A Devil's Truth

If Satan never told any other truth, he told one, when he said "Skin for skin yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life." This is especial true in a spiritual sense. Man does not like to die to his set ways of thinking and doing. He is loath to give up his self-life. He has leaned to his own understanding so long, that it is really killing to take sides against himself and blame himself for the worst things that have ever occurred in his life, -for perhaps God would not have permitted them, or at least received glory through them, had it not been for the treacherous, carnal mind. Under the blazing light of God, things take on a different aspect than when viewed from, a self-defensive standpoint.

Carnality is blinding. If the seeker for holiness can only realize the fact, that he is not after a blessing; he is not seeking for something; he needs to die, and it is no blessing to death, or cloroformic death, or sudden heart disease death either, but it is to be a crucifixion death. He is to be "crucified with Christ." And if with Christ, he certainly will partake of his sufferings. The only difference is, one was physical, while the other is spiritual. Now this is what the seeker ought to look for if he expects to testify with Paul, "I am crucified with Christ." "Knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed." This is what must take place, and this is what the "old man" shrinks from. Men will do anything else rather than hold themselves to the real death. They will travel thousand's of miles to attend a Divine healing meeting, a Missionary gathering, or a superficial holiness meeting; they will fast arid pray for days and weeks for the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire, but how few there are who will follow the Spirit and specify how, when and where, carnality stirred and manifested itself. It is no cross to talk it out to Individuals, but it is crucifying to tell it to God in the Spirit. Jacob could wrestle all night easier than tell his name.