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Dec 15, 2006
I found this short article quote stirring:
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I found this short article quote stirring:
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Sometimes, not only do others oppose the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer, but the believer themself can be their own worst enemy.
You know what I mean.
It means God is dealing with us to take a certain path, a path that will lead to hardship, rejection and heartache. So, we try to avoid it.
Jesus said, a man's enemies will be those of his own household, how much more those in the church.
Can just about read the article itself, even though the print is a little small.
Still, it is a stirring quote.
God bless.
I love the Wesley quote
Those who love God with all their heart must expect much opposition from professors who have gone on for twenty years in an old BEATEN TRACK and fancy they are wiser than all the world. THESE ALWAYS OPPOSE THE WORK OF SANCTIFICATION MOST."
J.A. Wood used this quote in a section of his book entitled "Perfect Love." Here's the section that contained the quote from John Wesley.
Who are the most virulent opposers of entire sanctification?
Those professors who have received the most light on the subject, and have been frequently convicted of their need of it, and yet have failed to seek it. There is a large class of such persons who have been a long series of years in the church, and yet have no experimental knowledge of entire sanctification as a blessing distinct from regeneration. As might be expected, (a result of not seeking holiness,) many of these have become cold, indifferent, and backslidden. These are the persons generally in the church who oppose entire sanctification.
If Mr. Wesley had cause to utter this in his day, what would be his language were he to visit the formal, proud, popular churches of this time, in hundreds of which there is not a single witness of entire sanctification?
Here is a transcription of the article from the image:
[b]The Missing Man Is The Prophet[i]by Leonard Ravenhill
"God's men are in hiding until the day of their showing forth. They will come."
"The prophet is violated during his ministry, but he is vindicated by history."
There is a terrible vacum in Evangelical Christianity today. The missing person in our ranks is the Prophet. The man with a terrible earnestness. The man totally other-wordly. The man rejected by other men, even other good men, because they consider him too austere, too severely committed, too negative and unsociable.
Let him be as plain as John the Baptist. Let him for a season be a voice crying in the wilderness of modern theology and stagnant churchianity. Let him be as selfless as Paul the Apostle. Let him, too, say and live, "This ONE thing I do." Let him reject ecclesiastical favours, let him be self-abasing, non self-seeking, non self-projecting, non-self glorying, non self-promoting. Let him say nothing that will draw men to himself, but only that which will move men to God.
Let him come daily from the Throne Room of a Holy God. The place where he has recieved the order of the day. Let him, under God, unstop the ears of millions who are deaf through the clatter of shekels milked from this hour of material mesmerism. Let him cry with a voice this century has not heard because he has seen a vision no man in this century has seen. God send us this Moses to lead us from the wilderness of crass materialism, where the rattlesnakes of lust bite us and where enlightened men, totally blind spiritually, lead us to an ever-nearing Armageddon.
GOD HAVE MERCY, SEND US PROPHETS!
"Those who love God with all their heart," Mr. Wesley said, "must expect most opposition from professors who have gone on twenty years in a lazy, old beaten track, and they fancy they are wiser than all the world; these always oppose the work of sanctification most."
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