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Probably you, too, are spiritually powerless! Here is the shocking truth! Read
why your prayers are not directly-miraculously- answered!
he c hances are
that even
you,
if
you believe you are a
Christian, are today on
mighty dangerous
ground! You'd better
STOP-and
check up!
Open your Bible! Take a look at
the
real Christians
back in the days
of Peter, John, and Paui- AND COM–
PARE! Take a look at the POWER in
the origina l true Church- in the
lives of
rhose
Christians. See how
your
li fe stacks up!
. . .
But Are You Sure?
You
think
you are under God's
GRACE? Safe and secure for all eter–
nity?
Well,
listen!
"Let him tbat
think–
eth
be standeth
take heed
lest he
FALL!" So warns God's Word
( 1
Cor.
10:12). lt 's time to rea li;ze you are
going to be final! y
judged
by the very
WoRD OF Goo. You need to see to
whar srandard
you must measure
u
p.
Jesus told His disciples just before
He ascended to heaven that they
should receive POWER when they
were converted. " Ye shall receive
POWER, after that the Holy Spirit is
come upor. you," He sa id (Acts
1:8).
Do
you
have that same POWER to–
day? Did you ever study closely to
see what that power is? Have you
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by
Herbert W. Armstrong
ever been concerned about HOW you
may receive it?
Have you ever checked to see
WHETHER YOU NEED IT? Jt 's time
you did, for without it you are not
truly Christ's!
What We Do See
Of course many of you professing
Christians see that you must accept
Jesus Christ as personal Savior to be
saved.
You may even see that you must
repent
of transgressing God's law–
His spi ritual law, as summarized in
the Ten Commandments- because
sin
is
the transgression of the law.
Perhaps you 've gone far enough to
realize WHY you were born-you've
learned God's great PURPOSE being
worked out here below.
You may
see
that today ALL NA–
TIONS are spiritually
drunk
on the
false pagan doctr ines of the modern
spiritual " Babylon"- that all nations
are
deceived- that
the TRUTH has
been turned upside down.
You may
see
tbat even the church–
es are deceived, and have turned
away from the truth and embraced
fa bies.
You may
realize
that
grace
has
been turned into
license!
You may even have progressed so
far as to comprehend that God is
molding
our lives until we shall be
literally BORN of Him- His charac–
ter created within us-this
mortal
becoming
immortal-this
human be-
coming
divine
in the very Kingdom
of God.
Bu t haven' t you overlooked, or
failed to "see," the POWER of the
Holy Spirit of God within you?
You may have come to see how
evil and paganized this world has be–
come, and to be
disgusted
with its
ways.
You may
recognize
that you must
forsake YOUR WAY, and turn to and
live
God's
way!
Yes, you may fully
understand that Tsaiah said: "Seek ye
the ETERNAL while he may be found ,
call ye upon him while he is near: Let
the wicked
forsake
HIS WAY, and the
unrighteous man HIS THOUGHTS"
( Isa. 55:6-7).
But have you
overlooked
or ne–
glected verse
1:
' 'Ho, every one that
thirsteth , come ye to the
WATERS ... " Thirsty for
what?
WHICH "waters" ? Why, the very
"waters" Jesus spoke of:
"If
any man thirst ," He said, "let
him come unto me, and
drink.
He
that believeth on me, as the scripture
hath said, out of his belly [innermost
being] sball
jlow
RIVERS
of living
water.
(But this spake he of the Spir–
it, which they that believe on him
should
receive:
for the Holy Spirit
was not yet given; because that Jesus
was not yet glorified)" (John 7:37-
39).
Have you ever fully realized that
the Holy Spirit is something that was
not born in you? We hear a lot today
about tapping your own inner hidden
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PLAIN TRUTH
September 1979