One now in a song of grateful praise,
for my dear Lord my voice I raise,
with all his saints I've joined to tell,
my Jesus has done all things well.
It's it one please.
Welcome to
our subject this evening, and we've been looking
for nine weeks past now, of this matter
of depression, and we find that people are
depressed by many different things.
Some are depressed because of the fear of
death, and we've gone into that.
Some people I find depressed because of the
evil speaking of others, backbiting it's called sometimes,
and instead of just closing their ears to
it and getting out of it, they go
to bed and fuss and turn, and at
last you find them broken down and depressed.
And others are depressed because of some sin
they committed a way back somewhere, maybe years
ago.
But I think that the greatest source of
depression among believers is false.
There are so many false teachers, and they
teach young people things that are not true,
and they lead them up what I call
a false garden path, and the young people
are out to be the death for God,
and they're led up this alley, and then
they find it's not working, and then they
blame themselves.
And you find some of them going into
a mental home because of it.
Now we're back to its false and false
teaching this evening.
And we're going to look at holiness tonight.
We're going to look at holiness, the false
and the true.
Dr. Ironside wrote a book many, many years
ago, and it's entitled, Holiness, the False and
the True.
And I shall say this openly, and unashamedly,
that I believe that it's the best book
that was ever written.
That's what I believe.
And if you find it on some bookshelf,
then sag your shirt and buy it, because
it would be worth that.
But when Dr. Ironside wrote this book, there
were some folks who read it and who
said that both he and it should be
burned under stake.
Well, you see, when I take a holiness,
I may have a few enemies around, but
I shall stake what the Scriptures teach, because
I neither fear your throne nor covet your
smile.
I'm just a servant of the Lord in
here, and nobody else must fear the Lord.
And you know, this holiness, you'll find that
sometimes it's called holiness, and sometimes it's called
by this great, big, long, fanciful word of
sanctification.
You hear them talking about sanctification all over
the world, and they don't even know what
the word means.
And then you hear them talking about the
higher life, and then you hear them talking
about the second blessing.
And you'll find that it's all mixed up
and jumbled together.
And so I'm going to tell you what
they say, and then I'm going to tell
you what the book says.
And I would think you would be able
to follow.
You see, I can remember when I was
just saved.
Now, you just think of a drunkard getting
saved.
And I'd got my first new suit, oh,
for many years, of course.
And I went to the little bookshop in
Bangor, in Crouchwell Road there, where Jennifer used
to work.
And I remember I'm looking along the shelf
on just a few weeks saved, you know.
And I saw this book Holiness, and I
wondered what this was about, you know.
Took it out, and I'm reading it when
somebody put their hand on my shoulder.
And it was one of the great preachers
from the convention of Bangor.
He said, you're a young man.
This is 43 years ago, remember.
He said, you're a young man, are you
long saved?
I said, no, I'm just saved a week
or two.
Just want to go on with the Lord,
you know.
He said, you're interested in holiness.
I said, yes, oh yes, if this is
what I must be, then I'm interested, yes.
He said, you'd better put that back in
the shelf again, because that's not for you.
And I put it back in it.
He said, you know, I'll tell you what
holiness is.
He said, you see, I got saved just
the way you got saved, and I was
rejoicing in the Lord, and my heart was
overflowing just the way yours is.
But you see, I hadn't received the Spirit
of God.
Oh, I was just saved.
But he said, I went to my room
and I prayed for weeks.
And then one night, like a ball of
fire, something came through the roof, and the
Spirit came upon me and entered into me.
And I was baptized of the Spirit.
I was sanctified.
I was made whole.
Now, I was a young fellow, and I
didn't know very much at all, and I
said, what did this mean to you?
He said, you know, it meant that from
that moment forward, I didn't commit sin at
all.
And I said, you actually mean that although
I'm saved, I haven't received the Holy Ghost?
And if I had received the Holy Ghost,
then I would be in a position where
I wouldn't sin at all?
He said that.
And you know, the Lord must have been
with me from the day I was born
again, because I opened my Bible to this
fellow, and I said, look, I want you
to look at this with me.
