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Swarna Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13156173050183991321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288843365090712418.post-11667086342365362762016-04-11T20:38:00.001+05:302016-04-11T20:38:27.219+05:30Prayer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> "But ye, beloved, building up yourselves in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> There is scarcely anything that can be said of what the prayer life is and what it can be. These words are spoken definitely in regard to praying in the Holy Ghost, and there is more in this than in anything else. It is one of the most wonderful things that God hears and answers prayer. When the sinner comes and confesses his Sins and prays, God answers his prayer and saves his soul. Just think of the result. Here is a lost man, and he knows he is lost. He cries to God for pardon, and God answers his prayer. Then he knows just as clearly that he is saved. The believer comes and prays for the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire. It may be a very simple prayer and very short, but think of all that it means, when that prayer is answered and the Holy Ghost comes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> People can speak about it and I have heard some of the best preachers, and I have heard testimonies, but no one has been able to express it. I have heard people expound the Bible, they have torn the text to pieces, and when they have finished and put on the climax, they could not tell it as good as it was in my soul. I have heard some Greek scholars, and my, how they did sweat. They dug up roots like we used to dig up roots in the clearing, and when they were through, the thing was not as big as God had made it in my soul. Praise the Lord.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> People say we exaggerate, but it cannot be exaggerated. You would have to go in eternity to exaggerate it. With all the wonderful discoveries that have been made by man, they have never been able to do for a soul what the Holy Ghost has done. There is one striking thing about praying in the Holy Ghost. You cannot pray in the Holy Ghost until you have prayed the Holy Ghost in There are hundreds of people who have prayed a little, but you would be surprised at the small number who have prayed a prayer in the Holy Ghost. We have got to face the facts, and facts will live after feelings are dead. You begin to deal with facts and you will have something that will stick to you a long time after people have lost all they professed to have.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> There are no limitations, there is no condition, and there is no power that can keep us from praying a prayer in the Holy Ghost. A person living in a sod house, if he knows the difference between salt and sugar, can pray a prayer in the Holy Ghost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> The devil cannot get an answer to prayer, neither can any of his followers. People can have money and prestige and place, but if they were left to get an answer to prayer, they would die in poverty and spend eternity in hell with the rich man. There is absolutely no end to the possibilities in the prayer life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> After this dark picture, this dismal picture held up by this man, he says "But ye, beloved, building up yourselves in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost." You can live on answers to prayer, and no one can keep you from getting answers to prayer. I say, tonight, without any hesitation, that the greatest change in my life after the Holy Ghost came was the continuous answer to prayers. Prayers that nobody ever heard, prayers that were prayed in my heart by the Holy Ghost, and I am getting answers to prayer today that were prayed years ago. I have had answers to prayer during the last two or three years that were prayed with my hands on the plow handle. The Holy Ghost knows just what He is doing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> There is another very striking thing, this is a prayerless age. People read about prayer, but they do not pray. If they do it, it is a burden to them. They will take plenty of time to eat, but when it is time for prayer they will read the shortest Psalm and they call that prayer. They do not realize how much there is in prayer. We are living in an age when people do not see much in it, and they say it is foolish to pray. If we did what the people used to do in fasting and prayer we would be counted as fools. If a person said he was going to spend his life in pleasure, very little would be said about it, but if someone says they are going to spend their life in prayer, they are looked upon as a curiosity. But, believe me, there is more in prayer than there is in anything else</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> These words were written at a time when everything was out of the ordinary, but he said, "You can pray in the Holy Ghost." I am glad, today, everyone of us can pray in the Holy Ghost. You can start in your home, and you will be surprised at the things that will be brought to your memory and to your door in answer to prayer. You may think of it now as a very small thing, but when you begin to pray it will increase. Get alone with the Lord in prayer, communion and fellowship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> All prayers prayed in the Holy Ghost are answered. You see how important it is. And no prayers out of the Holy Ghost are answered. You see how awful that is. Someone says, "Be careful, now." I am with the Bible. "If I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear me." Beloved, when God puts the light on your soul it pays to walk in every ray. When people speak lightly about these things, we can see that they know nothing about them. Just think what it means for your soul to be in communion with God. The Holy Ghost has come in and you do not have to be worrying about your own experience, you can be praying for others. When you get into this experience, and you begin to think what it means, you will find yourself saying, "How did I get along without the Holy Ghost?" The refinement and education that comes to a soul in communion with God cannot be found in any other place. If you would spend the rest of your life in prayer, you would come up to the judgment with such a character that would simply stagger the angels through all eternity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> People will do almost everything else but pray. You can get preachers, you can get people to do almost everything but pray. They think prayer is just a little thing, a prayer now and then, but it is a real life, and the Bible says: "Pray without ceasing." I do not mean that you will always be in the same place, but you can always be in communion with God.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Whenever a sinner confesses his sins and prays for pardon, he always gets the answer. There are thousands of people today who have desires in their hearts, but the carnal mind hinders them from getting answers to prayer. After God destroys the works of the devil, and the Holy Ghost comes in, He makes intercession for the saints. There is more in a groan after He comes than in all the beautiful words spoken before. Many times your prayer will end with a real cry of soul that finds no words to express it. You use the vocabulary, but that is limited. The words fail sometimes, they do not express your desire, and you just groan out a prayer that cannot be uttered, and God begins to answer. It will take something from you. You may have various kinds of burdens, but a burden of soul just seems that it would eat up your very life. I believe that the great need today is for more prayer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> It says: "If two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done." It does not say, if all your relatives agree, but if two of you agree. I was in a meeting two years ago, and the people were so stirred up that they went after others at midnight in automobiles. They wanted to see them saved. It was not fanaticism, it was nothing of the kind, but they had a burden for lost souls, and they were so in earnest about it, that it put conviction on the whole of that community, and I believe it will never be forgotten.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> The people said, "What does this mean? " It was because a few people started to pray. I was surprised to see the number increased night after night. That country was just shocked by the divine currents that came in answer to prayer. People said, "You are a fool." They thought I was a fool when I started, and they thought it for two or three years, and then they shut their mouths. If we are fools, we are going in for the whole foolery. If this thing does not work there is nothing that will. I have given my life for it, and I am not ashamed of it. It seems to me that we never had a greater opportunity than we have tonight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> A person came to me a few months ago, and said: "When I sit up and talk I can keep awake, but when I go to prayer I go to sleep." Go to sleep praying, go to sleep with a burden of soul? No, keep awake. I do not see anything in praying like that, that is sleeping. Far better go to bed and go to sleep. When you receive the Holy Ghost He will give you a very different prayer from that. Beloved, you have got to step out to new ground and take new promises, and get answers to prayer as never before or you will dry up and die.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> There is a very impressive feature about prayer, and that is the prayer cable reaches to everybody's heart. You do not have to go out of your room, you can close the door, in fact, the Bible says, "When thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly." That is it, and that is just what He wants. I see the need and I see the supply; but, beloved, the supply must be taken to the need, and that is no child's play.