This page is the heart of the website
where we get down to business. It is a hefty page because in the time
before "higher scepticism" arrived, this topic was the centre of the
Christian faith even though it was seen only dimly.
Note: The guidance contained on this page
can be successfully applied only by active believers who are pleasing
the Lord in being good stewards of their existing Life in the Spirit.
After abject repentance and true repentance for any sin, the starting
qualification for this higher work of grace is hunger for
it. Be diligent in His Spirit and in His
pure Word. Keep
your
back towards temptation, and earnestly seek this new dimension of
favour and freedom in the Lord. Read much. Your hunger will grow as you
come to see you are missing out on His best.....
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In worshipful wonder the worldling
casts his lost soul
with pure saving faith into the care of the Master
Bringing PARDON to the needy soul
Now in worshipful wonder the
believer casts his redeemed life
with that same pure saving faith into the care of the Master
Bringing blameless PURITY to the
pardoned soul
So do Beulah's lowly gates open
evermore
So enters the soul into the secure hush of His own Rest
Earnest
Seeker
Just as you once came apart from the dust and confusion of
the world into the fellowship of the redeemed, now it is your time to
come apart again:
"Therefore let us go forth to
Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach*." Hebrews 13:13
(* "abuse" or "scornful insult")
You have had enough of toils and contradictions: of hymns of faith sung
out of a troubled heart: the perennial hypocrisy of a heart that cries
for His peerless promises of complete spiritual freedom and yet
continues to trudge along with far less. The common elementary
(introductory level) faith that
seems to be enough for so many is no longer enough for you -so
now you come apart to seek His face.
When your heart cried out to Him in saving faith,
He touched you and your sins were forever pardoned in
that instant. Now you find that pardon alone is not
enough for you. You also need your heart to be made wholly pure so that
you can be fully acceptable by Him. And with that same saving faith in
that same miraculous instant. Growth is one thing while the
miracle of the cross is another. It is by His Blood that we are saved,
not by our years of piety -no matter how diligent, anointed, packed
with miracles or successful they may be!
To realize this, we must leave behind our doubts and fears for they
would turn us aside. A sober time of heart-stopping decision is upon
us. The exceeding great promises of the gospel fill our hearts with
hope and yet we face doubt and lack within. We are saved but now
we need to
be FULLY SAVED. We are set free from sin but now we are daily
more consumed with the need to be made free from ALL that is out of
harmony with Him.
We know Him, but now we find that we must KNOW Him in a far greater way
-beyond anything we could have before asked
or imagined!
There is a race to be run!!!
It is a race that is simple and starkly pure for it deals frankly with
your fundamental created elements. Cast aside the clinging limitations
of the common crowd! Others may enjoy serving their time, but
here our uncommon task is clear. We must have Him; and ALL of Him
-lest we die!
A time of sharp decision has come upon us as it came upon
Abraham, the father of Faith:
4 And behold, the word of the LORD
came to him, saying, "This one shall not be your heir, but one who will
come from your own body shall be your heir." 5 Then He brought
him
outside and said, "Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you
are
able to number them." And He said to him, "So shall your descendants
be."
6 And he believed in
the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.
7 ¶ Then He said to him, "I am the
LORD, who brought you out of Ur
of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it." 8 And he
said, "Lord GOD, how shall I know that I will inherit it?"
9 So He said to him, "Bring Me a
three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old
ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon." 10 Then he brought all
these to Him and cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each
piece opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds in two.
11 And when the
vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
12 ¶ Now when the sun was going down,
a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror
and great
darkness fell upon him. 13 Then He said to Abram: "Know
certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not
theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred
years. 14 "And also the nation whom they serve I will judge;
afterward they shall come out with great possessions. 15 "Now as
for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at
a good old age. 16 "But in the fourth generation they shall
return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."
17 ¶ And it came to pass, when the sun
went down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven
and a burning torch that passed between those pieces.
18 On the same day
the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I
have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the
River Euphrates— (Genesis 15:12)
And so Abraham did not shrink back, but manfully apprehended the
unbelievably bountiful earthly promise the Lord laid out before him.
Our promise of full sanctification in His blood is not earthly as
Abraham's
promise was:
instead it is a distinct heavenward blessing that first removes
everything out of harmony with
God and Heaven so that it can then robe you in pure
white to meet and abide with the King in His beauty.
