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A
Unitcd States seoatnr preachcd a
sermon in
a
Metbodist pulpil in
Los
Angeles a few years ago. Of
aU tbíngs, imagine a weU·known
senator saying lhat
patriorism
1$
a fal$e
god to many people. And he
is
rigbt.
~Love
of c:ountry can transccnd tbe
!ove of God." he said. uand we must, ,in
time of stress, avoid making pa1río1ism a
religioo."
He said
a
number of othcr lhings
1
c:ould bave saíd, myself. Among the
idol$ professiog
Christians
wonhip, be
cited
prospuiry,
scimu,
potriotum, peoce
- and sorne people actually make an
ido! of tbe Bible, strange
as
tbal may
souod. Sorne, be said, worsbip lbe Bíble
for
Itself -
t<OT as containing TllUTHS
neoessary for salvation - and,
1
add, as
a GUIDE lO a WAY OF
UFE.
Wbal
is
your
ídol? Wbat are vou
really ded1catcd to?
Is
il earning a living
- mak.ing mooey? Wbal
absorbs
your
mind. your thoughts, your time? Whal
are you reaUy
lkvottd
lo?
ls
ít Ooo -
above all else? Or is it your hobby, your
wife or husband, your cbildren, your
home, your
sports,
or your amusements
and entenainmeots? Wbat do you keep
your WJND oo most of tbe time? What
most occupies your tNTEilEST?
ls
it
friends - society? ls it PEOPUI. or is it
TRJt<QÍI_
-
:.__~certaloly
coutdn't be Ooo, could it?
t
Witb most, it's nol. Aod, if not, tbcre ís
danger of having your interests bec:ome
1
your ídol$. You end up serviog your
ldols instead of the living God.
Just WHAT IS lln.IGIOI<?
t
Is
it merely an incidental intcrest,
sec–
ondary to
mony
other tbiogs, sucb
as
l
eaming a living, your homt¡. your fam·
ily, your fríends, hobbies, sports, enlcr–
tainments? ls i1 possibly secondary to
TV
or rnovies?
Rcligion
ÍS
your CONNECTION WITH
Goo - your relationsbip wilh Him. Re·
ligioo is reabz.ing tbe PURPOSE of your
life. tbe reason why God had you to be
bom, tbe reason you draw lhe brealh of
air and exisl, lhe PURPOSE or
end·OOA~
of your life, and HOW 10 livc lhat life so
asto arrive there.
1
have written the
s~•en
Lows of Suc–
us.r.
You may bave
Ibis
free booklel by
writing to our
olliee
oearest you. These
laws
are
really tbe seven laws of WFS.
They are the seven Jaws of RI!LIOION.
Yet most people do not know. practice,
or apply a single one of them.
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MARCH 1976
The fint law is to llave the RJGHT
GOA~.
That GOAL- God's PURPOSE for hav·
ing put tbe breath oflife in you - is 1hat
you be bom of Ooo, to sbare with Him
tbe
G~ORY
of creatioo. 10 inbent His
divine NA
TUU,
to be
UKE
H.n4,
tO do
wbat He does, to acc:omplisb wbal He
acc:omplisbes, enjoy wbat He Et<IOYS -
peace, happiness, joy, resplendent
GLORY in LIFI! l!VlllU.ASTINO.
No olber goal could be as great..
lt
is
superlative.
But wbat are
you.' now!
Jwt
a
mass of
matter, put 1ogetber like
a
maehine.
Your presen1 existence has 10 be con–
stantly SUSTAINEO. You have to keep
drawing a breath of air into your lungs
about every two or tbree seconds. You
have to eat food on tbe average of
at:–
least tbree times every day. You have to
take care of elirninating tbe impuritíes
from food, and you bave to bathe and
clease your body. Maybe you don't
real/y
have to
~brusb
your teelh after
every mea!" as a certain toothpaste
TV
commercial keeps repeating like a
phonograph record thal got stuck. But
you
do
bave to maintain and susta.in
your pbysical anatomy to keep on exist·
ing. and even tben you
are
aging and
degeneratms every day and every year.
lo
fact the most certain tbing in this
existente we eall •'life"
is
that tbls ma..
cbine
process
is going to run down -
YOU ARE GOING TO DIE.
