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Greetings Watchers and
Happy New Year 2002!
Well the good news is
that when I was in the hospital over Christmas with chest pains is
that it wasn’t my heart!
On the Mideast scene
the good news is that they still all want peace! So, we are still
on track for this Spring to be the time the dead might rise.
But the best thing of
all is that Spring is only 85 days away. Now, why is that the best
thing? Because if it is this Spring that the dead rise we don’t
have very long to wait to see. In fact, we are in a critical 85 day
count down. We need to watch the scene in the Mideast very closely
right now to see any hint that the peace can be accomplished and
that the uprooting’s are close behind.
Also, I want you to
know that we are beginning a campaign to get everyone to do a couple
of things for this Ministry, thus for yourselves. First, do your
best to get at least 2 new people to become watchers in January.
There are almost 1,100 of us now, and with an effort like that it
would finally begin to give us the numbers that a story like
Ascension/Rapture deserves.
That’s the “New Guru”.
Ascension/Rapture – and we have the teaching to prove it right from
the mouth of the Apostle Paul! So, don’t be afraid to tell everyone
you know about the “New Guru” – Ascension/Rapture.
Next, I want everyone
to take to heart the message that follows this introduction. With
all the new members that have joined us in the past couple of
months, I want everyone to get it refreshed in their minds what this
Ministry is all about, and why it should be supported by those who
find it a blessing to them.
Giving is nothing new,
but giving as an object of faith might be new to a lot of you, so we
want you to understand it.
The other day my son
Tony wrote an article that I have posted below, and below that is
what I consider to be the finest teaching on giving the Lords way
that has ever been taught. That teaching is the one I learned from,
and in the 22 years that I have been saved, I have followed it to
the letter.
I strongly encourage
you to study this message and I hope you find it as rewarding as I
have and get into the spirit that the Lord is calling for.
Thank you for listening
and God bless.
Humbly,
Your brother in Christ
Brother Sal
THE
HARDEST TRUTH OF ALL
By Tony Smario
There is one thing for
sure in this life.
The serpent told Eve
that if she ate of the forbidden tree, she would not die as GOD had
instructed, but she would be like GOD - immortal and all knowing.
The first lie was perpetrated, the first sin (disobedience)
committed, and humanity turned down the road of mortality and
confusion. We, in fact, do die. It is truly the only thing we can
count on in this life. Our possessions, in the end, will mean
nothing. The IRS we may avoid, the grave we can not.... God’s word
on that.
Where then is the
meaning in this life, if all that we work for and all we attain, and
ourselves included, will turn back into dust? What remains? Where
is our hope? If our hope is in CHRIST, what are we hoping
for...resurrection...immortality...eternal joy...rapture? But what
of this life - this fleshly life - what do I take with me? Why do I
build, why do I save? Why do I live a life in contradiction to that
which I hope for? I don't expect my possessions will be resurrected
with me, so why do I covet them? Why do I live my life thus, that
separation from other flesh and material things brings me such
sorrow, when eternal joy is my hope?
My answer is this. We
do not live the way GOD taught us to, the way JESUS told us to, the
way HE lived when HE was here with us. It sounds so simple. It
is. The serpent is still the serpent, and we are still mortals
steeped in confusion. The world in which we live is the result of
each and every persons effect on history. Every mind is a world of
possibilities, every life makes a difference. The snow drift builds
one flake at a time.
What can we do? Get
closer to GOD. How? Study what HE said, learn what HE taught. If
we obey God’s formula for the human condition, in the same way we
obey the traffic laws, we may avoid the accidents and the resulting
pain and disorder. Forsaking the formula, our lives like the
traffic, are chaotic and confusing, and if you think about
it...hopeless.
So what is the
formula? The formula is based on the hardest truth of all. To
recognize that the way we live and the things we value must be
ordered to CHRIST, and probably are not, not entirely. That we must
wage constant battle in our spirits and seek constant enlightenment
in our minds, is evidenced by the amount of fear and sorrow in lives
destined for immortality and joy.
So where is the
battlefield - how do we fight the war? The battlefield is in our
hearts and minds, "for we fight not against principalities and
powers" - the war is fought in our thoughts and in our deeds. The
hardest truth of all is very simple.
Remember the rich young
ruler who came boasting to JESUS about his blameless behavior.
JESUS agreed that there was but one thing the rich young ruler
lacked. JESUS instructed him to give away all that he had to the
poor and follow after HIM. The young man was not prepared to hear
this truth for he was very wealthy.