Remember, I'm just a kid, you know, in
those days.
Well, you have a look at what I
did with him.
I'm at 1 Corinthians, and it's chapter 6,
please.
1 Corinthians, chapter 6.
And it's Paul writing to these Corinthians.
And I had bother finding the place, you
know, because when I was just saved, I
couldn't find the place very quickly.
But I eventually found it.
And at verse 19, I read to him,
somewhat timidly, I read the words, what?
Paul's asking a question, I said.
Know ye not that your body is the
temple of the Holy Ghost which is in
you?
I said, have these boys got the Holy
Ghost?
He said, yes, you can see that, can't
you?
That their body is the temple of the
Holy Ghost which is in you.
So I say, they've got this thing that
you're talking about, that the Holy Ghost had
entered into them.
He said, yes.
Well, I said, that's funny, because when you
go back to chapter 3, I'll tell you
what way it reads.
It reads, And I, brethren, could not speak
unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto
carnal.
Even as unto babes in Christ I have
fed you with milk, and not with meat.
For here as to you were not able
to bear it, neither yet now are ye
able.
For ye are yet carnal, for whereof there
is among you envy, and strife, and division.
Are ye not carnal?
I said, these fellows have the Holy Ghost,
and the Satan among themselves, and their envy,
and I took them back a little bit,
you know.
And I said to Mr., the yarn that
you are telling me, and the yarn that
that book is telling me, two different stories.
Now, which one of you do you think
that I'm going to accept?
Do I go by you, or do I
go by the book?
Twelve of these men had the Holy Ghost,
but they were still sinning.
And the old fellow was in effect, he
thought I was some theological professor, and I
could hardly write my own name.
Oh, the trite that you have to listen
to at times, and it is trite, let
me tell you.
You see, I was preaching once at Porta
Vogue, and we had great meetings there, and
there are some friends from Porta Vogue here
this evening, bless them.
And the old schoolmaster there at the big
school, he was a brilliant fellow, but he
didn't like me exposing these things like this.
And I started to deal with some of
the false teachings about holiness, and sanctification, and
so-called second blessings.
You know, one night he came back into
the little room, and he said, look, we're
having a party, even if we go to
bed early hours of the morning.
I said, that's all right, that's all right.
He said, Willie, you're all tied up in
a knot, you know.
This word holiness, and this word sanctification, and
this second blessing, it's all the same thing.
I said, you're very sure, master?
Yes, I'm very sure.
And I'm very sure there was a day
long after I was saved when it happened.
What happened?
He says, I got sanctified, I got this
real experience.
I said, you're quite sure about this, master?
He says, I'm very sure.
You're sure that holiness, and sanctification, and the
higher life, and second blessings, all the same?
Yes, I'm sure.
You're wrong.
You'll fix this tomorrow night.
Fix this after I've fixed you, master.
I said, now we'll turn to 1 Corinthians
chapter 7.
You do it with me now.
1 Corinthians chapter 7, and I read him
this verse, for the unbelieving husband is
sanctified by the wife.
I said, now master, you know a thing
or two about sentences, how you pass them,
and all that sort of thing, and the
verb and the noun, and all the rest
of it.
Have a look at this now.
Just be careful, master.
It says, the unbelieving husband is sanctified.
Are you telling me that the unbelieving husband
is sanctified?
Now, you would know.
You would know that he's talking crap.
He hasn't got the first blessing yet.
He's not saved.
Yet, the book you're reading out of says,
the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife.
Is he sanctified, or is he not?
Of course, he is sanctified.
It's not holiness he has, no, nor is
it higher life he has, nor is it
second blessing he has.
You know, when you listen to these old
fellows talking, if you were a bit soft,
you know, you would get all muddled, and
you'd go home, and you would lie awake,
and you'd turn over in bed, and you
would sacrifice a thousand things if you could
only get into this supposed blessing that they're
in, supposed nonsense they're in.
That's what it is.
Now, we'll see as the night goes on,
you're not in a hurry, sir, because I'm
just not in the mood this evening.
Yes, I'll take the coat off now.
