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big commercial or industrial corporation sponsors or supplies funds
for this Work. It is God's Work, conducted GOD'S WAY--and that is
something different that seems mighty strange in today's
competitive, grasping, selfish world!
Beginning in 1920, when I was a rising and successful young
man in the advertising business, the living Jesus Christ began
dealing with me--beating me down, tearing out root and branch the
idol of ambition to become "important" in the business world and to
make money. When, in 1927, I was brought all the way down to self-
abhorrence and real repentance, faith in and acceptance of CHRIST
meant something! Accepting Christ meant submission to let the
living Saviour actually COME IN to my life--henceforth to live my
life FOR me -- not as I would, but as GOD WILLS! It meant
literally GIVING my SELF to HIM who had bought and paid for me. It
meant living the life the Apostle Paul describes in Galatians 2:20
--a life totally CHANGED!
I didn't seek the ministry. But now I was literally thrust
into it. I had been reduced to material poverty, but had been
given spiritual riches. Soon I learned this: If I were to be FREE
to proclaim GOD'S WORD faithfully, just as it is--free to be
corrected constantly by God's Word, to admit error and publicly
correct it when proved--l was going to have to look to God alone,
IN FAITH, AND NOT TO MEN, to supply the financial need. God's BIBLE
promised: "My God shall supply all your need"--Philippians 4:19.
If men, or any organization of men, paid me a salary, I
learned I would have to serve men contrary to God. If any
philanthropist, foundation, commercial enterprise, or church
denomination sponsored me, I would have to serve the selfish
financial interests of the commercial sponsor or preach the
already-established doctrine of the denomination--whether according
to or contrary to the PLAIN TRUTH of God's Word.
"You won't go far," one man advised, after I started on
this course. "The Bible corrects and reproves people--tells them
their sins," he explained. "People won't support anyone who tells
them where they are wrong."
"Maybe people won't," I replied, "but GOD has PROMISED that
HE WILL--and I believe Him."
Sure, it was a test of faith. But my life didn't belong
to me any more. I had given it to God. If I served Him
faithfully, it was up to Him, as my Employer, to provide the
financial means. HE HAD PROMISED HE WOULD. I took Him at His
Word!
WHO SPONSORS THIS WORK?--people ask. The answer is, GOD
DOES! God Almighty began opening the gigantic door of radio and
the printing press for the mass dissemination of His GOSPEL and His
warning to a world nearing its end.
It started the smallest of any work I know--one little 100-
watt radio station, with one half-hour program a week; and a crude
little hand-mimeographed "magazine"--The Plain Truth. But the