The Four-fold Gospel, by Dr. A.B. Simpson, founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance

If you go back to July 1 and read ahead, you will be able to read a digest version of A.B. Simpson's The Four-fold Gospel.   This classic book is the basis for the doctrine of The Christian and Missionary Alliance.

I will not be posting on this site for awhile since I am switching to non-Alliance authors.  If you wish to continue to follow my classic faith quotes, you may find them each day (M-F) at www.lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com,  or join the Lep's Faith Quotes group on Facebook, or see my daily status update on Facebook.

Conclusion of The Four-fold Gospel

Be diligent. There is much to do. You can hasten the coming of the day of God. The world is to be forewarned. The Church is to be prepared. Arouse thee, O Christian. Give Him every power, every faculty, every dollar, every moment. Send the Gospel abroad. Go yourself if you can. If you cannot, send your substitute. And may this last decade of the nineteenth century mean for you and for this world, as nothing ever meant before, a time of preparation for the coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!







-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

The Lessons It Leaves

"I come as a thief; blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame." Let us not put off the wedding robe for an hour. Let us remember His words, "When these things begin to come to pass, then lift up your heads and bend yourselves BACK (Dr. Young), for your redemption draweth nigh." Keep your faces turned heavenwards until your whole being shall curve heavenwards, like a dear old saint we know, whose body, when she speaks and prays, describes a circle bending towards the sky.



-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

Blessings of His Second Coming #7

7. And it will bring such blessings to others, to the race, to the world. It will stop the awful tragedy of sin and suffering; it will sheathe the sword, emancipate the captive, close the prison and the hospital, bind the devil and his henchman death, beautify and glorify the face of the earth, evangelize and convert the perishing nations, and shed light and gladness of this dark scene of woe and wickedness.

There shall be no more crying.

There shall be no more pain.

There shall be no more dying.

There shall be no more stain.

Hearts that by death were riven,

Meet in eternal love:

Lives on the altar given

Rise to their crowns above.

Blessings of His Second Coming #6

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6. It will banish Satan. It will bind and chain the ... fiend, whose hate and power have ... the world in ages of darkness and misery. Oh, to be free from his presence for even a day! to feel that we need no longer watch with ceaseless vigilance against him! to walk upon a world without a devil! Lord, hasten that glorious day.

-- A. B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

The Feast of Tabernacles

The final and most joyous festival of the year begins at sundown Wednesday and continues for seven days. It is called Feast of Tabernacles (or Shelters or Booths), Feast of Ingathering, Season of Our Rejoicing, or Sukkot. It celebrates God's care and protection during forty years of wandering in the wilderness and His continuing sustenance. All Jews made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. They made and lived in temporary shelters (sukkah booths) recalling their years of wandering. In modern times families or congregations build outdoor shelters filled with harvest decorations. It was during the Feast of Tabernacles' illumination ceremony that Jesus said, "I am the light of the world." It was during the water pouring ceremony that Jesus said, "I am the living water."



There is evidence by comparing time frames in the Scriptures to prove that Jesus was born during the Feast of Tabernacles and that He will return during the Feast of Tabernacles.



"Jesus is God tabernacling among men. The word _dwelt_ in Greek implies a temporary dwelling, a sukkah booth. Jesus is God's ultimate sukkah booth. For God, in Jesus Christ, tabernacles among men. As the Temple was a temporary dwelling for the Shekinah (visible Glory of God), so Jesus tabernacling among us manifested the glory of God. He is the source of light and life to all who believe." (The Fall Feasts of Israel, by Mitch and Zhava Glaser)

Blessings of His Second Coming #5

Here's a new thought about heaven that I'd never encountered:



5. It will give us the sweetest and highest service. It will be no idle, selfish ecstasy, but will bring a perfect partnership in His kingdom and administration. We shall, perhaps, be permitted to fulfill the ideals of our highest earthly experiences, and finish the work we have longed and tried to do -- with boundless resources, infinite capabilities, unlimited scope and time, and His own presence and omnipotent help. The blessed work will be to serve Him, to bless others, and to raise earth and humanity to happiness, righteousness and Paradise restored.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

Blessings of His Second Coming #4

4. We shall have perfect bodies; we shall possess His perfect resurrection life... The laws of [gravity] will hold us no more. The streets of the New Jerusalem vertically and horizontally, the length and breadth, and the height are equal. Our bodies shall be the perfect instruments of our exalted spirits, the exact reflection of His glorious body.



-- A. B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

Blessings of His Second Coming #3

3. It will bring us perfect spirits, restored to His image, glorious in His likeness, free from fault, defect, or imperfection, removed above temptation, incapable of falling, and overflowing with unutterable blessedness. We shall wear His perfect image; we shall know as we are known; we shall be as holy as He is holy; we shall possess his ... perfect love.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

Yom Kippur

As you know, I like to educate Christians on their Hebrew roots. Yom Kippur begins at sunset Friday. It is God's appointed day for atonement of sins. Jesus would have observed Yom Kippur, and He is the fulfillment of it.



On this day there is to be no eating or drinking, no work, no travel, no wearing leather shoes, no bathing or washing, no perfumes, and no sex. It is customary to dress entirely in white.



The high priest made animal sacrifices, and the scapegoat was sent into the wilderness to take away the sins of the people.





from Wikipedia: According to Jewish tradition, God inscribes each person's fate for the coming year into a book, the Book of Life, on Rosh Hashanah, and waits until Yom Kippur to "seal" the verdict. During the Days of Awe, a Jewish person tries to amend his or her behavior and seek forgiveness for wrongs done against God and against other human beings. The evening and day of Yom Kippur are set aside for public and private petitions and confessions of guilt. At the end of Yom Kippur, one hopes that they have been forgiven by God.



Jesus is the fulfillment of Yom Kippur. By His blood sacrifice He has taken away our sins once and for all so that sacrifices are no longer needed. No longer do we need to "hope" that our sins have been forgiven.



And no, I don't observe the Hebrew customs of Yom Kippur.

