W. B. Godbey - Enter His Rest

the Campbellite preachers a place in that dark phalanx. Precisely like the Roman Catholic priests, they take the
great work of saving the sinner out of the hands of God into their own, telling him to confess and believe, let
them immerse him in water and he is saved. In this their proselytic zeal constantly reminds me of the Pharisees
in our Savior's time, who compassed sea and land to make one proselyte, and when done made him twofold
more the child of Hell than before.
Why? Because he still retained his old sins, and added to it the sin of hypocrisy, thus doubling the condemnation
and the certainty of damnation. The meaning of hypocrite is a counterfeit Christian, who has the form and
denies the power, and Paul says to turn away from all such. (2Tim. 3:5.) Really the normal work of the
Campbellites is to make hypocrites, I. e., give them the form and the name, in the utter absence of the reality,
which they ignore and do not even claim to have. They claim to be Christians, on the presumption that the form
they have passed through makes them such, which is utterly untrue. As Jesus says (Matt. 23:13), they only
proselyte him to their church and do not save his soul. Therefore he is twofold more the child of Hell, having
added to his old life of sin the new life of hypocrisy, thus doubling the mess for the bottomless pit.
As their system, all the way through, is dead, empty legalism, therefore after they have received their pseudo
conversion and become Christians in their nomenclature, they bring in the law, by which they are to live and
retain their place in the kingdom, which of course is farcical, as they are farther from the kingdom of God than
ever before. Now that they are citizens of the kingdom, they tell them they are to pray for the pardon of the sins
which they have committed since they were immersed, but never ask God to forgive the millions of sins they
committed before their immersion.
They ridicule the very idea of holiness, rejecting and denying the personal Holy Ghost, claiming that the Word is
the Spirit. Here you see again their anti-Christian attitude, I. e., the very opposite of their boasted claim to being
the Christian Church to the exclusion of all others. Anti means instead of; therefore the Pope is anti-Christ,
because he usurps the place of Christ on the earth. The Campbellite preacher does precisely the same thing. He
repudiates the Holy Ghost, who is the only Divine personality on the earth: that of the Father, sitting on the
throne of the universe, and that of the Son, on the mediatorial throne at His right hand; while both the Father and
the Son send down the Holy Ghost to “convict the world of Sin, of righteousness, and of judgment.” So you see
at once the plausibility and feasibility of their sin against the Holy Ghost, I. e., His blasphemy, which means His
contemptuous treatment, by which He is rejected, grieved, and alienated forever, leaving the sinner doomed,
even before he evacuates this body and passes out into eternity.
“There is a time, we know not when;
A point, we know not where;
Which marks the destinies of men
For glory or despair.
“There is a line, by us unseen,
That crosses every path;
The hidden boundary between
God's mercy and His wrath.”
Satan is so adroit that he employs millions of false prophets, I. e., counterfeit preachers, to decoy poor souls
beyond that enchanted time and across that fatal line, the dismal bourne whence no traveler returns. As
antiChrist means the person who takes the place of Christ in the plan of salvation, there is actually no evasion of
the conclusion that the Campbellite preacher is antiChrist.
While God's preacher hides behind the cross, and cries, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of
the world,” the Campbellite preacher says, “See, here is water; come, and let me baptize you for the remission
of your sins.” He really with his church rites gets between the sinner and Christ and substitutes church
ordinances for Him who alone can save. He ridicules the idea that you can personally receive Jesus and receive
an intelligent know-so salvation, witnessed to by the Holy Ghost.
The true preacher sinks out of sight; having done all he can to lead the soul to the Savior, he then tells him he
must go alone and meet Him for himself and receive his own salvation, which he will know better than he
knows that he is alive. All this the Campbellite preacher mocks. Why? Because he is really doing the work of