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Why was the war won in victory? Because of the sacrifice. It was costly, but the victory was won. It will mean sacrifice to spread Holiness over this country, but there is no man in the universe who can stand before that spirit of surrender and sacrifice. I quite believe it is a trial to go away from home for a few weeks, for a few days, but some people went away from their homes for ever. Affections had to be clipped. Carload after carload left our country, and they went to the front. Thank God, there is victory. We do not have to fight for victory. We fight with victory. A great many people think of serving the Lord in order to be happy, but we serve Him because we are happy. That is the secret of the whole thing, and it is within the reach of everybody. We are not going in for feeling, we are going in with life and for life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> The Holy Ghost comes in as a reality, and He is sure to do something that none of your relatives think He can do. You are the odd one, they talk of you as an absentee, they point to your picture on the wall. "Yes, they used to be here at Christmas and at Thanksgiving, but they went to a meeting and got something, and they have never been like us since." You are looked upon as a curiosity, you had better go so far away that they cannot see you. Do not look on the same dates, because we cannot sit around and count our friends on our fingers when the world is dying for the message that brings life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I was in a meeting, and a woman came to the altar. I found, after she came, that she was the wife of a drunkard. She had an awfully hard time, but she was hungry for God. She came to the penitent form and begun to pray a very touching prayer. It seemed that she was under such deep conviction that God answered her straightway. Then she said she knew she would have to receive the Holy Ghost. She prayed again for the Holy Ghost, and then she said, "Do you think God would answer my prayer now? " And I said, "Yes." She said there was one thing she wanted the Lord to do, and I said, "Ask Him quickly," Then she asked God to save her husband, she believed He would. I asked the Lord to answer her prayer. She went home, and was getting ready to retire, when a hand was placed on her shoulder. Her husband stood by her. He said, "What would you think if I said I was never going to drink again? "and she said, "I should be the happiest woman in the world." Then he told her how he was in the drinking saloon and started to take a drink when something seemed to say to him, "Don't take it." He put it down, told the bar tender, and left the place. What made him do it? It was that woman's prayer. That prayer in the Holy Ghost went right down to that saloon. There was a meeting the next night, and a big crowd was there. When the altar call was made, that man stood up. His wife stood up beside him and told how she was saved the night before, and how she had received the Holy Ghost. Her husband wanted to be saved. Of course he did. God hears and answers prayer. You can see that argument is not going to do it, but you can get away in a little corner and pray a little prayer and save some soul from hell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Now this goes right beyond the intellectual, it cannot be explained. "Passeth all understanding." People have been trying to see into this for twenty centuries, but they have never seen it, and they cannot understand it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> God never sent the hundred and twenty out to explain it, He sent them to be witnesses. Stephen never explained it, Paul never explained it. You cannot get it by education, but by revelation. One person came to the altar and told me what a number of books he had read. A number of people want the filling without the killing. I have heard them sing, "Fill me now," they ought to sing "Kill me now. Killing is the first thing, you must be dead to everything, dead to friends, dead to foes, dead to the future, dead to your own plans, and then He will fill you. You can be filled with all the fulness of God. It is one of the most staggering things that Divinity ever offered to humanity. So many have been trying, but all they have to do is to get down and accept it just like a little child.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Jesus makes intercession for the sinners at the throne, but the Holy Ghost makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. That is the double prayer life, and you can see that it is a special life for the people that are sanctified wholly. I would not miss it for all that the world can offer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> A man was in a meeting one day, and I was telling just a few answers to prayer, and afterwards he said, "That is all right for you, but it is not practical in my life." But that was his fault. He could have it. It is within the reach of all. Just start where you are, give your whole life to God, and when the Holy Ghost comes He will lead you every step of the way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> From the time that I took my hands off the plow handle I have known nothing but following the Holy Ghost and having answers to prayer. He has done all that has been done. There is no way of magnifying this too much, it cannot be exaggerated. I want to encourage you because I know there are prayers in your heart, but, beloved, do not cut yourself off from this opportunity that is given to everyone who is abandoned to the Holy Ghost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Do not think it is exhausted because it increases all the way and deepens every day and hour. Now and again people say: "I do not see how it is done." That is because it is supernatural. After you have used all your eyes, and all your good common sense, and all your powers, then God steps in, and you enter into this prayer life. Thank God for it. It is better and richer all the way through. Just now He is whispering secrets to my soul. I do not covet very much, but I covet for you the consciousness that you are in the will of God.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> "But ye, beloved, building up yourselves in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God." If this little nucleus gathered here tonight would begin a life of prayer in the Holy Ghost it would mean more to this country and to this world than we will ever know. Do not think of your limitations, do not think of the opposition, that is part of the "bill of fare." Do not grieve the Holy Ghost, but stay with your job. The Bible says: "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies." Some old carnal fellow will say: "I don't believe it." He does not have to believe it. That is the thing. Why, people have been so mad sometimes because I would not get mad, and they have said, "I think you ought to do this." So many people think and think and think and never get a thought out of the heart of God. They have been in cold storage so long.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> God help us tonight, let us go in for the thing, let them pound us, let them sneer at us and turn the cold shoulder, but let us go on. It is our business to press on with this message of Holiness. I want someone to get this thing and live this life. May someone receive the Holy Ghost now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> "Then saith He unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here and watch with me. And He went a little farther, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, O, my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. And He cometh unto His disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, what, could ye not watch with me one hour? watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: The Spirit indeed Is willing, but the flesh is weak."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I do not think that too much can be said about the work of the Holy Ghost, and I am deeply impressed with what has been done in this country since I was here before. But I am more impressed with what the Holy Ghost is going to do. There is nothing that is going to glorify God and bless men like the message we stand for in this meeting this morning. Now that statement will be criticized and laughed at, but it will prove absolutely true in every experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> A great deal depends on the faithfulness of individuals. While there are some who think it matters very little, you are a link in the chain and although you know your sins are all forgiven and the Holy Ghost abides, yet He is going to reveal things to you and show you possibilities in the future that you never dreamed of, that is what He comes to do. After making a number of trips to this country, I believe there is nothing that will appeal to your people like the message that you carry. The Holy Ghost makes an appeal that can be made in no other way, and I know personally, that no other message ever appealed to my own soul as much as that. God gave me a vision that I had never had before, and I have never lost it. It cannot be expressed, but it is revealed by the Holy Ghost, and that is what is what I covet for you above everything else. I want everyone of you to know the secrets of the Holy Ghost. They are for you, just in your condition, He will bring them to you just where you are.