W. B. Godbey

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In his hallmark high-energy style, W. B. Godbey lays out the specifics of sanctification in Christian Perfection-what it will do, and what it won't. He continuously drives home the simplicity of obtaining the blessing: consecrate everything, believe the altar sanctifies the gift, then trust Jesus to do it and every moment to keep you pure. He illuminates the difficult passages of Romans 6 and 7, and goes on to establish the blessing in the epistles of each apostle. In the extremely rare Deeper Things he moves on beyond the actual occurrence of sanctification to urge a victorious moment-by-moment cleansing for the rest of life. Holding to the Wesleyan doctrine of progress up to the moment of sanctification, then continued progress thereafter, he observes that failure initiates in thoughts of the heart, though not acted upon: "If we do not conquer these surviving Canaanites, they will be very likely to lasso us and again bring us into bondage." He positively asserts that bringing into captivity every thought is the way to preserve and prosper spiritually; it wages an exterminating war and defeats the tempter's assaults before actual disobedience occurs. Rather than being the end, he joyfully proclaims that sanctification is the beginning of real and true progress throughout life and destined to "sweep on through all eternity." This Schmul Publishing Co. edition is not a scanned facsimile of a used book. It has not been "updated" or edited into modern English, punctuation or grammar, but is accurate to the author's own style and usage. The text has been carefully proofread for accuracy and formatted for easier reading by today's readers. Every effort has been made to prevent disordered text.

The digital copies of these recordings are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits Chapter 1 In this writing I am frank to confess that I am close to home, as I was born and reared in the hot-bed of Campbellism, and the first twenty years of my life, until I bade my native land adieu for the prosecution of my collegiate education (which was an absolute necessity, as there were no colleges in all that region of country in 1853), I heard them preach flve times as much as all other denominations. W. B. Godbey

The digital copies of these recordings are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits INTRODUCTION The question naturally arises, "What is the thing buried?" The Bible is its own dictionary, leaving us without excuse. Lord give us the submissive humility of Ii ttle Samuel w horn Thou didst call to the prophetic office in his infancy and he meekly re-sponded, "Speak Lord, for Thy servant heareth." V-l e all came into this world ignorant as pigs and puppies; knowing nothing at all except Thou didst teach us. By this wonderful Word we are saved, sanctified, fed, panoplied, have the victory and will be judged in the great day. It is silly and foolish in us to study the Bible from a creedistical standpoint; as we are all hastening to the bar of God where we will be judged by the Bible alone. Therefore we should be dead to every clamor of human voice. Between us and the inspired Biblical authors, inter-venes a period of eighteen hundred years, one thou-sand years of which is a black night with nothing but sacerdotalism, superstition, ignorance and priest-craft; during which the priest that could invent the most ceremonies, was considered the smartest. In view of this fact, this long dismal night intervening between us and the Apostolic Age, should be an ample admonition to us all to leap over the inter-vening chasm on the wings of triumphant faith, light down amid the effulgent blaze of pure and un-adulterated inspired truth and shout the praises of God for His unutterable goodness, thus perfectly fortifying us against all the superstitious innovations of sacerdotalism and permitting us to stand face to face with our blessed heavenly Father on the sure foundation of His infallible Word and hear Him speak, as he did to Moses on Mt. Sinai. when He revealed His truth and Moses wrote it on- tables of stone. Then let the battle cry ring around the world, "Back to the Bible. W. B. Godbey

The digital copies of these recordings are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits FOREWARD "Paraclete" is a compound of two Greek words, kletos) a participle, from the verb kaleo) to call, and the preposition para, which means, "by your side." In the New Testament this significant Greek compound is applied to the Holy Ghost in the capacity of Comforter, as He is the Executive of the Trinity, the Convicter or the sinner, the Regenerator of the penitent, the Sanctifier of the believer, the Restorer of the backslider, and the Glorifier of the pilgrim when this mortal shall put on immortality. W. B. Godbey

The digital copies of these recordings are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits FOREWARD Four hundred years have rolled away since- God had said a word to Israel through an inspired prophet; so many having come in by-gone ages that the coun-try seemed to be literally enchanted with them; their hallowed memories still lingering; their footprints still visible. It truly seemed to Israel that God had forsaken her and left her to float ad libitum on the sea of time, taking chances with the whole Gentile world for a happy landing. Therefore, the rise of John the Baptist, not only an inspired prophet, but the greatest prophet who had ever trodden the globe; aye, more than a pro-phet, because he was precursor and honored intro-ducer of his Lord. He began to preach in the wild-erness where, in the providence of God, he was brought, because Herod's soldiers were massa-creing all the male infants two years old and young-er in and about Bethlehem, in ordez: to be sure to get Jesus; though there was no such an order given for Juttah, yet Zechariah and Elizabeth, zealous for the safety of their son, migrated away to the wild-erness of Judea and never returned.] Therefore when John reached majority-thirty years-he per-sued to Levitical law, began to preach in the wild-erness. W. B. Godbey

