
| The following is an excerpt from a message titled "Triune Salvation" delivered by the great healing Evangelist the Rev. John G. Lake at a conference in London, England "The real Christian is a separated man. He is separated forever unto God in a the departments of his life, and so his body and his soul and his spirit are forever committed to God. Therefore, from the day that he commits himself to God, his body is as absolutely in the hands of God as his spirit or his mind (soul). He can go to no other power for help or healing, except to God. This is what gives such tremendous force to such scriptures as this:" Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh his flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord ((Jeremiah 17:5). 2nd Chronichicles 16 relates that Asa, the king of Israel, who in the 39th year of his reign became distressed in his feet, and in his disease he trusted not the Lord, but the physicians, and he died. Asa had been trusting God for many years by taking his little insignificant army and delivering the great armies into his hand. But when he became diseased in his feet he trusted not the Lord, but the physicians, and that was the offense of Asa against God. The impression I wish to leave is this, that an hundredfold consecration to God takes the individual forever out of the hands of all but God. This absolute consecration to God, this triune salvation, is the real secret of the successful Christian life. When one trusts any department of his being to man, he is weak in that respect, and that part of his being is not committed to God. When we trust our minds (soul) and our bodies to man, two parts are out of the hands of God, and there remains only our spirits in tune with heaven. It ought not to be so. The committing of the whole being to the will of God is the mind of God. Blessed be His name. Such a commitment of the being to God puts one in the place where just as God supplies health to the spirit and health to the soul, he trusts God to supply health to his body. Divine healing is the removal by the power of God of the disease that has come upon the body, but divine health is to live day by day, and hour by hour, in touch with God so that the life of God flows into the body, just as the life of God flows into the mind or flows into the spirit. The Christian, the child of God, the Christ man, who thus commits himself to God ought not to be a subject for healing. He is a subject of continuous abiding health. And the secret of life in communion with God, the Spirit of God, is received unto the being, into the soul, into the spirit." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I believe this challenging word that Rev Lake brought forth to be truth but must admit I have fallen far short of living it out. My prayer is that I will one day see a people so infused with the Word of God that they actually exhibit divine health. In the meantime I find it a worthwhile goal to pursue. Pastor Frank |