Blessings of His Second Coming

1. It will bring us Jesus Himself. This is the best of its blessings... Not the robes and royal crowns, not the resurrection [bodies] or ... friends will be the chief joy, but "Thou art coming, we shall see Thee, And be like Thee on that day."



2. It will [bring] us our friends. "Them who sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him." They shall be alive, they shall be recognized, they shall be gloriously beautiful, they shall be ours forever. Not only the old ones, but such new ones, the good of all the ages, the men and women we have longed to know. What a family! "Ten thousand times ten thousand, In shining garments bright, The armies of the ransomed Throng up the steps of light."



-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

More Signs of His Coming

Portions of the text are illegible on my ereader. It misreads the letters in the original text and makes whole passages incomprehensible.







5. The intellectual signs... while human philosophy talks of evolution and declares that all things continue as they were, and nature is ... only material.



6. The moral signs are even more marked than Daniel's picture. "The wicked shall do wickedly," was never more true than today. Portentous forms of wickedness startle the moral sense every day...



7. The religious signs are growing more vivid. Lukewarmness and worldliness in the Church, intense longings after holiness on the part of the few, and a mighty missionary movement are the features of the age, and the signs of prophecy, that point to the day of the Son of Man.



8. And finally, an earnest, a growing and a world-wide expectation of His coming on the part of all those who love His appearing, is as profound today as it was in Judea, and even the Gentile world in the age preceding His advent at Bethlehem. The morning star is in the East. "The children of the day" have seen it. The cry gone forth, "The night is far spent, the day is at hand."



-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

Signs of His Coming Fulfilled

Many of the most important signs of the Lord's coming have already been fulfilled. For example:



1. The political developments of Daniel's visions have apparently all occurred...



2. The predicted "falling away" has long ago begun, and the man of sin has sat in God's temple already the full time of the prophetic cycle, and the process has begun to consume and destroy unto the end.



3. The Mohammedan power has waxed and waned, and the waters of this great spiritual Euphrates are being dried up every day to prepare the way of God's kingly people.



4. The Jewish signs have not been less remarkable. Jacob is turning his face again to Bethel, and Jerusalem... Her sons are slowing returning, while jealous nations... fulfilling unconsciously the voice of prophecy. (much of this section is illegible on the ereader).



-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

The Coming of Christ

He will first come for His own waiting ones, and they, with the holy dead, shall be caught up to meet Him in the air. The wicked world shall be left behind; a formal church and a multitude of nations shall live on and scarcely miss the little flock that has just been caught away. Then will begin a series of judgments and warning, ending at last in the descent of Christ in power and glory, the revelation of His righteous judgment against His open enemies, and the beginning of His reign... It is more imminent and certain, and may come at any hour.



-- A.B. Simspon, The Four-fold Gospel

Rosh HaShanah 2

I decided to wait until Monday to pick up the A.B. Simpson quotes again. Meanwhile, some more stuff about the Jewish New Year and an uplifting Scripture.



My prayer partner and I went to Sar Shalom Messianic Congregation in Mansfield Wednesday night. We enjoyed a meal of pizza, KFC, and all kinds of sweets, which is customary for wishing a new year of sweetness. Then we all went out on the lawn at sunset where 28 people with shofars blew them in four directions to welcome the new year. Then inside for a service consisting Davidic dancing, flag and banner dance teams, shofar-blowing, tambourines, shouting, dancing the hora through the aisles, traditional prayers, and sermon. About 80 present.



During the ten days from Rosh HaShanah until Yom Kippur, Jews and Messianics read Psalm 27 daily. So I thought I would quote some verses (NKJV) from that psalm for today's meditation.



The LORD is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid?

Though an army may encamp against me, My heart shall not fear; Though war may rise against me, In this I will be confident.

One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life. To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple. For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock.



I would have lost heart, unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living. Wait on the LORD; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the LORD!

Rosh HaShanah: One of God's Appointed Feasts

If you know me very well, you know that I like to keep Christians informed of their Jewish roots and the fulfillment of the High Holy Days, "the festivals of the Lord", by Yeshua/ Jesus.



Rosh HaShanah ("Head of the Year") (also known as Yom Teruah - "Day of the Trumpet") begins at sundown today, Wed., Sept. 4, by tradition the 5774 th anniversary of the Creation of Adam and Eve. It continues through Friday. This is the Jewish New Year.



Traditional foods are apples and honey, or anything sweet (for sweetness in the new year). It is also a time of personal introspection, culminating on Yom Kippur next week.



Here's the application for Christians:





Hebrew for Christians (Facebook group)



... Moreover there is a prophetic aspect to this season, as Yom Teruah (i.e., Rosh Hashanah) represents the "Day of the LORD" (יוֹם יְהוָה) and the imminent apocalyptic judgment of the present world... Just as the spring festivals foretold Messiah's first advent, so the fall festivals foretell his second coming... Moreover, "teruah" (תְּרוּעָה) is the blast of a shofar, the "calling up" signal for those who belong to Messiah; the opening of the gate to the wedding of the Lamb! May God help us be ready to soon see our King!

The Millennium

Although God knew just the moment when His Son should appear, yet He wanted His Church to be always expecting it -- at even, or at midnight, or at cock crowing, or in the morning. The announcement of a fixed previous millennium would have been fatal to this design, and the Church would have gone to work to make her own millennium without Him.



-- A. B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel







As we approach the fall festival of The Feast of Trumpets (more about this tomorrow), let's keep waiting and watching and listening for that final trumpet!

What Do We Mean by the Millenium?

1. The resurrection and re-union of the saints.

2. Their reward and reign.

3. The complete exclusion of Satan from the earth.

4. The personal and continual presence of Jesus with them on earth.

5. The suppression of all enemies and the universal reign of righteousness.

6. The duration of a thousand years.

7. The immediately succeeding revolt of Satan and sinful man, and the final judgment of the wicked.

If there was no other reference in the Bible to this time of blessing, these elements alone would be sufficient to constitute a state and time of exalted glory and happiness.



