To Work For The Lord
Wherever she went, she seemed impelled by the Holy Spirit to recommend Jesus as the Savior from all sins, past and present - even to those who already professed a strong belief in Him.
Bishop D'Aranthon denounced Madame Guyon as a heretic and set to trap Father La Combe by his own words. In an attempt to do this deceitful thing, the Bishop invited Father La Combe to preach in his diocese. La Combe chose for his sermon text Psalm 45:13, "The King's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold..." In his sermon he likened the King to the Lord Jesus Christ and the King's daughter to the genuinely born-again believers as the Lord's Bride collectively. In so doing he proposed to point out the difference between a religious experience consisting of the observance of ceremony, ritual and penances, and that which is of the Holy Spirit of God - possessing and filling the soul of the believer with pure love and holiness. (p. 90)
Thoroughly convinced of the importance of possessing the Holy Spirit, being sanctified by faith in the blood of Jesus, and living intimately with God in the Spirit that she could not stop telling others the joyous news about her resurrected Savior.
Madame Guyon faced one trial after another. The fat was beginning to hit the fire. "In" the Roman Catholic Church , but not "of" it.