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glory to GOD.
A SECOND Thrilling ANNOUNCEMENT!
Now for this second very important announcement I've had to
hold back several months. I want to first explain what is leading
us into a wonderful new phase of this work--one that will lay the
foundation for FOLLOWING UP this great and growing work by PERSONAL
CONTACT--one which will prepare the way for the work to enlarge to
WORLD-WIDE scope! The commission of our Master was not for a
little localized Gospel work. No, instead, He commanded, "Go ye,
therefore, and teach ALL NATIONS;" "Go ye INTO ALL THE WORLD and
preach the Gospel to every creature;" "And this Gospel of the
Kingdom shall be preached IN ALL THE WORLD for a witness UNTO ALL
NATIONS; and then shall the end (of this age) come."
The time has now come to lay the FOUNDATION for that,--the
ultimate, final mission! The TRUE GOSPEL is not being preached
today! It must go to ALL NATIONS, in all languages! For years I
felt helpless, frustrated, in contemplating the vast commission.
I couldn't see how it was to be done. But now God has moved
suddenly, swiftly, mightily, in a manner we never would have
imagined in our wildest dreams! He has placed in our hands some-
thing we never would have thought possible. But ALL things are
possible with God. And He moves in mysterious ways His wonders to
perform!
Let me explain, first, a basic fundamental of Christian TRUTH
--then I think you'll understand, and marvel at what God has just
done, these past few days, for His work!
What True Christianity IS
I think, from the leading article in the current PLAIN TRUTH,
you can understand that God's great PURPOSE in placing human beings
on earth is the supreme MASTERPIECE of all His works of Creation--
the creation, in us, of righteous, holy, perfect spiritual
CHARACTERS. Redemption is, merely, the completion of Creation.
God's purpose is to mold, fashion, CHANGE us from what we have made
of ourselves, into what He desires to make of us. The word
"conversion" means a CHANGE.
Now this change takes place in the MIND--and the "heart," by
which word we mean a certain faculty of mind. The process of
salvation begins in the MIND. The first step is REPENTANCE, and
repentance is a change of mind. The second step is faith in, and
acceptance of Jesus Christ as personal Saviour--and that, too,
takes place in the MIND, and in the Heart. We are not in any sense
CONVERTED until we have received God's Holy Spirit, and in
Scripture it is revealed that the receiving of the Holy Spirit is
the renewing of the mind--an illuminating of the mind, bringing
UNDERSTANDING; and God reveals that His Spirit is the Spirit of a
SOUND MIND.
In other words, real conversion and salvation is EDUCATION--
not the kind of purely mental, purely materialistic, and mostly
faulty and erroneous education of this world--but REAL education,
which is the enlightening of the mind, feeding of the mind and
soul, thru that faculty of mind we call the HEART, the development