A sermon dealing with the need to dig again the old wells of holiness that have been stopped up in our times.
Excerpts from sermon:
“If you preach on holiness, sanctification, even in a Fundamentalist Congress, they will look at you like you are either tending to be a Charismatic or you are tending to be a legalist, because you know, ‘Nobody can live right.’ I mean it’s an assumption around the world—nobody can live right. You’re just saved with pure doctrine and God accepts you because your theology is pure and therefore you are accepted. Well, if you read the Puritans, the Puritan fathers from John Owen all the way to Charles Haddon Spurgeon, you will find out that they believed in that foundational and constructional part and that you could not have the hallowed, holiness, sanctified life without the foundations in your life by pure grace alone.”
“Whatever happened to sin? It is not as bad as it used to be. Whatever happened to holiness? It’s too legalistic, and really it’s a carnal, worldly, fleshly group that’s calling the person who believes in sanctification, he’s calling him a legalist to cover up that he’s a worldly person; he’s a fleshly person; so, he covers it up by putting the emphasis on the person who is speaking for holiness.”
“I believe holiness must be rediscovered now. That’s why the music went bad in the Fundamentalist churches because holiness got lost. The path through the woods—rain and weather hit it again. And now you dare not; you dare have a zippered lip; you dare not say anything against that music.”
“Sanctification is left out of music. Sanctification is left out of styles, dresses. Sanctification is left out of debts, paying debts. Sanctification is left out of integrity and a man’s character.”
“The thing that destroyed the seven historic Pentecostal denominations was music—first thing to destroy it. The old slapping banjo music—got to have it. They said it was the Spirit. I know He can play better music than that.”
“Hagios, the Greek word in the New Testament, 281 times in all its cognates—holiness, hallowed, sanctified, sanctification—is a separation and set apart for God and a consecration to be made over by Him. It is a separation and a consecration. If you were to read the definition of Plummer on the word hagios, it has five parts. It is a separation that produces a cleansing that leadeth to an enablement to be a consecrated Christian, leading to fruition of character.”
