WesleyGospel Ministries

STRONG PREACHING.
–J.B.–

This gravity
Is feeling like a tether
I want to want to be
So high above the weather

All frequency around
Round, round, round, round
Without a sound

And there’s today
And there’s two spaces
And too many places
Not to go to, ooh

This big old sea
Is feeling like a pleasure
I look cautiously
At all the falling treasure

With some frequency it comes down
Down, down, down, down
Without a sound

And there’s today
And there’s two spaces
And too many places
Not to go to, ooh

–Frank Black, “Two Spaces”–

—

Be not conformed to this world:
but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,
that ye may prove what is that good,
and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
–Romans 12:2 (KJV)–

Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you.
–1 Corinthians 6:19 (KJV)–

—

John Wesley, “On Dress.”

—. “Letter to Mr. S. at Armagh.”

Dr. Hugh Pyle, The Truth About Rock Music (Sword of the Lord, 1985). Watch your mouth dude. For many Christians, out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. But these things shouldn’t be so.

Dr. John R. Rice, What Is Wrong With the Movies? (Sword of the Lord, 1938). VidAngel, Clearplay, and TCM–the next best thing to completely smashing your TV.

—. The Double Curse of Booze (Sword of the Lord, 1960). Bud is not your buddy.

—. Tobacco: Is It’s Use Sin? (Sword of the Lord, 2000). Toss the pack a Marbs.

Elizabeth Rice Handford, Your Clothes Say It for You (Sword of the Lord, 2000). Don’t be a ho. What women need is the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

I come to You oh Lord
With a thankful heart
I sing my song of love
And praise for who You are

For You oh Lord are a great God
Glorious and strong
You oh Lord are a great God
I worship You alone

I bring to You oh Lord
A sacrifice of praise
And of Your wondrous works
I’ll sing for all my days

For You oh Lord are a great God
Glorious and strong
You oh Lord are a great God
I worship You alone

–Vineyard Music, “You Oh Lord Are A Great God”–

9:50 – At one point, it might seem that I am preaching against all evangelical exegesis done by biblical preachers. I’m not, but what I’m trying to say is that the cessationist worldview of many pastors, seems to reduce contextual biblical hermeneutics, down to a naturalistic procedure, in which a teaching is faithfully extracted from the historical background of the Bible, but there’s also along with this, simply a mentality of fact-learning rather than a mentality that the Holy Ghost is directly speaking into your life through the inspired Scriptures. This latter view was held by the reformers, the Puritans, Wesley, Spurgeon, Finney, etc. –J.B.

Every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark,
to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
–Genesis 6:19 (KJV)–

—

The word dragon is found in the King James Bible 34 times.

The natural person DOES NOT ACCEPT the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
–1 Corinthians 2:14 (ESV)–

You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: YOU ALWAYS RESIST the Holy Spirit! Was there ever a prophet your ancestors did not persecute?
–Acts 7:51-52 (NIV)–

Today, if you will hear His voice,
DO NOT HARDEN your hearts as in the rebellion.
–Hebrews 3:15 (NKJV)–

The Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever.”
–Genesis 6:3 (NKJV)–

The Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.
–Acts 5:32 (NIV)–

Follow the way of love and EAGERLY DESIRE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT, especially prophecy. For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit. But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouraging and comfort.
–1 Corinthians 14:1-3 (NIV)–

In the last days, God says,
    I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
    your young men will see VISIONS,
    your old men will dream DREAMS.
–Acts 2:17 (NIV)–

He wrote down the substance of his dream.
–Daniel 7:1 (NIV)–

Write the vision
and make it plain on tablets.
–Habakkuk 2:2 (NKJV)–

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)–

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–

—

WesleyGospel, “Why Cessationists Don’t Hear the Voice of God.”

—. “Debunking Cessationism.”

Lee Strobel, Seeing the Supernatural (Zondervan, 2025).

Archibald Alexander, Thoughts on Religious Experience (Banner of Truth, 1996), ch. 7.

Dr. Jack Deere, Surprised by the Voice of God (Zondervan, 1996), chs. 16-19. Argues that cessationists don’t have charismatic experiences because of their unbelief and their stubborn pride of feeling they are right in their views (Acts 7:51); the same probably applies to most atheists, agnostics, and skeptics (Romans 1:18; 1 Corinthians 2:14). Avoid suicides with eternal security go to heaven (pp. 176-177).

—. Why I Am Still Surprised by the Power of the Spirit (Zondervan, 2020).

—. Why I Am Still Surprised by the Voice of God (Zondervan, 2022). Avoid cuss word book endorsed by God’s leading (pp. 225-227).

