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I mean ALL! I mean ETERNAL LIFE, to enjoy it FOREVER! Can your
mind comprehend that?
God IS, and HAS, the ULTIMATE! It is the SUPREME of
SUPERLATIVES MAGNIFIED! Yet all His power and glory we may share!
We may INHERIT! Absolutely ALL the GOOD THINGS come from GOD!
And that is the VERY FACT that inspired King David to
THANK and WORSHIP and GLORIFY GOD, in this passage I was reading in
I Chronicles 29! All that the people had been GIVING for that
HOUSE FOR GOD, with such willing heart, had come from GOD!
They were only giving back a portion of what HE had given
them. And whatever WE give, in an ADDITIONAL sacrifice for this
Building Fund, is only a portion of what GOD BLESSED US WITH! ALL
GOOD THINGS COME FROM GOD! He is the GIVER of all GOOD!
Brethren, THINK of the happiness, the spiritual gift of
God's Holy Spirit He has given YOU! And all your material
possessions too! Are we willing to SHOW our gratitude by making an
EXTRA and VERY SPECIAL offering for the next two years or more, to
HONOR HIM with this HOUSE FOR GOD at His present earthly
Headquarters?
If God wills that we build this house for Him, I know that
He will show it by enthusing you Brethren for it -- by stirring up
your hearts, even as He stirred up the hearts of His Old Testament
Church to respond to David's appeal, to give WILLINGLY, even as
they did for the vastly more costly Temple Solomon built.
The architects' plans -- even working plans -- are all
complete. It will be an outstanding building we can all look to as
one that HONORS THE GREAT GOD! A model has been made of it.
Perhaps I can take it with me as I visit again this autumn every
Feast site in the U.S. and Canada. Also, I will have pictures made
and send them to you. I want you to see it for yourself -- both
the model and the pictures.
But back to the thought I started with -- the most
TERRIBLE sin anyone can commit.
God not only HAS EVERYTHING -- He is the GIVER of every
good and perfect gift. ALL GOOD THINGS come from HIM!
Do we realize that?
I remember back in the earlier years of my conversion. It
was during the time my family and I had to live 28 years in real
economic POVERTY. There were many times when we had to go hungry
-- literally! That is, until we learned the truth about tithing.
The day I started tithing we had something to eat -- and from that
time onward we did not have to suffer hunger, though still in
poverty.
But WE WERE SUPREMELY HAPPY! We had found GOD! We had the
living CHRIST, living His life within us! We were daily learning
more and more of HIS TRUTH -- and no physical food can stimulate