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Sermon: Hope for the Hopeless
By M. John Allen
I was already to begin another
installment in the Bible Prophecy series, which is very important and on my
mind quite a bit lately, when something else intruded yesterday.
For years, it seems that my life
has been a series of trials. As I have come to discover, though, I have no
one to blame but myself for a lot of these problems. I think if you will
honestly assess your own situation, you will discover the same thing in your
life. For years, Mr. Armstrong has said that “the hardest thing for a man to
admit is that HE IS WRONG!” and therein lies the root of so much of our
problems.
Well, yesterday was a watershed
event for me. I’m not going to go into too many details right now because
that is not the main thrust of this message. But yesterday, I had one of
those self inflicted problems that we occasionally get intone, because of
breaking of one or more physical laws. It is so easy to make the excuse that
“well, that’s just a physical sin, so it’s not really
important. It’s the spiritual sins that are important.”
Well, brethren, I am here to
tell you that if your suffering physically gets bad
enough that you have to cry out to God to preserve your very LIFE because it
is in jeopardy, then you won’t say that anymore. And God made me eat crow,
and admit that these two problems were indeed a SIN, and I had to repent of
those sins.
How do we know that something we
do in the physical realm is a sin, especially if that sin is not even mentioned
in the Bible? Well, we can tell something is a sin by its FRUITS! God doesn’t
want to deny us anything that is good for us. But, if we do something that is
not good for us, then when it becomes SIN, we will no it because the fruits
of sin will begin to manifest themselves. The fruits of sin cause suffering
and ultimately death. In the case of a physical sin it can result,
ultimately, in our physical death. So, as the Apostle Paul said, “the wages
of sin is death.” So when I analyzed these things, I could tell yesterday
that they were sins because they could very easily result in my physical
DEATH if not repented of. God literally FORCED IT DOWN MY THROAT AND GOT ME
TO ADMIT AFTER YEARS AND YEARS THAT I WAS SINNING!
Many of us like to make excuses.
Instead of calling something alcoholism, we will just say that “I have too
much to drink too often, but hey, I can handle it.” Another person, such as myself who likes to eat too much, will simply say that
they “tend to overdo it a little when I eat.”
Well, one of the sins I had to
admit was the sin of gluttony. I have had a battle with this for years. Sometimes
I win and really take the weight off for several years at a time, and
then I let down, and on come the pounds again. It’s like a Satanic seesaw!
Over the years my weight goes up and then it goes down, on and on. But now, I
realize that I have to do something PERMANENT ABOUT IT! It
doesn’t matter if “there are a lot of people fatter than me,” or whatever
other excuse I make for myself -- I have come to realize
deep down that fundamentally over eating and eating the wrong kinds of foods
is WRONG, and if I don’t stop it, I COULD DIE FROM IT!
We all have our own battles to
fight. I have just shared one of mine with you. We each have our own problems
and stories to tell because we are all different.
It is natural in the face of
ADDICTION [yes, overeating can be an ADDICTION, just as indulging in extra
marital sex, drugs, alcohol, shopping too much, gambling too much, or
whatever other thing you care to name; even things that are normally good can
turn into a deadly ADDICTION if we aren’t too careful!] to first deny it. We
don’t have a problems, we think it’s just in the way
you look at it. Finally, when the fruits of our problem start coming home to
roost, some of us still live in denial, thinking that maybe “it’s someone
else’s fault.” We are not responsible, psychologists purr, it was our
parent’s fault, our husband’s fault, our children’s fault -- on and on the
blame game goes, with some even BLAMING GOD! But there is really
NO EXCUSE except our own human weaknesses and the temptation of Satan that
plays on them. But despite Satan’s role in all of this, GOD STILL HOLDS US RESPONSIBLE.!
So what do we do? Do we go into
a fit of depression? Do we eat more because that’s what makes us feel better,
when the truth is revealed. Do we drink more? Do we
take more drugs? Do we go on a sexual rampage? Do we hit the gambling casino?
Do we commit suicide? How do we cope when God reveals to us the TERRIBLE
TRUTH about ourselves?
