(Audio Book) The Precious Atonement — William Seymour

Forgiveness and Sanctification Through the Precious Atonement

The Precious Atonement. Children of God, partakers of the Precious Atonement, let us study and see what there is in it for us. First, through the Atonement we receive forgiveness of sins. Second, we receive sanctification through the blood of Jesus, wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.

Hebrews 13, 12 Sanctified from all original sin, we become sons of God. For both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren.

Sanctification, Holiness, and Freedom From Sin

See Hebrews 2, 11. It seems that Jesus would be ashamed to call them brethren if they were not sanctified. Then you will not be ashamed to tell men and demons that you are sanctified and are living a pure and holy life, free from sin, a life that gives you power over the world, the flesh, and the devil.

The devil does not like that kind of testimony. Through this Precious Atonement we have freedom from all sin, though we are living in this world. We are permitted to sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

Healing of the Body Through Christ's Atonement

Third, healing of our bodies. Sickness and disease are destroyed through the Precious Atonement of Jesus. How we ought to honor the stripes of Jesus, for with his stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53, 5. How we ought to honor that precious body, which the Father sanctified and sent into the world, not simply set apart, but really sanctified, soul, body, and spirit, free from sickness, disease, and everything of the devil.

A body that knew no sin and disease was given for these imperfect bodies of ours. Not only is the Atonement for the sanctification of our souls, but also for the sanctification of our bodies from inherited disease.

Sin, Sickness, and the Destruction of the Devil's Works

It matters not what has been in the blood. Every drop of blood we received from our mother is impure. Sickness is born in a child, just as original sin is born in the child. He was manifested to destroy the works of the devil.

1 John 3, 8. Every sickness is of the devil. Man in the Garden of Eden was pure and happy and knew no sickness till that unholy visitor came into the garden. Then his whole system was poisoned. It has been flowing in the blood of all the human family down the ages till God spoke to his people and said, I am the Lord that healeth thee.

Exodus 15, 26. The children of Israel practiced divine healing. David, after being healed of rheumatism, perhaps contracted in the caves where he hid himself from his pursuers, testified, saying, Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me.

Bless his holy name, who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases. Psalm 103, verses 1 and 3 David knew what it was to be healed. Healing continued with God's people till Solomon's heart was turned away by strange wives, and he brought in the black arts and mediums, and they went whoring after familiar spirits.

Christ as the Healer Who Bears Sickness

God had been their healer, but after they lost the spirit, they turned to the arm of the flesh to find something to heal their diseases. Thank God! We have a living Christ among us to heal our diseases.

He will heal every case. The prophet had said, With his stripes we are healed, and it was fulfilled when Jesus came. Also, he hath borne our griefs, Isaiah 53, 4, which means sickness, as translators tell us.

Now if Jesus bore our sicknesses, why should we bear them? So, we get full salvation through the atonement of Jesus. Fourth, we get the baptism with the Holy Ghost and fire upon the sanctified life. We get Christ enthroned and crowned in our hearts.

The Fullness of Christ's Salvation and Power

Let us lift up Christ to the world in all his fullness, not only in healing and salvation from all sin, but in his power to speak all the languages of the world. We need the triune God to enable us to do this.

We that are the messengers of this precious atonement ought to preach all of it, justification, sanctification, healing, the baptism with the Holy Spirit, and signs following. How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation, Hebrews 2, 3.

Signs and Wonders Confirming the Full Gospel

God is now confirming his word by granting signs and wonders to follow the preaching of the full gospel in Los Angeles. William J. Seymour, Apostolic Faith, edition number one.