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Soul on Fire: God's Plan for Revival
Jeff Schreve
Revelation 2:1-7
Robert Robinson was born in 1735. His father died when he was just a boy. The family was very poor. His mother got him into an apprenticeship to learn how to be a barber. When he was 15 years old, she sent him to London. As a 15-year-old boy away from mom there in London, he got in with the wrong crowd, as you can see that happening. He got into trouble. He began to carouse and carry on and do things he shouldn't do. Well, one day he and his pals went to hear George Whitfield, the great evangelist, preach. They went to make fun, but Whitfield's sermon really spoke to Robert Robinson. He didn't make a decision for Christ, but the words of the sermon resonated in his mind and in his heart for three years. And at the end of three years, he prayed. He received Christ, and he was saved. Two years after that, he was called into the ministry, and he wrote the words to a song that we still sing today, all the way back in the 1700's. You are familiar with this song. It's called Come, Thou Fount. And the words go this way:
"Come, Thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above;
Praise the mount - I'm fixed upon it -
Mount of Thy redeeming love."
As the words of the hymn go on, he says,
"Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wandering from the fold of God;
He to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood."
That's his testimony. I was a stranger. I was wandering far from the Lord, and He rescued me. But the key to the song, and what we want to focus on today, are these words:
"O to grace how great a debtor,
Daily I'm constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness like a fetter (like a chain)
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander - Lord, I feel it -
Prone to leave the God I love..."
Yo ...
Soul on Fire: God's Plan for Revival
Jeff Schreve
Revelation 2:1-7
Robert Robinson was born in 1735. His father died when he was just a boy. The family was very poor. His mother got him into an apprenticeship to learn how to be a barber. When he was 15 years old, she sent him to London. As a 15-year-old boy away from mom there in London, he got in with the wrong crowd, as you can see that happening. He got into trouble. He began to carouse and carry on and do things he shouldn't do. Well, one day he and his pals went to hear George Whitfield, the great evangelist, preach. They went to make fun, but Whitfield's sermon really spoke to Robert Robinson. He didn't make a decision for Christ, but the words of the sermon resonated in his mind and in his heart for three years. And at the end of three years, he prayed. He received Christ, and he was saved. Two years after that, he was called into the ministry, and he wrote the words to a song that we still sing today, all the way back in the 1700's. You are familiar with this song. It's called Come, Thou Fount. And the words go this way:
"Come, Thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above;
Praise the mount - I'm fixed upon it -
Mount of Thy redeeming love."
As the words of the hymn go on, he says,
"Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wandering from the fold of God;
He to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood."
That's his testimony. I was a stranger. I was wandering far from the Lord, and He rescued me. But the key to the song, and what we want to focus on today, are these words:
"O to grace how great a debtor,
Daily I'm constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness like a fetter (like a chain)
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander - Lord, I feel it -
Prone to leave the God I love..."
Yo ...
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