In revelation, JESUS
characterizes the final age of HIS church, Laodicea, as feeling
wealthy because of their possessions. However, JESUS warns them
that really they are blind, naked, selfish and poor - their money
and their comfortable, secure lives are not a sign of true
prosperity.
The hardest truth of
all is simple, but very difficult to confront. The hardest truth of
all is, giving.
The hardest things to
give, our money and our time, are ironically the most worthless to
our immortal hopes, except when we give them to those in need, for
we can not take our money with us and we will all run out of time.
Only in giving does the greatest hindrance to our hopes become our
most powerful servant, and the means of faith to attain that which
we hope for...God’s word on that.
GIVING
AS AN OBJECT OF FAITH
INTRODUCTION
CHN Ministries has been on the Internet teaching the
message about end time awareness and the Rapture of the Church for
over 5 years. At the end of my messages I tell you that I believe
in the Biblical principal of giving, and that when you give to keep
the word of this ministry going out to the world, that you are
generous, but most importantly that you give hilariously.
I have always thought that when I remind you of that,
that you knew what I meant by it. Well, from requests that I have
had from many of the Watchers, asking for a clear explanation of my
meaning, here is the teaching on giving that explains my belief on
the matter.
I pray you understand it’s meaning, and learn the joy
that God intended for us to have in giving, as I did when I first
became aware of it’s meaning over 21years ago from my teacher.
THE PAST, THE FUTURE AND THE “NOW”
The message that Paul proclaimed in 1 Corinthians15 was that Christ
rose from the dead; and that He, living again, by being the
firstfruits of a harvest of life eternal, gives us hope in the
promise that we shall follow Him into eternal life. Paul ends that
chapter with one of the most repeated passages of Scripture.
“So when this corruptible shall have put on
incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then
shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is
swallowed up in victory.”
“O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy
victory?” 1 Corinthians 15:54-55
In funeral home after funeral home, at graveyard
after graveyard, for generation after generation, preachers have
read that passage. And it ought to be read. There is no greater
truth! It is the basis of the Christian faith.
If there is no resurrection, our faith is vain and
the church is a false witness of God. If there is no resurrection,
our hope that we, too, will come out of the grave is also gone; as
is the hope of a miracle such as “the change in the twinkling of an
eye” which is also referred to in 1 Corinthians 15. But, if you
have that faith, you’ll get excited about the Resurrection:
I’m sure I don’t have to say that Paul didn’t put in
the little chapter and verse divisions that we see in the Bible.
Those are the translators’ work. Paul just wrote a letter; and he
hardly sucked in his breath from that grand theme of the
Resurrection, to his words which open the next chapter.
“Now concerning the collection for the saints . . . “
1 Corinthians 16:1
Paul dealt with the Past: Christ arose; the future;
we too shall rise. Now, isn’t that basic Christianity? Christianity
starts with this miracle concept.
How are you ever going to get the approval of the
world on those first two subjects? Do you really think that the
nightly newscasters are going to go along with those two premises?
If they won’t go along with those two premises, which
are basic, basic Christianity, what do you think they will do with
the other one, the present: “Now, concerning the collections for the
saints.”
NEED IS NOT THE BASIS FOR
CHRISTIAN GIVING
Present religious leaders are taking the attitude,
“Well, maybe, just maybe, if we’d leave this present ‘collection’
activity out, the world might approve us.”
The world loves money; God loves “hilarious givers”.
Even though the world thinks we’re either stupid or
phony to proclaim such things of the past or the future, it doesn’t
immediately affect them. But they are enraged by what we do in the
Present because the Prince of this world doesn’t want Christians to
prove the genuineness of their faith in ways that would cause them
to give money which this world loves so much. And the devil
uses the world to discourage and even prevent the practical
expression of true Christianity’s “hilarious giving” that God has
declared that He loves so much.
But for both the past and the future, we’re neither
stupid nor phony. Jesus came out of that grave. Someday, so will
we. If it happens soon, the Nightly News will have a program
entitled, “Where did they go?” On that program they and the “left
behind” will be trying to explain where we went.
This is the basis of faith by which we are saved: He
is risen. The hope by which we claim eternity is we too shall
rise. But we are not to forget that in between is “Now, concerning
the collection for the saints.”
What the world thinks doesn’t change the fact of the
resurrection or eternity. Why, then, don’t we get off the defensive
on the “now” subject of giving? The world is never going to
understand or approve of giving God’s way; they don’t even believe
He really exists.
