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

tormented by unclean spirits, who all continued to get healed.” Bodily healing is the legitimate
overflow and outgrowth of the spiritual life.
“He that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also quicken your mortal bodies by his
Spirit dwelling in you” (Romans 8:11).
Divine healing is normally for those who are filled with the Holy Ghost, who is always ready to
repair any dilapidation of His own house, that it may be competent to answer the purposes of His
occupancy, becoming His efficient instrument in His labors of love through our mortal
instrumentality. Though we are very diligent to repair the houses in which we live, perpetuating their
adaptations to the enterprises of our occupancy, yet the time comes when it is no longer expedient
to repair the breaches in the old house. In that case we desist from any further repairs, take it down
and build a new one. Divine healing only reaches the body in this life in an earnest of the glory that
awaits us when this mortal shall put on immortality in the transfiguration, received either by
translation, as Enoch and Elijah, and all of the saints at the rapture, or in the resurrection, as final and
complete bodily healing must eliminate mortality, which is the very element of physical ailment and
death. The doctrine of divine healing, so prominent in the New Testament and practical in the
Apostolic ministry, is especially valuable as a tributary to the spiritual life, furnishing a powerful
incentive to all to be filled with the Holy Ghost, and to keep filled, receiving perpetually an
increasing enduement of the blessed indwelling Comforter, who, pursuant to our perfect submission,
obedience and humble faith, will keep His own tenement in good repair, adapted to the work He has
given us to do, pouring on us a thousand blessings through our surviving physical infirmities,
preparing us for translation when our Lord descends.
HIGH PRIEST AND OFFICIAL BOARD.
17, 18. “And the high priest and all those with him, being of the sect of the Sadducees, were filled
with envy, jealousy and prejudice, and laid hands on the apostles and put them in the common
prison.” Tell me not that the high priest did not, in all good conscience, sign the death-warrant of
Jesus Christ, believing that he was doing God service. We have no right to impeach the honesty of
these leading preachers and official members at Jerusalem. You have nothing to do but look at their
successors at the present day. Their name is legion. They doubtless feel it to be their duty to crush
out the Holiness Movement, whose votaries are preaching the Incarnation of the Holy Ghost, the
Baptism of the Holy Ghost and Fire, Entire sanctification, Divine Healing, and the Coming of the
Lord. We are preaching precisely the doctrines which the apostles preached in Jerusalem. This can
not be denied. We prove it constantly with an open Bible. Why do they oppose and interdict us,
forbidding us to preach in their jurisdiction? While we have no right to impeach the candor of the
high priest and his coadjutors, we know they did the work of Satan, believing they were obeying
God. We have the same phenomena throughout Christendom this day. The logical sequence is
irresistible. Just as the leaders of Judaism blindly resisted the Holy Ghost, so the leaders of fallen
Christianity at the present day ostracize and interdict the holiness people, who are preaching just
what the apostles preached. I am willing to preach in any of their churches, with the understanding
that I am to be put out the moment I deflect from the New Testament. We challenge all of the antiholiness
preachers and officers to convict us of departure from the Word of God. But they do not
charge us with antagonism to God’s Word, but simply forbid us to preach in their territory, when