--A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

What It Means by Christ's Coming

[The examples that Simpson cites were all popular attempts to explain away Christ's Second Coming in Simpson's day.]




1. We do not mean His coming to the individual Christian's heart... This is not His second coming... Indeed, the more we know Jesus spiritually, the more will we long for His personal and eternal presence in the fuller and more glorious sense which His personal advent will bring.

2. We do not mean His coming at death. It is doubtful whether He does really come for us at death...

3. We do not mean... the progress of Christianity. This is nowhere recognized... as the personal coming of Christ...

His truth is to prevail; His cause is to triumph, but He is coming personally, and He is infinitely more than even His truth and cause.



-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

In a Deep Pit

[A.B. Simpson tells of a testimony he heard from a Chinaman]:

"I was down in a deep pit, half sunk in the mire and was crying for someone to help me out."

[The man tells how Confucius and Buddha could not help him, but Jesus could.]

"I cried out to Him: 'Oh, Father, can you help me?' 'My child,' he said, 'what is the matter?' Before I could answer Him, He was down in the mire by my side; He folded his arms about me and lifted me up, and then He fed and rested me. When I was well, He did not say, 'Now, don't do that again,' but He said, 'We will walk on together now'; and we have been walking together until this day."

That's what Jesus Christ will do for you, beloved! He comes down to you where you are. He becomes your trust within you, and then you go on together until the resurrection light and glory of the coming age bursts in upon you. May God help us all to receive Him thus fully for his own name's sake! Amen.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

How Is Jesus Our Healer?

1. Because He has brought healing for us with His stripes. It is a part of His purchased redemption on Calvary...



2. Because it is in His risen life in us. We have healing not only from Jesus, but in Jesus...



3. Because He enables us to take it by becoming our power to believe. He gives the faith to trust Him if we will receive it... He comes down to your helplessness and becomes our trust as well as our healing...



-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

How Healing Is Received (cont.)

8. Divine healing is in accordance with all the facts of Church history... Great multitudes of healed ones proclaim with one voice: "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and forever." All down through the middle ages the pure Church believed this truth and taught it...

9. Divine healing is one of the signs of the age. It is the forerunner of Christ's coming. It is God's answer to the infidelity of today. Man may try to reason it down with the force of his intellect. God meets it with this unanswerable proof of His power.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

How Healing Is Received

6. Divine healing comes by the grace of God, not through the work of man... We cannot help God out in it. It comes to us as a gift...

7. It comes to us by faith. It is not the faith that heals. God heals, but faith receives it. We believe that God is healing before any evidence is given. It is to be believed as a present reality... We are to act as it it were already true. God wants us to lean on Him, and trust Him, and then rejoice and praise Him for what He has given, with no doubt or fear.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

How Healing Is Received (cont.)

4. Divine healing comes to us through the life of Jesus Christ, who rose from the dead in His own body... This is our Christ, a living physical Christ, and He is able and willing to share His physical life with you, by breathing into you His strength...

5. It is the work of His Holy Spirit, quickening the body. When Christ healed the sick while He was upon earth, it was not by the Deity that dwelt in His humanity... Jesus healed by the Holy Ghost... Especially should we expect to see His working in these days, because they are the days of His own Dispensation, the days in which it has been prophesied that there shall be signs and wonders...

-- A. B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

Divine Healing in the Redemption

I think this is a really thought-provoking passage. Lep



Divine healing is part of the redemption work of Jesus Christ. It is one of the things He came to bring. Its foundation stone is the cross of Calvary. "He redeemeth thy life from destruction." (Psalm 103)... "By His stripes we are healed." That is the redemption work of Christ. You have a right to it, beloved, for His body bore all the liability of your body on the cross. Take it and love Him better, because it came from His stripes. I love to think of that word as being in the singular number, stripe. That is the Greek meaning. His body was so beaten that it was all one stripe. There was not an inch of His flesh but was lacerated for us. There is not a fibre of your body but Christ has suffered there to redeem it.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

Walk With God Required

That is the meaning of many of God's chastenings. There is much that He would say to men through His dealings with their bodies, and it is necessary to get their full meaning into the soul before Divine healing can be received, and kept after it has been received. It is not a cast-iron patent that works inexorably in one way always; it requires a walk that is very close with God. When the soul is thus walking in harmony and obedience to Him, the life of God can fully flow into the body. Thank God, we cannot have it and have the devil, too.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

Sickness and Discipline

It may be, however, that your sickness has been allowed to come as a discipline. You may have been holding back part of the full testimony or service Christ has called you to. I am afraid, then, you cannot be healed till that difficulty is made right. You may be in some wrong and crooked attitude. He probably will not restore you till that is adjusted.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

What Divine Healing Is

1. It is the supernatural, Divine power of God, infused into human bodies, renewing their strength and replacing the weakness and suffering human frames by the life and power of God. It is a touch of the Divine omnipotence, and nothing short of it...

2. It is founded, not on the [illegible] of man, or on the testimony of those who have been healed, but on the Word of God alone. All the testimony that could be gathered from the whole universe would not establish the truth of such a doctrine, if it is not to be found in the Scriptures...

3. It ever recognizes the will of God, and bows to that profound submission. A Christian who is looking for Divine healing will wait till he knows the will of God, and having learned that, he will claim it without wavering. If the sufferer is convinced that the work God gave him to do is done, and that now he is called home, then he should acquiesce in that will and lie down in those blessed arms and rest...

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

What Divine Healing Is Not (pt. 4)

(Items 6 & 8 are garbled on my ereader.)



7. Divine healing is not will power. No person can grapple with his own helplessness and turn it over into strength... If man is down, all the power in his own soul will not avail to lift him up...

9. Neither is it physical immortality, but it is fullness of life until the life-work is done, and then receiving our complete resurrection life at the coming of Christ.