Why be bothered by the people who do not believe
Christ is risen? Why be bothered by those who do not believe that
we shall rise and meet Him in the air, or be changed in a moment, or
put on incorruption, or be raised from the dead as the harvest that
follows the firstfruits? If they are not convinced of those two
facts, then it isn’t to them that we are talking when we talk about:
“Now concerning the collection.” That message is only for those who
have a basis for making a value judgment about the things of God.
The only ones who can do that are those who seek Him. The world
doesn’t fit that category.
Let those of us who believe listen to what Paul said:
“Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I
have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon
the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store,
as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.”
1 Corinthians 16:1,2
Did Paul say, “As I have solicited the church at
Galatia?” Did he say, “As I have been able to get an unequal
response from Galatia to this big Bible I’m giving out?” No! He
said “As I have given order.”
Can you imagine the audacity? Given order? By a
preacher? Concerning money? It must be a mistake.
The natural response would be, “What do you mean,
Preacher, ordering me about my money? You just back up a little bit
and ask, and you might receive a little bit.” “A little ‘please’,
pastor, would help out there.”
“Upon the first day of the week let every one of you
lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no
gatherings when I come.”
That sounds like an IRS agent talking. Withholding!
How dare he! It’s amazing how quickly we’ve completely forgotten
all those wonderful things about the Resurrection he was talking
about. All the glamour is gone out of this life.
No matter where you turn in God’s book, you find this
unintimidated approach concerning money and the possessions you have
in hand with no apologies
It began right after Adam and Eve were kicked out of
the garden. As you read Genesis in the original, it shows that God
left a place, a time, and a method to bring offerings His way. The
first fight recorded in the Bible was over those offerings. Abel
did it God’s way. On the other hand, Cain decided that he could
determine how, what, and the manner of giving to God. Able was
approved. Cain was cursed.
I can just hear some Christians now saying, “Well,
I’ve been giving and tithing; but, I haven’t done too good.”
I have a little message for those people. Let’s get
a few things straight going out the gate. Abel brought his
offerings God’s way and was killed for the effort. But whose place
would you rather be in today, Cain’s or Abel’s? You see, both sides
of the issue have the eternal look.
Isn’t that what Christianity is really about? That
cold turkey choice between the visible and the invisible, the
temporal and the eternal? Giving is part of that eternal look, and
Christians had better make sure they understand how to give God’s
way and for His reasons.
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that
not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man
should boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9
THE WORLD LOVES MONEY; GOD LOVES
HILARIOUS GIVERS
What is faith? It is an act, based upon belief,
sustained by confidence which gives that upward connection. It
seats you with Christ in heavenly places. The most important result
of faith is that you are instantly connected with eternity. God’s
life starts flowing in you. That is the primary benefit of the
faithing act.
But, in God’s sovereignty, that same act of faith on
occasion will produce the occurrence in time of that which was hoped
for. Then this identifiable faith object, as I call it, having
become fact, ceased to be the object of faith. When that happens,
you had better find another faith object in a hurry, because when
faith ceases it grip, you’ve lost the connection-eternal.
Giving, as an act based upon God’s promises, with the
focus on stewardship, may also have the promises occur in time. For
example the tithing message at the end of Malachi,
“Prove me now herewith to see if I don’t pour you out
a blessing you can’t contain.”
I wish that I would, before I die, test God
sufficiently on that promise, until the ‘too much to contain” part
of that promise becomes fact! He has already given me some good
blessings that I can contain in route to the uncontainable ones. but
I can honestly say I haven’t been blessed so that I cannot contain
it yet! So my faith is that promise still has hope as its object.
When that reality happens, the object of faith becomes fact, and I’d
better find another promise.
But, so far, this Malachi promise is a good one that
has lasted through the years. This promise never wasted itself away
into a fact. God has been so good, He has enlarged my expectancies
at a rate equal to His supply, and that’s one faith object that
continues to drive me forward.
Faith has that object of fact that is promised in
time. But as you join yourself to God in faith, you are immediately
seated with Christ in heavenly places. The imputation act of God
justifies you, and His Spirit is placed in you. The sanctifying act
of God separates you from the life of death. At that point, time
and eternity begin to fuse and it doesn’t matter much whether the
reward is here or over there. The important thing is the faith
connection. That’s the basic Christianity I’ve been teaching for
years. Giving and its rewards are included.
C.S. Lewis said it better than anyone I know, “God,
to be God, has no needs.” That’s axiomatic self –evident. He can
speak, and not-a-thing becomes everything. So, by definition, God
has no needs.
