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Today we're exploring one of the
great unknown stories of history
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The man who saved England. He
was the unlikeliest of heroes.
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Small in stature, just 170
cm. or 5 foot 6 inches tall.
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He never carried weapons and was
a writer not a fighter, but he
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saved England and without him
the world we know today would
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be a very different place. This
is one of the largest squares in
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the beautiful city of Paris. Its
name is La Place de la Concorde,
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which in French means the
place of harmony. But few of the
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thousands of tourists who
come to visit can imagine the
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unspeakable terror that was
unleashed right here just over
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200 years ago. Back then it was
known by another name, the Place
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de la Revolution. As the 18th
century drew to a close, those
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who ruled the nations of Europe
were entirely dishonest and
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unprincipled. Morality had
reached a low point everywhere.
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In France, this erupted into a
bloody revolution in the streets
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The people of France
dramatically rejected all forms
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of traditional, secular and
religious authority. They wanted
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to get rid of both
the aristocracy and of all
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Christian influence. A lawless
and vicious mob mentality took
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over and just one year in
the period between 1793 and 1798
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there were over 16,500 people
killed in France. There was no
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justice, only sham trials. It
was here at this very spot that
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the newly invented scientific
method of execution, the
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guillotine was set up. It was
a popular form of entertainment
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for the mob. Here the women of
Paris would calmly watch while
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head after head was lopped off.
And the most famous heads to
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roll were King Louis XVI and
Queen Marie Antoinette. It was
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called the reign of terror.
But I want to share with you the
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story of what happened across
the channel in England because
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there a significant percentage
of the population wanted to
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follow France but the majority
didn't and England was saved.
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And it was at least in part
due to one man, an unsung hero,
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John Wesley. Our story starts
today in a much more peaceful
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place in England.
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Here in the village of Epworth
north of London it was here in
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the old rectory that John Wesley
was born and raised. He was the
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15th of 19 children born to his
mother Susannah and his father
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Samuel who was the rector here
at St. Andrews Anglican church.
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Back in those days infant
mortality was high. Parents
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often had to have as many
children as possible in the hope
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that some would survive. As it
was nine of John's brothers and
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sisters never survived childhood
leaving 10 mouths to feed. With
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so many children the main thing
John's parents worried about was
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how to feed the family. To
make things worse, Samuel was
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hopeless at managing money.
In fact soon after little John
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Wesley was born, his father was
imprisoned for several months
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because of his debts. When John
Wesley was five years old the
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rectory caught fire one night
and burned down. Samuel managed
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to get his wife and children
out but in the confusion no one
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noticed that little John
was still asleep in bed. Samuel
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tried to go back into the house
to save his child but the stairs
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had collapsed in the blaze. All
he could do in his distress was
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kneel down and commit John's
soul to God. By this time John
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had woken up and incredible
he climbed on a chest of drawers
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and opened the latch on
the window. The neighbors then
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quickly formed a human ladder
and plucked him from the window
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just as the blazing roof of
the house fell in. After that
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experience Wesley always
believed that he was a brand
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plucked from the burning, from
the fire. His mother came to
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believe that John had been
miraculously saved by God for
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some great work. When the
rectory was rebuilt, it was done
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in brick since it had already
burned down twice before.
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So, this is the actual home that
John Wesley grew up in. Susannah
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tried to save money by teaching
her children at home. So, it was
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here that Susannah ran the
Wesley family school. It ran six
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days a week from nine to five,
with a break for lunch. The
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Bible was the only textbook and
Susannah taught the children to
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memorize large sections and
sometimes entire books from it.
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Susannah Wesley was an amazing
woman and the most powerful
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influence in John's life.
Through his mother's example
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John Wesley learned to trust
God and he also learned what it
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means to live a disciplined
Christian life. On June 14, 1720
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John began attending classes at
Christchurch, one of the leading
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colleges at Oxford University.