10. Diving healing is not a mercenary medical profession that men adopt as they would adopt a trade or profession in order to make something out of it. If you find the mercenary idea appearing in it for a moment, discountenance and repudiate it. All the gifts of God are as free as the blood of Calvary.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

What Divine Healing Is Not (pt. 3)

5. Divine healing is not prayer power. There are many Christians who greatly desire others to pray for them. If they can secure a certain quantity of prayer there will come a corresponding influence for good upon them, and if all the Christians in the world were to pray for them, they would expect to be healed. There is a general notion that there is a great deal of power in prayer which must have an effect if it can be concentrated. And if enough of it could be obtained, it would move mountains and perhaps be able to break down God' stubborn will. This is practically what this view teaches. There is no power in prayer unless it is the prayer of God Himself. Unless you are in contact with Christ the living Healer, there is no healing. Christ's healing is by His own Divine touch. It is not prayer cure, but Christ-Healing.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

What Divine Healing Is Not (pt. 2)

2. Divine healing is not metaphysical healing. It is not a system of rationalism...

3. Divine healing is not magnetic healing. It is not a mysterious current which flows into one body from another...

4. Divine healing is not spiritualism... If Satan had power to bind a woman in Christ's time, for eighteen years, he had power to unbind her just as quickly. If sickness was his work then, it must surely be the same now. If he can use some persons better if they are strong and well, he will do so. Other instruments he can use better in weakness and pain...

-- A. B Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

What Divine Healing Is Not

1. Divine healing is not medical healing.  It does not come to us through medicines, nor is it God's especial blessing on remedies and means.  It is the direct power of the Almighty hand of God Himself.  "Himself took our infirmities"...  We have nothing to say against the use of remedies so far as those are concerned who are not ready to trust their bodies fully to the Lord...  We cheerfully admit that their remedies have some value as far as they go.  There is some power in man's attempts to stop the tides of evil that sweep over a suffering world.  But there comes a point in all efforts when we have to say, "Thus far shalt thou go and no further."  Yet no one ought rashly to give up these human helps until they have got a better one.  Unless they have been led to trust Christ entirely for something higher and stronger than their nature life, they had better stick to natural remedies.  They need to be sure that God's Word distinctly presents healing for disease, and it does it as definitely as it does forgiveness of sin.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

   

Practical Steps of Sanctification (pt. 2)

The moment we are consecrated to Jesus Christ we learn the secret that He is to be all-in-all to us.  But when we try to practice this truth, we find that it takes time and patience to learn it thoroughly .  We must learn to lean on Him.  We must learn little by little how to take Him for every need...  Remember the secret of it is, "Without Me ye can do nothing."  "I can do all things in Christ, who strengtheneth me."-- A. B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

 

Practical Steps of Sanctification

Practical steps by which this life of sanctification is lived out day by day.
1. We are to live a life of implicit obedience to God, doing always what He bids and being henceforth wholly under His direction.
2. We are to ever listen diligently to His voice.  We will need to listen closely, for Jesus speaks softly.
3. In every time of conflict or temptation or testing, we are to draw near to God and give the matter over to Him.
-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel  

How Sanctification is Received (pt. 2)

2.  We must come to see Jesus as our sanctifier...  We must see in Him that great deliverer, and know that He is able to meet our every need and supply it.
3. We must make an entire surrender to Him in everything.  We must give ourselves to him thoroughly, definitely and unconditionally, and have it graven in the heart, as if it were written on the rocks, or painted on the sky...
4. We must believe that He receives the consecration we make...
Keep these four steps clear...  Jesus is my Sanctifier and my all-in-all.  I surrender everything into His hand for Him to do with as He thinks best... I believe He will be to me all I need in this life or in the world to come.
-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

How Sanctification Is Received

1.  We must have a Divine revelation of our own need of sanctification before we will seek to obtain it.  We must see for ourselves that we are not sanctified, and that we must be sanctified if we would be happy.  The first thing God does often to bring us where we will see this, is to make us thoroughly ashamed of ourselves by letting us fall into mistakes and by bringing our frailties to our notice.  In these humiliating self-revealings we are able to see where we are not righteous, and we are made to learn that we cannot keep our resolutions of amendments that we make in our own strength.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel


 

Fully Dedicated

When the tabernacle was finished the Holy Ghost came down and possessed it, and dwelt in a burning fire upon the ark of the covenant, between the cherubim.  God lived there after it was dedicated to Him.  So when we are dedicated to God, He comes to live in us and transfuses His life though all our being.  -- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel 

The Source of Sanctification (pt. 2)

3. Sanctification is to be received as one of the free gifts God desires to bestow upon us.  If it is not a gift then it is not a part of redemption.  If it is a part of redemption, then it is as free as the blood of Jesus.
4. It comes through the personal indwelling of Jesus.  He does not put righteousness into the heart simply, but He comes there personally Himself to live.
-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

The Source of Sanctification

1. He has purchased it for us.  It is part of the fruit of Calvary... 
2. It does not come to us by our efforts, but it is made over to us as the purchase of His death upon the cross.  It is ours by the purchase of Jesus just as much as forgiveness is.  You have as much right to be holy and sanctified as you have to be saved.  You can go to God and claim it as your inheritance as much as you can your pardon for sin.  If you do not have it you are falling short of your redemption privileges.
-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel 

 

What Sanctification Is (part 2)

3. Sanctification includes conformity to the likeness of God.  We are to be in His image, and stamped with the impress of Jesus Christ.
4. Sanctification means conformity also to the will as well as the likeness of God... He desires the Divine will above everything else in life as kinder and wiser for him than anything else can be.
5. Sanctification means love, supreme love to God and all mankind... We cannot be conformed to the image of God without love, for God is love.
-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

What Sanctification Is

1. It is separation from sin... [God] puts a line of demarcation between the sanctified soul and all that is unholy... He has nowhere promised that He will kill Satan, but He has promised to put a broad, deep Jordan between the Christian and sin...
2. Sanctification means also dedication to God... A sanctified Christian is wholly yielded to God to please Him in every particular; his first thought always is, "Thy will be done"; his one desire that he may please God and do His holy will... God expects something more of us than simply to be separated from sin.  This is only negative goodness.  He expects that we shall be wholly dedicated to Him, having it the supreme wish of our heart to love and honor and please Him.
-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

