Good morning. Welcome to the morning motivation.

Brought to you by the Patriot Gold Group. This week we're talking about Jonathan Edwards

and his resolutions for life. Jonathan Edwards, one of the greatest theologians ever

and founder of the Great Awakening here in America. And we need a second great awakening. So

Jonathan Edwards is a person that we should be learning about, studying about, and being

more alike.

So I just learned about Jonathan Edwards' resolutions on Sunday.

And we've just been talking about it for the last few days here.

And I just yesterday came across a new book. And it wasn't even

a Google search. It wasn't like, you know, Google's reading your mind or, you know, you say it out

loud and your phone is listening. This was an email that I was sent from Westminster Books. And it's one

of the books they're promoting this month. And it's called Jonathan Edwards 50 resolutions for life,

adapted for modern readers. The actual title of the book is called Following Jesus in an Age of

quitters. Isn't that amazing? What are the chances? It's by John Gillespie. So let's go over a few more of these.

Number 10, resolving, and this was 1716, resolved when I feel pain to think of the pains

of martyrdom and of hell.

Resolved, if I take delight in it as a gratification of pride or vanity or in any such account immediately to

throw it by. So if you ever feel pleasure from pride or vanity, throw it away. Resolved,

never to do anything out of revenge, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational

beings. I wonder what he anger to irrational beings.

I wonder what he meant by irrational beings.

What's an irrational being in 1716?

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