You were faithful in the things of your former life of elementary
Christian faith. When the vultures of temptation and doubt came down
upon your life laid out unto Him, you drove them away. And now you find
that your former
believing life has become dim to you for the sake of the greatness
of promise now held out before you....
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In order to successfully integrate the challenging new information on
this website with your existing spiritual experience, you need to
accurately discern the spiritual realities you entered into when you
were saved. Please protect yourself from confusion and make sure
of your foundations: Foundational Understandings
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who desire to actually obtain this
better state of grace called "His Rest". The other pages are for
related purposes.
Do not be
confused. The following resources use the word "sanctification" in
two senses. First, if you are saved, you are sanctified -unto pardon.
But second, while entering His
Rest there is a second application of sanctifying grace that results in
purity. The second application results in "complete (or
entire) sanctification" since He has now done all He can do along that
line. However, since the term
is used so often, the heritage authours often just simply use the word
"sanctification".
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A fast foreword that gives you an
overview of how to enter His Rest and obtain a supernaturally pure
heart. 1 page by Earnest Seeker
A
Better Perspective on Consecration and Repentance
Extensive repentance and consecration are unavoidable if one
is to please Him. It is only natural that we have a myopic perspective
that sees this only as hardship: the
trouble is that that this makes us thoroughly miss the realities of our
human condition. 2 pages by Earnest Seeker
The Baptism of the
Holy Spirit Defined
The "Baptism of the Holy Spirit" is taken by the numerous Pentecostal
denominations to refer to a supernatural endowment of power. By
Holiness denominations it is taken to be a supernatural endowment of
heart-purity. Both will valiantly defend their definition to
their last breathe.
But upon sober consideration all will admit that it takes heart-purity
to exercise His power responsibly; and
it takes His power to effectively communicate the pure living faith to
others. He is both. And He
is both at one and the same time. His spiritual power is pure
and right ( despite the numerous obvious
and systemic flaws demonstrated by impure vessels ),
and His purity is freighted with the gentle power of His own
love.
The heritage articles on this website take the older definition which
implies the “blameless purity” found within His Rest -and which is
proper to the topic of this website. Please do
not be confused!! Click above for an important 5 page
illustrated discussion that has links to in-depth articles that fill
out both contemporary definitions. Earnest Seeker
From My Heart
to Yours
Guidance on how to use this web page -for those stalwart
brave-hearts who purpose to enter His Rest. by Earnest
Seeker
The Old Man
Whether professing
Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Voodoo, or no
religion at all, men are equal in sharing the same despicable fallen
nature. Even the most godly and gracious heart still has a hidden
"something" within that still resists God and tugs towards sin as a
moth to the flame. But complete sanctification brings the total
and final removal of this "old man" of original Sin. Without this
mysteriously unyielding stony
nature quietly buried within, the heart-life instantly enters a whole
new dimension in His Life. You may be thoroughly saved and
pardoned. You may be marvellously filled with His Spirit and
wonderfully victorious in your spiritual battles. But you are just
deceiving yourself if you think you can win the WAR and become wholly
LIKE HIM while this malevolent fallen nature still hides unconquered
within. This important and powerful document details the
nature and methods of your "old man" (the fallen nature) compared
with the rare and precious blessings released upon it's removal.
This ugly "before" picture is presented in detail
with humour and graphic examples.
"Many of the heathen philosophers had
acquired, by mental discipline and cultivation, an entire ascendancy
over all their customary vicious habits. Perhaps my readers will
recollect the story of the physiognomist, (a professional face and body
reader) who, coming into the place where Socrates was delivering a
lecture, his pupils, wishing to put the principles of the man's science
to proof, desired him to examine the face of their master, and say what
his moral character was. After a full contemplation of the
philosopher's visage, He pronounced him the "most gluttonous, drunken,
brutal, and libidinous old man that He ever met."
As the character of Socrates was the reverse of all this, his
disciples began to
insult the physiognomist. Socrates interfered, and said, "The
principles of his science may be very correct; for such I was, but I
have conquered it by my philosophy." (from Entire
Sanctfication by Adam Clarke) And so
it is with many serious believers. Although they have apparently
conquered their fallen natures by the sheer force of their religion and
character, its most foul root is still there, and it still
shows through from time to time!! God, the enemy and other men (and
likely your spouse) are all quite aware of this duplicitous
situation. Are you?
