A Presentation of Perfection - Media Sabda Org

Later in 1957 a sermon that Schmul had preached at God's Bible School camp meeting that year
was published in the God's Revivalist. It was entitled "The Beauty of Holiness." One of his main
points in the sermon was that holiness is beautiful in appearance. Not necessarily beautiful in the
outward but in the inner man. According to Schmul, this beauty was brought about by the sin nature
being purged by the Holy Ghost. He commented, "You can let the Holy Ghost give you a treatment
for your soul, renovate your personality, do something for the inner man." [46]
Later in the sermon he said more about this beauty found in the saints of God. He stated,
There is a peculiar beauty about the saints. There is a glow, a radiance about them.
Their very personality has been permeated and purged and sanctified by the power
of the Holy Ghost. That is the kind of beauty I am talking about. [47]
In 1958, Bowman was found writing in the God's Revivalist. He wrote a piece called "Entire
Sanctification" that espoused the Pentecostal-Substantive position. He taught that the sin nature
remained in the heart after a person was converted. Bowman stated:
When one is converted, God forgives him for what he has done, and cleansing goes
as far as he has polluted his soul by his own transgressions. But the nature of sin,
which is inherited from Adam, is still left in the heart, though suppressed by the new
nature received in conversion. This God cannot forgive, for it is a principle of evil;
but He has made provision in the atonement whereby man can get rid of it. [48]
According to Bowman this provision in the atonement that took care of that principle of evil was
brought about by the Holy Ghost. He wrote,
So with the second work of grace; when we are sanctified we are made holy.
Sanctification is an experience; holiness is a state. Sanctification is accomplished by
the baptism with the Holy Ghost. [49]
Later in 1958 a sermon was published that had been preached at God's Bible School camp
meeting by J. W. Short. The title of the sermon was "Our Lord's Last Day on Earth." His address was
focused on the command of Jesus to His disciples for them to wait in Jerusalem for power on high
after He had ascended to Heaven.
In the sermon Short reminded the people of what can take place when someone experiences a
personal Pentecost. He gave his own testimony of how sin was destroyed and how the glory filled
his soul when he received the blessing.
The following was a climactic part of his sermon:
On the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit was given, not only to a hundred and twenty
in an upper room, but to the world. We are living in the glorious dispensation of the
Holy Spirit. He is the executive of the Godhead, carrying on the great plan of
redemption, and He is here today. [50]