Basic HTML Version
didn't send the annual STATEMENT OF INTENTION card for you to sign
for another year!
Was it, after all, MY fault? Was it, now?
LISTEN, Brethren--and listen HARD! Learn a LESSON that may
save you from the Lake of Fire. Learn a basic TRUTH about how you
are to develop character and GROW spiritually to INHERIT GOD'S
KINGDOM! Learn a GREAT TRUTH! Learn what may mean your ETERNITY!
Read this two or three times! UNDERSTAND IT!
Some of you do not GO FORWARD spiritually with Christ,
UNLESS I or YOUR LOCAL PASTOR, or SOME ONE P U S H E S Y O U !
But our PUSHING will never get you into God's Kingdom. Our pushing
will never get you to the PLACE OF SAFETY for the Great Tribulation
about five years from now (if our figuring is correct).
HERE'S WHY! Here's a most IMPORTANT spiritual LESSON!
GOD HIMSELF DOES NOT EITHER PULL, OR PUSH, OR DRIVE us!
Understand this! Read it in the article coming in the APRIL PLAIN
TRUTH, on what is the Unpardonable SIN!
You are not converted--begotten of God--a real CHRISTIAN--
unless or until you have GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT DWELLING IN YOU. On
real repentance and believing, God PROMISES to give you His Spirit.
It begets you as HIS CHILD. It opens your mind to UNDERSTAND His
Word. As a Christian, you start out on a different WAY--a
different ROAD--leading to everlasting life! God's Spirit opens
your understanding, to know how to live by every Word of the Bible.
It is THE WAY of GOD'S LAW. It takes a divine love to fulfill His
Law--that is, to WALK that WAY toward God's Kingdom. God's Spirit
is GOD'S LOVE. So God SUPPLIES you with the spiritual LOVE to
fulfill His Law. His Spirit GIVES you Christ's FAITH, necessary to
walk that road. It supplies you with spiritual POWER to walk that
road. God gives you all the SPIRITUAL EQUIPMENT to walk that road.
BUT--here's the LESSON--BE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND THIS: God's
Spirit which He gives you WILL NOT PULL YOU His way--will not PUSH
you--will not FORCE you! God GIVES, by His loving grace, the
SPIRITUAL EQUIPMENT so you CAN walk His WAY! But God will not
DRIVE you or PULL you. You, yourself, must make the decisions to
GO God's way--and you yourself must SET YOUR WILL to GO that way.
B U T--and understand this as well: your old carnal
SELF--your HUMAN NATURE will PULL you the other way! The
world--your worldly friends--worldly cares, interests, pleasures
--THESE, TOO, will PULL You--they will tug HARD at you, to pull you
OFF OF God's road! And so will SATAN!
So, what do you face? THREE STRONG PULLS, all pulling you
AWAY from Christ--pulling to get you OFF of God's WAY--trying to
PULL you AWAY from the road that leads to everlasting LIFE in God's
Kingdom.
But what about MANY of YOU?