Wesley came from a long line of
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distinguished church ministers
but he wasn't sure if that was
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the right thing for him. This
put him thinking about what he
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needed to do to please God. Was
it enough to believe in Jesus
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or did Christians have to do
good works to prove that they
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were saved? He talked with many
people about this and concluded
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that he didn't know the answer.
But despite his questions and
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uncertainty by the time he
graduated in 1724, John Wesley
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had decided that his future was
in the church, and so he signed
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up to study for a master's
degree at Oxford to prepare for
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ministry. In 1725, John was
ordained as a minister of the
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Church of England and he taught
here at Lincoln College, one of
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the smaller undergraduate
colleges located in the very
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heart of historic
Oxford. Lincoln College is an
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architectural gem and its ivy
clad buildings ooze history. You
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can just imagine the young John
Wesley hurrying past the groomed
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lawns and manicured gardens
on his way to his class. John
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Wesley became a fellow of
Lincoln College. Today the
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college keeps a Wesley room
in his memory and there is a
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commemorative plaque in the
chapel quadrangle marking the
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actual site of John
Wesley's rooms. On the wall of a
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residence building in one of the
Lincoln College quads is a bust
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of John Wesley and his name is
etched on the glass doors of the
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magnificent chapel to
commemorate his time here.
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By now his brother Charles
was also studying at Oxford and
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Charles started a club for
people who wanted to live Godly
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Christian lives and John quickly
became the leader of the club.
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Because of the low level of
spirituality at Oxford at the
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time John and Charles
were ridiculed and the club was
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mockingly called the Holiness
Club. By today's Christian
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standards I'd have to say that
they were pretty over the top.
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They would meet every day
for three hours, fast two days a
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week and pray every hour. John
even developed a check list for
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people to go through every day
to examine their own behavior as
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well as other members of
the club so that they could keep
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each other on the straight
and narrow. Because they were so
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methodical in their approach
to religion people started to
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mockingly call them Methodists.
Secretly John didn't mind at
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all. It's easy for us to
judge John Wesley's approach to
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Christianity as being way too
strict and it probably was. But
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you have to see it in the
context of his time in society,
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a time in which spirituality was
in serious decline and in which
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England looked to be following
France into chaos. But what
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happened next was to shake
John to his core. John had been
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invited to travel to the colony
of Savannah, Georgia in North
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America to serve as vicar in a
church there. For John the idea
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of being a missionary and
converting all those Indians was
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irresistible. He and his brother
Charles traveled to the New
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World on a ship together
with another group of Christians
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called Moravians who were
originally from Bohemia, the
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Czech Republic today. One night
John and his fellow passengers
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were all totally terrified
in the middle of a fierce storm.
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Mountainous waves were crashing
over the ship. The mast had
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broken off and the sails had
been torn to pieces. But when
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he went to check on his new
Moravian friends John found that
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they were peacefully singing
hymns together and they told him
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that they weren't at all afraid
to die. John Wesley knew right
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then that for all the strictness
of his religion and all his good
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works he had missed something,
perhaps the most important thing
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Although he was a pastor
he hadn't discovered what true
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faith was all about. This
realization was to torment him
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for the next few years. In
Savannah in the New World, today
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in the state of Georgia, John
tried to impose his strict brand
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of religion on his new church
and of course he ended up with
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no one liking him. Even worse
his church didn't prosper at all
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One of the rules that John
had made for himself was that he
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never marry so that he could
focus strictly on his spiritual
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duties. But while in Savannah
he fell in love with a young
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lady called Sophia. Day and
night John was tormented by his
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love for Sophia and his vow
to never get married. Eventually
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Sophia married another man and
John was tremendously upset at
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losing her. So much so that he
publically embarrassed himself
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and had to shamefully leave the
colony at night. They've erected
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a statue to John Wesley right in
the heart of Savannah, Georgia
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but two years after having
arrived here John embarked on a
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voyage back to England, a dismal
failure, a broken man. During
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the voyage back not only was
he was he seasick, he was also
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utterly depressed. He
was doubting everything he'd
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previously believed. He dreaded
landing in England. How could he
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face his family and friends? How
could he continue as a Christian
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minister when he didn't know
what to believe himself. For
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Wesley the journey to true faith
wasn't easy. When he arrived
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back in England he remembered
the Moravian Christians who had
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had such peace in the storm and
he spent long days speaking with
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them. When John's brother
Charles accepted salvation by
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grace alone purely as a gift
from God, John was very upset at
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him. But one event started
to change John's mind. He was
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sharing the gospel with a man in
prison who had been sentenced to
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hang the next day. John watched
the man accept salvation through
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Jesus and as he did that he
himself suddenly realized the
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truth about salvation. That
prisoner didn't have any time at
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all to do good works to prove
that his faith was genuine. He
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was being hung the next day.