What Sanctification Is Not (part 5)

Sanctification is not a state of emotion.  It is not an ecstasy or a sensation.  It resides in the will and purpose of life.  It is a practical conformity of life and conduct to the will and character of God.  The will must choose God.  The purpose of the heart must be to yield to Him, to please and obey Him. That is the important thing, to love, to choose and to do His holy will.  You cannot have that spirit in you and fail to be happy.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

What Sanctification Is Not (part 4)

5. Sanctification is not self-perfection.  We shall never become so inherently good that there will be no possibility or temptation to sin.   We shall never reach a place where we shall not need each moment to abide in Him...  The moment you or I become conscious that we are strong or pure, that instant the work of disintegration begins.  It has made us independent of Him, and we have separated ourselves from the life of Christ.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

What Sanctification Is Not (part 3)

2. Sanctification is not morality, nor any attainments of character... A man cannot build up a good human character himself and then call it the work of God. It will not stand the strain that is sure to come upon it...


3. Sanctification is not your own work: it is not a gradual attainment which you can grow into by your own efforts... It is an obtainment, not an attainment. You cannot sanctify yourselves. The only thing to do is to give yourself wholly to God, a voluntary sacrifice... But He must do the work of cleansing and filling.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

What Sanctification Is Not (cont.)

You will find that men and women who do not press on in their Christian experience to gain the fullness of their inheritance in Him, will often become cold and formal...  You have doubtless noticed young Christians who have seemed to be marvelously converted and filled with the love of God, but they have not entered into the deeper life of Christ, and in an evil hour they failed.  They had gained a new heart, but they had neglected to get the deeper teaching and life which Christ has for all His children.
-- A. B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

Sanctification: What It Is Not

Sanctification is the second step in the Four-fold Gospel.


I. WHAT IT IS NOT

1. It is not regeneration... To be saved eternally is cause for eternal joy; but the soul must also enter into sanctification. They are not the same. Regeneration is the beginning. It is the germ of the seed, but it is not the summer fullness of the plant. The heart has not yet gained entire victory over the old elements of sin... Regeneration is like building a house and having the work done well. Sanctification is having the owner come and dwell in it and fill it with gladness, and life, and beauty.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

Considerations Which Should ... (cont.)

4. Because the little word "now" is always linked with it. It must be taken now or never...


5. Because its issues are for eternity. The decisions there are not reversible... God's Word holds out no second chance to any human soul.

6. Because if salvation is missed there will be no excuse for it... All has been done that could be done. Salvation has been brought down to man's level. It has been placed where he can reach it.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

Considerations Which Should Urge Us to Take and Give Out This Salvation

Considerations which should urge us to take and give out this salvation


1. Because of the fact that every man's salvation is hinged on his own choice and free will... We are not forced to take it. We must voluntarily choose it or reject it.

2. Because of the tremendous responsibility to which we are held accountable for the salvation of our soul...

3. Because of the guilt which will rest upon us for neglecting and despising the precious blood of Christ, which was shed for our salvation... Jesus suffered intensely to bring it to us, and shall we stumble carelessly over it? Oh, let us be more concerned than we are, both for the salvation of our own souls and for those around us who are not saved.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

Why It Is Called the Gospel of Good News (cont.)

4. Because of its universality. Whosoever will may take it and live.


5. Because of the security of its blessings. They are given forevermore...

6. Because of the eternity of its blessings. The sun will have burnt itself into ashes, the earth will have been destroyed by volcanic heat, the heavens will be changed when salvation has only begun. Ten thousand times ten thousand years shall pass away, and we shall have only begun a little to understand what salvation means. Blessed be God for the Gospel of Christ's salvation.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

Why It Is Called the Gospel of Good News

Why it is called the gospel of good news:


1. Because of its value. It comes laden with blessings to him who receives it.

2. Because of its freedom. It may be taken without money and without price.

3. Because of its availableness. It is easy of access, being on the level of the worst sinner.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

Things the Bible Says About Salvation (cont.)

5. Christ is called the "mighty to save," because no matter how weak or how wicked the sinner may be, He is able to save him to the uttermost.

6. It is called a near salvation... "The Word is nigh thee..."  We can find Him everywhere we are.  Salvation is at our door... No steps were allowed to God's ancient altar, for then some poor sinner might not be able to get up to it.  Jesus is on the very plane where you are this moment.  You can take His salvation here now...-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

Things the Bible Says About Salvation

Things the Bible says about salvation:
1. It is called God's salvation.  It was not invented by man...
2. It is called "your own salvation," because you yourself must appropriate it.
3. It is called "the common salvation," because it is free to all who will accept it.
4. It is called a "great salvation" because it is full and infinite in its provisions.  It is large enough for all your needs.
-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

The Steps By Which (Salvation) Is Received

The steps by which (salvation) is received:

1. Conviction of sin.  We must first see our need and our danger before we can be saved.  The Holy Ghost brings this to our heart and conscience.  ...
2. There must be next an apprehension of Jesus as our Saviour...  It will not do merely to feel and confess your guilt.  What is needed is to get the eye on Jesus. 
3. Salvation comes by repentance.  There must be a turning from sin...
4. Salvation comes by coming to Jesus... There must be a turning to Jesus as well as a turning from sin.
-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

The Process by Which These Blessings Come (cont.)

(continued from yesterday)
The process by which these blessings come:
5. Salvation comes through the intercession of Jesus at the right hand of the Father.  He is our Great High Priest there, where He ever liveth to make intercession for us, and thus keeps us in continual acceptance.
6. Salvation comes through the grace of the Holy Ghost... He keeps our feet in the way, and He will never leave His work until He has put us forever into the bosom of Jesus.
7. Salvation comes to us by the Gospel... Our refusal to accept it, or our neglect to do so, fixes irrevocably, by our own act, our eternal condition. ...