A lot of convicting sermons can be hatched from this
important heritage article that is just chock full of earthy examples
that cannot fail to communicate. This is Carradine at his best! "Here
are several ladies rocking together in the parlor of one of the
group...." 44 descriptive pages by Beverly
Carradine (1848-1931) (Language
and idiom has been carefully enhanced for modern readers by
Earnest Seeker.)
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(see page 41 for Carradine's monkey story -which aptly
describes today's most common approach to gaining holiness.)
On
Sin in Believers
On this same important topic I have also included five sermons from
John Wesley: "On Sin in Believers", "Original Sin", "The
Wilderness State", "The Mystery of Iniquity" and "The
Deceitfulnesss of The Human Heart" 30 page PDF by John Wesley
The weakness of this website is that it takes one
partiicular gospel theme (a particularly obscure one to wider church)
and studies it out of the context of the whole gospel. The
essential understanding of the fallen nature (original sin) can suffer
because of this since it takes a breadth and depth of scriptural
understanding in order to grasp the glory and grace of God's redeeming
perspective on our foundational lostness. But here Rev. C. E.
Brown comes to our rescue! If you can stand the odd passage where
he gets technical, you will see that he adds important grace and nuance
to this subject. If you wish to follow this up, go to The Door
Page and scroll down to "The Robust Gospel". On this page you
will find Brown's "The Meaning of Salvation". It is a masterpiece.
Essential Articles For Heart
Preparation
One of the most intractable problems I have had with preparing
this website is an over-abundance of treasure on our topic. I have used
organization
to combat this. On this sub-page is a good number of articles that are about
His Rest,
rather than on exactly How to enter it. Before you go on, you may need
to spend some time getting your mind clear about exactly what we
are seeking to obtain. These precious and irreplaceable excerpts and
articles should help
prepare you...
Precious Treasures
So,
Just Exactly How Do I Enter His Rest?
These selected articles below contain
exact instructions written by sanctified souls who were also seasoned
spiritual midwives to many thousands of those entering His Rest.
This is the BEEF of the website for Evangelicals, Catholics,
Pentecostals, and Charismatics alike, regardless of being
"Spirit-filled"
or not. Here all mere earthly denominational and spiritual boasting is
rendered mute since this "strong meat" will truly test what all are
made of. (Heb. 5:14 AV)
You must read more than one author to get the full
picture since the various authours complement one another.
Some selections carefully compare the directions offered by a
large number of revered
saintly authours.
Most of the website offerings are free
excerpts from the larger works, which may be copyrighted. If you
are serious about entering His Rest, get the full length printed
books or obtain your own copy of the Wesleyan Heritage
Library CD. (see the "Order" page.) The superior printed
resources we have made available for you there allow the
superior absorption and easy re-reading afforded by the printed
page. Such glorious treasure is available to you!!!
How to Enter His
Rest -The Book
This is the long-awaited manuscript! This work simplifies
the topic and omits any of the less helpful perspectives from the past.
I hope you will find it to be both foundational and faith-building. The
purpose of the book is not academic, nor theological, but is to simply
to guide you into His Rest more effectively. It is the best of
the best -served up on a platter for you!! Some of the
source materials are on this website, while some are not. This
work is meant to be comprehensive, but frankly, to be just, I would
have had to include most or all of the following works -along with some
more from the "Precious Treasures" page to
actually do that.
The approach we have taken assumes a normal church background
which is somewhat short of substantial instruction in the meaty
principles of the basic gospel. This means that we start with the
elementary principles and then build upon them so that you can see and
embrace faith for the greater gospel which contains His Rest. It is
loaded with examples, testimonies and helpful practical hints.
"How to Enter His Rest", in contrast to most works on this
topic, has a major focus on the glory of daily life in His Rest so that
you may be properly motivated and positively faith-oriented to
successfully pass through the painful temporary crucible of your
sanctification crisis. In the longer term picture, your need is not to
have a grim focus on how to eradicate the fallen nature (or its
manifestations) in faith, but to embrace the Lord fully since in Him is
all Godliness. We can state it either way. Both are true, but the
removal of the fallen nature is only relevant to discuss as long as it
remains within. The fact is that the rare radiant life found in
His Rest, which is the Christ-life ruling without rival -is the true
Christian life, and always has been. This radiant life will comprise
your remaining years on earth, as this spiritual crisis will soon just
be a memory of a long or short struggle followed by a total and lasting
victory. No Philistines at all will remain in your inward Promised
Land!!! The lasting reality is the radiant life in His Rest, not the
sharp struggle to obtain it -so we should think of it that way!!