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> One often hears the words of our text flippantly spoken by people who are unfaithful, and by those who do not take their place in the work of God. "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." Never say it again. Those words were uttered in the greatest struggle that Divinity has ever known for humanity. You ask people why they did not take some part, and they say, "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." It should never be spoken in that way. The expression came from the broken heart of the Son of God in the great struggle in Gethsemane. He was just bearing the burden, and He was just groaning under its weight when He said: 'Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O My Father, if this cup may not pass away from me except I drink it, Thy will be done. And He came and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy. And He left them and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words. Then cometh He to His disciples, and saith unto them, sleep on now, and take your rest, behold the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> There are some very impressive lessons in this, and I never take this message and read it without the consciousness of the depth of the meaning of it. When we think about it we can see at once that we can grasp only a part -- only a miniature part of the great struggle through which He passed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> That is something every one of you can carry. The world will tell you that Holiness is behind, carnality will say it is out of date, but Holiness is always ahead. "He went a little farther." Just where carnality stops, a man filled with the Holy Ghost will move on and go ahead; just where the mobs of this world stop Holiness goes right on and you can always know where to find it. Never look for it in the rear, it is always ahead. You need not think it is something to be tested and to be tried. It has been tested and tried and it works, and it always takes its place at the front. That is why the victories have been won, Holiness goes ahead of carnality, intellectuality and humanity into the realm of victory. You can see these things are practical, they are the result of the work of the Holy Ghost in the heart and they are worked out in the life. Holiness never stops with the crowd, it never has and never will.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Now, I want you to notice that it was not the five thousand, it was not the one hundred and twenty, it was only three out of all who had been with Him and followed Him, all who had watched Him and heard Him. He only took Peter, James and John, the choice of the lot, those who had heard His heart secrets, those who knew Him best. He took them, and they followed along; and then when He came to the place -- when they came really to the place carnality failed. It always fails, it never keeps up with Holiness, it never keeps up with the Holy Ghost, and when it comes up to the crucial and critical point, it fails every time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Now when they came to the place, -- just think what a place that was -- He went a little further and fell on His face. You can see for yourself how much it meant, and you will never stay with carnality after the Holy Ghost comes to your heart. Others will stop, and after they stop you will go a little farther. They say, ' You can't do it." You say, "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." They say, "You are going too far," and you say, "Good-bye." They say, "Don't see anything in it," and you say, "I see everything in it." You see why you are such a curiosity, you become the odd one. You were raised like the rest, but you have got some other kind of raising, you ate at the same table. You had the same instruction and the same education, and they had some hope of you until you received the Holy Ghost. Then you disgraced the family and you became the worst one of the lot. People say these things because they don't see anything else, but the Holy Ghost takes you right on in victory. Why is this meeting held here this morning? Because people see more in coming here than staying at home. Now a great many people do not see that, but some saw it, and they said "Good-bye."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> There was a crowd with Saul of Tarsus when he was riding along, and they heard a noise, but he heard something that knocked him down, and he never got over it. He heard a voice speaking to him, saying, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? " It stopped him right there. We have never heard anything of the other bunch, but why? We will never hear the last of Paul. Why? Because he heard a voice from heaven. The others heard a noise, they thought it thundered. If I did not see more in it than ninety-nine out of every hundred I would quit, I would not live at the miserable, half dying rate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Holiness is always ahead. Don't think you are ever going to be defeated, while you keep the Holy Ghost in your heart you are going to have the victory. You do not serve God for victory, you serve God with victory. It does not matter what others say, you are always in the majority. Someone says "That seems strange, I cannot see how He can do it." But He can do it. All He wants is a channel. You can hold on to God until He will move in every room in the house, and He will move on every heart until they know that you have something they do not possess. They may get mad and say some hard things, but the thing is working just the same. Yes, God is able to do that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> When there was a lion's den, it was ahead, it was not back yonder, no, it was ahead. When there was a fiery furnace, Holiness was ahead. There were only three of them, but they were ahead, and I can see that hell-bound procession following them. I can see that godless king looking through his fingers, and while everybody else bowed, and bowed, and bowed, those three stood as stiff as a rod, and they would not bow down. They went straight into the burning, fiery furnace, and they found somebody there that the king had not put in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> That was the secret. "How did that fourth One get in there? We did not put Him in." How did a Holiness Meeting get in the Town Hall when carnality is hating it worse than hell? How can we have a meeting here without a D.D. or a LL.D. to come and see about it? That is the secret</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> And the king said, "I counted three men, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, now there is another that I did not count, and He looks like the Son of God." He had listened to the testimonies which had been so radical that he recognized that the fourth was like the Son of God. The king did not put that One in there, so there must have been someone he did not have charge of, there was someone round the corner in the furnace, and He did not show Himself till the fire had become hot enough. It burnt up the fellows that put them in, they were burnt to ashes. People have studied this, but they have never found out the secret. Holiness is ahead always, you never find it anywhere else.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Now the great tests and struggles of your life will take place when you are alone, and sometimes the devil's power will be strong. Your friends will leave you, and your own family will stand aside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> You will have to go through alone. The Son of God had five thousand when He was feeding them with the loaves and fishes, He had a multitude when He was opening the eyes of the blind, but when He was sweating the death sweat for a lost world, He was alone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I want to say, beloved, that this is as true as it has ever been. You will spend much time alone with God and the greatest struggles and the greatest battles of your life will take place when you are alone. There will be meetings and there will be messages, but you must have something that will take you through alone. Until you have something that will defy the devil and defeat all hell and drive back the powers of darkness when you are alone, you will never have much victory. It is good to have someone to pray with, that is the right thing, but there is nothing that will give you courage and build up your character so much as being alone with God in the great battles of your life. We are apt to depend on people, and we are apt to listen to them. Jesus was left by the multitude and left by His followers, that is the thing -- left by His followers, those who had been with Him and knew Him best. They were tired and weary, and they had no conception of what was going on, they saw it not. It is good to be with our friends and to hear their encouraging words, but, beloved, you will get more alone with God in prayer, in communion and in struggle than you will ever get in any other way. This is the point where a great many fail, they are not prepared to go through alone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Now and again the light will come to somebody's soul and they will say, "My people don't believe that way." Well, if they do not, God help you to believe that way. You can have family prayers alone, and you can have people saved and sanctified with nobody around. You will have to die alone, and God wants you to get the victory alone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Another thing I want you to notice, carnality is Sleeping while Holiness is weeping. That has always been the case. Now you want to get away from the sleeping to the weeping, and if you weep you will weep alone. You live and talk with your friends, but when you go to prayer they are not there. Look at Jesus up there on the mountain, looking over Jerusalem while it is sleeping, and what does He say? "How often would I have gathered you as a hen gathereth her brood under her wing, and ye would not." They would not. That was the secret. "Your house is left unto you desolate." It is too late now, the opportunity is past. God help us to see these things this morning. If you laugh, the world laughs with you; if you weep, you weep alone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> The background to a Holiness meeting is something that many people know nothing about. They see the meeting and they hear the message, but that is all. He said, "If it be possible let this cup pass from me," and when He prayed again, He said, "If this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, Thy will be done." Why did He weep? Because He saw a lost world. Why did they sleep? Because they had carnality. Their eyes were open to see the miracles, but when it came to the great struggle they were asleep. The Son of God had no doubt walked as far as they had and was just as weary, but He was facing the cross, He was praying for a lost world and His heart was beginning to break, and Peter, James and John, not Judas now, but Peter, James and John, the chosen ones, those who had been with Him most, were sleeping. How few are willing to go out and go through with God alone. It means a great deal, but it is worth all it costs, and things you get that way you can have for time and eternity. You are going through single file. Some are going to die and be damned right in your home, you are going to follow some to the cemetery and know that they are lost. All your relatives and friends will not go with you, but the question is, Are you going? You will have to leave them; and someone says, "But I want them all to go." So did Jesus, that was His desire. But, beloved, God wants to know if you are willing to go through single file with Him, the Holy Ghost is faithful to all who will.