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  WRITINGS OF WAYNE C AMON
  by Wayne C. Amon
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A collection of theological writings, sermons, and essays by Wayne C. Amon,
compiled for study and devotional reading.

  Chapters: 22

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  TABLE OF CONTENTS
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    1. 00.00. Amon, Wayne C. - Library
    2. 01.00. FOUNTAINS AND RIVERS OF HOLINESS
    3. 01.01.     The Living Waterfounation of Peace, of Resignation, of Wisdom
    4. 01.02.     The Fountain of Inward Recollections, of love
    5. 01.03.     The Fountain of surrender, of temperance, of harmony, of godliness, of prayer
    6. 01.04.     The Fountain of Milk and Sweetness of Honey, Rivers of Living water, rivers of calmness
    7. 01.05.     The River of Silent Submission, river of Trust
    8. 01.06.     The River of Charity
    9. 01.07.     The River of Meekness and Quietness, of long suffering, of kindness, other rivers
   10. 01.08.     With deep concern...
   11. 01.09.     Your Inheritance
   12. 02.00. THE CROSS AND CROWN OF HOLINESS
   13. 02.01.     The Reality of Holiness
   14. 02.02.     The Provisions of Holiness
   15. 02.03.     The Completeness of Holiness
   16. 02.04.     The Offering of Holiness
   17. 02.05.     The Covenant of Holiness
   18. 02.06.     The Way of Holiness
   19. 02.07.     The Cross of Holiness
   20. 02.08.     A Life of Holiness
   21. 02.09.     The Glory of Holiness
   22. 02.10.     The Crown of Holiness

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  CHAPTER 1: 00.00. AMON, WAYNE C. - LIBRARY
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Amon, Wayne C. - Library Aman, Wayne C. - Fountains and Rivers of Holiness Aman,
Wayne C. - The Cross & Crown of Holiness


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  CHAPTER 2: 01.00. FOUNTAINS AND RIVERS OF HOLINESS
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FOUNTAINS AND RIVERS OF HOLINESS by Wayne C. Aman

Contents

Preface

1. The Living Waterfounation of Peace, of Resignation, of Wisdom. 2. The
Fountain of Inward Recollections, of love. 3. The Fountain of surrender, of
temperance, of harmony, of godliness, of prayer. 4. The Fountain of Milk and
Sweetness of Honey, Rivers of Living water, rivers of calmness 5. The River of
Silent Submission, river of Trust 6. The River of Charity 7. The River of
Meekness and Quietness, of long suffering, of kindness, other rivers 8. With
deep concern... 9. Your Inheritance

PREFACE To Christ be the glory! I attempt to write of a subject that is precious
to my heart. I do not write as a learned theologian or an accomplished writer,
for I am unable. I write as an unworthy servant that God the Holy Ghost led into
the ways of scriptural holiness. The Apostle Paul knew of the false but also the
true holiness and exhorts us to live after the latter. I have experienced the
reality of the Words of Jesus. “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst
after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” Hallelujah! No one needs to lack
for all the fullness of God. His matchless provision of divine grace fills all
the voids of heart and life until we may experience the completeness of Him.
From a life of sin he called me to be justified, sanctified, and proclaim this
glorious gospel of full redemption. This booklet is my first attempt at writing,
so I beg the reader to forbear. I write with strong concern, contending for the
doctrine, and experience of entire sanctification, as the faith once delivered
unto the saints. Our desire is to point the hungry soul to the hidden manna, and
remind those who have forgotten their inheritance among them which are
sanctified, that Canaan still flows with milk and honey. We have special concern
for the rising generation that, generally, has never heard the shouts of
victory, or viewed the mountain tops of Canaan or tasted of the honey from the
rock. We must tell them that the fountain opened still cleanses from all sin. We
do not feel that we need to prove the doctrine of truth, for it is eternal, it
shall never pass away. There is no plainer doctrine in the Word of God. Yet man
may know the doctrine and fail to live in Christ, and never find the depths of
true holiness. We may uphold doctrine with mental assent, but fail to drink from
the fountain of living water. In the experience of sanctification, which is
nothing more and nothing less than the inward flow of Christ’s life cleansing
and infilling, and the outflowing of Christ’s life from us, we rest in him, we
move in him, and in him we have our being. Your unworthy servant,

Wayne C. Aman


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  CHAPTER 3: 01.01.     THE LIVING WATERFOUNATION OF PEACE, OF RESIGNATION, OF WISDOM
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THE LIVING WATER In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and
cried, saying, “If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that
believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers
of living water.” (But this he spake of the spirit, which they that believe on
him should receive.) John 7:37-39. Jesus speaking of those believers who were to
receive the Holy Spirit, tells us that they are not only drinking in of Christ,
but also flowing out from them, would be an outward life of holiness. In this
life of true holiness the thirsty soul finds its satisfaction. “If any man
thirst let him come unto me” invites Jesus “and drink.” His soul shall be filled
and satisfied. We want to confirm the fact that if we live an inner life of
holiness, the result will be outflowing rivers; not one river, but many rivers.
There must be an inner drinking before the outflowing. God’s standard for all
Christians, regardless of the experiences they have had, is a sinless life. It
was demanded of Abraham, placed in the decalogue given to Moses, confirmed by
Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. We will not be judged by our profession, but
by the standard of Christian living which God has set before us. “Be ye Holy,
for I am Holy.” Initial holiness begins at justification, but we are entirely
sanctified by the infilling, the coming in, of the Holy Ghost. The great,
lasting, and glorious experience at Pentecost was the fulfillment of the
promise, that God would take away the stony heart, and give a heart of flesh. It
was confirmed by the Apostle Peter, when he reported the work of the incoming
spirit, “purifying their hearts by faith.” Sin has no allowance, regardless of
who commits it. It must be confessed and repentance made. “He that committeth
sin is of the devil,” writes the beloved Apostle — but glory to Jesus! the
fountain is still open; the blood still cleanses from all sin. We may be born
again and cleansed from all unrighteousness. This blessed truth is concurrent
with the whole tenor of the scriptures and with true experience, yet in the
inner and outer life of the sanctified there is a rest, a depth of holiness, a
deepness of humility, a perfection of lawfulness, a perfect submission, an
overflowing of rivers, not so generously possessed and evidenced by the
justified. Happy, contented and perfect in love is the Christian that has found
this second rest. His spirit is so enlarged that the entirety of his being may
begin to grow in grace, and the fruit of the spirit will not only abound but
ripen and mellow into spiritual maturity. Jesus is that Fountain of Living
Water. Through the Old Testament scriptures from Moses to the prophets, through
the New Testament, to the Apocalypse, our Lord is proclaimed to be the Fountain
from which the thirsty may drink. In this wonderful description of the
redemptive work of our blessed Christ, let us liken our inward life of holiness
to the drinking in of the fountains and our outward life as the flowing forth of
the rivers. As in the natural world, the fountain is the beginning of the river.
From the fountain flows the rivulet that enlarges into the creek cascading from
the mountain heights into the river that flows into the mighty ocean. Let us
begin at the source or the fountain head of true holiness. Let us drink deeply
of Him. In so doing, out from our innermost parts will flow rivers of living
water that will give life to the desert places; cause verdant growth to spring
up where previously it was dry and arid. May we from the scriptures draw names
for the fountains of infilling water which flow to us from our Christ?

FOUNTAIN OF PEACE

First let us drink from the Fountain of Peace. The one that is entirely
sanctified is possessed of a peace that is not of this world; a peace that is
resigned to the will of God. This peace of God originates with perfect faith.
The normal frustrations, the troublesome annoyances of life are left in quiet
resignation and perfect submission, because we know all things work together for
good to them that love God and to them that are called according to his purpose.
In drinking from Christ of the Fountain of Peace, we have knowledge that he
knows the future, is directing every circumstance, and we rest in the
tranquillity of God himself. Let us not think that the life of the sanctified is
void of feeling — far from that. The emotions, are quickened, and brought into
disciplined concurrence to the purpose of him, “that doeth all things well.”
This peace and quietness of the soul, which abides in him, is not that of
slothful inertia nor of indifference, nor of presumption. In this state the
entire man finds sweet repose. Where there is no rebellion, and no self-will,
there can be no discord or unrest. All our feelings are submerged in the sweet
love of God. “Peace is love reposing,” one has said. Jesus said, “Peace I leave
with you, My peace I give unto you.” Oh, you that are troubled, drink deep from
the Fountain of Peace. The life of holiness is characterized by continual peace.
The Apostle writes, “There is therefore now no condemnation.” The conscience has
been healed by the blood of Jesus. Its duties prompted by love and not by guilt.
The past sins are forgiven, and forgotten by Him. The present rests in the state
of contentment; the future reposes in the providence of God. All is at rest; all
is lost in quiet confidence; all is at peace. Glory!

FOUNTAIN OF RESIGNATION

Again our soul thirsts for more of Him. How sweet is the water from the Fountain
of Resignation. As the natural fountains possess like elements which give life
to the thirsty traveler, so the Fountain of Peace and the Fountain of
Resignation are very much alike, and flow from the same source, Christ Jesus.
Again the drinking in of a complete unmurmuring resignation to all God’s outward
providences is sweet to taste and completely satisfies the inner man. It also
expresses and flows outward into the river of calmness and trust. The
providences of life are regarded by the wholly sanctified as means of guidance
and teachers of our Lord’s divine will. Humanity naturally may shrink from
chastisement, sufferings, persecution and trials, but the one who has partaken
of the Fount of Resignation, speaks from within, “Not my will, but thine be
done.” The heart, that is infilled by the spirit of Jesus, quickly recognizes
the hand of the heavenly Father in all things, and shouts, “Amen”! The Apostle
writes to the Corinthian believers, “For our light affliction, which is but for
a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.” “In
everything give thanks,” is the command to the born again, but this is only
possible to the believer who is resigned to the purpose and will of God. The
sanctified mind is far removed from all frustration, and fidgety, nervous
unrest. Self, with its carnal ambitions, pressures the mind into hasty activity
with all restlessness of spirit, and usually prompts the victim to acts of sin
or deeds of poor judgment, which will later be regretted. The one who has been
through Gethsemane and has been crucified with Christ at Calvary, has resigned
himself into the hands of the Father in all divine providences. The sanctified
is a follower of Jesus. He does not attempt to get ahead of his Lord and his
providences, neither does he give himself to indolence, in loitering or
procrastination where the will of God is known. The beauty of holiness is to be
seen in the life that follows peacefully the guiding hand of Providence; not in
the emotional driving unrest of discontentment, but in resignation to the One
who knows the future. Infinite and unerring are His ways. May we slake our
thirst from the cool waters of this Fount of Resignation, that we may not depart
from the divine harmony, by taking our thoughts and movements into our own
hands, and by it lose the sense of the Divine Presence, and find ourselves in
darkness, perplexity, and unhappiness. THE FOUNTAIN OF WISDOM

Again our soul thirsteth for God — for the living God, so we drink now from the
Fount of Wisdom. From our blessed Christ we draw our inner life which is
characterized by sanctified judgment. “If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of
God who giveth liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him,” exhorts
Apostle James. This is not earthly wisdom which puffs up, exalts the receiver,
but this is “the mind that was also in Christ Jesus, who humbled himself, and
become obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” The holy in heart
seeks no reputation, but willingly becomes the servant. “This wisdom which is
from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle and easy to be entreated, full
of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hyprocrisy.” The
spirit filled man is to be as wise as a serpent and as harmless as a dove. The
Holy Ghost, no doubt, quickens primarily the heart of man. He transforms the
sensibilities, reconstructs the motives, purifies the desires, and certainly
harmonizes the will. But let us not imagine he leaves the intellect out of the
sphere of divine grace. Never! He, the Spirit of wisdom, illuminates our
understanding. He teaches new truths to the cleansed mind. As we may understand
these things, God reveals then unto us by his spirit; for the spirit searcheth
all things, yea, the deep things of God. He casts a light upon the truth of the
inspired word. He communicates truth as we need for our own souls and for the
work for which he has called us. Dear reader, we are living in perilous times.
Voices are on all side saying, “Here is Christ, there is Christ.” False
doctrines, half truth! false teachers abound, and many follow their pernicious
ways. The doctrine of sinning religion is heard continually, and many that do
not ascribe to this doctrine live a life of compromise an worldliness. If we do
not have this experience of perfect love, (the inner light), we most likely will
be swept off our feet and lose our way in the darkness, and miss the Eternal
City. Would any fail to see our need of holy discernment? We must be able to
detect between the precious and the vile, between truth and error, sin and
holiness. Let us also pray that we might be filled with the knowledge of his
will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding that we might walk worthy of the
Lord. As the Apostle prayed, “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father
of Glory, may give unto the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of
him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that ye may know the hope
of his calling, and what is the riches of his glory of his inheritance in the
saints.” Thus may we also pray. Let us stay near and drink again from this
fountain! We, who are sanctified and illuminated by his spirit, dare not throw
reason to the wind. Common sense lived in a practical life of holiness is far
too uncommon. Should we not remember that holiness is practical? The blessed
Christ sanctifies the intellect; he does not destroy it. Carefully we must use
our rational powers for the glory of God. Calm and deliberate weighing of
actions should always be a part of our life. Our reasonable sacrifice, is all
that he desires. Any other is vain and of no value. The Holy Ghost baptized
believer should never surrender himself to impulses. These do not, by any means,
always come from the Holy Spirit. It was he, of whom it was said, “He shall
guide you in all truth.” It would be far better to be influenced by a rational
judgment, sanctified, and illuminated by the blessed Holy Spirit. Tarry here
more and drink, dear heart, do not rush on! We need this living water. We perish
without it. Oh! Fount of Wisdom, thou art precious! At this fount too many
holiness people have failed to drink and have fallen into gross delusion, ended
in fanaticism, have made shipwreck of faith. The tragic move toward the
superfluous signs and gifts, as is evidenced in this modern Charismatic
movement, proves the heart has never been satisfied by a cleansing, purging, sin
destroying baptism of the Holy Ghost. Would it not be permissible to use the
words of the poet?

“I am drinking at the fountain, Where I ever would abide, For I’ve tasted life’s
cool river, And my soul is satisfied.

