Seth Rees

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12: More than Conquerors (Rom. viii. 37)
      "Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us" (Romans viii. 37). It is a tremendous thing to be a conqueror in all the conflicts of the holy war, but it is vastly greater to be "more than conqueror in all these things." There are a great many of God's own people who are terribl ...read

A Clean Church
      "Purifying their hearts by faith" (Acts xv. 9). Holiness is a state; entire sanctification is an experience; the Holy Ghost is a person. We come into the state of holiness through the experience of entire sanctification, wrought by the omnipotent energies of the Holy Ghost. This is the "baptism with the Holy Ghost and fire" administered by C ...read

A Demonstrative Church
      "These men are filled with new wine." "It was noised abroad" and the people "were all amazed." The world admires and commends enthusiasm in everything but in religion. This country is a perfect hive of human industry. We hear the hum and roar and buzz of a million ceaseless activities. The very atmosphere is charged with commercial, politic ...read

A Larger Outlook (Isaiah liv. 2)
      Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations"(Isaiah liv, 2). Many Scriptures have divers meanings and applications. They apply, for example, to the life of State, Church or Home; and they are also of times adapted to a spiritual interpretation, fitting most exquisitely into the inne ...read

A Liberal Church
       "And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all as every man had need. ‘Neither was there any among them that lacked, for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them and brought the price of the things that were sold and laid them down at the apostles 'feet." It is not the manner of liberality to whic ...read

A Powerful Church
      "Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you." There can be no success without power. Power is the very condition of success. It is the all-important need of the people of God, for by its presence failure is placed beyond the range of possibility. The word translated in our Authorized Version as "power" is the word from ...read

A Powerful Church -- (Continued)
      There is a widespread misapprehension as to what spiritual power really is. It is not power to found colleges nor maintain great universities. It is not power to teach the arts or sciences, to build pyramids, to drive steamships, to run express trains, or to establish telegraphic communication. These things are caused by other forces, other powe ...read

A Witnessing Church
      "Ye shall be witnesses unto me." "They all began to speak." Spontaneously, instinctively, the witnessing tongue began to vibrate. Never once did the fire-touched disciples think of sitting down and holding a silent meeting. Equally foreign to them was the idea of hiring someone one to speak for them or to sing for them. Testimony is the inva ...read

Abounding Grace (Rom. v.20)
      "Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound" (Romans v. 20). The primary truth set forth in this text is beautifully illustrated by a law of nature, which is a sort of a symbol of the glory of the redemption. When a boy, and passing through the woods, as I often did, I cut a deep wound in a living tree, and passed on. Return ...read

Abundant Resources (II. Cor. ix. 8)
      "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work "(II. Cor ix. 8). We have a perfect right to look for and expect the operations of the superhuman and divine in the arena of human affairs. If our expectations in this direction were greater, ...read

Blessings in Disguise (Psalm lxvi. 12)
      "Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place." (Psalms lxvi. 12). The margin reads "a moist place," which means ''a fertile place.'' The great primary truth set forth in this text is the service of difficulty in the Christian experienc ...read

Call of Rebekah (Gen. xxiv. 34-36)
      "And he said, I am Abraham's servant. And the Lord hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses. And Sarah, my master's wife, bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath" (Ge ...read

Composed of Regenerated Souls
      The Ideal Pentecostal Church is composed of regenerated souls. There is not an unconverted person in all its membership. Moreover, God's definition of regeneration differs from that of man. It means more by fearful odds than is popularly supposed for a man to be Scripturally regenerated. The New Testament type of spiritual birth does not come ...read

Established in Christ (II. Cor. i. 21, 22)
      "Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; who hath so sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts " (II. Cor. I. 21, 22). We readily recognize several very prominent thoughts suggested in the text. First, ''in grace''; second, ''stablished"; third, ''sealed''; four ...read

Exploits (Daniel ii. 32)
      "But the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits" (Daniel xi. 32). Someone has truthfully said: "Weakness is a spreading malady; strength is a spreading energy. If we are weak we scatter weakness, we make others weak. If we are strong we impart strength to those with whom we come in contact. If God has co ...read

Fire from Heaven (Matt. iii. 11)
      "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire \ ...read

God's Choice of Instruments (I. Cor. i. 27, 28)
      "But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are" Cor. I 27, 28). Corin ...read

Has Healthy Converts
      They are described as "continuing steadfast in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship." A healthy mother gives birth to healthy children, and a church spiritually strong will have strong and vigorous converts. It is of incalculable value to have a good start in anything. This is eminently true in religious experience. There is such a thing as be ...read

Holiness Unto the Lord (2 Peter I: 21)
      "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." 2 Pet. 1: 21. We may trace Divine inspiration all the way back to Eden. God used to manifest His will to Adam and Eve in the garden and all through the antediluvian period we see that when a man wanted to h ...read