Let me say right now that this
sermon is not one of those “Pharisee guilt trip excursions” we have all heard
in the past that make us feel inferior to the “spiritually enlightened.” What
today’s message is a MESSAGE OF HOPE FOR ALL HUMANITY! It is meant to show you
HOW TO FIX WHAT IS WRONG IN YOUR LIFE, SO THAT YOU CAN ATTAIN TO THE
POTENTIAL YOU WERE MEANT TO HAVE! That is my purpose today, and God’s
purpose. This will, I hope, be an UPLIFTING MESSAGE to make you REJOICE, and
not a downer.
Who are the players in this
drama we call life? Well, when you really
get down to it, there are only THREE major players in our lives. We are of
course the main character in our own little drama. ON one side is God, and on
the other side is Satan. God wants what is best for us, and has given us His
instructions for our life. If we follow it, it leads to happiness and joy
filled to the brim. Sometimes His way may seem unpleasant, but when we get to the
truth of the matter, we see that He always has our best interests at heart.
ON the other side is Satan. He
dangles carrots in front of our noses. He tempts us to do what feels good for
the moment, but it may have long range consequences we can’t see without
God’s help. His way looks exciting. It looks glittering.
It has a big sign that says WELCOME on it. And the first steps on this road
are indeed nice. But, as we continue down he path,
things start to go wrong, and then they get worse, and then tragedy strikes,
and for most people without God in their lives it is then too late. Another
life has been ruined, and Satan moves on to his next victim.
But, we can’t really
blame it all on Satan. We, too, have our own parts to play in this. Satan
can’t get anywhere without our willing cooperation, because he has no power
to FORCE us to go down his path. the feet are ours,
and the walk is our walk, even though the path is his. We don’t have to walk
this way, but we can be tricked into it.
Conversion is a process. When we
are first called by God, we hear the joyous good news that we are born to become members
of the soon coming, world ruling, KINGDOM
OF GOD! We discover the wonderful TRUTH of our human potential,
that we are destined to become GOD AS GOD IS GOD! We discover all of this
wonderful NEW INFORMATION, which the world is not privileged to understand
because God is not calling most of them today. We find out about our
wonderful calling, and everything seems rosy and right.
But then, we learn that there is
something WE HAVE TO DO, which is to REPENT OF OUR SINS and be baptized, so
that we can receive the earnest of God’s Holy Spirit that starts us on he path to our human potential. But we discover that
REPENTANCE is the coming to the knowledge that what we are doing -- in face
that WE -- is wrong, and that to repent means to recognize this wrong way, to
turn from it, and then to MOVE IN A POSITIVE DIRECTION AWAY FROM IT!
So initially, God reveals to us
a lot about what is wrong with us. We repent, and set our foot on the road to
salvation and eternal life. But then, sometime after we start this journey,
we discover the terrible truth that what we repented of at the outset was not
all the sin there is in our life! We start to discover more and more sins in
our lives as God reveals them to our mind and we get further along His road.
And this process goes on throughout our whole lives. The longer we stay on
this road, the more deeply rooted sins become apparent. We even uncover sins
that we didn’t realize were sins. some of the
repentance causes us much grief. Sometimes
God has to just confront us with our sins and force us to admit it through
circumstances. It’s an ongoing process.
But what is the REASON for all
of this? Is God a sadist or something? Not at all! If you haven’t read the
book The Incredible Human Potential, in our library
section, then I suggest you start reading it today. It explains this whole
process better than I can in one short message. I can only hit the high
points today, but that book covers this experience we call the Christian
Life in depth.
As stated in the above mentioned
book, after Satan rebelled and dragged down a third of the angels with him,
it left God with a problem. Satan had been the highest form of CREATED BEING
that it was possible for even God to make through fiat. But when Satan and
the angels were created, they, like a human baby, HAD NO CHARACTER! They were
a blank slate that only life experience could write on. Satan and on third of
the angels rejected God’s way of GIVE, and decided that the way of GET was
better. That is what made more sense to them. And so we have the foundation
of the present world’s problems. Now, there was a problem. Satan and his
angels had been created as spirit beings, which meant that once
created, even God could not “uncreate” them. They
had eternal life just like God, because they were composed of SPIRIT, which
doesn’t change. Naturally, God was a higher class of beings from the angels.
We cannot understand how all of this works in reality,
brethren, from our limited human perspective. All we can know is what it says
in the Bible that angels are of a class of being LOWER than God, and
presently HIGHER than humanity, but that humanity will someday reach he
higher God class. All of this is also discussed in this book, so I won’t
belabor it here because I have a point to make. I encourage everyone to avail
themselves of this book in our library, which
proves all of this from the BIBLE.