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

The Process by Which These Blessings Come

The process by which these blessings come:
1. They come through the mercy and grace of God. ...
2. Salvation comes to us by the righteousness of Jesus Christ.  He perfectly fulfilled for us every requirement of the law. ...
3. Salvation comes to us through the death of Christ.  His obedience is not enough. ...
4. Salvation comes through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, which was God's seal of His accomplished work and the pledge of our pardon.

-- A.B. Simpson,  The Four-fold Gospel

What Salvation Brings to Us (part 2)

4. Salvation gives us a new heart... Every spark of life from the old polluted nature is worthless, and the divine nature is born in us as a part of our very being.

 5. Salvation gives us grace to live day by day...  Salvation takes us out of prison, and provides for all our needs besides.

 6. It brings to us the help of the Holy Spirit, ... helping our infirmities and bringing grace for every time of need.

-- A. B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

What Salvation Brings to Us (part 3)

7. It brings to us the care of God's providence, causing all things to work together for our good.  This is never true until we are saved: but when we are the children of God all things in earth and in heaven are on our side.
8. Salvation opens the way for all the blessings that follow it.  It is the stepping stone to sanctification and healing, and the peace that passeth understanding...
9. Salvation brings us to eternal life.  

-- A. B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

What Salvation Brings to Us

1. It brings the forgiveness of all our sins and entirely removes them... They can never appear against us again.




2. It brings us justification in the sight of God, so that we stand before Him as righteous beings. We are accepted as though we had done everything He had commanded, and had perfectly kept the law in every particular.



3. It brings us into the favor and love of God, and secures us full acceptance in the person of Jesus. He loves us as He loves His only begotten Son.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

What Salvation Does for Us

4. It delivers us also from our evil conscience. There is always a shadow left on our hearts by sin, and a feeling of remorse... It takes the shadow from the heart and the stinging memory of sin from the soul.

5. It delivers from an evil heart, which is the source of all the sin in the life... Salvation frees us from its power and gives us a new nature.

6. It frees us from the fear of death... The death-bed of God's children is to them the portal of heaven...

7. Salvation delivers us from Satan's power and kingdom...

8. Beyond all else, salvation delivers us from eternal death...

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

Salvation Saves and Delivers

I. WHAT IT SAVES US FROM (continued)




2. Salvation saves us from the wrath of God. God hates evil and must punish it somehow. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness of men. But from this salvation delivers us.



3. Salvation delivers us from the curse of the law. . . Salvation delivers us from this curse through Him who was made a curse for us.



-- A. B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel

Intro to A.B. Simpson: The Four-fold Gospel

Today we begin a series of quotes by A.B. Simpson (1843-1919), prolific author and songwriter, editor, healer, college founder, and founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance denomination. Simpson was the first well-known leader to teach that all of the First Corinthians 12 gifts of the Holy Spirit are available today, including tongues and healing. He taught that healing is in the Atonement. That is, that Christ died for our healing as well as dying for our sins. He taught that we can bring about Christ's soon return by increasing our efforts at world evangelism. The quotes are from The Four-fold Gospel, a book which established Alliance theology.




Let us look a little at what it means to be saved. It is not at all a little thing... Christ said that it was greater to have one's name written in heaven than to be able to cast out devils. What does salvation mean?



I. WHAT IT SAVES US FROM



1. It takes away the guilt of sin. It frees us from all liability and punishment for past offences. Sin deserves punishment. Salvation takes this all away. Is it not glorious to be saved? (to be continued)

He Preached Christ

We read that "when Philip was come down unto Samaria, he preached Christ unto them." He did not preach politics, social reform, community uplift, theories or doctrinal differences, but he preached CHRIST. -- Not a different Christ than He who walked the shores of Galilee, forgiving sin and healing the sick. Not a limited Christ whose power had waned, nor a far-off Christ who could not hear, but the Christ whose power was just the same -- a Christ who had said: "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."




-- Aimee Semple McPherson

Blessing and Protection

The Lord did not promise His blessing and protection to the sinner and the scornful but promised His blessing to "the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. His delight is in the laws of the Lord; and in His law doth he meditate day and night."




To those who walk closely to Him and meditate in His law (that is, read His Word, the Bible, and think upon it earnestly), He promises, "and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper."



-- Aimee Semple McPherson

Active vs. Passive Faith

The one with "passive" faith says, "I will be prayed for and IF it is His will to heal me, I will be restored to health," -- but right there is an 'IF' small in itself but a most mighty stumbling block to faith.




Had the woman with the issue of blood sat by the wayside saying, "Well, if it is His will to heal me, I am willing. I will just sit here at ease and if He happens to come to me and heal me, all right; if not, all right, but I will make no great effort until He does," do you think she would ever have been made whole? It was her "active faith" that pressed through the throng and touched the Master's robe that brought about her healing.



-- Aimee Semple McPherson

Pentecost (May 19). This was my elder of the day talk and prayer

Who knows what special day today is?




Pentecost, one of the three great festivals of the Christian year, along with Christmas and Easter. It's celebrated in the mainline liturgical churches but is largely forgotten in the evangelical and even the Pentecostal churches. One blog that I read this week called it the "neglected middle child". It is customary to wear red on Pentecost and to decorate churches with red geraniums.



In the Old Testamant, Pentecost was the last of the spring festivals, 50 days after Passover. It was a harvest festival when the firstfruits were brought into the Temple, and it celebrated the giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses. All Jews were required to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.



It was under these circumstances, when Jews representing many nations and many languages, were gathered in Jerusalem, seven weeks after Jesus's resurrection, that the Holy Spirit was given to the apostles gathered in the Upper Room, and they were empowered to come out of hiding and waiting and to proclaim the Gospel to the nations. As God originally gave the Law on this day, He also poured out His Spirit on all who would believe.





The indwelling of God's Spirit within His people indicates a shift in the way God relates to us, not through our obedience to the Law, but through hearts that are transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit.



