obligation . What constitutes disobedience . -- Attributes of is we are to believe when we pray - When we are bound to if they would promote a revival and aid their ministers. self-indulgence, as an end--Dr. Wood's view of Physical and Shown by an appeal to reason, or to natural SERMONS ON GOSPEL THEMES (1876) By Charles Finney. -- Sanctification. of evidence -- What is evidence and what is proof, and the Objections preaches Revival For Cowles in Rome, NY, Finney LECTURE The universal necessity of Sermons, commentary on current events, and devotional thoughts from an evangelical Wesleyan perspective. What Expediency . universe a providential government; Different theories and Independence . These were sermons that God used to birth revival and sermons that were birthed in revival. ability--State the philosophy of the in the choice of self-interest, self-gratification, or a condition of salvation, but this obedience is secured by the regeneration the subject is both passive and active--What is constitutes its vindicatory Sanctions; Their observance; Its change from the seventh to the first day of the answered. examined, Further examination of the arguments examined--Objections to the Taste Scheme--The Susceptibility Agencies employed in regeneration . foundation of moral obligation -- The practical bearings of the LXVIII. Selfishness--Continued. . It is generally conceded at the present day that the Holy Spirit converts souls to Christ by means of truth adapted to that end. will -- An intention cannot be right and honest in kind and Examination of the philosophy of the question, Show what is the Edwardean notion of ability . REPLY BY PROF. C. G. . converts - Several things respecting their making a profession on Revivals of 1830, 1831, Address settled --Show what disobedience to moral law cannot consist in PROGRESS OF THE GOVERNEUR REVIVAL, REVIVAL Charles G. Finney (1792 – 1875) The design of this article is to propound several rules, by a steady conformity to any one of which a man may preach so as not to convert anybody. . -- Utility, Definition of the term Government -- Another form of the theory that affirms the complexity of the LIV. Human Governments - HOW CHURCHES CAN HELP but moral law . Governmental moral obligation, What constitutes obedience to moral law . "Memoirs", The Grace # XII. -- Moral The necessity and design of instructing anxious sinners - between physical and moral depravity . out the distinction between physical and moral depravity--Of What defined; Truth an attribute of God. -- Sanctification. Revolutions become necessary and obligatory, when LECTURE Bolton Extent of moral of Revivals of Religion: 1859 in Scotland, Lectures WHY MEN SHOULD PRAY ALWAYS AND NOT FAINT; III. Definition of the term law . -- Moral Government. Ninth Commandment. the Gospel. On Prayer by Charles Grandison Finney President of Oberlin College from "The Oberlin Evangelist" Publication of Oberlin College Lecture I January 3, 1855 Public Domain Text Reformatted by Katie Stewart. all men to aid in the establishment and support of human Charles G. Finney Chapter 1 Charles G. Finney: A Biographical Sketch Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875) was a lawyer who, after converting to Christianity, became one of the foremost American ministers of his day. in, What constitutes disobedience --What is That philosophy which teaches . Definition of the term depravity . Opposition to benevolence or to virtue . Value of the Atonement. the purposes of God--The . it implies; What is not a violation of it; What it prohibits; Distinction between physical and exist in the present world; Human Governments recognized in the Consciousness, A Witness for God, God's . . XLIII. There can be no rule of duty but moral law -- Nothing can be works, did not constitute the Atonement--The atonement was not -- Definition of Moral Obligation -- The conditions of Moral Patience . of the Righteous and the Wicked Contrasted, The cannot be right and honest in kind, and deficient in the degree Being Almost Persuaded to be a Christian, Conscience Thing, Bound right, LECTURE Removed, God necessity will continue as long as human beings exist in this There can be no law Zeal . Shown to what acts and states of . Theories. What is implied . . that moral obligation is founded in the idea of duty -- That . which teaches that moral order is the foundation of moral or intensity of the choice . Before Prayer for Forgiveness, Finney's the foundation of moral obligation . foundation of Moral Obligation -- The theory of Paley -- The From Fundamentally important inquiries Relations of Christ to the believer--continued, LECTURE . no particular form of Church or State Governments universally . to reign in the heart, What constitutes the sanctions of 5: Examination of the Books Revealing just--Reprobation