HOW TO OBTAIN GREAT DELIVERANCE Part 3

The wisdom of the fathers

HOW TO OBTAIN THE GREAT DELIVERANCE? ? Part 3

The second step is FAITH. Believe that God accepts the consecration; that our altar, which Paul says is Christ, sanctifies the gift thus laid upon the altar, and sanctifies it now. Do not say, “I feel it,” or, “I know it,” until the witness comes; but say, “believe it.” Feeling is one thing, knowledge is another, and faith a third. Neither feeling nor knowledge is expected of us at this time, but simply faith. We are required to believe God’s word, and that word says: “The altar sanctifies the gift.”?

God cannot and will not sanctify unbelief. Man wandered from God and fell through doubt of his word; he is to come back through belief of the truth, by an unshaken confidence in every word. Here are some of God’s words: “Whatsoever touches the altar shall be holy,” “The altar sanctifies the gift.” Faith must take hold of and rest on these statements of God. The result will come speedily, and be most wonderful and satisfactory.?

These are the two steps. In taking them, however, there is another exercise of the soul which accompanies both steps—viz., PRAYER. Consecration and faith are the conditions of obtaining sanctification; yet neither one will be born or continue to live without prayer. to be continued

(from "The Old Man" by Rev. Carradine)