Today we live in the era of the indwelling Holy Spirit, but do we really understand the advantages of having His presence in our lives?





The New Testament lists 33 things that the Holy Spirit does in us. Here are just a few of them: He helps us. He guides us. He teaches us. He comforts us. He calls us. He leads us. He fills us. He strengthens us. He convicts us. He empowers us. He sanctifies us. He prays for us. He produces fruit in us. He transforms us. He brings joy. He brings freedom. He helps us to obey.







Eph. 5:18 tells us to be filled with the Spirit Greek tense of the verb indicates to keep on being filled.







It's a continual, ongoing action, not something that occureed one time in the past. The will of God for our lives is that we be filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit.







He is not here for us to use; we are here for Him to use to bring glory to Jesus through our lives







Many believers never sense the Spirit's presence or access the insight and power available to them. Is God's Holy Spirit your intimate companion, guide, and helper, or is He merely some vague Christian concept? Don't neglect this treasure -- understand that almighty God lives within you!





Most of us missed out on the first tradition of wearing red. We missed out on the tradition of decorating the church with red geraniums. But there's still time to fulfill a third tradition: eating cheesecake to remember the sweetness of God's Word.



Our prayer this morning comes from the lyrics of two songs written by Bob Fitts in 1995, which I just discovered this week:



Let's pray:





My eyes are fixed on You, O Lord, your loving face I see.

I set my heart hard after You. I'll follow faithfully.



To see Your holiness

To be Your righteousness,

O how I need You, Lord.

To see Your majesty, to be You family,

O Lord, I praise Your Name.







Live in me, Holy Spirit, live in me. Let my heart become your habitation. Live in me.

Flow in me, Holy Spirit, flow in me. Let my heart become a healing fountain. Flow in me.

Let your springs of living water set my spirit free. Come redeem, healing stream, heal my need.

Heal through me, Holy Spirit, heal through me. Let my hands become the hands of Jesus. Heal through me.

Shine though me, Holy Spirit, let the glory of my loving Father shine through me.

Heal through me, Shine through me, Let the springs of living water set the people free. Come redeem, healing steam, heal our need, Spirit, breathe. Live in me.

Double Cure for the Double Curse

If you're reading this on Thursday, have a blessed Ascension Day!


Of the double cure for the double curse the Psalmist spake clearly, saying, "Bless the Lord O my soul, and forget not all His benefits. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, and who healeth all thy diseases." Ps. 103:2,3. Notice the first two benefits David mentions are those of forgiveness and salvation, which is to overthrow the powers of sin, and divine healing for the body to overthrow sickness and disease.

-- Aimee Semple McPherson

The First Lie

The first lie the devil told the human family, the first seed of doubt he sowed in their hearts was that of doubting the veracity and absolute, unchangeable truth of God's Word. He has been engaged with the same task ever since.




-- Aimee Semple McPherson

Just in Time!

He speaks the word just in time! Jesus is never behind time. When the tumult is the worst, the pain the most severe, the cancer gripping the body, then the word comes, "Only believe." When everything seems as though it will fail, and is practically hopeless, the Word of God come to us, "Only believe."


-- Smith Wigglesworth

A Place of Rest

There is a place of seclusion, a place of rest and faith in Jesus where there is nothing else like it. Jesus came to them on the water and they were terrified, but He said, "It is I; be not afraid." My brother, He is always there. He is there in the storm as well as in the peace; He is there in the adversity. When shall we know He is there? When we are "found in Him," not having our own work, our own plan, but resting in the omnipotent plan of God.




-- Smith Wiggleworth

Curse Into Blessing

If there is a great trial and defeat in your life today, beloved, do not own it as defeat, but continue, by faith, to claim the victory through Him who is able to make you more than a conqueror. . .


Beloved, trust Him to turn the curse into a blessing for His glory.

-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

Opportunities to Exercise Faith

"He delivereth, and rescueth, and worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth." Oh, shall we not learn the lesson that in all the hard places God brings us into, He is making opportunities for us to exercise such faith in Him as will bring about blessed results and greatly glorify His name?


--Carrie Judd Montgomery

It's Not the Miracles

People sometimes say to me, "Oh, if God had raised me up from my dying bed as He has you, I would never doubt again!" Yes, you would -- your heart would be mean enough to doubt Him the very next time unless He continually kept you by His grace. Our hearts are so hardened we remember not His miracles unless they are kept tender by the constant influx of His love. It is not the miracles that bind our faith, it is Jesus! He works a constant miracle to do it. Have I abundant faith? It was not because I was raised up from death, but because I have Jesus all the way along abiding in me to be my faith.




--Carrie Judd Montgomery

Passover and Christ's Sacrifice

Since Christians need to understand their connection to their Jewish roots in the Old Testament, I usually give a teaching for every Jewish holy day. Passover begins this year at sundown, Monday, March 25. This comes from the Lent Devotionals on christianbook.com:




The Passover feast was established to celebrate Israel's deliverance from Egypt and to remind the people of how God had delivered them from the plagues and slavery. From this point on in history, the Hebrew people would clearly understand that for them to be spared from death, an innocent life had to be sacrificed in their place. The unblemished lamb, now called the Paschal lamb, is a type of the true Lamb, Jesus Christ. The Crucifixion story, showing the justice of God's passing over and sparing those who are sprinkled with the blood of Christ, parallels the Passover.





The Passover was observed in the month of Abib, which corresponds to late March and early April on our calendar. A year old male lamb without blemish was selected and killed at dusk. Christ, perfect and without sin, died in the late afternoon hours (Luke 23:44-45). Caution was made to not break the bones of the lamb. So it was with Christ's body (John 19:31-37). The Passover occurred before the law was established in the Old Testament showing that it was the blood of the lamb that delivered mankind out of bondage, not the law. The lamb was a sacrifice, a substitute for the person who would have died in the plague. Christ is our substitute over the penalty of death. The lamb's death signified freedom to Israel. Christ's death redeems us.

