TWO VEILS continued
The wisdom of the fathers
THE TWO VEILS continued
Another point about the second veil is this : the high priest had to take off his shoes when he went within it, and he went in trembling. Within the first veil he could have the other priests with him, — as long as he remained in the holy place he had plenty of company; but within the second veil he must go by himself.
When You get sanctified you make up your mind to follow God alone, whether anybody else will do so or not. When converted you can club up as it were. I have seen four or five young men wait on one another, and finally all start for the altar in company; and after they got there the Spirit worked in their hearts, and they were converted. But when you seek sanctification that won't do. You must make up your mind to say, "I intend to give myself everlastingly and eternally to God's will, and I will go alone if necessary, and by God's grace not slip." You must go alone, as if you were the only one on earth.
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It required courage in the high priest to enter within that veil. If he did anything amiss he would be killed. I tell you it made him tremble, going in where nobody could follow him, and where he might be stricken down a corpse in a moment of time. A feeble man who says,
"I can't, I can't," will never get to heaven or anywhere. You must say, "I am going and if God wants to kill me, Amen ! I am going." People think of the guillotine and the thumb screw and the bonfire when you speak of the difficulty of serving God. But do you know that it takes as much courage to really serve God in Philadelphia as it did in the old inquisition times ?
To go around in plush parlors and in fine society and let it be known that you are in for entire sanctification is a hard thing. There is hardly one in five hundred who will not turn and minimize under such circumstances. How few serve God with all the heart and never flinch!
You may think I am talking too high, but I tell you this temporizing is the great sin of the Christian Church.... I tell you it takes courage to stand up for a clean gospel and a full salvation.
(from "Love Abounding" by G.D. Watson)