As creatures, it is our nature to have needs. We are
dependent. There is hardly a need of mankind that matches the need
to be needed, the feeling of usefulness. So, as Lewis said, “God,
in His kindness, having created us so full of needs, implemented a
program whereby we could share with Him in the eternal rewards of
His work, joint heirs with Christ, by feeling that truly we are
needed because God has implemented a program where our contributions
have a part in it.”
As philosophical as that may be, it’s as close as I
can come to the only rationale for saying God needs us to
participate in any program that He’s involved in. It goes without
saying; God could send an angel to teach better than I can. So
anytime you talk about God’s work needing participation, it has to
be seen, as C.S. Lewis saw it, as a condescension by God to limp
along through us, or through our participation as the body of
Christ, that we might have the joy of participating with Him in His
work and the satisfaction that comes with fulfilling such a task.
Yet most of Christianity limps along raising its money because of
need? That’s not the basis of Christian giving.
Christians testify to the Resurrection; they testify
to the Second Coming and the second resurrection; then, they turn
around and make a lie of the miraculous testimony by reducing God to
the status of a beggar on the collection business. No wonder the
world doesn’t believe the Resurrection, the Rapture or the second
coming.
There is no subject the world knows as much about as
money. So, when the church or churchmen talk about money, it gets
their attention. But it gets their attention in a way that degrades
and insults God by peddling need. It is never in any way related to
the true basis for giving as God outlined in His book.
I’m too honest not to tell my congregation if we have
a need as we step out in faith to do things. But I’ve said as along
as that need creates the pressure point for the giving act, we have,
in large part, destroyed God’s purpose for putting the giving act
into His plan. We haven’t yet been freed from the need syndrome;
but we are different and we’re heading in the right direction. The
average ministry doesn’t even think about or want to be freed from
need. In fact, they create needs. Therein lies the critical
problem.
I’ve seen with my own eyes evidence of the
manufactured needs of some major television ministries. In summer,
they plan the Christmas crisis. Knowing that giving drops in
December because people are buying thing for other loved ones, they
manufacture a Christmas crisis. They print the letters in the fall,
and mail them to be in the homes of the viewers to arrive in early
December, so heartstrings will be properly tweaked for the need of
the ministry during the month when, otherwise, they might forget.
Can you see Paul doing that? “Now, concerning that
appeal letter I sent you that you got last week . . . .”
Instead Paul says:
“Concerning the collection for the saints, as I have
given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.”
Need is not the criteria.
God doesn’t need us; yet giving is built into every
step of the God-man relationship. Why?
Scripture declares “. . . the love of money is the
root of all evil.” Why don’t we just take what God’s word says at
face value?
Have you ever tried to weed a field by cutting the
surface off and not getting at the roots?
I can hear someone saying, “Well you teach grace,
God’s unmerited favor, I’m a recipient of that unmerited favor, and
God is at peace with me.” Sure He is. Faith makes that connection,
and rascals that we are; we become the recipient of God’s grace.
Un-meriting though we may be, God puts grace, His substance, which
is His life, in us. But “that treasure,” we have in “earthen
vessels.” The earthen vessel has got a lot of roots growing in it.
The worst is the love of money, which Jesus said is the root of all
evil.
God doesn’t need our money. Yet He talks about it
more than anybody. He’s always hitting us in the face with it.
Every time He gets on a subject that could make you “feel”
spiritual, He ruins it by getting back to money. It’s this business
of “He arose! Hallelujah!” “He’s coming again! Hallelujah!” “Now
concerning the collection for the saints . . . I order you . . .”
What happened to the Hallelujah!?
I already mentioned that the first battle was over
giving God’s way. Since God has no needs, why was that so important
to Him? He had just created all the animals of the earth. Why did
he want this offering at the door of access?
If I were to forget what God said and reason it out
with my “brilliant brain,” I’d probably agree with Cain. Isn’t this
the reasoning:
“God created the animals and they reproduced. They
were just being there, and I’d get no credit giving any one of
them. But I tilled the earth. I worked hard. With the sweat of my
brow and God’s help, I raised grain and fruit. I had something I
could offer God. So I brought it to Him.”
I see Cain’s sitting in congregations everywhere.
When the subject of the tithe comes up:
“Well, the church and pastor haven’t proved that they
know too much about saving money. They know how to spend it. But,
I’ve made some money in my lifetime. I can take the tithe and with
the knowledge I have, which I doubt seriously the pastor has, I can
turn it into ten times what it is now and give that.”
That’s Cain at work.