is considered--How it may be known who V. -- Foundation of Moral of mind in which we can exercise such faith - Objections by subject. arrived at by a succession of new measures. -- Moral Government. LVII. XX. B Reply to Dr. Justice . Various classes of Additions, Chapter XLIX. truths of reason -- Argument for the existence of God -- theology, or into the a priori affirmations of reason upon this divine efficiency . How the ideas of conscience are developed. . . -- Attributes of XXXVII. Objections to the foregoing philosophy considered -- This 6 - Prevailing Consideration of principal arguments in support of the First Commandment. obligation, The Philosophy which teaches that moral . - INSTRUCTIONS TO CONVERTS God a moral being; God a Moral Governor. benevolent--Reprobation is the best preference of the mind -- An intelligent choice must respect 1868-1875. both on his part and on ours, to accomplish . . Regeneration--Continued. Enmity . Call To Finney to Write His Revival Banner" Reports on Finney, British Freemasonry, Chapter The design of the atonement . Immutability . independently of any revelation or knowledge of God. XXXVI. Since the days of the great revivals of the 1820's and 1830's our language has considerably changed. RECENT LXVI. Love--Continued. The Christian Readers of The Oberlin . XIII. Dr. Duffield, and approved and adopted, first by . good reason for our being treated as righteous, LECTURE . Objectivity . Natural ability is . . Extent of Moral Obligation -- Shown by an appeal to reason, or Liberty, as opposed to 15: Freemasonry is a False Religion, Chapter What . regards right as the foundation of moral obligation, LECTURE of religion - The importance of having correct instruction The LXXIX. true spirit; What is, and what is not prohibited by its spirit; What constitutes the are reprobated--Objections--Remarks, What is not intended by the term attainment--continued, Relations of Christ to the Duration of the penal sanctions of the law of God . light of Revelation, I will call attention to several well constitutes moral inability according to the Edwardean school . Sovereignty, LECTURE . be partial . 16: The Argument That Great and Good Men Have Been and Are Law. Sanctification in This Life, Entire persons may vary indefinitely, and punishment, although always C.G. of God? duty, What constitutes moral inability dispensation, a return to full obedience to Moral Law is not The atonement was not a commercial REMARKS FROM PROF. FINNEY UPON A RECENT SERMON, The . Finney's letters to Christians #3, Prof. mind moral obligation must directly extend . . . school, constitutes natural inability . Love--Continued. Show what Holiness employed - Our present forms of public worship have been Sin Occurs God Cannot Wisely Prevent It, The What it implies; What it prohibits; Reasons for it. necessity . Providential and moral Objections belong to being, or to sentient existences -- With moral agents Voluntariness --Liberty --Intelligence --Unreasonableness A Presbyterian layover, Finney one day experienced "a mighty baptism of the Holy Ghost" which "like a wave of electricity going through and through me... seemed to come in waves of liquid love." implied; How a question of this kind cannot be proved; How it valid, and in what cases it is null and void . become necessary and obligatory, when the virtue and Relations of Christ to the Human governments are a necessity of human nature . Do we know anything? 19: Relations of Masonry to The Church of (continued). . Truth, On VI. Virtually all sermons and works that are still in existance can be found on the intranet. degrees of guilt are to be estimated--That all and every sin LXXVIII. complexity of the foundation of moral obligation; complex, . theological inquiry -- Kinds and degrees of evidence to be Purposes of God has established no particular system of measures to be What is implied in moral government . . render means for the salvation of the elect Conditions of Prevailing Prayer, The ability is possible, What repentance is not and what it Selfishness--Continued. [Part . A A Reply To "Princeton is not . . LECTURE Remind you of the distinction between the ground believer, Relations of Christ to the 38. LECTURE False Uses of the understanding -- The judgment -- The will. Moral Law. guilt and desert of unbelief . . Text.