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REVIVAL LECTURES (1835) By Charles G. Finney - Throughout the last one hundred and fifty years, revivals have occurred from the Holy Spirit's anointing the practice of these principles. At last, we have the Audio of these lectures in full. They form the basis of our training at three levels:- 1.NEW BELIEVER CLASS, 2.DISCIPLESHIP DIPLOMA and 3.CHRISTIAN MINISTER CERTIFICATE. Throughout the winter of 1834, Charles Finney delivered one lecture a week on the principles of revival that he had seen transforming America's churches. These revivals between 1824 and 1834 resulted in the largest number of conversions EVER, in the history of Christianity. The lectures of 1834 were recorded and later published as the "Lectures On Revivals of Religion".

POWER FROM ON HIGH By Charles Finney - EXPERIENCING the FULLNESS OF CHRIST is one of the things we seek in the NEW BELIEVER CLASS. The 4 great requirements for all believers are 1. A personal transaction between the soul and Christ relating to its own salvation, and leaving our salvation up to God 2.The acceptance of this commission to convert the world, and knowing our dependence on the Holy Spirit to accomplish this 3.An earnest faith in the promise for all of the Holy Ghost enduement, to fulfill this commission 4.Persistence in waiting upon God for it. What about tongues? I do speak in tongues, and I can pray for you to receive this gift. But visit Holy Spirit Ministries [www.charlesfinney.org]

LETTER TO STUDENTS Guidance in Revival By Charles G. Finney - In addition to Revival Lectures, understanding this letter is one of the requirements for the CHRISTIAN MINISTER CERTIFICATE. This certificate is to prepare you for full-time ministry.

CHARLES G. FINNEY AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1908) By C. G. Finney To the Students of the Words, Works and Ways of God - Continuing Education for those who possess the CHRISTIAN MINISTER CERTIFICATE:- A practical knowledge of how these revivals actually took place is required.

SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY By Charles Finney - For Those with a Higher Education, or a Batchelor or Masters Degree, or Doctorate, a thorough course on Theology is a must, to increase your spiritual knowledge to match your intellectual attainments. A study of these first twelve lectures would strengthen your faith, and prevent backslidings by uprooting incorrect notions of God in your advanced studies. This is the foundation of a study of Theology, beginning with the principles of Philosophy. In consciousness we perceive the existence of God by intuition in 2 ways: 1. PHYSICAL OR NATURAL INTUITION:- as much as in consciousness we perceive the physical universe and intuit that every effect has a cause 2. MORAL INTUITION:- We are also conscious of God in our conscience, which intuits that God is right and just, and that there will necessarily be a judgment for every choice we make for the good. This needs no proof, but merely a bare showing of the facts of nature and morality. SUB-TOPIC: The Spiritist Nature of Evolution - The Consequences of Evolutionary Modes and Morality in social fields (sociology, psychology, education, warfare, economics, etc.) Leading to Liberalism, Capitalism, Humanism (which is Atheism), Huxley's UNESCO, Socialism, Marxism, Nationalism, Facism, Racism etc. IS THE PHILOSPHY OF AN EVOLUTIONIST REALLY SPIRITIST? Yes, because all of his affirmations are manifestly inferences which he draws from material facts. They hear a rapping, and infer that it is a spirit. But this is no consciousness; they are only conscious of hearing raps. One could infer ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING from material facts without direct intuition in consciousness. Evolutionists are conscious of the facts, they perceive them directly, and of necessity are conscious of the facts of the physical universe. BUT THEY INFER the spirit of Natural Selection. And they show that one could INFER absolutly any "spirit" from the material facts, whether they make new discoveries or not, when Natural Selection (“Darwinism”) was dropped, in favour of mutations (“neo-Darwinism”), which in turn has been dropped and given way to the “hopeful monster” spirit or theory - that millions of beneficial mutations occur once every 50,000 years to two creatures, a male and female, who are living near each other—thus producing a new species pair! This is the wild idea that a lizard laid an egg one day, and a bird hatched (or rather, a male and female bird hatched nearly together and at the same time, from the lizard). [science-vs-evolution archives]

THE HEART OF THE TRUTH (1840) - FINNEY'S LECTURES ON THEOLOGY by Charles G. Finney - This is a brief Summary and Skeleton of the Detailed Course in Theology below.

