On Zeal (and Rebuking Sin with Anger!) – John Wesley

THE EXISTENCE OF “HOLY SPIRIT ANGER”
PROVEN FROM THE SCRIPTURES


I AM FULL OF THE FURY OF THE LORD; I am weary with holding in.  –Jeremiah 6:11 (KJV)

His word was IN MINE HEART AS A BURNING FIRE shut up in my bones. –Jeremiah 20:9 (KJV)

He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire. –Matthew 3:11 (KJV)

Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his name means) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul from the faith. Then Saul, who was also called Paul, FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, looked straight at Elymas and said, “You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord! Now the hand of the Lord is against you! You are going to be blind for a time, not even able to see the light of the sun!” Immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he groped about, seeking someone to lead him by the hand. –Acts 13:8-11 (NIV)

Behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what INDIGNATION, yea, what fear, yea, what VEHEMENT DESIRE, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.  –2 Corinthians 7:11 (KJV)

The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up. –John 2:17 (KJV)


When he had looked round about on them with ANGER, being GRIEVED FOR THE HARDNESS OF THEIR HEARTS, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other. –Mark 3:5 (KJV)

Because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth…As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.   –Revelation 3:16, 19 (KJV)

They were all FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST, and they spake the word of God with BOLDNESS.  –Acts 4:31 (KJV)


BE YE ANGRY, AND SIN NOT. –Ephesians 4:26 (KJV)



Leonard Ravenhill, Revival Praying, ch. 14: “Be Ye Angry.”

Benjamin Wadsworth, Fervent Zeal Against Flagrant Wickedness (1718).

Simeon Ashe, The Doctrine of Zeal Explained (1654).

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers, ch. 5.


Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections, p. 32.

 

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