So God realized
that there was a problem. He is love, and doesn’t want His creations to
suffer, but here was a whole big GROUP of beings who had decided to live the
wrong way of life. And once their character was set -- once the writing was
on the slate -- it was impossible to change it! It was a huge disaster. God
would eventually have to condemn these beings whom
He loved very much to outer darkness forever. And the worst part was that
their minds would continue to become more warped and perverted through all
eternity. There would be no happiness and joy -- only self induced loneliness
and frustration, and misery! It was a terrible tragedy.
The Bible doesn’t reveal how
long God pondered this situation. After He cast Satan and his demons back to
this world, which was covered by a worldwide ocean and clouds so think that
the sun could not penetrate it, God looked at the fruits of what had just
occurred, and they were not good.
It is possible that God planned
to make humanity all along, and that this realization
is what caused Satan, in a fit of jealous rage, to lose his mind and try to
knock God off His throne. We will never know, although I suspect that this is
the case.
We don’t know how long God
looked down on the dark, storm tossed seas, just thinking about what had just
happened. The demons were chained here in a type of their final punishment.
That is probably why demons prefer or seem to prefer desert places to this
day. They have had enough of “water world.”
In any case, at some point,
God’s thinking and planing was done. He didn’t want
this tragedy to ever repeat itself -- but how? If God’s main
purpose was to REPRODUCE HIMSELF, then how could He do it, and yet still
allow free moral agency without risking consigning His creations to eternal
torture of their own creation if they made the wrong choice? Satan and his
demons CANNOT REPENT, or change from their sins. So what was God to do?
God came up with a bold plan. He
KNEW that the only class of being that could be ultimately relied upon NOT TO
SIN was His own class, the God kind! But He could not risk just automatically
creating other Beings at His level WHO HAD NOT YET FORMED CHARACTER. A Satan
on the God plane of existence would be a UNIVERSE WRECKING TRAGEDY, which is
probably why He created the angels as lesser beings in the first place. Yet,
the sinning angels were now suffering an unspeakably horrible fate, with a
continuing eternity of ever escalating mental torture. A loving God could not
create more beings to suffer this fate.
So God had already created
matter. Unlike spirit composed things, matter was fluid. One of its main
properties was that IT WAS IN CONSTANT CHANGE! Things created of it were
temporary, not permanent. This was good because if God made beings composed
of THIS SUBSTANCE and they went wrong, He could then mercifully extinguish
them as if they had not been. But, if they developed Godly character, and
proved that they would go God’s way, He could then CHANGE THEM INTO SPIRIT
BEINGS OF THE GOD KIND SAFELY and thus grant them an
ETERNAL LIFE OF HAPPINESS AS HIS CHILDREN!
It was the most marvelous plan
ever conceived. And so, on the seven days of creation, God started that Plan
with the first man and the first woman in a newly remodeled earth, which God
had reformed into beauty out of the chaos created when the sinning angels
fell. You can read this whole thing in detail I Mr. Armstrong’s book
mentioned above. It’s the greatest good news anyone could ever have.
How does this relate, then, to
the situation of each and every one of us? Well, once we understand the
reason for our human life, the choices become easier. We realize
that we have a transcendent purpose and mission to our lives that makes each
and every one of us a VERY IMPORTANT PERSON! Once we realize
our potential, we can no longer feel worthless or alone. We know that our
Father in Heaven loves us very much and WANTS US TO SUCCEED. But in order for
us to attain our stupendous human potential, we sometimes
have to erase the bad character marks in our lives through suffering until we
give up the sins that are holding us back. Viewed in this perspective, we can
understand that life is rich with meaning and purpose, and that each and
every one of us is more important to God than we could ever realize.
But, like any good parent, God has to sometimes
spank and correct His children. And it’s not always easy.
it has been said often that “the Bible is hard on its
heroes?” Why is this? it is so that we can LEARN
FROM THE MISTAKES OF OTHERS, in the hope that we won’t fall into the same
traps others did.
David was a “man after God’s own
heart,” yet, there were times when he failed miserably, even years after his
conversion. But he didn’t always see his sins either, just like us, despite
the fact that they were sometimes big and obvious to everyone else. One of these
situations brought from David the most beautiful Psalm of repentance in he whole Bible -- Psalm 51. I suggest that you read it
when we are done today. it is good reading for us at
any time of year, but especially as we get closer and closer to the Passover.
