Godbey's Commentary - Acts - Romans - Enter His Rest

presidency of the Emperor sitting in a golden chair, thus passing from New Testament simplicity out
into the complicities of human ecclesiasticism, so moving off into darkness and entering upon that
ominous downward trend, soon culminating in priestcraft, prelacy and popery; and picking up the
murderous weapons for three hundred years used by their pagan predecessors, they turned them
against the heretics, i.e., the Lord’s true people, who dared to walk in the light, follow Jesus, be true
to the Holy Ghost and His Word, and thus separate from the Catholic Church, lighting the fires of
the Inquisition, and again deluging the world in martyrs’ blood. Holiness people, beware! The
moment you depart from New Testament simplicity you are off in the track of fallen Judaism,
Romanism, and the dead churchism of the Protestant world. Shall we not profit by the wreck and
ruin of our predecessors? Our only possible security is in sticking pertinaciously to New Testament
simplicity, walking in the triple leadership of our Heavenly Father, His Word leading our intellects,
His Spirit our hearts and His Providence our bodies. If true to this triple leadership, we are as safe
on earth as in heaven. We are certain to have much conflict with the various leaders of human
ecclesiasticisms, who are practical rivals of the Holy Ghost, the only Leader of God’s people. When
you make rules and regulations, recognize them as an optionary convenience of your own, and do
not give them the force of law. Let it be understood that the New Testament is your only code of
laws and the umpire in every case. If we holiness people, whom God has raised up in every nation
under Heaven to rescue the truth from the debris of human ecclesiasticism, perversion and misrule
and proclaim the pure, free and full gospel to the world, do not get back to the New Testament in its
original simplicity and there abide, we will forfeit the crown of glory which God has in heaven for
us. Lord, for Jesus’ sake, fortify us against all side-tracking devices of the enemy, and help us in the
light of the Omniscient Revelator to read and study God’s holy Word and to walk in the clear light
of infallible truth with one eye on Jesus and His hand on us under the blood, robed and ready,
looking for our coming King.
[THE END.]