Message 9 - By Leroy Surface
The Degenerate Vine
Yet I had planted thee a noble vine,
wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a
strange vine unto me? For though thou wash thee with nitre,
and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord
God.
Jeremiah 2:21-22
Introduction
Exactly one hundred years ago today, as I write this message, the
Spirit of God began to be poured out in America. It was January 1, 1901 in the town of Topeka
Kansas in a small Bible School. When
studying the book of Acts they had become aware that there was something the
scriptures described in the lives and ministries of the early church that was
lacking in their ministries. Their studies of the scripture convinced
them that there was a baptism of the Holy Ghost that they had not
received. For several weeks they had been gathering to intercede before
God to do for them what He had done on the day of Pentecost, with all the
evidence and power of that baptism. On
the first day of the new century God responded to their cries and began to pour
out of His Spirit upon those that sought Him.
Revival quickly spread throughout the tri-state region of Kansas,
Oklahoma, and Missouri, where my grandmother was baptized with the Holy Ghost
at a Baxter Springs Camp meeting in 1904. The revival soon spread to
Houston Texas and to the East Texas town of Orange. In 1906 Brother William Seymour, a black
minister from Houston, was called to preach a revival in Los Angeles
California. Being rejected at the first, Brother Seymour started the
Apostolic Faith Mission church on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. God began
to pour out of His Spirit there, at what became know around the world as The
Azusa Street Mission. For several years thousands of people gathered to
this mission, many of them receiving the baptism, and returning to their homes
with the fire of God in them. The revival quickly spread around the
world. There were several other groups that began to experience powerful
baptisms of the Spirit in the same time period at the turn of the century. Some of these were in North Carolina,
Georgia, and perhaps other areas as well.
Some of the groups, as the one from Topeka, were very reserved and
rejected any hint of fanaticism. Others
were deemed by these to be very fanatical.
A few were wealthy, some were highly educated, and many were poor and
uneducated. Some were from the cities, and some from the mountains, and
many were from the farming plains of our nation. The one thing that
brought these people together from such diverse backgrounds was the baptism of
the Holy Ghost. Before they received
this baptism, however, there was something else they all had in common. That is the reason God poured out of His
Spirit on some people and not on others.
Gods Approval
By faith Enoch was translated that he
should not see death for before his translation he had this testimony, that he
pleased God.
Hebrews 11:5
From the beginning of the church, the baptism of the Holy Ghost has
been evidence of Gods approval. When the Spirit of God descended upon
Jesus like a dove (Matthew 3:16-17),
there was an accompanying voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Before Jesus had preached His first
sermon, healed the first sick person, cast out the first devil, or worked the
first miracle, God approved Him, because He was well pleased with Him.
The pleasure of God was not based on the miraculous works Jesus did, because He
had done none at that time. Gods
pleasure was in what He was.
I think of Enoch. Before he was translated he had this
testimony, that he pleased God. Gods pleasure with Enoch was not because
He was translated, but before he was translated. So it is with those God pours out of His
Spirit upon. During the first decade of the twentieth century, every
group that God poured out of His Spirit upon was a sanctified people.
Their doctrine and their experience was that sanctification was a definite work
of grace by the blood of Jesus Christ. Not one of them believed that
sanctification is progressive, or that it is a work of man. Neither did
they believe that they needed the baptism of the Holy Ghost to sanctify
them. Such would require that the Holy
Ghost would be given to unsanctified people and such has never been the case,
nor will it be. They knew, as the truth
is in Jesus, that sanctification is by grace, instantaneously received, the
result of the cleansing blood of the Son of God. Before God poured His
Spirit upon them they had this testimony, that they pleased God. God was
pleased with what they were. They were His workmanship, created in Christ
Jesus (Ephesians 2:10), therefore,
they were clean and pure, sanctified vessels, prepared for the masters use.