There’s no thirsting for life’s pleasures, Or adorning rich and gay, For I’ve
found a richer treasure, One that fadeth not away.” The one that has drunk deep
from him, does not knowingly do a thing that is extravagant, irrational, or
absurd. He may do some things that look foolish to those near him, but will do
nothing willingly that is contrary to sober reasoning. Faith may move us out to
do that which would seem unreasonable others, but if it be a calling or
prompting of God, he will lead us to make our decisions by calm, deliberate,
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THE FOUNTAIN OF INWARD RECOLLECTIONS

“As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O
God.” There is the Fountain of Inward Recollections, from which we enjoy to
drink. As we do, we proclaim, “We have tasted and the Lord is gracious.” In this
life in Christ we live moment by moment in him. In a life detached from the
worldly things and worldly pleasure we find in him all that is desired. Our
recollections of him may be expressed as the song of his lover, “Yea, He is
altogether lovely.” Yes, “He is all desires.” He is all that we ever needed, and
satisfies the thirsty soul.

“All my life long I had panted, For a draught from some cool spring; That I
hoped would quench the burning Of the thirst I felt within. But Hallelujah! I
have found him, Whom my soul so long had craved, Jesus satisfies my longing
Through his blood I now am saved.”

Inner recollections of his presence, oh! how sweet! We bow at his pierced feet;
we are satisfied in his presence. Certainly he is the I AM of our life: the
Alpha, the Omega, the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valley, the Bread of Life,
the Living Fountain. His name is Wonderful! The recollections of His love
stagger our thinking Such love is too wonderful for us! We love to cultivate His
acquaintance, listen to the whispers of His love, and learn of His blessed will.
May we commune as friend and friend. Let us sing with the writer:

“Oh! I have found him, That crystal fountain, Where all my life’s deep needs
Have been supplied; So freely flowing, From Calvary’s Mountain, And now my soul
is fully satisfied.” THE FOUNTAIN OF FAITH The thirsting for the fullness of God
is the normal desire for every truly saved Christian. The thirsting for a pure
heart is a true index to one’s spiritual state. The daughter of Caleb already
had been given a portion of Canaan, but she was not satisfied with the dry
southland, so requested “Give me also the springs of water” He gave her the
upper springs and the nether springs. Dear Christian, have you drunk from the
upper and nether springs of God? To the fountain of Faith of which we partook
when we were saved, we come often to drink in the life of holiness. It is a life
of faith. The experience of entire sanctification, has also been designated as
Perfect Love, and again Full Assurance of Faith. Perfect Love involves also
perfect faith. Faith and love are concurrent, and are always aligned to bring
the soul into all the fullness of God. Faith advances to receive the promises;
love is by its side. Little faith; little love. Much faith and love abounds.
Believe Him with a vigorous faith and you will love Him fervently. Trust Him,
refusing to doubt, and you will love Him unwaveringly. The holy life is a life
of perfect love, and also of perfect faith. There is a large distinction between
the life governed by faith, and a life which is directed and governed by desire.
Without argument, we may say that the sinner lives for and in his desires. They
constitute his life, his labors, time and advances. He runs thither and yon to
reach satisfaction, totally unaware that “All is vanity apart from God.” We know
that some unregenerated persons are more noble and pure in desire than others,
but all are moved into action by the prominence of desire. To a certain extent
this is true of carnal believers. Their sins are pardoned. They are newborn—
hence the desires are elevated. They no longer look to the world for
satisfaction, yet they live chiefly in their desires. The natural and legitimate
desire for life, health and happiness, overrules the life of faith. There is an
immense disproportion between their desires and their faith. Even when desire is
based on things good and right this is true. The temporal blessings are sought,
without faith in God. Did not He say He would supply all our needs, according to
His riches in glory, by Christ Jesus? The regenerate will desire spiritual help
and blessings for themselves, their family, neighbors, friends, or for the
church, and also desire the salvation of the lost, but do not live a life of
faith that is necessary for the bestowal of these blessings. The carnal
believer’s desire attaches itself mostly to created things — to the creature.
The life of perfect faith has its center in God, and anchors itself in him.
Within the heart of the unsanctified desire is restless, eager and unsatisfied;
but in the heart of the sanctified, faith is quiet, contented and calm. Desire
is full of effort, restlessness, and impetuosity. Faith looks wholly to Jesus
and whispers, “My soul is satisfied.” Dear reader, I beseech you, seek this
wonderful, cleansing baptism and you will learn the distinction between a life
of desire and a life of faith. Look unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of
our faith. Desire has found its fulfillment in a yielded trusting faith.

“So precious is Jesus my Savior and King, His praise all the day long with
rapture I sing, To him in my weakness for strength I can cling, For He is so
precious to me.”

Yet we find something even greater and more precious than a union with God by
faith, and this is a union with him by love. Faith is indispensable to love; it
is also subordinate to it. Charity is the ultimate; it emanates from God for God
is love. Therefore all Godlike love has its source in him. This love is shed
abroad in our hearts through divine grace by the Holy Ghost. Love, beyond the
human, flows from the fountain head, God himself. Oh! dear heart, drink in and
be full; you will find your completeness. Let the spirit of God pour into your
soul and love will be in you and shall flow from you in rivers of living water.
“Be ye also enlarged”, wrote the Apostle. May our capacities be enlarged for the
infilling of more love. Never can we, the finite, measure in quantity to the
infinite, but the same quality may be ours. God’s love flows forth from his
infinite heart to express the nature of holiness, to do good to all creatures.
The burning fervent heart of the sanctified expresses love to God himself with a
desire to glorify him, and also to point the lost to the Christ of Calvary — the
bread of heaven, the balm in Gilead, the living water of life. Oh Spring of
Heaven, you have called us to the waters. Let us be full, complete, without
sham, or alloy. Thou art “all desires,” thou art the author of faith, thou art
love. One that drinks from the Fountain of Faith, knows also the sweet waters of
love. Christ is foremost in thought and action. He is our life. As the fountains
of living water are sweet to the soul, the bitter waters of sin are nauseating.
Faith and Love are always opposed to sin. Perfect faith has the strongest
abhorrence of sin. Perfect love detests even the appearance of evil. Fools make
mock of sin. Faith forms a battleline against every form of evil. Faith finds
the strength to be an overcomer of temptation. While it is Christ who succors
and delivers in temptation, the will of the sanctified is in perfect harmony
with the Holy nature of Jesus. The modern conception of a holy life, admixed
with sin, worldliness, and carnal promptings and actions is not only
unscriptural, but opposed to God and his holiness. In him is no variableness,
neither shadow of turning. When we drink at the fount of Faith, we do not seek
for special signs, extraordinary manifestations or any other sensational
phenomena. For we are strongly warned by our Savior that we are not to seek for
signs. He classified those who do as wicked. We are assured if the Spirit wills
to reveal truths by visions or dreams, or by other means, that is his
prerogative, but generally those who live an inner life of holiness do not claim
these sensational experiences. Is not the Lord himself, the revelation of the
Spirit upon an enlightened conscience, the truth of the Holy Scriptures, and the
order of teachers, pastors, and evangelists inspired by the Holy Ghost,
sufficient for our instruction and guidance? Woe, to the one that transgresses
the order that Infinite Wisdom has given for our instruction.

“Faith rests upon the word of God, the promises which are prayed over and
appropriated when divinely applied Presumption opens the Bible at random,
catches up some phrase wrenched from its context, and hastily applies it without
divine authority.” Dr. Harry Jessop. The life of faith is a life of growth and
enlargement. The second Epistle of Peter reveals to us that we by faith in the
promises are partakers of the divine nature, but we must not or cannot stop
here. Faith must grow. Faith must reproduce. “Add to your faith virtue, and to
virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience, and
to patience godliness (God likeness); and to godliness brotherly kindness; and
to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you and abound, they
make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our
Lord Jesus Christ.” The believer who receives the baptism of the Spirit and is
purged from his own nature and partakes of the divine, lives by faith and grows
in faith. His spiritual vitality increases in direct proportion as his faith
increases. Faith increases by exercise. It becomes a holy habit to trust God in
all circumstances. The life of Christ weighs every circumstance. and in full
trust whispers, “so be it.” His God consciousness is holy rest. If the soul is
not resting, it is not believing. He who drinks from him often believes the
promises, with thanksgiving accepts the blessings, and in deep trust thanks
providence for the trials. There is an inner consciousness of a divine purpose
that never errs, and the faithful repeats again, “Not as I will, but thy will be
done.” THE FOUNTAIN OF LOVE

All else would be vain and there would be no indwelling life of Christ filling
our life, if we failed to drink from the fountain of Love. Love must vitalize
every other grace. It flows in all other fountains of living water. None other
satisfies without divine love. Its elements must infuse, and give energy to
every realm of life, every part of our being — spirit, soul, and body. God is
Love. If we drink of him, we drink Love. If we are complete in him, we are
complete in love. The quality of love is as Jesus prayed, “The love wherewith
thou hast loved me, may be in them.” The fullness of the Godhead that indwells
the soul is love. “And ye are complete in him.” (Colossians 2:10) The saintly
John Wesley writes; “The ground of a thousand mistakes, is the not considering
deeply that love is the highest gift of God; humble, gentle, patient love; that
all visions, revelations, manifestations, whatever, are little things compared
to love. It were well you should be thoroughly sensible of this. The heaven of
heavens is love. There is nothing higher in religion; there is, in effect,
nothing else. If you look for anything but more love, you are looking wide of
the mark, you are getting out of the royal way. And when you are asking others,
“Have you received this or that blessing?” if you mean anything but more love,
you mean wrong; you are leading them out of the way, and putting them on the
wrong scent. Settle it then in your heart that from the moment God has saved you
from all sin, you are to aim at nothing but more of that love described in the
thirteenth chapter of first Corinthians. You can go no higher than this till you
are carried into Abraham’s bosom.” This water of Christ that we drink not only
impregnates our being, but flows into all the outflowing life, the rivers of
outer holiness. Out from our inner parts shall flow rivers of love. There can
never be the outer constraining, living, helping, sacrificing love, without the
inner nature of Christ. So we say again, it is not what we naturally are or
profess in experience, but what we are when we receive of him by divine grace.
Shall we that want to be like Jesus, drink again? There are many Springs of
Substitution. Many are the False Fountains. The waters are bitter, not
satisfying — poison to the soul. Holy Ghost, lead us from any other than the
real! Give us only Jesus. Love is long suffering inwardly, without fanfare, nor
does it envy another. It is not proud; self has been dethroned. Christ is all in
all. The sanctified has no promptings within to behave unseemly, immodestly, or
rudely; is not selfish, but sacrifices for others. The holy in heart is not
provoked easily. He disciplines the mind to entertain no evil thoughts. Neither
does he have any pleasure in sin, but seeks truth and knowledge of the divine
will. How diverse from the sinful heart is this! He beareth all things,
believeth all truth, has that blessed hope, which causes him to suffer
affliction and endure reproach with the people of God rather than to enjoy the
pleasures of sin for a season. As we drink again of the Fount of Divine Love, we
find this love perfect and expanding, and although satisfying, we thirst for
more of Him. He is the infinite object of our devotion. His ability to receive
is ever enlarging, and our capacity is ever expanding adoration. Love is perfect
an complete yet increases forever. Love is never on parade. Love makes itself of
no reputation. It takes the towel of humility and washes the feet of others
without partiality. Holiness says, “I must decrease, but he must increase.” “Not
I but Christ.” The highest life of holiness is the deepest life of humility.
Charity is the immutable anchor of the soul. All else will pass away almost all
else will fail, but charity never fails. When this old world quakes in its death
throes, the elements burn with fervent heat, and all else has failed, divine
love will be as vital, strong and enduring as God himself The story is told of
the city of Narvik, Norway in the dark days of World War II. It had taken a
terrible pounding by enemy bombers. Destruction, rubble, ruin was the picture of
the once beautiful city. The blue harbor was full of wreckage and sunken ships.
Debris and oil slicks rode the rippling waves in the calm dawn of the following
morning. The Mayor of the city walked the shores, viewed the destruction and
desolation through tear filled eyes. What he saw moved him to confirm that the
works of man’s hands were perishing and only for a time. He looked across the
waters and his eyes lifted to the majestic snowcapped, mountains, sun-kissed by
the morning sunrise. His spirits rose and he was heard to proclaim, “But we
still have the mountains.” So it is with Love, all else may be taken from us but
something eternal burns within the breast, we fall at His pierced feet and
whisper, “My Lord and my God.” When time is lost in eternity, and eternity rolls
on, that eternal something that constrains us, burns warmer, brighter, and more
complete within us. Charity still remains; enlarges, grows into divine glory
throughout the ages of ages. As angels look on and marvel, we will lift our
voices in praise, “His love is everlasting!” To Him be the glory. Many seek
holiness for emotional joy. It is certainly true that joy accompanies a pure
life, but to seek for joy for our own sakes is a selfish desire. We should seek
to be sanctified because it is His will and we seek holiness for His sake. Love
endures all things. Joy is sometimes taken partially from us as we are tried and
tested, but love is enduring in trials. Love causes obedience to be active in
our most trying temptations. True love is not simply an emotion, but is
characterized by strong desire. It is not satisfied with mere infatuation but
has a burning desire to do good to its object of adoration When love is directed
toward God, it brings all powers into action to promote his glory and do his
will. Love to God is not perfect unless we love the souls of all people. Even
the least of these must receive of our love. Isaiah marveled at the love of
Christ and wrote of him. “A bruised reed he shall not break, and a smoking flax
he shall not quench.” Our loving Christ never looked upon a soul as worthless.
The bruised reed, thought to be unfit for use, was not cast aside. A smoking
wick, the obnoxious, was not quenched but trimmed and lighted that it might be
of use. So also the sanctified loves, sacrifices, and seeks avenues of service,
tries to love as he loved, to lift the load, to bind up the broken hearted, to
give sight to the blind, to seek that which is lost. Such was the expression of
the compassionate heart of Moses, “O, this people have sinned a great sin, and
have made them gods of gold; yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sins; and if
not blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.” Listen to
the Apostle to the Gentiles, “For I wish that myself were accursed from Christ
for my brethren.” Our love for all His created persons and things will be
subordinate to our love for Him, yet will be expressed to all creatures even as
He loved. He that has been filled from the Fountain of Love, finds in Christ the
center of life. He is not double-minded. He lives in Christ, moves in Christ,
and in Christ has his source of life. The life of the pure in heart is not
centered in self, nor does it try to revolve around two masters. The Agag of the
heart has been slain utterly and Jesus reigns supremely. The Sovereignty of his
Lord and Master is never contested. He is King Eternal. He is the Alpha and
Omega of his life.

“So precious is Jesus, my Savior and King. His praise all the day long with
rapture I sing To him in my weakness for strength I can cling For He is so
precious to me.”

