Charles G. Finney

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121.) Revival at Evan's Mill
      A LITTLE way from the village of Evans' Mills, was a settlement of Germans, where there was a German church with several elders, and a considerable membership, but no minister, and no regular religious meetings. Once each year they were in the habit of having a minister come up from the Mohawk Valley, to administer the ordinances of baptism and the ...read more

122.) Revival in Rochester, 1830
      LEAVING New York I spent a few weeks in Whitestown; and, as was common, being pressed to go in many directions, I was greatly at a loss what was my duty. But among others, an urgent invitation was received from the Third Presbyterian church in Rochester, of which Mr. Parker had been pastor, to go there and supply them for a season. I inquired i ...read more

123.) Salvation Difficult to the Christian, Impossible to the Sinner
      "If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?" -- 1 Peter. 4:18. FROM the connection of this passage, some have inferred that the apostle had his eye immediately upon the destruction of Jerusalem. They suppose this great and fearful event to be alluded to in the language, For the time has come that judgment ...read more

124.) Sanctification By Faith
      TEXT--"Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid; yea, we establish the law."--Romans iii. 31. THE apostle had been proving that all mankind, both Jews and Gentiles, were in their sins, and refuting the doctrine so generally entertained by the Jews, that they were a holy people and saved by their works. He showed that justification c ...read more

125.) Self Deceivers
      Text--But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.-- James 1:22. THERE are two extremes in religion, equally false and equally fatal. And there are two classes of hypocrites that occupy these two extremes. The first class make religion consist altogether in the belief of certain abstract doctrines, or what they ...read more

126.) SELFISHNESS
      'Israel is an empty vine; he bringeth forth fruit unto himself.'--Hos. 10:1. In this passage the Lord complains of the selfishness of Israel; and it is my present design to show, I. WHAT SELFISHNESS IS NOT. II. WHAT IT IS. III. THAT IT CANNOT CO-EXIST WITH HOLINESS IN THE SAME MIND. IV. MENTION SOME EVIDENCES OF SELFISHNESS. ...read more

127.) Selfishness Not True Religion
      TEXT. "--Seeketh not her own."--1. Cor. xiii. 5. THAT is, Charity, or Christian love, seeketh not her own. The proposition which I design to establish this evening, is the following: THAT A SUPREME REGARD TO OUR OWN HAPPINESS IS INCONSISTENT WITH TRUE RELIGION. This proposition is naturally the first in the series that I have been labori ...read more

128.) Sinners bound to change their own hearts
      Ezek xviii. 31. MAKE YOU A NEW HEART AND A NEW SPIRIT, FOR WHY WILL YE DIE? These words were addressed to the house of Israel, who from their history and from the verses in connection with the text, were evidently in a state of impenitency; and the requirement to make them a new heart and a new spirit was enforced by the weighty penalty ...read more

129.) Stewardship
      Luke xvi. 2.--"Give an account of thy stewardship." A steward is one who is employed to transact the business of another, as his agent or representative in the business in which he is employed. His duty is to promote, in the best possible manner, the interest of his employer. He is liable, at any time, to be called to an account for the man ...read more

130.) The Doom of Those Who Neglect So Great Salvation
      "How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?" -- Hebrews 2:3. ESCAPE what? What can Universalists say to such a question as this? They whose first doctrine proclaims that there can be no danger -- what will they say to this solemn question and its startling assumption of peril from which there shall be no escape? How shall we escape? s ...read more

131.) The Essential Elements of Christian Experience
      "Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled." -- Matt. v. 6. THERE are a great many things in the experience of Christians, which, traced out in their natural history, are exceeding interesting. I have been struck to notice how very commonly what is peculiar to Christian experience drops out of the mind; ...read more

132.) The Excuses of Sinners Condemn God
      "Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?" -- Job xl. 8. ALTHOUGH in the main, Job had spoken correctly of God, yet in his great anguish and perturbation under his sore trials, he had said some things which were hasty and abusive. For these the Lord rebuked him. This rebuke is contained in our con ...read more

133.) The Loss When a Soul is Lost
      "For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" -- Mark 8:36, 37. OURS is an inquisitive world, and the present especially is an inquisitive age. Particularly is this inquisitiveness developed in perpetual inquiries upon matters of loss and gain. Almost u ...read more

134.) The Necessity of Divine Teaching
      TEXT.--Nevertheless I tell you the truth--it is expedient for you that I go away--for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you--but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. Of sin, because they believe not on me--of righteousness, because I go ...read more

135.) The Prevailing Prayer Meeting
      Preached September 4, 1859 - Glasgow, Scotland A sermon on the importance of prayer as an appropriate and indispensable means of securing and promoting revivals of religion, with important related observations from the great revivals of New York, Albany, Rochester, Boston, etc. This message was re-introduced to the Christian public through the ...read more

136.) The Refuge Of Lies
      "Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet, and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place." -- Isaiah xxviii. 17. ALL men know themselves to be sinners against God. They know also, that, as sinners, they are in peril and are not safe. Hence their anxiety to find so ...read more

137.) The Rule by Which Guilt of Sin is Estimated
      "And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent: because he hath appointed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead." -- Acts 17:30, 31. THE text declares that ...read more

138.) The Salvation of Sinners Impossible
      "If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?" -- 1 Peter 4:18. I SAID in a former sermon, that the doctrine of the text is that the salvation of the righteous is difficult and that of the sinner impossible. In that sermon I discussed at length the first part of this subject, showing how and why the salvatio ...read more

139.) The Savior Lifted Up, and the Look of Faith
      "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." -- John iii. 14, 15. "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. (This he said, signifying what death he should die.)" -- John xii. 32, 33. IN order to ...read more