It all sounds wonderful. But, God doesn’t honor it.
God has His plan. He wants giving done His way! Period!
He says, “This is what you do to keep access with
me.” That’s why the Old Testament ends with the word “curse.” His
chosen people did not honor God with their tithes and offerings.
Can’t you hear someone ask, “Since God doesn’t need
it, why make such a big deal out of it?” Or,
“Well, the New Testament doesn’t talk about tithing.”
Jesus said concerning the tithes, “This ye ought to
have done.” Whole movements have been started on less Scripture
than that.
But, there’s more to it. Sometimes, we forget that
the New Testament church was under persecution, under pressure, that
the letters we read today were going to a church that had a certain
quality attached to it. That quality was they had a history of
selling everything they had, and giving it.
In the Book of Acts, church members took everything
they had, sold it, took the proceeds and laid it at the apostles’
feet. If this congregation were to do that, do you think I would
waste time teaching them on giving? Even the IRS recognizes that
truth. They have in their Code a provision for an “apostolic
fellowship.” Yet Christians think it’s a big deal because there are
not a lot of sermons in the Book of Acts on giving? To whom would
they be addressed? Those giving everything they had?
When the whole book of God is put together, the
message of tithing becomes a brake or a restriction to prevent over
giving. It is not meant to be a goal that Christians strive to
reach.
The New Testament church was so enamored with the
message, “He arose,” so expecting the happening, “He’s coming back
soon!” that, in their “now”, they gave everything away.
As time went on, they began to understand that the
Lord wasn’t going to split the skies “tomorrow”, that there were as
yet things to be done before He appeared, that they then had to deal
with the “now.” That was when the order went out for the
collections,
“Every week, upon the first day of the week, let
every one of you lay by him in store . . .”
That meant they were to get it ready to give.
Now, what formula would apply? It would be the
oldest formula that God had written down; the principle that was
before law, as grace was before the law; the principle that was
translated into promise in Malachi 3 and thus became an object of
faith; the principle of tithing.
“Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that
there may be meat in mine house . . .”
Malachi 3:10
Tithing dominated the church world into the 16th
century; it was built into the laws of the middle Ages. It can be
connected to early New Testament practices. It’s a premise that
goes back to Abram and Jacob; it goes back before the law. It’s a
principle of promise on which Jesus put His stamp of approval when,
concerning the tithe, He said, “These
things ought ye to have done.”
THE BASIC MESSAGE OF THE CHURCH
IS,
“CHRIST HAS RISEN”
Concerning Old Testament applications to New
Testament teaching, Paul, in 1 Corinthians 9, draws the direct
connection between those who preach the Gospel (who are also
instructed to live by the Gospel) to those priests of the Old
Testament who collected the tithe, the Lord’s money, which God then
gave to those same Levites who were sent to collect it.
Giving is forever in God’s plan. It is no more to be
apologized for to the world than the Resurrection or the Second
Coming. It is the prominent expression of the “now.” It is the
proof positive of God’s Spirit in us overcoming the root in us which
is the root of all evil, the love of money.
A true Christian will understand that between the
fact from which our faith grows, He arose, and the fact on
which our hope grabs hold, He is coming, is the now
fact “concerning the collection for the saints.”
And since God doesn’t need it, why?
Why this aggravating, painful, irritating,
make-the-world-mad subject? Why is that the link that ties these
two great spiritual happenings together? I’m not nearly as smart as
God, and I’ve got enough sense to know that I could conceive of a
plan with just the two elements, He arose and He is coming
back. We could leave the middle one out. It would be much
easier to sell.
The Great Commission?
Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel.”
That’s the church’s assignment to the world, isn’t
it? Every Sunday, at many churches and on television you can hear
that same message: “Go ye into all the world and teach every
nation. And when this gospel has been preached to every nation,
then the end shall come.” When they finish that, they say, “Send
your money to this ministry. I can show that every $1 given a soul
is saved in Africa (or whatever). Unless the people you give to can
demonstrate that they can get as many souls for $1 as I get, then
you should put your money here, because until we take this word to
every creature, the Lord can’t come.”
In varying ways that’s what they say. But, it’s all
camel spit. In my teaching on the Book of Revelation, I show
unequivocally that the Jew and the restored house of Israel will
finish the job of taking the gospel of the Kingdom out during the
Millennium.
The church is not in the world to save the world, but
rather the church is God’s project, through His Spirit, to save some
out of the world that will make up the body of Christ, who will rule
and reign with Him throughout eternity, including the Millennium
The Jews and the house of Israel will finish their assignment as
God’s oracle for which they were called, during the Millennium.