—Chas. H. Gabriel

Perhaps as we mention the fountains of water that proceed from our Savior, we
find each repetitious, or like virtues evidenced within the soul. Though alike
they are not monotonous; though satisfying we thirst for more; though sufficient
we desire Him to become our ever increasing strength. Faith, Love, Joy, Peace,
and all other characteristics of holiness, originate in the same source — Christ
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  CHAPTER 5: 01.03.     THE FOUNTAIN OF SURRENDER, OF TEMPERANCE, OF HARMONY, OF GODLINESS, OF PRAYER
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THE FOUNTAIN OF SURRENDER

Again let us now drink from Him — from the Fountain of Surrender. This involves
a unity of purpose and mind with the divine, which can never be unless there
first is an act of full surrender to the will of God. We must not only come to a
definite place and time of full consecration, but we must live a surrendered
life. A daily continuous submission is the life of the sanctified. Surrender
must be complete. In it is an eternal abandonment to God of our whole spirit,
soul, and body. Madam Guyon states, “A will surrendered is not always a will
abandoned.” A surrender could be conditional, but an abandonment is final. This
is an act of faith that is needful to receive sanctification, and also needful
to keep the blessed experience. So deep must be the surrender that it is
absolute, unreserved, unconditional, and for eternal duration. This may, and
without question, will be a painful process. It is a laying down of our natural
life. It is likened to plucking out of an eye, a cutting off of a hand. But
deeper than this it is a crucifying of self, a delivering up of Isaac, a
presenting our bodies a living sacrifice, all of which is our reasonable
service. Our part involves going forth unto Him without the camp, bearing His
reproach This is the way of the cross; the way of death, but by faith we know if
we are buried in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of
His resurrection. The Old Methodists sang this truth in the old altar song:

“I must be dead from day to day Let me die; let me die!

Dead to the world and its applause, To all the customs, fashions, laws, Of those
who hate the humbling Cross.

Let me die! Let me die!

“My friends may say I’ll ruined be, If I die, if I die, If I leave all to follow
thee, But I’ll die, But I’ll die, Their arguments will never weigh, Nor stand
the trying judgment day, Help me to cast them all away.

Let me die! Let me die!

“Oh I must die to scoffs and sneers, Let me die! Let me die!

I must be freed from slavish fears, Let me die! Let me die! So dead that no
desire will rise, To appear good, or great, or wise, In any but my Savior’s
eyes:

Let me die! Let me die!

“If Christ would live and reign in me, I must die! I must die!

Like him I crucified must be, I must die! I must die Lord, drive the nails, nor
heed the groans, My flesh may writhe and make its moans, But this the way and
this alone.

I must die! I must die!

“Begin at once to drive the nail, Let me die! Let me die!

O suffer not my heart to fail, Let me die! Let me die!

Jesus, I look to for power. To enable me to endure this hour. When crucified by
sovereign power, I shall die! But I shall live!” The resurrected life is a life
of glory, a new creation, a rest of will and purpose. There will be a
consciousness of a yielded, restful spirit. Our highest delight will be to place
our will into His will, and rest on the knowledge we are one in Him. THE
FOUNTAIN OF TEMPERANCE The Fountain of Temperance is flowing for us. Let us
drink! The life of holiness is lived in obedience and subjection to moderate
appetites, and affections. Much of our life’s desires and natural drives under
proper restrictions are legitimate and innocent, but sin has corrupted the
nature; therefore the natural appetites become corrupt, sinful and bring
enslavement to the unregenerate. Instead of being for good, they become a means
of evil actions. The unholy, many times, takes the natural desire for food to be
a means of gluttony and drunkenness. The natural attraction of the opposite sex,
that should bring man and woman together in holy wedlock, becomes a means of
wicked licentiousness. The normal desire to accumulate causes the carnal to
become covetous, greedy and possibly a thief. The desire for happiness may be
the expression of selfishness. All of the legitimate desires of life that were
planned for humanity’s happiness sin has perverted into a law working within us
to wreck and damn the soul. The power of Pentecost regulates our sensibilities,
and keeps all things in proper place and value. The Holy Ghost brings and
enriches proper desire. Each is brought into harmony with the perfect law of
God. THE FOUNTAIN OF HARMONY

Let the Fount of Harmony energize our life, and holiness will rule every
emotion; purity will regulate every motive. Selfishness or sin finds nothing in
us The Spirit of God, in the baptism of Fire, does not destroy our personal
traits, but sanctifies, regulates and controls them entirely Who, but the holy,
may be angry and sin not? Who else can love, yet not love selfishly? The pure in
heart possesses or expresses no sinful anger or sinful love. There is an anger
which is legitimate and righteous the same kind as our Savior expressed toward
wickedness, and hypocrisy, and also toward the greed of money changers in the
temple. Let the Christian beware, lest selfishness or pride find a place in his
heart and be justified under cover of righteous wrath. As God’s wrath is holy,
so must ours be if we are to maintain the life of holiness. Thus the love life
of the sanctified is a holy life, harmonized by the spirit into perfect love for
God and souls We love everyone as Christ loved, and are willing to give all to
save the lost No sacrifice should be thought too great, if it would lift the
sinner out of sin Every human being’s worth should be considered in the
possibility of divine grace.

“Down in the human heart;

Crushed by the tempter, Feelings lie buried, That grace can restore;

Touched by a loving heart, Wakened by kindness, Chords that were broken, Will
vibrate once more.”

FOUNTAIN OF GODLINESS

There is another fountain flowing freely from which the holy love to drink. This
is the Water of Godliness (God likeness). The desire of the regenerate, as well
as the holy, should be to be more like Jesus. Godliness is the opposite of
selfishness Every man’s life revolves around either self or God. The inner
life’s promptings and thoughts of the pure in heart flow from a holy source. The
basis of all man’s wanderings from God is selfishness. Independence, the
foundation of a myriad sins, has its beginnings in selfishness. The driving
force of self gratification causes man to restlessly run to and fro to satisfy
the desires of lust, and other carnal, sinful passions, only to bring
disappointment and remorse. The things earthly were never designed to satisfy
the burning thirst of the soul. “If any man thirst, let him come unto me,” said
Jesus. Let that discouraged sinner; let that thirsty traveler; let the
despondent; let the heart broken; let the one bound by habits; let he whom Satan
hath bound; yea, let all come to Jesus.

“Never a burden that he doth not carry, Never a heartache that he doth not
share, Whether the day will be sunny or dreary, Jesus is always there.” The
writer of the Roman Epistle instructs those believers who know that the old man
is crucified and that the body of sin is destroyed — that they should not from
thenceforth serve sin. How strongly he teaches that the members of our body are
to be used for God and yielded unto him. Our body and its members are
instruments of righteousness unto God. Our self life is dead and our all is
yielded to the purpose of God. No member digresses or opposes another, but the
unity of spirit, soul, and body is expressed in, “Let all things be done for the
glory of God.” Oh! what peaceful rest. The strife is destroyed. A holy calm
soothes the soul. The members that were once used to gratify selfish desire —
the natural drives that were to be used for happiness, holiness, and good, but
were perverted by selfishness, now are directed by a holy nature, prompted by
holy desires, yielded to become servants of God, now bare fruit unto holiness.
The carnal heart is the seat of all unregulated and unrestrained desire. How
simple is our desire, when selfishness is removed. No longer does the heart
clamor for self gratification, but centers all desire on one supreme object, and
that is Christ. The idol of the natural man’s heart is broken, Jesus becomes the
adorable one, the fullness of all desire. Hallelujah! The soul’s desire is
expressed thus:

“Oh! to be like thee, Blessed Redeemer, This is my constant longing and prayer,
Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s pleasures, Jesus, thy perfect likeness to
wear.”

Oh, dear reader, let us pause and quench the longing of our soul, as we drink
again from the Fount of Godliness. We have turned away from anxiety, passions,
aversions, attachments, hatred and selfishness. We dwell in the graces of the
Holy Spirit — long suffering, compassion, forgiveness, meekness and love. We,
the sanctified guard, the members, the body, the mind, and allow nothing to
enter that opposes love, Godlike love. Sad is the fact that many professing
Christianity do not desire to be godly. They stand as a testimony for sin and
worldliness. The poor sin-cursed, hell-bound sinner looks for help, and finds no
healing balm, no divine compassion, no holy lives, and goes into perdition
weeping, “No man cares for my soul.” “The love of the world is the
characteristic weakness of the Church of our time. The bulk of its membership is
in torpid conformity with the world. It is swayed by the world’s ambitions;
delighted by the worlds pleasures, intoxicated by the world’s applause, ruled by
world’s customs, fashions and laws. They measure themselves by the world’s
standards, and try to slack the thirst of their soul at the world’s fountains of
pleasures. God knows it! Angels know it! Devils know it! Unregenerated men know
it! And unanimously vote that such mawkish piety is only a detestable cant and
hypocrisy.”

— A. M. Hills THE FOUNTAIN OF PRAYER The life of Christ flows to us through the
Fountain of Prayer. Few drink enough from its cool waters. Prayer is more, by
far, than petition. It is the voice of dependence. The life of the pure in heart
has lost all earthly dependence, and human props. This believer remembers the
time that from the heart he said, “Fade, Fade each earthly joy,

Jesus is mine!

Break every tender tie, Jesus is mine!” His soul has leaned upon the strong arm
of the Almighty, unashamed to admit that he needs the Spirit’s counsel, his
strength, his guidance, and his comfort. He has found the secret “Man does not
live by bread alone: but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”
Prayer is our acknowledgment of dependence, therefore we pray without ceasing.
Andrew Murray tells us, “Faith in a prayer answering God makes a prayer loving
Christian.” We love to resort to him, consult him, to commune with him, to
worship and love him. Our whole life is centered in him. We are drawn to him in
holy love. We manifest the love by living moment by moment by the words
proceeding out from his mouth. Prayer is more precious than our constant lip
service, but is constantly, with love and confidence, drawing from him. The ears
are open to His words; the heart is open to his filling; the will is submitted
to his direction. We may come boldly and often to him to find grace to help in
every time of need. How open is His throne; the veil is rent, the bloodwashed
may enter. Hallelujah! We would warn the reader, regardless of experience or
profession, if your heart is not open to the law of God; if you have not walked
in all the light that the blessed Spirit has given; if you have delayed in your
obedience to the known will of God, that the Lord despises your prayers. He
calls you to repentance! “He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law,
even his prayers shall be abomination.” Proverbs 28:9. God calls the sinner to
repentance. “He that covereth his sin shall not prosper, but whoso confesseth
and forsaketh them shall have mercy.” Our Lord’s model of prayer, teaches us
that the prerequisite of prayer is proper relationship to the Father and our
fellowman. “Our Father” is addressed. Who, but the peacemakers, are children of
God? (Matthew 5:9) Can we meet the qualifications of the forty-forth verse?
“Love your enemies, bless them that despitefully use you, and persecute you;
that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.” Let us drink
long at the fount of prayer.

“Oh! what peace we often forfeit, Oh! what needless pain we bare, All because we
do not carry, Everything to God in prayer.”

It would be well to examine ourselves before coming into the holy place, into
His presence. The ceremonial priesthood of the old dispensation conveys this
truth, that one must be holy, cleansed, washed, sprinkled, set apart — before
meeting with the Holy God. The ceremony passed, but the truth remains. Only
those who know that the veil was rent, come boldly before Him. We must be
sinless to pray, “Our Father.” We note the tenor of the Lord’s prayer and the
verses following are leading the children into asking, seeking, knocking, for
the incoming Holy Ghost. John used strong words to tell us that not all who
professed to believe were children of God. “He that committeth sin is of the
devil” Nothing could be plainer. Let the liberals rage, modern theologians
imagine a vain thing, but this fact remains in the eternal word. Thank God! Our
sins of the past can be blotted out; our hearts purified by the indwelling
Spirit. We may come anytime, anywhere, and be instant in prayer. “Beloved if our
hearts condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.” Do you long for him?
Come and drink; there is room for you. The writer has learned a secret, that may
help someone who at times has difficulty in prayer. We find that we tend to pray
more earnestly or more often for relatives, friends, and needs prevalent in our
daily life; but if we do not pray for our enemies, who will intercede for them?
We find heaven opens and prayer becomes more real when we first bring to Jesus
those who oppose us; those who ridicule; those who have persecuted. We find this
not only practical but scriptural. Praise His name, He is nigh unto His children
that call upon Him. Prayer is the voice of submission. The life of the
sanctified is submitting to the directives and leadings of Jesus; listening to
his desires and on bended knee, praying, “Sweet will of God, hold me closer
until I am wholly lost in thee.” One who daily walks in communion with the Lord,
calmly follows his bidding, not agitated by commotions of the world, not
restless, not worried or dismal with forebodings of the future. Such is the
life, and only the life, that is constantly indwelt by the Holy Ghost. To
maintain this indwelling Heavenly Guest, there is an inward meekness and
quietness of trust, free from worldly anxiety and troublesome care. Blessed is
he that is free from all selfish desire he cherishes the checks and promptings
of the Spirit that he may not grieve the Lord, and possess an inward willing
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  CHAPTER 6: 01.04.     THE FOUNTAIN OF MILK AND SWEETNESS OF HONEY, RIVERS OF LIVING WATER, RIVERS OF CALMNESS
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THE FOUNTAIN OF MILK AND SWEETNESS OF HONEY This Canaan Land experience of the
sanctified is a land flowing with milk and honey. We drink from its fountains;
we eat of its honey comb; we are satisfied by its abundance. Egypt is in the
past; we have our inheritance in Canaan. Would we go back? No, never.

“I’ve reached the land of corn and wine, And all its riches freely mine; Here
shines undimmed one blissful day. For all my night has passed away”

Hallelujah! The battles rage; the storms have blown; Satan has tempted, but our
blessed Christ brought us through. He led around the pitfalls of false doctrine.
We escaped the snares of modernism, shallow holiness, easy “believism” and
compromise. We staggered sometimes trying to find the way, but the good Holy
Spirit led us faithfully, by the door of justification, through Calvary to the
death of self a crucifixion of the old man, then to a glorious resurrection.
Praise His Name! Risen with Christ who made us sit together in heavenly places.
We drink from him daily, and possess a treasure that fadeth not away.

“I can see far down the mountain, Where I wondered weary years, Often hindered
in my journey, By the ghosts of doubts and fears;

Broken vows and disappointments Thickly sprinkled all the way. But the spirit
led unerring, To the land I hold today.”

