Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
This was written by William J. Seymour, in his newsletter for the Azusa Street Mission in 1906, in Los Angeles, California.
A sinner comes to the Lord all wrapped up in sin and darkness. He cannot make any consecration because he is dead. The life has to be put into us before we can present any life to the Lord. He must get justified by faith. There is a Lamb without spot and blemish slaying before God for him, And when he repents toward God for his sins, The Lord has mercy on him for Christ's sake, It puts eternal life in his soul, pardoning him of his sins, washing away his guilty pollution, and he stands before God justified as if he had never sinned.
Then there remains that old original sin in him for which he is not responsible till he has the light. He hears that "Jesus, that He might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate," And he comes to be sanctified. There is Jesus, The Lamb without blemish, on the altar. Jesus takes that soul that has eternal life in it and presents it to God for thorough purging and cleansing from all original and Adamic sin. And Jesus, The Son of God, cleanses him from all sin, And he is made every whit whole, sanctified and holy.
Now he is on the altar ready for the fire of God to fall, which is the baptism of the Holy Ghost. It is a free gift upon the sanctified, cleansed heart. The fire remains there continually burning in the holiness of God. Why? Because he is sanctified and holy and on the altar continually. He stays there and the great shekina of Glory is continually burning and filling with heavenly light.
William James Roop, M.A.B.S.
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