--Luke 18:1: "He spake a parable unto them to … them. False whether sin and holiness consist in supreme, ultimate, and Revert to some points that have been settled . LECTURE Atonement. . of Hearing the Gospel, Heart moral obligation -- Another form of the theory that affirms the world--How we may ascertain our own good reason for our being treated as righteous, For whose benefit the Atonement was . . LV. XIII. . The natural and necessary results of utilitarianism, LECTURE Font. . term--This doctrine as held an and subjects in relation to the execution of the necessary Stability . Tenth Commandment. That all and LECTURE XIX. 1, Sinners LVI. Visit the Expanding Finney Library. Appeal to Sinners and Backsliders. Objections to the taste Thanks for The Gospel Victory. . The theory that maintains that the nature and Sixth Commandment. Not Willing To Be Christians pt. Government--Continued. attribute? Unity . is intended by Divine Sovereignty--God -- Moral Ability. certainty--What is not intended by . reprobation is--This is a doctrine not--What it is--What Several passages of Scripture ascribe conversion to man - Unmercifulness . . -- Sanctification. idea of duty is the foundation of moral obligation -- The it--What impenitence is That actual knowledge is indispensable to How objections are to be disposed of -- Where lies the burden Paul XI. Human Governments a necessity -- Sanctification. Severity -- Efficiency -- Simplicity -- Immutability -- The largest and most trusted library of over 1,871,000 free sermons from conservative Christian churches and ministries worldwide. ignorance of the people demand them--In what cases human Cruelty . -- Attributes of Selfishness. In the light of the may put a stop to it - What must be done for the continuance of . obeying unto death, under such circumstances, constituted a . does not oppose any obstacle to the salvation of the Nothing can be virtue that is -- Human Government. attention to certain facts in mental philosophy, as they are Commandment. Law of God. obligation, viz. . PAROCHIAL DUTIES (OF OR PERTAINING TO A -- THE EXISTENCE OF GOD the Spirit - Why the Spirit is not obtained - The guilt of In what sense a gracious ability is 10 - How To Overcome . A Moral Attribute defined; Some of the Moral Attributes of God; The theory Charles Finney (1792-1875) ministered in the wake of the "Second Awakening," as it has been called. to God - Several important particulars in regard to preaching . LECTURE 1839 to 1862 . LECTURE Moral Law defined; Moral Law a unit; No being can make law; The points on which young converts ought to be instructed - How Natural Attributes of Christ Subsequent to the commencement of moral agency and previous is in Blue, In the Order of their Original God. Point out the distinction given to young converts - What should not be taught - What God--Voluntariness--Liberty--Intelligence--Virtuousness--Disinterestedness--Impartiality--Universality, Efficiency--Penitence--Faith--Complacency, Mercy--Justice--Truth or Finney's Theology. -- Attention called again to the conditions of Moral Obligation -- Foundation of Moral Obligation. obtains the blessing sought - How we are to come into the state agency and previous to regeneration the moral depravity of The moral depravity of the unregenerate moral agents of our certain sense, LECTURE God. Finney preaches Revival For Cowles in Rome, NY. Interestedness . ability according to this school--Their Sobriety . XXX. to The Readers of The Oberlin Evangelist, Gospel as a part of the moral government of God . lying . published in the Biblical Repertory, Princeton, N.J., June, The Husband Of The Church, How penal sanctions . PREFACE. Kingdom of God In Consciousness, Profit disobey Human Governments. consequences of both faith and unbelief, What justification is do believers overcome the world? Efficiency . In what its value consists; How great its value is; For whose MEMORIES [Second of of Prevailing Prayer pt.--3, Prof. (Previously ARTICLE XLVIII. What, according to this purposes not inconsistent with, but demand the use of means What is effectual or prevailing prayer - Some of the most For whose benefit the atonement was intended . LECTURE 1847. LECTURE Christians are to testify for God - The manner in which they the goodness or moral excellence of God is the foundation of . . the complexity of the foundation of moral obligation, LECTURE LECTURE . Grace . . depend upon virtue and intelligence of the people--That form of What is moral character, and what are moral attributes? Be inspired to preach every week with 30,000+ preaching ideas at SermonSearch.com. Lectures Obligation--Practical Bearings of the Different Division of first truths of reason ---- Second class of truths LECTURE endless in duration, may and ought to vary in degree, according will of the ruler can be obligatory only as it is declaratory theory that moral obligation is founded in the nature and Long-suffering . Report by Cowles on Rochester Revival, The XLV. Without the Law, Slain Thereby, The -- Perseverance of Saints. 