Dr. Craig Keener, Miracles, 2 vols (Baker, 2011).

—. Miracles Today (Baker, 2021).

Richard J. Foster, Streams of Living Water (HarperCollins, 1998).

Thomas Dubay, Fire Within (Ignatius Press, 1989). Avoid Mary, prayer to the dead, and Purgatory.

Augustin Poulain, The Graces of Interior Prayer (Kegan Paul, 1910). Avoid Mary, etc.

Ira Milligan, Understanding the Dreams You Dream (Treasure House, 1997).

Charles Finney, “The Self-Hardening Sinner’s Doom,” 1.3. Refers to belief in Hell dreams – adhered to by both Jonathan Edwards and Finney.

Daniel Jennings, The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley.

—. The Supernatural Occurrences of Charles G. Finney.

Jeff Doles, Miracles and Manifestations of the Holy Spirit In the History of the Church, ch. 7. John Knox and the Scottish Reformation preachers were all into dream interpretation and the gift of foretelling prophecy.

Thomas Boys, The Suppressed Evidence (Hamilton, Adams, and Co, 1832).

John Wimber, Power Evangelism (Harper & Row, 1986).

—. Power Healing (HarperCollins, 1987).

N. Clayton Croy, Prima Scriptura (Baker, 2011).

Dr. Charles Carter, ed. A Contemporary Wesleyan Theology, 2 vols (Zondervan, 1983).

Dr. Harald Lindstrom, Wesley and Sanctification (Zondervan, 1989).

Dr. Thomas C. Oden, Classic Christianity: A Systematic Theology (HarperCollins, 2009).

Dr. John R. Rice, Great Soul Winners Were Filled With the Holy Spirit (Sword, 1949).

Greig and Springer, eds. The Kingdom and the Power (Baker, 1997). 463 pages.

Robert Graves, ed. Strangers to Fire (Empowered Life, 2016). 592 pages.

E. S. Williams, Systematic Theology, vol. 3 (Gospel Publishing House, 1953), chs. 6-9.

P. C. Nelson, Bible Doctrines (Gospel Publishing House, 1948), ch. 8.

Harold Horton, The Gifts of the Spirit (Gospel Publishing House, 1934).

John Sherrill, They Speak With Other Tongues (Chosen Books, 2018).

A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God (Christian Publications, 1993).

Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;
but patient, not a brawler, not covetous.
–1 Timothy 3:3 (KJV)–

Do the work of an evangelist,
make full proof of thy ministry.
–2 Timothy 4:5 (KJV)–

Ye shall receive power,
after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you:
and ye shall be witnesses unto me.
–Acts 1:8 (KJV)–

He spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus,
and disputed against the Grecians:
but they went about to slay him.
–Acts 9:29 (KJV)–

When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
–Ezekiel 33:8 (KJV)–

O Lord, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known;
in wrath remember mercy.
–Habakkuk 3:2 (KJV)–

—

Harald Lindstrom, Wesley and Sanctification (Zondervan, 1989).

John Wesley, Standard Sermons, vols. 1-2 (Francis Asbury Press, 1955).

Adam Clarke, Christian Theology (Schmul, 1967).

Charles G. Finney, So Great Salvation (Kregel Publications, 1975).

—. The Guilt of Sin (Kregel Publications, 1975).

—. True and False Repentance (Kregel Publications, 1975).

—. God’s Love for a Sinning World (Kregel Publications, 1975).

—. Victory Over the World (Kregel Publications, 1975).

—. True Saints (Kregel Publications, 1975).

—. True Submission (Kregel Publications, 1975).

P. C. Nelson, Bible Doctrines (Gospel Publishing House, 1948).

Myer Pearlman, Knowing the Doctrines of the Bible (GPH, 1937).

R. Hollis Gause, Living in the Spirit (Pathway Press, 1980).

Charles Carter, ed. A Contemporary Wesleyan Theology, 2 vols (Zondervan, 1983).

French Arrington, Christian Doctrine, 3 vols (Pathway Press, 1992).

E. S. Williams, Systematic Theology, 3 vols (Gospel Publishing House, 1953).

Dr. John R. Rice, The Evangelist (Sword of the Lord, 1968).

—. Hell: What the Bible Says About It (Sword of the Lord, 1945).

Gary Wilkerson, David Wilkerson (Zondervan, 2014).

Mack Tomlinson, In Light of Eternity (Granted Ministries Press, 2019).

D. R. McDonnell, A Different Gospel (Hendrickson, 1994).