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She solidified her point by quoting from Francis Asbury, an early bishop in the American Methodist church. He stated, "I am divinely impressed with a charge to preach sanctification in every [57] sermon!" Later, on his deathbed he said, "I have endeavored to preach holiness faithfully: but if I had my life to live over again, I would preach it still more persistently" [58] 1957 There were three sermons about holiness that were printed in the God's Revivalist during this year. They were preached by J. P. Trueblood, Millard Downing, and H. E. Schmul. All three of these sermons were delivered at the God's Bible School Chapel. Trueblood's sermon was printed first in 1957 and it was titled, "The Gifts of the Spirit." His scripture text was I Corinthians 12:7-11. In the beginning of the sermon, a distinction was made between the Holy Spirit in the life of the Christian and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. He preached: But not every Christian has the gifts of the Spirit. The gifts have nothing to do with our personal salvation. The normal place for these gifts is with the Spirit-filled, the wholly sanctified. But now and then people who are only regenerated may have them....Let us keep in mind that the supernatural gifts belong to God, and He divides them to whom and upon whom He pleases. [59] In this sermon, there was also an interesting explanation given to what I Corinthians 1:2 meant when it said, "To them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints" (KJV). Trueblood told the difference between experiential and provisional sanctification when he spoke: That is the way it is with a converted person. He is sanctified in Christ Jesus: he is not experientially sanctified; but he is provisionally sanctified until he gets light on holiness. Should he die without having had light on holiness, of course he would go to Heaven. He could not go to Hell; there is no place for a regenerated person in Hell. The blood of Christ atones for his carnality as it atones for the carnality in my little child. But when he gets light on holiness as a second experience, he will either walk in the light and be sanctified experientially, or he will backslide and lose his justification. [60] Downing preached a sermon called "Sanctification -- a Second Work of Grace" during the midyear revival, and it was later printed in the God's Revivalist. John, Chapter Seventeen, was the main text used for this message. Even though Downing read several verses to begin his sermon, it was not an expositional sermon. In fact, he discussed several topics in the address. One thing he identified was those that should not be seeking to be sanctified until they first had gotten saved. He preached,
In some holiness churches, and I am afraid even in some Bible schools, after a message on sanctification, down the aisle may come a character, popping...[her] chewing gum, who looks as though she might have just come from the circus. She has a beauty parlor head and discolored lips and cheeks and nails. She has clearance lights in her ears, and pearl chokers around her neck. Her dress has low neck, no back, and no sleeves. She wears no hose, and only two or three straps across her feet for shoes...This woman we have mentioned gets down on one knee at the mourner's bench. a Christian worker kneels down before her and prays. After a while, she looks up at the worker who tries to help her, pops her chewing gum a couple of times, and says, "Oh, I am a Christian. I came to be sanctified." [61] H. E. Schmul preached a third sermon called "The Beauty of Holiness" at the God's Bible School camp meeting that was printed in the God's Revivalist. For a text he used Psalm 96:9: "O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness" (KJV). He said that holiness is beautiful in many ways. It is beautiful in appearance, courage, youthfulness, under fire, in retirement, and in death. In the sermon Schmul spent a considerable amount of time talking about the beauty of holiness being tested under fire. He commented: You can have an experience that is beautiful, even though folk may throw mud at you. You may be on your knees, you may be on your face; but, brother, after Hell has done its worst you can still have an experience in holiness. [62] 1958 There were three noteworthy articles that were published in that year. One was a general article, one was a testimony, and the last one was a sermon. In January an article was reprinted from the writings of A. M. Hills. It was entitled "A Twofold Disease and a Double Cure." He identified the twofold disease as being sin. Here is how he defined the disease: The Greek New Testament Lexicon gives the clue to the mystery It gives two sets of definitions of the most common word for sin in the Greek language: harmartia. (a) "Error, offense, sin" -- in other words, our voluntary sins. (b) "The principle or cause of sin, proneness to sin, sinful propensity." Here then, are the two forms which the disease of sin takes in human experience. [63] Later in the writing, Hills talked about universal sinning as a result of the twofold disease. He explained how this universal sinning came about: It informs us that our first parents by their first sin brought on themselves a radical derangement of their moral natures -- "a proneness to sin." Then they begot children,
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