We must maintain the experience, and increase in our life of holiness. Apostle
Peter writes that we must desire the sincere milk of the word that we may grow
thereby. Is not the land flowing with milk? Then we may drink from the Fountain
of the Milk of the Word, that promotes growth in the graces of God. The student
of the word never finds inference that the believer grows into the experience of
sanctification, nor has the writer ever heard testimony of one who professes to
have grown into this grace. It is a definite act of God’s grace subsequent to
regeneration. It is wrought by the baptism with the Holy Ghost and comprehends
in one instantaneous experience, the cleansing of the heart from sin and the
incoming, indwelling presence of the Holy Ghost. Yet there is a maturing, a
growth in grace. The justified are hindered in their growth and development by
the carnal mind, which does not subject itself to the laws of God. If one fails
to grow, death is imminent. We could not be in sympathy with one who professes
the life of the indwelling Christ, and testifies to a high state of grace, that
becomes cold and critical, failing to grow in fervent love for God and man. The
tragedy of the holiness movement, is that many that go on into a profession of
holiness, anchor to a historical experience instead of drinking from the word,
growing in love, living in Him, and He in them. It was well stated by Henry
Drummond: “A few years of enthusiasm and blessing, then carelessness, no study,
no spiritual fruit, too often a sad collapse.” Also Satan would substitute an
emotional stir, for the work of the Spirit of God. Dear seeker, do not stop
short of true heart purity. If you do, you not only will be disappointed, but
you will influence others to questioning the experience of holiness, and also
fail a sin sick world who is looking for reality. This truth is told by John
Hyde: “Self must not only be dead, but buried out of sight, for the stench of an
unburied self-life will frighten souls away from Jesus.” Desire the sincere Milk
of the Word. Thirst for it! Nothing is more nutritious to the soul. We live by
faith, but faith is false if it is not based on the word. Faith cometh by
hearing, and hearing by the word of God. How insecure is the foundation of faith
that is not founded on doctrine. The reason that the Son of Man shall find
little faith in this day, is that most professors will not endure sound
doctrine. The result is that the Charismatic movement, the occult, is rapidly
making inroads into the fundamental churches. They have too long neglected sound
doctrine. When the winds of false doctrine blow, these are carried over the
precipice of delusion into eternal hell. Let us see the worth of truth, and
thirst after Him, who is Truth. Praise His Name! We receive spiritual life as a
gift at conversion; we receive the gift of heart purity at the time of our
entire sanctification. Afterwards we should grow into maturity Perfect love and
holiness are synonymous and whether in time or eternity, there will always be a
place for increase in holy love. Therefor spiritual growth is continuous,
perpetual and eternal. Christian perfection, received when you are sanctified
wholly, is perfection in nature; maturity is perfection in degree by growth. We
may be maturing fully and progressing in growth, but there is a constant
mellowing in godliness. We may liken the experience to the growth of fruit. From
the flower emerges the small fruit. The small apple is as much apple in nature
as it ever will be. It is unlike any other fruit, yet it must grow. When it
comes to full growth, it is a perfect apple; large, true to its specie, and
fully developed. It will take the sun light, the showers, the cool nights to
make it edible. One day the farmer looks upon the fruit and decides it is time
to be harvested. In all stages the apple was a perfect specimen of an apple, but
it took some maturing before it was marketable. So it is in Christian
perfection. There is always room for development, growth and maturity. When the
soul is delivered from the body of sin, it can begin to grow. The Fountain of
Milk of the Word flows full. Drink, grow, mature, in Christian love, which is
the bond of perfection. “Wherefore laying aside all malice and guile, and
hypocrisies and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the
sincere milk of the Word, that ye may grow thereby,” writes Apostle Peter. He is
writing to the Christian converts in a justified state as “newborn babes,” and
calls upon them to remove all carnal hindrances, and to seek for an appetite
that produces a healthy spiritual growth. We have here the pattern for Christian
growth and development, First get rid of inbred sin. The scripture is plain that
these are manifestations of the carnal nature — malice, guile, hypocrisies,
envies, evil speaking. Peter is exhorting: “Remove the obstructions to growth,
be sanctified wholly, let the body of sin be destroyed, let the Holy Spirit
remove all that is not subject to God and feed yourself on the word, then you
will grow.” In the second Epistle he writes “But grow in grace, and in the
knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” From this we learn the faith
that brings growth is dependent upon our knowledge of Christ …Growth is
contingent upon our knowledge of Jesus. No small wonder that Paul, the Apostle,
coming near to the time of his departure, expressed his strong desire: “That I
may know him, the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his
sufferings.” Dear heart, how strong is your desire to know him? Your knowledge
of him will produce growth. Let us drink from the fountain of the flowing Milk
of the Word. Take deeply from him. He is the Word, The Word that was made flesh.
Drink again from him! Sit at his feet and learn of him. The Spirit teaches us of
him by our diligent study of the word, by prayer, communion, meditation and
worship. The Holy Ghost searches the deep things of God, and brings to our
attention the teachings of Christ. Praise the Lord.

“Oh! to be like thee, Blessed Redeemer This is my constant longing and prayer,
Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth pleasures, Jesus thy perfect likeness to wear.”
The writer of the Church of Ephesus asserts the Lord’s order and provision for
spiritual development. He expresses the callings of God evangelists, apostles,
prophets, pastors, and teachers for the perfecting of the saints, (not the
sinners), for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
till we all come in the unity of faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God,
unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
Oh! how important is the ministry of the Word. The sanctified does not find the
message of the preacher dull and uninteresting, but hungers for the word. When
truth comes close and searching, from his heart comes a hearty, “Amen!” This is
the divine order. We dare not try to by-pass, as some who have fallen from grace
and have made shipwreck of their faith. The work of the ministry of the word is
a sacred calling, but also is the calling to the hearing of the Word. Once the
justified believer thirsts for truth, God is faithful to open up the Word that
he might be satisfied. If the believer drinks from the Word, he will see the
blackness of sin, he will realize the nature within, the leprosy of the soul,
the disease that is incurable without the blood of Jesus. He finds that we are
born with the constitutional disease of inbred sin, and that original sin
continues to exist after regeneration, though suppressed, until crucified and
destroyed by the Baptism with the Holy Ghost. While this corruption remains,
spiritual growth is retarded. It must be eradicated, if we go on to perfection.
Thank God, for the provision of grace. There is a Balm in Gilead; there is a
physician there. The fountain has been opened for sin and uncleanness. On
Calvary the sin offering was destroyed without the camp: “Wherefore Jesus also
that he might sanctify his people with his own blood suffered without the gate.”
“Let us therefore go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.” “We
are sanctified by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all.”
“For by one offering, he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified.” Oh!
precious blood! Hallelujah! In the blood of Jesus is healing for all spiritual
maladies, and for all inbred sin. Drink of him, precious soul, the health of
soul will be recovered. Why will ye die, when the healing waters flow? Wilt thou
be made whole? Jesus is standing near. Sanctification is to the soul what health
is to the body.

Holiness is wholeness. Let the leper, the lame, the halt and whosoever will come
and drink of the water of life freely. “Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to
the waters and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine
and milk without money and without price.”

RIVERS OF LIVING WATER The giving out of an inward power is consistent with all
the laws of creation. Our sun emits its warming rays through near ninety-three
million miles of space to give warmth and light to all nature because there is a
fervent immeasurable heat within. The flower gives its perfume because there is
something in its body that produces the elements that constitutes fragrance.
Accordingly as our God is love, there must be self-expression. He gave his Son
to redeem us because an expression of infinite love must be given from an
infinite heart of love. Since this is true in natural and divine law: We must
give of what we are. If we are sinful, our life will show it; if we are holy,
our outward life will give evidence to it. Never will a corrupt tree bring forth
good fruit, or a good tree bring forth corrupt fruit. The law of the universe is
that we bring forth after our kind. We will produce something, good or evil. Our
blessed Lord said, “He that believeth on me, out of his belly shall flow rivers
of living water. This spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him
should receive.” What could be plainer than that the believer should receive the
Holy Ghost? It is his will and his provision and our duty. We should receive the
spirit. If we fail to receive him, we fail ourselves; we fail others, and we
fail God. Oh, unsanctified heart, you should receive him. If we receive the
infilling, cleansing Holy Spirit, it will be a natural law as well as a divine
law, that out of our being shall flow rivers of life giving waters. It was
aforementioned that the drinking in of Christ would precede the flowing out of
him, but always we will be giving out as we are drinking in, Oh! What
responsibility, oh, glorious privilege that from us this Godless world may know
him. Our outward life will be holy if our inward heart is pure. God’s standard
of conduct for every age, and every people is moral perfection in action.
Abraham, justified by faith, was commanded, “Walk before me and be thou
perfect.” The law given by Moses demanded a holy conduct. The prophets announced
God’s standard of righteous living is perfect obedience. Christ’s sermon on the
mount calls for outward piety consistent with a pure heart. The Apostles
preached a gospel of full deliverance from the body of sin, and that the
delivered from “henceforth…should not serve sin.” So, the scriptural divine
standard that must regulate our lives is a sinless walk with God in all holy
conversation. Jesus’ life flows through us and from within us. Neither the
sanctified nor the justified can violate one of the commandments without
forfeiting his salvation. Regardless of the state of grace that we enjoy, we are
under obligation to God to live up to the laws of God, and in either state our
outward conduct and deeds will be very similar. It is a fallacy coming from the
father of lies, that one might think, because he has not gone on into the grace
of sanctification, that he can endorse one bit of disobedience. There can be no
flimsy excuse for actions of sin. God commands all his children to be holy. No
Christian can violate this command. There is no such a person as a sinning
Christian. For he that sinneth is not born of God. He must confess and repent
and be born again. Sin is the violation of God’s command. He will make no
compromise with it. We dare not, in any amount of honesty, make any allowance
for it. The Christian will never tolerate it in action or nature. The Psalmist
acknowledging his sin cried, “Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean; wash me
and I shall be whiter than snow.” While it is true that the justified sinneth
not, yet there is an important difference in attitudes in keeping the law of
God. The truly sanctified loves to obey the commandments. They are not grievous
to him. From an inner life of perfect love abounds a willing obedience that
surpasses that of the justified. This overflowing love causes obedience to
abound. It will go the second mile to please God. It abounds and grows not only
in obedience and faith, but also in discipline and temperance. Holiness of heart
will exhibit itself not in man’s vanity, but humbly in God’s holiness. The
indwelling Christ is too excellent, too glorious, to be kept concealed. He shall
flow out of us in rivers of water. The conflict of soul, (would do good, but
finds evil is present also) is settled when the believer is filled with the
Divine Spirit. The wretched groanings of an inward battle are silenced. The
fighting to suppress the law of sin that caused defeat so many times, is now
over. Instead of a fighting to maintain our obedience there now is a resting, a
relaxing of our whole being to do the perfect will of God. It is no little
wonder that the life of the sanctified is at peace, the strife is over. A
lively, zealous anticipation to accomplish the will of God is evident in all
phases of life. So we see that as Christians, in the justified state, our
obedience fulfills the law, but in the state of sanctification our obedience
fulfills all righteousness and godliness. Blessed be the fountain of blood!

“The cleansing stream, I see, I see, I plunge and oh! it cleanseth me, Oh,
Praise the Lord, it cleanseth me, It cleanseth me, yes cleanseth me.”

Let us behold the flowing rivers that flow from the heart of the sanctified.
Crystal clear and ever flowing, unpolluted and beautiful is the life of the one
that has been purified and cleansed by the blood of Jesus.

RIVERS OF CALMNESS The first river we would mention (not necessarily because of
prominence, for it would be impossible for us to judge) is the River of
Calmness. The out giving life of holiness is distinguished by a quietude of
manner and normally the absence of emotionality. Experience is by no means
without value. Thank God, for the quickening of our emotions. He does not
destroy them, but sanctifies our emotional life. A religion that is destitute of
feelings and elation is bound to end up on the rocks of formality, coldness and
death. We have observed in our work for the Lord that those who know the depths
of the Love of God are never loud, irreverent, or attention seekers. There is an
emotional stability that is not so evidenced in the life of the unsanctified. A
religion that is based on emotion will soon run into extravagance, spurious wild
fire and fanaticism. Unstable is the foundation of faith that is based only on
experience, and has left doctrine behind. Emotional experience alone is
generally wavering without root and will not endure. It is certainly true that
there is joy unsurpassed in holiness, there is peace with God, there is rest in
the will of the Father and the very depths of love and trust brings an unspoiled
calmness and quietness. The soul that is anchored in him, is steadfast in joy
and peace, unchangeable, and satisfied to rest in the experience of calmness and
quiet repose. Flow from us Blessed River. May we never be loud, over talkative,
or rude in manner. A holy life is not evidenced by many words, but shows forth a
meek and a quiet spirit. In pity we see some that cannot testify in a testimony
meeting without giving out dry, long accounts of uninteresting babble, that
neither edifies the Church nor glorifies God. Many a poor sinner has been driven
away because someone felt it was his calling to impress the hearers with
experiences, visions, stories and self-filled testimonies. Oh! how we need a
sanctified church — a spirit filled church— that the presence of the Holy one
will draw, will convict and will convince the poor sinner of his need. Quench
not the spirit. Let the River of Calmness flow on. The storm may rage but the
one that has the full Assurance of Faith cannot be moved. It was the blessed
Apostle that said, in recounting the battles, the storms, the persecutions and
disappointments of life, “None of these things move me.” We receivestanding
grace that will stabilize us when the forces of darkness are all arrayed against
us. In the midst of the storm we can rest. While the unsanctified are in a state
of frenzy and agitation, we rest assured that the circumstances are working for
us for good.

“I am resting tonight in this wonderful peace, Buried deep in the heart of my
soul, So secure that no power can mine it away.

While the years of eternity roll.” Glory! Our conduct in the fiery trials and in
the raging storms will testify more than our words. The world looks on and what
they see in our lives may determine their desire or their dislike for holiness.
Flow in abundance of calmness, oh, River of Life. Out from a heart of faith and
trust flow on to assure this confused age of the reality of true holiness.


