Honor The Holy Ghost

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This is a message written by Anna Hall, an American missionary to Israel, and sent to the Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles, California, and published in their newsletter, in 1906.

Let me warn you, dear ones, has a mother in Israel, Don't try to prune one another, Jesus says: "I am the vine and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that there's not fruit, He purgeth it." Let Him do the pruning and purging. If you see a brother or sister doing anything you do not approve of, instead of blazing it abroad, get down on your knees and say: "My Father, I honor you to bring them out of this fault."

Multitudes and great bodies of Christians have gone to the wall for that very same thing. They tried to prune one another, try to make others believe just as they believe and think just as they thought. If this movement stands for anything, It stands for unity of mind.

It was raised up to answer the prayer of Jesus: "That they might be one, as thou Father art in me and I in thee." What is the matter with the world today? Here is a little selfish sect and they're a denomination by itself. They do not love one another as God would have them.

 

Let us honor every bit of God there is in one another. Let us honor the Holy Ghost to teach men to get them out of their error. Dear ones, watch and pray that you enter not into temptation. Watch that something does not come in to grieve the Holy Spirit. "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption."

Signed, Mrs. Anna Hall. American missionary to Israel.

William James Roop, M.A.B.S.

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Spanish Receive The Pentecost

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This is a testimony by a Spanish speaking husband and wife, that was given by William J. Seymour, in his newsletter from the Azusa Street Mission in 1906.

There are a good many Spanish-speaking people in Los Angeles. The Lord has been giving the language, And now a Spanish preacher, with his wife, are preaching the Gospel and open-air meetings on the plaza have received their Pentecost. They are very happy, when God is using them. The following is their testimony from Los Angeles, California, on September 14th 1906.

We testify to the power of the Holy Spirit and forgiveness, sanctification, And the baptism with the Holy Ghost and fire. We give thanks to God for this wonderful gift which we have received from Him, recording to the promise. Thanks be to God for the spirit which brought us to the Azusa Street Mission, The Apostolic Faith, old time religion, I and my wife, on the 29th of last May. 

I came for sanctification, and thank God also for the baptism with the Holy Ghost and fire which I received on the 5th of June, 1906. We cannot express the gratitude and Thanksgiving which we feel moment by moment for what He has done for us, so we want to be used for the salvation and healing of both soul and body. I am a witness of his wonderful promise and marvelous miracles by the Holy Ghost, By faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. May God bless you all.

Signed,  Abundio L. Lopez and Wife, Rosa de Lopez.

William James Roop, M.A.B.S.

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The Way Into The Holiest

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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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A Witness

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This was written by William J. Seymour, in his Azusa Street Mission newsletter, in 1906, in Los Angeles, California.

Praise God for a salvation that brings a witness.  God gives us a witness that we are justified, The Spirit witnesses that we are sanctified and when we receive the Holy Ghost, He witnesses through us, as recorded in Acts 2:4, the speaking in other tongues. 

Jesus had a witness for everything. When He was born, the angels saying on Bethlehem's plain, when He was baptized with the Holy Ghost, He had the witness of the heavenly dove and the voice from Heaven, when He arose from the dead, The angels witnessed at the tomb, And when he ascended, the angels witness that He would come again. Why not have the Bible witness, A supernatural witness that people will not have to take your word for?

William James Roop, M.A.B.S.

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Spreads The Fire

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This was a testimony provided by William J. Seymour, in his Azusa Street Mission newsletter printed in 1906 in Los Angeles, California.

When Brother William Pendleton and thirty-five of his members were turned out of the Holiness church and their church doors closed on them, They were invited by Brother Bartelman and other workers to occupy the church at eighth Street in Maple Avenue that had just been opened up for Pentecostal work, And God has been using them as never before. And when some of the saints were rejected from the Nazarene Church Elysian Heights on account of the baptism of the Holy Ghost and evidence of tongues, They opened cottage prayer meetings where hungry souls flocked, And in both of the above name places meetings sometimes go on all night and souls are coming through into Bible experiences.  We can do nothing against the truth but for the truth.

"Truth crush to Earth will rise again.

The eternal years of God are her's;

But error wounded writhes and pain,

And dies among its worshipers."

In California, we're there has been no unity among churches, They are becoming one against this Pentecostal movement. But, thank God, The source is from the skies and cannot be cut off from below. The deer church people know not what they do. Many of them are hungry and coming and saying:. "this is just what I have been longing for, for years." God is drawing his people together and making them one. No new church our division of the body of Christ is being formed.  Christ never had but one church. We may be turned out of the big wood and brick structures, but "By one Spirit are you all baptized into one body."

William James Roop, M.A.B.S.

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Ask What Ye Will

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This is a story told by William J Seymour in his newsletter from the Azusa Street Mission, in 1906.

Sister Ella Judy, a teacher in the Blind School of Columbus, Ohio, came to Los Angeles for her summer vacation.  She dropped in the Azusa Street Mission soon after her arrival, and felt that God was there.  She had been a great sufferer from insomnia and other troubles and was a very hungry soul.  In the past she had felt that the Lord gave her the promise that she should be one of His bride.  He had said to her, "Ask what ye will," and she had answered:. "Thy will be done.". Then what joy it was for Him to choose so great a gift for her.  Afterward her faith failed, but God was true.

About an hour before the train left Los Angeles on which she was to go, the Lord, in the little upper room at the mission, graciously baptized her with the Holy Ghost and gave her the Bible evidence. She could not speak to English language for some time. It was taken away and she spoke the language of the Spirit, pointing those about her to Jesus. It was a heavily spot. Her sister was sealed as one of the bride and she was very happy. We expect to see her back in Los Angeles. The Lord has called her to His work. He has used her in winning souls in the past, And now that she has the Pentecostal enduement, we expect her to be much more used to the Lord.

William James Roop, M.A.B.S.

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Back To Pentecost

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This is a story taken from the newsletter of the Azusa Street Mission, in Los Angeles California, in 1906.

What mean these salaried preachers over the land that will not preach unless they get so much salary?  People have wondered from the old landmarks.  The priests had no land of their own.  They were to live on a tithes and offerings.  The ministers of the day have wandered from the old landmarks, therefore they are seeking salary over the land.  Get back.  You have no time to lose.  We must all be up and doing something for perishing souls around us.  Do you want to be blessed?  Do you want the approbation of God?  Be a servant to humanity.  The loaves and fishes did not multiply in the hands of our blessed Redeemer till He began to give out to the hungry.

God does not need a great theological creature that can give nothing but theological chips and shavings to people.  He can pick up a worm and thrash a mountain. He takes the weak things to confound the mighty. He is picking up pebble stones from the street and polishing them for His work.  He is using even the children to preach His Gospel.  Hey young sister, fourteen years old, was saved, sanctified and baptized with the Holy Ghost and went out, taking a band of workers with her, And let a revival in which one-hundred ninety souls were saved. Salaried ministers that are rejecting the Gospel will have to go out of business.  He is sending out those who will go without money and without price.  Glory to God for this Apostolic day.

William James Roop, M.A.B.S.

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