W. B. Godbey - Enter His Rest

egeneration, sanctification, infilling and anointing. Hence the unpardonableness of the sin against the Holy
Ghost you see follows as a logical sequence from their judgment of the redemption scheme, between the
Persons of the blessed Trinity; as the Holy Ghost is the only Divine Personality on the earth to whom
probationary souls can have access, contemptuous rejection of Him settles forever the problem of that soul's
perdition. As Jesus said, “All sins against the Father and the Son can be forgiven, but the blasphemy of the
Spirit, I. e., the contempt of the Holy Ghost), can never be forgiven in this age or in that which is to come.” N.
B. Beware of the tritheistic heresy, I. e., the recognition of three distinct Divinities in the Persons of the Father,
Son and Holy Ghost. There is but one God and three Persons in the Godhead, the Father, the Son and the Holy
Ghost, accommodatory to the plan of salvation. The pagans have the heresy of polytheism, this is many gods,
also pantheism, which imputes divinity to everything.
Tritheism would simply fall in line with these paganistic dogmata, whereas Bible truth settles the doctrine of
monotheism, I. e., one God, beyond the possibility of controversy, at the same time revealing and elucidating the
three distinct personalities of that isolated, omnipotent Divinity beyond the possibility of cavil.
The man that rejects the Holy Ghost can never be anything but a practical atheist, I. e., a man without any god.
This arises from the fact that the Holy Ghost is the only revelator of the Son (Cor. 12:1-4) and, as Jesus
repeatedly says, the Son alone knows the Father and no human being can know the Father unless the Son reveals
Him. Therefore you see clearly that the man rejecting the Holy Ghost never can know either the Son or the
Father. Therefore you see how everything appertaining to the soul's salvation depends on conservatism to the
Holy Ghost. If the worst sinner will heed His normal illuminations, He will give him such a conviction as to put
him in a position where he can repent of his sins and by His help receive God's pardoning mercy of Christ,
which at once brings the sinner into the kingdom, where the Spirit gloriously regenerates him, giving him a new
heart and a new spirit, and actually transforms him from a spiritual corpse into a living soul. Then, if the man is
true to the Holy Ghost, the Spirit will reveal the Old man of sin, still hiding in the deep interior of his heart,
though awfully stunned and subjugated in regeneration. With the humble and submissive appreciation of the
light thus given, by which he is enabled fully to consecrate and appropriate by simple faith the crucifixion of the
old man, and the expurgation of his hereditary depravity by the cleansing blood of Jesus and the glorious
baptism of fire of the Holy Ghost and the triumphant Conqueror on Mt. Calvary, thus really and truly he will
become the happy recipient of entire sanctification. In that case the Holy Ghost migrates into the holy temple
which He has purified by the application of the precious, cleansing blood. The soul thus sitting at the feet of
Jesus joyfully receives His best and greatest gift, the Holy Ghost, (Acts 2:38) who comes into the heart to honor
Jesus, forever crowning Him Lord of all in the heart and life, to reign eternally without a rival.
We constantly recognize the fact that the Son of God incarnate came into the world when born in Bethlehem. Do
you not remember how, in the human body, He came to see Abraham when living on the plain of Mamre and
actually abode in His tent and ate dinner with him, announcing to Sarah the conception of Isaac and to Abraham
the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah the ensuing night? Christ was as real to the Old Testament saints, in
their blessed Jehovah, though excarnate, as He is this day to the New Testament disciples in the glorified Person
of the Lord Jesus. After the similitude in which the Son of God was incarnated at Bethlehem, the Spirit of God
was incarnated in the disciples on the day of Pentecost. Hitherto having operated on the people extrinsically,
though frequently exceedingly powerfully, e.g., picking up Elijah and Ezekiel and other prophets and carrying
them away and dropping them down on some lonely mountain or in a dreary valley filled with dead men's
bones, He now, in the Pentecostal dispensation, comes into the heart and abides, operating powerfully and
delectably, though intrinsically, I. e., from within, in contradistinction to His normal operations from without,
antecedently to Pentecost. Peter tells us positively (Acts 2:38) “Repent, and each one of you, I. e., each one who
has repented) be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, and you shall receive the Holy Ghost.” His office is to
baptize His people with the Holy Ghost and fire, (Matt. 3:11). Paul said to the Ephesian disciples: “Have you
received the Holy Ghost having believed.” showing that it is the privilege of all believers to receive the Holy
Ghost. When they answered in the negative, he called them all to the altar, and put his hands on them and prayed
until the Holy Ghost came on them and they were enabled to testify.
As the Holy Ghost will not dwell in an unclean heart, therefore entire sanctification is the normal standard of the
Church. “Be ye holy, for I am holy.” If we ever go to live with God in Heaven, we must be holy, because He is