Questions for the soul
In what state is your soul? If God, while I am yet speaking, were to require it of you, are you ready to meet death and judgment? Can you stand in his sight, who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity? Are you fit to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light? Have you fought a good fight, and kept the faith?
Have you secured the one thing needful? Have you recovered the image of God, even righteousness and true holiness? Have you put off the old man, and put on the new? Are you clothed upon with Christ?
Have you oil in your lamp? Grace in your heart? Do you love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your mind, and with all your soul, and with all your strength? Is that mind in you which was also in Christ Jesus? Are you a Christian indeed, that is, a new creature? Are old things passed away, and all things become new?
Are you a partaker of the divine nature? Do you not know that Christ is in you, unless you are reprobate? Do you know that God dwells in you, and you in God, by his Spirit which he has given you? Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost, which you have from God?
Have you the witness in yourself? The earnest of your inheritance? Have you received the Holy Ghost? Or do you start at the question, not knowing whether there is any Holy Ghost?
1771 text
6. In what state is thy soul? Was God, while I am yet speaking, to require it of thee, art thou ready to meet death and judgment? Canst thou stand in his sight, who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity? Art thou meet to be partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light? Hast thou fought a good fight and kept the faith? Hast thou secured the one thing needful? Hast thou recovered the image of God, even righteousness and true holiness? Hast thou put off the old man and put on the new? Art thou cloathed upon with Christ?
7. Hast thou oil in thy lamp? Grace in thy heart? Dost thou love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy mind, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength? Is that mind in thee, which was also in Christ Jesus? Art thou a Christian indeed? That is, a new creature? Are old things past away, and all things become new?
8. Art thou a partaker of the divine nature? Knowest thou not, that Christ is in thee, except thou be reprobate? Knowest thou, that God dwelleth in thee, and thou in God, by his Spirit which he hath given thee? Knowest thou not, that thy body is a temple of the Holy Ghost, which thou hast of God? Hast thou the witness in thyself? The earnest of thine inheritance? Hast thou received the Holy Ghost――or dost thou start at the question, not knowing whether there be any Holy Ghost?
About this text
Rendered in modern English, to be read and heard. Open the 1771 text under each part to check the claims and the scripture.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 3 in the 1771 Works. Charles Wesley preached it at Oxford, 4 April 1742. Ephesians 5:14.
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