This is an indexed 126
page PDF designed to be read electronically, so be patient when
you download. It will be updated regularly as the work
progresses. last updated:
Sept.. 2005
Earnest Seeker
Print Ready
Version both versions are free and without
copyright restriction. This version uses almost half the paper to
print, and is free of ink-devouring graphics....
The next three
documents are especially for those who demand a more detailed
treatment:
The Inheritance
Restored
This very special selection has everything
you want: clear doctrinal explanations, as well as personal
descriptions of how various souls applied these truths to successfully
enter His Rest.
"The state of entire sanctification is variously set forth in the Holy
Scriptures. A greater variety of words is used by inspiration to
describe this precious experience than any other. There are a greater
number of scriptures by way of commandment, of promise, of precept, and
of provision relating to this distinct state of grace, than to any or
all other states of grace either on earth or in heaven. But there
are a few chosen words used with great frequency, which more
directly and perfectly describe it. These are: holiness,
sanctification, purity, cleansing, perfection, perfect love, fullness
of God, rest, etc. A knowledge of the meaning of these words,
and their relation to each other in this experience, is quite important
to earnest souls." electronic version 49 pages by M. L. Haney (1897)
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So Great Salvation
"It is above all things the promised land -the Promise of the Father
-the Gift of God -an experience which He bestows. Our duty, then, is to
possess. No fewer than sixty-three times does the word “possess” or
“possession” occur in the book of Deuteronomy alone. “I have begun to
give,” saith the Lord: “begin ye to possess.” It is by faith -- “the
gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast; that we might
receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.” Nothing is more
humbling to our pride and self-righteousness, nothing more glorifying
to God than this.
It is the experience of all who have crossed the Jordan, that
the entrance into the experience of full salvation by faith and faith
alone, humbles to the dust and fills us with praise and thanksgiving to
God. One writes thus: "With me it was thus. I was
humbled and self emptied and Jesus became my all in all. I felt myself
all weakness (yea, as I never did before) and He all my strength. I all
nothingness. He all fullness. I all helplessness. He omnipotence. I
flew from myself and escaped to Jesus. He
received me graciously, freely, without money and without
price, without worthiness or faithfulness, and became all
my salvation and all my desire: humbled in lowest abasement at His
boundless condescension and filled with love, I felt that I was one
with God." Another masterpiece by the masterful A. Paget Wilkes
on the theme of “God’s so great salvation” (Heb. 2:3). What it is. How
to experience it. The hindrances in our road; the way in and the way
thereafter. 25 pages (Language
and idiom has been carefully enhanced for modern readers by
Earnest Seeker.)
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Sanctification
Rev. Wilkes has some ideas and emphases that are not found in
the older works. For example he says this under the
topic of Humility: "But yet in other cases I have noticed that it
has been far harder to come thus to the Lord in humble and broken
confession than in consecration. They love to give and offer and
present their all to God; but alas! the proud, unbroken spirit will
never let them seek for the blessing as a poor leper, a blind beggar—or
a helpless paralytic; and so they have gone empty away.
Yes! the “repentance of believers” as John Wesley called it long ago,
is a sine qua non for the effective operation of a living faith.
( I identify with this unusual approach because for a season
before I entered into His Rest, I specialized in radical (loud or
tearful) abject repentance for my all too obvious impurities. I had
been fully consecrated as far as I knew for some time, but did not know
what else to do!!! -Earnest Seeker -you may read my testimonial on the
"Testimonies" page.)
This more recent classic work will bless you with
its grace and
balanced approach to the Most Holy. (Language
and idiom has been carefully enhanced
for modern readers by Earnest Seeker.)