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  CHAPTER 7: 01.05.     THE RIVER OF SILENT SUBMISSION, RIVER OF TRUST
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THE RIVER OF SILENT SUBMISSION May the River of Silent Submission flow from us.
Out of a crucified, yielded heart let every act be in subjection to the Giver of
Grace. The earthen vessel that has this treasure within, accepts reproach,
though falsely accused, and rejoices that he is worthy to suffer as our Lord,
“Who, when he was reviled, he reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened
not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously.” Every individual,
saint or sinner, suffers under slander, false accusations, but though he may
suffer, the sanctified does not fight back, but holds still and leaves his cause
in the hands of God, who is the comforter in times of need. “Vengeance is mine!
I will repay,” saith the Lord. Flow on Blessed River! When we are defrauded in a
business transaction, the submitted heart never quarrels or fusses to get even.
When others clamor for our destruction with lying tongues, and fill the air with
accusing gossip, certainly the sanctified suffers, but never seeks to uphold
themselves by returning accusations or slander. Divine love settles this. Jesus
said, “Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and say all
manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice; and by exceedingly
glad; for great is your reward in heaven. Love your enemies, bless them that
curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully
use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is
in heaven.” Oh, dear reader, does not this demand a holy heart? Where could the
sinner or even the justified, find his place in this standard? Are you a child
of the Father in heaven? It would pay us to examine our inward stirrings and
attitudes, as well as our outward conduct. There may be times that it would be
proper and right by holy discretion and divine guidance to rebuke an evil doer,
not to discredit him, but to uphold a scriptural standard of principle. The
expose of sin and malice is needful, but never is a revengeful rebuke proper.
Let us hate wickedness and sin, but love the sinner. May we never allow
wickedness to triumph over us, yet may we never render railing for railing, but
may Love flow unpolluted from us to the poor lost enemy. Charity seeketh not her
own, and thinketh no evil. The outflowing of an inward faith is characterized by
a silent subjection to circumstances. There is an inward knowledge that all
things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called
according to his purpose. Everyone admires true manliness or womanliness in
character, but oh, how much greater is true godliness! It is admirable to see
one, even who does not have a consolation of faith in God, meet misfortunes with
strength, and not give in to afflictions in such a way as to upset, frustrate or
tear up the normal character. Yet how much better is it to lean on the Savior’s
breast in the dark hours of calamity, and to look upon his face, in silent
subjection and say, “Thou doest all things well.” Oh dear reader, how wonderful
is the sanctified life. The past is forgiven, the present is peaceful, the
future lies within God’s perfect will. “Great peace have they which love thy
law: and nothing shall offend them.” Worry is sin to the sanctified. The world
will note a great difference in the submission to the fiery trials of the
Christian who has received the full assurance of faith and of those who know not
this grace.

RIVER OF TRUST

Jesus flows from us in the River of Trust. Our daily conduct gives evidence of
trust in all things. Not only will our soul pray out, “Not my will but thine be
done” but in the darkest of hours proclaim, “Into thy hands I commend my
spirit.” The motivation of our life will not be of human desire, but of faith.
The unsaved live in the delusion that the gratification of desire is happiness.
They restlessly run to and fro in search of some real or imaginary object, which
they suppose will bring peace and happiness. This is only true and proper, when
the desires have God as their central object. If anything but God and his
righteousness is sought, they miss the mark. While this is true of every sinner,
it is partially true of many regenerated. Their life is full of desires and most
often terminate in created objects, and not on the satisfying Christ. Their
desire is strong, but their faith is weak. They profess great faith, but are
centered on the desire for temporal blessings, wealth, fame, position, influence
and things that worldly minded people are pursuing in vain. All is vanity apart
from God. Desire searches for things seen. Faith pursues the unseen and
spiritual. Desire grasps the perishing objects. Faith takes hold of the Eternal,
even to Christ himself. When the believer is filled with the purging Holy
Spirit, everything of self-centered desire is cleansed from the heart; He
experiences a change from the reign of desire to the reign of faith. The desire
is in subjection to faith. Faith leads all desires to be centered in Him.” The
soul rests in the conviction that God’s will is being done. Faith becomes
joyous, vibrant, and yields itself to outward trust. The quietness of manner,
the simplicity of undivided trust, will flow from an inward tranquillity that
comes only from our blessed Christ. Let the Rivers of Christ flow out and
enlarge. The spiritual law is that of growth and enlargement. The prophet
Ezekiel beheld a vision of the flowing river that proceeded from the spiritual
house. At each point of measurement the river enlarged. The waters were to the
ankles; the waters were to the knees; the waters were to the loins; and finally,
they were a river that could not be passed over. Praise the Lord! This life in
Christ cannot be held in a bottle. If it is unhindered by vain desire,
slothfulness, or unfaithfulness it cannot be measured. The most blessed truth of
this vision of the prophet is that “everything shall live whither the river
cometh.” Let Christ flow from us and he will give life to the desert places. The
waters of the dead sea will be healed. The life of the sanctified is a fruitful
life. This River from Christ not only gives life but will sustain the life of
holiness. “And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that
side, shall grow all tress for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall
the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his
months, because their waters issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit there of
shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.” From beneath the
threshold of the sanctuary of the sanctified this river shall flow, not to
receive but to give and to bless others. The consequence of a spirit filled life
will be to bring life to those that are dead Christ flowing from us will help
others to grow. The desert shall blossom. The lives of the sickly will be
strengthened. The dry bones shall live again. Hallelujah! “Be ye also enlarged,”
wrote the Apostle. To what capacities? Let him tell us. “Till we all come in the
unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man
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  CHAPTER 8: 01.06.     THE RIVER OF CHARITY
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THE RIVER OF CHARITY When Christ indwells the believer in sanctifying grace out
of his inner being flows the River Charity. The greatest and most complete of
all outward graces in action is love that is complete and not self-centered Out
of the heart of the purified flows no river that is polluted with self-glory.
Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. You will not find one boasting or
even speaking much of his actions. The heart is not given to exalting the human,
but speaks much of Jesus, and what he has done for him; little of what he has
given but much of what he has received from Christ. Even this must be done with
discretion that in all things Christ will have the preeminence. The believer
that has this grace of Charity will be forbearing to others. He will not condone
sin, and will contend for the faith, yet will not flaunt the imperfections.
faults and slowness of spiritual growth of others. We cannot help but see marked
defects in character, but we are not anxious to expose them. Would it not be
more profitable to us and to them to pray for them? If we let these things cause
us to fret and feel that we are appointed to expose another, we will find
ourselves out of the grace of God and a fallen soul. The sanctified learns to
grow in patience. Oh! dear heart, think of the infinite patience of Christ. How
long he bore with us and how much we need his forbearance still! Charity suffers
long and is kind. This River does not fluctuate with circumstances. It is always
kind. It always is long suffering. In the home it flows calmly on. In school, at
church, on the job, it remains the same. Flow on River of Charity. This world is
dying of thirst; give them drink. One the outer evidences of the sanctified is
the fact that charity doth not behave itself unseemly. One translation reads,
“Doth not behave itself indecently.” The pure in heart does not act indecently
or immodestly. Regardless of profession, a Christian will not wear immodest
clothing. This mini-skirt craze found its origin with the ungodly, sensual and
God defying womanhood. Woe to those that wear or sanction such! What has
happened to womanhood? They fail to have the respect that should be theirs.
Nudity and indecency has always been the trademark of the heathen, the fallen,
the God defiers. No one could wear such and claim to be Godlike. Parading the
body before the opposite sex to inflame passion and lust, is far from Christian.
It is devilish, heathenish and rebellious against God’s Holy Word. Who could
profess to love God and be filled with his spirit and behave indecently? That
profession is false. Oh Jesus, let the love of God constrain us to discipline
our lives, our outward actions, our dress, and all that this world sees, to
align ourselves to the standard of God’s Word, of simplicity, modesty and
holiness. Flow from us River of charity, out of a holy heart. Let our hearts
burn in fervent love. With a deep compassion, that is shed abroad in our hearts
by the Holy Ghost, may we let this world know that Jesus loves them; that
someone cares for their soul. Divine love that flows from a compassionate heart,
will give all to reach the poorest for Christ. It will weep o’er the erring one,
lift up the fallen, tell them of Jesus who is mighty to save. Jesus prayed,
“that the love wherewith thou hast loved me maybe in them, and I in them.”
Charity never serves for praise. It finds its reward in being Christlike It acts
not to please self, but to help others and please Him who loves most. God is
love. We cannot be Godlike and do less than give ourselves for others. The
follower must take up his cross, he must fall into the ground and die. He must
be a servant of all. No task is too large or too small if it will rescue someone
out of the hands of the enemy. We have already drunk of the fountain of Love but
there must be an enlarging River flow from us. Far beyond the greatest of human
love must be an abounding divine infilling and out flowing. Our thoughts must
not be on self saving, but on self giving. We dare not have the spirit of the
world, of survival, but out of our being will flow the spirit of giving or
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  CHAPTER 9: 01.07.     THE RIVER OF MEEKNESS AND QUIETNESS, OF LONG SUFFERING, OF KINDNESS, OTHER RIVERS
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RIVER OF MEEKNESS AND QUIETNESS From the Christ centered heart flows the River
of Meekness, and also Quietness. From an inner meekness and quietness of heart
flows these rivers. So evidenced and needful are these, that the Apostle Peter
speaks of them as an ornament, that in the sight of God is of great price.
Meekness and quietness is an outward manner of an inward holiness. In the midst
of persecution, the true saint, leaves all in the hands of God, the avenger.
When he is reviled, he reviles not again; when he suffers, he threatens not; but
commits himself to him that judges righteously. He does not find someone to
blame, but allows that God permits situations to arise, circumstances to
surround us, that are working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of
glory. The one made perfect in heart does not resist authority. Governments are
ordained of God, whether national state, community, church or departments of
employment. We may not enjoy all things. We may see inconsistencies or even
injustices, but we will yield to authority. We may pursue logical and reasonable
means as are ordained in voting, petitioning, and representation to better
conditions, but never will there be in the acts or spirit of the sanctified, an
antagonism or rebellion. Prayer in meekness of spirit, will accomplish more than
our puny human efforts. If we, as many have been, are called to leave our former
affiliation, and separate ourselves unto God and from sin, we must leave as
gracefully as we can. There must not be any malice or hard feelings on our part.
If God is leading, he does not lead with hatreds or selfish interests. If those
we leave have ought against us, let us pour the oil of love in the wound and
pray much for them. When by our God-given convictions, that we receive through
the word and prayer, we are called to come out and be separate, we must
willingly obey Him. Never will we act because of peevish notions or hatreds. The
sanctified are never led by carnal promptings of rebellion but by the spirit of
God. Was it not James Russell Lowell, in the dark days of our nation, that
penned the words:

“Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the Throne, Yet that scaffold
sways the future, And behind the dim unknown, Standeth God, within the shadows,
Keeping watch above his own.” The Church of Jesus Christ was not called to solve
all social injustices or better social conditions, as such, but was called to
preach the Gospel to the poor, to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance
to the captives, and the restoration of sight to the blind. Our calling is to
preach the gospel, that saves from sin, to every creature. Let us never let
Satan turn us from giving to everyone the gospel, that meets the need of the
inner man. Pointing to social disorders provoked by sin and using humanistic
methods to try to recover will never meet the need. It is the blood of Jesus
that atones. It is Christ that sets free. It is sin that wrecks, it is Jesus
that heals. Jesus said, “The thief cometh not but for to steal, and to kill, and
to destroy. I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it
more abundantly.” Although the Christian is concerned for his nation, laws and
problems of government, he is not overly disturbed by political struggles and
tumults. He takes his concern to God in prayer. He does not agitate for an
overthrow of power, but leaves his interests of nation and state in the hands of
Almighty God. Is not this the manner that God would have us follow? Read the
instruction to Timothy. “I exhort therefore, the first of all, supplications,
prayers, intercession, and giving thanks be made for all men; for kings, and for
all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all
godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our
Savior.” However this does not call us to be slothful or unconcerned. The saints
of God should be most concerned about laws of right, and the liberties to preach
the gospel; to worship God as we desire, but our weapons are not carnal. If ever
God’s people should be praying, it is now! “If the people that are called by my
name, shall humble themselves! and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their
wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin, and will
heal their land.” And again, “when the enemy shall come in like a flood, the
Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.” Sanctified heart, let
us not fear the break ups of life — the difficulties, or the seeming
destructions. God allows what the world looks on as failures to cause his
purpose to be perfected. The cross would seem the end of Christ’s kingdom on
earth, but not so, it established it. The corn of wheat must die or it abideth
alone, but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. The deaths, the beatings,
the stonings, the imprisonments worked to scatter the church. Was this the end?
Oh, no! It grew to all nations. God is still on the throne! Fear not little
flock! “For we know all things work together for good to them that love the Lord
and to them that are the called according to his purpose.” THE RIVER OF LONG
SUFFERING From the life of the sanctified will flow the river of Long Suffering
with it the tributaries of Patience and Tolerance. The life of Jesus is emitted
through the holy in heart. The sufferer does not seek to tell others of his
patience in suffering, but suffers silently. We bring our griefs and sorrows to
Jesus but in true trust in his infinite wisdom acknowledge that those that live
godly in this world shall suffer. We willingly fellowship in the sufferings of
Christ. Jesus said, “Blessed are you when men shall revile you and say all
manner of evil against you falsely for my sake; rejoice and be exceedingly glad
for great is your reward in heaven.” We may be called upon to bear grief and
sorrow, but let us know that if we suffer with him, we shall reign with him. Our
light afflictions that we suffer for a little season, worketh for us a far more
exceeding eternal weight of glory. The Christ filled one never complains or
grumbles under sufferings, but finds a strength, a peace, a healing that is not
of this earth. THE RIVER OF KINDNESS

Also from the indwelt life there flows the River of Kindness, with its
tributaries of Forbearance and Gentleness. Regardless of profession, the one
that is filled with Christ’s Spirit is never rude. Harshness is of the carnal
nature, not of the divine. The irritations of life do not effect the spirit of
the sanctified to be unChristlike. Even when we must form a battle line against
evil, against false teachers, against error, there will be a sweetness of spirit
that cannot be imitated by the unholy. We must stand against and oppose
compromise and the compromiser, but although we must be firm and withstand them
to their face, there will be no malice, no hatred against them. Oh! yes, we will
hate their sin. We will eschew the propagation of falsehood; even to the place
of crying out against such but with the spirit of Jesus who would desire that
none perish. “The servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all
men apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing them that oppose themselves;
if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are
taken captive by him at his will.” 2 Timothy 2:24-26.

OTHER RIVERS

We have only named a few of the Rivers that flow from a Christ filled life. As
we walk with God and drink from him, these Rivers enlarge to become billows of
godliness and holiness of life. The desert awaits the overflowing of the rivers.
This world is looking for the reality of true holiness. Need they be
disappointed? True holiness is far more than excitement. It is a life hid with
Christ in God. May we value one grain of divine love far more than a ton of
excitement. Love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
meekness and temperance are evidenced in the Spirit-filled believer. Never does
one find the fullness of this fruit until he is purged by the sanctifying of the
Holy Ghost. But oh! the reality of the provisional grace of God! It makes one
complete in Christ. Dear reader, live no longer in the wilderness; come over
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  CHAPTER 10: 01.08.     WITH DEEP CONCERN...
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WITH DEEP CONCERN...

