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CLASSIC SERMON OUTLINES — George Whitefield
II. THE NECESSITY FOR THE UNREGENERATE MAN'S RENEWAL.
II]. THE METHOD OF THE UNREGENERATE MAN'S RENEWAL.
A. Negatively Stated.
1. It is more than moral persuasion. If it is asked how this great change is to be effected, I answer, not by the mere dint and force of moral persua-
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SERMON NINE
'THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS
The Lord our righteousness.
—JEREMIAH 23:6
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS of Jesus Christ seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught man after the fall. The coats that God made to put on our first parents were types of the application of the merits of the righteousness of our Lord to the believers' hearts. We may infer that those coats came from ani-
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Ss the disobedience Of Our first parents ion. In this sense, and no other, are we to understand that parallel which Saint Paul draws in the fifth chapter of Romans between the first and second Adam.
III. THE CONSIDERATION OF THE OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE DOCTRINE OF THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
A. "The Doctrine of Imputed Righteousness Is Destructive of Good
Works."
B. "The Doctrine of Imputed Righteousness Is Not the Teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."
In this sermon our Lord speaks of inward piety, such as purity of heart, and hungering and thirsting after righteousness, and then recommends good works as an evidence of our having His righteousness imputed to us, and these graces and divine tempers wrought in our hearts. Then He
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C. "The Doctrine of Imputed Righteousness Is Not the Teaching of Mark 10:17-22."
D. "The Doctrine of Imputed Righteousness Is Not the Seas of inehet 25:34-36."
This refers to rewards and not salvation. That the people did not depend on these good « actions for their justification in the sight of God is evident from verses 37-39. They were so far from depending on their works for justification in the sight of God that they were filled as it were with a holy blushing to think that our Lord should mention and reward them for their poor works of faith and labors of love.
It would be endless to enumerate the number of Scripture texts that must be false if this doctrine i is not true. Let it suffice to affirm in general
Suppose I told you that you must intercede with saints in order that they may intercede with God for you; or, that the death of Christ was not sufficient without our death added to it? Might you not then justly call mea setter forth of strange doctrines? Is it not equally absurd and blasphemous to join our obedience, either wholly or in part, with the obedience of Christ—both active and passive?
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C. The Rejector Is Doomed to Eternal Torment.
If there be no such thing as the doctrine of an imputed righteousness then those who hold it and bring forth fruit unto holiness are safe. If there be such a thing (as there certainly is), what will become of you who deny it?
It is no difficult matter to determine. Your portion must be in the lake of fire and brimstone forever and ever; because re by your works you shall be judged.
CONCLUSION
Can anything appear more reasonable, even according to your own way of ae than the doctrine of "the coe our righteousness"? Have
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SERMON TEN
CHRIST'S EVERLASTING
RIGHTEOUSNESS
And to bring in everlasting righteousness.
' —DANIEL 9:24
THE WORDS chosen for the text of the present meditation contain part of a revelation made to the prophet Daniel. If you look back to the beginning of this chapter (verses 2-4), you will find how this good man was employed when God was pleased to give him this revelation. He made the ~ ie Paul reales vith Pelix aon nae teousness of isbosbdaid, - fen tetet cd to him of the necessity of doing justice because he had been an lst ee ns ence epert ee eer ee tees
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Christ's righteousness may be called an everlasting righteousness because the benefit of it is to endure to everlasting life. No wicked demon nor >
1 the cross. Although man is justified, in God S 'mind, from al cepa yet it was HOt eae protents in until the
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SERMON ELEVEN
THE TEMPTATION
OF CHRIST
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted of the devil.
—MATTHEW 4:1