24 pages by A. Paget Wilkes 1931. indexed PDF
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The Double Cure
The absolute cure for sin is in two
portions. This aggressive author provides lists of irresistible
hammer-blows of scriptural logic to convince the doubter that this is
the case. A highly concentrated clarion call for faith is
delivered to the solar plexus. An astounding feast for faithful
Bereans!! See Chapter 12 for explicit
directions. Much of this
has been used in "How to Enter His Rest" above. 15 pages by
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The Old Man -
Part 2
"There is a blessed experience of coming to Christ, finding everything,
living in His service while He looks on us and loves us; there is
another and higher experience in which one sells out in the deepest
sense of the word, leaves everything, and follows Christ. We are called
to it by the Saviour.
But
many turn away sorrowful. They have great possessions -reputation,
influence, earthly hopes and prospects, and other things that they are
unwilling to sacrifice. Moses chose affliction -preferred the reproach
of Christ
-but they do not.
They fail to realize that the reproaches of Christ are greater riches
than the treasures of Egypt or the entire world. Such a life may look
like a carcass, but it is a carcass full of honey. We may appear like
deluded or demented people to the Michals laughing at us from the
window; but the ark of God is with us; we know we have the truth; our
own mouth is filled with holy laughter, our heart with praises; and so
we can stand with perfect resignation the amusement of an unbelieving
world." This second part is finished with the baleful
old man, and goes on to discuss in practical terms, how we may
enter His Rest. The common roadblocks to this are carefully removed
and every requirement for entering His glorious rest is very
clearly spelled out. Two chapters deal with how to actually enter His
Rest, while three excellent chapters deal with problems commonly
encountered in this. 31 pages by Rev. B. Carradine (1848-1931)
(Language
and idiom has been carefully enhanced for modern readers by
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The Sanctified Life Rev. Carradine masterfully gathers together all the
various theories of full sanctification and clarifies their positions
in the light of day. He then goes on to describe the true theory
of sanctification, and how this culminating grace may be obtained.
(Chapter 3) "Happy is the man who will not allow himself to
be diverted and distracted, but having emptied and cleansed his heart,
will stand waiting with ardent prayer and expectation for Christ to
descend." This beauteous and masterful treatment has ushered many
into His Rest. 11 pages by Rev. B.
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New Testament Holiness
With magnificently quiet reason this author carefully explains
every step and the reasons for it in detail. If you are the kind of
person who is analytical and wants to know the reason for everything,
this is the one written just for you. Contains in depth
insights into the interplay between light and dark that must be
navigated
to find and then successfully live upon the narrow way of the pure in
heart. Exceptional. by Rev. Thomas Cook
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A top quality point-by-point map for seekers by the famed
1890’s Theological College President and author Daniel
Steele. Here he shares with us all his secrets
that he used to help souls enter His Rest.
"In confidence that there will be, after
the crucifixion, a glorious resurrection to spiritual life and
blessedness, the believer yields his hand to the nail, and his head to
the thorn crown. That flinty center of the personality, the will, which
has up to this hour stood forth in resistance to the complete will of
God, suddenly flows down, a molten stream under the furnace blast of
Divine love, melted into oneness with the “sweet will of God.” After
such a death there
is always a resurrection unto life. An interval of hours, or
even of days, may take place before the angel shall descend and roll
away the stone from the sepulcher of the crucified soul, and the
pulsations of a new and blissful life be felt through every fiber and
atom of the being. It is not the old life that rises, but a new life is
breathed forth by the Holy Ghost. The believer can then truly say that
he is “dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ.”
8 pages by Daniel Steele (10/5/1824 - 1924)
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A precious complete small book by
the author of "Amazing Grace" that teaches on Holiness, Purity,
Divine Union, Humility, Christlikeness, Consecration, Love, and
Perfection as ingredients of the "Beauty of Holiness". It is just
loaded with examples that will touch your soul. The author also
successfully gives rare
descriptions of the effulgence of His Rest at length.