Several years ago a friend let me read his copies of the Azusa
Street Mission papers. These are copies of the newsletters that were sent
out on a regular basis from the Azusa Street Revival beginning in 1906. Each issue was filled with sermons and
testimonies from people that were a part of that revival. Over and over in the testimonies it was made
clear that those being baptized with the Holy Ghost were sanctified
people. Seekers wept over their sins
before God. Many came night after night,
seeking and repenting, calling for Gods mercy until His mercy was manifest in
them by washing them from all their sins (Revelation
1:5). It was when the vessel was
sanctified that God so freely poured His Spirit in. A few unholy people that sought the blessing
were evidently given up to fanatical frenzies, chilling screams, and unholy
gyrations. Some of these would be delivered from unclean spirits and
wonderfully saved. Others, sadly, would
hold to and be deceived by religious demons and would go their own way,
reprobate to the truth. The children of
God knew the difference. It was common knowledge until mid century and
beyond that the Holy Ghost would not enter into nor dwell in an unclean vessel.
I could go into the history of some of the great revivals and the
men God used to bring them to the people, but that is not the object of this
message. It is sufficient to say that in the first two decades of the
twentieth century were some of the greatest manifestations of the glory and
power of God imaginable. I put my revival tent in Miami Oklahoma in
1970. I met an old man of God that had lived in the days of that revival
of the first and second decades. He told
me of the time that P. T. Barnum brought
his circus to Miami and set up the worlds largest tent at one end of Main
St. At the same time a man of God rented
an empty warehouse at the other end of the street and began to preach the
gospel. He had been warned of the
futility of trying to have religious services while the circus was in town, but
did not heed the warnings. After just a
few day it was P. T. Barnum that left town early because the people were going
to the revival. Miami was a lead and
zinc mining town. Men died young, sick
with lung diseases, maimed in their bodies from accidents etc. In 1970,
the pastor of the First Assembly of God told me he had seventy-five elderly
widows in his church because their husbands had died young. Getting back to the turn of century revival
story, the old man of God told me there were crutches, canes, braces, and every
other type of physical paraphernalia stacked to the ceiling in the corners of
the warehouse where God had wrought miracles and healed the lame and
infirm. I had two uncles that were printers in those days, one for the Ritchy revivals out of Houston, and the other owned and
published a well known gospel newspaper of those days called The Banner of
Love. My aunt had a scrapbook with newspaper articles and pictures of the
miraculous events in those early days and even through the twenties and thirties.
Tremendous revivals continued, with a wave of new healing evangelists being
raised up in the forties and through the fifties. It was in the late fifties that something
happened that, in my view, started the church on a degenerative path.
The Subtlety of the Adversary
I believe it was in the late fifties, perhaps in 1958, that one of
the prominent healing evangelists of the day met with a group of wealthy
businessmen. The subject of their
meeting was to make some changes in order to make the message of The Holy Ghost
less offensive to the non-Pentecostal peoples of the world. Several of
the changes that came out of this meeting were these;
1. They would no longer preach about the
Holy Ghost, but they would speak of The Spirit.
2. They would no longer speak of the baptism
of the Holy Ghost, but rather the Charismatic Renewal.
3. Speaking in other tongues would be called
glossalalia.
(This one didn’t last but a few years.)
4. They would no longer teach the people to
tarry until they received, but they would teach how to receive.
5. They would no longer preach that the
vessel must be clean, but rather the vessel must believe.
As a result of these changes thousands of people from every known
denomination began to gather in small well-orchestrated groups to receive the
Spirit and practice glossalalia. In large part they still wanted nothing to do
with Pentecostals, or the Holy Ghost, but they did want to experience the
phenomena of glossalalia. As a result,
multitudes began to seek the gift, but not the giver. Speaking in tongues
became their only goal, believing that if they spoke in tongues obviously they
must have the spirit. As a result many churches opened back room sessions
in which seekers were given prayer languages. As a result the question
ceased to be have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed (Acts 19:20)? Instead, people were asked, have you received
your prayer language? I pray to God that you the reader can understand
the difference.
Not only were these people being short-changed by their teachers,
they also flooded the Full Gospel movement with doctrines from their various
religious backgrounds. Soon tens of thousands of Catholics were praying
in their prayer language, while continuing to honor the saints and praying to
Mary. Hyper Calvinism (such that Calvin himself would repudiate) became
the norm in the Charismatic churches. Sin was no longer a problem; God
was all-loving and would do anything for you if only you would confess
Jesus. In the late sixties and early
seventies it was decided that Christians could also be devil possessed, but the
new word was demonized. People came to some of these churches and
actually brought empty ice-cream buckets with them to vomit their demons
into. It certainly became obvious to those that remembered that which was
from the beginning (I John 1:1),
that something was seriously wrong.