We feel, we dare not fail to warn the reader of the snares of the devil; the
substitutions he offers; the false teachings of his messengers, concerning the
doctrine of Entire Sanctification. Possibly the most evident is the snare of
shallow holiness, which in time destroys the faith in the doctrine of heart
purity. Then without faith, the experience of true holiness is lost. What a
tragedy! With alarm we view it: with love we warn! Time is not an essence to
receiving the experience, but many fail to stay at the place of crucifixion
until the work of faith is complete. A mental knowledge of the doctrine, a
favorite promise is helpful, but it is imperative our old man dies; the body of
sin must be destroyed. Crucifixion at its best is a lingering death, but
certainly there comes a moment when the victim expires. Death is instantaneous.
Self fights tenaciously for life. It is far more than two trips to the altar. It
involves our complete abandonment to the will of God, a confession of our carnal
heart; a deep conviction of our need with honesty to God, and an unshakable
faith in Christ’s provision. One may receive the Holy Spirit without a church
altar, but never without a death to his self-will and any selfish ambitions.
Christ must reign sovereignly. There can be no resurrection into heavenly places
without first a crucifixion. If one takes this lightly, he may receive some kind
of experience, but if it isn’t consistent with the word and God ‘s order, it is
a false experience, and not that of a sanctified heart. So many fail here. A
little blessing, an emotional stir, material blessing, or human appreciation or
favor, is taken for the incoming Holy Ghost. How the evil heart of unbelief
would deceive us. Many arise and testify to the great experience of
sanctification, who have never allowed the Adamic stone of the heart to be
ground to powder. Their wills have never been crushed, their hearts never
purified. They go on in delusion, unsatisfied, fighting an inward battle and die
in the wilderness under the curse of God, because of a failure to denounce self,
sin and the world. Shallow holiness is the bane of the church. May we build upon
the rock and not the shifting sands of the modern conception of heart holiness.
Let us warn of the snare of substitution. In no other age has Satan been so
active in the work of delusion. Beware of the substitution of emotion.
Enthusiasm is good if one is sanctified, but the deceitful heart that chains the
experience, because of enthusiasm has hit wide of the mark. Visions, dreams,
feelings, elations, and emotional experience may not be, and most of the time
are not, the work of the Spirit. Think of Peter, James and John with Jesus on
the mountain where Christ was transfigured before them. Who has received such
manifestation of Glory? Who of us have talked to Moses and Elias? Who claims to
have heard the voice of Almighty God speak audibly, “This is my beloved Son, in
whom I am well pleased?” What a blessed experience! What glory! What enthusiasm
on Peter’s part as he spake, “Lord, it is good for us to be here! If thou wilt,
let us make here three tabernacles.” Even after this great experience, Jesus
said to them, “Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that
I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you: but if I
depart, I will send him unto you.” Many would settle for gifts of prophecy,
tongues, healings and other phenomena. The disciples already had been sent out
to preach, heal the sick, and cast out demons, but Jesus afterwards told them
that it was necessary that they receive the Holy Ghost. Oh! dear heart,
Pentecost is a necessity. We must have the incoming, infilling, purifying and
satisfying spirit of God. Seek not the gifts, but the purity. Satan would
sidetrack you if possible. It seems that it is easy to persuade men to seek for
gifts or power, but very difficult to persuade them to seek for purity of heart,
from which flow the Rivers of Charity, or Divine Love. Also there is strong
delusion concerning the doctrine of Christian perfection. False teachers promote
the error of the growing into the life of sanctification. We have heard no man
testify that he had reached the goal. O what subtle deceit is the enemy guilty!
The instantaneous work of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and a heart purified
by faith is the testimony of thousands of believers with undisputed integrity.
Works cannot sanctify us even as they cannot save us. This grace is a gift of
God, not of works, lest any man should boast. This circumcision of the heart
must be the instantaneous work of our heavenly Father. The poet wrote, “Here
Lord I give myself away, Tis all that I can do.” May we vigilantly beware of any
substitute, or doctrine that does not settle the sin question of our life and
fill us with the love of Christ. If the spirit that enters within us isn’t a
purifying, Holy Spirit, this spirit is not of God. Dear reader, you that hunger
and thirst for righteousness, seek only the Holy Spirit; settle for nothing but
Him. He will cleanse the heart by faith. Hallelujah!


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YOUR INHERITANCE This is “the oath, which he swear to our father Abraham, that
he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies,
might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him all the
days of our life.” Luke 1:73-75. This deliverance is for the seed of Abraham,
the justified, the faithful. What an enemy is a sinful heart, but by his oath we
are delivered. Canaan land awaits those who have been delivered out of Egypt’s
bondage. Won’t you come over into Canaan Land? Claim the promises of God. Wander
no longer, He bids you come. “The promise,” states Peter, “is unto you, and to
your children, and to all them that are afar off, even to as many as the Lord
our God shall call.” Oh! thirsty Christian, bow before the Lamb of God,
acknowledge your need of a clean heart. Confess your need, your carnal heart.
Abandon yourself to the will of God. Let God’s work be complete in your heart.
Let the Holy Ghost baptize you with fire until all your iniquity is purged. Let
him crucify the wicked heart of unbelief until from your whole spirit, soul and
body faith cries out, “I do believe, I do believe.” In that moment when unbelief
dies your soul ceases to expect the Holy Ghost, but begins to accept this
wonderful cleansing Spirit. When he comes, we must not dictate or even strongly
desire a certain witness, for we are lost in the precious will of our Lord and
sanctifier. Praise His Name! Rejoice with me, the Comforter has come! “And the
very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit, soul,
and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.” 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24.


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THE CROSS AND CROWN OF HOLINESS By Rev. Wayne C. Aman Digital Edition 03/18/94
By Holiness Data Ministry

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CONTENTS 1. The Reality of Holiness 2. The Provisions of Holiness 3. The
Completeness of Holiness 4. The Offering of Holiness 5. The Covenant of Holiness
6. The Way of Holiness 7. The Cross of Holiness 8. A Life of Holiness 9. The
Glory of Holiness 10. The Crown of Holiness

DEDICATION To my six children, Pete, Joe, Sue, Terry, Gary, and Lisa, I dedicate
this booklet. I cannot leave them a legacy of earthly things. I can leave them
the memory of a father who was saved by grace from a life of sin, sanctified
through the Divine offering for sin, and enabled to live a life of holiness
before them by the grace of God.

COVER STORY On the cover of this book in its printed form is a mountain scene.
Taken some distance from the peak, one sees evergreen forested slopes leading up
toward a crowning summit which dominates the landscape. On page one, the author
relates why he chose this picture for the cover:

"We chose this picture of Cinnebar Mountain, in Owyhee County of southern Idaho
as the cover for this booklet. It is familiar country to the writer, as I spent
a number of years in this vast area working as a cowboy on various ranches. In
September 1952, I was saved from all sin after months of seeking for
deliverance. For years I had never been in a church, yet the Holy Ghost found me
and led me to my Saviour. It was while riding home to the ranch on a trail high
on this mountain that Christ forgave the sin of this unworthy sinner. To him be
all honor, praise, and glory!" --Wayne C. Aman

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PREFACE

I offer the truth of this little book without apology. Errors and defects are
mine, in my human manner of presenting its truths. I am not an author of books
but write to present vital scriptural truth that may help someone find "this
grace wherein we stand." Most others could do better, but because we see many
publications on theories of the social gospel and so few on the truth of
Holiness, I confess I must do what I can to tell this generation that they may
still drink from the Upper and Nether Springs of Canaan Land, and eat from the
Honeycomb.

Brethren let us not let the witness of such wonderful grace be quenched by
shallow, easy-believism theories that never changes the heart nor even the head.
There still remaineth a rest for the people of God. Hallelujah!

Wayne C. Aman


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1. The Reality of Holiness

"For I am the Lord your God, ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye
shall be holy: for I am holy." Leviticus 11:44

"For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling
the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: how much more shall the
blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to
God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve a living God? And for this
cause he is the mediator of a new testament." Hebrews 9:13-15 The writer of the
Hebrew letter is reminding the reader that the new covenant is a better covenant
than the old, based on the better promises. He also compares the ceremonial
cleansing, which was commanded, with the perfect cleansing by the blood of
Jesus. He strongly emphasizes that the reason of Christ’s mediation of a new
covenant is to purge your conscience, (That faculty by which person could regard
himself as free from guilt. W.E. Vine) from dead works to serve a living God.

God’s standard for man has in every dispensation been holiness of heart and
life. In the eternal plan, "God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation
through sanctification of the Spirit an belief of the truth." 2 Thessalonians
2:13

We are not writing to argue against the opponents of the doctrine of Holiness,
for there are those who are willingly blinded and fail to come unto the
knowledge of the truth. I write to point the wilderness wanderer to Canaan, the
land of inheritance; to tell the thirsty pilgrim of the Upper and Nether
Springs. I write to encourage the believer to go on into an experience that is
real and satisfying; to the troubled soul who is searching for a fullness of
experience. We seek to proclaim that there remaineth a rest for the people of
God. We wish to point out to the hungry of heart that Jesus Christ not only
justifies freely, but sanctifies wholly. We would proclaim with the Apostle,
that "the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ hath made us free from the law
of sin and death." We would sing with the poet.

"I can see far down the mountain, Where I wandered weary years, Often hindered
in my journey By the ghosts of doubts and fears.

Broken vows and disappointments, Thickly sprinkled all the way. But the spirit
led unerring To the land I hold today."

-- Anon --

There has been much error propagated concerning this definite second work of
grace. The first false doctrine from Satan in Eden was that one could be right
with God and sin in thought, word, and deed. The serpent asks, "Hath God said
thou shalt surely die?" God said, "The soul that sinneth it shall die." "He that
committeth sin is of the devil."

One cannot sin and be a Christian. Until that sin is forsaken and repented of,
and by faith he is born again, he is not a Christian.

Another error which has made shipwreck of the faith of multitudes, is that when
one is born again he has received Christ’s baptism with the Holy Ghost. These
are two definite experiences of divine grace, the latter subsequent to being
justified by faith. The first work is repentance of and a remission of sins -
Christ’s baptism is consecration and cleansing from the sinful nature. The new
birth is for the unsaved - Christ’s baptism is for the Christian. The new birth
is being delivered out of Egypt - Christ’s baptism brings us into Canaan. The
new birth is deliverance from guilt - Christ’s baptism is deliverance from sin.
The new birth is justification to the sinner -- Jesus’ fiery baptism is entire
sanctification to the believer. The new birth is betrothal - Christ’s baptism is
marriage. The first baptism is the washing of regeneration - the second is "the
renewing of the Holy Ghost." the new birth begins what Christ’s baptism
consummates. Both these wonderful experiences are received wholly independent of
outward ordinances. Jesus said "John truly baptized you with water, but ye shall
be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. Wait for the promise of the
Father, which ye have heard of me." The promise of the Father was that he would
send a person to them; "the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost." How much in
error are those that propagate the doctrine of "one work". "Have ye received the
Holy Ghost since ye believed?" That Christ’s baptism was something more and
beyond the experience of being born again, and becoming a believer, is proven as
Jesus stood on the last day, the great day of one of the Jewish feasts and
cried, "If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on
me, as the scriptures hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living
water." John 7:37-38

Then that the church may know in what experience such living water would flow
from the believer, the writer puts in a parenthetical explanation, ("But this
spake He of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive, for the
Holy Ghost was not yet given, because that Jesus was not yet glorified.") John
7:39 My dear reader, do not be turned aside by false teachers. Rather listen to
the words of one that had shortly before received Christ’s baptism, "For the
promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as
many as the Lord our God shall call." Acts 2:39 This promise is yours; This
experience is for you. The false teachers tell the people that it is impossible
to live above sin and therefore we cannot live a life of holiness. Such doctrine
is not only false but damning. As we seek God’s will for our life through the
Word, the Holy Spirit teaches us that God not only commands us to be holy but
provides through the death of Jesus, by the shedding of his blood and the
offering of his body, a complete and thorough cleansing that enables us "to
serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of
our life." Praise his Name! We no longer need to live enslaved to carnal lusts,
passion and habits of sin with an inward warfare, but we may according to his
oath be delivered out of the hands of all our enemies. "There is therefore now
no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh
but after the spirit." Let us thank God for the freedom of the soul which was
purchased at Calvary.

I am drinking at the fountain Where I ever would abide. For I’ve tasted life’s
cool river, And my soul is satisfied.

There’s no thirsting for life’s pleasures Or adorning rich and gay. For I’ve
found a richer treasure One that fadeth not away. The Roman writer introduces
the reader to the gospel that "is the power of God unto salvation to all that
believeth, and therein is the righteousness of God revealed by faith." He
insists that man will go to a state of total depravity, becoming reprobate,
without the grace of God. Grace is not gained or merited by law or works. We are
"justified by faith, and we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and
rejoice in the hope of the glory of God." Romans 5:1-2 Peter endorses this truth
by stating our hearts are purified by faith. Acts 15:9 The beloved John Wesley
testifies, "Many years since I saw without holiness no man shall see the Lord, I
began by following after it, and inciting all with whom I had any intercourse to
do the same. Ten years after, God gave me a clearer view than I had before of
the way how to attain it

namely, by faith in the Son of God. And immediately I declared to all, WE ARE
SAVED FROM SIN, WE ARE MADE HOLY BY FAITH. This I testified in private, in
public, in print, and God confirmed it by a thousand witnesses." Vol. 7, p. 38
Wesley’s Works

We find in all references to sanctification our dictionaries proclaim that this
is a work of Divine cleansing of the moral pollution of the soul. One states,
"to set apart, to make free from sin: affections purified."

Another, "the act of God’s grace by which the affections of man are purified,
and the soul is cleansed from sin and consecrated to God." Another, "the act of
sanctification, or purifying from the dominion of sin." Yet another, "the
gracious work of the Holy Spirit whereby the believer is freed from sin and
exalted to holiness of heart and life."

Finally let us refer to the American Encyclopedia, "Technically an operation of
the Spirit of God on those who are already in Jesus i.e. are united to him by
faith, by which they are rendered increasingly holy, dying to sin and living to
God, to righteousness, and to holiness."

Surely this should let those that hunger and thirst after righteousness see that
God’s grace has been abundantly given, providing for their cleansing and
filling. Let the hungry be fed. Let the thirsty drink and be satisfied. Jesus
cried, "If any man thirst let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on
me, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water."

