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Reborn empowered
All strongholds broken
Old ways have died
Given new life
Boldness engulfs my every word
Strength empowered by God

Jesus–the strength in Christ’s name
Power–all knees must bow

The same Spirit that dwells in us
Raised Him from the dead
This gift freely given
You will believe

Evil–its plan to deceive
Manipulation, deception, we bind
Rebirth–confession that He is God Almighty
Exult you sinners

Reborn empowered
All strongholds broken
Old ways have died
Given new life
Rebirth, confess, our Lord
–Living Sacrifice, “Reborn Empowered”–

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William DeArteaga, Quenching the Spirit: Examining Centuries of Opposition to the Moving of the Holy Spirit (Creation House, 1992).

Guy Chevreau, Catch the Fire: The Toronto Blessing: An Experience of Renewal and Revival (HarperCollins, 1995).

15:00ff – While I disagree with his teaching against conditional security, I still think that his view of Calvinist lordship salvation eternal security (non-antinomian, non-hyper grace)–is a valid interpretation for honest-to-God, sincere, Bible obedient, heartfelt, puritanical, godly Calvinists. Its a totally valid point of view for God-fearing Calvinists: however, on an intellectual and theological level, I personally find this view Biblically unpersuasive when held up against the view taught as Wesleyan lordship salvation conditional security. –J.B.

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J. Steven Harper and Steven Ashby’s Arminian views in Four Views on Eternal Security (Zondervan, 2002).

Randolph Foster, Objections to Calvinism As It Is (Schmul Publishing, 1998), ch. 6.

Thomas C. Oden, John Wesley’s Teachings, vol 2 (Zondervan, 2012), p. 184.

UPDATE: 2/20/25

I saw a way worn trav’ler
In tatter’d garments clad,
And struggling up the mountain
It seem’d that he was sad;
His back was laden heavy,
His strength was almost gone,
Yet he shouted as he journeyed,
Deliverance will come.

Chorus:
Then palms of victory, crowns of glory
Palms of victory I shall bear.

The summer sun was shining,
The sweat was on his brow,
His garments worn and dusty,
His step seem’d very slow;
But he kept pressing onward,
For he was wending home;
Still shouting as he journeyed,
Deliverance will come. [Chorus]

The songsters in the arbor,
That stood beside the way,
Attracted his attention,
Inviting his delay;
His watchword being “Onward!”
He stopped his ears and ran,
Still shouting as he journeyed,
Deliverance will come. [Chorus]

I saw him in the evening,
The sun was bending low,
He’d overtopped the mountain,
And reached the vale below:
He saw the golden city,
His everlasting home,
And shouted loud, Hosanna,
Deliverance will come! [Chorus]

While gazing on that city,
Just o’er the narrow flood,
A band of holy angels
Came from the throne of God;
They bore him on their pinions
Safe o’er the dashing foam;
And joined him in his triumph,
Deliverance had come! [Chorus]

I heard the song of triumph
They sang upon that shore,
Saying, Jesus has redeemed us
To suffer nevermore;
Then, casting his eyes backward
On the race which he had run,
He shouted loud, Hosanna,
Deliverance has come! [Chorus]
–John Matthias, “I Saw a Wayworn Traveler”–