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He has added you to His CHURCH. Jesus said, "I will build my
CHURCH." He did build it! He has called YOU---added YOU to His
Church. He gave His Church a DIVINE MISSION: "Go ye into all the
world, and preach the Gospel." Jesus came to this earth with a
tremendous MISSION to accomplish. He came to become, eventually,
the KING over all the world. He came, calling His disciples, to
teach and train them to become apostles, and to GO INTO ALL THE
WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
Jesus Christ did not preach this Gospel, Himself, to all
the world. Rather, He TAUGHT it to His disciples, and commanded
THEM to go into all the world with it. His CHURCH is HIS BODY---
the collective BODY empowered by the Spirit of God for carrying on
the WORK OF GOD, which is to proclaim this very Gospel to the world
as a witness. Jesus prophesied that, in OUR time, "this Gospel of
the Kingdom shall be preached (and published) in all the world for
a witness unto all nations,"---and then, He said, shall the END of
this world come.
THAT great prophecy is BEING CARRIED OUT BY CHRIST AND YOU
AND ME TODAY!
THAT, my fellow-workers with Christ, is OUR call and
commission---the very purpose of OUR LIVES! THAT is the very
reason we are in a recess between World Wars II and III---to allow
time for this tremendous work. THAT is why God is giving the
U.S.A. such unprecedented prosperity right now---that there might
be financial means for HIS GREAT WORK.
THAT is the work of GOD'S CHURCH, into which He has called
you and me. But has Christ gone clear away from the Church? NO!
A thousand times NO!! Jesus Christ today is ALIVE, dynamic, filled
with all the divine supernatural POWER of the living GOD! Christ
is the HEAD of God's Church, and the Father made Him so. JESUS
CHRIST HAS HIS PART IN THIS GREAT WORK OF GOD. He's the HEAD of
it! But, to be the head, it was necessary for Him to leave the
earth, and take up residence at the Supreme divine HEADQUARTERS of
God's work---the very throne of the Father in heaven.
Listen---because I don't believe you ever thought of it
this way before! Christ is BUSY night and day, directing the work
we are doing now. Look at it this way: Once, in 1915, I was sent,
as editorial representative of the largest business magazine in the
nation, to Detroit to interview Henry Ford and write an article.
I saw the great Ford factory, with thousands of workers. Henry
Ford was the directing head of all this buzz of activity---but he
didn't do his work in that gigantic factory building. He did his
work from his offices in another building, entirely apart from the
factory. JESUS CHRIST IS ACTIVELY DIRECTING THIS GREAT WORK, AS
ITS CHIEF AND ITS HEAD, FROM THE FATHER'S THRONE IN HEAVEN!
He---Christ Jesus---is OUR DIRECTING HEAD. We must look to
HIM for guidance, support, help, wisdom, power. Supplying these
things, opening the doors before us, sending a great wave of POWER
by His Spirit to MOVE the hearts of people---that is CHRIST'S PART
in this great work.