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Rediscover The Power Of The Gospel In Revival Series
Contributed by Scott Maze on Apr 13, 2024 (message contributor)
Summary: What if God began to calculate your good deeds? How long would your personal tape be? What if He were to get a separate calculator out for the things you’ve done wrong, how long would that tape be?
3 William Buell Sprague refers to this as, “The first step usually is an increase of zeal and devotedness on the part of God’s people.” William Buell Sprague, Lectures on Revivals of Religion (New York: D. Appleton & Cos Valuable Publications, 1832), Kindle Locations 373-374.
4 This was the first mark for Jonathan Edwards: “This work of the Spirit of God confirms and establishes people’s minds in the truth of what the Gospel declares to us about Jesus being the Son of God and the Savior of men.” Ibid., 87.
5 Timothy Keller, Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel Centered Ministry in Your City (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012), 54.
6 I owe this outline to Pastor Adrian Rogers from his sermon, “Strong Faith,” September 2, 1984.
7 William Arndt, Frederick W. Danker, Walter Bauer, and F. Wilbur Gingrich, “??????µa?,” A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 597.
8 https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/apollo-to-the-moon/online/racing-to-space/moon-decision.cfm; accessed October 19, 2019.
9 I owe this illustration to James Merritt from his sermon, “Faith of Our Fathers.”
10 https://www.newsweek.com/california-woman-reunited-son-died-birth-30-years-ago-dna-test-1465206; accessed October 15, 2019.
11 I owe this sentence to James Merritt from his sermon, “Faith of Our Fathers.”
12 Robert McGee, The Secret of Significance (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2002).
