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*** MORSEL EXTRAS***
Re: Stony Ground Christians
There are so many stony ground hearers who receive the Word with joy
that I have determined to suspend my judgment till I know the tree by
its fruits....Do you think any farmer would have a crop of corn next
year unless he plowed now? You may as well expect a crop of corn on
unplowed ground as a crop of grace until the soul is convinced of its
being undone without a Savior. That is the reason we have so many
mushroom converts, so many persons that are always happy! happy! happy!
and never were miserable. Why? Because their stony ground is not plowed
up; they have not got a conviction of the law...they fall away....That
makes me so cautious now, which I was not thirty years ago, of dubbing
converts too soon. Now I wait a little, and see if people bring forth
fruit; for there are so many blossoms which March winds blow away that I
cannot believe they are converts till I see fruit brought forth.
--George Whitefield (1714-1770)
"You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from
thornbushes or figs from thistles? "Even so, every good tree bears
good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. "A good tree cannot bear
bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. "Every tree that does
not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. "Therefore
by their fruits you will know them. "Not everyone who says to Me,
'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the
will of My Father in heaven. "Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord,
Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your
name, and done many wonders in Your name?' "And then I will declare to
them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'
(Mat 7:16-23)
Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves.
Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?; unless indeed
you are disqualified. (2 Cor 13:5)
(VW)
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