The wife said to me before I came
up, don't you take that coat off, for
I don't like that shirt.
Well, that's just enough to make me take
the coat off.
We'll have trouble when I go home, because
some of them will be down in terror
before the mouth of the door here.
My son says, let's go in and stir
a lot.
Okay, I can take it.
I've had 40 years of it.
I'm okay.
All right.
You know, I hear some of these young
ones talking about the blessing they have, and
they use language like this, I have it,
I got it, I have it.
It's all I, isn't it?
And they don't catch it on, it's all
I.
Listen, dear, it's not I, but Christ that
counts.
Just take the eye out of it, put
them in the face.
And less of the eye now.
Here they do love to talk about it.
Oh yes, I think that you can see
quite clearly that there are some who teach
things.
You know, a fellow said to me, you
know, this whole gospel that you preach, you
know, it's all right, but there's a greater
thing, you know, it's respect and blessing you
should be preaching.
I said, well, Paul didn't know about this.
Paul said, God forbids that I should glory
save in the cross.
But you are in an advanced part of
a second.
They just make me fed up looking at
them.
They have all experienced, always experienced, always something
coming through the loop or something.
But all the experience is different from the
book.
My dear, if you can't see that your
experience is different from the book, and you
must be wrong, it's a pity of you.
And oh, there you'll end up.
But we're going to fix it, you see.
We're going to fix it very carefully, too.
Yes, I want to do this with you.
Now, you've got the notes in your hand,
and we'll just use the word sanctification.
And let's begin at the bottom for the
moment, just so you see.
You see, I'm allowed to do that.
Some old critic will say, you know, what
did you put them out like that for,
and then go to the bottom?
When I put them out, I can do
what I like.
And the first till the last, and the
last till the first.
We never touch like that, do we?
Now, let's have a look at the sanctification
of inanimate objects.
Let's go to the book of Exodus, and
we're at chapter 40, please.
Book of Exodus, chapter 40.
We don't want to waste too much time
on this, but the Lord is talking to
Moses.
You can see from the first verse, the
Lord spake unto Moses.
It's the Lord talking to Moses.
And then down at verse 10, he said
this to Moses, And thou shalt anoint the
altar of burnt offering.
You know, it was the altar where the
lamb was offered.
And all his vessels and sanctify the altar.
I said to the old school master that
evening, was this altar sanctified?
He stands and looks at it.
He doesn't want to say, you know.
He says, answer the question first.
The kid took as long about that in
the class.
Stand up and answer the question.
Was this altar sanctified?
Yes, of course it was.
The altar was a clean made.
It's a big thing that was built, what
they put the lamb.
Now, there's nobody coming round after this meeting
to tell me it had an experience, is
there?
An enormous object coming with experience.
Oh, you must be mad.
Oh, but it was sanctified.
We're getting into deeper waters as we go
on.
Because I can tell you that the unbelieving
husband was sanctified and the altar was sanctified.
And don't try to tell me the altar
had an experience in the back room.
It won't work.
And you can see that the next verse
says, verse 11, And thou shalt command the
ladle, that was the vessel that the tabernacle
that held the water, and his foot-arm
sanctified.
They're trying to tell me it had a
back room experience.
I don't think I need to waste time
on that.
Now, let's go back to that sanctification of
the unbelieving husband.
We're going backwards on those notes.
And we're back at 1 Corinthians chapter 7.
You see, when I talked to the old
schoolmaster and calmed them down, and let them
see that the altar, and the labour, and
the tabernacle, and many other inanimate objects that
had this great word placed upon them, they
were sanctified.
And that the unbelieving husband was sanctified.
He said, you know, maybe I'm using the
wrong word.
Oh, I said, that's an admission that lasts
from you.
You know right well that you're talking trope.
And if you would say it like that,
they said, Master, you just don't know what
the word sanctification means.
And you ought to know.
And they said, fuck you at the big
school up there, because you don't know.
And then he said to me, it means
separation.
I said, you do know.
Because when they anointed the altar, it just
meant that this vessel was set apart, separated
unto God.
You couldn't sleep on it.
It was set apart for offering, the burnt
offering.
