<TITLE>10. Par 59-67</TITLE>L-59 The horse and buggy day, then the automobile day. And then the airplane day come along, that went from the earth into the air. Now, if you'll watch, as sure as that achievement was by science, if the person will have a spiritual mind and understand, it represented a achievement of God's economy with His Church. Now, the days...
And remember, the messenger is--always comes at the end of the Message. We know in the church ages there how we got that.
Now, the horse and buggy days was who? That was the ending of the Lutheran age. See, horse and buggy days. They believed in justification. God bringing the Church from Romanism, Catholicism, He brought it into its first spiritual achievement, that, "The just shall live by faith." That was the horse and buggy day, as they come from the--to the horse and buggy days that ended.

L-62 Now, the next achievement man had in the way of transportation was the automobile. And you notice, that automobile increases all the time in its power.
Now, at the end of the Wesley age, brought in by spiritual achievement, sanctification, which means the church raised from a justified state to a sanctified state.
Now, I want you to remember this as we go along, that the church called "church" is not the Church. The Church is Church spiritual. Tens of thousands times thousands of Lutherans that joined the church, knowed no more about justification than a hog knowed about a side saddle. They--they knowed nothing of it. And in the Wesley age, how the tens of thousands professed sanctification, they knowed no more about sanctifying power of God than--than a rabbit does about snowshoes. See, they absolutely didn't know it.

L-65 But there was a people who achieved it. Hallelujah. You see what I'm getting to. There was somebody knowed what "justified" meant in the sight of God, "having peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." There was some of those Lutherans who were loyal. They believed It. No matter what the Catholic church said, they believed God's Word and stood on It, because the messenger of that age preached "the just shall live by faith," and they believed in a justified state. And they was able by the grace of God to achieve justification, have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

L-66 Now, we notice again, along came the Methodists with sanctification. There was many of those Methodists was actually sanctified. Now, there's a lot of them claimed it and know nothing about it. The Methodist church taught sanctification. They said they got down and cried and got back up, said, "Glory to God, I'm sanctified." And they went right on living like they always did. But some of those men and women was actually sanctified from the things of the world, and live a consecrated, set-aside life. Why? That was the automobile age which took in more horsepower. Automobile, the--the old T-model was probably fifteen or twenty horsepower. See, had fifteen or twenty horses bottled up in a little engine like that: sanctification. When science achieved something by--by--by the natural, God's achieving something by the spiritual. See, something's going on all the time. And then after the sanctified age...

L-67 Now, we take men like old Beverington. Men, who would've been a greater man than old Brother Beverington? And look at John Wesley, George Whitfield, Finney, Knox, many of those old Methodists who sweated it out. They went through hell on earth, torment, because they believed that God's Word taught sanctification, the second step of grace; and they stayed with it, and they believed it, and they done wonders with it. Just the same as Henry Ford and them done with the transportation of the old model-T Ford up the side of the horse; he moved on and above the horse day. And Wesley moved on in above the Lutheran day.


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