"Holiness is a participation of
the divine nature, a seed of divinity. “His seed remaineth in him.” It
partakes of the divine nature in the sense the iron partakes of the
fire; the rough, rude iron put into the fire becomes radiant, brilliant
and the fire may say to it: “I have imparted that to thee.” So God may
say to the soul, “I impart to thee the glow and beauty and heat of my
nature” — the soul is bathed in God." 23 heavy duty pages
by George Whitefield Ridout (Enhanced) Print Ready Version
How to Obtain a Clean Heart
Reckon yourself dead to sin! It is as easy as this; and as
hard as this! A very concise summary. See Chapter 10 for
entry directions. By its very nature, our hearts have sneaky
defences against being made pure. This author makes them gloriously
plain. 22 Pages by George Asbury Mclaughlin (1899)
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A Living Sacrifice
Do you have the courage to read
this? 16 clear, concise and very
extraordinary pages on consecration by G. A. McLaughlin (Enhanced)
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Christian Purity
This blessed author carefully lays out how
to obtain His Rest (Chapter 7) along with evidence to determine
when you have it, hindrances that are often faced, and reasons to seek
His Rest. He makes use of many excellent illustrations from his long
experience. The points are made with a remarkable precision and
clarity almost like the much later A. Paget Wilkes. 14
selected pages by Randolph Sinks Foster (2/22/1820 - 5/1/1903)
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How to Go on Unto
Perfection
This renowned classic by the early and very saintly John Fletcher
warmly invites seekers of His Holy perfection to listen to some wise
directions to help them on their blessed way: "Get tolerably clear
ideas of this perfection. This is absolutely necessary. If you will hit
a mark, you must know where it is. Some people aim
at Christian perfection; but mistaking it for angelical perfection,
they shoot above the mark, miss it, and then peevishly give up their
hopes. Others place the mark much too low; hence it is that you hear
them profess to have attained Christian perfection, when they have not
so much as attained the mental serenity of a philosopher, or the
candor of a good-natured, conscientious heathen." Beware-
language, ideas, and idiom from Wesley's time. 26
pages by John Fletcher (9/12/1729 - 8/14/1785)
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Heart Talks on Holiness
"The glorious experience here described
and enforced is the true secret of a life of happiness and usefulness
on earth as it is the highest preparation for the life and service of
Heaven. This experience is for you." Exact instructions are
found in the latter half of Chapter 3. Contains unusual word
by word dialogues with seekers that
turned their long quests into instant success. 51 pages by the
globally famed S. L. Brengle (6/1/1860 - 5/19/1936)
of the early Salvation Army (This is the famed sequel to Brengle's
"Helps to Holiness" (on the "Wisdom for Ministers" page) which is
more concerned with helping those already in His
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The Master's
Indwelling
A masterpiece from the Master:
"Jesus got this divine life by depending absolutely upon the
Father all His life long, depending upon Him even down into
death. Jesus got that life in the full glory of the Spirit to be
poured out, by giving Himself up in obedience and surrender to God
alone, and leaving God even in the grave to work out His mighty power;
and that very Christ will live out His life in you and me. Oh,
the mystery! Oh, the glory! And oh, the Divine certainty. Jesus
Christ means to live out that life in you and me." (from Chapter
6 "Christ our Life") 56 pages by Andrew Murray (1828 -1917)
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Hannah Whitall Smith was a most
extraordinary Quaker housewife who gives us perhaps the best
description in existence of the inward difficulties a soul may
face with consecration, faith, and the will, on the way to
entering His Rest.
"This is not a theological book. I frankly
confess I have not been trained in theological schools, and do not
understand their methods nor their terms. But the Lord has taught me
experientially and practically certain lessons out of his Word, which
have greatly helped me in my Christian life, and have made it a very
happy one. And I want to tell my secret, in the best way I can, in
order that some others may be helped into a happy life also."
She is very modest about her stellar contribution to us!
39 pages by Hannah Whitall Smith (2/7/1832 - 5/1/1911)
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The Hidden Manna
"Some of the chapters of this book were
originally written for a little monthly which was devoted to the
advocacy of Christian holiness, and which had quite a limited
circulation and a very short life. By securing a file of this extinct
publication, the author has been enabled to collect what he had written
for it, and by revising some of the articles, and writing others that
were needed in as
fully discussing the subject as he wished, he has been supplied with
means to send forth, for the Master's use, a regular, though
compendious and unpretending, treatise on the subject of entire
sanctification.
This would not have been done, however, had he continued able
for his itinerant work in spreading holiness in the churches, but
disabled for active service at present, the next best thing he could do
on this line was to prepare and publish this book.
He has made an effort to present his thoughts upon this
greatest of all themes, in an easy, flowing style of writing, so that
common readers, and seekers of the grace of perfect love, will read the
book with ease and pleasure. "All technical language and critical
exegesis have been studiously avoided; and while he has attempted to
logically defend positions which he deemed important to support, he has
shunned all scholasticism that might please
the few but tire the many." Baker succeeds. His is a winning easy-going
style that makes you feel like he is at your elbow gently guiding by
reason
and life, more than by Scripture.
