WesleyGospel Ministries

WELL SAID.
–J.B.–

Hardcore preaching against sin. Old-fashion Independent Baptist style. Uses many grotesque examples from crime, drug addiction, prostitution, murder, the electric chair, STDs and imprisonment, to show the destructive nature of sin. Excellent sermon.
–J.B.–

YOU HATE ALL WICKED PEOPLE.
–Psalm 5:5 (GNT)–

I HAVE HATED THE CONGREGATION OF EVIL DOERS;
and will not sit with the wicked.
–Psalm 26:5 (KJV)–

I HAVE HATED THEM THAT REGARD LYING VANITIES:
but I trust in the Lord.
–Psalm 31:6 (KJV)–

LORD, DON’T I HATE THOSE WHO HATE YOU,
and detest those who rebel against You?
–Psalm 139:21 (HCSB)–

Hate what is evil;
cling to what is good.
–Romans 12:9 (NIV)–

You have loved righteousness
and hated wickedness.
–Hebrews 1:9 (NIV)–

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Leonard Ravenhill, “Be Ye Angry And Sin Not” (Last Days Ministries, 1985).

Benjamin Wadsworth, Fervent Zeal Against Flagrant Wickedness (Boston, 1718).

Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections (Banner of Truth, 1959). “The Scriptures place religion very much in the affection of love, in love to God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and love to the people of God, and to mankind. The texts in which this is manifest, both in the Old Testament and New, are innumerable. But of this more afterwards. The contrary affection of hatred also, as having sin for its object, is spoken of in Scripture as no inconsiderable part of true religion. It is spoken of as that by which true religion may be known and distinguished; Prov. 8:13, “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil.” And accordingly the saints are called upon to give evidence of their sincerity by this; Ps. 97:10, “Ye that love the Lord hate evil.” And the Psalmist often mentions it as an evidence of his sincerity; Ps. 101:2, 3, “I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes; I hate the work of them that turn aside.” Ps. 119:104, “I hate every false way.” So ver. 127. Again, Ps. 139:21, “Do I not hate them, O Lord, that hate thee?””

When I am lifted up from the earth,
I will draw everyone to me.
–John 12:32 (GNT)–

Looking unto Jesus the author
and finisher of our faith.
–Hebrews 12:2 (KJV)–

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts:
all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
–Psalm 42:7 (KJV)–

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Squint your eyes to see clearly
Blur reality to make it real
Let focus go from your deceiving eyes
To know what’s been concealed
We’ve all been blinded
Subjects to visual misinformation
A systematic denial of the crystalline
To see the fine grain
To read the hidden words
The context of parallel truth
Devoid of fragmentation

Our light-induced image of truth
Filtered blank of its substance
As our eyes won’t adhere to intuitive lines
Everything examined, separated, one thing at a time
The harder we stare, the more complete the disintegration
Dissolution
Eyes re-opened
Reasoning focalized
Receptors activated

Perspectives distorted
The ladder beyond our grasp
The twin-headed serpent forever hidden
Where’s the true knowledge?
Where engines of the sane and insanity merge
The clarity, the unity

Reality untouchable, transparent
Invisible to our fixed, restricted fields of vision
Existence taken for granted, absolute
Possessed, owned, controlled
By the common sense-infected rational gaze
Onward, forever we walk among the ignorant
Never stray from the common lines

–Meshuggah, “Rational Gaze”–

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J.B., How to Experience God (WesleyGospel Publications, 2012).

Richard J. Foster, Prayer (HarperOne, 1992), ch. 14: “Contemplative Prayer.”

Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God (Whitaker House, 1982).

A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God (Christian Publications, 1976).

Savinien Louismet, Divine Contemplation for All (Burns Oates, 1920).

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

Arthur Devine, A Manual of Mystical Theology (R&T Washbourne, 1903).

Dr. Adolphe Tanquerey, The Spiritual Life (TAN Books, 2013).

Saul thought, “I’ll pin David to the wall.”
He threw the spear at David twice,
but David dodged and got away both times.
–1 Samuel 18:11 (CEV)–