Dear reader, you may have his fullness! Some have erred from the truth and would
teach that there is no such grace provided, but let God be true. "The oath which
he sware unto our father Abraham, that he would grant unto us, that we being
delivered out of the hands of our enemies might serve him without fear, in
holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life." Luke 1:73-74

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2. The Provisions of Holiness

Sanctification has a meaning of setting apart, of consecrating for holy service.
This is very basic in doctrine, but the work of sanctification of the believer
is a more complete and definite work. The vessels, the articles of worship in
the old dispensation were sanctified for service. Offerings were set apart,
sanctified unto the Lord. Priests, kings and others were set apart and anointed
for service. We strongly endorse this thought. No one can receive the cleansing
baptism of the Holy Ghost without this first act of setting apart only for God.

Jesus refers to this act of himself as he prayed for his disciples, as recorded
in John, the seventeenth chapter. "Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is
truth. As thou has sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into
the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself; that they also might be
sanctified through the truth."

Jesus had consecrated himself to a holy purpose, to a Divine service; to
sanctify them: "that they also might be sanctified."

Jesus needed no cleansing. "He knew no sin." He was the Holy Son of God. Neither
did the vessels or offerings need a purifying of nature. These are inanimate
articles. The priests and kings were ceremoniously cleansed. Articles of
furniture were ceremoniously cleansed and did not need the Baptism of the Holy
Ghost and fire. The ritual of the law only cleansed outwardly the body. The rite
of sanctifying of the unclean; the person or article must first be set apart,
washed and ceremonially cleansed before being anointed for service. The Divine
grace of sanctification completes all that needs to be done that we might live a
life of holiness. We as fallen creatures are the only ones that need the
purifying of our nature. The senseless articles could not need this. The already
Holy Son of God did not. Holy Angels do not: only sin scarred humanity needs the
baptism with the Holy Ghost. Thank God for the cleansing stream! "For if the
blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean,
sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh; how much more shall the blood of
Christ who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge
your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? For this cause he is
the mediator of a new testament." Hebrews 9:13-15 Not only does sanctification
imply setting apart, but also a cleansing of the heart and a Divine infilling of
Gods spirit. "The cleansing stream I see, I see, I plunge and oh! it cleanseth
me."

Dear troubled heart, let no man turn you aside from your search for this rest of
the soul. "Ask and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find; knock and it
shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh receiveth, and he that
seeketh findeth; and he that knocketh it shall be opened. If a son ask bread of
any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask for a fish,
will he for a fish give him a serpent? or if he ask an egg, will he for an egg
give him a scorpion? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto
your children; how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to
them that ask him?" Luke 11:9-13 Delay no longer, beloved, ask, seek, and knock
now. He wishes to give you his Spirit.

Long pursued by sin and Satan, Weary, sad I longed for rest, Then I found this
heavenly shelter Opened in my Saviour’s breast.

-- James -- This is the inheritance of the Saints. He, the Testator wills it.
"This is the will of God even your sanctification." "Christ also loved the
church, and gave himself for it that he might sanctify an cleanse it with the
washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself, a glorious
church not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be
holy and without blemish." Ephesians 5:26-27

He provides sanctification; "wherefore Jesus also that he might sanctify his
people with his own blood suffered without the gate." Hebrews 13:12

He will do a complete work in the soul: "And the very God of peace sanctify you
wholly, and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved
blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth
you who also will do it." 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 Weary pilgrim wander no more,
come over into Canaan land. Enter into the Land of Rest.

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3. The Completeness of Holiness

Jesus’ ministry opened with the announcement from one who was baptizing in the
Jordan River, "Behold, the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world."

It was Jesus of whom John had spoken, "I indeed baptize you with water unto
repentance; but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not
worthy to bear; he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire! Whose
fan is in his hand and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather the wheat
into the garner; but will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." Matthew
3:11-12

Jesus’ mission was greater than Johns. He was to administer a far greater
baptism, so much more complete and needful that John proclaimed, "I have need to
be baptized of you."

It was a destroying baptism; burn up the chaff.

It was a saving baptism; gather his wheat.

It was a separating baptism; separate the wheat from the chaff.

It was a cleansing baptism; thoroughly purge his floor.

It was a keeping baptism; gather wheat into the garner.

Little wonder that John stated his need of such a baptism. Could we desire less?
In the baptism with the Holy Ghost there are things in the heart of the
regenerate that needs to be burned up. A destroying element of fire must consume
all chaff of carnal traits. All pride, selfishness, malice, hatred, all that is
not holy, or consistent with a Christlike life. The old man must be destroyed,
all carnality must be eradicated if we would live a life of holiness. But Christ
does a complete work, "He will thoroughly purge." Be not fearful; but allow the
Baptizer to take you into death that you may be raised with him and hear the
Father witness, "this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." When all is
removed from the heart that is alien to the nature of holiness, we have a
witness of the Holy Ghost of our sanctification. In such a state there will be a
growth in love. There will never come a period either in this life or in that to
come, when there may not be an increase in holy love. This is Christian
perfection. This does not bestow freedom from temptation, but freedom from sin;
nor is it freedom from spiritual warfare, but freedom from defeat.

Holiness or Christian perfection is required of all Christians, and if required
it is our privilege to obtain it. It is God’s gift to his children, to be
received by faith. One has asked, "but what is complete Christian perfection?"
If the inquirer is anxious to know he will find the answer in the word of God.
At one time Jesus was asked, "Which is the great commandment of the law?" the
answer, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment, and the
second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two
commandments hang all the law and the Prophets." All meaning and teaching of the
Old Testament, therefore hinge upon these two commandments. Love God, and love
man. The writer of the Roman letter confirms this by, "Love is the fulfilling of
the law." Romans 13:10 b

Now all that God requires of us to be perfect in heart and perfect in action is
centered around a love unfeigned, which "love is shed abroad in our hearts by
the Holy Ghost which is given unto us." Romans 5:5

He who loves aright fulfills the law, pleases God, and is in a lawful or
Christian sense perfect. Love flowing from a pure heart, a conscience void of
offense and a complete faith is Christian perfection or Holiness. "Now the end
of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and
of faith unfeigned." 1 Timothy 1:5

Jesus said, "A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another." This
commandment included all our moral obligation to each other, for true love
motivates action. "But whosoever keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of
God perfected." 1 John 2:5 "If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his
love is perfected in us." 1 John 4:12

Christian perfection, therefore, is nothing else than perfect love. Dear reader,
the Holy Ghost inspired the Apostle to tell us that the height of Christian
experience is love.

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity
(perfect love), I am become as a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And though
I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and
though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity
I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I
give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." 1
Corinthians 13:1-3 By this we know that nothing is profitable; nothing is of
value without this experience of Holiness (perfect love). Tongues, prophecies,
knowledge, being able to grasp the mysterious, or faith and works of sacrifice
means nothing to God without this love of God which is shed abroad in our hearts
by the incoming of the Holy Ghost. Oh! what completeness, what fullness is ours
through his Divine presence. Jesus the baptizer, has done a complete and full
work in the heart of the sanctified. "In him dwelleth all the fullness of the
Godhead, bodily, and ye are complete in him." Colossians 2:9-10

What glorious provision is ours. What grace! "You that were some time alienated
and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body
of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and
unreproveable in his sight." Colossians 1:21-22

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4. The Offering of Holiness The prophet Isaiah looked upon the crucified Christ
and penned the words, "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned
everyone to our own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all --
yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him: he hath put him to grief; when thou shalt
make his soul an offering for sin." (The sin offering). No greater truth exists
than the fact that Jesus bore sins penalties and sins sorrows. "He was wounded
for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of
our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." This, though
wonderful, is only complete as we acknowledge, ’The Lord laid on him the
iniquity of us all." This word iniquity is not dealing with transgressions, but
a principle, the sin! The article: the sinful nature.

"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin." 2 Corinthians 5:21
This fact is so vividly brought to our minds in the Levitical offering for sin;
or the sin offering. Surely we know this offering was only a type of the great
antitype Christ Jesus. The High priest slew the sacrifice for sin upon the
brazen altar in the court of the tabernacle. The blood of the sacrifice flowed
freely and was caught in a vessel and taken within the veil into the Holiest and
there sprinkled upon the mercy seat between the Cherubim to make an atonement
for sin. The bodies of the sin offerings were taken without the camp and burned.
The body must be taken away outside the camp of the congregation and be
destroyed. A symbol of uncleanness, of pollution, of corruption of sin.

"For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by
the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp, wherefore Jesus also that
he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate."
Hebrews 13:11-12 Is it not plain to us that Jesus upon whom the Lord laid our
sin and who was made sin for us; upon whom all the fiery wrath of a Holy God
must fall against sin, must suffer without the gate? The body must be destroyed!
He bore my body of sin. It was also your sin that his body bore. This is
consistent with the writer of the Roman letter, "Knowing this that our old man
is crucified with him that the body of sin (the article) might be destroyed,
that henceforth we should not serve sin (the principle). For he that is dead is
freed from (the) sin." Romans 6:6-7

Again he writes, "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the
flesh, God sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin (the
article), condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be
fulfilled in us. Romans 8:3-4 The Apostle proclaims "I am crucified with Christ;
nevertheless I live: yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life that I now
live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave
himself for me." Galatians 2:20 The life that the sanctified now lives he lives
by the faith of the Son of God, with a willing and obedient trust in Jesus’
sacrifice, a knowledge of being crucified with him and the body of sin
(carnality) has been destroyed. How glorious is the provision!

"This is my body which was broken for you." Jesus said, "take, eat." (partake of
it). A death must take place, but by faith, there will be a glorious
resurrection. You may say with the

Apostle "I died in Christ but the life I now live is a glorious, resurrected
life. I live by the faith of my Saviour and sanctifier Jesus Christ."
(Paraphrased) The wonderful fact that the sin principle has been destroyed in
all that die to sin and self, and in all that believe in the accomplished
provision of Jesus, is the clear teaching of the Word. In the fiery baptism with
the Holy Ghost there has been a destruction. Now the blood must give its
evidence of death. It speaks of death. It makes a record that a death has
already destroyed its victim. The blood is sprinkled; the blood must cleanse.
The sprinkled blood always calls for cleansing. Jesus must first suffer without
the camp that he might sanctify his people with his own blood. The cleansing
stream, I see, I see! I plunge and, oh, it cleanseth me! Oh! Praise the Lord, it
cleanseth me! It cleanseth me, yes, cleanseth me! -- Phoebe Palmer --

Dear heart, have you thus died with Jesus? Is the cross a reality to you? There
is no other way, but the way of the cross. Have you been cleansed in the
fountain filled with blood, drawn from Immanuel’s veins? Come, be made every
whit whole. As Jesus suffered without the camp for sin; As the body of sin was
under the fiery wrath of God, there was another provision of grace being
completed. The veil in the temple was rent from top to bottom. This three-inch
thick curtain separated man from God. He abode above the mercy seat in the
Holiest of all. When sin entered it separated God and man. The only audience the
congregation of Israel had with God was through the High Priest as he went
either before the veil or when once a year he could go through the veil. The
veil typified that which separated man from God--sin. Sin, and sin only,
alienated the creature from the creator. This veil was a symbol of that
alienation. When the body of Jesus which bore our sin came under the destruction
of the judgment of God against sin, sin was destroyed The veil was torn asunder.
No more separation. We may now have access to God "having therefore, brethren,
boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living
way, which he hath consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, his
flesh; and having a high priest over the house of God; Let us draw near with a
true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled (inward
cleansed) from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water
(outward cleansing). Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without
wavering; (for he is faithful that promised)" Hebrews 10:19, Hebrews 10:23

"Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain
mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." Hebrews 4:16

Blessed be the Name of Jesus; through his flesh which was broken we have a new
and living way into the Holiest of all. We need no priest to go through the
veil, but the throne is open to the cleansed and those of unwavering faith.

Oh, how I need mercy and grace; but it is mine through my sin offering. There is
no longer a veil between the sanctified and their Lord. "Which veil is done away
in Christ." 2 Corinthians 3:14

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  CHAPTER 17: 02.05.     THE COVENANT OF HOLINESS
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5. The Covenant of Holiness The new covenant given through Christ to the church
was given that we might be sanctified. The old covenant could not make its heirs
perfect. "For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take
away sin." Hebrews 10:4 More was needed than the ritual of the sacrifice of
bulls and goats, and the ceremonial cleansing of the water of separation. It
must be a better offering to bring in a better covenant than these. "Wherefore
when he cometh into the world, he saith, sacrifice and offering thou wouldst
not, but a body thou has prepared me; then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O
God. He taketh away the first that he may establish the second." Hebrews 10:5-9
Should one wonder by what the second covenant was established? It was by the
offering of his body. Oh yes! the blood of the testator sealed the covenant; an
evidence of his death. "For where a testament is there must also of necessity be
the death of the testator." Hebrews 9:16 The body of sin must be destroyed that
a second covenant could be established.

Dear Pilgrim let us look further at this wonderful truth. Canaan awaits you.
There remaineth a rest for the people of God. The Holy Spirit, through the
Hebrew writer, is speaking about moral perfection. This is the purpose of a
better covenant, but to establish it the blood and body of Christ must be
offered once and for all. "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his
own blood he entered in once into the Holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us." Hebrews 9:12

"For if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling
the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh; How much more shall the
blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot
unto God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve a living God? And for
this cause (the purpose to sanctify you inwardly) he is the mediator of a new
testament." Hebrews 9:13-15

Now the Apostle explains the sealing of the old covenant by the blood of
animals, and the new covenant by Jesus blood, and states the only way by which
the comer could be made perfect; that through the new covenant. This covenant
(or will ) is for our perfection. A body has been prepared and has been
presented as the sacrifice; it must be destroyed.

"By the which will (covenant) we are sanctified through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ once and for all. - For by one offering he hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified, Whereof the Holy Ghost is a witness to us."
Hebrews 10:10, Hebrews 10:14-15 a

You who are children of God and have not experienced this perfect work in the
heart, let me encourage you to come to him by the obedience of faith. "Cast not
away, therefore, your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye
have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might
receive the promise, For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come,
and will not tarry." Hebrews 10:35-37

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  CHAPTER 18: 02.06.     THE WAY OF HOLINESS
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6. The Way of Holiness The seeker may ask, "By what means is this experience
received?" We would answer, "By grace through faith." Though it is the
inheritance for every child of God, we can never earn or merit it. The Holy
Spirit is a gift. He takes up his habitation in the cleansed temple, but
Christ’s provisional grace has cleansed us. It is appropriated to us by faith.