It was just set apart.
Now, when you come to the unbelieving husband,
how do you deal with this truth?
This is very easy.
Let me do it in a simple way
so that you can see.
You see, once upon a time, Paul came
down to Canaan.
You know, if you go to Greece sometime,
and you go to Athens, and I think
you should then drop and see all the
temples up on the mount there, you'll remember
this, that 20 miles down the road is
the city of Canaan.
And Paul preached at Athens, and then he
went down to Canaan.
And I remember the morning I preached at
Athens, and I was determined I'd go down
that road to Cousins that afternoon, but things
didn't turn out like that.
Now, on the way down, there are one
or two little villages, little Greek villages.
And let's think about them in Paul's day.
Let's think about them like this.
Now, this is for your good I'm using
this illustration.
Let's think there are 20 houses in a
little village.
Just 20 houses.
It's like the little colony of Gibson Taylor
there.
Now, Paul's coming down the road, he's going
to Canaan, but he stops in the middle
of this little colony of houses.
Gets out in the center of Greece, and
he's preaching the gospel, and there's nobody saved
in any one of these houses.
They never heard the gospel.
And he's preaching this glorious gospel that God
so loved the world that he gave his
son, that the Lord Jesus came, born of
the Virgin, and he went to the cross
and paid the price of our redemption in
drops of ruby blood, and rose again to
be the Savior.
And Paul's really battering it out on the
village Greek.
Now, we'll say there's a little woman in
the corner house, and comes on to the
green and says, tell me more about it.
And she gets hooked.
They get down on the green together, she
says.
Now, Paul's got to go on.
Now, you see all these houses, 20 of
them?
Well, there's 19 of them in the dark.
But there's one house there's a light in
it now, there's a real woman in over
the Lord.
And her husband is separated from all the
others, because he has a light within continually.
And in that sense, and only in that
sense, the unbelieving husband in the wee corner
house is sanctified by the grace she has
got there.
No problem.
The man hasn't had any experience, but he
has a light in the house now.
I think you would think he would do
this.
Let's take the sanctification of the Son.
Let's go to John chapter 10.
John's Gospel, chapter 10.
And the Lord Jesus is preaching here in
what a mighty chapter it is.
It's the chapter where he preaches about being
the good shepherd who gives.
And then we read one of the great
statements of his whole life.
I wrote a booklet once, and titled it,
On the Super Sayings of the Savior.
Because while our Lord said wonderful things all
the time, and never man speak like this
man, yet out of all the sayings there
are some super sayings.
And I picked out all the super sayings
of the Savior in this little book that's
gone around the world.
But look at verse 13.
We're at John 10, verse 13.
And the Lord Jesus is speaking, and he
said, I and my Father are one.
Now that's a super.
You see, if you were talking about your
Father, I trust that you would know to
say this, my Father and I.
Oh, but he didn't do that.
He was just trying to let the Jews
see that he was cool and cool, and
cool eternal with the Father.
The eternal Father and the eternal Son were
on the same basis.
And he said, I and my Father are
one.
So there is one God, but there are
three persons in the Godhead.
And he's just talking about the eternal Son
and the eternal Father, and they're co-equals.
I and my Father.
Now this is what the Russellites can't see,
of course.
They just don't understand this.
It's a pity of them.
Because they argue with me about Jesus Christ,
they say, you say he's God.
I know he's God.
I have no trouble with that.
Well, let's see what it says here.
He looked at the cloud and said, I
and my Father are one, at verse 30.
Verse 31, then, the Jews took up storms
again to storm him.
They're going to storm him now.
Jesus answered them, many good works have I
showed you from my Father.
For which of those works do ye storm
me?
The Jews answered him, saying, for a good
work we storm thee not, but for blasphemy.
And because that thou, being a man, makest
thyself God.
Oh, they could understand it all, eh?
It's a pity of the Russellites, isn't it?
The boys that were standing wandering, they knew
what he was talking about.
He said, you're making yourself God.
Of course, if he says, I and my
Father are one, he's making himself God.
And the Jews believed it was blasphemy, and
they're going to full storm.
I think a pity of people who can't
read.
