TEACHING FROM SMITH WIGGLESWORTH
TEACHING FROM SMITH WIGGLESWORTH
* SMITHS ATTITUDE TOWARDS CALVINISM
God says to us, “In patience possess thy soul.” How beautiful! There have been in England great churches which believed once saved always saved. I thank God that they are all disappearing. You will find if you go to England those hardheaded people that used to hold on to these things are almost gone. Why? Because they went on to say whatever you did, if you were elect, you were right. That is so wrong.
The elect of God are those that keep pressing forward. The elect of God cannot hold still. They are always on the move. Every person that has a knowledge of the elect of God realizes it is important that he continues to press forward. He cannot endure sin nor darkness’s nor things done in the shadows. The elect is so in earnest to be right for God that he burns every bridge behind him.
“Knowing this, that first there shall be a falling away”
Knowing this, that first God shall bring into His treasury the realities of the truth and put them side by side — the false, and the true, those that can be shaken in mind, and those that cannot be shaken in mind. God requires us to be so built upon the foundation of truth that we cannot be shaken in our mind, it doesn’t matter what comes.
* IN THE NEW COVENANT THE 10 COMMANDMENTS ARE DONE AWAY WITH!
"Done away! Done away!" Henceforth there is a new cry in our hearts, "I delight to do Thy will, O God." He taketh away the first, the ministration of death, written and engrave in stones, that He might establish the second, this ministration of righteousness, this life in the Spirit. You ask, "Does a man who is filled with the Spirit cease to keep the commandments?" I simply repeat what the Spirit of God has told us here, that this ministration of death, written and engrave in stones (and you know that the ten commandments were written on stones) is "DONE AWAY."
The man who becomes a living epistle of Christ, written with the Spirit of the living God, has ceased to be an adulterer, or a murderer or a covetous man; the will of God is his delight. I love to do the will of God; there is no irksomeness to it; it is no trial to pray; no trouble to read the Word of God; it is not a hard thing to go to the place of worship. With the psalmist you say, "I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord."
How does this new life work out? The thing works out because God works in you to will and to do of His own good pleasure (Phil. 2:13). There is a great difference between a pump and a spring. The law is a pump, the Baptism is a spring. The old pump gets out of order, the parts perish, and the well runs dry. The letter killeth. But the spring is ever bubbling up and there is a ceaseless flow direct from the throne of God. There is life.
It is written of Christ, "Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness." And in this new life in the Spirit, in this new covenant life, you love the things that are right and pure and holy, and shudder at all things that are wrong. Jesus was able to say, "The prince of this world cometh, and bath nothing in Me," and the moment we are filled with the Spirit of God we are brought into like wonderful condition, and, as we continue to be filled with the Spirit, the enemy cannot have an inch of territory in us.
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