He is not here; he has risen, just as he said.
Come and see the place where he lay.
–Matthew 28:6 (NIV)–
God has raised this Jesus to life,
and we are all witnesses of it.
–Acts 2:32 (NIV)–
Were not our hearts burning within us
while he talked with us on the road
and opened the Scriptures to us?
–Luke 24:32 (NIV)–
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In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther’s preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I FELT MY HEART STRANGELY WARMED. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
–John Wesley–
Begin to tell the people
what you have felt in your own heart,
and beseech the Holy Spirit
to make your heart as hot as a furnace for zeal.
–Charles Spurgeon–
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Dr. Kenneth J. Collins, Wesley on Salvation (Zondervan, 1989).
Daniel Jennings, ed. The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley (SEAN, 2012).
