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  RESISTING GOD, AN EFFECTUAL BAR TO GRACE.
  by Francois Fenelon
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the importance of faith and humility in
receiving God's grace and peace, and warns against the dangers of
resisting God's demands.

Topics: "God's Wisdom", "Divine Sovereignty"
Scripture References: Psalm 139:6, Romans 11:33, 1 Corinthians 1:24, Ephesians 3:10, James 1:5

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Greek Word Studies for aid_number 34429 preaches about the manifold
wisdom of God, emphasizing its diverse, multi-colored, and multi-faceted
nature that surpasses human understanding. The wisdom of God, revealed
in Christ, is infinitely diversified and inexhaustible, far beyond what
was previously known. It warns against trying to confine God's complex
purposes into limited theological boxes, urging worship and praise for
His intricate wisdom and love.

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LETTER XXXVIII.

Resisting God, an effectual bar to grace.

You perceive, by the light of God, in the depth of your conscience, what
grace demands of you, but you resist Him. Hence your distress. You begin
to say within, it is impossible for me to undertake to do what is
required of me; this is a temptation to despair. Despair as much as you
please of self, but never of God; He is all good and all powerful, and
will grant you according to your faith. If you will believe all things,
all things shall be yours, and you shall remove mountains. If you
believe nothing, you shall have nothing, but you alone will be to blame.
Look at Mary, who, when the most incredible thing in the world was
proposed to her, did not hesitate, but exclaimed; "be it unto me
according to thy word." (Luke i. 38.)

Open, then your heart. It is now so shut up, that you not only have not
the power to do what is required of you, but you do not even desire to
have it; you have no wish that your heart should be enlarged, and you
fear that it will be. How can grace find room in so straitened a heart?
All that I ask of you is, that you will rest in a teachable spirit of
faith, and that you will not listen to self. Simply acquiesce in
everything with lowliness of mind, and receive peace through
recollection, and everything will be gradually accomplished for you;
those things which, in your hour of temptation, seemed the greatest
difficulties, will be insensibly smoothed away.

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