FINNEY'S SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY (1878) Abridged - By Charles G. Finney

LECTURES ON SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY (1851) Unabridged - EMBRACING MORAL GOVERNMENT, THE ATONEMENT, MORAL AND PHYSICAL DEPRAVITY, NATURAL, MORAL, AND GRACIOUS ABILITY, REPENTANCE, FAITH, JUSTIFICATION, SANCTIFICATION, &c. BY THE REV. CHARLES G. FINNEY,

Bible School - In Frames:

Revival Lectures
Practicals (Autobiography)

Bible School - Individual Downloads:

REVIVAL LECTURES
CHARLES G. FINNEY AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
POWER FROM ON HIGH.
HEART OF THE TRUTH
THE 1878 EDITION OF FINNEY'S SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY
THE 1851 VERSION OF FINNEY'S SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY

Church Sermons

THE WAY OF SALVATION (1896) By Charles Finney - These sermons have permanent value both as models for the preacher and as sound philosophical discussions of many of the central themes of the Gospel. During this century at least, Charles Finney has had no equal as an interpreter and preacher of the Gospel. The audiences which he moved and guided to the acceptance of the truth, always included many persons of the highest intellectual order. So clear was his conception of the truth, that he was unable to utter an obscure sentence. (It is, of course, impossible through the medium of the printed page to reproduce all the marvelous power attending the sermons in their original delivery. But Professor Cowles was a sympathetic reporter, and had long practice in writing out the discourses of the great preacher, and thus was able to present a remarkably correct report.)
IN THE MP3 COLLECTION to the left of this page - We have attempted by the Providence of God to record these sermons as MP3, something which Finney could not do in his day. We prayerfully believe we have restored the solemness and severity of the delivery in our MP3 recordings. We hope they will gather convictions into the seriousness of salvation and lead the individual to true repentance and faith in Christ.

LECTURES TO PROFESSING CHRISTIANS (1836-37). DELIVERED IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, 1836 AND 1837. BY CHARLES G. FINNEY

SERMONS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS (1836) By Rev. C. G. Finney

SERMONS ON GOSPEL THEMES (1876) By Charles Finney

SERMONS FROM THE PENNY PULPIT (1849-51) Sermons By the Rev. Charles G. Finney on his visit to London - "Penny Pulpit" was a common method of sermon newspaper distribution in the 19th century. We could assume that the paper costed a penny, hence the name for it was "Penny Pulpit". The Penny Pulpit was A Publication in England that Featured Sermons by Various Ministers for the Public Good.

THE OBERLIN EVANGELIST (1839-62) By Charles G. Finney PLEASE NOTE: Oberlin Evangelist pages take a very long time to view. The files are very large. Patience is required.

Church Sermons - In Frames:

Way Of Salvation
Lectures to Professing Christians

Church Sermons - Individual Downloads

THE WAY OF SALVATION
FINNEY'S LECTURES TO PROFESSING CHRISTIANS
SERMONS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
SERMONS ON GOSPEL THEMES
PENNY PULPIT SERMONS
THE OBERLIN EVANGELIST FROM 1939 to 1862

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Statement of Faith

1. THE DIVINE AUTHORITY OF THE SCRIPTURES God has ensured that the Scriptures have remained with us without error after nearly 2000 years. God in his Providence has allowed us to have one standard Scripture text that we can all follow together. In English, this is the Old King James Version. There is an equivalent in nearly every other language. The Scriptures are Divinely inspired and are the direct communication of God to every individual through his intelligence. The Divine Inspiration of the Scriptures is proved to us by the fact that it agrees with our conscience on these moral questions:

2. THE DEITY OF CHRIST We ought to love Jesus Christ as God, perfect and holy, when we hear of his great love and sacrificial death and his resurrection. Only God could have such love. It is the surest sign of the love of God, and his desire to save the unregenerate world. If you do not know or love Christ, then you ought to read of the teachings and life of Christ in the Scriptures.