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> So you see how much it meant for the Son of God to go through that struggle; when He came back to His disciples He found them sleeping, how it must have torn His very heart. Three times He returned and found them sleeping. Regardless of what anyone else will do, go through and God will be true to you. There have been times when I have not had a word, when I have not had a letter, but there has not been a time when the Holy Ghost was not faithful. These times come and many people do not understand them, and many times the devil takes advantage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Now you will have the greatest tests and the greatest struggles after you abandon yourself to the Holy Ghost and stand for Holiness, but in their severity God is going to give you victory. The devil hates Holiness more than anything else, he is going to down everybody he can and he will seek to get in every crack and corner, but the Holy Ghost is able to give you victory. He was alone and He was weeping and He sweat as it were great drops of blood, even on a cold morning. Someone says, "How do you know it was a cold morning? " Only a short distance away Peter was warming himself by a fire. He was sweating, it was just the burden of soul. There is nothing, beloved, that will bring such agony as a burden of soul. You can carry a financial burden, you can carry a physical burden, but when you get a burden of soul it will bring out of your veins the blood that is there. And it is a wonderful thing to know that God hears and answers prayer. A prayer takes something out of you -- it took sweat from the Son of God. It takes something out of you, but it brings something to you. A great many people think it is just a pastime, but when the heart is in it, it takes something out of you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Then you see the disappointment. Carnality is always a disappointment to Divinity and it always will be. It always fails at the crucial point. It never can see inside heaven and it will leave everybody disappointed and doomed and locked in a devil's hell, it does not matter who it is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> deliver you and fill you with the Holy Ghost. "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Now it is easier to get preachers and singers than pray-ers. People will do everything else before they will pray. There is a demand for pray-ers, but there are not enough to supply the demand. I do not like to speak on this subject without spending most of the night in prayer. It seems a special picture. He was just praying, and He had to do His praying alone. There is something peculiar about prayer, there is something special about prayer. Talking to man is one thing, but talking to God is quite another, and it seems that the devil wants to keep people from praying.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> The Holy Ghost is faithful to everyone, and, beloved, you do not realize what privileges you have until you are filled with the Holy Ghost. He makes intercessions for you with "groanings which cannot be uttered." Now the groanings of Jesus could be uttered. Notice, He groaned in spirit and He uttered groans, but the Holy Ghost intercedes with groanings which cannot be uttered. You might pray a few words, but that prayer becomes special when it is groaned out by the Holy Ghost at the throne of God. Prayers that become groans always get an answer. And it says Jesus "sweat as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground." And He went back the third time, but they did not understand; and notice the disappointment when He said, "What, could ye not watch with me one hour? " He asked for just one hour, but they were too sleepy and they did not wait with Him even one hour. God help everyone of us this morning not to miss anything He has for us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Another thing that seems so very impressive, and it was about the last thing Jesus said to them, "Sleep on now." He had awakened them twice, but the third time He went back He said, "Sleep on now." It is one of the most pathetic and saddest utterances there is in the Bible. The disappointment at the cross was hardly equal to this. It scarcely meant so much when they took His garment and tore it to pieces and gave Him vinegar to drink. This "Sleep on now," showed they had missed the great opportunity of their lives. They disappointed Him in the hour that He needed them most. There was only one Transfiguration and there was only one Gethsemane. Now they had disappointed Him and He said, "Sleep on now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Later, these disciples went to the Upper Room and received the Holy Ghost; but just think of the people who never wake up. It seems that people have been fed with the opiates of hell so long that only one here and there can be rescued. The Holy Ghost is doing His last work and preparing a people for the coming of the Lord. The physical need is not so great as the spiritual need, and although some are alarmed at the conditions, yet so few are in the place to take the message that will meet the need.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> God help us this morning that we may never have that sentence spoken to us. What is time for? Just weeping and praying and groaning for a lost world. What is eternity for? Rejoicing with the blood-washed and the redeemed. We are having the hardest battles now that we will ever have, and you will be going alone with your burden for souls sometime, and it will just slip off and you will be for ever with the Lord. Some day you will be getting ready for a service, and the burden heavy upon you, but it will just slip away and the Lord will come. I am expecting it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> It seems to me that things are getting into such a condition that none but God can handle them, and the coming of Jesus is the only hope. The Church has failed, carnality has failed, but, thank God, Christianity is a success and Holiness is alive for evermore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> They may be sleeping all around you, but you can be wide awake, and the greatest honor that can be given to you is to have a burden for souls that will lay on your heart till it breaks. In Palestine, in the places where Jesus is supposed to have been there is a little flower which is called the blood-drop, and, according to the legend, Jesus carried such a burden that blood came out of His veins and dropped on the ground and the little flower came up. No one need believe that, but the thought I want you to get is that He carried the burden and it increased until when they saw Him hanging on the cross His heart was broken. People have remarked that certain men would have lived longer if they had not had such a burden for souls, but if you die with a broken heart there is no lost time. You had better live ten years with the Holy Ghost than a hundred without Him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> The Holy Ghost energizes and inspires and gives courage and character so that you can accomplish more in ten years than some people would do in a hundred. The burden for souls is rare, not many have it, and some say they would not like that kind of burden. It takes real life to carry it, and people may not live so long, but they will live through all eternity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Jesus might have lived longer if He had not carried such a burden, and His followers might have lived longer if they had not received the Holy Ghost. We say that because they all died an unnatural death. John might have stayed off the Isle of Patmos if he had not had the Holy Ghost. They chose to have the Holy Ghost and die an unnatural death rather than have carnality and live a hundred years. That is the secret, and may God help someone to receive the Holy Ghost this morning, and in life and in death have the victory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> God is calling someone. You may have those in your home who know nothing of God, but if you let the Holy Ghost come into your heart you can take something to that home that has never been there before, and by your life and by your obedience you can carry something to those hearts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> God help you to be willing to pay the price. Do not miss your opportunity, it is within your reach now, and the Holy Ghost will be faithful to you. There was only one Transfiguration, only one Gethsemane, and only one Calvary. Jesus went through and died of a broken heart. Take the step now, regardless of anyone, and God will meet your need.</span><br />
