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Taken from his book The Reformed Pastor.

As a punishment for his crimes, Hades made Sisyphus roll a huge boulder endlessly up a steep hill in Hell. The maddening nature of the punishment was reserved for Sisyphus due to his hubristic belief that his cleverness surpassed that of Zeus himself. Hades accordingly displayed his own cleverness by enchanting the boulder into rolling away from Sisyphus before he reached the top which ended up consigning Sisyphus to an eternity of useless efforts and unending frustration. Thus, pointless or interminable activities are sometimes described as “Sisyphean.” –Wikipedia

All people are like this when they are dead. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and bones together; these perish in the fierceness of consuming fire as soon as life has left the body, and the soul flits away as though it were a dream.    –Homer, Odyssey 11.4.4

And I saw Sisyphus at his endless task raising his prodigious stone with both his hands. With hands and feet he tried to roll it up to the top of the hill, but always, just before he could roll it over onto the other side, its weight would be too much for him, and the pitiless stone would come thundering down again onto the plain. Then he would begin trying to push it uphill again, and the sweat ran off him and the steam rose after him.  –Homer, Odyssey 11.13.4

I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. –Revelation 20:11-15 (KJV)

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Hank Hanegraaff, Christianity in Crisis (against positive confession).

Gary Gilley, This Little Church Went to Market (against seeker-sensitive ministry).

Christopher Morgan, Hell Under Fire.

Harald Lindstrom, Wesley and Sanctification.

Kenneth J. Collins, Wesley on Salvation.

—. The Sermons of John Wesley.

Charles Finney, Lectures to Professing Christians.

—. Sermons on Gospel Themes.

—. Sermons on the Way of Salvation.

The power of the Lord was present to heal them.
–Luke 5:17 (NKJV)–

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Dr. Richard Casdorph, The Miracles.

Dr. Rex Gardner, Healing Miracles.

Dr. Candy Gunther Brown, Testing Prayer: Science and Healing (Harvard, 2012).

Global Awakening, “Mass Healing Breaks Out In Worship.”

—. “School of Healing and Impartation” event ($150).

—. “Healing Testimonies.”

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.   –Philippians 3:12-14 (KJV)

Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. –2 Peter 3:18 (KJV)

Sanctify them by the truth; your Word is truth. –John 17:17

Out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what defile a person.  –Matthew 15:19-20

The flesh lusteth against the Spirit.  –Galatians 5:17 (KJV)

Thy Word have I hid in mine heart, That I might not sin against thee. –Psalm 119:11

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. –Psalm 19:7

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.    –Romans 13:8-10 (NIV)

That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.   –Romans 8:4 (KJV)

Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.   –James 5:17 (ERV)

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Melvin Dieter, Five Views on Sanctification, ch. 1.

Harald Lindstrom, Wesley and Sanctification.

The Works of John Wesley, 3rd ed. (Baker Books).

Charles Finney, Lectures to Professing Christians.

John Bunyan (d. 1688), the great Puritan preacher, author of The Pilgrim’s Progress, Sighs From Hell, The Holy War, and many other prophetic and evangelistic writings, actually wrote a hymn called “Who Would True Valour See.” It was the only hymn he wrote. It is recorded by the British folk group Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band in Sing Lustily and with Good Courage from SayDisc.