Peter tells us that the purpose and lasting effect of a personal Pentecost is to
"purify the heart by faith even as he did unto us."

Faith is the open door through which the Holy Spirit comes to abide. There is
much misunderstanding concerning faith. It involves trust in the grace of
Christ’s work, but it surely involves an obedient will. There must be a
knowledge we are doing the will of God. Faith is born in the heart when there is
a concurrence of the two wills: the human and the Divine. So we see there are
some conditions and requirements for our receiving this experience of entire
sanctification.

We must have a conviction of strong desire for a clean heart and mind. No one
receives the Spirit’s baptism and anointing without a fervent desire for his
abiding presence. "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after
righteousness for they shall be filled." Matthew 5:6 Not only must we have a
conviction of want, but a conviction of need. We see our depraved self. We abhor
our condition. The soul will nearly despair when the Spirit reveals the
wretchedness of carnality. The voice is heard emanating from the soul, "Woe is
me, for I am undone." Or as the Apostle groaned, "oh wretched man that I am! Who
shall deliver me from the body of this death?"

Oh, what need is ours! The enemy of the soul must be bound and cast out.
Unsanctified friend, you dare not take a passive attitude or be overcome with
despair. Look to Jesus! the author and finisher of our faith. Do not succumb to
despondency. When the question arises, "who shall deliver me from the body of
this death," look up and say, "I thank God through Jesus Christ my Lord." The
one that realizes his unholy condition in the light of God’s holiness will
either turn back or he will continue to cry out, "Create in me a clean heart, O
God; and renew a right spirit within me."

You must now face your Gethsemane. Though dark this way, you must follow your
Christ. You will be faced with the conditions of taking the narrow way, and the
fact that you will be an outcast of the world; you will be mocked, betrayed,
falsely accused and despised by some you love most. All must be committed to the
Father. Though persecuted, ill-treated, misunderstood you will gladly suffer
that you might do his will. Friends will forsake you. Jesus said we will be
hated by the world. With such prospects you whisper, "Jesus, I’ll go through
with thee." The night will grow dark around you but keep seeking for the Spirits
help. He who will not go into Gethsemane and to the Cross may not expect a
Pentecost. He will never forsake the honest heart. Settle it in your heart to
take the narrow way with Jesus. The plans, the dreams, the ambitions of the
heart must be abandoned to the will of God. Everything of life, the past, the
present, and the future is lost in his divine purpose. "Not as I will, but as
thou wilt." Our will is lost forever in the will of God.

"Ye are not your own: for ye are bought with a price." You must willingly give
to God the sovereignty of all that you are and all that you shall be. It is then
settled in your heart, "Not my will, but thine be done."

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  CHAPTER 19: 02.07.     THE CROSS OF HOLINESS
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7. The Cross of Holiness

Let us not stop here. Oh, yes, you may receive some blessing; a satisfaction of
knowing you took your hands off and turned your will and life to him. At times
the Spirit will give to the seeker a "blessing of encouragement." lest they
faint and fail to receive the Divine person in sanctifying grace. Some take this
blessing as the witness, but no, the witness is more than a blessing, it is an
assurance. Fail not to go through! Do not come short of the glory of God. The
cross must be a reality to us; a personal crucifixion. We must die! Our old man
is given to the death of the cross. The struggle for survival ceases. The
conflict of wills has ended. Wrestlings of the flesh are felt no longer. The
faculties of the soul are hushed, restful, expectant, the trusting soul
whispers, "Father into thy hands I commend my spirit." Have you thus died?

O, of a certainty it is an act of faith in Christ’s provisional grace, but faith
is real, faith is substance. We must follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth, and
he will bring us to the place of crucifixion.

"I am crucified with Christ - the world is crucified unto me and I unto the
world," testifies Paul the Apostle. Would you seek a life without the Cross, a
resurrection without death? It would be in vain.

Jesus, I my cross have taken All to leave and follow thee Naked, poor, despised,
forsaken, Thou from thence my all shall be.

Perish every fond ambition, All I’ve sought and hoped, and known, Yet how rich
is my condition, God and heaven are still my own!

Let the world despise and leave me; They have left my Saviour, too Human hearts
and looks deceive me; Thou are not like man untrue. And while thou shalt smile
upon me, God of wisdom love and might Foes may hate, and friends may shun me,
Show thy face and all is bright.

-- H. F. Lyte --

"Know ye not, that as many of us were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized
into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death - for if
we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall also be in
the likeness of his resurrection." Romans 6:3-5 An old Methodist altar song
expressed it;

"I must be dead from day to day Let me die; let me die! Dead to the world and
its applause, To all the customs, fashions, laws, Of those who hate the humbling
Cross. Let me die! Let me die! "My friends may say I’ll ruined be, If I die, if
I die.

If I leave all to follow thee, But I’ll die, but I’ll die, Their arguments will
never weigh Nor stand the trying judgment day, Help me to cast them all away.
Let me die! Let me die! "Oh I must die to scoffs and sneers, Let me die! Let me
die! I must be freed from slavish fears, Let me die! Let me die! So dead that no
desire will rise, To appear good, or great, or wise, In any but my Saviour’s
eyes; Let me die! Let me die! "If Christ would live and reign in me, I must die!
I must die! Like him I crucified must be, I must die! I must die! Lord, drive
the nails, nor heed the groans, My flesh may writhe and make its moans, But this
the way and this alone, I must die! I must die! Begin at once to drive the nail,
Let me die! Let me die! O suffer not my heart to fail, Let me die! Let me die!
Jesus, I look to thee for power, To enable me to endure this hour When crucified
by sovereign power, I shall die! But I shall live!" -- Unknown -- The obedient
seeker must not only die but be in the likeness of his burial. Put away, planted
together with him. Hidden from earth in action, out of sight awaiting by faith
the dawn of resurrection. Oh! blessed hope. You await the glorious dawning. He
will not leave the soul in this state. You have finished doing the will of God.
"Cast therefore not away your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward
- He that shall come will come, and shall not tarry." Believe it, await his
coming; receive his presence. Open the door he will come in and sup with you,
"The Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple." Malachi 3:1 Jesus
said, "I will send him (the Holy Ghost) unto you."

Come, O my God, the promise seal, This mountain, sin, remove, Now in my waiting
soul reveal, The virtue of thy love. I want thy life, thy purity, Thy
righteousness brought in,

I ask, desire and trust in thee, To be redeemed from sin. For this as taught by
thee, I pray, My inbred sin cast out!

Thou wilt in me thy power display, I can no longer doubt. Let anger, sloth,
desire and pride, This moment be subdued, Be cast into the crimson tide, Of my
Redeemers blood, Saviour to thee my soul looks up, My present Saviour thou! In
all the confidence and hope, I claim the blessing now. ’Tis done; thou dost this
moment save, With full salvation bless; Redemption through thy blood I have, And
spotless love and peace.

-- Wesley -- The heart responds to the witness of the Spirit, not only from the
lips but from every nerve, fiber and fabric of our being, and weeps in joyous
praise, "Clean, clean, clean! " The fiery baptism has done its work. The Holy
Ghost has come to live in his temple. He is sovereign of our spirit, soul and
body. The Dove of the Spirit has found his place of rest. The soul has found its
Comforter. The human and the divine are united in peace. Might we sing with the
hymn writer:

Oh, sweet rest! Oh, sweet rest! The rest of the soul, So happy and blest, By
faith in his promise, I lean on his breast. My soul from his labor Has found its
sweet rest.

-- C.F.O. -- The Father’s will is now fulfilled in us by sanctification. The
Son’s provisional grace is complete, we are now sanctified by his one offering;
the body and the blood. The Spirit has come to cleanse and abide. "He hath
perfected forever them that are sanctified. Whereof the Holy Ghost is witness
unto us." Hebrews 10:14-15 a Praise his wonderful Name!

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  CHAPTER 20: 02.08.     A LIFE OF HOLINESS
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8. A Life of Holiness The life of holiness is the most practical life that could
be lived. It sanctions every true law of human behavior. It rejoices in all the
law of God. There is no conflict with true human rights. We love God with all
our heart and our neighbor as ourselves. The charity spoken of in the thirteenth
chapter of I Corinthians is a natural outflow of the sanctified heart. "The
sanctified life," one has said, "is the breath of the Spirit." There is no
strain to live righteously, The actions and attitudes flow from a holy heart.

Blunders, mistakes and poor judgment will sometimes grieve us, but we look up to
God with confidence that the intention, the motive was holy. He judges us as
"blameless." 1 Thessalonians 5:23 We have found even in our human failures and
blunders, we seek his aid, and "the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities." Romans
8:26

Satan will accuse, he will bring many railing accusations, but remember you
settled it once and for all to follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. It was
more than a decision of the head; it was more than an emotional impulse. Your
whole being confirmed the words of your lips:

"I’ve made my choice forever, Twixt this world and God’s dear Son, Naught can
change my mind, no never!

He my heart has fully won, Take this world with all its pleasures, Take them
take them one and all, Give me Christ, my precious Saviour, He is sweeter than
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  CHAPTER 21: 02.09.     THE GLORY OF HOLINESS
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9. The Glory of Holiness

You may now be a partaker of "the inheritance among all them which are
sanctified." Acts 20:32 - Ephesians 1:11 Your body is the habitation (temple) of
the Holy Ghost. "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God and that the Spirit
of God dwelleth in you -- for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." 1
Corinthians 3:16-17

"Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you,
which ye have of God, and ye are not your own. For ye are bought with a price;
Therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit which are God’s." 1
Corinthians 6:19-20

"For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our
hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of
Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency
of the power may be of God, and not of us. " 2 Corinthians 4:6-7

Oh! what glory! He abides! The Apostle tells us it is a "mystery which hath been
hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To
whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among
the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory." Colossians 1:26-27

Humanity filled with Divinity! "God hath quickened us together with Christ, and
hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ
Jesus. That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace
in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus." Ephesians 2:5-7 There is
therefore now no condemnation. Romans 8:1 The righteousness of the law might be
fulfilled in us. Romans 8:4 The sanctified in heart minds the things of the
Spirit. Romans 8:5 The sanctified lives a life of peace. Romans 8:6 Ye are in
the Spirit and the Spirit of God dwells in you. Romans 8:9 The Spirit abides and
quickens our mortal bodies. Romans 8:11 If he sanctifies you, you are led by the
Spirit and you are the sons of God. Romans 8:14

Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received
the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba Father, Romans 8:15 The Spirit,
itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. Romans
8:16 We are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ and shall be glorified with
him. Romans 8:17 We wait the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Romans 8:23 The Spirit helpeth our infirmities and also maketh intercession for
us according to the will of God. Romans 8:26-27 And we know all things work
together for good. Romans 8:28 He predestined that we be conformed into the
image of his Son. Romans 8:29 Hallelujah! if God be for us, who can be against
us. Romans 8:31 He freely gives us all things. Romans 8:32 Nothing shall
separate us from the love of Christ. Romans 8:35 In all things we are more than
conquerors through him that loved us. Romans 8:37

Oh! Dear heart, what victory! What overcoming grace is in the life of the
sanctified! Paul testifies that persecutions, tribulations and sufferings may be
the lot of God’s holy people, but exclaims, "None of these things move me.

God’s fulness abides, "In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily and
ye are complete in him." Colossians 2:9-10

"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." Php 4:13 The
sanctified life is a life of glory and overcoming grace. "These light
afflictions which is for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and
eternal weight of glory." 2 Corinthians 4:17

All trials, distresses, sufferings afflictions. and persecutions are working for
us. Our afflictions are light but the reward is weighty. These are for a moment
the reward of glory will be eternal. Afflictions now, glory then. Hallelujah!

Oh! the Old Rugged Cross, Stained with blood so divine, Has a wondrous
attraction for me. For ’twas on that old Cross, Jesus suffered and died, To
pardon and sanctify me.

-- G. Bernard --

Little holiness crowd, you are looked at by worldly friends and relatives as a
little strange. You are probably the speckled bird and the cast-off of the
worldly crowd, but let us see what God thinks of you. "But ye are a chosen
generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye
should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into
his marvelous light; which in times past were not a people. but are now the
people of God." 1 Peter 2:9-10 Tell me not of heavy crosses, Or of burdens hard
to bear, For I’ve found this great salvation, Makes each burden light appear;
And I love to follow Jesus Gladly counting all but dross, Worldly honors all
forsaking For the glory of the Cross

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  CHAPTER 22: 02.10.     THE CROWN OF HOLINESS
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10. The Crown of Holiness

"There is laid up for me a crown of righteousness and not to me only, but unto
all them that love his appearing." 2 Timothy 4:7-8 The Apostle looks back on the
conflicts of the sanctified life, with no regrets. He fought a good fight; he
finished his course; he kept the faith. What a victorious life he lived amidst
the greatest of adversity! So he reckoned he is to be crowned by the righteous
judge with the crown, of righteousness that was laid up for him.

Oh! beloved this crown awaits all that are faithful in the conflict We are
warriors of the cross. We will soon lay down our armor and receive our reward.

If we live until Jesus comes for his church, we shall be caught up together with
those that sleep in Jesus. What a resurrection that will be! The Holy of all
ages shall come from the east, west, north and south and ascend unto the hill of
the Lord.

One has asked "who shall ascend unto the hill of the Lord? who shall stand in
his holy place?" The answer comes, "He that hath clean hands and a pure heart;
who hath not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall
receive the blessing of the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his
salvation." Psalms 24:3-5

It will take a sanctified heart and a holy life to be those who are caught up at
the rapture. "Blessed and Holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection;
on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of
Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years." Revelation 20:6

"Come my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee;
hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the
earth for their iniquity; The earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no
more cover her slain." Isaiah 26:20-21

God will have a hiding place for the Holy when His indignation is poured out
upon the wicked on the day of the Lord. The saints are to be counted worthy to
escape all those things that shall then come upon the earth.

Dear reader, make your calling and election sure. Be sure the sanctifier has
come into his temple. Does your spirit witness to a holy heart?

"Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard neither have entered into the heart of man the
things which God hath prepared for them that love him." 1 Corinthians 2:9

"Beloved! now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall
be; but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall
see him as he is." 1 John 3:2 Glory! When I have reached the more excellent
glory, And all my trials are past, I shall be like him; Oh! wonderful story, I
shall be like him at last!

I shall be like him;

I shall be like him, And in his beauty shall shine.

I shall be like him, wondrously like him, Jesus, my Saviour Divine.

-- W.A.S. --

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