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TROUBLE ahead. This financial squeeze is only the mild BEGIN-
NING! Never have we needed God's help as now!
It's too bad that the government of man takes, through taxes,
their part out of YOUR increase or income. But it is YOUR income
they tax, and your income is not your "take home pay" after the
government takes their part of YOUR INCOME. What they tax is YOUR
INCOME. Your "take home pay" after taxes is NOT your income, but
that PART of your income after the government takes their taxes.
They tax your INCOME, and that is WHY it is called "income tax."
It is man's tax on the SAME INCOME, the first tenth of which belongs
to God. If you try to reason to pay God LESS than you really
OWE Him, YOU WILL ROB YOURSELF OF HIS BLESSING!
Man's government makes no promise to increase your income if
you pay government taxes. GOD DOES promise to bless you
financially!
If you own a business like, say, a retail store, your increase--
your income--is NOT the gross sales. You have a cost of doing
business. What you pay for the merchandise from the factory or
wholesaler is not your own income. Nor is your store rent, clerk hire,
other costs of operating a business. How does such a merchant
figure his own INCOME? It is what he pays himself as salary, PLUS
what profits are left to him as his personal income. THAT IS THE
PRINCIPLE INVOLVED' There may be many "gray" spots. Just BE SURE
YOU do not misfiqure selfishly to rob God of any part of what is
HIS! To do so will NOT save you money, but prove COSTLY, and could
even cost you your free salvation for eternity.
BE HONEST WITH GOD! And prove Him, whether He will not bless
you for it.
With deep love, in Jesus' name,
Herbert W. Armstrong