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THE FIRE AT JOHN WESLEY’S HOME 🔥

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John Wesley was one of Britain’s greatest evangelists. He founded the concept of outdoor preaching, led thousands upon thousands to Christ, and even started a movement that eventually became the United Methodist Church. And to think, he almost never made it out of childhood. On the fateful night of February 9, 1709, fire swept through the Epworth rectory that housed the Wesley family. Around midnight, Rev. Samuel Wesley was awakened by a shout from the street, “Fire!” He flung open his bedroom door and found his home filling with smoke. He woke Susanna, his wife, and his two eldest daughters. The pastor then raced for the nursery where the family maid was sleeping with five younger children. The abrupt entrance of Mr. Wesley and the smoke greatly startled the maid. She quickly gained presence of mind, grabbed the youngest child, Charles, and hastily urged the others to follow her lead out of the house. Three older children did. But John remained sound asleep. The family gathered...
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Is Water Baptism Essential for Salvation? (Mark 16:16)

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 ❓Question: Mark 16:16 says, “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.” In his Pentecost sermon, Peter urged his listeners to be baptized to wash away their sins. I am confused. Is baptism essential for salvation or is it not? ✅Answer: There is not one verse in all the Bible that says that failure to be baptized damns the soul, but there are scores of verses declaring that those who do not believe the gospel are lost. Nor is baptism even any part of the gospel. As Paul said, “Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the gospel” (1 Corinthians 1:17; cf. 15:1-4). In Paul’s clear declaration of “the gospel . . . by which . . . we are saved” (1 Corinthians 15:1-4), there is no mention of baptism. It is upon believing the gospel that one is to be baptized (“What doth hinder me to be baptized?. . . . If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest”—Acts 8:36-37). Christ, after His resurrection, sent His disciples forth to preach the gospel worldwide. Of their converts He ...
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A Place Prepared by God: Israel Preserved during the Great Tribulation

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  “Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.” (Revelation 12:6) (Bozrah, the ancient capital of Edom) Interestingly, several Second Coming passages also indicate that God is seen  coming from these regions: Who  is  this who comes from  Edom , with dyed garments from  Bozrah , this  One who is  glorious in His apparel, traveling in the greatness of His strength? -“I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.” Why  is  Your apparel red, and Your garments like one who treads in the winepress? “I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one  was  with Me. For I have trodden them in My anger, and trampled them in My fury; their blood is sprinkled upon My garments, and I have stained all My robes. For the day of vengeance  is  in My heart, and the year of My redeemed has come.” ( Isa. 63:1-4 )...
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A Return to Biblical Christianity

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  Excerpted from  Beyond Seduction * by Dave Hunt How could the church be expected to establish the kingdom by taking over the world when even God cannot accomplish that without violating man’s freedom of choice? During His thousand-year reign, Christ will visibly rule the world in perfect righteousness from Jerusalem and will impose peace upon all nations. Satan will be locked up, robbed of the power to tempt. Justice will be meted out swiftly. The lion will lie down with the lamb and the desert will blossom like a rose. The whole earth will almost resemble the Garden of Eden before the fall. Yet at the end of the thousand years, when Satan is released, millions of those who have experienced the Edenic state and Christ’s perfect reign all their lives will be deceived, just as Eve was. Converging from all over the world to war against Christ and the saints at Jerusalem, these rebels will finally have to be banished from God’s presence forever ( Revelation:20:7-10 ). The millen...
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