Can I tell you a story about Robert Robinson? He went to mock George Whitefield who was one of the flames of fire of revival that God used in the first great awakening in the 1700s. But the message that George Whitefield preached haunted him, which was a simple message from John the Baptist. He said you brood of vipers (not very seeker-sensitive). You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath that is to come? Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance and don't say we are Abraham's children. God is able to raise up the children of Abraham from these very stones. And even now the axe is laid at the root of the tree. You brood of vipers, repent from the wrath that is to come. And then Whitefield began to weep and say, “Oh my hearers, my hearers, the wrath that is to come, the wrath...” hear this more |