CONVERSION AND REPENTANCE BY GEORGE WHITEFIELD

The George Whitfield sermons are worth listening to many times over, this one especially entitled: Repentance and Conversion.

Many people believe that George Whitfield was completely extemporaneous, but he wasn’t. His sermons were typically meticulously written out with each word perfectly placed Benjamin Franklin would print his sermons.

Not only was each word perfectly chosen by George Whitfield, but each paragraph most of the time has a golden nugget in it. Many times a verse or a part of a verse that he doesn’t say is a verse, he puts into the sentences and those of us that have read Bible s recognize those scripture in his sentence.

A lot of us will recognize those sentences to be part of a verse and then he has a theme that runs through that particular sermon and he tells you what the theme is going to be. It is much like some of our better written movies for example, take the movie Patriot, there are certain things like the north star is placed throughout the movie; that my sins will revisit me is throughout the movie; moral rectitude of the cause is throughout the movie, that it was the cause of the revolutionary war that they were fighting for, that was the motivating factor they hung unto, for it was a just cause. The same is true, in a more recent movie, entitled, All the Light We Cannot See. In this movie as well as the the movie, Braveheart by Randall Wallace, they were in the making for about 10 years, but what made them good were the themes carried throughout the movie and the perfectly placed words throughout.

George Whitfield is completely on the spiritual side of things but he uses a lot of those same principles to make his sermons powerful. George WHITEFIELD knew he was speaking to dead fish and dead fish can’t hear as they are floating downstream to the falls of perdition. George WHITEFIELD knew as did Paul that preaching the true gospel, is foolishness, for the dead fish can’t make himself born again, and neither can Paul nor George WHITEFIELD make a dead fish a live fish, for both the hearer and the preacher are 100% dependent on the supernatural intervention of Jesus, yet they are exhorting the dead fish to believe when the dead fish cannot hear no more than Lazarus could hear that Jesus say, Come Forth, until Jesus first made him Alive.

So the point is, if George WHITEFIELD is a little over your head, it’s worth listening to those sermons 5-7 times maybe even 10 times and each time you will begin to understand more what he is saying and how he makes Predestination doctrine come alive and not a dead Calvinism.