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of God will be ON EARTH.
NO MAN taught me these truths. As the original apostles were taught by
Jesus IN PERSON,
so was I taught by Jesus Christ IN WRITING. It is the SAME WORD--the SAME
TEACHING.
I LOST that challenge. I had to GIVE UP MY WAY! I had to give up MYSELF--and
give myself to Christ, who had bought and paid for me. It took an inner battle--
a struggle
against having my own way. I made, in my mind, heart and innermost intention, a
COMPLETE
SURRENDER to God. I told Him if He could use such a worthless life as mine, He
could have it.
Two can't walk together except they be AGREED! I now AGREED with Christ. I
have
NEVER DISAGREED. You yourself--every begotten child of God--does, through human
weakness,
commit sin even after the most deep conversion. None has lived perfectly but
JESUS. But
when I stumbled through human weakness, Jesus picked me back up on confessing to
Him
and repenting, and asking help never to repeat the sin. At no point did I
DISAGREE nor water
down HIS TRUTH.
He used me in building the Philadelphia era of HIS CHURCH--and in
proclaiming His
Gospel IN ALL THE WORLD!
Now He has brought this Great Commission near its FINISH. Neither I nor
you know
how much longer will be required completely to finish it!
But as I said at the beginning, some, even in the public press, are
beginning to ask,
WHO is the "heir apparent," as the newspapers put it? WHO will rule the Church
after Mr.
Armstrong?
The answer is, NOBODY!
I have gone to considerable length in this letter to show you how God does
His Work
among humans through one man at a time. He specially prepared me for the Work He
has
called me to do. I know of NO ONE ELSE who has been so prepared.
My son Garner Ted Armstrong, as I have said, and he has said, has NOT
AGREED with
me as I was brought to agree with Christ. Some newspapers have speculated that
Mr. Stanley R.
Rader would succeed me as Christ's apostle. But as he himself has said before
our brethren,
and in the public press, his qualifications ARE ALTOGETHER DIFFERENT. He is a
man