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Swarna Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13156173050183991321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288843365090712418.post-19361893270679374802016-04-11T20:30:00.004+05:302016-04-11T20:30:58.252+05:30One Thing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward to mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> These words have specially impressed my mind this morning, they are so expressive and so comprehensive. I trust that God will speak to our hearts some living truth which is the need of the hour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> "This one thing I do." That is the secret in every life of sacrifice and service. It is very impressive that after this man was saved and sanctified he saw more in this one thing than in anything else. A real supernatural change had taken place. Before, he was bringing death and destruction, but afterwards he was bringing life and instruction. He carried the message of life, the greatest message that this world has ever heard and that God has ever spoken. We can see the need of a real supernatural change. Although he learned a great deal at the feet of Gamaliel, if he had never had a real change of heart we should never have heard of this character.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> "This one thing I do." We are not giving our time and our energy and our money to a failing cause, we are not making an investment that will fail to bring real dividends. These things have been tried and tested in the fiery furnace, and the lion's den, and under the most extreme circumstances, and they have never failed, and never will.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> One particular thing is, that when people get this experience, they give their lives willingly to the work. You can make your own choice, and no one is responsible but you. When it comes to these things, which are of such great worth, all are left to make their choice. A person does not have to read the Bible, or pray at the family altar, there is no compulsion. How glad I was to see that man raise his hand last night; divinity and humanity were united together, and no one can explain it. It goes into the realm which is only revealed by the Holy Ghost. That is the whole secret of it. The act which has staggered the brainiest is that it is revealed in simplicity to the babes. "Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I was going down a street in Columbus one day, and I noticed a large board. It was painted in an attractive way, and on one side was written: "We have no competition, we are in a field of our own." How true that is. The Holy Ghost says: "You have no competition on this line." You can weep and pray, and live and die, and only a few will care after all. Only a few will ever know you, but you can live for ever when you live in the Holy Ghost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> A great many people would like the results, they would like the dividends, but they will not make the investment. If you are having a hard time to get a place, fall in the mud and trust the blood. Nobody ever wanted Paul's place, and they will never want your place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> They are very particular when they choose men to be soldiers, but when God makes a call, He silences all the calls of man. He will take the scrap iron pieces and the dust and ashes of a mis-spent life, and He will use it for His glory, and the salvation of souls. He will take a body that has been wrecked by sin and He will make a monument that will stand through time and eternity. I have heard people say they have tried it once, they have started once. What did they try? Just think of experimenting with God. God never thought of thirty or forty years, He never made a sacrifice that would last only for a day, it was a sacrifice that will last for ever. He has made a covenant that is everlasting. I want to say, beloved, that when you get in the thought of God you can be a blessing to somebody, and they will never forget it as long as they live, and they will remember you in their dying hour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Here was a man that had the highest authority, his pockets were full of papers, but his heart was filled with stuff. Just as soon as his heart was changed the papers went and he trusted God, He took him through. I am glad that God has such characters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> This is an hour of extreme need, we cannot open our eyes without seeing the need. We cannot live selfish lives and be clear. The heart of man is craving for something, and it can never be satisfied until it finds God. We were created to be filled with the knowledge of God and with the Holy Ghost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> At one time it was thought very peculiar and very strange for people to leave the country and go out indefinitely. Single ones took the gangplank and went to the fields far away, but during the past few months the gang-plank has been crowded, bringing the blood and the sacrifice from afar. The single missionary used to go to the field and death was faced as a matter of fact. The people said nothing, and they were willing to go. Oh, we are so far behind in making the sacrifice for God and a lost world. We have been so selfish and we have been so secluded that we have let millions go without hearing the name of Jesus. You can see there is a great work to be done. There is no compulsion, but you can just give your life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Christianity does not live on what people say, but upon what it does, and when a thing is done God and man can see it. Say all you please about what God cannot do, but when God does it in the heart, wisdom and brains are staggered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I remember a little girl who came to the altar. She was under deep conviction, and God begun to talk to her. She lifted up her little face and said she was the worst sinner that ever lived, and she prayed and cried. Some people say, "I would not do that." Yes you will. "Every knee shall bow." And "Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven" After a while she said: "I know I am saved and all my sins are forgiven," and the tears soon dried on her face. We saw it, but we did not understand it. That testimony will live for ever. You can get around tradition, you can explain away education, but the work of God will stand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> We are glad this morning that we can read of one man of God who said "This one thing I do." It was an hour of need then, it is an hour of need now, and there is nothing that brings such reward as a life of sacrifice and service for others. When you begin to see these things God will bless you wonderfully.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I went to New York a few years ago to see some missionaries sail. Some had come from a distance, and some had friends to see them off, but there was one young lady who seemed to have more friends and more presents than any of them. When she went up on the gang-plank her arms were just filled. Some had gone away without a carnation, but she seemed to have more than her share. It was all right, because her friends had a right to do it. She disappeared for a little while and then she came back. You would think that she would have placed them in the state room where she could have enjoyed their fragrance, but she came back with her arms full of flowers, and she begged to distribute those flowers along the steamer. It made an impression that will never leave me. They had been given to her, but she saw more in giving them away. I watched her closely. I did not receive a flower, but I got such a blessing by watching. How different it was from selfishness. She might have put them in a vase in the state room, or she might have given them to the stewardess to keep fresh for the voyage, but she passed them on to others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> The heart of God broken on Calvary gives to everyone who comes in surrender, salvation from sin and the abiding presence of the Comforter. As soon as they are filled with the flowers of divine grace, then they can pass them on to others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Beloved, what did God save you for? What did Jesus shed His blood for? What was Gethsemane for? For you and me to enjoy ourselves? Never! What does it matter how I feel for twelve months? What does it matter if ecstasy and emotion never possess me again, if I am conscious that I am in the will of God and giving somebody a flower, or putting something in somebody's life that will never cease to glorify God and bless others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> While Jesus was walking this earth He did some good things, and He displayed His power, but if He had stopped there we would have been lost for ever. He walked on and stood in Gethsemane alone, He sweat when others would have been shivering and freezing. He did not stop there, He went on and carried His cross and His broken heart. That is the foundation upon which Christianity is based. That is why Ingersoll and Voltaire and Russell cannot come within ten million miles of the first edge of the corner of the foundation-stone of Christianity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> If there was no future, the presence of God in the human heart is a divine guarantee for all time, and it can satisfy humanity at every turn. I am so glad that things are offered to us and revealed to us. God is God, and there is none else.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Another reason that you have to do one thing is because you have no time for anything else. It is surprising how much time it takes to do one thing and to do it well. The man who built Brooklyn Bridge was counted strange and peculiar, but thousands are going over that bridge who never thought of it. There was a man who used to stay out on the ocean so long in going to India, and he suggested making the Suez Canal. People said it could not be done, but he did it. When I saw the monument of that man I was so thankful that he finished it and made it possible for people to go that way and miss the rolling sea. And when you think of it, Jesus Christ takes us from the rolling sea of life and the turmoil of sin, and all His ways are pleasantness and all His paths are peace. But He never found sympathy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> A man said to me the other day, "I don't understand this," and I said, "You never will until you get it." It is still a mystery, you can hear the brightest and the richest and deepest thought from the word of God, but it is still a mystery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> How staggering are those things that were written by John. While others would have starved, he laid his head on the sand and he looked up and wrote a book that has staggered people for twenty centuries. He saw and believed God, and God told him to write at the end that the curse of the Almighty would fall upon those who take anything from that book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> It is the last inspiration, the last word that humanity will have from Divinity, and it says: "The Spirit and the Bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst, come. And whosoever will, let him take of the water of life freely." Think about thirty or forty years being divided, starting here and stopping there. Never! Give every drop of blood in your veins, give all the strength of your body, and all your faith. What is money? What is place? It will be very small when you step into the realm. of the supernatural.