THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST AN EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS: ANOTHER SERMON BY GEORGE WHITEFIELD!!!

GEORGE WHITEFIELD GIVES TWO MEANINGS OF THE WORD RIGHTEOUSNESS: THE TYPE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WE NEED TO GO TO HEAVEN AND THE MORAL RIGHTEOUSNESS WE NEED AS A NATION. THE TYPE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WE NEED TO GO TO HEAVEN WAS NEEDED BY ADAM, EVE, AND ABEL AS WELL AS ALL GOD’S ELECT. NONE OF US AMERICAN’S KNOW WHETHER WE ARE OF GOD’S ELECT, THUS IT IS OF GREATEST IMPORTANCE THAT ALL OF US AMERICANS AGONIZE TO CALL ON GOD FOR MERCY THAT HE MIGHT IMPUTE THIS RIGHTEOUSNESS TO US. “Come, dear souls, in all your rags; come, thou poor man; come, thou poor, distressed woman; you, who think God will never forgive you, and that your sins are too great to be forgiven; come, thou doubting creature, who art afraid thou wilt never get comfort; arise, take comfort, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of life, the Lord of glory, calls for thee: through his righteousness there is hope for the chief of sinners, for the worst of creatures. What if thou hadst committed all the sins in the world? What if thou hadst committed the sins of a thousand, what if thou hadst committed the sins of a million of worlds? Christ's righteousness will cover, the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ will cleanse, thee from the guilt of them all. O let not one poor soul stand at a distance from the Savior. My dear friends, could my voice hold out, was my strength equal to my will, I would wrestle with you; I would strive with arguments, till you came and washed in this blood of the Lamb; till you came and accepted of this everlasting righteousness. O come, come! Now, since it is brought into the world by Christ, so in the name, in the strength, and by the assistance of the great God, I bring it now to the pulpit; I now offer this righteousness, this free, this imputed, this everlasting righteousness to all poor sinners that will accept of it. For God's sake accept it this night.”