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

and damnation for impenitent sinners, and this truth is believed by wicked, hell-ward bound people
through their faith in this awful revelation of their damnation and doom, God’s dynamite reaches the
deep interior of their depraved hearts, blowing them up into a knock-down conviction, bringing them
wallowing and roaring at the mourner’s bench. Then when the Gospel of Calvary is faithfully
preached to this heart-broken penitent, and he believes the wonderful truth of the vicarious
atonement while contemplating the stupendous magnitude of redeeming love, through his humble
faith in the converting truth of God, the dynamite of conversion gives him another wonderful
blowing up, lifting him out of Satan’s kingdom, giving him a glorious balloon ride with Jesus, and
dropping him down in the kingdom of God’s redeeming grace and regenerating love. Again, when
the truth is preached of inbred sin in a subjugated state surviving in the heart of God’s children till
all the debris of the fall is expurgated through the cleansing blood applied by the Holy Ghost, then
through the medium of simple faith in God’s plain and unmistakable word, another conviction takes
hold of him bringing him down low at the feet of Jesus, terribly humiliating him while contemplating
the disharmony with the Divine administration and disconformity to the image and likeness of God,
he goes mourning night and day. Finally when the wonderful Gospel of entire sanctification through
the cleansing blood of Jesus and the consuming fires of the Holy Ghost is faithfully preached to him
till his faith apprehends and appropriates the glorious promise of God to sanctify his children by way
of consecration and faith; then through the medium of his faith in the sanctifying truth of the
infallible God, the dynamite of entire sanctification is transmitted into the deep interior of his fallen
nature, when a spark from heaven’s altar, through his humble faith, ignites the blast, blowing inbred
sin out by the roots and transporting the man far away out of the old, howling wilderness into the
ever green fields of Beulah land where the sun and moon both shine night and day, and no one says,
“I am sick.” Now do not forget that this dynamite administered through the faith of the recipient is
the only definition of Gospel. Hence you see that the dead churches belting the globe, whether Papal
or Protestant, are literally heathenized without a scintillation of actual Gospel. They all have more
or less truth, which is a valuable auxiliary in salvation, but utterly inefficient in the absence of the
Holy Ghost dynamite. If the truth alone could save, the devil would have been lifted from hell long
ago, for I trow he knows more truth than any of us, yet not a scintillation of Heavenly dynamite can
ever reach him, because he and all the inmates of hell, demoniacal and human, have passed the
bourne of probation, the former when they fell from the heavenly state (Isaiah 14:12 and Jude 7), and
the latter when they passed out of time into eternity. An illiterate old Negro, full of the Holy Ghost,
has more Gospel in his own soul ready to transmit to others through his great thick dictionary and
grammar-butchering lips than a whole car-load of plug-hatted theologians without the dynamite of
the Holy Ghost. The reason why the Gospel is butchered and perverted on all sides is, because the
people do not use their common sense and utilize the blessed Holy Spirit. God says the way to
heaven is so plain that “wayfaring men, though fools, need not err therein” (Isaiah 35). Oh, how
egregiously uninspired men with great heads and human learning have complicated it. All this is a
trick of the devil to obscure the way to heaven till he can dump the people by millions into hell. You
do not need a college to qualify you to preach the gospel. You have only need to “tarry at Jerusalem
till you are endued with dynamite from on high.” Then you will preach the gospel soon enough “with
the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven.” Since Satan has manipulated to side-track the churches on
the line of human learning (not that we object to per se), God is stirring all the world with the
holiness movement, raising up millions of men and women to preach the genuine old-time
Pentecostal Gospel with no human power but the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven, ministering