The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-01-01
Two Works of Grace ~
y Il and Gods
- y Hand in it All
BY W. c. ANDERSON
CHAPTER II-Continued.


Listen to Paul. What shall we say
then? Shall we continue in sin that
grace may aboundp God forbid. How
shall we that are dead to sin live any
longer therein? And l tell you was
glad did not die, for / had done so
little for the Lord that / was afraid TO
die. / don't believe that any man il
ready to die till he has done the work
that he has assigned him to do. / be-
lieve that Gods gifts or appointments
are just as numerous as the members
in human body, as the word teaches,
or as numerous as the many offices to
be given out in any nation, and that it
is just as improbable and even more so
that he will get q commission from
God without first coveting the gift as il
is that he will get an office from Uncle
Sam without making any application.
Neither will Uncle Sam pay for day
that you work before your commission
authorizes you to work, and am sure
what is true of this government is even
more so with Gods spiritual kingdom,
and have the sad experience on both
hands.
The vision that 1 saw was white
horse running with frightful speed,
and he ran even to me, as Peter said of
his vision. 1 could not understand
this, as / was ignorant as to what Gods
word taught about his invisible king
dom, and just kept pondering these
things in my heart as to what they
should mean and when / would see the
meaning fulfilled. l was told by a
good Bible-reading sister that my Wis
ion meant that was to go forth as a
mighty conqueror with the truth as she
interpreted the vision of the white
horse, according to Rev., iv., Z. But |
could not see how that could be, vet in
the meantime had been impressed to
write the little book, Goods Hand In
1t All, and had written some things
that l still have, expecting to write it
when the spirit bid me, and it got so
strong that had to yield, and then
God showed me that must first get
my commission before 1 could be re-
cognized by the high court of heaven,
and l got it November 25, 1909, at five
o'clock a. m. Hence l see Gods hand
in it all.
One of the most striking and con-
vincing proofs of second work OF
grace in the human soul is taught 10y
Jude, who spake as never man spake,
but never spake again. What he said
is but a prelude to the wonderful
things that John tells in Revelations
Will you follow him as he starts out in
the only chapter he ever wrote? ! am
ashamed / can't repeat every word by
heart that this modest servant of God
wrote. We hear him say Jude, the
servant of Jesus Christ and brother of
James, to them who are sanctifed by
God the father and preserved in Jesus
Christ aud called, "Mercy unto you
and peace and love be multiplied. Be-
loved, when / gave all diligence to
write unto you of the common saliva
tion it was needful for me to write unto
you and exhort you that We should
earnestly contend for the faith which
was one delivered unto the saints. !"
Jude knew what pardon meant and
what the Holy Ghost meant and also
what that faith meant that was deliver
ed to Gods holy sanctified people who
believed in the fulfillment of every pre-
cious promise to them. And we see
that it is two works of grace that he Is
teaching all the while, as he says, 81
therefore put you in remembrance,
though You once knew this, how that
the Lord, having saved the people out
of the land of Egypt, afterward de-
stroyed them that believed not Was
it not faith that took Israel out OF
Egyptian bondage? v ere they not
converted and baptized IN the Red sea?
What, then, kept them in the wilder
ness for forty years, and until every
man who had been numbered as war
rior had died, except the two spies out
of twelve who said the land is ours by
Gods promise, and we must and will
take it and possess it forever. Was
not this holy comforter promised the
same way? Then it was disbelief that
kept them out of the land of promise,
and it is the same disbelief that is
keeping all of Gods children. who have
been regenerated from being sanctitied
and Jude plainly shows it in his one
chapter. But we are happy to know
that God did save their children who
believed. And again he says, "And
the angels which kept not their first
estate, but left their own habitation be
hath reserved in everlasting chains un-
der darkness unto the Judgment of the
great day." Jude not only gives us
object lessons from things that occur
red ON earth to force upon the minds
of men the great importance of holiness
but he goes into the very heavens and
speaks of the angels who kept not Their
[ first estate to force upon our minds
that if we hear and disbelieve that we
will be found wanting, as all others
have in the past. We will hear ons
more quotation from Paul on this sub
iect: Follow peace with all men nnC
(old version) holiness new version
sanctifcation, without which no maj
can see the Lord Heb, xii, 14.) am
glad it does not say no child, for if i
did the number saved would be few
d indeed. / think his reference here t.
no man is perhaps to those he speakl
of in Hebrews v, 10, "For when for thu
|, time We ought to be teachers We hav,
= need that one teach you again whicl
be the first oracles of God; and are he
become such as have need OF milk ant
not of strong meat. For every on
that useth milk is unskillful in th
word of righteousness, for he is babe
But strong meat belongeth to then
that are of full age, even those who b.
reason of use have their senses exercis
ed to discern both good and evil.
What,a rebuke to those who have beel
preaching and teaching for years. T.
hear a man who does not believe in twt