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LIKELY CLASSROOM MATERIALS USED TO TRAIN
WESLEYAN-HOLINESS PREACHERS
DURING THE 1970 REVIVAL AT ASBURY COLLEGE

1. Wesley’s 52 Standard Sermons, ed. Burwash (Schmul, 1967).

2. John Wesley’s A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (Epworth Press, 1968).

3. William Cannon’s The Theology of John Wesley (Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1946).

GOD SPEAKETH once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. IN A DREAM, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, THAT HE MAY WITHDRAW MAN FROM HIS PURPOSE, and hide pride from man. HE KEEPETH BACK HIS SOUL FROM THE PIT, and his life from perishing by the sword.
–Job 33:14-18 (KJV)–

The first testimony is from Ronald Reagan, an evangelist with Church of God (Cleveland, TN). His and other testimonies like it are found in Maurice Rawlings, M.D.’s To Hell and Back (Thomas Nelson, 1993), which was turned into this documentary film by TBN in 2007. Church of God is the same denomination as evangelist Mary K. Baxter, who published A Divine Revelation of Hell (Whitaker House, 1993). Howard Storm’s book is My Descent Into Death (Clairview Books, 2000). Storm was a pastor in United Church of Christ from 1992 until 2011, which is surprisingly enough, a mainline liberal denomination. Across the denomination, tolerance of the gay lifestyle seemed to have been a mixed bag, reaching it’s fully gay affirming position in 2011, the year that Storm retired. After his retirement, he continued to travel around and share his Hell experience in these increasingly liberal UCC churches. These testimonies were the precursors to Bill Wiese’s 23 Minutes In Hell (Charisma House, 2006). As far as I understand, Bill is a non-denominational Spirit-filled evangelist. Along with the evangelistic ministries of Ray Comfort, Leonard Ravenhill, David Wilkerson, Paul Washer, and Andrew Strom–Wiese’s testimony has had a tremendous impact on my spiritual life. Rawlings’ book is unique in that it’s a collection of visions of Hell by a born again medical doctor. Visions and dreams of Hell have been written about for all of human history. These continued in medieval Europe after the Bible was written: see Eileen Gardiner’s Visions of Heaven and Hell Before Dante (Italica Press, 1989). They were also journaled in the Great Awakenings–and taken seriously by both Jonathan Edwards and Charles Finney–see Finney’s sermon called “The Self-Hardening Sinner’s Doom.” Such things come from the realm of the spirit, are timeless and eternal, are an interracial and international collective human experience, far exceeding the boundaries of the written word; and we have the most reliable references to them in the pages of the Bible: the divinely inspired, authoritative, inscripturated Word of God to mankind. –J.B.

If the Lord will, we shall live,
and do this, or that.
–James 4:15 (KJV)–

24:05 – Ah, not so fast Charles. Remember that Samson “wist not that Lord was departed from him,” and “the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him,” and David prayed, “Take not Thy Holy Spirit from me” (Judges 16:20; 1 Samuel 16:14; Psalm 51:11). We’re also told to “resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you” (James 4:7-8). And believers are told that “they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us” (Acts 17:27). –J.B.

God do You hear me cry?
Do You hear me crying?
Do You hear me cry?
Do You hear me?

Out on deep water
With nothing to hold onto
I’ve been attacked by storms of disillusions
Vessel of isms that was my security
Has now become a wreck

Waves of indifference
Forcefully they crush my hope
I see no point in struggling for survival
But in the distance
There is a light so bright
A glimpse of hope in sight

Lighthouse, shines
Salvation is at hand
It is the Saviour my light
His name is Jesus Christ
It is the Saviour it is the light
It is the Son of God

There is a lighthouse
That shines to guide my way
So I may find the harbour of salvation
The Son of God is
Reaching out His hands to me
Saved by the Trinity

