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HOW, then, is this work financed?
Some write in and ask, "Would you be offended if I send a
contribution to help in this work?" Why, of course not!--but,
unless you voluntarily, without any request from us, become an
active CO-WORKER with me in this work of God, you are never going
to be ASKED for it!
LISTEN! UNDERSTAND! This is the WORK OF GOD. It is
conducted GOD'S WAY. It is utterly unlike the Churches or
businesses of this world--it is different from MAN'S way. WE RELY
SOLELY ON GOD FOR EVERY NEED--and the financial need for this work
is very great.
But HOW does God provide? God does not rain down ten-
dollar bills or thousand-dollar bills from heaven. GOD WORKS THRU
HUMAN INSTRUMENTS. God could thunder HIS OWN Message to you, by
HIS OWN voice. But He doesn't--He uses my voice and my pen as His
INSTRUMENT. God COULD supply the financial need for His work by
a mysterious miracle--but that is not GOD'S WAY. He supplies this
need thru those whose hearts He has made willing. But WE do not
look to YOU! We do not rely on PEOPLE! If we did I learned long
ago I would have to SERVE people, and preach what they WANT instead
of what GOD SAYS in His Word! No. I look to GOD--I rely on HIM to
stir the hearts of those HE makes willing--that they will
voluntarily become CO-WORKERS WITH CHRIST AND WITH ME.
And so we never beg for money over the air. We never ask
for money in the PLAIN TRUTH. We put NO PRICE on Christ's precious
GOSPEL. God has shown us that HIS GOSPEL IS FREE--it must not be
cheapened by being SOLD like merchandise! Every month we return
more than $100 which people send in to PAY FOR a booklet or a copy
of the magazine. Neither John D. Rockefeller nor Henry Ford has
enough money to PAY FOR a subscription to The PLAIN TRUTH! It is
FREE!
God's LAW is LOVE! That is God's WAY--the way of LOVE!
Love is giving and sharing. More than thirty years ago, when God
brought me low, I GAVE my life to Him. He took it and has used it.
My wife and I have GIVEN to His service our whole lives. God has
given us His LOVE--He has given us JOY--He has given us HIS HOLY
SPIRIT, and LIFE EVERLASTING, in ABUNDANT HAPPINESS! What a
bargain!
Years ago--now 25 years ago--a little handful of people,
imbued with God's LOVE in their hearts, joined me as Co-Workers
together with CHRIST. Each year more people have willingly,
happily, joyfully joined with us and with Christ in a MINISTRY OF
LOVE, giving of their financial means, faithfully TITHING to God's
cause, that they with me may have part in GIVING this Glorious
GOSPEL to the world FREE--without money and without price--so that
I may never have to solicit money on the broadcasts, or in our free
literature.
And so YOU have received these spiritual GOOD THINGS, as
a token of THEIR LOVE, and of CHRIST'S LOVE. You, I feel sure,
have benefited. But our Co-Workers and I have BENEFITED most,