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All truth will expose myth...

Quotes from G.W. North

"All truth will expose myth if you stay on it."

"You must not minimise the power of Satan, but whatever you do, don't exaggerate it. ...he's not so great as he's made you think."

"The Lord simply makes arrangements from an eternal principle."

"The greater always includes the lesser."

"Self-worship is far more subtle than idol worship"

"At that day we will come unto him and make our abode with him." (John 14:20-33) The glorious revelation is that by the Holy Ghost the Father dwells in His sons just as He did in the Son, and that by the Holy Ghost the sons dwell in the Father as the Son does.

On the day of Pentecost - "at that day" - Jesus came to them with the sword of the Spirit in His hand to lead His people on to complete victory and full possession of their inheritance.

It is sad that to the hearts of so many good people baptism in the Holy Ghost...

Quotes from G.W. North

It is sad that to the hearts of so many good people baptism in the Holy Ghost is an unwanted experience. To their eternal loss the great truth has been obscured and discredited, or made undesirable to them by reason of false emphases, and presented upon wrong grounds. Most of these grounds have been laid as a result of mistaken ideas as to its nature and purpose. In itself this is bad enough, but it is not as bad as the ill- effects it has had on earnest souls. Great mischief has been wrought among countless numbers of honest enquirers, deterring them from entering into the full blessings of God. 'For', they say, 'if these people who claim to be baptized in the Spirit cannot even agree among themselves as to what it is all about, or what things a person may look for as proofs that it has taken place in him, of what use is it all?

However unjustifiable it may be, this position is not beyond understanding, for one of the most unhappy features of the controversial issues raised is that all these theories seem to be advanced upon some sort of scriptural basis, which to the unconvinced is most confusing. More exasperating still, many of these theories have also been as well-argued as they appear to have been textually based, which only makes the matter even more perplexing.

Lest this article should become one more contribution to the bewildering maze of ideas at present befogging the issue, let us consider the fact that the Lord: (1) desires that we each have a true spiritual experience of the Baptism in the Spirit, and (2) has in scripture provided us with indisputable facts and sound logical reasons from which we may draw proper conclusions.

With this in mind, we will proceed to examine one of the theories concerning the Baptism in the Spirit as it is held and propagated in some quarters, namely the theory of the 'initial evidence'. Although during the course of this paper, reference will be made to counterfeit experiences, we shall not primarily be concerning ourselves with these. It is our purpose only to establish that which is genuine.

Simply and fairly stated, the theory of initial evidence is that the Baptism in the Spirit must at the time of the experience, or almost immediately following it, be accompanied by speaking words in a tongue completely unknown to the person baptized. This phenomenon is the sole initial evidence that the baptism has genuinely taken place.

(From the book - The True Evidence of Baptism in the Holy Spirit)

In his first letter to the Corinthians Paul authoritatively sets out...

Quotes from G.W. North

In his first letter to the Corinthians Paul authoritatively sets out much truth about the Spiritual Man. Although it is a letter of rebuke and correction, wherein he criticises, condemns and passes sentence upon sin and wrong behaviour, it also contains much edifying instruction. The apostle's finest treatise upon the gifts of the Spirit and their function in the Church is written here, lovingly spoken of in chapters 12, 13 and 14, and related to worship and Church order.

Reading this section with the phrase, 'now concerning (the) spirituals brethren I would not have you ignorant', he ends it with, 'let all things be done decently and in order'. Challenging them to test their spirituality by their response to these commandments of the Lord (14:37) he leaves the Corinthians no alternative but to believe that they were absolutely ignorant if they did not acknowledge divine authorship and authority for the statements they were reading. This strong approach and outright challenge was necessary at that time because the church was no longer spiritual, but carnal.

The Corinthians had been spiritual for a time, but allowing sin to intrude and be openly practised among them, they became unspiritual: as a result they speedily lost their appetite for truth, and eventually all fundamental matters of spiritual life failed.

By the grace of God and at the request of some person or persons at Corinth, Paul wrote this letter to the church there in order to rectify the position. That he succeeded in his aim is clearly shown by the nature and tone of the second letter he wrote to them some time later. Spiritual men everywhere will mourn that the need ever arose for such stern warnings and firm correction, but we may be grateful to our all-wise God that He ever moved the apostle to write the epistle. By His overruling it has come into our hands, bringing a vast treasury of needful truth, which we would not otherwise have known, and yet which we have need to assimilate. In no realm is this more so than in relationship to the gifts of the Spirit.

(From the book - Spiritual Life and Spiritual Gifts)

The real death into which Jesus baptised Himself on the cross...

