W. B. Godbey - Enter His Rest

holy. Entire sanctification, I. e., the expurgation of all inbred corruption under the cleansing blood, applied by
the blessed Holy Spirit, is God's standard of Bible salvation.
This sweeps all the barriers out of the way preparatory to God's return to His temple, whence He has been
alienated by sin. Therefore when Jesus gives you the Holy Ghost, He always cleanses the heart from all
unrighteousness, and then comes in to abide forever.
As God's work is perfect in human redemption, therefore He makes no provision for sin. As Satan, an
irreconcilable enemy, is infinitely stronger than we, when God gives us this wonderful uttermost salvation, He
always heads off the devil effectually by committing His temple, (the sanctified heart) to the Holy Ghost, who
takes up His abode in it forever. Then you are as sure of Heaven' as if you were in it, if you remain true and
loyal to the indwelling Holy Ghost. This follows as a legitimate sequence, from the simple fact that the blessed
Holy Spirit is more than a match for the combined powers of earth and Hell; Satan and all his hosts assault in
vain, while the blessed Comforter dwells within. The thing we want is to settle matters for Heaven and keep
them settled forever. The way to do that is to secure the constant indwelling of the Holy Ghost, I. e., have Him
come and incarnate Himself in your heart. This He is anxious to do, thus to give you perfect rest and constant
victory forever; from the simple fact that He assuredly conquered Satan and all his myrmidons excarnate and
incarnate, world without end. Therefore this book, “The Incarnation of the Holy Ghost,” will prove infinitely
valuable to you, not only in the acquisition of a bona fide and triumphant Christian experience, but in the
retention of the same to all eternity.
“Church, Bride, Kingdom”
This is a book I wrote by special, request of our sainted Brother Knapp. It not only expounds all of these blessed
institutions of God's transcendent and redeeming ways, but contrasts them either with the other and fortifies the
reader against the confusion which so extensively prevails, not only in the laity, but the clergy as well, relative
to their entity, institutionality, prerogative and availability.
Church and Kingdom are substantially identical, except the fact that the former consists only of the souls who,
responsive to the call of the Holy Ghost, have come out from the world and identified themselves with God,
therefore, it has an objective signification; whereas the latter comprises simply the souls, terrestrial and celestial,
who sustained their relation of loyal obedience and conservatism to the Divine sovereignty. Therefore you
perceive that the subjective signification of the word includes the constituent membership of our heavenly King
in all worlds. Our Savior in John 3:5) clearly and forever settles the question that the spiritual birth is absolutely
necessary for membership in the Lord's kingdom.
The same is equally true of the Church I. e., the ecclesia, from ek, out, and kleoo, to call – hence, the called out
people. All these have left Satan's kingdom and crossed the line into the heavenly.
Therefore the testimony of our Savior settles the question that they are born from above.
The world is flooded with false doctrines in reference to both the Church and the Kingdom; multitudinous
claimants on all sides roaring themselves hoarse with the vociferous appeals, “Come unto us and let us immerse
you in water, for this is the door into the Church,” whereas our blessed Christ says in John 10: “I am the door,”
therefore neither baptism nor church rites of any kind constitute the door, but Christ Himself. Neither is any
preacher the porter; only the Holy Ghost, the sole Revelator of Christ, can show you the door and lead you in it.
It is said that there are now six thousand sects and denominations in Christendom, each one claiming to be the
true Church, thus bewildering the poor Hellward-bound millions almost as confusedly as the Brahman priests of
India to their devotees, telling them that there are three hundred and thirty millions of gods. Neither the Church
nor the Kingdom is any sect, denomination or ecclesiasticism, but the body of Christ, (Eph. 1:23). Christ is God,
and consequently a pure spirituality. A spiritual head with a material body would be a monstrosity. Therefore the
Church is a pure spirituality like her Divine head. While in this world these human spirits all dwell in bodies
which are conventionally identified with the Church antecedently to the transfiguration glory, which will
eternally eliminate mortality and confer spirituality, the work homogeneous with the transformation of our
spirits, wrought by the Holy Ghost in regeneration and sanctification. Therefore, antecedently to the glorious