3. THE NECESSITY OF THE INFLUENCES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT No one person is willing to love or obey God unless the Holy Spirit brings the truth to his mind. However, the sinner is always perfectly ABLE to love and obey God, he is just unwilling. This is precisely why he is guilty, he is unwilling, whether he has the Holy Spirit or not. And as long as he remains unwilling, he is on the road to hell. The Holy Spirit does not have to help. It is only a gracious act of God to give his Holy Spirit.

4. TOTAL DEPRAVITY Mankind is without God and all selfish. No man could practically deny this, without incurring the charge of insanity; and, if he should proceed to do business upon that assumption, a commission of lunacy would no doubt be appointed to examine him, and who certainly would have no hesitation in bringing in their verdict, that he was not fit to manage his own affairs. The fact is, that all the arrangements of society proceed upon the assumption, which is a fact, that men are devoted to their own interests, and quite regardless of the interests of others. There is no plainer fact in the world than this. Now, do you ask, how it came to pass that men are selfish? Why, the principle grows up with us almost from our birth. As soon as the appetites and passions of children are sufficiently developed to come into exercise, they employ their wills to seek the gratification of their appetites and passions. The will becomes devoted to the gratification of self.

5. REGENERATION, THE NEW BIRTH Repentance, Conversion and Regeneration - being Born Again - is a voluntary change of the ultimate preference of the soul. It is produced by the spiritual illumination of the Holy Spirit. Repentance is not a feeling. Conversion and Regeneration is not some physical change in the nature, produced by the direct power of the Holy Spirit. It is for a person to change his disposition from supreme selfishness to an entire devotion of the whole being to the great end for which God lives, and for which he made man to live. Regeneration, then, consists in ceasing to live to sin and for selfishness, and starting to live to be holy and for God – who is Jesus.

6. THE JUSTICE OF THE ETERNAL PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED Through his selfish deeds, the example of each sinner does the worst thing possible to ruin the souls of those around him, as they copy him in neglecting the good, in neglecting to lay down their whole lives in favour of the good. This neglect and hardness ripens and matures the older a person gets, so that eventually he ceases to see the good. Perhaps at a young age the heart is tender, but as life goes on, the heart becomes stiffer and harder and more callous. He entangles himself in forming his career and in forming business, makes mistakes in forming new relations in life, mistakes in using his time, his tongue, his money, his property, his influence; While he is growing worse and worse, there is no hope to escape the penalty. He refuses to see the penalty coming because he has hardened his heart in his circumstances. His silence and his very inaction of hardening his heart is the strongest temptation to embolden others to harden their hearts against the call to good. They resolve to copy him in his stiffness to their own ruin, and it only takes leading one soul into ruin, which lasts for eternity, to be guilty of eternal punishment, which the Bible calls HELL. No amount of good works done after ruining a soul can compensate for this eternal loss.

7. THE NECESSITY OF THE ATONEMENT The sacrificial death of Christ, being God, is the surest sign that God wants to forgive the whole world of their self-pleasing spirit which has ruined souls for all eternity - this is an awful thing that they have done, and God can certainly only forgive those who humble themselves before him. To pardon a sinner therefore, the sinner must first understand why the atonement was made, and then also the sinner has to have deep confidence and faith in this act of Christ to save him.

8. JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH It is not by external acts that we are justified. Merely reforming the outside conduct does not show for certain whether it is done as an act of trust or faith. But we are justified by a reformation of the heart, so as to serve God with the heart, a voluntary act of trust. This is the spirituality of the gospel. It is to be experienced, and not merely believed intellectually. Faith is not an intellectual act or state, but it is a voluntary act of trust.

