God calls you now
Therefore, awake, you that sleep, and arise from the dead. God calls you now by my mouth, and bids you know yourself, you fallen spirit, your true state and your only concern below. What do you mean, O sleeper? Arise. Call upon your God, if perhaps your God will think upon you, so that you do not perish.
A mighty tempest is stirred up round about you, and you are sinking into the depths of perdition, the gulf of God's judgments. If you would escape them, cast yourself into them. Judge yourself, and you shall not be judged by the Lord.
Awake, awake. Stand up this moment, or you will drink at the Lord's hand the cup of his fury. Stir yourself up to lay hold on the Lord, the Lord your righteousness, mighty to save. Shake yourself from the dust. At least let the earthquake of God's threatenings shake you.
Awake, and cry out with the trembling jailer, What must I do to be saved? And never rest until you believe on the Lord Jesus, with a faith which is his gift, by the operation of his Spirit.
1771 text
II.) 1. Wherefore, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead. God calleth thee now by my mouth; and bids thee know thyself, thou fallen spirit, thy true state and only concern below. What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise! Call upon thy God, if so be thy God will think upon thee, that thou perish not. A mighty tempest is stirred up round about thee, and thou art sinking into the depths of perdition, the gulph of God’s judgments. If thou wouldst escape them, cast thyself into them. Judge thyself, and thou shalt not be judged of the Lord.
2. Awake, awake! Stand up this moment, lest thou drink at the Lord’s hand the cup of his fury. Stir up thyself to lay hold on the Lord, the Lord thy righteousness, mighty to save! Shake thyself from the dust. At least, let the earthquake of God’s threatnings shake thee. Awake and cry out with the trembling gaoler, What must I do to be saved? And never rest, till thou believest on the Lord Jesus, with a faith which is his gift, by the operation of his spirit.
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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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