VOLUME 58 NO. 2 MAY - JULY, 2013 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the Holiness people deride the denominations that have done manner of some is; but exhorting one another; and so much away with the midweek and Sunday evening service, and the more, as ye see the day approaching. (Heb. 10:25) turned them into ball-team practice; but we need to put a finger upon our own pulse, because our own vacant seats are a vote that "once a week is enough." Be assured that God understands when we have unavoidable reasons for enouned statistician Roger Babson said, "What america having to be absent from the House of God, but many of the Rneeds more than it needs banks, railroads, and excuses people are using today won't "hold up in heaven’s industries is a return to the kind of religion that years ago court." God know the difference between the legitimate “ox stopped work on a farm an hour earlier in order that in the ditch” and the unnecesary things that keep us from everyone could go to the midweek service." assembl ing ourselves together. What he was referring to was the values Attendance to the Mid-Week Service is of past American Leaders such as George Needful to the Health of the Soul. Washington, whose pastor said of him, "No company ever kept him away from church..." Batteries need recharging, clocks need The pastor noted that even though George Not Forsaking rewinding, cars need refueling, we feed our Washington had guests those guests bodies 21 times a week, but we sometimes "furnished no pretext for neglecting his The Assembling speak of church attendance: "once a week is God and losing the satisfaction of setting enough for me." If your soul only cries out for a good example..." Of Ourselves church attendance once a week, it is probably so weak from stavation it can't make it's needs The reason men hold such views known! The love we have for Christ, produces towards faithful church attendance , is Together love in our hearts for other Christians and we because it is one of the "vital signs" that will be drawn by love to the place of shows the health of our culture. When a assembling. A random visit to church will not culture begins to put other events above church attendance suffice for a true Christian. it shows decay within that society. National sports associations put some of the biggest games on Sunday and God created the first human soul to need this shows that America would rather pleasure self than companionship once a day. Adam walked with God in the please God. cool of the evening every day! We must have daily fellowship with God for our soul to be healthy and your Church attendace by its members is also one of the vital pewrsonal devotions cannot substitute for the midweek signs that shows the health of the church itself. We as service if it is at all possible for you to be there! God (God Give America Revival, Page 3 WWW.HOLINESSMESSENGER.COM RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED SERVICE RETURN Permit 347 Permit Tulsa, Oklahoma Tulsa, CATOOSA, OKLAHOMA 74015 OKLAHOMA CATOOSA, PAID P.O. BOX 1957 BOX P.O. U. S. Postage S. U. THE HOLINESS MESSENGER HOLINESS THE Non-Profit Org. Non-Profit it can be done if he submits within his will. The will is the unexplainable ingredient to total stopping the evil habit. Call it "making up your mind," or "desire," or "self" or whatever you Editor/Treasurer Co-Editor/Publisher please, but behind all this is the will Rev. Ralph Cox PO Rev. Bill Parks and if the will is surrendered then the BOX 1957 Catoosa, 2110 S. 280th E. 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Man's spirit, soul, and body that we receive it as the inspired Word of God and the Divine his is the time of year when the rule of faith and conduct. will not cooperate with God unless he We believe in God the Father Almighty. Maker of heaven Theat is on, but God told us that as submits to God's grace. The reason you and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, who was long as the earth remained there would conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the virgin Mary, suffered see one person have so much greater under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried and be summer, so let us not complain. happiness in their Christian living than arose on the third day according to the Scriptures, afterwards Those who are in the hay business and ascended into heaven where He is now seated at the right hand another is because they have submitted of God the Father, from whence He is come again to judge the many things that we don’t think of, are quick and dead. to all of God's working in conversion We believe in Water Baptism and that it should be blessed by the summer. The people in and in their growth toward maturity. administered to every believer according to the Scriptures given America are a spoiled lot anyway. Be by St. Matthew 3:17;28:19; St. Mark 16:15; Acts 8:36-38. We Conversion, sanctification, and the teach that the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin, and on your guard or you'll be an adopted Holy Ghost baptism is not a cure-all sanctifies the believer, thus making him or her eligible to re- Israelite complaining like a pampered ceive the gift of the Holy Ghost which is given to them that for this world, if it was, then all who obey (Acts 5:32) and the evidence of such experience shall be Gentile, and let us be sure and according to Acts 2:4. profess it would be cured of all things. We believe in the resurrection of the dead and the Commu- remember that we aren't in the Garden It is self- evident and positively nion of the saints, the Lord’s Supper and washing the saint s of Eden, but we are living on a cursed feet. We believe that divine healing for our physical bodies was obvious that they are not. As long as included in His suffering as mentioned by the prophet Isaiah earth with thorns and thistles and a the natural man is in a natural body, 53:5. It is still available to all who meet conditions and accord- ing to His will (James 5:14). host of other ills that tend to keep us then there is the chance of lapsing back We believe that all ministers should be of good report (1 busy. Timothy 3:7-12) including Pastors, Evangelists, Deacons and into the carnal self again. Elders (Titus 1:5-7); and husbands of one wife. Sanctification is real, but it isn't a We believe the Church of Jesus Christ to be a living The Creator gave man an opportunity Organism. The Body of Christ, and habitation of God through "holiness eternal security." Conversion the Spirit (Ephesians 2:20-22), and that each true believer is to have a very, very comfortable life and sanctification and the Holy Ghost a member of the Body (1 Corinthians 12:14; Acts 2:47). and he sinned and disobeyed a plain baptism are instantaneous but they are By Brother Ira J. Roberts command because he wanted his own also progressive in fact because a way. It wasn’t the temptation from the growth in grace is a fact and all things serpent only, but a desire to have their that God gives us can be improved The yearly subscription rate for the single own desires fulfilled. This is where the upon. subscriber is $6.00. Fill in the blanks below battle lines are drawn today in the life and send with subscription rate. of a man. Will the Christian follow Regeneration, sanctification, and the Name God in obedience? 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