“To him that
overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame”
(Revelation 3:21)
Genuine holiness of life and spirit can be
put into the place of testing without fear! Whenever there is a breakdown of
holiness, that is proof there never was any real degree of holiness in the
first place.
Whenever satan has reason to fear a truth
very gravely, he produces a counterfeit. He will try to put that truth in such
a bad light that the very persons who are most eager to obey it are frightened
away from it. satan is very sly and very experienced in the forming of parodies
of truth which he fears the most, and then pawns off his parody as the real
thing and soon frightens away the serious-minded saints.
I regret to say that some who have called
themselves by a kind of copyrighted name of holiness have allowed the doctrine
to harden into a formula which has become a hindrance to repentance, for this
doctrine has been invoked to cover up frivolity and covetousness, pride and
worldliness.
I have seen the results. Serious,
honest persons have turned away from the whole idea of holiness because of
those who have claims it and then lived selfish and conceited lives.
But, brethren, men of God have reminded us
in the Word that God does ask and expect us to be holy men and women of God,
because we are the children of God! The provision of God by His pure and gentle
and loving Spirit is still the positive answer for those who hunger and thirst
for the life well pleasing to God!
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