Once upon a time, I could scoff and
read.
I don't think it takes any preaching for
that genius need to read.
Verse 34, Jesus answered them, is it not
written in your law, I said, ye are
gods?
If he called them gods, unto whom the
word of God came, and the scripture cannot
be broken, say ye of him whom the
Father hath sanctified.
That's a bit I must say.
So I said to the old master, using
him tonight, because I give him a lesson,
I said, are you trying to tell me
that the Lord Jesus was not
big enough and honorable enough to say it?
No, I didn't mean that.
I said, you said at the beginning that
holiness and sanctification and higher life and second
blessing were all one if Jesus was sanctified.
They're not what you were saying, master.
There's a second verse.
Oh, but I know there are boys who
say it for months, and there are boys
who say that my Lord needed something else.
Oh, the curse of God be on your
head.
I dare you.
This book says he was sinless and spotless
and faultless and harmless, a poor miserable creature
like you.
You say he needed something else.
You want to go and fall into the
river three times and come out swelling.
You get sick looking at you.
No, it's quite as usual.
That's what it is.
And the sanctification of the inanimate objects, they
can't have an experience.
And the unbelieving husband had no experience.
He was just separated out from the other
crowd because of his wife.
And the Lord Jesus was separated by the
Father to be the Saviour of the world.
The Father sent the Son to be the
Saviour.
He separated the martyrs and said, do you
doubt?
You'll be the Saviour.
The Father came to fight Him in that
sense.
It's a great pity of people who read
things in the Scriptures that are not there
and upset young believers and take them up
a garden path until they're crying out for
this holiness, which is not really there.
The whole thing is false.
Now, let's begin the true holiness now, because
there is a true holiness in us.
So we start from the top now.
We just go back and forward in just
whatever way we like here.
Now, we're at sanctification of the Spirit now.
Let's follow this true holiness right through.
Now, come with me to 2 Thessalonians, and
we're at chapter 2.
2 Thessalonians, and make sure you get 2
Thessalonians, and make sure you get the 2nd
chapter.
2 Thessalonians, chapter 2, and we're after the
two slaves.
We've just been exposing the error for a
moment, I suppose.
2 Thessalonians, chapter 2, and Paul is writing
to these saints at Thessalonica, and this is
what he said to them in verse 13.
2 Thessalonians 2, 13, But we are bound
to give thanks always to God for you,
brethren beloved of the Lord.
Have you seen that little face?
Brethren beloved of the Lord.
You know he's writing to the saints.
And he did love the saints, you know.
And he said, We are bound to give
thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved
of the Lord, because God has from the
beginning chosen you to salvation.
All right, let's get started there.
You know, it's a very wonderful thing, and
I don't want to get into election, or
predestination, or sovereign choice, although that's there, and
if you push me I'll do it.
You see, a way back before they held
in order through the rest of the sages
saying God was there, and he must know
everything that's going to happen along the path,
he must know everything.
If he can prove to me that he
didn't know, then I can prove to you.
If he's God, he must know.
He knows the end from the beginning.
And you see, he would know that I
would be born in Utah last.
He would know that.
And he would know that I would be
number 17 in our family.
There was 16 boys in us, and I
was the last one of the lot.
So I could never have been a spoiled
boy at any time.
You know, if there's just one lad in
the family, well, grandma'll spoil him on you.
If there's one lad, grandma'll spoil her on
you.
But when grandma and grandma have cuddled 16
of them before you arrived, they're finished spoiling
them now.
So I was never spoiled.
Number 17, all the old clothes from the
boys come down the line to me.
Old jerseys, yes, no shoes, bare feet, legs.
Praise the Lord.
But the Lord knew I would be born
there.
Ah, but the Lord also knew that there
would come a day, and it was 43
years ago, when I would stand that drunken
spot, yea, convicted for the first time in
my life.
And I would say, Jesus Christ, God's son,
and I would give him my life.
God knew.
And because of his knowledge, you see, I'm
elect according to the full knowledge of God.
Don't think that God took me out in
the last year.
You can't argue like that.
Election is based on God's full knowledge.
