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and make you feel as good as that!
We visited other poor people. I remember having a Bible
Study in a one-room house -- just one room -- bare wood floor, beds
against the wall at one end, an old second-hand cook-stove and a
bare scratched-up table at the other end. And chairs that had
wires to keep the legs from falling apart. Yet it seemed like
God's GLORY was there! It seemed that ANGELS were there! Our
hearts were filled with JOY and REJOICING! We had learned what
HAPPINESS really is!
I still know! DO YOU?
But WHAT IS IT we have, that others don't have? We have
GOD'S WONDERFUL TRUTH! We have God's Holy Spirit! We have the
living CHRIST in our hearts! We know GOD'S WAY of life -- the way
that CAUSES happiness and joy! That's what we have! I've had that
joyous and blessed gift of His for more than 42 years! Many
business men tell me that no millionaire on earth enjoys as happy
a life as I.
All the GOOD THINGS have come from GOD! EVERYTHING
worthwhile -- EVERYTHING! comes from HIM!
What, then, is the WORST, most TERRIBLE sin?
It is that which cuts you off from EVERYTHING GOOD -- FROM
THE SOURCE OF ALL GOOD -- from the God from whom ALL good comes --
from INHERITING and SHARING with God ALL THAT HE HAS!
The SUPREME sin is to lose the supreme BLESSING -- to be
CUT OFF from GOD! The most AWFUL sin is to have another god before
Him! And nearly every-body in this sick, polluted, unhappy world
is worshipping other gods!
They may not be literally bowing down before an idol made
of wood, stone, gold or other material. But devoting themselves to
PLEASURE: to excessive TV viewing, to "enjoying" the wrong kind of
TV diet: to filling the mind with FILTH in front of the TV set, or
reading material of a wrong kind; to MATERIAL pursuits and
interests; to material things!
Could it be that EVEN YOU are putting some of these things
ahead of HIM -- or ahead of YOUR PART in HONORING our God with this
EXTRA SPECIAL BUILDING FUND -- or ahead of YOUR PART In HIS GOSPEL
WORK? As I write this letter I am INCREASING my own personal
monthly SPECIAL OFFERING for the Building Fund. I have increased
it before. And I have never stopped putting in this SPECIAL
OFFERING since the Building Fund first began, several years ago.
Meanwhile, the WORK OF GOD must continue to GO FORTH with
INCREASING POWER, WORLDWIDE! Your TITHES must go for that -- your
first tithe, that is. God calls on all of us to make ADDITIONAL
offerings regularly FOR HIS GOSPEL WORK. What we give for the
BUILDING FUND must be EXTRA, in addition to ALL THAT! It must not
come out of the REGULAR offerings and tithes.