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> That was the reason why Paul did the one thing, he had no time for anything else, he was in the biggest thing in the universe, and the greater always includes the lesser. Someone says, "I do not see much in a meeting like this, I see more in. the crowds." I see more in the supernatural, wherever it is, whether it is in the child or in the hungry heart. "We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Another very impressive thing about this is that it satisfies for ever. That which satisfies the world today will not satisfy it tomorrow, but that which satisfies your heart now will also satisfy tomorrow and for ever. "Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord." What is time for? The taking of wages and the movement of the hands of the clock? Time is just a little spot between two eternities, and just think of spending time for anything but the glory of God. the brevity of our opportunity increases our responsibility and we must not shirk it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> You say God is just the God of the whole world, but He is the God of the individual, and He will save whosoever will let Him. I say this morning, let others give their lives to what they will, let others make their choice, I have made mine. There has never been an hour of regret. There has never been a moment of disappointment since the Holy Ghost came to my heart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I could scarcely speak my name so that you could understand it when I was sixteen. I was a disappointment to my friends, but God was talking to my heart, and He saved me from sin and the Holy Ghost came. Then I spoke as plainly as I am speaking to you now. It was a supernatural work, and I left the plow handles and have been preaching the gospel ever since. I have traveled over five hundred thousand miles, and it is none of the devil's business. I have asked for no favors and no support. I have asked for nothing but the privilege of telling out what the Lord has done for my soul.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> And so, beloved, I give you this message this morning. It has not been gleaned as a pastime, but I give it to you as the testimony of the faithfulness of the Holy Ghost since He came to my heart. What I covet for you this morning is that you should know something of the supernatural. A person asked me the other day how I got into this work. I do not know. How do I travel? I do not know. How did I get to this country when so many hundreds are waiting to come? Prayers went up to God, and He touched the hearts of some people. I give Him all the glory; and, beloved, when you live in the realm of the supernatural, you have something to live on every day, three meals a day, and lunches between. There is always something to strengthen you when the Holy Ghost abides.</span><br />
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Swarna Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13156173050183991321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288843365090712418.post-70403925938884001192016-04-11T20:28:00.001+05:302016-04-11T20:28:07.093+05:30 On John Wesley Redfield<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /><br />On John Wesley Redfield</span></b><br /><br />By <a href="http://articles.ochristian.com/preacher165-1.shtml">Charles H. Stalker</a><br /><br /><br /> The following from the pen of Catherine Booth should shake all who are lukewarm and indifferent. She writes, "Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is his great device to keep them so. He does not care what we do if he can do that. We may sing songs about the sweet by and by, preach sermons and say prayers until doomsday, and he will never concern himself about us, if we don't wake anybody up. But if we awake the sleeping sinner he will gnash on us with his teeth. This is our work - to wake people up."<br /><br /> John Wesley Redfield was a man who awakened both the sleeping sinner and careless Christian. When Mr. Redfield prayed or preached men and women were touched by Jesus and went home different than when they came. Under the influence of Mr. Redfield's ministry, the slaves of sin were brought to repentance and totally set free. Wherever he preached, church after church seemed to be effected in the same way.<br /><br /> On one occasion Mr. Redfield entered the pulpit with an especially intense and heavy burden pressing upon his heart. Without hesitation he began his message by clearly describing all those who had lived in the church for years without true saving grace; who had sat under the most searching gospel ministry; who had seen the truth lived out before them and yet rejected it all. With passion he warned all those who had shunned the narrow path of repentance and the cross of Christ. As Mr. Redfield spoke the Holy Spirit brought a shaking conviction of sin upon the entire congregation. Some cried out, some fell prostrate before they could get to the altar, and others fell at the altar. The slain lay in some places totally helpless, one upon another until the aisles were closed for hours. At this exact same time, people miles away also fell under the power of God in the seclusion of their own homes.<br /><br /> John Wesley Redfield said of himself, "God has made me a rough man and given me a rough gospel for rough hearts." He preached holiness forcibly every where he went. This sometimes aroused great opposition, but it also brought great results. Dead churches were revived, new ones were built and the sick were often healed. Mr. Redfield's doctrine and anointing were not borrowed from books, but born in prayer. "Frequently he would groan as if in the throes of death as he wrestled in prayer; then the victory would come. People shouted, prayed and confessed, many lost their strength and did not regain it until they promised obedience to God." Such manifestations of God's power frequently followed his ministry. Under Redfield's preaching in New York, people would run out the back doors of the meeting house trying to avoid the conviction of the Holy Spirit. They would then fall helpless in the streets under the power of God. When found later, they were assumed to be drunk and taken to jail. The first night this occurred the officers marveled, as one after another the once rebellious sinners, recovered, repentant and praising God.<br /><br /> The key to John Wesley Redfield's success was his total and unrelenting dependence upon Jesus Christ. Through many trials he had learned that he could truly do nothing apart from Jesus. Is it not true, that much of our failure to bring forth lasting change lies at the feet of our own self-dependence and pride? We must recover our simplicity and joy of devotion to Jesus. We must repent and put away our methods and programs of self-reliance and once again embrace the "better part" of sitting at the feet of Jesus in humility and prayer. (Luke 10:38-42)</span><br /><div>
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Swarna Jhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13156173050183991321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288843365090712418.post-74698778139613663062016-04-11T20:26:00.003+05:302016-04-11T20:26:34.895+05:30The Great Debt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> "I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise. So as much as in me is I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> You will find an experience here that shows the great, radical and supernatural change that had taken place in this man's heart, and I do not believe it was simply for the Apostle Paul, but I believe it comes to all who are conscious that their sins have been forgiven and that the Holy Ghost has come to abide in their hearts. There are a great many things in which people differ, but the supernatural work is the same in every heart. There may be a difference in the personalities and in the dispositions, but the work of grace is always the same. Those who are really saved from sin, praise God for salvation, and those who have received the Holy Ghost have an inexpressible gratitude in their hearts for all that God has done for them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> The revelation of Calvary always brings with it the revelation of the need of humanity, and these revelations, given by the Holy Ghost, will last through time and through eternity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Now it is fatal to go into this thing without going in for life and with life. You cannot realize how much there is in it until you get into it. So many people do not see anything in it because they are not in it, but some are getting so much out of it because they are all in it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> The first impression that came to Paul after he received the Holy Ghost was his great indebtedness to the human race. He saw more than the few he had left on the road to Damascus, or even the crowd of Athenians. The vision of God goes clear beyond the vision of man, and just where humanity stops, divinity begins, and when you have seen as far as your eyes can see, then the Holy Ghost takes you into the realm of the supernatural. The depth is always beyond man and beyond the measurement he has used, and when Paul said, "Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God; how unsearchable are His judgments, and His way past finding out," he was trying to express something that went right beyond all language.