9. THE COMMISSION TO SAVE THE WORLD IS A NECESSARY MEANS OF SANCTIFICATION God has not employed angels in the work, nor carried it on by direct revelation of truth to the minds of men. It is because it is necessary as a means of sanctification, that the CHURCH should sympathize with Christ in His feelings and His labours for the conversion of sinners. And in this way the entire Church must move, before the world will be converted. The first business of the Church is to know how to lay down our lives to pray for the promotion of eternal salvation, and how to converse with people about salvation, and how to act in inquiry meetings, and how to deal with inquirers, and how to SAVE SOULS.

The Supernatural, The Finances and The Family

10. THE INHERITANCE OF JESUS Believers can do all that Jesus himself did while on the earth, through the power of the Holy Spirit, including all the signs and wonders that followed his preaching to confirm the word (John 14:12). The thing which proved to John the Baptist that Jesus was the one who they were to wait for were the signs and wonders that he did: Luke 7:21 “And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight.” Jesus gave the proof, and gives the same proof today that he is among us: The Blind See, The Lame Walk, The Lepers are Cleansed, The Deaf Hear, The Dead are Raised, To the poor the gospel is preached. (Luke 7:22) And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in these works (Luke 7:23).

11. TITHES AND OFFERINGS Tithing is an act of faith to receive material blessings. Once you receive the word for your life, God gives money to you, and out of what he gives, you tithe (give one-tenth) before you spend any of it. Jacob promised to tithe as he anticipated all the spiritual and material blessings of God’s anointing, family and possessions (Genesis 28:22). And the blessings multiplied as he obeyed God in tithing. There are two reasons for tithing: 1. Tithing meets the material needs of the tither by supernatural provision, and must be done expectantly. Do not simply give, but give expecting a specific thing to be done in your life. The expectation is the word that you receive by faith. You tithe to the church where you continually receive the word for your life. 2. Tithing and free-will offerings are the primary method ordained of God for the support and spread of His cause (Malachi 3:10; 1 Corinthians 9:14; 2 Corinthians 9:7). And Ministers DO hope for a material reward and payment. This is Biblical, just as much as anyone else who works expects wages. And the amount Ministers should receive is your tithe:- “he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.” 1 Corinthians 9:10.

12. THE PURITY OF MARRIAGE Hebrews 13:4 “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.” We practice the purity of marriage, being the requirement of marriage of a man with the woman he dis-virgined, which is also the requirement of Christ in the Gospels - Or celibacy where the situation is irrecoverable. The truth is, You can NEVER divorce (Matt. 5:32 - Matt. 19:3-9 - Mark. 10:2-12 - Luke. 16:18). You can only divorce if the woman was never your wife in the first place, meaning, she was not a virgin, which is why Jesus says, divorce is permissible in the case of fornication. Not simply because she has sex with another man, or the man with another woman. It was a common thing for the Jews to divorce a wife on claims that she “had not brought forth the tokens of her virginity” and it is in this context that Jesus is permitting divorce on the grounds of “fornication”. Any other divorce or separation or abandonment built on this Scripture taken out of context is absurd, and in fact, unlawful. We understand that this will cause contention between us and other believers, but we also hope that our more mature brothers and sisters will recognise that marriage purity was the very point of contention which John the Baptist himself raised (Luke 3:19), and which landed him in prison. We know that people can have religion without the true heart of obedience.

13. PUBLIC CELEBRATIONS We recognise the Pagan origins of the public celebrations common in our day, therefore we do not celebrate them. This includes Christmas, Easter, Birthdays and Sunday Worship. When we come to Christ we renounce all these superstitions, just as much as they are designed to bring good luck to those who celebrate them, rather than the favour of God. And next time someone tells you “Good Luc” tell them you do not want the favour of “Luc”-ifer but you want the favour of God.

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