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The
Furnace Of Fire
The “end of the
world” began on the day of Pentecost. That is the last
dispensation. Oh, I thought Jesus was going to send angels
at His second coming and separate them. Well, we clarified
that the angels would not know tares from wheat. They do
not know anything about this salvation. The old saints
like to sing, that angels are going to fold their wings
when we sing about redemption, because they don’t know a
thing about it. I’ll tell you who God’s angels are.
They are His ministers. They’re picking this thing up.
The old nets have “been to sea” long enough, and it is
to the place---they have sinners on the board of trustees
and sporting good and bad together, but God is pulling up
the net and the good are taking their place.
Somebody said, “What
kind of vessels is He putting them in?” Vessels meet for
the Master’s use. That’s the kind of vessels;
consecrated vessels; holy vessels; vessels filled with the
Holy Spirit, with the shout of God on their souls; willing
to live for God, and to work for Him; to die for the
truth, if necessary; to let it go forth.
So shall it be at the end
of the world, the angels, or His messengers shall come
forth and sever the wicked, from among the just, and will
cast them into a furnace of fire. Oh, we have already
clarified these Scriptures, in the second parable, but
bear with us for the benefit of those who were not here.
There is a difference between “a furnace of fire” and
“the lake of fire”. Look out now! What is the furnace
of fire? The furnace of fire is God’s eternal Word. How
do you know? Isaiah 31 and the 9th verse, read it. He will
tell you where His furnace is. Isaiah 31:9, “Saith the
Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace is
Jerusalem.” His furnace is not in the lake of fire. His
furnace is in Jerusalem, and He is casting people into the
Word and “burning them”. What for? For the same reason
He burned the tares. He is putting the heat on them, that
they might wake up before the second coming of Christ and
change their building and build according to God’s Word
before the final judgment comes.
We’re living in a day
of “preliminary judgment”, when God is giving you an
extra chance to get straightened out and get right with
Him, before the end of time. So we see, that this thing is
taking place right now. Wherever there is a full gospel
preached, the good and the bad are being divided. How is
it being divided? The old Psalmist said a sinner could not
stand in the congregation of the righteous. What are you
talking about? This old lukewarm Gospel has let sinners
feel at home right in around the saints, but you get up
there anointed with the Holy Spirit and preach this full
gospel of this evening light, my friend, and it puts the
sinners in there place and the saints in their place.
Everyone knows, where, they are. They are not messed up
any more. It will still bring old time conviction on the
sinner---he will not sit there, and be able to raise his
hand and profess he has got something he has not, because
God will not allow it. Brother, it will put him in a
furnace. That brother knows what I’m talking about, that
got saved yesterday afternoon. He ran a filling station,
next to the church in Granite Falls. They couldn’t get
him out to church. He wanted me to come over and eat
dinner with him. I went over to eat dinner with him. Still
couldn’t get him out to church. He came up here---his
father-in-law came up here, and got straightened
out---about like Jerusalem. You know, all those good
services we had down there---it didn’t affect
Brother_____, but when that thing broke, Wednesday night,
God put him in a furnace. He came up that aisle running
and crying and he---no more than got saved, and he went
right to the telephone and called clear to North Carolina
an told his daughter and his son to get right up
here---“things were going on” up here. Anyway, he no
more than got up here, until God put him under arrest. I
met him out there on the grounds, and he said, Brother
Wilson, you were shooting right at me. I said, “No, I
wasn’t…the Holy Ghost was after you.” This business
of the sinners feeling right at home around the
saints---we want them to come---bring them by the
truckloads---we want them to feel welcome, but we never
want them to feel they’re right when they’re wrong.
Old Holy Ghost preaching will still put people in a
furnace. It will make the sweat break out on them and make
the hearts speed up, and their circulation speed up and
get red all over.
There is still power in
this Gospel---if we can just get the rubbish all cleared
away and lay hold of it in its fullness. There is still
power in it. We shouldn’t have time for anything
that’s not full gospel. It fails to do the work that
needs to be done in this day and age. We don’t boast of
these things, but in the Lord. You know it takes God to do
these things. Yes, the good and the bad sport together in
the sea, but when the Gospel is full, it brings them to
shore, and the minute it brings them to shore, it
separates the good from the bad. The Gospel won’t hurt
you. People say, Bro. Wilson, you keep preaching that way,
the way you are, you will run all the people in the
country off--- and there are more people coming all the
time. This old time Gospel will just separate the good
from the bad. Yes, it will, and it will make the good feel
better and the bad feel worse. This old time Gospel is
just exactly what the saints are looking for. God’s
people never did want to be yoked up with something that
is not like Christ. Why? It kills our fellowship.
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