He knew what I would do with Christ,
and he knew what you will do with
Christ, too.
So he does.
And what you're going to do with Christ
will determine your eternity.
But you see, because he knew that I
would accept his son, then Paul is saying
here, from the beginning, God has from the
beginning chosen you for salvation.
Now, through, this is how it works out,
of course, through sanctification of the Spirit, and,
let's get the and in, and belief of
the truth.
Now let me ask you which one comes
first.
Does belief of the truth come first, and
sanctification of the Spirit second, or does sanctification
of the Spirit come first, and you tell
me.
You're supposed to be able to know.
I'll tell you that sanctification of the Spirit
came.
You see, sometimes I preach from this platform,
many, many Sunday nights through all the years,
and you know, you can feel that the
Spirit of God is helping you.
And when the congregation rise to go, sometimes
there's somebody to come.
There's a big man just sitting there just
now.
A man with a bald head, and I
can remember this many years ago, about 1959.
Yes, way back in 1959, you know, when
the whole crowd was going up, this big
man sits up.
And I watched him from here, you know.
The head was down, and I could see
him knuckling the teeth away.
You know what's happening?
The Holy Ghost has taken hold of him,
and has separated him from the crowd.
That's what you call sanctification of the Spirit.
That's not second blessing.
That's first blessing.
You know what he needed, because I knew
what he needed, and the deacons here knew
to leave him alone.
I'd go down here very carefully, and down
there, and sit down beside him.
And what's up with him?
You see, he was now separated
out from the crowd by the Spirit of
God, and that's a great thing to happen
to you, when the Spirit of God takes
hold of you.
Now, what he needed now was belief of
the truth.
And what I needed to do was to
sit down by his side and tell him
the truth.
That God loved him, that Christ died for
him, that the work was finished, that there
was a living Saviour who was able to
save to the very uppermost, and all that
he had to do was put the arms
of his faith around this wonder-working Saviour,
and let him his own, and salvation was
his.
Did you see that?
Well, I said, try to preach from this
phrase, sanctification of the Spirit.
Well, then you do the whole book in
your office.
It happens to be sanctification of the Spirit.
Ah, I'm begging for the truth.
That's why I was hoping it says, I
can't save them.
I believe with all my heart and after
the Holy Ghost comes into this place and
deals with men and women, they won't get
saved.
It's the Spirit of God.
But I know the truth, and I know
how to show them the truth.
And that's how that big man arrived in
1959, that's when, that gloriously saved, and the
whole family saved now, and the wife, and
all the rest of it, you know, it
spreads like wildfire.
He's one of the best men we have.
Yes, well, that's sanctification of the Spirit now.
Let's have a look at this now.
Let's go to Hebrews, and we're at chapter
13.
It's the last chapter of Hebrews.
Hebrews chapter 13, and it's a mighty portion,
I may as well tell you.
Hebrews 13, and there are two verses here.
Let me read them to you, and it
will save time if you watch them, verses
11 and 12.
And in verse 11 we have the old
sin-offering type, and in the verse 12
we have the fulfillment of it.
If God gave a type in the Old
Testament, our Lord Jesus Christ is the fulfillment
of the type.
Look at verse 11.
For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood
is brought into the sanctuary by the high
priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the
people with his own blood, suffered without the
gate.
Let me try to do them for you.
I think you can see the bodies of
those beasts.
Let's take this type first of all.
There were beasts offered in sacrifice.
Now let's see the bodies of those beasts.
Now the bodies of those beasts, whose blood
is brought into the sanctuary, are burned without
the camp.
Now, just try to see them carrying the
bodies outside the camp.
Let's remember that there were twelve tribes people.
Let's remember that there were thousands in each
tribe.
Let's remember that the camp was bigger than
Belfast Chipping, just in case you don't get
the perspective right.
And if they're going to take these beasts
outside the camp, they've got to carry them
all for miles, we'll say, going out towards
Newton Harbour, Wales, and the other side of
Bondi.
And out there, in the wilderness it was,
they burned these bodies.
The bodies of those beasts, whose blood is
brought into the sanctuary by the high priest,
were physical bodies out there in Bondi.