At the Passover, it was not enough that the blood of the lamb was shed. It had to be applied to the door by the believer. The blood was to be sprinkled with a hyssop branch upon the sides and top of the door as an outwardly sign of accepting the blood's atonement. The hyssop represents faith in accepting the promise of God's protection. When we profess our faith in the blood of Christ, we will openly do our best to live and love for Him.

God's Order in Prayer

I John 5:14, 15: "If we ask anything according to His will He heareth us. And if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him." Notice again, God's order in prayer: first, emptied of all our own desires, then filled with Christ's desire, thus being filled with boldness to claim the fulfillment of these Spirit-born desires, and to "know that we have the petitions we desired" by an assurance of faith before we see or feel the answer. This is solid ground in prayer, and, we shall be thus kept from wavering during any trial of faith which may follow.


-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

How Can We Doubt?

How can we doubt His love? He is watching us in the hard places. He will not allow a trial too many; He will only let the dross be consumed, and then He will come gloriously to our help. Even now your cry has entered into His ears, and He is preparing to deliver you. His compassion longs to set you free. His love will delight in your deliverance, for He is more tender than any earthly parent.




-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

Stumbling

 So many have been stumbled because they have seen the inconsistent walk of those who call themselves by the name of Christ. . . It does not glorify God for you to give a sweet testimony in a prayer meeting and then go home and be disagreeable and irritable to those around you. Unbelievers would soon say, "I would not like to be such a Christian as you. I would rather be none at all."

-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

Confidence in Him

 "And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will He heareth us; and if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him." Praise God! That is a big bank note for us today of priceless value. This check is unlimited. I can put them in to the extent of heaven's fulness, if only I have the faith to do it. How rich this makes me feel! I may ask whatever I will, but, oh, how sweet to realize that as we abide in Him, we desire only His will, and that we are not in the least danger of asking anything that He would not like to give us.

-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

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That You May Know

"These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God." That ye may know, not think so, with some degree of certainty, not guess so, or hope so, but that ye may know that ye have eternal life. How many here know this beyond the possibility of a doubt? You may all know today by believing God's record of His Son. And when we are assured of our salvation, we get confidence and power in prayer.




-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

Be Not Afraid

Carrie Judd Montgomery


Dr. Simpson was greatly used of God to thrust me out more fully into public service, that is, especially the platform work, although God had already made real use of my pen,” wrote Carrie Judd Montgomery (1858–1946) when remembering how A. B. Simpson had encouraged her ministry, especially in the early days. Their collaboration provides an inspirational picture of how a Christ-centered friendship can influence generations. ~~Written By: Jennifer A. Miskov, from her newly-published biography of Montgomery


Now you are thinking of some great trouble in your life, and you are saying, 'Oh, Lord, I have no might.' Yes God knows that. 'Neither know we what to do.' Yes, God knows your helplessness, but will you not ... get your eyes off from circumstances, and get them upon God? Can you say, 'Our eyes are upon Thee?' Not upon circumstances, or this great company, but upon Thee. Then comes the answer from the Lord, 'Be not afraid: the battle is not yours, but God's.'



-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

Sacrifice of Praise

Now, when is it time to praise? Oh, you say, when everything is going right, and getting into shape, and the troubles of life are vanishing away, then is the time to praise. Ah, praise comes easy then, but the time to glorify God the most by praise is when it is the sacrifice of praise. Not the praise which comes from seeing all things look right, but the praise which comes from simple faith in Jesus, even before the dark clouds have rolled away. Praise at such times is called "the sacrifice of thanksgiving," because it is a real sacrifice.




-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

So Much Spoil

The twenty-fifth verse tell us that "They were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much." Beloved, God never lets a battle or a trial come into our lives but there are spoils with it. Never a real time of trial of faith but there are great riches at the end. Instead of being impoverished by them, we get richer by every trial in which our faith shines out clearly and sings praises.




-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

When God Gives Us . . .

Carrie Judd Montgomery was a legendary pioneer evangelist and healer in The Christian and Missionary Alliance and The Assemblies of God when women seldom did such things. Her sermons were published by Alliance founder A.B. Simpson.

When God gives us in these days such a command as that, to stand still and see His salvation, we do not always bow our heads in worship. Some of us are apt to talk back to Him. We say, "Surely, Lord, this thing and that thing can't take care of itself; I must worry it through somehow. We feel as though we are very necessary and nothing is going to be done if we keep still. Of course, things can't take care of themselves, but if you will only cast the care on Him, He will take care of them and of you, too.


-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

You Are a Victor

You are a victor; He made you one; get used to it, so you can play the part. . . .


You are what He says you are in Christ.

Remember His Word is truth (or reality).

Launch out boldly on the Word!



-- E.W. Kenyon

The Integrity of the Word

The integrity of the Word is the basis of faith.


The reason for unbelief and a faltering faith is a lack of assurance of the integrity of the promises in the Word.

-- E.W. Kenyon

The Great Substitution

The modern Christian does not object to my telling what they need, or my telling what they should do or be, but they can't understand me when I tell them what they are in Christ. They think I am bringing a new philosophy, a beautiful error, that will lead them astray.


I remember when I first saw this, I said, "If this were only true," and then I said, "If I knew how to make it mine."

I didn't know that it was mine.

I didn't know that "He had blessed me with every spiritual blessing in Christ" and when I read it , it didn't register.

... That everything that the Father wrought in Christ in His Great Substitution belongs to the individual believer.

It makes no difference whether the believer is educated or uneducated; whether he is rich or poor, the boundless grace unveiled in Christ belongs to every one of us.

-- E. W. Kenyon

You Will Have Testings

Every person who walks by faith will have testings.


They do not come from the Father; they come from the Adversary.

He is refusing to allow you to escape him.

You become dangerous to the Adversary when you become strong enough to resist him -- when you have learned to trust in the ability of the Father to meet your every need.

When that becomes a reality in your consciousness, the Adversary is defeated.


-- E. W. Kenyon