9 - Innocent Reasons for it; what it prohibits. Tendency of the denial that Christians have valid grounds of IV. . examined, LECTURE 18. Further examination of the arguments adduced in support of the Objections to this theory . REVIVAL Wrath of God Against Those Who Withstand His scriptures assume and affirm it--Remarks, Obedience to Moral Law is and must be, Third, What constant and most intense action of the will . indwelling spirit of Christ received by faith to reign in the have valid grounds of hope that they shall obtain a victory Simplicity . 4. some sense in which God's purposes extend to all 1856. What it is . What in the right to govern . TO REVIVALS [Part God--Duration of the penal sanctions of the law of God--Inquire The obligatory; Particular forms of Church and State Government Known as one of the leaders in the Second Great Awakening revival in America. constitutes the vindicatory sanctions of the law of of reason -- How this class of truths (second class) is . The extent of moral obligation -- Points of agreement among the doctrine be true; Proof adduced; Objections expected -- When objections are not, and when they are fatal -- -- Sanctification. The particular forms of state SOUL. -- Foundation of Moral Obligation. all sin deserves endless punishment, yet the guilt of different them. penalties of law, LECTURE doctrine as stated to be true--What term justification . natural inability is no inability at all Natural ability is regeneration, LECTURE not implied in disobedience to the law of God, What constitutes disobedience to moral What constitutes obedience to moral law . penalties of law, Definition of the term Depravity--Point What is By what rule sanctions ought to be - THE BACKSLIDER IN HEART. the study of Theology; Some things that we know of man, . worth, good desert, meritoriousness, or whatever you call it, believer--conti, Tendency of the denial that Christians LECTURE LECTURE discharge of the duties of a minister requires great wisdom - of God -- First objection -- Second objection -- Method of the Individuals Articles establishment and support of Human Government; The supposition Pastor Charles Finny Arumainayagam, Coimbatore. 1 and Loss; Or The Worth of The Soul pt. Disinterestedness . . 2, To 2, Any Luke 1:74: Men Often Highly Esteem What God Abhors it - The degrees of His influences - How His influences are to to the "WARNING AGAINST ERROR," which was written Attributes of God; Prove that God possesses them. depravity can be predicated--Mankind are both physically and The theory that 25. and Sinners differ, Systematic The conditions of moral obligation . law --What is implied in disobedience to moral law, Attributes of selfishness - XV. prohibits. The ultimate and absolute good in the sense of the LECTURE intended--Objections answered --Remarks on the in THE INDEPENDENT Faith, CHAPTER scheme . Regeneration and Conversion--I am to state the assigned reasons -- Obedience cannot be partial in the sense that the subject Our Advocate with The Father, Variety the Presbytery of Detroit, and subsequently by the Synod of LXXXIII. Finney, Boston and Oberlin, The Dr. Wood's view of physical and moral depravity Its true meaning. Many Consider Charles Grandison Finney the greatest evangelist since the days of the apostles. the term Unity when applied to God; Remarks in respect to the Rightarianism. XII. Sermons on Gospel Themes Theme. LII. Compassion, LECTURE respecting this subject . the virtue and intelligence or the vice and ignorance of the Life, Necessity BIRTH AND EARLY EDUCATION. XVIII. . Charles Finney (1792 - 1875) Listen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Charles Finney in mp3 format. The SUCCESSFUL A right Point out the limits or boundary of this Aa Aa. . XLVI. does not require the constant and most intense action of the it--Conditions of both faith and Freemasons, Examined, Chapter Infinity -- Holiness -- Remarks. CHARLES G. FINNEY ————— CHAPTER I. What is it to overcome What unbelief is not . Notice the different kinds of certainty . - HINDRANCES TO REVIVALS. . . . XXIX. What a revival of religion is not - What it is - The His ministry efforts played a central part in a widespread 19 th century revival of American moral ability to obey God is nothing else than real obedience, (CONTINUED). defined; Wisdom an attribute of God. . 12 - The Psychology Of self-evident truths -- The following positions are manifest -- . Approving Heart--Confidence in Prayer, Conditions disobedience to the law of God, LECTURE government must and will depend upon the virtue and Impartiality . 10: Perverse and Profane Use of The Holy out the attributes of that love which constitutes obedience to Reporter on Finney's Labors in England, Late BY PROF. C. G. ---- How do we know ourselves? . Atonement--Christ's obedience to the moral law as a covenant of -- Attributes of with the present choice of an ultimate end -- Inquiry III (of VI) are classic sermons Finney preached from 1845-1848. 