So what was it all about?
What was it all talking about?
Why all this activity?
You see, the bodies of those beasts were
typifying the body of our Lord Jesus.
And our Lord Jesus, it says, he and
his own self bear all sins in his
own body.
Oh, but the word bear there is a
Greek word, it's a Greek word, and it
means he bore them away.
You see, when they hung on the cross,
God laid on him all my iniquity, all
my horrible sins, my drunken sins, my terrible
sins, were laid on him.
And he bared them, but he didn't only
bare them, he bore them away.
He bore them away out into a wilderness
where they will never be found no more
forever, my sins are gone.
When he had by himself put down sins,
he brought them all brotherhood.
That's wonderful.
But did you think that the bodies of
those beasts, did you see the blood of
the beasts, because they separated body and blood.
The bodies of those whose blood is brought
into the sanctuary by the high priest, and
get the word high priest into your mind.
And if you get the word high priest
into your mind, then you know the sanctuary
there is the Holy of Holies.
And it's the day of atonement, and he's
bringing the blood right into the Holy of
Holies, right into the center of the tabernacle.
And if you watch me, the bodies went
that way, and the blood came this way.
Oh get it right now.
And the blood came right in to the
mercy seat where God's glory was.
And it was sprinkled on the mercy seat,
so that the body went out that way,
and the blood came in this way.
And the body was dealing with my sins,
and the blood was dealing with my God.
Because it's the blood that makes atonement.
God gave the promise, when I see the
blood, I will pass over.
It's a mighty thing you know.
Because you know, this beast was my sins
in their totality for eternity.
And this beast was God.
He practically satisfied him on account of me.
I can look into God's face and say,
Jesus shed his blood for me.
Look at this something more.
If you separate body and blood, you know
what you have don't you?
Well just try separating my body and blood
this evening, and you know what will happen
to me.
I will die.
So that you have not only the body
bearing sin away, you have not only the
blood satisfying God, but you have the death
of Christ.
It is his death, it's body and blood
being separated.
And through death he destroyed him who had
the power of death.
You see my sins are dealt with in
their totality for eternity.
God is perfectly satisfied forever because of power
in the blood.
And Satan is crushed, because through death Christ
destroyed him who had the power of death.
You know the people that talk a lot
of trite don't understand Calvary properly.
The more you understand Calvary, the more you'll
be blessed.
Now when you see Christ fulfilling this now,
because we have the trite in verse 11,
and we have the anti-trite in verse
12, just to make sure there's no mistakes.
As far as I know it's the only
person in the whole scripture when you get
the trite in one verse, and the anti
-trite in the next one.
I stand to be corrected of course, but
I think I'm safe enough.
Now it says, For the bodies of those
deeps whose blood is brought into the sanctuary
by the hypocrites for sin are burned without
the camp.
Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the
people with his own blood, suffered without the
guilt.
I want you to see what he did
with his blood.
He sanctified the people.
Now am I sanctified or am I not?
You don't need to go to a bathroom
and read all night, you know.
I happen to be sanctified by the blood
of Jesus.
You see what this means?
Because God is satisfied, because my sin dealt
with in the totality for eternity, because Satan
has been destroyed.
You know, I'm set apart this evening to
be God forever and ever and ever.
Sanctified by the blood of Jesus.
Would you like to argue with me?
You would be on full ground, wouldn't you?
Oh yes, that's sanctification.
And it's sanctification by sacrifice now, isn't it
so?
Are you looking at the notes?
Sanctification of the spirit.
Sanctification by sacrifice.
Now there is another form of sanctification.
Let's look at John 17, and we're getting
near the end.
Don't fall asleep, because I might kill you.
James Ervin was preaching and a man fell
asleep and he pointed down and said, look,
wake that fellow up there.
And the fellow decided and said, come you
go and wake him up.
You put him to sleep.
So you have to be careful about it.
John 17, and our Lord Jesus is praying
here.
You see the first verse, these words, take
Jesus and lifted up his eyes to heaven
and said, Father.
He's praying to his Father.
