If you still have carnal spells and think you are sanctified wholly, you are deceived.
If you are stubborn and uncooperative when things don't go your way and you think you have a good clear first work of grace, you are deceived.
IX. GOD WILL DESTROY THE LAST CARNAL TRAIT IN YOU IF HE CAN UNDECEIVE YOU.
He will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire if he can undeceive you, and get you willing to tell the truth about yourself and admit your carnal state and start seeking in earnest, and take it by the job until you get through.
It is hard for one who has been professing the experience for years to come out in the open and confess he doesn't have the blessing, but if you are in that state, you must face up to it or lose your soul in hell.
"He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy" (Prov. 28:13).
No soul that rebels against Holy Ghost light can keep saved. Have you willfully backed up on the light of holiness and think you are still saved? Utterly impossible!
If you are well saved you'll accept the light of Holiness. You will be so hungry and thirsty for the blessing you will gladly pay any price to receive it.
If you are well saved you won't cheat people in business deals. If you have ever done it you will make it right. You will not try to get even with folk for the wrong things they may have done you.
You won't quarrel and feud. You won't say things about folk that are not true, hoping to hurt them.
You won't be lose and too familiar with the opposite sex. You won't backfire on the preacher when he points out your sins and tries to get you lined up for heaven. He really is your friend when he tells you the truth.
The Bible does not teach, once a branch always a branch. (See Jn. 15:6 & Mt. 3:10).
The Bible does not teach, once in the net always in the net. (See Matt. 13:47-50).
CONCLUSION: God will never rest until he has purged this world of sin, and rid this planet of sin forever, and the tempter also.
I had a rendezvous with death, In a revival many years ago;
Old carnal self was crucified, And received the final "killing" blow!
My friend, has this death come to you?
Or did you fail your rendezvous?
I had a rendezvous with God;
Father, Son and Holy Ghost!
This Triune One is now in charge!
He was my Guest, but now he is my Host!
My friend, does he have full charge of you?
Or did you fail your rendezvous?
I had a rendezvous with death --To the world, and self and sin I dared to die!
I threw my bankrupt heart's door open then, And let him come, old self to crucify!
My friend, is this death real to you?
Or did you fail your rendezvous?
Soon one more glad rendezvous with Christ, As the rapture of the saints draws near!
In the clouds, when the "zero hour" strikes, Like lightning rents the sky, He will appear!
My friend, your lamp must be filled and burning too, Or you will forever fail your rendezvous.
--LSB.
TWENTY-FOUR SERMONS By L. S. Boardman
SERMON 13
Prov. 29:1. "He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy."
The most dangerous thing in this world that we have to account for is Gospel light. Electricity is very dangerous. In Paris, Tennessee a few years ago, when I lived there a working man had his Saturday off so he was installing an electric washer for his wife. He crawled under the house with an electric drill and an electric lamp. There he sat on the damp ground. He stationed himself for the drilling and reached for the drill. It shorted somehow and froze him to the spot. When he failed to come out his wife called in from the opening where he crawled in and he didn't answer. Upon investigation it was discovered that he was dead. Electricity is dangerous.
Gospel light brings awesome responsibility. Its rejection brings eternal darkness.
What happens to people when the Holy Ghost shuts off the light? Years ago when Brother H. B.
Huffman was a young man in college he went to a street meeting 25 miles from the school in an old, open model T ford, in the dead of winter. An old man in his 70's wanted to go with him. They stood in the street while the snow was falling and Bro. Huffman preached and gave an altar call. The old man came forward and knelt by the curb in the snow and prayed but God did not come. On the way home in the bitter cold ride Bro. Huffman asked him why, an old man like he was, would go to so much trouble to take that 50 mile ride and kneel down in that fresh snow. And the old man said,
"Fifty years ago, when I was young I rejected God repeatedly and God stopped talking to me. For years I have sought Him but he has never come back. I thought that maybe, if I would come out on this cold night and put my old crippled knees down into that snow and lay bare my head under the falling snow, maybe God would come back to me, but He did not come back." As far as we know the old man finally died in that condition. It is terribly dangerous to insult the Holy Ghost by repeated rejection of light.