This Psalm was sparked by the
incident of David’s sins surrounding his adultery with Bathsheba, and the
murder of her husband to try and cover things up. These were terrible sins,
but, amazingly, David did not see them that way for quite some time. It must
be remembered that he had time to premeditate and plan his acts each step of
the way after lust initially caused the adultery. It’s a prime example of how
one sin can easily and quickly lead to another and then another, and before
we know it, we have done truly terrible things. But God is Big Enough to
forgive us for ANYTHING!
I would like you to pause now,
and read II Sam.11-12:23.
I would like to highlight some
things for you from your reading. Recall that this whole thing started
because he saw a woman bathing on her roof. She was no doubt enjoying the
sunshine and warmth, as hot water was hard to come by in those days. The sin
started when David lusted after her.
He found out who she was, and
that she was married to Uriah. This should have
stopped the whole thing, but it didn’t. Like so many men, he just had to have
this woman, so he sent his servants and had her
brought to him. He was the king, after all, and his every wish was a command.
But remember that this must have
taken some time. It may have been hours, or it could have even been a day or
two. But I’m sure it at least took a couple of hours. So David had a roll in
the hay with another man’s wife. That was a sin, but apparently David just
forgot about the whole thing.
Sometime later though -- perhaps
a couple of months even -- the woman realized
she was pregnant. She sent this sad news to David, so he contrived a way out
of this sticky situation for both of them. There is no sign yet of calling on
God for His help or repenting of this sin. He was trying to solve this his way using his powers as king.
So David had Uriah
called back from the front. He was sure that Uriah,
like most men, could not resist going into his wife and having sex with her
while he was home. After all, any man would do that. But David was surprised
at how upright Uriah really
was. He refused to go into his wife and satisfy himself while the other men
at the front were in denial. What a man! I doubt that any of us could achieve
this standard of justice!
David’s plot to extricate
himself from this situation backfired, so, to avoid embarrassment of the
situation, he decided to have Uriah killed. That
way he could take Bathsheba as a wife and legitimize the child. I imagine
David realized since Uriah died as “an
act of war,” that he had not committed murder. But God did not see it that
way.
It really
is amazing when you think about it. David had a man killed to cover up his
own sin. He then took the widow as his own wife after the proper mourning
period had passed! It sounds so cold blooded -- and it was.
David apparently thought little
about this even after the child was born. But God was very upset, so He sent
Nathan the Prophet with a parable. As you read, the parable concerned a poor
man who had only one sheep, which he loved and treated as a member of his
family. The rich neighbor didn’t want to give any of his sheep to a visitor
[which was customary at the time] to make a feast for him to welcome him to
his home. So, he took the poor man’s sheep and gave it to him. David was
outraged, and said that this man should restore fourfold what he had taken,
and then be killed. It was then that Nathan revealed that David was the rich
man. At this point, a veil was lifted from David’s mind, and he saw the
enormity of his sin. He was also told that the child would die as a
consequence of this sin.
This is the incident that
sparked the heartfelt 51st Psalm. Read it now if you haven’t already. This
also gives us an insight into WHY David was a “man after God’s own heart.” it
wasn’t because David was perfect in all his ways -- he was far from that. David
was loved by God because when his sins were finally revealed, he had the
right reaction and repented! Yes, he made the course corrections necessary in
his life when God revealed his sins to him, and then vowed to move, with
God’s help, in the other direction. That’s all God ever asks of us and ever
will ask.
So what is your big sin? What
have you done that you don’t think God can forgive you of? I’ll just bet it
isn’t anywhere near as bad as what David did. This is a story of
encouragement to all of us. God is ready to forgive us once we repent. When
He brings our sins to our attention, what is our reaction? Do we deny it? Do
we get hostile at the messenger [David could have easily had Nathan killed
for his “insolence” by daring to accuse the king of something of this
nature]? Or do we look inside ourselves, see that the charge is right. We
have sinned. Then, do we repent before God, and ask His help to overcome this
sin?
Once we ask God for help in
overcoming sin, He is only too happy to reach down, pick us up, and lend us
the helping hand we need to get out of the ditch we are in. that’s all He
ever wants. He wants us to admit our sins and ask for His help, which He will
freely give.
