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Work of the living God.
More than 1900 years before, the same thing had happened
to God's Church in its very first century. The Apostle Paul had
called the Ministers from the large church at Ephesus to meet him
at Miletus. He said to those Ministers: "And now, behold, I
know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the Kingdom of
God, shall see my face no more...Take heed therefore unto
yourselves ... For I know this, that after my departing, shall
grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also
of your own selves (ministers of God's Church) shall men arise,
speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Therefore, watch..." (Acts 20:25-31).
Co-Workers, SATAN EXISTS! And SATAN HATES THIS WORK OF
THE LIVING GOD, and SEEKS BY EVERY SUBTLE DECEPTION AND MANEUVER
TO DESTROY THIS WORK! He did it in the first century. He tried
it now. But GOD is more powerful than Satan. And this is the
activity of GOD. And Christ has promised He will never leave nor
forsake His Church nor His WORK. The living Christ BROKE THE
BACK of that conspiracy! The handful of dissident and disloyal
ministers took a certain number of deceived brethren with them.
But ALREADY, I am informed, more than that number of NEW BRETHREN
have been baptized, replacing those who went with the self-seeking
disloyal ministers. They were deceived. They may not have
realized Satan was using them. I pray their eyes may yet be opened
-- that they will be brought to a real repentance and will return
to GOD'S WORK.
Yes, Satan did strike a blow at this NEW DIMENSION in
God's Work. Satan did not want the very first of these PUBLIC
CAMPAIGNS to succeed, getting Christ's Gospel Message into the
nations where it HAD NEVER GONE BEFORE. He did prevent the
originally-scheduled date for the Manila campaign. For awhile we
wondered if the campaign could ever be picked up again, once it had
to be called off. But remember THIS IS THE WORK OF THE LIVING
CHRIST! And it finally was carried on MUCH BIGGER THAN PLANNED THE
FIRST TIME!
But now, more than two months later, ALL THREE NIGHTS'
MEETINGS WERE HELD IN THE COLISEUM! All things DO work for GOOD,
to those who love and obey GOD!
So let me tell you about the past eventful week.
On arrival at the airport I was met by Dr. Angeles, the
Executive Vice President of Angeles University, and other important
people, as well as the Press -- newspaper, radio, and television.
A Government Highway Patrol car, with flashing red light and siren
escorted us to our hotel. This same patrol car, with siren going
full blast, escorted me everywhere I went for the nine days we were
there. It plowed our way through snarled traffic, and saved much
time.
On the first Saturday I spoke to some 600 people. On
Sunday, for a noon luncheon, I was guest speaker before a group
of more than 200 -- a combined luncheon of the Knights of Columbus