W. B. Godbey - Enter His Rest

interpolations which uninspired men have added to the Bible, and which really constitute no part of it whatever.
You who do not read the Greek independently ought to have my translation, so as to see just what is Scripture
and what is not. The dear people have importuned me with all their might to translate the Old Testament, but it
is too late for me to undertake it, neither do I feel any leading in that direction. It is beautiful and true, but we
are not living under the Old Testament dispensation, but the New, therefore the thing for us to do is to learn from
the New Testament all the great vital truths constituting the redemption scheme. This we can do by the help of
God, so that none of us need walk in darkness, nor the dim light of the moon and stars, but amid the glorious
noonday, with which the Sun of Righteousness floods all duly appreciative Bible students who have given up all
of their own wisdom, creeds and sectism, and content themselves to sit meek and lowly at the feet of Jesus,
saying, like little Samuel, “Speak, Lord, thy servant heareth.” Meanwhile the Holy Ghost is freely given to teach
us the deep things of God and the wonderful truths of the Kingdom.
Infidelity in the form of higher criticism is Satan's latest investiture of his old infidelity of ages long ago, forged
in the crucibles of Hell. So many of the higher clergy are getting tilted by this new fangled legerdemain that it is
now incumbent on the rank and file of the holiness people to take the Bible into their own hands, repudiating the
human ipse dixit forever and demanding a positive “Thus saith the Lord” for everything they accept.
You will find this booklet, which tells you what the Bible is and what it does, exceedingly helpful in your
apprehension and comprehension of this invaluable Way-bill from earth to Heaven. The Holy Ghost is the
Guide, but He guides all true pilgrims through the Guidebook which He has given us.
Therefore, we must not fold our arms and content ourselves with easy-chair piety while Satan rocks that armchair
and sings lullabies over us till he can dump us into Hell. If we do not prove ourselves assiduous students in
the school of Christ, always teachable by the blessed Holy Spirit lighting up His precious Word and using His
faithful people to instruct the juveniles and humble catechumens of this blessed Guide-book, we need not be
surprised to find our necks lassoed by Satan's crafty sophistries. In our study of the Bible, we must ask God to
deliver us from our sectisms, creedisms, dogmatisms, and prejudices of every kind; not only giving us a clean
heart under the cleansing blood, in which He will condescend to dwell, but a purified intellect from which all
the debris of superstition and idolatry in all its forms and phases has been expurgated, so that it may be blank
and clean and ready for the inscriptions with which the blessed Author of the precious Word in mercy may write
the cordival, vocalized truths, constantly to serve as beacon lights along the heavenly highway.
(21.) ”GOD'S ECCLESIA” This is the word translated “Church” throughout the Bible. It is a Greek compound
from ek, out, and kaleoo, to call; therefore it means “the called out people,” in all the earth. When Jesus was
speaking of His sheep, in John to, He said, “I have other sheep which are not of this fold. It behooveth me to
bring them hither, that there may be one fold and one shepherd.” Of course those sheep were among the
Gentiles. When God put the spirit of prophecy on Ananias, the wicked high priest who was thirsting for the
blood of His Son, and he said that “it behooved that one man should die for the people and that the whole nation
should not perish,” he spoke this not of himself but, being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was
about to die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but that He might gather into one the children of God
who had been dispersed abroad. These children of God are scattered through every nation under Heaven, having
been born from above, regenerated by the Holy Ghost, and consequently become members of God's family,
which is but another name for the Church. You see, then, that God's Ecclesia are scattered over every land
between the cardinal points and it is the work of the Gospel ministers to gather them all into the New Testament
organization in order to their edification by the graces of Christian fellowship and the mutual instruction and
encouragement of each other.
Denominationalism has seriously confused the popular mind in reference to the character and constituency of
God's Church. It has nothing to do with sectarianism in any form whatever, but includes all truly regenerated
people in Heaven and in earth in its membership, and all of the sanctified people in the world constitute the
official board and the ordained ministry. The fires of the Holy Ghost when Jesus baptizes us utterly consume all
human dross which divide God's people, e.g., lodgery, Creeds, dogmatisms and all of the appurtenances of sects
and denominations. Nothing but the wonderful efficacy of the cleansing blood in entire sanctification, and the
refining fires of the Holy Ghost constantly by the blessed indwelling Comforter can effectually fortify God's
Ecclesia against the contaminations of heterogeneous human dogmatisms.