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The Living Waters Podcast

Ep. 113 - The Life of George Whitefield

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Evangelism, Apologetics, Jesus, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Gospel, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation, Prolife, Faith, Witnessing, Theology

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, the guys discuss the evangelist George Whitefield. Whitefield was born in Gloucester, England in 1714 and died in 1770. At age 21, he was converted while studying at the University of oxford. Along with John Wesley and Charles Wesley, he was part of the Holy Club. For 5 years, Whitefield sought after salvation and became nearly ascetic to obtain favor with God. It wasn’t until Charles Wesley gave him a book by Henry Scougal that Whitefield was radically transformed into a ...

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Let me just branch off into something, because I've got a great quote by what Phil

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said.

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What?

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Get to heaven on your own strength.

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You might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand.

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Ah.

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Isn't that really good?

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So let me just give some context to what I want to talk about today, because it's interesting.

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Someone recently said to me, you dirty little rat, they said it to my face, you dirty little

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rat.

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Now that sounds like an insult, but it was actually a great compliment.

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It's Scotty and we play ping pong every morning at him, and when I do a really good shot

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and out with him, he'll mumble you dirty little rat, and he's actually saying, great

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shot.

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Yeah.

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And it's just funny.

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We're just thinking about the whole thing, how something in context can say something

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else.

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And a thing in there are literally millions of people to see because of a Bible verse

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out of context, faith without works is dead.

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And many in Catholicism say, see it's not by faith alone.

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You've got to have works or it's dead.

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