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

lessed Healer of my body, wonderfully keeping in repair this frail tenement. Just as your house
reaches a period when it is not worth repairing, and, consequently, you no longer restore the
breaches; but in that case you soon evacuate it for a new edifice which you have built; so, when the
Holy Ghost ceases to heal my body, I will begin to shout louder than ever, concluding that the house
is no longer worth repairing, and will soon be evacuated for the occupancy of the “house not made
with hands, but eternal and in the heavens” (2 Corinthians 5:1). Hence we see that divine healing
normally, in the gracious economy, results from the overflow of the spiritual life, the Holy Ghost
inundating my spirit and overflowing my body with His healing power and presence. My testimony
to personal divine healing would comprise a volume. For all this I magnify the name of the great and
infallible Physician. Yet, if He does not soon compliment me with a translation, this tenement will
no longer be worth repairing. Then, with triumphant shouts, I will look out for heaven, which is
infinitely better than health. God help us all to so sink away into Thy sweet will that we will shout
over healing, but shout still louder when we are not healed, hailing the auspicious omen that heaven
is very nigh, which is a million times better than health.
12. “Then, therefore, brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh to live after the flesh.
13. “For if you live after the flesh, you are about to die; but if through the Spirit you kill out the
habits of the body, you shall live.” This life is an irrepressible conflict between the spirit drawing
us upward and the flesh gravitating earthward, sinward and hellward. Our only hope of victory is by
the power of the Holy Spirit to literally and actually exterminate all the evil habits of the animal
body, becoming pre-eminently and victoriously spiritual in life, conversation, aspiration and
anticipation.
ENTIRE SANCTIFICATION PECULIARIZED BY THE DIVINE LEADERSHIP AND
ATTESTED TO BY THE CLEAR WITNESS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
14. “For so many as are led by the Spirit of God, the same are the sons of God.” The Holy Spirit
leads the human spirit by direct and immediate illumination, revelation and inspiration. He leads our
intelligent minds by the Word, which He wonderfully lights up to our lucid apprehension, while He
leads our bodies by His gracious Providence. Hence, if true to this divine leadership, we will never
go astray. However, it is exceedingly pertinent that we heed this leadership in its triple aspect. If you
follow the Spirit alone without due appreciation of Word and Providence, you open the door for an
evil spirit, passing himself for the Holy Ghost, to come in, deceive, side-track and ruin you. If you
follow the Word alone without a due appreciation of God’s Spirit and Providence, you will run into
dead formality and lose your soul. If you follow Providence alone, regardless of the Word and Spirit,
you will apostatize into rationalistic infidelity and make your bed in hell. The true policy is to keep
your eye on Jesus, whom no evil spirit can counterfeit, because the devils have no incarnation.
Though the innumerable demons which throng the atmosphere can assume the form of an angel of
light, thus counterfeiting the Holy Ghost and deceiving millions, yet none of them can counterfeit
Jesus, from the fact that they have no incarnation. Therefore we are everywhere commanded to
follow Jesus, meanwhile recognizing the Holy Ghost as our infallible Guide, not only personally,
but through His Word and Providence.