25 pages by Sheridan Baker (1824 - 1890) assembled with great care when
Sheridan was weakened with age after a long and extremely fruitful
career: it
is his fairest flower. I just love the clarity of this most
worthy work. It is one of my very favorites and I am sure it will
be one of yours also. (Enhanced) Print Ready Version
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This extract from J. A. Wood's famous
classic "Perfect Love" is formatted in a question and answer style.
Enclosed are
65 wonderful answers on how to enter His Rest, such as:
"The idea that faith for entire sanctification, and faith for
pardon, differ in degree, has no foundation in either Scripture or
reason. The question of faith, for full salvation, is not how strongly
you believe, but in what you believe and do you believe, or, have you
real faith for the object desired? The important item being real
faith, for entire sanctification, rather than any particular degree of
faith for it." ( from P. 17) 32 pages by J. A.
Wood (6/24/1828 - 7/7/1905) (B*3) Print Ready Version
But you really should read the full length original of 228
questions and answers based on personal experience that deal
astonishingly well with every topic of our concern. Enjoy this powerful
and beloved classic complete catechism of holiness! Most
of the other works above are written more recently, and cite this work
as essential equipment for the
earnest seeker. Perfect Love
137 pages by J. A. Wood (1,076 KB) Go take a break while
this indexed PDF downloads unless you have broadband! Also
available in Print Ready Version
which is the same, but uses only 81 pages of
paper. Obscure heritage terms have been translated. (Enhanced)
Some seekers may find that all of the above material still leaves you
wandering in circles in more ways than one. Take hope!!! You are
not alone. This is for you:
The Seeker's
Dilemma 7 pages by Earnest
Seeker
Has your heart been stirred in hope to obtain His
Rest? Good!
It is yours if only you will seek it. God loves and helps
those
who seek Him.
Have Fear!! Work with the Lord, Not Against Him!
" Then Moses lifted his hand and struck
the rock
twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation
and
their animals drank.
Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, "Because you
did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of
Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which
I have given them." Numbers 20:11-12
So Moses saw the land of Canaan from afar, but was not allowed to
enter it! This is the severity of God.
The Gift of Conviction
This gift works to help our seeking in two
ways:
1. The Holy Spirit supernaturally provides certainty -for doing or
believing something positive. This confirmation adds solidity.
2. The Holy Spirit provides proper hatred of your status quo so you can
be driven to obtain a better place in the spirit -eg: getting saved or
completing your sanctification. This is power to hate your own
present life enough to lose it.
Quite often the Lord uses both of these ways to get you saved or later,
to get you sanctified. He uses the first to wake you up to the need. He
uses the second to help steel your resolve to pay the price and obtain
-no matter the cost. For the sake of obtaining the glory almost within
reach, all distractions become hated. (Luke 14:26)
You are more likely to get this gift if you position yourself to
get it -by living at a fever-pitch of maximum faithful seeking. And
if you get this conviction, do not neglect it and let that special time
of conviction pass without using it. It's worth is above that of
diamonds and rubies. If you willfully turn aside from strong
conviction, it has been known for the Lord to not send the gift again,
no matter how much you pray. The same can occur after a certain finite
number of times resisting mild conviction. Entering and abiding in His
Rest is a rare and precious privelige, not a right.
If you abuse a privelige, you can lose it. When God is dealing with
applicants
to come and dwell close to Himself in His Most Holy, He does not
shilly,
nor does He shally.
If the gift of conviction comes at an inconvenient time, consider this:
He might be testing your devotion. Also, as you have well
noticed, it
seems that there seldom is a convenient time for spiritual things in
this O so earthly world. The world (and then your family!) always
crowds in with more urgent needs that just "cannot" be denied.... This
is
par for
the course. But this is not a test you can afford to fail -if you care
about
remaining in good standing with the Lord.
For more about the consequences of poor stewardship, see the articles
on the Consequences
page.