And, God will help a little by putting a plague on every nation that
doesn’t come up to the Feast of the Tabernacles every year.
As Christians, we’ve been beat over the head with
this witnessing concept. In other times, if you didn’t become a D.
L. Moody every day and go out and find somebody to wrestle into
Jesus, you were made to feel that you had somehow failed God. Some,
who teach such antics, want you to ask, “Do you know Jesus” to every
one you meet.
I do not believe that that’s the way to win souls.
You see, I don’t believe in this traditional witnessing concept
that’s laid on people and puts a guilt trip on them if they don’t go
out and choke somebody into Jesus every day.
My Bible says, “No man cometh except the Spirit draw
him.” And God can open the door.
I’ve watched people judge their ministries by their
ability to get somebody at the close of a message to blubber for a
while, instead of letting those emotional energy units be applied to
an inward change and a healthy grabbing of God’s Word and acting on
it to the discarding of other things. I really don’t see much
effort by these Great Commission purveyors to do it God’s way.
The Bible records more of this instruction by Jesus
than it records of the Great Commission itself:
“Wherever this gospel is preached, see to it you
tell what this woman did.” Mathew 26:7;
Mark 14:3
He was referring to the woman with the alabaster box,
who brought the valuable ointment, broke the box, and poured it on
Christ. Judas, who handled the bag and saw his chance to skim some
as it went through his finger, said, “Why this waste? This ointment
could have been sold for much money and the money given to the
poor.”
Jesus said, “The poor ye
have with you always. Leave the woman alone, she’s done a good work
unto me.”
Then, He gave an order, “Whenever this gospel is
preached, see to it that you tell what this woman did.”
Don’t just preach He is risen! We too will rise!”
Tell what this woman did who brought the offering. You can’t teach
Christianity, you can’t live Christianity, without facing head-on,
center stage, the importance of giving for no reason other than
God’s reason for giving. He likes it.
The basic message of the church is “Christ is risen.”
Stop being poetic about it and actually begin to
confront the necessity of believing that truth as the basis for
Christianity. When you consider the miracle that is involved, are
you really going to say that the Lord’s provision for you is too
much for Him? Malachi 3 says,
“Bring ye all the tithes
into the storehouse that there may be meat in mine house . . .prove
me now herewith, and see if I don’t pour you out a blessing you
can’t contain.”
Do you think God finds it harder to keep that word of
promise with you and work the miracle of provision in your life than
He did raising Christ from the dead?
You see, most Christians don’t really believe the
Resurrection. Most Christians are Christians because they grew up
in it, or because they’ve been falsely motivated.
The basis of Christianity: Christ is risen; He is
coming again, and we shall rise, and in the twinkling of an eye be
caught away to be with Him forever. That’s Christianity. What goes
in the middle? “Now . . .the collection . . .” In other words,
just in case somebody thinks this is all just poetic, “Now, give
money and things.”
That is Christianity,
past, present, future. That is what I believe because that is what
I learned from this exact teaching so long ago. So much so that at
the end of every teaching I pray for that uncontainable blessing to
be poured down upon you.
Remember these words; God picked you to hear the
messages of this Ministry for a reason. You must be among them that
will hear it, and when you do, the message is clear, WARN those who
are asleep. Our mission is to do just that and you are called upon
to help us do it. Understand that, and rise to the occasion and be
who Paul made you out to be.
I teach to support this
Ministry, and I believe in the Biblical principle of giving to the
storehouse where you get your meat. We are bringing the message of
the AGE to the Church, and we need all the help we can get
Now, if this were a fine sunny Sunday morning, and if
we were in an actual building, at this point I’d say; Stand up
everybody! Now, everyone give a rousing cheer, (cheers and
applause) because it OFFERING TIME! We’re cheering in my Church
because the Lord loves hilarious givers, and promises to pour down a
blessing on them that cannot be contained! Trust the Lord for that
blessing; you’ll be glad that you did. When you give to keep this
Ministry’s word going out to the world, give hilariously first, and
as generously as you can.
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If all you have are prayers to offer, they are most
welcome and needed. Please pray that the devil remains behind us,
and the path way ahead is open and wide. And, please, let us know
that you are praying for us.
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Now, please join me in our faithing proclamation: We
made it through 2002! We’re faithing on that Lord. Amen! He’s
calling on you to see to it that this comes to pass.
Humbly,
Your Brother in Christ,
Brother Sal from CHN
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