–Extol, “Storms of Disillusions”–

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⁴² “If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them if a large millstone were hung around their neck and they were thrown into the sea. ⁴³ If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out. ⁴⁵ And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell. ⁴⁷ And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, ⁴⁸ where ‘the worms that eat them do not die, and the fire is not quenched.’”
–Mark 9:42-48 (NIV)–

¹⁰ The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: ¹¹ And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
–Revelation 14:10-11 (KJV)–

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MARTIN LUTHER

These words clearly say that the punishment of the wicked is eternal,
just as the life of the righteous is eternal.
–Sermon on Matthew 25–

JOHN CALVIN

The wicked shall be raised to dishonor,
that they may be perpetually tormented with the devil and his angels.
–(Institutes, Book III, ch. 25)–

They shall be driven away into everlasting destruction,
where they shall feel the wrath of God without end.
–(Institutes, Book III, ch. 24)–

Their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched;
by these expressions Christ means a punishment which shall never end.
–(Institutes, Book II, ch. 12)–

JOHN KNOX

The wicked shall be cast into everlasting fire,
where they shall be tormented day and night forever.
—Scots Confession (1560), Chapter 25–

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Dr. Robert Peterson, Hell on Trial (P&R Publishing, 1995), p. 190.

—, ed. Hell Under Fire (Zondervan, 2004).

Dr. John R. Rice, False Doctrines Answered (Sword, 1970).

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

Dr. Walter Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults (Bethany House, 2003).

Maurice Rawlings, M.D. “To Hell and Back: Documentary.”

The same shall drink of the wine of THE WRATH OF GOD, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of HIS INDIGNATION; and he shall be TORMENTED WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE in the presence of the holy angels, and IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LAMB…THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT ASCENDETH UP FOR EVER AND EVER:
and THEY HAVE NO REST DAY NOR NIGHT.
–Revelation 14:10-11 (KJV)–

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You have a new way
Is it a better way?
Once I saw you proclaim
Now there’s slight disdain
Why keep that title, what has changed? Is God so different?
Why keep that title, what has changed? Is He not the same?

Love is present, grace abounds
What happened here? Was the world so enticing?
Denial is treachery hard to reconcile
Call it for what it really is
Don’t make excuses
Call it for what it really is
Go ahead apostasy

Tepid waters do not run
Stagnation breeds disease
Flies surround
Multiply maggot parasites
Why keep that title? Why redefine?
Lord of the flies
Apostasy, Apostasy

Love is present, grace abounds
What happened here? Was the world so enticing?
Denial is treachery hard to reconcile
Call it for what it really is
Don’t make excuses
Call it for what it really is
Go ahead apostasy

Do not conform to one man
God is clear on who you are
Love, grace and mercy are there
Do not pretend apostasy

–Living Sacrifice, “Apostasy”–

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Dr. John R. Rice, Hell: What the Bible Says About It (Sword, 1945), pp. 12-13.

Dr. Robert Peterson, Hell on Trial: The Case for Eternal Punishment (P&R, 1995), ch. 9.

—, ed. Is Hell for Real or Does Everyone Go to Heaven? (Zondervan, 2011).

Bill Wiese, Hell: Separate Truth from Fiction (Charisma House, 2008).

John Owen, Apostasy from the Gospel (Banner of Truth, 1992).

THOU SHALT NOT lie with mankind,
as with womankind: IT IS ABOMINATION.
–Leviticus 18:22 (KJV)–

God gave them up unto VILE AFFECTIONS: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is AGAINST NATURE: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, BURNED IN THEIR LUST TOWARD ONE ANOTHER; MEN WITH MEN working that which is UNSEEMLY, and receiving in themselves that RECOMPENCE OF THEIR ERROR which was meet.
–Romans 1:26-27 (KJV)–

DO NOT BE DECEIVED: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, NOR MEN WHO PRACTICE HOMOSEXUALITY, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers WILL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
–1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (ESV)–

Thou hast loved righteousness,
and HATED INIQUITY.
–Hebrews 1:9 (KJV)–