The digital copies of these recordings are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits Dr. Dick tells us seventeen hundred millions of, glowing suns, many of them much larger than ours, have already been discovered. Our sun is attended by ten great worlds, of which this is one of the smallest, Neptune being 60 time's the size of the earth, Uran us 80, Saturn 1,100, and Jupiter 1,400 times the size of this world. These worlds are in .full view. We gaze on them every clear night. When viewed with powerful telescopes, they thrill us with wonder and flood us with bewildering edification, and anon, with a longing to fly away and visit them, ranging from world to world and exploring the wonders of omnipotence with adoring appreciation. On the hypothesis, which is quite plausible, that all these suns are attended by retinues of worlds, doubtless as large as ours, it gives us the enormous number of one billion, one hundred and seventy millions of bright, celestial worlds. Then when we consider the fact that while sweeping the celestial vaults with a powerful telescope, vast fields of Nebula, like the Milky Way, burst upon our astonished and enraptured vision, revealing an infinite multiplicity of worlds, so vastly distant as to beggar all efforts of astronomical instruments to disintegrate the nebulae and individualize the rolling worlds and blazing suns, countless systems, wheeling their precipitate flight in their appointed orbits through the immensity of trackless ether, encircling the throne of God, responsive to the Omnific mandate, overwhelming us with paradoxes, and astounding us with the irresistible conclusion that even these one billion, one hundred and seventy millions of worlds constitute but the suburbs of the celestial universe, fills and thrills us with bounding and irrepressible enthusiasm to spread the pinions of transfiguration glory and fly away on the long anticipated tours of exploring with enraptured wonder the glories of Omnipotence. W. B. Godbey

The digital copies of these recordings are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits FOREWARD The great reason why it is so imperatively encumbent on us all to get ready to meet God is the simple fact that no human being is ready without His personal redeeming grace, which normally reaches all far back in the prenatal state, the moment soul and body united constitute personality, which is five or six months antecedently to the physical birth Heb. 2:9, "By the grace of God, Christ tasted death for everyone not as e.v. "every man", as the Greek buper pantos literally means everyone, i.e. every human being. Therefore the very moment soul and body unite constitute personality, the omnipotent redeeming grace of God in Christ comes into availability, superinducing a free and full justification on heaven's chancery in the normal gracious economy invariably followed by the resurrection of the dead soul wrought by the Holy Ghost in the heart; superinducing the gloriously consolitory fact that by the omnipotent grace of God in Christ through His vicarious substitutionary atonement every human being is actually born a Christian as that cognomen, the sunum desideradum, chief desire of every human being, simply means a soul saved by Christ. W. B. Godbey

The digital copies of these recordings are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits FOREWARD During the seige-of Rabbah, the capital of Ammon, by the Hebrew army under Joab, David was caught by Satan, who managed to get his black lasso over his neck, superinducing his precipitation from the heights of holiness, where he had walked with, God since his juvenile shepherdhood, meanwhile his faith was so heroic as to enable him to slay the monstrous lion, and the huge bear and wind up his nomadic service in the decapitation of Goliath, the champion of the Philistine army, who had stampeded the host of Israel forty days by his constant challenge, with the acquiesence of his nation to- settle the conflict in a hand to hand battle with the champion of their choice. W. B. Godbey

The digital copies of these recordings are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits FOREWARD God is so scarce of people in this world who will let Him have His way with them that He refuses none, even Mary Magdalene, out of whom John cast seven demons, whom John Wesley believed to be a public prostitute, when she was willing to let the Lord take her and make what He would out of her, He not only accepted her, gloriously converted her, but honored her with the front of the feminine wing of His apostolic ministry. She was last at the cross, first at the sepulcher, and first to receive the full orbed commission, "Go and preach the risen Savior to a lost world." W. B. Godbey

The digital copies of these recordings are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits FOREWARD You see from our Lord's plain phraseology, the pure spirituality of His supernatural birth which He positively and repeatedly certifies we must have, John 3:7 "marvel not that I said unto you, ye must be born from above, "not again" as E. V. the Greek word palm again is not in this passage at all and a great pity, the translators ever put it in, as it flat-ly contradicts the teaching of Jesus, who through-out His ministry repeatedly held up the little child-ren certifying that they were paragon members of His kingdom and that all adults, must repent, get rid of their sins, and become like little children, in-nocent, before they could ever enter the kingdom of heaven. If Jesus had said "again" in this passage He would have consigned to hell every child who ever died antecedently to the physical birth as "a-gain" means a repetition and consigns to hell every-body that does not get it. Consequently if you will analyze the matter as you would see there is no chance for the multiplied millions who have died be-fore the physical birth. When you hear the preach-ers and the singers roaring out "born again" that our Savior never said it, but He did say that you must be born from above, or you cannot see the kingdom of God. W. B. Godbey

The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits Alexander the Great "All things work together for good to them that love God'' (Rom. 8: 28) is a wonderful encouragement to every soul, giving us the victory on every battle- field, as we know, let it go as it may, it will prove a blessing to us if we are saved by the grace of God, and filled with His love. There is nothing so abundant and free in all the world as the grace and love of God.

The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits Title Page Annihilation by W. B. Godbey. Author of "New Testament Commentaries," "New Testament Translation," and a great number of other books and booklets.

The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits Title Page Anchored Soul by W. B. Godbey. Author of "New Testament Commentaries," "New Testament Translation," and a great number of other books and booklets.

The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits Title Page Armageddon by W. B. Godbey. Author of "New Testament Commentaries," "New Testament Translation," and a great number of other books and booklets.

The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits Title Page Adoption By: W. B. Godbey Author of: "New Testament Commentaries" "New Testament Translations," and a great number of other books and booklets. Originally Published by: Apostolic Messenger Office