“…I have been among Episcopalians, Congregationalists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptists and members of many other denominations, and I have found that no amount of baptismal water can keep the devil out of the hearts and lives of Christians.”
– Jonathan Goforth, By My Spirit, (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, Inc), 119.
Goforth (went to China), probably the greatest Canadian missionary, died this date 10/8/1936.
(underline mine) [Goforth is not saying devil has to stay but water will not keep him out.]
Bro. Edgar – Elaborate on Goforths comment. That the baptismal water won’t do it, I agree. That into the lives of Christians, I agree. However, that the Devil would abide in the hearts of Christians smacks of ‘sinning saints’. What am I missing here? Fred