Aaron Hills

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21.) Pledge Of Faith
      "Now, as I have given myself to Thee, I will, from this time forth, regard myself as Thine. I believe Thou dost accept the offering that I bring. I put all on the altar. I believe the altar sanctifieth the gift. I believe the blood is applied NOW as I comply with the terms of Thy salvation. I believe Thou dost now cleanse me from all sin." Pr ...read more

22.) Receiving The Holy Ghost
      "Receive ye the Holy Spirit" (John 20:22). "Did ye receive the Holy Ghost when ye believed?" (Acts 19:2). "Who have received the Holy Spirit" (Acts 10:47). "Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith?" (Gal. 3:2). Multitudes Seem not to realize that we are living in the dispensation of the Holy ...read more

23.) Resisting the Holy Ghost
      Sermon by A. M. HIlls, President of Texas Holiness University, delivered at Salvation Park Camp-meeting, Carthage, O., Sunday morning, June 26, 1905. (Scripture lesson, Acts 7:51, 60.) The words of my text are found in that 51st verse: "Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers ...read more

24.) Sanctified By Faith
       "That they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among all them that are sanctified by faith in me." -- Acts 26:18. God has through His Word announced many conditions of receiving the Spirit in sanctifying power. 1. -- There is the conviction of need. "Blessed are the poor in spirit" (Matt. 5:3). 2. -- Sorrow for not ha ...read more

25.) Sanctified Wholly
      I Thess. 5:23, 24: "And may your spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless . . . . Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it." -- GREEK and R. V. Many preachers and teachers and honest Christians do not understand that the Bible teaches the need of a second work of grace after regeneration. The First Epistle to the Thessaloni ...read more

26.) The Cleansing Baptism
      Acts xv. 8, 9, 11: "And God, which knoweth the heart, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; and he made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith . . . . But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in like manner as they." Prejudice is one of the saddest ...read more

27.) The Denial of the Heart-cleansing Work of the Holy Ghost
      A PARTIAL REJECTION OF PENTECOST There is a class of religious teachers who champion Pentecost, but belittle the experience. They commend the baptism with the Holy Ghost, but deny its efficacy to cleanse the heart from inbred sin. By thus subtracting from the Holy Spirit's work they equally diminish the importance of the baptism with the Spiri ...read more

28.) The Heavenly Vision
      In spite of the stares of the wise, and the world's derision, Dare travel the star-blazed road,dare follow the Vision. The world is a vapor, and only the Vision is real -- Yea, nothing can hold against hell but the Winged Ideal. -- Edwin Markham We are in a world where the whole course of things tends to secularize and degrade whatever is ...read more

29.) The Personal Element of Religion
      Rom. xii. 6; Matt. xxv. 15; 1 Tim. iv. 14. Parts of three verses of Scripture put together make remarkable reading, and teach us impressive lessons much needed by us all. Here they are: Rom. xii. 6. "Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us." Matt. xxv. 15. "To every man according to his several ability. ...read more

30.) The Promise Of The Father
      "And being assembled with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which ye have heard of me." -- Acts 1:4. First things first, is the law of successful achievement. A trained and efficient mind has a sense of logical order and sequence. Before a railroad is built the route is su ...read more

31.) The Reason For Our Hope
      "But sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: being ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear" (1 Peter 3:15). The commentator Godbey asks: "How shall we sanctify Christ in our hearts?" He answers: "The Christian has Christ and depravity in his heart. Chr ...read more

32.) The Second Blessing in Experience, in Theology and in Scripture
      Sermon 9 THE SECOND BLESSING IN EXPERIENCE, IN THEOLOGY, AND IN THE BIBLE 1 Thess. V. 23: "And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly." I. Experience. George Fox was born in 1624. He was one of the first of the modern apostles of holiness, and founder of the Society of Friends. Here is his luminous testimony concerning his o ...read more

33.) The Sin-principle Condemned To Death
       "There is there fore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus ... For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of the sin [principle] and of the death. For what the law could not do, in that it was, weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and [as an offering] for ...read more

34.) The Uttermost Salvation
      "Wherefore also Christ is able to save to the uttermost them that draw near unto God through him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them" -- Heb. 7:25. This is a desperately wicked world. Every daily paper proves it, every police court, every lockup, jail and prison; every criminal Court record and all Criminal Statistics of ever ...read more

35.) The Will Of God
      "For this is the will of God, even your sanctification" (1 Thess. 4:3). It is pleasant to know that somebody is willing for us to be sanctified. Often the Church is not. Sanctification is peculiarly a Methodist doctrine, but we have known presiding elders and bishops of that church to persecute and drive ministers out of their connection beca ...read more

36.) Things That Accompany Salvation
      "Things that accompany salvation" (Heb. 6:9). How much the word "SALVATION" means! Print it large; for it stands for the greatest experience that comes to man in time or eternity. Man is born with a proclivity to evil, a heart estranged from holiness and from God. At the earliest dawn of his moral life he gives expression to that evil tende ...read more

37.) What Christ Said About Holiness
      Pentecost filled the world with its fame. It was an epochal hour in Christian history. It might almost be said to have revolutionized the spiritual activities of the kingdom of God among men. It was the subject of prophecy hundreds of years before the eventful day came, and it is now pointed back to as the birth-hour of a dispensation of grace with ...read more

38.) What Holiness Is
      We have seen in the foregoing discussion how very much is said about this Pentecostal experience in the New Testament. The verb "sanctify" is used twenty times, and the noun "sanctification" ten times; and such words as "holy," "perfect," "righteousness," "perfection" and "holiness," many times each. Moreover, such words and phrases a ...read more

39.) What is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him?
      Psa. viii. 3-4: "When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained; What is man that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man that thou visitest him?" The starry heavens have always called forth wonder and amazement from thoughtful minds. Every imaginative and reflecting soul is moved and ...read more