METHOD OF GRACE,BY GEORGE WHITEFIELD: THE 4 LEVELS OF CONVICTION OF SIN, WE MUST UNDERGO TO BE SAVED

LET US NOTE THAT THIS SERMON BY GEORGE WHITEFIELD IS A GROUND LAYING SERMON. HE HAS GIVEN US THE FOUNDATION OF THE SALVATION OF THE ELECT BY SHOWING US THE 4 NECESSARY FOUNDATIONAL LEVELS OF REPENTANCE THAT THE ELECT MUST UNDERGO TO BE SAVED. IN THIS SERMON WE WILL COME TO UNDERSTAND THE 4 LEVELS OF CONVICTION OF SIN THAT MUST BECOME GRIEVOUS TO US; LAMENTABLE TO US; DEPLORABLE TO US TO COME TO SALVATION, FOR THEY ARE EGREGIOUS, HEINOUS AND OFFENSIVE TO GOD. GEORGE WHITEFIELD WITH CERITUDE MAKES IT CONVINCINGLY CLEAR THAT GOD BRINGS US, HIS ELECT, TO REPENT OVER 1. OUR ACTS OF SIN. 2. OUR ORGINAL SIN OR THE EVIL PROCLIVITES OF OUR HEART 3. OUR SELF RIGHTIOUNESS OR PARTIALLY FOLLOWING THE COMMANDS OF GOD INSTEAD OF PERFECTLY, LEADING US TO FLEE TO THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST BY THE GIFT OF FAITH. 4. OUR UNBELIEF OR IMMPOSSIBILITY WITH OUR OWN NATURAL MAN FAITH TO LAY HOLD OF THE RIGJTEOUSNESS OF GOD. THUS, IF GOD’S ARROWS OF CONVICTION ARE BEGINNING TO STICK FAST IN OUR HEARTS CONCERNING THESE FOUR LEVELS OF CONVICTION, WE MUST NOT LET THEM EVAPORATE AWAY, BUT ASK GOD TO INCREASE THEM, FOR CONVICTION OF THESE 4 SINS IS THE SIGN THAT WE MAY BE ONE OF GOD’S ELECT AND GOD IS WORKING IN US TO SAVE US, FOR THESE ARE THE 4 LEVELS OF CONVICTION OF SIN THAT GOD USES TO BRING SALVATION TO HIS ELECT. OUR FASTFOOD FREEWILL PREACHERS ARE SATANS MINERSTERS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THEY MAY NOT REQUIRE ANY OF THESE 4 LEVELS OF REPENTANCE OR MAYBE 3 OUT OF 4, BUT THE ELECT WILL GO THROUGH ALL FOUR OF THESE LEVELS OF REPENTANCE, WITH VARYING DEFREES OF CONVICTION AND VARYING DEGREES IN THE TIME THAT THESE ARE ACCOMPLISHED. SOME COMPRESSED INTO ALMOST INSTANTANEOUSLY AND OTHERS DRAGGED OUT OVER A PERIOD OF TIME, BUT ALL THE ELECT WILL KNOW THEY WENT THROUGH THESE 4 LEVELS OF CONVICTION OF SIN AND ESPECIALLY WILL CONTINUE TO FEEL THE WEIGHT OF THEIR ORIGINAL SIN KEEPING THEM IN A STATE OF REPENTANCE AS A TRUE CHRISTIAN. ORIGINAL SIN AWARENESS IS THE BURDERN OF THE ELECT.