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> We use language as the expression of thought, but in speaking of the supernatural, words fail to convey any idea of the divine supply for the need of humanity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> First of all the Holy Ghost shows you your own need, and then, when you know your sins are forgiven and the Holy Ghost has come, He can never again show you your need, but He will show you the need of others, the need of a lost world. If you never feel a burden, you will never be a blessing. The burden on the hearts of the saints always brings blessing to the sinners, and the unction on the saints always brings conviction on the ungodly. I just simply mention it. It is always the same. These things do not change, they are the same in this country as in America, they do not change in a hall, they do not change in a cathedral. Where there is no burden, there can be no blessing. That is the reason why the prayer meetings are dying out, the burden is gone and there is no blessing. The saints must carry a burden if blessings are to be brought to the sinners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> When there is no burden and no vision the people perish. Why is it that so many souls are without Holiness? Because some people have not seen enough in it to live and die for it. Thousands of people would get the experience in a few moments if they saw as much in it as they see in other things, but they do not see it. You can preach about it, and witness to it, but the Holy Ghost has to show it to that man out there or he will never see anything in it. If I told you something and you believed it, and then someone else came along and told you something, you would go off with them. That is the reason why the devilish errors have gained so much ground. There is the desire for leadership. When God tells you something and you believe Him and allow Him to do a work in your heart, you will be able to stand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Just think what a vision Paul had. He did not receive it at the feet of Gamaliel, he did not get it at college. It came as a revelation from the Holy Ghost. He was hurrying people to hell and persecuting the Christians until he was saved and sanctified. A great many people never have a vision and they never have a burden for lost souls. When God gives you a vision you are never the same afterwards. Paul said, "I am debtor." He was saved and sanctified and he realized he was indebted to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, to the wise and to the unwise, to the people who do not know much, and who do not enjoy as much as others. You can give your whole lives to God and go out and help somebody and God will have all the glory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> When we get this vision God begins to show us the need of other hearts. If we were to be saved and sanctified and do nothing we would be of all men most miserable, but it is not so. I do not want people to pity me, I would rather they prayed for me. I saw something that I cannot tell, the Holy Ghost showed it to me and it has been getting bigger ever since; I saw a lost world and I have a burden for lost souls, it has been increasing all the time. The Holy Ghost not only showed Paul the need, but He showed him the great supply. Then he wrote to them and told them how he longed to come to them that they might receive a second benefit. He prayed for them night and day, and he saw something for the Romans, and for the wise, too. He had the dose that would do for all of them He had the real message of God and he was longing to carry it to them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> He said he did not know how many more beatings he would have, but he was coming to them, and he was coming in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ. It did not matter how many prisons he had to enter, or how many beatings he had, they could not take away the vision he had on his way to Damascus, and they could not take away the burden. He kept it until they took off his head. Just think what a debt we owe to this lost world. Some of them do not know that the promises of the Bible are for them, some of them do not know "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want." They have not heard that "Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord." What are you worth if God does not put something in your soul? This is not the work of man, but the work of God.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Get into harmony with God and give your life for Holiness. On every other line you will find competition. If you prepare yourself for farming, you will find competition. Advertise for one, and fifty would possibly come. I do not know what they are doing today. If you prepare yourself for teaching there are plenty of competitors, but no one can fill your place in the thought of God. If you do not fill it, it will be vacant for time and for eternity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> People who are filled with the Holy Ghost can be a great blessing to others and yet be unconscious of the fact. Is there Bible for that? Yes. Jesus said, in reference to some characters, "When saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger and took thee in? Or naked, and clothed thee? Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> They were doing the very thing and did not know it. When you had that prayer meeting and took that "Holiness Messenger," it blessed somebody although you did not know it. God pronounced a blessing upon it. If you do not fill your place it will never be filled, and you will be met at the judgment bar by souls who will be doomed and damned because of your neglect. If you fill your place then "thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Paul learned wonderful things at the feet of Gamaliel, but they had no effect on him after he had the revelation from God. He counted all those things but dung, he was willing to sacrifice everything, to suffer the loss of all things that he might know God. He did it for the glory of God and for the good of souls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> When Jesus was here He was so much alone. No doubt there were many who thought they would follow Him, but when He told them that "The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man hath not where to lay His head," that killed them and He never heard from them again. He knew their thought and He saw their purpose. Another time they were asking who should be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? You get a place as a gift from God and nobody else can fill that place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Give your life to God and see how He will honor it. Think of the places Paul could have filled in Gamaliel's crowd. He could have had a salary, he could have had honor and popularity and position, but he was willing to suffer the loss of these things, and he chose the stones and the prisons and the beatings. He did it because he had a vision from God and he never lost it. When he went before the king you would have thought that he took notes, but he said, "Oh King, I was going towards Damascus and I saw a light. I wish you could see that light too, it was brighter than the shining of the sun, and I have never forgotten it." He could have preached to him, but he just told him he saw a light. I can imagine that king saying, "He has seen something that I never saw, and this is the first man that has ever stood before me in my authority and my position and told me a thing like that." It was so special that it has been put on record, and you and I can read all that was said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> There is no competition on this line. Why? Christianity does not need support from this old world, it is supported by the people who believe in it and have given their lives for it. Christianity is no pauper, and people who are filled with the Holy Ghost never go begging. A few people who are saved from all sin, and cleansed by the precious blood will always support Holiness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> When we think of what we have to take to this lost world, we see immediately why we should take it. We have the only message that will save lost souls. We have the only message that will make a soul ready for heaven, we have the only message that will satisfy a human heart, we have the only message that will give comfort in the time of sorrow, and the message that will give wisdom to the ignorant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Just think what a tremendous thing it is. People come in here and the first thing they say, is, "He does not preach like our preacher." That is nothing against them, but they see the difference at once. Thank God we have something to take to the people. Paul said he was debtor to the whole bunch. We have the message for which the world is dying. The message of the Holy Ghost is the only message that has Divine authority, Divine affection, Divine illumination, salvation, and Holiness in it. God help us to see it and get it too. It is going to take faith and sacrifice, it is going to cost somebody their life, but it is worth all it costs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I believe everybody ought to get a vision that will bless somebody else. Has anybody ever told you that your life was used by God to save them; has anybody ever told you that you were the means in God's hands of making them hungry for the Holy Ghost. God will put someone on your heart and He will wake you up at night and speak to you about them and that burden is going to take blessing to them. Have something that satisfies your own soul and then you can take it to others. It must be practical, it must be spiritual, and it must be supernatural. You can live on the faith of others and be encouraged and inspired by others, and be blessed in meetings, but until you have something that will work away from meetings, you do not bring much to the meeting. Until you have something that works when you are alone and that satisfies your own soul, you cannot be a blessing to others. I believe it is possible for everybody to be a soul winner. The Holy Ghost will use you to be a blessing to someone whom no one else could reach. That leaves a place for everyone of us. Nobody wants any other place when they fill the place God has for them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> In taking this message of the Holy Ghost, we are up against tremendous difficulties. We have to get through the tradition, the indifference, the lethargy, carnality and formality, and it takes nearly a lifetime to do it. People look out of the corner of their eyes and they will let you walk on up the road, thinking you are fools. People have looked at me and said, "Oh, if you would not preach that way, if you would not talk about hell and preach about Holiness." They do not see the necessity. God help us to see it and be true.