Questions and Answers By R. A. TORREY
perience, or the experience of constant de feat, into an experience of daily vistory. Through the indwelling Spirit to whom they surrendered the control of their life, they put to death the deeds of the body, (Rom. 8:13). But their way of expressing it, “that the carnal nature or inbred sin or the sin principle was taken out,” was not Scriptural and was misleading. Sin, or the sin principle, is not ‘a substance that can be taken out. The carnal nature is a na ture governed by the flesh. Certainly our nature ought not to be governed by the flesh, and so we ought not to have a carnal nature, but we do have the .flesh, and it is only by being filled with the Spirit and walking in the Spirit that we are kept from fulfilling the lusts of the flesh (Gal. 5:16). But if we fancy the flesh is gone we will find some day to our sorrow that it is not. If we neglect the daily study of the Word, or if we neglect earnest, secret prayer e"ch day, or if we get our eyes off of Christ and- get them on ourselves, we will have a most terrible fall. Some of those who have apparently lived a victorious and beautiful life, and who have been greatly used of God, by becoming full of confidence and thinking the flesh was gone, have had awful falls. and have brought great disgrace on the cause of Christ’. Every one of us, no matter how victorious and full of power our lives may have been, must realize con stantly the victory is not in ourselves but in Him, and the .one “ who thinketh he standeth” needs “ to take heed lest he fall” (1 Cor. 10:12).
"Is the end of this present age conditioned on telling the . Gospel to every creature (Matt. 24:14) or on the completion of the church as a body?” Matthew 24:14 does not say that even the Gospel of the kingdom will be preached “ to every creature.” . It says it shall be preached in all the. world for a witness unto all na tions. Furthermore, this has to d 6 with the preaching after the rapture of the Church. The rapture of the Church to meet Christ in the air is not “the end;” it is the begin ning of the end. O f course, Christ will not come for His Church until it is com plete, but as far as we know it may be completed any day. “ What is meant by those who say that after their conversion they had an up and down experience, and then came a second time and that they had the carnal nature, inbred sin or sin principle taken out?” Doubtless what they mean is that when they first accepted Christ, they did not fully surrender to Him, and therefore did not receive the H oly ' Spirit and enter into a life of daily victory over sin. In a later experience they •were „doubtless brought to a full surrender, and did receive the Holy Spirit, and thus came to know what it meant to live in th e' eighth chapter of Romans instead of the .seventh chapter (vs. 9-24). The Holy Spirit, whom they re ceived and to whom they surrendered the control of their lives, “the Spirit of life,” made them free in Christ Jesus “ from the law of sin and death” (Rom. 8:2 ). Thus they passed from the “ up and down” ex
“Go Quickly” Matt. 28: 7
G O quickly.” Urgent is the call; It will not brook delay; Go win the souls He died to save, Go tell them of the empty grave; Go speed thee on thy way.
“ Go quickly.” Not with angel hosts The glad commission lies : ’Tis thine the blessed news’ to bear. Redeemed lips His love declare, A joy which angels may not share. The work is thine ! Arise !
Go forth with loyal heart and brave.
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