And in John 17, he's praying for his
own believers.
And he says this about them, verse 17,
sanctify them through thy truth.
Thy word is truth.
You see, this is what I can see.
This is the sanctification I'm going in for
every day.
You know, you get sanctified by the Spirit
when he lays hold of you first, like
he did with big Harold.
And you get sanctified by the blood of
the cross when you set apart, when you
trust Christ.
Oh, but you should have this continual sanctification
by the book.
Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is
truth.
You see, I learned this very early, you
know.
I could save them a Thursday night, you
know, 43 or 44 years ago.
I've lost count of it sometimes.
And the next morning, I went out to
get a job.
I went to Dixon's nursery, stood on the
footpath, you know.
Old George Dixon came up in a Rolls
-Royce, you know.
It was something in those days.
Everybody has them now, but didn't have them
then.
And when he stepped up, he got white
trousers on, the white coat, white trolley hat,
back and forward done.
And I took my cap.
You had to take your cap off in
those days.
My God, what was I thinking about?
But never mind.
I had the cap off.
I said, Good morning, sir.
What are you on?
I said, I'm looking for work.
He knew me, you know.
He said, You have never worked in your
life.
I said, That's right.
But I got paid the other night.
Never debated it.
A telephone man that I said, You were
to start a month, start a job.
Just before I went out on Monday morning,
I was reading this book, because from the
day I was saved, I was reading this.
And as God would have it, I didn't
know where to read, and I was reading
this.
And this is what I read, that you're
to just obey your employer, that you're to
do your work hours unto Christ, not with
I service as men pleases.
He says, Okay, then I go out to
this job and I'm going to work for
you all.
And you know, they gave me a big
tub with all dirty flour pots.
Water would freeze me.
And I'm washing flour pots.
Don't think I didn't work in my life.
No, I did a bit of a deal
in there.
And I worked, but these fellows don't want
you to work, you know.
You don't work here, you know.
And you know, when I have a flour
pot in my hand, and the fellow comes
along and says, You're not working here, I
rattled it on the tub.
And I said, Would you like to stop
me?
He has no notion of trying to stop
me, because there was a day in my
life when I had a crack that over
his head very easily.
And, or he left me alone.
I went on working, but I'm the only
fellow out of seven of them who's working.
Over there, some of the brethren, they stood
down there.
They're afraid to work because the boys will
scold them.
Some of the bobsters along, and the Bible
God, they're reading these things in the morning,
the hypocrites.
Oh, they're stealing their master's time.
This is not what this book teaches me
to do.
This book teaches me to go out and
work.
I hope you believers are there on time.
I hope you work for your master.
If you've agreed to work from nine to
six or five or whatever it is, see
that you do it.
And do it unto Christ.
I can wash flour pots for Christ at
any time.
See, old Dixon never came to nine o
'clock in the morning, and he just walked
up and down for two hours, five minutes
before he came and started.
Oh, but one morning he got out of
bed and came around the corner, caught all
the Bible pumpers on and all the boys
playing cards.
One lone Johnny standing at the tub, he
came up to me and said, you're the
only honest man I have.
I said, I don't work for you.
I work for Christ.
Ran away, thought this was a lunatic story.
It's sanctification, I tell you.
When you start obeying the book, dear, you're
different from all the rest.
Have you got it now?
Don't think I need to pump any more
out of it.
It's sanctification by the Spirit.
The first blessing you get is sanctification by
sacrifice if you have love.
Sanctification by the Scripture.
You need to let it be worked into
your life, and as it's worked out, you'll
be one of God's peculiar people.
God will bless you.
Let's bow together.
We'll say no more.
Dear Lord, we thank you for thy holy
word.
This book tells us when we're right and
when we're wrong, and we pray, Lord, that
all of us here, including the preacher, write
down to the smallest boy who lives by
me, that each of us might be guided
by thy holy word.
Oh Lord, oh make this book live in
our hearts in a practical fashion that day
by day we'll be separated people, and others
will know whose we are and whom we
serve.
Now part us in thy fear, and with
thy blessing, and take us to our homes
in safety for thy holy namesake.
Amen.