
Milton Haney
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Impatience and Our Exceeding Liability
0ROM 8:7GAL 5:22EPH 4:22COL 3:8JAS 1:4Milton Haney emphasizes the importance of cultivating patience and avoiding impatience, highlighting the detrimental effects impatience can have on our spiritual growth and relationships. He discusses how impatience is a common struggle among God's saints, often leading to significant losses and missed opportunities. Haney delves into the challenges posed by wealth and poverty in fostering impatience, as well as the conflicts that arise in human relationships. He stresses the significance of demonstrating unmixed patience as a true reflection of discipleship and a powerful testimony to the world.
Impatience Is a Robber
0PRO 14:291CO 13:4GAL 5:22COL 3:12JAS 1:19Milton Haney delivers a powerful sermon on the dangers of impatience, highlighting how it can lead to a light view of wrongdoing and distance us from God. He emphasizes the importance of studying our failures in the light of the Holy Spirit to recognize their true nature and impact on our lives. Haney warns that impatience can disrupt homes, destroy relationships, and weaken faith in God and ourselves, ultimately robbing us of happiness and spiritual growth.
Imptaitnce Is a Soul-Destroying, God-Discouraging, and Devil-Begotten Spirit
0PRO 14:29PRO 15:18PRO 16:32GAL 5:22EPH 4:26EPH 4:31COL 3:8JAS 1:19Milton Haney preaches about the dangers of impatience, emphasizing that even holy individuals can fall into sin due to impatience, which can lead to a loss of sanctification. He highlights how impatience can harden the conscience, lower the standard of manhood, and breed revenge, affecting not only the individual but also those around them. Haney stresses the importance of addressing impatience, as it can perpetuate itself and lead to further sin, ultimately hindering spiritual growth and causing harm to relationships and one's walk with God.
Complete Preservation, Must Be Preceded by Complete Salvation
0JHN 14:15ROM 6:6EPH 5:251TH 4:3HEB 6:1HEB 13:12Milton Haney preaches about the remedy for impatience, emphasizing the distinction between salvation from sin and the subsequent process of being kept from returning to it. He highlights the importance of complete sanctification, stating that impatience is a result of the perversion caused by sin and the war within ourselves. Haney stresses that while it is impossible for humans to completely control their passions, God has provided a remedy through the destruction of the 'body of sin' for those who comply with His conditions. He warns against neglecting sanctification, as it is a costly remedy that cannot be treated lightly, and urges believers to seek complete inward purity by allowing God to destroy the sinful nature within them.
How Kept From Impatience After We Are Sanctified
0JHN 14:15GAL 5:22EPH 4:2COL 3:121TH 5:23HEB 10:36JAS 1:41PE 2:21JUD 1:24Milton Haney preaches about the importance of maintaining patience and avoiding impatience, emphasizing that impatience can only arise from the wrong use of sanctified faculties, not from inherited evils. He highlights the need for believers to cooperate with God's keeping power by actively avoiding sinful thoughts and actions, and maintaining a constant attitude against impatience. Haney encourages believers to reflect on God's patience with them as a model for patience with others, and to fill themselves with Divine love to displace impatience. He stresses the significance of trusting in God's promise of complete preservation from impatience, as a failure in this area can cast doubt on the truth of Christianity.
The Church, Visible and Invisible
0JHN 1:12JHN 17:20EPH 4:112TI 2:193JN 1:9Milton Haney preaches about the distinction between the invisible church, known only to Christ, and the visible church, organized by human hands. He emphasizes the importance of being truly born of God to be part of the invisible church, which is recorded in the Lamb's book of life. Haney discusses the historical pitfalls of the church, cautioning against the dangers of allowing unsaved individuals into the visible church and the need for spiritual discernment in membership. He highlights the significance of upholding the true gospel, avoiding worldly influences, and maintaining a strong connection with God for the church's spiritual health and effectiveness in saving souls.
Past and Present Characteristics of Methodism
0ISA 1:18MAT 5:16MRK 16:15ACT 1:8ROM 10:101CO 1:18EPH 4:221TH 5:231PE 3:151JN 1:9Milton Haney reflects on the spiritual decline in the church, comparing the purity of the primitive church to the corruption that followed. He questions the shift towards rituals, complexity in worship, and the focus on church membership over repentance and faith. Haney highlights the importance of genuine repentance, saving faith, and the new birth, emphasizing the need for entire sanctification through faith in Jesus. He points out the decline in preaching on key gospel truths and the lack of testimony on real Holy Ghost experiences, leading to self-deception and spiritual compromise.
Unsaved Church Members, the Essential Enemies of Her Spirituality
0MAT 7:13Milton Haney preaches about the powerful testimony of a backslider who was wonderfully saved, causing a stir in the church and leading to the salvation of others. He highlights the opposition unconverted church members have towards Christian testimony and the battle between sin and holiness within believers. Haney emphasizes the importance of discerning spiritual leaders and the dangers of unsaved individuals influencing the church negatively. He also addresses the need for true conversion and sanctification, contrasting it with the worldly desires and pleasures that many church members seek, ultimately pointing to the narrow path that leads to life.
The Subtlety With Which Such Are Feeling for Her Vitals
0ROM 8:72CO 11:31TI 4:12TI 4:31JN 4:1Milton Haney delivers a sermon on the subtlety of the carnal mind, highlighting its enmity towards God and holiness, and its ability to deceive even the most religious individuals. He emphasizes the danger of unsaved church members and ministers being under carnal control, leading to hypocrisy, insincerity, and a reckless breach of vows. Haney warns against the subtle agencies at work within the church to undermine fundamental doctrines, holiness teachings, and the authority of the Scriptures, ultimately aiming to eliminate the supernatural and lead souls away from God.
A Plain Battle Between the Children of Darkness and the Children of Light
0Milton Haney preaches about the presence of a 'church within the church' since the days of Abraham, highlighting how worldliness within the body weakens its power and hinders its work. He emphasizes that unsaved members within Christian congregations can be a greater barrier to spiritual success than external opposition. Haney challenges destructive critics within the church, questioning their personal relationship with God and their understanding of fundamental Christian doctrines, cautioning against undermining the Scriptures and core beliefs. He urges those who oppose the church's teachings to seek communion elsewhere in alignment with their beliefs.
The Methodist Church May Yet Fulfill Her Calling
0ISA 59:1JHN 17:17ACT 1:8ACT 2:41TH 4:72TI 3:5HEB 12:14JAS 4:81PE 1:151JN 1:9Milton Haney preaches about the Methodist Church fulfilling its calling by maintaining fundamental doctrines and returning to the practice of holiness. He emphasizes the danger of a complaining spirit and the need to address moral conditions with solutions. Haney highlights the importance of recognizing spiritual decline, standing firm in faith, and seeking the baptism of the Holy Ghost for revival and spiritual power. He urges Methodist preachers and members to pray for each other, prevent ruin among different classes of members, and prioritize holiness over intellectual accomplishments.