John realized the God's love was
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great enough to save people
without the need or dependence
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on good works. However,
John Wesley's true conversion
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happened on the 25th of May 1738
while he attended a Moravian
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meeting in Aldersgate
Street in London. Today a plaque
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commemorates this important
event in Wesley's life. That day
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part of Martin Luther's
commentary on the book of Romans
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was being read aloud and this is
what Wesley wrote in his journal
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for that day:
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Finally, he had found lasting
peace in his heart. Finally,
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he'd found what true religion
was all about. Finally he could
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face God without fear and
without depending on his own
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strict works. This was the
turning point in John Wesley's
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life. Without this dramatic
turnaround Wesley's name would
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have been forgotten in the
annals of history. John Wesley
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would never have become the man
who saved England. Now John had
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finally realized his heart's
desire to be a true Christian
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and he felt compelled to tell
others how to be saved by faith
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too. He understood that
true holiness, the right way of
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living, could only come once he
had truly accepted Jesus as his
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Savior. Now all his good works
were done, not to be saved, but
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because he was saved. When
he made it his mission in life
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to tell others and the message
he shared changed the heart of
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England. From that time on
Wesley began to travel across
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Great Britain and Ireland on
his horse sharing the good news
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about Jesus and wherever he went
he formed small Christian groups
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These people were all called
Methodists. During the early
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part of his ministry Methodists
were persecuted by the
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established church. Sometimes
they would even be attacked by
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mobs and Wesley himself was
barred from preaching in parish
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churches. His friend, the
evangelist George Whitfield,
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had also been barred from
preaching in churches and so he
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started preaching in the open
air. He suggested to Wesley that
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he should do the same and that's
exactly what he did. He began
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taking every opportunity to
preach outdoors wherever a crowd
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gathered. More than once Wesley
used his father's tombstone in
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Epworth right here as a pulpit.
Eventually the Methodists
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started building places
of worship which they called
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chapels. A statue of John Wesley
stands outside one of these
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chapels called the Nuru Chapel
in Bristol and for a period of
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time this was one of Wesley's
major bases. For 50 years
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Wesley continued crisscrossing
the country preaching wherever
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he could and by the end of
it he had become one of the most
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popular and beloved men in all
of England. During his lifetime
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Wesley rode over 400,000 km.
That's farther than all the way
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to the moon and he preached more
than 40,000 sermons. In 1778,
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Wesley built this chapel here
in City Road London. Even today
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there's a thriving congregation
here. Right next to the chapel
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he built a house for himself,
which you can visit today.
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It was in this house that Wesley
lived, studied and wrote, but
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even more importantly it was
from here that he directed the
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vast movement that Methodism had
now become and it's surprising
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that despite Wesley's strictness
in religions matters and despite
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the culture of the time, he
encouraged women to teach and
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informally to preach. Wesley's
vision of holy Christian living
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went well beyond just the words.