Now the sin might be an
ingrained habit that we are struggling to overcome. God does not necessarily
deliver us completely form our trail right away. But He will eventually free
us from our sin, and set our feet once more on the path to eternal life,
because that is what life is all about.
Remember how Christ
said to “suffer the little children to come unto me, for of such belongs the Kingdom
of Heaven.” He could have pointed out anyone in the crowd, but He
gathered up a little child in His arms and said that we were to become like
that in order to enter His Kingdom.
What are little children like?
Little children are teachable. they might do wrong,
but when we punish them and show them the right way, they will generally
follow it without too much resistance. A little child is devoid of prejudice.
They treat all people equally -- that is, until they see examples of wrong
behavior. Children love to lean at their parent’s knees, and have bed time
stories read to them before they are tucked in. They have no guile, deceit,
or strutting vanity. They are tender and loving. They are what they appear to
be, because they can’t be anything but themselves.
We need to remember these
lessons and inculcate them into our lives. So many people have been turned
off and damaged by past betrayals from those who have claimed to be God’s
servants, but have proven by their fruits that they are not. God is calling
us back to our first love at conversion. When we were as little children
staring in wide eyed amazement at the precious truths of God revealed by His
Church and His Apostle. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He has
promised to never leave us nor forsake us.
Mr. Armstrong said so often in
the final years of his life “we are in the time of final exams! This is
serious business! Your very salvation may be at stake!” many think today that
these are only cute slogans used to manipulate them. They see some kind of
sinister conspiracy by Mr. Armstrong and others to defraud them of happiness
and joy in life. They see the past as a terrible nightmare to be forgotten,
and they are bitter, thinking the Church and God “took the best years of my
life, and flushed them down the toilet.”
Well, which one of the Ten
Commandments is bad for us to keep? Which one of the health laws concerning
clean and unclean meats is written for our harm? Which one of God’s ways are so terrible for us? Which one of Satan’s ways lead to
life and happiness in the end? God asks you these things today.
Yes, there were terrible sins in
the top leadership of God’s Church in the past. Mr. Armstrong did some terrible
things. Mr. Armstrong even LIED sometimes.
So what’s the big deal? Did he commit murder to cover up adultery? did he engage in any of the other sins of Biblical heroes?
Did he murder hundreds of Christians lie the Apostle Paul before his conversion? The
fact that he sinned meant that he was human, just like we all are. The same
can be said about every other biblical hero. If you want to talk about
incest, maybe you should go and confront Noah and Lot on the
subject! What other sin do you want to accuse someone of? Well, it’s been
done by God’s saints in the Bible -- every last one you can imagine! And yet
they repented, were forgiven, and that closes the subject.
Little children are not petty
and unforgiving. Grownups are. We need to repent of past mistakes, and then
forget them. We also need to give people the benefit of the doubt.
I have called many of God’s
present day minister hirelings and hypocrites. Why did I do this? Did I do it
to discredit them? Did I do this to gain a following for myself? No. I did it
because God inspired me to give His ministry a stern warning. Because the
situation is so serious, He called me to DRASTIC ACTION. He called me to be
SHOCKING, because many of us who are asleep can only be woken up WITH A JOLT,
to quote Mr. Armstrong!
So the reason I said these
things is because God is calling his ministry and people to a heartfelt,
deep, real repentance! God is
sick and tired of the petty bickering, vanity, ego, and plays for power! He
WILL NOT TOLERATE IT MUCH LONGER!
What will it take for God’s
people and ministers to wake up to their sins and repent.
Look at the fruit and you can see NOTHING ELSE BUT SIN! Sin brings death. Sin
brings strife. Sin brings division. Sin causes men to have ego problems, and
many times that ego is the only thing that separates brethren. WHAT
A SHAME AND A SLAP IN THE FACE THIS IS TO OUR SAVIOR!
God DEMANDS that we all look at
the FRUIT of our collective sins! How much longer must we suffer? the college is gone. The property built up over 50 YEARS
of preaching the Gospel is being abused and wasted by Satan’s servants and
used to OPPOSE THE TRUTH OF GOD.
So now God’s people are all in
their little lifeboats. The Titanic is taking on water. It’s been hit by the
ICEBERG OF SATAN. So many of us thought the USS WCG was unsinkable! In our
smug self conceit we thought we had it all made. And on center stage for our
entertainment was a 93 year old man who was just so wonderful to hear! it was like coming to see a rock star, or some film star.