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Paul was not only willing to preach, but he was willing to die. Anything that is worth living for and dying for will put conviction on this lost world. Conviction is the work of God through holy lives and holy characters. Your life brings conviction and your death will bring conviction. When the Boxers were causing so much trouble, some missionaries were placed in a stone house until relief came from Shanghai. The rescuers gave orders for the walls to be torn down, they could hear the cries of the missionaries, but they could not locate them. The walls were taken down and they found three who had been made prisoners. They brought them out into the light and sunshine, but two could not speak and they very soon died. The third was almost dead, but he could say "glory."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> He did not say anything against the Boxers, he did not say anything about the lack of fresh air, but he just said "glory." It made a great impression upon me. He died with "glory" on his lips and in his heart, and he is in glory now. The forces who had come to the rescue were on their way back to Shanghai and the leader thought of that missionary who said "glory," but did not say a word against the Boxers. He saw there was something in a religion like that, and he gave his heart to God. Mrs. Stalker and I met that man and he told us he could not get away from the fact that the missionary had something in his heart beyond ordinary or he could not have said "glory" in those circumstances.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Beloved, you will never know how much there is in a word or in the lifting of a hand when you have abandoned yourself to the Holy Ghost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> If you allow the devil to have a place and begin to say, "I can't do this," your life will be a failure. God wants to put something in your life and then stand you out perfect and complete in all His will. He wants you to be so conscious that you are in His will that come life or death, things present or to come, nothing shall be able to overthrow you. Do not stop with a little feeling, but have the unction of God on your soul, have a vision and a burden and get into the realm where you have victory in your soul all the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I believe to a great extent, that the supernatural will make up for many of the deficiencies in the physical and mental and even in the speech. Many times God has made up for the lack of these things in a marvellous way. I have been glad many times that my head was empty and my heart was full when I started out with God. I had a conviction that the power of God would work, but people said it would not. Some time after, I was staying in a home. I was praying in my room and I thought I would go downstairs. I knew the gentleman of the house was in the room below. We said a few words, and then he said, "You do not know much, do you?" And I said "No." Well, you know, it was rather strange, and it struck me, but you do not know how much it blessed me. Soon afterwards, I went back to my room and I really thanked the Lord I knew I did not know anything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> A few days later I left that place and went away a few hundred miles. Then I received a letter from that man, and he said, "You remember staying in our home?" Of course I remembered. Then he said, "You remember I said to you, 'You do not know much, do you?' and you said 'No.' If you will be at New York on a certain date, I will take you to Palestine, and then you will know a little more." I believe I should never have gone on that trip if I had known much, it blessed me nearly to death. Only God could have put it into the heart of that man to do that thing. On the way back I stopped in this country, and I suppose that is the reason I am here today. I could not have come this time if I had not come then, this trip is in connection with that, and I have been tripping ever since.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Someone says, "Well, you do not think He would do those things for me? " I simply give it as an illustration of what He can and does do. That was about all that man said to me, and that was about all I said. I used my five senses and tried not to think any more nonsense than I could help. I say these things because they come out of the supernatural, they came because the Holy Ghost came.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> The education I have had for years has been the result of observation and travel, and I use it for the glory of God. He has arranged it that way that I might study geography. My teacher would have had me learn geography with my head, but the Holy Ghost has had me study it with my feet; that is the difference. We have the Bible for it. "Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon shall be yours. You can see how a great many people get maps in their heads, but they never travel ten miles, and they never put two and two together and make four in the Holy Ghost. That is the thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> There is an intellectual conception of the Bible and the blood, but it never reaches the heart. Do you believe the Bible? Yes, where? Up in your head or in your heart? There are people that receive the doctrine of Holiness intellectually and have an intellectual conception, but if you take off their heads they would have nothing left to take them to heaven. The Holy Ghost knew that and He said, "With the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." God begins with the heart and goes to the mouth. Do not think of your limitation, but abandon yourself to the Holy Ghost and let Him have His way for the rest of your life. There is no competition and the Holy Ghost will give you victory. If there are some here this afternoon who do not know that they are saved from every sin, come and seek it with all your heart and ask God to forgive you. And if there are those who have not definitely received the Holy Ghost, receive Him now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I say nothing against what you have been taught but you have never taken any action in your life that has brought so much blessing to you. He will destroy carnality and bring purity and victory. The crowds are outside and millions are in need, but you can be cleansed from all sin and filled with the Holy Ghost now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed." Men are often the subject of strong impressions, and have their feelings strongly excited, when they are far from a fixed and deliberate purpose to devote themselves unreservedly to the service of God. Whatever vicissitudes of feeling and fluctuation of hope the real Christian may experience, his purpose never wavers. He may be strongly tempted, and carnal desires may plead against his course, and his self-denial may be painful, like plucking out a right eye, or cutting off a right hand; but still his determination is fixed that he will serve the Lord. Yes, when by some powerful temptation he is overcome, and is betrayed into sin, though he may for a season be in despair, yet his purpose is, that if he perishes, he will perish seeking mercy and trying to serve the Lord.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Fixedness of purpose is a much better evidence of genuine piety than the most elevated feelings of joy; and this is an evidence which the Christian possesses in his darkest hours of discouragement. Our sensible feelings are much more connected with the state of the nervous system than is commonly supposed; but the steady, fixed purpose of the will, is a good evidence that the heart has been renewed. Our purpose may be stronger at one time than another, but it is always fixed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The writer has come upon following case. A careless and profane young man was awakened, and professed to be converted. His zeal was ardent, and his confidence strong. He relinquished a lucrative business that he might commence a course of education for the Christian ministry. After a while his zeal began to cool, and his prospect of success in preparing for the ministry being somewhat uncertain, he began to regret that he had commenced such a course. And worse than this, he began to repent that he had left the world, and had relinquished a profitable business for the sake of Christ. In a conversation which the writer had with him, he acknowledged that, he often hesitated whether he should continue to seek God, or go back to the world. This confession struck the writer with surprise, as he had before entertained a very favorable opinion of this man, and he could not reconcile such wavering with sincerity. After some time, the young man suddenly relinquished his studies, gave up his Christian profession, and plunged into more than his former dissipation. He became openly profane, and it is believed avowed his disbelief in the reality of true religion. The change in his course affected the pious with grief, and furnished occasion of triumph to the enemies of vital piety. But his course was short. Though possessed of a strong and healthy constitution, he was seized with an inflammatory fever, and died in horror and despair!</span></div>
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