Quotes from G.W. North

The real death into which Jesus baptised Himself on the cross is nothing other than man himself. Apart from Christ men exist altogether in an eternal state of death. They are completely insensitive in that death, and therefore unable to recognise and know their state. We could not feel or understand that we were dead, so we were unable to do anything about it; but He did know. He also knew He was the only one who could do anything about it. He knew exactly what was necessary and what it would mean for Him to expire into death, for He was alive, and except He knew He could go through with it He would not have endured it, nor entertained the thought of it. Knowing all this, He broke His heart for us — we who were too insensitive to know how it felt to Him that He should be as the sinner to His Father.

His heart did not break because of our lack of love to Him who loved us so much. He felt it of course; it counted and it was of great grief to Him, but the real cause of His heartbreak was what He had to become to the Father whom He loved. He was made and treated as the embodiment of all who did not know or love God, and what was worse, the representation of all who hated and blasphemed and rebelled against and undeified Him. So great was His love to His Father and us, that on behalf of each of us who did not even know enough to care, He completely submitted His whole being to God for eternity, and for a time submitted His body to the wishes of devils and men.

Surely we shall never fully understand all that was involved in Jesus' terrible time on the cross. Right from His birth the grim foreshadowlngs of the deadly tree progressively cast ever-deepening horrors over Him, threatening to engulf Him in unspeakable terrors. As eternity's most awful moment drew on He said, 'I have a baptism to be baptised with', and ever moved on toward the time when He must take the plunge. After all other considerations are taken into account, there is only one baptism worth experiencing and knowing and talking about — it is His. Apart from Him we are in death — dead; but He was and is Life — alive.

(From the book - The Anointing)

You have adlib powers of translation from the Greek sometimes…

Quotes from G.W. North

"You have adlib powers of translation from the Greek sometimes… that’s the curse of modern translations. It’s people subtly shifting off the thing that could be said from the Greek to get you off onto something less. And this is the way the devil gets in, and gnaws and nibbles away – erodes truth; so that men and women don’t get through into all that God has to say."

What it says in the Book is not true of all...

Quotes from G.W. North

"What it says in the Book is not true of all the people who call themselves churches, fellowships, assemblies, or whatever they may call themselves. It ought to be true of course."

"...The power of God will only operate by the faith of God. That's why you've go to be in the body of Jesus. That's why you've got to have the Spirit of Jesus Christ. That's why He's got to be your Lord."

"God doesn't make anything stand in anything outward... The body isn't outward. The Spirit isn't outward. The calling isn't outward. The Father isn't outward. Nothing is. The Lord isn't outward. We've got no lord on this earth. The faith isn't outward. The baptism isn't outward. It's all inward. It's all spiritual."

(Auchenheath. 1975)

Jesus Christ did everything as a Man

Quotes from G.W. North

"Jesus Christ did everything as a Man by the same means by which men like you and I can do. He was born of the Spirit; anointed by the Spirit; full of the Spirit; led by the Spirit; and by the Spirit [was] victorious over that great opposing spirit, the devil."

"The man to whom the word of God comes, though he be clothed with a leathern girdle and camel skin and eat wild honey and locusts, will stand up as in heavenly palaces and become the flaming power of God to his generation."

(From the book - The Representative Man)

Elijah... the prophet is a greatly admired man...

Quotes from G.W. North

"Elijah... the prophet is a greatly admired man among us to this day, but great as he was, and however greatly we admire him and seek to emulate his faith, we shall miss the greatest lesson of all if we overlook the fact that everything sprang from his spiritual insight into the ground of truth in God, Like David and Abraham, and perhaps an unnamed host of others, he was a man who understood that the visible altar was but a symbol of a spiritual principle of God’s life"

(From the book - The Eternal Sacrifice of God)

Salvation, once granted, is a continuous experience...

Quotes from G.W. North

"Salvation, once granted, is a continuous experience which can only be accomplished as that man continues in the faith, that is, lives by faith. The first act of faith is an act of appropriation. Thereby forgiveness of sins and justification, both from God, are granted to a man through the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ: this must lead to a life of faith or else it is not valid."

(From the book - Faith)

A woman's head-covering is to be worn as a sign...

Quotes from G.W. North

A woman's head-covering is to be worn as a sign to her and her husband or father and to all men, as well as to God and the angels and satan also. It indicates that in much the same way as a body is unavoidably under its head when rightly related to it, she also joyfully confesses herself to be under her husband or father, it is a confession that she, in common with all, is under the elders of the church, and therefore under Christ, who Himself is under God.

This is no hardship where love abounds. Instead it is a delight, for it shews the correctness of the union between male and female, husband and wife, or daughter and father if she be not married.

By this she declares to all men her personal chastity and faithfulness and chastity and faithfulness of the Church to Christ.

More than all these, in the way that God has appointed, she shews forth and promises Him that the mischief wrought in the human race by Eve's insubjection to Adam and therefore to God shall not be repeated in the Church.

(From the book - A Sign of Authority)