"WE ARE IMMORTAL UNTIL OUR WORK IS DONE".

THE TITLE QUOTE IS FROM PROBABLY THE GREATEST EVANGELIST SINCE PAUL THE APOSTLE, THE GREAT GEORGE WHITEFIELD. I HAVE TAKEN GREAT PLEASURE IN STUDYING THE LIFE OF MR. WHITEFIELD, NOT TO LIFT HIM UP BUT TO LIFT UP THE GOD THAT WAS IN HIM. IN THE MID TO LATE 1700S THIS MAN ALONG WITH OTHERS OF THE STRICT METHODIST DISCIPLINE WERE ABLE TO SHAKE THE WORLD FOR THE GLORY OF GOD ALMIGHTY! OF THOSE MEN ONLY WHITEFIELD HELD TRUE TO THE GREAT DOCTRINE OF THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD. CALVINISTS, AS THEY ARE CALLED, WHO BELIEVED THAT A GOD BIG ENOUGH TO SAVE WAS ALSO BIG ENOUGH TO SEAL. HE BELIEVED THAT A GOD THAT COULD CLEANSE SUCH A VILE SINNER AS HE WAS GREAT ENOUGH TO ENSURE THAT HE BE KEPT FROM APOSTASY AND FAILURE BY THE POWER OF HIS RIGHT HAND! THIS ALLOWED WHITEFIELD TO BOLDLY TAKE THE GOSPEL OUTSIDE OF THE WALLS OF THE CHURCH, AND EVEN WHEN FACED WITH CERTAIN DEATH HE CONTINUED TO PREACH WITH STAGGERING POWER AND ALL ACROSS ENGLAND AND AMERICA SINNERS WERE CONVERTED BY THE HOLY GHOST THROUGH THE GOSPEL MESSAGE THAT HE BOLDLY PREACHED. THERE ARE RECORDED INSTANCES WHERE HE WAS BEATEN, ASSAULTED, URINATED ON AND BLUDGEONED WITH DEAD ANIMALS! YET WHITEFIELD PREACHED ON. CONTRARY TO MODERN THOUGHT, SINNERS WHO REALLY DESIRE GOD WILL NOT BE TURNED AWAY BY BEING TOLD THAT GOD IS IN CONTROL OF ALL THINGS, RATHER THEY WILL REJOICE AND CALL ON HIM WHO IS ABUNDANTLY ABLE TO SAVE THEM TO THE UTTERMOST! SO WHILE THOSE WHO RESTED ON THEIR OWN POWER SPENT SLEEPLESS NIGHTS TOSSING AND TURNING WITH WORRY ABOUT THE FUTURE GEORGE WHITEFIELD SAID " WE ARE IMMORTAL UNTIL OUR WORK IS DONE"!