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  1. rockytopva

    Methodism, Sanctification, and Dangerous Doctrine

    No need, then, of any further sanctification, once Born Again?
  2. rockytopva

    Methodism, Sanctification, and Dangerous Doctrine

    Quoting George Clark Rankin.... During these forty-five long years, with their alternations of sunshine and shadow, daylight and darkness, success and failure, rejoicing and weeping, fears within and fightings without, I have never ceased to thank God for that autumnal day in the long ago when...
  3. rockytopva

    Methodism, Sanctification, and Dangerous Doctrine

    Pictured below is the Pentecostal Holiness farmer I would work for in the hay field... Dallas would shout at work, shout in the hay field, and shout in church. He would also speak in tongues and run the aisles. He and his wife would operate a dairy farm and he would also work at the local...
  4. rockytopva

    Methodism, Sanctification, and Dangerous Doctrine

    Camp Meeting in Virginia around the old, Methodist Episcopal Church South mourners bench! Dear to me is this chapter of the book because I experienced so much of the wonderful things the author talks about in this work! The Life of George Clark Rankin, who himself became a circuit rider, and...
  5. rockytopva

    Methodism, Sanctification, and Dangerous Doctrine

    Revival in Virginia around the old, Methodist Episcopal Church South mourners bench! The Life of George Clark Rankin and beginning on page 220... About the middle of the seventies I was again off to conference at Asheville, North Carolina. This time it was Holston, and Western North Carolina...
  6. rockytopva

    Methodism, Sanctification, and Dangerous Doctrine

    As we drove home I did not have much to say, but I listened attentively to the conversation between my uncle and his wife. They were greatly impressed with the meeting, and they spoke first of this one and that one who had "come through" and what a change it would make in the community, as many...
  7. rockytopva

    Methodism, Sanctification, and Dangerous Doctrine

    The spiritual transformation... "Grandfather was kind to me and considerate of me, yet he was strict with me. I worked along with him in the field when the weather was agreeable and when it was inclement I helped him in his hatter's shop, for the Civil War was in progress and he had returned at...
  8. rockytopva

    Methodism, Sanctification, and Dangerous Doctrine

    Let me tell of some beauties of the early days of Methodism in my parts.... I am currently reading "The Life of George Clark Rankin" located at.... George Clark Rankin. The Story of My Life Or More Than a Half Century As I Have Lived It and Seen It Lived Written by Myself at My Own Suggestion...
  9. rockytopva

    Methodism, Sanctification, and Dangerous Doctrine

    I was reading a sermon by John Wesley, and ran across this: "Exactly as we are justified by faith, so are we sanctified by faith. Faith is the condition, and the only condition, of sanctification, exactly as it is of justification. It is the condition: none is sanctified but he that believes...
  10. rockytopva

    Methodism, Sanctification, and Dangerous Doctrine

    From the devotionals of William Seymour... 1. The Entrance Gate- Justification - Faith to enter in. 2. The Altar - Salvation- if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. - Roman's 10:9 -...
  11. rockytopva

    Methodism, Sanctification, and Dangerous Doctrine

    It is my experience that spirituality is picked up uniquely. It is nice to listen to testimonies where people talk about coming out of darkness into light. Sanctification was mentioned at the conversion of the Apostle Paul... To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from...
  12. rockytopva

    Methodism, Sanctification, and Dangerous Doctrine

    My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you... - Galatians 4:19 Once the Christ is formed on the inside I believe the religion is picked up correctly, or the soul sanctified. It is nice to attend church services in which one is aware of these methods being...
  13. rockytopva

    Methodism, Sanctification, and Dangerous Doctrine

    My denomination is Pentecostal Holiness, and we emphasized three experiences.... 1. Salvation 2. Sanctification 3. Witness of the Spirit The old Methodist would simply call this, “getting religion” and if they could not discern the Spirit of Christ they would tell you to, “come back tomorrow...
  14. rockytopva

    Shake and Shine! - Chuck Swindoll

    Charles Rozell Swindoll, born October 18, 1934 (age 86), El Campo, TX talks Okinawa, WW2, living among sin, and being salt and light in such a lifestyle. Shake and Shine! Chuck Swindoll talks being salt and light in this world (or simply different) better than any other I have ever heard.
  15. rockytopva

    70 Filled With The Holy Spirit.

    Seventy Filled With The Holy Spirit. Sometimes a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit goes a long way! Picking up the story in Numbers 11 we begin with Moses, God, and every man of Israel greatly displeased, distressed and unhappy…. And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and...
  16. rockytopva

    What a Happy Day!

    Here high up in the mountains on my motorcycle!
  17. rockytopva

    My Timelines are Rubbish

    Timeline... So why do it? 1. They are interesting 2. They should show Christ's return as soon 3. They should help us discern directions we ought take in the time we have before us 4. They should invoke sound decision making. Having people sell their possessions due to timelines that could be...
  18. rockytopva

    My Timelines are Rubbish

    I believe if I were to get with the best and reconstruct a timeline... Still yet... There would be possibility for error and I like the way Newton summarized his 2060 AD prediction... "It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner. This I mention not to assert when the time of the...
  19. rockytopva

    My Timelines are Rubbish

    Christ has said he comes as a thief .... 43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. 44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of...
  20. rockytopva

    My Timelines are Rubbish

    And here would be my picture of creation.... Total rubbish? Perhaps! It is merely my best bet from my studies.... Before the Big Bang there dwelt... 1. The God Head - Father, Son, and Holy Ghost 2. Three groups of angels... ___a. Michael - Strong Angels ___b. Gabriel - Wise Angels ___c...
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