More on Conversion
I just went on the http://www.sermonindex.net/ as recommended by Andrew on his Beyond the brook blog and lo and behold the first sermon on the list by Leonard Ravenhill was on the very subject I'd just blogged about. So I just had to download the following quote:
"I am convinced that many evangelicals are not truly and soundly converted. Among the evangelicals it is entirely possible to come into membership, to ooze in by osmosis, to leak through the cells of the church and never know what it means to be born of the Spirit and washed in the blood. A great deal that passes for the deeper life is nothing more or less than basic Christianity. There is nothing deeper about it, and it is where we should have been from the start. We should have been happy, joyous, victorious Christians walking in the Holy Spirit and not fulfilling the lusts of the flesh. Instead we have been chasing each other around the perpetual mountain.What we need is what the old Methodists called a sound conversion. There is a difference between conversion and a sound conversion. People who have never been soundly converted do not have the Spirit to enlighten them. When they read the Sermon on the Mount or the teaching passages of the epistles that tell them how to live or the doctrinal passages that tell how they can live, they are unaffected. The Spirit who wrote them is not witnessing in their hearts because they have not been born of the Spirit."
God bless
Carol
I just went on the http://www.sermonindex.net/ as recommended by Andrew on his Beyond the brook blog and lo and behold the first sermon on the list by Leonard Ravenhill was on the very subject I'd just blogged about. So I just had to download the following quote:
"I am convinced that many evangelicals are not truly and soundly converted. Among the evangelicals it is entirely possible to come into membership, to ooze in by osmosis, to leak through the cells of the church and never know what it means to be born of the Spirit and washed in the blood. A great deal that passes for the deeper life is nothing more or less than basic Christianity. There is nothing deeper about it, and it is where we should have been from the start. We should have been happy, joyous, victorious Christians walking in the Holy Spirit and not fulfilling the lusts of the flesh. Instead we have been chasing each other around the perpetual mountain.What we need is what the old Methodists called a sound conversion. There is a difference between conversion and a sound conversion. People who have never been soundly converted do not have the Spirit to enlighten them. When they read the Sermon on the Mount or the teaching passages of the epistles that tell them how to live or the doctrinal passages that tell how they can live, they are unaffected. The Spirit who wrote them is not witnessing in their hearts because they have not been born of the Spirit."
God bless
Carol
posted by Rehoboth at
1:41 PM
3 Comments:
The scourge of modern Christianity, not to mention the very real disease of the Army.
Booth prophesied about this: “In answer to your inquiry, I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.”- General William Booth
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Captain Andrew Clark, at 2:37 AM
I would like to know how you know if you have a "real" conversion.
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Bel, at 11:54 AM
Hi Claire,
Thanks for your question. I will try to answer it with a new blog and we may then get some other people adding their ideas to mine.
God bless
Carol
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Rehoboth, at 9:57 AM
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