctly said: "Sin shall not have dominion over you, because ye are not under the law, but under grace." In all my Christian life I ...read more

109.) Power From On High 11 - The Decay Of Conscience
      I believe it is a fact generally admitted that there is much less conscience manifested by men and women in nearly all the walks of life than there was forty years ago. There is justly much complaint of this, and there seems to be but little prospect of reformation. The rings and frauds and villainies in high and low places, among all ranks of men, ...read more

110.) Power From On High 12 - The Psychology Of Faith
      I have heretofore endeavored to show that sanctification is wrought in the soul by the Spirit of Christ, through faith, with and not without the concurrence of our own activity. I now wish to call attention to the nature or psychology of faith as a mental act or state. My theological teacher held that faith was an intellectual act or state, a convi ...read more

111.) Power From On High 13 - The Psychology Of Righteousness
      During my Christian life I have been asked a great many times, in substance, by thoughtful and anxious souls: "What is the mental act or acts and states that God requires of me?" I have found it profitable, and even indispensable, with the commands of God before me, to question consciousness for a satisfactory answer to this question. I have satisf ...read more

112.) Prayer and Labor For the Gathering of the Great Harvest
      "But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith He unto His disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth laborers into His harvest." -- Matthew. ...read more

113.) PROVE ALL THINGS
      TEXT.--Prove all things: hold fast that which is good.-- 1 Thess. 5:21. In speaking from this text, I remark, 1. That it enjoins the duty of fundamental and thorough inquiry on religious subjects. It requires us to know the reason of our faith and practice, that our piety may not be superstition, but the result of intelligent conviction, a ...read more

114.) PUTTING ON CHRIST
      'But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.'--Rom. 13:14. It is my purpose to show, I. WHAT IS INTENDED BY THIS COMMAND. II. WHAT IS IMPLIED IN OBEYING IT. III. SOME OF THE ESSENTIAL CONDITIONS OF OBEDIENCE TO IT. IV. OBLIGATION TO OBEY THIS COMMAND IS UNIVERSAL. V ...read more

115.) Quenching the Spirit
      "Quench not the Spirit." -- 1 Thess. v. 19. IN discussing the subject presented in this text, I shall aim, I. To show how the Holy Spirit influences the mind; II. To deduce some inferences from the known mode of the Spirit's operations; III. Show what it is to quench the Spirit; IV. Show how this may be done; and, V. The consequen ...read more

116.) Religion of Public Opinion
      TEXT.--For they loved the praise or men more than the praise or God. John xii. 43. THESE words were spoken of certain individuals who refused to confess that Jesus was the Christ, because He was extremely unpopular with the scribes and pharisees, and principal people of Jerusalem. There is a plain distinction between self-love, or the simple ...read more

117.) Religion of the Law and Gospel
      TEXT.--"What shall we say then? That the Gentiles which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith: but Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of t ...read more

118.) Reprobation
      JEREMIAH vi. 30.--Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. These words were spoken of a generation of Israel, with whom God had used every suitable means to reclaim and save them; and who had withstood them all, and had remained obstinate and impenitent to the last. God says to them, "O daughter of my people, gi ...read more

119.) Reproof a Christian Duty
      Text.--"Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him."--Leviticus 19:17. THE whole verse reads thus; "Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him." In the margin, as those of you who have Bibles with marginal notes can see, the last words of the ...read more