He thought that you couldn't say
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you believed in Jesus and not
be transformed in your personal
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life. And more than that, true
holiness also had to transform
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our community and our society
for good. Because of this
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approach Methodists applied the
biblical principles of kindness
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and charity to the social
problems of the day and as a
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result they became key leaders
of many of the pressing social
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issues of the day. Wesley and
his companions fought against
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the alcoholism that was
destroying the nation. They
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dedicated themselves to feeding
and educating the poor and
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raising them up out of the
gutter. Wesley fought against
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the slave trade all his life and
together with his companions he
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campaigned against bribery and
corruption. They fought against
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cruelty to animals. They
campaigned for prison reform and
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to improve the conditions of
factory workers. In short, there
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was no area of English society
that wasn't improved through the
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influence and work of John
Wesley and the movement that he
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founded. As he lay dying,
Wesley grasped the hands of his
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friends who were with him, said
farewell and as he did that he
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repeated the words The best of
all is God is with us. He died
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in 1791 at the age of 87. This
is Wesley's tomb at his chapel
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on City Road London. He died
poor because over the course of
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his lifetime he'd given away
everything that had come his way
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to others in need. In fact,
it's estimated that he gave away
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30,000 pounds during his
lifetime, an astronomical sum of
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money back then. But Wesley's
legacy could never be measured
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by money. He left behind a
nation that was far richer and
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stronger than the country he'd
been born into. He left behind
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an England that when the tides
of revolution battered it from
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France had the spiritual
and moral strength to resist.
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Because 100 years after Wesley
Europe broke out into a series
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of bloody revolutions,
terrorizing France, revolutions
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broke out in Germany, in Poland,
Italy and the Austrian Empire.
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In fact, England was only one of
very few countries that didn't
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degenerate into violence and
chaos. Why? Because John Wesley
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had prepared the nation to
withstand the forces of terror.
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Because the influence of
Wesley's spiritual revival had
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transformed England into a very
different society than that of
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France. By calling people back
to true religion, John Wesley is
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the man who saved England.
He almost certainly changed the
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course of history and his call
to personal and social holiness
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still challenges Christians
today. As we look around at our
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society today we see more and
more our rejection of the God
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and the authority that
underpinned our society in the
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past. One wonders what the
future holds. The story of John
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Wesley is a great example of the
principle the Bible teaches in
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Proverbs
chapter 29 and verse 18:
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What this means is that where
there is no knowledge of God's
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word, when the Bible and its
message are rejected, there are
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no limits to the evil that
people will do. That's what
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happened in France and it almost
happened in England. But the
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message of John Wesley called
people everywhere to recognize
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their need of God in both their
personal lives and throughout
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their society. It was a
practical religion that worked
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to reform those areas of society
where there was most moral
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bankruptcy and suffering.
The great religious revival in
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England that followed the work
of John Wesley is just one of
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the many examples from history
of what happens when people
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rediscover the gospel, the good
news of Jesus. What happened in
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England as a result of John
Wesley's work highlights the
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power and importance of the
Bible. It highlights the truth
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of the promises of God's word
and the importance of following
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him. Notice what the Bible
says in 2 Chronicles chapter 7
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and verse 14:
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This doesn't just apply
to nations or even just to
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churches. It also applies
to us, to you and me, at a very
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personal level. If you'd like to
experience the power of God in
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your life, if you'd like to
experience a personal revival
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in your own life, if you are
ready to be humble before God
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and seek him, then I'd like to
invite you to commit your life
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to him right now as we pray.
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Dear Heavenly Father, you've
promised that when we turn to
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you, you will give us new
strength and a new life. Thank
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you for the story of John Wesley
because we can see that you are
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faithful and that your promises
are true. What you did back then
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please do for us today. It's
difficult to do the things we
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want to do and to change the
things we need to change in our
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lives. Please come into our
lives and transform us. But not
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only our life, but may our
families and our communities
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be transformed as well. We pray
not just for ourselves but for
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our nation also and we ask these
blessings in Jesus' name, Amen.
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For many years John Wesley
battled with disappointment and
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deep discouragement as he
struggled to find out what it
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meant to live life as a
Christian. When he discovered
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