Do not harden your hearts
O that in all these questions you may hear the voice that wakes the dead, and feel that hammer of the word which breaks the rocks in pieces. If you will hear his voice today, while it is called today, do not harden your hearts. Now awake, you that sleep in spiritual death, so that you do not sleep in death eternal. Feel your lost estate, and arise from the dead.
Leave your old companions in sin and death. Follow Jesus, and let the dead bury their dead. Save yourself from this untoward generation. Come out from among them, and be separate, and do not touch the unclean thing, and the Lord shall receive you. Christ shall give you light.
1771 text
13. O, that in all these questions ye may hear the voice that wakes the dead, and feel that hammer of the word, which breaketh the rocks in pieces!――If ye will hear his voice to day, while it is called to day, harden not your hearts. Now awake thou that sleepest in spiritual death, that thou sleep not in death eternal! Feel thy lost estate, and arise from the dead. Leave thine old companions in sin and death. Follow thou Jesus, and let the dead bury their dead. Save thyself from this untoward generation. Come out from among them, and be thou separate, and touch not the unclean thing, and the Lord shall receive thee, Christ shall give thee light.
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Sermon 3 in the 1771 Works. Charles Wesley preached it at Oxford, 4 April 1742. Ephesians 5:14.
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