Excerpt from sermon Awakening Truths Tending to Conversion

Excerpt from sermon Awakening Truths Tending to Conversion

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Increase Mather

 

   Sinners should consider of Death, that the thing is certain, and the Time uncertain, and that they run an infinite hazard if they neglect making sure of an Interest in Christ one day longer. O that they were wise, that they would consider the latter end! And they should consider of the eternity which follows immediately upon death.  If they would do that, surely it would affect their Souls. A late Writer speaks of a pious man, that One in Company with him observing a more than ordinary fixedness and concern in his Countenance, asked him, What his thoughts were upon, he then thereupon uttered that Word For-ever, and so continued saying nothing but repeating that Word, For-ever! For-ever! For-ever! A quarter of an hour together. His Thoughts and Soul was swallowed up with the consideration of eternity. And truly if an Unconverted Sinner would be perswaded to go alone and think seriously of Eternity, if it were but for one quarter of an hour, it may be it would have an Everlasting Impression on his heart. This Sinners can do if they will: And if they will not do as much as this comes to, toward their own Conversion and Salvation, how inexcusable will they be? Their blood will be upon their own heads. Let them no more say, God must do all, we can do nothing, and so encourage themselves to Live in a careless neglect of God, and of their own Souls, and Salvation. Most certainly, altho’ we cannot say, That if men improve their Natural abilities as they ought to do, that Grace will infallibly follow, yet there will not one Sinner in all the Reprobate World, stand forth at the day of judgment, and say, Lord, Thou knowest I did all that possibly I could do, for the obtaining Grace, and for all that, Thou didst withhold it from me.

Apostate: the Men who Destroyed the Christian West—Book Summary

 

 

Apostate: the Men who Destroyed the Christian West—Book Summary

By Ryan Marks

   Apostate by Kevin Swanson is a book that I would recommend to every Christian. This book helps you understand a lot of things that we are not taught. Charles Darwin, Nathaniel Hawthorne (author of The Scarlet Letter), Mark Twain, John Dewey, and many more have influenced Western Culture and even the entire world. In this book you uncover the side of people’s lives that you usually would never learn in a reading of these individuals. Was Shakespeare a homosexual and were his works written by Marlow, his “murdered” homosexual friend? Nathaniel Hawthorne was obsessed with demons and went to mediums. Melville, a friend of Hawthorne’s, which was written “under compulsion” upon reading The Scarlet Letter said that he had written a wicked book himself and perhaps the same “rushing demon” had affected Hawthorn.

 

    You wouldn’t think of some of the men that Swanson presents as being all that bad, much less Apostates of the Christian Faith….at first glance. Take Mark Twain for example—an American humorist right? Well….there was more. Twain said, “The Bible is a compendium of blood-drenched history…and a wealth of obscenity; and upward of a thousand lies.” Sound like a Christian or a harmless humorist? No. In addition, Mark Twain wrote letters that he claimed were from Demons, perhaps even Satan himself. He told no one to publish them, however after his daughter died, his horrific Letters From The Earth was discovered.

 

   Sartre claimed to have thrown the Holy Ghost out, John Dewey (the “father of modern education”) said that God was “outdated metaphysical goods,” Karl Marx wanted to kill God or at least spite him (sadly, Marx is responsible for the blood of millions), Rousseau (the praised “educator” in colleges) abandoned his five children on the steps of an orphanage after they were born with “the woman he used for mere pleasure and never loved” and wrote works that today are being implemented—give your children to the state to be educated…and there are many more.

 

Many of the idols and shapers of modern education claimed to be demon possessed!

 

   It is eye opening to understand more of history—how everything ties together and builds upon itself. Many of these Apostates regarded previous Apostates as their heroes. The results are around us today. America and Europe did not get the way they are today. Parents, please read this book and have your young adults study it as well. This is important stuff to know.

 

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