"Revival Classics" and "Outside the Camp Publishing"
by Marc Adams comprise my Order page, since we are partners in this
initiative to restore the scriptural and experiential work of His
Rest to the church today. Earnest Seeker
Marc's Class
God has been gracious to keep Marc within His Rest for almost
twenty years now. Among his many
blessed endeavors Marc guides small groups in the careful preparation
of their hearts to enter the holy hush of His Rest from his home in
Minneapolis. On the above page
Marc has been generous to share both his important source materials and
his hard-won methods, so that you can go and do likewise.....
Online Preparation School for
His Fire
This is your direct Link to Marc's important online class.
Get ready for structure. Get ready for the hard work required to
enter His Rest. You have knee work to do. ...and you have serious
homework to do!!!
The work follows your pace. Help is at your side to help clear
away your confusions as you prepare to pay the price to enter a far
better realm of grace. Come O come!!! The joy is free and
without limit here!!!! There no longer needs to be a "glass
ceiling" limiting the depth of your worship, consecration or
service!!
To all online seekers of His Rest:
"The overall goal of my "Online Preparation School for His Fire" is
to help
the student develop two main spiritual pillars: strong and confident
Bible Study practices and a prayer life that effectively reaches the
Throne. With these two pillars in place, the student is cast upon the
Holy Spirit in full confidence to rightly pursue, obtain and enjoy a
complete life of Scriptural Holiness and full participation in the Rest
Of God. Simply put, rightly becoming a mature student of God, His Word
and His Person and not a student dependent upon others and their words
for the Life of God.
The Bible Study is designed to teach a methodical study
approach encouraging the student to be an independent and self
confident Bible Scholar. For this reason students utilize logical
progressive steps to allow the development of intellectual as well as
practical skills such as effective study. Induction is stressed rather
than deduction; observation and evaluation are taught to be essential
and primary to a proper interpretation and application.
The last of the steps is the correlation of all the
truths they have discovered, thus bringing all that the student learns
to bear directly on their personal philosophy, world view and
especially their spiritual life and relationship to the LORD. The full
dependence on the Holy Spirit as the true teacher is underscored and an
aggressive prayer life, seeking God with all the heart for full
revelation in personal experience, is made foundational. The many study
aids available to the student will be utilized as complementary assets
in the proper step; but mainly as a reference with which the student
uses to compare their own work. The student will confidently learn to
stand on what the Holy Spirit has taught him personally. At present we
are using the Epistle to the Hebrews as our study text. In the course
of the study of
this Epistle the student will have effectively developed the personal
study tools to then be able to move from book to book in the
Scriptures.
I am looking forward to working together with you as you
prepare to meet His cleansing Fire, not in part, as you have in the
past, but in every part.
Come and join our I John Workshop Weekend!
Workshop
Weekend
Marc Adams
With this diligent preparation each earnest seeker of His
Rest will be made ready to be lovingly but carefully tested and made
supernaturally whole in every point by the Lord's healing Fire.
It is not that the seeker has to be doctrinally perfect to be
successfully scourged by His Fire to enter His Rest, but he or she
certainly is required to come with a completed consecration and faith
to Him through His help. You may be certain that many of the most
stubborn barriers to this today are often found in inadequate
preparation to be supernaturally accepted by Him as lowly
stewards of His Word and His Spirit.
Be readied to pass the examination by Fire He will administer to your
soul! The Lord, your Most Righteous examiner hears your every thought
and sees every secret of your heart... Be ready to meet your
"Waterloo". Lay down your whole life here. No half measures can
possibly succeed. Beyond this line, there is great reward. But it
costs your all to cross...
Earnest Seeker
We Give Honor and Thanks
For the years of faith, labor, vision
and
that have made the priceless treasure on this website available to us
all. Virtually all
of the documents on this website are brief authourized samplers of the
"Wesleyan Heritage Library CD" which contains 500 Holiness
works, (both old and new) in an easy to read and share PDF
format. The full source documents are on the CD. The resources on
this CD have made this website possible.
CD Author's Preface - by Sulu
D. Kelley of Wesleyan Heritage Publishing, producer of the “Wesleyan
Heritage Library CD. 1 page
Wesleyan Heritage Library
CD Contents List -an orderly full
sized list of the contents by title and by author.
24 pages.
Wesleyan Heritage Library CD Cover
- 2 pages of very tiny print and graphics. You will need
to use the PDF page magnifier. Press your shift key when opening to
obtain the full page format.
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