A sanctified life is a life that is living in and walking in the Holy Ghost.  The sanctified life is not only seen through our powerful witnessing, through the signs and wonders and miracles that have been promised to us who are believers.  “These signs shall follow them that believe in My name.”  Christians, believers, cast out devils, lay hands on the sick and see them recover; amen?  That’s normative Christianity.  That’s not for super saints.  That’s not for gifted healers.  We know the Bible teaches, in 1 Corinthians 12, the gifts of the Spirit.  Yes, there are those that have the gifts of healings.  I won’t get caught on that, but if you’ll notice those are both plural.  One person does not receive the gift of healing, and it’s there upon him at all times.  The gift is not to the vessel by which it’s conveyed.  The gift is to the person that receives the benefit and gets healed; amen?

That should help us a lot in how we see this.  You are not a possessor.  Whenever God uses you in the gifts of the Spirit, don’t get puffed up and think, “Now I got this badge and I can wear ‘tongue talker’ on my uniform when I come to church and ‘worker of miracles,’ ‘gift of faith.’”  You were momentarily used by the Holy Ghost for God to grace those people that were edified through what He performed through you in that moment. He gets all the glory (amen?) that the glory and the excellency would be of God and not of us, hallelujah!  Ah, it’s so good to be used of God!  

When that presence leaves for a moment, it’s terrifying.  David cried out in agony.  The greatest agony was he had remorse for his sin:  he had committed adultery, his lack of character and faithfulness.  David had a man that was very loyal to him, but he had put him to death.  He committed murder to cover his own lust and sin.  When the judgement came upon him, Psalm 51, we see him cry out, and the pain—I can identify with that agony of those times in my life when I felt as though God’s Spirit had departed.  “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from Thy presence; and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me” (Psalm 51:10-11).  We can’t live without the Holy Spirit.  We are so dependent upon His presence at all times.  

We are here tarrying, waiting for the coming of the Lord, living these lives, walking in the Spirit, living in the Spirit, praying in the Spirit, in grace and gifted by the Holy Spirit.  He said, “The one thing I want you to understand: how great all those things are, but the greatest evidence of a man alive in the Holy Spirit is that he loves his brother”; amen?

In this last hour, we’ve been talking about how vital it is, if we’re coming into the greatest temptation, to confront humanity, more than it has ever been known, since the fall of man.  And it is.  You say, “Well, why would it be greater than any other time?”  Because it’s ending everything; amen? It’s shutting the program down.  The kingdom of Satan will be expressing all its heinous acts against first, the church of Jesus Christ, and second, that very obvious desire to destroy all the Jews from the face of the earth.

I won’t get distracted, at this time, about the devil’s compulsion with the Jews.  It is not about the Jews.  They were the least of all people, and that’s why God chose them.  Isn’t that what the Scripture says?  It’s about the covenant, the surety of the covenant.  God has to fulfill the covenant to Abraham, or all the promises collapse.  If Satan can somehow bring about the least failure of any covenant promise, then God is not sovereign.  So, these promises to Israel and these promises to us are sure to a thousand generations.