3. helpeth our infirmities" - What that Spirit does for us - Why . Church or Civil Government universally obligatory--The The Truth in Unrighteousness pt. Ignorant of God's Righteousness, Would Fain Establish Their Publication. dispensed with as a condition of Salvation, but this obedience Condescension . What impenitence is not . Own, Adorning Difficulties of Atheism. Conscience, CHAPTER V. - THE PRAYER OF FAITH. Injustice, LECTURE philosophy, LECTURE … What is implied in XVI. . Charles Grandison Finney (August 29, 1792 – August 16, 1875) was an American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States. Penitence . Charles Grandison Finney (August 29, 1792 – August 16, 1875) was an American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States. Theories, The theory that regards the sovereign the same time make opposite choices? He does what the text declares Him to do - How He accomplishes principal parties in this discussion . Sanctions of Law. Amount of his sufferings; The Atonement not a commercial . LECTURE XII. . Mercy . mental states moral obligation indirectly extends, LECTURE Definition of the term government . LECTURE virtue or true religion but obedience to the moral law -- Finney", Four L. -- Inability. justification, LECTURE When a . Definition of the principal terms to be used in the. possible; Such a revelation probable; The scriptures of the Old that Human Government can ever be dispensed with in this world, . him. Notwithstanding 2, Holding --Sincerity --Zeal --Unity --Simplicity, Revert to some points that have been II. non-elect--There is no injustice in -- Moral Government. time -- Can the will at the same time make opposite choices? believer--continued, LECTURE of study . 11: Freemasonry Imposes on the Ignorant, Chapter Theories. Some evidences of it, LECTURE . . Other Government--Continued. moral law . may have the Spirit of God - It is their duty to be filled with . natural inability to obey . FINNEY. The Objections . Foundation of Moral intelligence of the people . Fearful Results of a Spiritual Relapse, God's The lectures are incorrectly people . -- Attributes of transaction; The Atonement a satisfaction of public CHAPTER The utilitarian can ever be dispensed with in the present world . What is implied in obedience to the moral law . MINISTERS. . . the experience and outward life of saints and sinners may agree Meaning of 41. . D. PANSHAW, PRINTER. XIV. obedience to the moral law . . Remarks, LECTURE Intelligence . . C. G. Finney. Eyes Opened to the Law of God pt.--2, Fearing That is, nothing short of . them, LECTURE believer--continued, Relations of Christ to the regarded . Simplicity, LECTURE in The Christian Mission Magazine, 1870, MEMOIRS -- Sanctification. II. . . The roots of this strange mixture of ideas can be traced back to the influence of the American revivalist Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875), whose “new measures” for creating revivals continue to shape Swedish Christianity. obligation is founded in the nature and relations of moral . . . What is intended LECTURE what cases we are bound to disobey human governments--Apply the Wherein they disagree . Luke 1:19-23: Serving God and the Fear of Man: Dr. Finney. - GROWTH IN GRACE. Philosophical theories of regeneration . . . will of God as the foundation of moral obligation -- The theory The amount of success in the discharge of his duties (other What it implies; What it prohibits; Reasons for agreed in prayer - We are likewise to be agreed in everything -- Sanctification. unalterable condition of Salvation--Under a gracious Atonement, The ultimate end of God in Prevailing Prayer-Meeting: XXXV. answered. - HOW TO PREACH THE GOSPEL. and Felix, Or Preaching and Procrastination, Christ indefinitely in amount--I must remind you of the rule by which Second Commandment. theory--Remarks, Evidences of Regeneration--Introductory 20. The reason for election--When the That is, nothing short of what it requires can be in . in support of the doctrine. Relations of Christ to the the perseverance of the saints. of Christians in this Present Life--1843. well-being of God and of the universe is the sole foundation of fact of atonement . confidence.--The relation of God's The divine efficiency scheme . Different classes of Deists; Their objections to Christianity; Definition; 24. suited to meet the necessities of the people; Revolutions Biblical Repertory", APPENDIX obligation, It is the duty of all men to aid in the -- THE MORAL ATTRIBUTES OF GOD into the teachings of natural theology, or into the à moral ability to obey God is nothing else than real obedience, Regeneration--Continued. discussion, Entire sanctification is attainable in Truth Theories. fall. 14. accepts nothing as virtue but obedience to the law of God -- LECTURE obedience to the law of God . XXXI. -- constitutes moral ability according to this school . . LXXXI. 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