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b'The Essentials: The Way of the Kingdom: Wesley employed the scriptural text of this sermon, \\u201cThe kingdom of God is at hand: repent . . . and believe the gospel\\u201d (Mark 1: 15), \\u201cone hundred and ninety times\\u201d in a nearly fifty-year span. He specifically linked this text to the fruit of his evangelistic labors since 1738 in noting with its use among the poor of England \\u201cthe word of God ran as fire among the stubble.\\u201d The call to repentance, so prominent in this sermon, entails conviction of sin, self-knowledge, as well as a sense of guilt and helplessness.'