May Every Christian Overcome E-Book

Elizabeth V. Baker

• Herausgeber: Full Well Ventures
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

This article, "May Every Christian Overcome?" originally appeared in the June-July 1911 issue of Trust, a magazine produced by Elim Publishing House in Rochester, New York, founded by Mrs. Elizabeth V. Baker (1849-1915) and her three sisters. This article by Mrs. Baker, published posthumously, talks about the spiritual growth, the life of faith that follows after salvation: “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”

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May Every Christian Overcome?

© 2020 Full Well Ventures

Originally published in the June-July 1911 issue of “Trust” magazine

TRUST

May Every Christian Overcome?

LET US READ Revelation 3:1-4:

“And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write: These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

“Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die; for I have not found thy works perfect before God.

“Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

“Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.”

I suppose no one could feel that they were in a worse situation than these few souls in Sardis. In this book of Revelation, the second and third chapters cover the whole Christian dispensation, and while they were written to actual churches at Smyrna and Sardis and other places, yet after all they have a typical character, and undoubtedly describe conditions which will exist until the Lord comes.

Ephesus was evidently the apostolic church. Smyrna the suffering church; they suffered at least ten terrible persecutions before Constantine came into power. Pergamos was the rise evidently of Romanism — when the church began to rely on man instead of God, and its power began to wane. Thyatira is evidently the height of Romanism, and this church of Sardis is the result. It was a dead church, a few things remained and yet they were ready to die. In the midst there were a few names that walked with Him, they were overcoming, they had kept their garments, “and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.” That is a most beautiful testimony to the power of God to keep under the most terrible conditions. If this typical meaning is true, this must have been the time of the Reformation when Rome had sunk to the lowest level, and must have been about the time of Madam Guyon and Fenelon, and evidently they came under this head of people who amidst all the corruption were able to find God and keep their garments undefiled and walk with Him.