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This provides a basic outline of how to obtain a pure heart. The heritage
authors will fill out the details for you.
Entering His Rest is as easy or as hard as you make it...
But before we start to go into detail you
should understand that entering His Rest involves
qualifications that nobody can attain in themselves
through the mere effort or good works. You will see
that each and every one of these qualifications requires His divine
intervention to obtain:
- Hunger: This
is a reward and gift given by the Lord
to those who are zealous and faithful with
their initial portion of grace. It is a supernatural
reward of CAPACITY to seek for more. The more
hunger you have been given, the more swiftly you will
be able to overcome any obstacle. If you are short of this
element, the thing to do is to get really faithful with
what you have already been given. Learn to pray and speak secretly
in tongues at times while you go about your day. He is faithful to
reward the faithful with more. Become"Hot for God". Carry a
tiny Bible on your person at all times, and refuel your zeal and faith at
every opportunity throughout your day. Lunchtime. Coffee break. Waiting in
line or in traffic jams. (We sell audio CDs for your car.) Become a student
of the materials on this website since there is much faith-building material
included. I have made sure that it is not all heavy or theological.
- Total Consecration:
Consecration means to dedicate,
or "give over" into the death of His Cross. But
how do you know when you have consecrated your
ALL? Here we need His help, to both show us those
things which are not obvious, and to give us the faith and
courage to lay down our whole lives without reserve at His feet.
But when we do this, how do we know that there is not
yet more? We often don't know when to quit, so we just have
to do our best and hold the rest before Him, so that He can either
approve or show us more. Having consecrated, we must
simply stand in faith.
- Total Faith: Here
you need to believe that He will bring you into His
Rest. (But to do that, you need to know what you are
asking for. The best place to find that out is to read my
book "How to enter His Rest", below.) We just have
to do our best to keep holding this faith, until finally
He reaches down with His Hand of grace and says, "Well done
thou good and faithful servant, enter into...". There are
certain tricky paradoxes that must be bridged in faith: such as
we need a completed faith in order to obtain a completed faith...
Again we must cry, "Lord, I
believe, help thou mine unbelief".
- Sanctification Crisis:
at a definite moment in time we are taken into
His Bosom. To some the moment may appear subtle, but
after they wait in active trust, they will will look back and
see the exact moment when they passed from the believer's twilight
into gloriously full light in Him. Most find the moment
to be blatantly unmistakable.
- Unimpeded Growth in His Spirit:
After entering His Rest,
you must keep it. You do this by continued
diligence in Him since although your heart has now been
made pure, many of your existing circumstances, habits,
choices and relationships still fall short of those the
Lord would choose for you. These you must allow to fall off
as the Lord tenderly reveals them to you, -even if it is something
greatly cherished and spiritual. Rapid growth in
consecration and prayer is safety. Neglect brings
the possibility of the loss of His Rest -to return to
your former unsatisfactory twilighted daily up and down
grind of elementary mixed faith. It is both
wise and natural to fear the loss of this "so great grace"-which
is the greatest of treasure that the Lord can give to those who are yet
on this earth.
Summary: “In a
moment of time, all the unhealthy inherited peaks of
strength are laid low, and the inherited valleys
of weakness and fear are filled in: the life is wholly reconciled
and so made to be wholly in harmony with Him and with
itself. There is a mysterious "something" that was left untouched
by initial salvation. This fallen nature made us
stay vulnerable to deliberate sin since it was the root
source for the many failings that follow the believer. It must
be removed!!!”
Below you will find clearly written
road-maps written by gracious saintly souls
to enable you to enter and join them within His
Rest. Each author eloquently offers their own
mixture of hard-won wisdom, observations, examples, scriptures
and topical doctrines. The first section of this
page is devoted to necessary resources for heart preparation,
the second section is devoted to documents that contain
the precious and coveted "entry directions" that countless
accomplished sanctified souls spent their lives to make clear to
others.
Indeed, many medieval saints endured years
of painful self-flagellation and prayerful
fasting hoping to gain at least one of the insights
that are here shared openly.
But be aware that the same blessed truths
are expressed through quite a number of perspectives,
since doctrines do develop or decline over time.
In the book we attempt to point you towards what
we humbly consider the most productive perspective on
this glorious mystery available today. But, regardless
of perspective this remains beyond faithful debate: to
obtain His vast and luminous all; the price is always your
tiny and tarnished all.
"There are two great words in the
New Testament relative to the state and position
of the believer—Justification and Sanctification.
Speaking roughly we may say that Justification means
“being counted righteous,” and Sanctification “made righteous.”
When a man is born again, God both counts him righteous,
forgiving all the past—and makes him righteous giving
him a new nature. Hence Paul, when writing to the
Christians of his day, though many of them were carnal,
calls them saints, or sanctified ones. Sanctification,
however, may be divided into two parts—“regeneration,” or
sanctification begun, and “complete sanctification” which
is the work completed, and which is the subject we are considering.
In this connection it is interesting to note that John Wesley
entitles his great classic on the subject “Entire Sanctification.”
A. Paget Wilkes
So, in Salvation is our blessing and relationship
with Him begun, and in His Rest is our blessing
and relationship with Him made complete. And
indeed that is what all those who gave faithful
testimonies of their years in this privileged state
of grace have boldly declared! A well-known way of understanding
entering His Rest (entire sanctification) is as a second
dip in the "saving grace" that brought you through initial
salvation. But in order to successfully understand
that, you need to understand the experiential details of
the hidden supernatural events that occurred when you became
a believer... read:
"The Atonement and a Sinning Religion" a
two page excerpt from A Right Conception of Sin
by theologian Richard S. Taylor
(1945) For more detail also read the first half of M. L. Haney's
"The Inheritance Restored" full version below.
Earnest Seeker