Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse IX · §20 · John Wesley

Believing in him

Click or tap any sentence to jump there. The side buttons skip a paragraph.

We cannot serve God unless we believe in him. This is the only true foundation of serving him. Therefore the believing in God as reconciling the world to himself through Christ Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:19), the believing in him as a loving, pardoning God, is the first great branch of his service.

1771 text

We cannot serve God, unless we believe in him. This is the only true foundation of serving him. Therefore, the believing in God, as reconciling the world to himself thro’ Christ Jesus, the believing in him, as a loving, pardoning God, is the first great branch of his service.

Report a mistake in this passage

About this text

The ninth sermon on the Sermon on the Mount, on Matthew 6:24-34: no one can serve God and mammon, so take no anxious thought and seek first the kingdom of God.

EditionPrinted in Wesley's 1771 Works, which do not say when he preached it

Wesley's own sermon in updated English wording. The 1771 panel is the text of the Works Wesley himself had printed in 1771. It is public domain.

Reference

Sermon 29 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:24-34.

We have not yet re-checked this work against its source. We put this English text into updated wording with AI help. No scholar has yet certified it as faithful and complete. Open the 1771 text under any part to compare.

Report a mistake