2017.02.02 The Character of Holiness Created by James on 5/21/2018 12:10:23 PM The Character of Holiness (Qodeshness)
2017.02.02
The Character of Holiness
By
Dr James A Robertson
I regularly find myself being debated by people who challenge me regarding what I have to say about fasting and other measures of self-discipline and self-chastening in search of a close relationship with our Father in Heaven. The following article says this extremely effectively and so I offer it to you for your earnest consideration and application – this is available to EVERY PERSON, NOT just the career ministers – in fact, Father EXPECTS this of every person who claims to believe.
As always I have not censored or edited the article I draw your attention to the truths regarding the true names, etc that are addressed on the website at http://end-time-issueministries.org/TrueNames.aspx.html and related pages. Specifically the true Name of the Creator is Yah the Eternally Self Existing, God as used here should be translated as Almighty and Christ is the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah or the Anointed One of Yah as appropriate.
"The Character of Holiness”
It is a crying shame for the Christian ministry to fall lower in holiness of aim than the Jewish priesthood. Jonathan Edwards said: " I went on with my eager pursuit after more holiness and conformity to Christ. The heaven I desired was a heaven of holiness." The gospel of Christ does not move by popular waves. It has no self-propagating power. It moves as the men who have charge of it move. The preacher must impersonate the gospel. Its divine, most distinctive features must be embodied in him. The constraining power of love must be in the preacher as a projecting, eccentric, an all-commanding, self-oblivious force. The energy of self-denial must be his being, his heart and blood and bones. He must go forth as a man among men, clothed with humility, abiding in meekness, wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove; the bonds of a servant with the spirit of a king in high, royal, independent bearing, with the simplicity and sweetness of a child. The preacher must throw himself, with all the abandon of a perfect, self-emptying faith and a self-con-suming zeal, into his work for the salvation of men. Hearty, heroic, compassionate, fearless martyrs must the men be who take hold of and shape a generation for God. If they be timid timeservers, place seekers, If their faith has a weak hold on God or his Word, if their denial be broken by any phase of self or the world, they cannot take hold of the church nor the world for God. The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself. The training of the twelve was the great, difficult, and enduring work of Christ. Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a man and a saint, It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God-men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can ,old a generation for God. After this order, the early Christians were formed. Men they were of solid mold, preachers after the heavenly type-heroic, stalwart, soldierly, saintly. Preaching with them meant self-denying, self-crucifying, serious, toilsome, martyr business. They applied themselves to it in a way that told on their generation, and formed in its womb a generation yet unborn for God. The preaching man is to be the praying man. Prayer is the preacher's mightiest weapon. An almighty force in itself, it gives life and force to all. The real sermon is made in the closet. The man--God's man-is made in the closet. His life and his profoundest convictions were born in his secret communion with God. The burdened and tearful agony of his spirit, his weightiest and sweetest messages were got when alone with God. Prayer makes the man; prayer makes the preacher; prayer makes the pastor. The pulpit of this day is weak in praying. The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer. Prayer is with the pulpit too often only offcial-a performance for the routine of service. Prayer is not to the modern pulpit the mighty force it was in Paul's life or Paul's ministry. Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.
by E.M.Bounds 1907
brought back by Chaplain Louie Bender
May Yah bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you His peace.
May Yah judge me severely and correct me harshly and show me the level of my present deception and how to correct it with regard to everything that I write and publish.
Warm regards and blessings,
James Robertson
Emissary and Spokesman of Yah
04 February 2017
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