Aclually, we have to simply
kup
pumplng liJe lnro
oursdves c:onstantly to
c:ontinue existing - to c:ootinue con·
sciousoess.
Yet mos1 people keep on, day after
day, year afler year, pumping that ex.is·
tcnce in10 themselves, with NO lotORI!
PURPOSE than to
try
to be comfortable.
free from paín, and to be plcasing 1he
five senses, with their rninds oo tbe
pass·
ing pbysical and material tbings of tbe
moment - tbmgs tbal
are
not lasting.
and are soon gone.
Unless God's own CHARACTER is
being formed and developed in your
mind and your life, replacing tbe camal·
ity lhat is there now, you sball have
missed your GOAl.. God's PURPOse
>S
to
CllEATE w1thin you, during this life,
a
new and perfect
CHAJ\ACTER,
so 1ha1 you
may be
glven
eterna! Jife - self·
c:ontaining, inherent life.
lf you are oonverted - tha1 is, if you
do once establish actual
contact
with
Personal from
.. .
fiRST
PlACIIN-YBUR
llfl!
~
Ood - He superna1urally puts wtthin
you His
HO~
YSPrRIT. This impregnates
you wilh Hts
~IPE-
begets you as His
child, actually yet unbom. Actually,
wbat many professing Cbristians
call
~being
born again"
should
be termed
"being begotten."
Tecbrucally, to be
~m
of Ood"
means to be changcd in c:omposition
from ftesh and blood matter to SPIRIT -
no Jongcr mortal, no Jooger
human.
But
it does put within you
a
NI!W t<ATURE.
entireJy opposite lO HUiotAN I<ATUilE.
You are,
as
Scripture says. given "ex·
ceeding great and precious promises;
that by tbese ye rnight be PAJlTAKEa$ OF
TRE
DI
VINE
I<ATURE"
(JI
Peter
1:4).
Of
c:ourse the old human nature
remoins;
and
yourmind
makes the continua! deci- ·
sions whether to yield to the downward
puU, appetítes, and establisbed habits of
human nature or to resist it by yielding
to the new d1vine nature - to BE LI!D BY
Ooo's
HO~Y
srrur.
This. theo, BECOMES)'<IW'
l't!'Y
lif~l
You can only succecd if your GOAL is
kept constantly - cootinually - before
your eyes. When you drive
a
car. if you
take your eyes and auention off whal is
in froot of you (and sometimos c:om·
ing from 1he side or behind) even for
two or
!bree
seeonds, you may find your·
self •c:oming to"
tn
a hospital, dying.
and saying,
" lt
aU happened
.ro .rud–
denlyl"
Driving
carefully
means BBINO.
ALEllT. being Oll.JGENT every seoond,
KEEPtNO YOUR EYE, mind, and attention
Volume
XLI No. 3
oo tbe matter of DRIVTNG, not on eon–
venation or o ther tbings.
In the same manner, if you Jet other
interests or material pursuits s1eal ñrst
place in your m!nd, heart, and
lnrtresr,
you are putting yourself in danger
o(
a .
SPWT\1~
SMASRUP that c:ouJd rob you
of eterna! life
That's why Ood doesn't want you to
have lhese other gods BEFOilE Him. For
your own sake- in your own in1eres1 -
you must keep Him enlhroned and
en·
sbrined c:onstantly ABOYE ALL. You must
study Hts WoRD in ordcr 10 be
in·
strucred
by Him.
Jnstructcd in wbat? lnstructed 10 true
K.NOWLEDOE - knowledge of Ood's
PURPOSE for you, lmowledge of and
about Ooo, and knowledge of HOw TO
uve.
Jesus Chrisl said you mus1 actually
uve
BY 1he words of tbe Bible.
lt
ís your
GUU:>E TO WVINO - your lNSTRUCTION
BOOK the Maker send along to lnstrucl
you HOW lO OPEJL\TE this mecbanism
thal
ÍS
YOU.
Moreover. you mus1 study your
818~
- to find what you oow believe thal is
wrong and whal you are now OOINO
that is wrong - to be CORRECTED and
reproved by it.
Y
ou
musl Study tbe Bible to let it
INSTRUCT you in the ways of Ood's
RIOHTEOUSNESS -
His
WAY OF LIFS. And
tbeo you must
devote
yoursclf 10
~tVtNG
rr!
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