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ONE BODY" (I Cor. 12:20 -- see also v. 12, 13). "For by one
Spirit are we all (not part of us) baptized into ONE body."
Paul compared the Church to the human body. If you cut
off an arm, it withers and dies -- there is no longer life in it.
The CHURCH of God will be changed into -- will BECOME --
the KINGDOM OF GOD. When the CHURCH becomes the Kingdom of God,
where will those be that broke themselves off? That is a question
for YOU to answer. God is the judge. The Worldwide Church of God
is DOING THE WORK that Christ commissioned. It started out doing
that Work. That is THE PURPOSE for which God caused the
membership, for the first time in generations -- or since the first
century -- to MULTIPLY in numbers, so that there could be enough to
grow into a WORLDWIDE Work. The Commission is: "Go ye INTO ALL
THE WORLD" -- "Go ye, and teach ALL NATIONS;" -- "for a witness
unto ALL NATIONS." No other body, church, or group is doing that!
As to whether you can RUN AWAY from your part in that Commission,
having been a part of it, and still hear Christ say to you, when He
comes: "Well done, good and faithful servant," YOU answer. I shall
not be your judge -- you shall answer to the living CHRIST. I do
know that I would be AFRAID to run from what God has called me to
do, and then expect Him to bless me for it! And I will say, that
the living Christ DOES NOT set up additional churches, on
disloyalty, rebellion, false accusation, and character
assassination. There is NO PLACE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT where any
went out of God's Church, separating themselves from the Body
through which they had been CALLED and baptized, with Christ's
approval or blessing.
I know WHERE THE LIVING CHRIST IS WORKING, and guiding,
and blessing, and that's where I intend to KEEP ON WORKING!
WHY has God called you and me NOW, while we still have to
fight and resist the cunning of Satan, AHEAD OF TIME -- instead of
WHEN CHRIST SHALL HAVE COME, AND PUT SATAN AWAY, AND SET HIS HAND
TO CALL EVERY LIVING PERSON? The answer is, TO GET THIS JOB DONE!
Dear Brethren, I feel like writing to you as the Apostle
John did, as "my little children," (I John 2:1) -- for, directly
or indirectly, you are my sons and daughters in the Lord -- or of
the Work which Christ raised up through me. We are right now in
the time of FINAL EXAMS -- of severe trying and testing -- to
determine whether we shall make it into God's Kingdom and eternal
life -- to be a priest or king, ruling under Christ for a thousand
years -- and after that, the WHOLE UNIVERSE under our feet! The
future before us is so transcendently ENORMOUS we cannot now fully
conceive of it.
We have been called AHEAD OF TIME. We have Satan to fight
and we need the WHOLE ARMOR OF THE LIVING GOD to avoid being
deceived by his wiles and deceptions. But I wonder IF God may not
have something BETTER in store for us, IF we overcome and remain
firm and faithful in God's Work, than He will have for those called
after Christ comes, and Satan is imprisoned, and EVERYBODY will be
living under God's Government, with perhaps MOST going that way.
It will surely be easier for them, then. Perhaps our reward will