W. B. Godbey - Enter His Rest

Of course Christendom is full of religious forms and ceremonies, rites and legalisms, yet it is only
comparatively few who in utter and eternal abandonment of everything out of harmony with God's will, pray
through and meet the omnipotent God in Christ, revealed by the Holy Ghost, get under the blood and, through
receptive and appropriative faith in the infallible promises, actually reach the consciousness of personal
salvation. These witnesses to Him, “Who is mighty to save,” are comparatively few in Christendom and utterly
minus in Pagandom Yet this is the crowning glory of the wonderful Christ revealed in the Bible, I. e., this matter
of fact, of experimental realization that He veritably is mighty to save
King Manasseh reigned in Jerusalem fifty-three years from his coronation to his death, including a period of
several years which he spent in Babylonian captivity Although his father was the great leader of the holiness
movement, even traveling all over the country destroying idolatry and bringing all Israel back to Jehovah, yet,
when Manasseh succeeded him, he not only went back into idolatry leading the nation with him, but polluted the
house of the Lord with idols and worshipped them there, filling all the land with idolatry and wickedness
enormously aggravated case, as he led the whole nation into most horrific idolatry and all forms of wickedness.
Consequently God let the king of Babylon carry him off in chains and torment and punish him awfully. Amid
his deep distress and tortures in his captivity, he repented in sackcloth and ashes, and greatly humbled himself in
the dust before God, fasting and weeping days, months and years. Thus he cried unto the Lord of his fathers to
have mercy on him and forgive his sins. God heard his prayers while enduring the awful tortures his tormentors
inflicted on him in his captivity, delivered him, brought him back to Jerusalem and reinstated him on his throne.
After this he did his best to bring all of his people back to God to purify the country from idolatry. I mention this
as an illustration of our Christ's omnipotency to save.
When Jesus preached in Gadara, you remember He saved the legionnaire, actually casting out ten thousand
demons. You see it was a clear and glorious case of actual salvation from that demoniacal arm. The man turned
preacher and wanted to go with Jesus, as an apostle, but he was a Gentile and our Lord's Apostles were all Jews,
who, in the gracious economy, were the first to receive the Gospel. So Jesus sent him, as you remember, to his
own people to tell them the mighty work which He had done for him. History says that he proved exceedingly
efficient, preaching all over that country.
Pella was one of the ten cities in that country (Decapolis, deca, “ten,” and polis, “city”), to which the Christian
Jews fled when Jerusalem was destroyed and their nationality exterminated, and history says they found a
joyous welcome by a great number of Gentile disciples who had been saved through the preaching of the
legionnaire. So you will find this booklet, “Mighty to Save,” helpful to you, energizing your faith in Him, “who
is mighty to save.”
(27.) ”GOD'S TRIPLE LEADERSHIP” Man is a trinity, consisting of spirit, soul and body.
Harmonical with this trinity is the Divine leadership, His providence leading the body, His Word the soul, and
His Spirit the human spirit. Oh, the unutterable beauty and glory of the redemptive scheme! It is absolutely
inscrutable and incomprehensible, verily passing all understanding. No one can offer the slightest apology at the
judgment bar, when turned away to the awful doom of endless woe, from the simple fact that the gracious
economy is so transcendently complete and perfect in all its phases and ramifications, as forever to sweep from
the field every vestige of apology. Our probation involves constant and awful temptation from the simple fact
that we have a most formidable enemy who never sleeps. Besides, he is cooperated by countless millions of
sleepless myrmidons. While our enemy is great, our Friend is infinitely and inconceivably greater. Therefore we
have nothing to do but give Him a chance and be true. Victory comes along all the time as a normal sequence of
our loyalty to the omnipotent Conqueror of Mt. Calvary.
God's providence faithfully manages my body, just where He wants me to be; just as safe on the other side of the
world as in the dear “Old Kentucky Home.” Neither barbarians, savages, wild beasts, railroad wrecks nor ocean
storms, cholera nor small-pox can destroy this body till its work is done, if I abide in the center of His sweet
will, from which I would infinitely rather do than to deflect an iota.
God's precious and infallible Word leads my intellect. I must be studious and industrious as He has commanded
me, 2. Tim. 2:15, 'Study to show thyself approved of God, a workman not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the
word of Truth.” Therefore I am to be an assiduous student, sitting at the feet of Jesus, meek, humble and lowly