It was like seeing our IDOL! The message didn’t matter. It was just so great
to sit there and drink it all in. People got excited about seeing and hearing
Mr. Armstrong more than they got excited about the MESSAGE!
God and Mr. Armstrong knew this,
which is why he so often repeated himself. I remember one tense moment when
he said, “many of you out there say, ‘Oh, there goes Mr. Armstrong saying the
same thing over and over again.’ Well, if you people had understood this
message the first time, then there would be no need to repeat it. But you
JUST AREN’T GETTING THIS! So I will continue to repeat things until you do!
You better believe I will!”
Brethren and ministers, let’s
become like children again. Let’s understand where God is leading today.
Let’s understand that God is poised to restore HIS GOVERNMENT TO HIS CHURCH!
All He wants is for us to become teachable and childlike again. All He wants
is for us to quite fighting over our toys and get on with the serious
business at hand. His Spirit is a spirit of unity, love, and forgiveness. He
stands ready to forgive, and to help us out of the pit we have dug for
ourselves.
I implore those of you in the
ministry especially to understand why God has inspired me to chastise you. It
isn’t out of malice or hatred, but out of love and concern for your
salvation. Maybe you have been a hireling and a hypocrite for some time now.
You live from paycheck to paycheck, while you watch the little lifeboat you
are in take on water. You can see the day when the gravy train will be
derailed for good -- and then what will you do?
The normal human reaction is to
panic and to lash out and to try and steal sheep form someone else’s lifeboat
as people leave yours. You feel you have to project an image of being perfect
or people won’t follow you, but you know you’re not perfect, so that fuels
your inner fears. You feel there is no escape from this sinking boat. You see
your life crumbling and yourself and your family in the street.
So what is the answer? God’s
Spirit is not a spirit of fear, but of a sound mind. Do you still believe in
God, or have you lost that, too? I don’t believe that deep down inside you
have rejected God, but you have suppressed the simplicity of the faith with
human reasoning and logic. You also know that this doesn’t work in the Work
of God. God’s Work is not like General Motors, or IBM, or Xerox. The methods
that work with worldly businesses and worldly churches just won’t work with
God’s Work. His Work is different. It’s not a Work that concentrates on MONEY
and its management, but it is a Work that should concentrate on FAITH AND
PREACHING THE GOSPEL, knowing that the Living Jesus Christ
will, as always before when we have trusted din Him, provided the means to
get the job done.
I know many of you are having a
problem accepting the supernatural miracle that God has raised up a new
Apostle to lead His Church, but it is true! The heartfelt prayers of
thousands have finally been answered, but since it has not been done the
way WE WOULD HAVE DONE IT, or because WE DIDN’T VOTE ON IT, many reject it.
Some are laughing me to scorn at this very minute, just like so many used to
laugh at and make fun of Mr. Armstrong even when he was alive! But what has
been the fruit of YOUR LABORS as compared to his when he was following God?
Hasn’t Mr. Armstrong’s prediction of disaster for a church off the track been
proven by twelve hard years of experience? So how can you continue to laugh,
unless you are a fool?
The unity and joy of God’s Holy
Spirit can bring joy to His church once again. He is calling all to
repentance. Don’t worry about what position you will have. Don’t worry about
whether God will continue to use you, and then also see after your physical
needs. I know many of you didn’t like it when God used Mr. Armstrong to
correct you over the years, but it was all for your own good. Many of you
thought you were “free” after his death. The “tyrant” was gone. So what has
been the result? The accomplishment without God’s leadership? dare we say less than zero? Dare we use the word the
most astonishing ‘negative growth’ this world has ever seen? And now the SS
United has started down the slippery slope that the WCG has been on? When
will we learn?
Many of you are in very bad
attitudes and won’t listen to correction until you have been punished much
more. So be it. But I am calling God’s servants who ARE willing to repent to
turn again to God and let Him guide His Work as in the past! Let’s put first
our own lives back on God’s track, and then set out to do the same thing in
God’s Church. Let’s rally around the leadership that God sees fit to place in
His church, STARTING WITH HIS NEW END TIME APOSTLE, and stop petty bickering
and infighting and get on with this Work. As God said to Saul just after he
was struck down with blindness on the road to Damascus: “How long will you
continue to kick against the pricks?”
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