Another Spirit
Would to God ye could bear with me a
little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. For I am jealous over you
with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present
you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the
serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted
from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth
another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit,
which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye
might well bear with him.
II Corinthians 11:1-4
In July of 1969 I was preaching a tent revival crusade in Atlanta
Georgia. I had spent about two weeks of
that revival in fasting and prayer when late one night I was caught up in the
Spirit and given a vision from God. In
the vision I saw a woman that I knew represented the Full Gospel Church, as I
had known it to be. I watched as a bird came down out of the sky and set
on this woman’s head. Then I heard a voice saying to the woman, thou art
a son of God. I marveled at this and
said to myself the same thing that happened to Jesus (in Matthew 3:16-17) happened to her.
I saw as this woman brought a pedestal (such as the Greeks placed their
gods upon) into the midst of a crowd of people. She stood on the pedestal
and began to call the people to herself, saying, Look to me, I am the one the
spirit came upon! Look to me, I am the one the voice spoke to! I
recognized that she manifested a wrong spirit as she exalted herself before the
people. I said within myself, how can she have a wrong spirit when it
happened to her just as it happened to Jesus? I wondered at these
things. It was then that the Lord began
to speak to my heart. It didn’t happen to her as it happened to
Jesus. The Holy Ghost had come upon Jesus as a dove. I did not see a dove, but a bird. A
voice from heaven spoke of Jesus saying, this is my beloved Son. It was
just a voice that spoke of that woman.
Then I heard words I will never forget. Always Remember He said,
just as there are many birds but just one dove, so there are many spirits, but
just one Holy Ghost. And, as there are
many voices, there is but one Word of God. As I awoke from the vision I
heard this scripture setting spoken; Revelation
18:2. I reached for my bible and
read these words; Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the
habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every
unclean and hateful bird. Then I read the two verses following; For all
nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings
of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the
earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven,
saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and
that ye receive not of her plagues.
Great fear gripped my heart.
I knew the interpretation of the vision.
Another gospel was being preached! Another Jesus was being
presented! And, another spirit would come upon the churches and would be
received by many as the Spirit of God.
From that night forward I would never be the same. Many have
wondered why I preach the way I do, and make the stands that I make. I
can do no other. I have seen the vision come to pass during the
thirty-one years since. With that vision and several more from that same
period, God pulled back the veil and let me see the apostasy of the churches
that would occur during this, the last generation on earth before Jesus
returns. Today, the apostasy is almost complete.
From Glory to Shame
How is the faithful city become an
harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
Isaiah 1:21
When God poured out of His Spirit on the day of Pentecost, it was
upon a small group of a hundred and twenty Galileans that had followed the Lamb
whithersoever He went (Revelation 14:4). They had believed upon Him and trusted that
He was the Messiah of promise. They had seen Him after His resurrection
and obeyed Him in tarrying in Jerusalem until they were endued with power from
on high. That same day thousands of Jews gathered at the Temple for the
feast of Pentecost. Three thousand of these were pricked in their hearts
as they heard Peter speak of the death, resurrection, and heavenly reign of
Jesus, and were added to the church. God
worked with the Apostles as they preached the gospel, and confirmed the word
with signs following. It was a glorious church, a church triumphant. It was the holy nation of promise, a people
sanctified by the blood of the Lamb.
That first revival continued in Jerusalem for about three and a half
years in the midst of great persecution from the unbelieving Jews. When finally scattered by persecution, the
believers went into the surrounding nations preaching Jesus Christ to all that
would hear. Churches were established throughout Asia and most of the
known world of that day. In a short time
the Apostles were called they that have turned the world upside down by
citizens where they went. It seemed that
nothing could stop the progress of the church, that surely it would win the
world in its first generation.
It was in the year 30 AD that God first poured out of His Spirit on
that early church. Only twenty-eight
years later, in the year 58 AD, Paul clearly indicates in his letter to the
Galatians that something has gone terribly wrong. “I
marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of
Christ unto another gospel: which is not another; but there be some that
trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ” (Galatians 1:6-7). These churches were less than fifteen years
old at that time. The following year, 59 AD, Paul writes his first
epistle to the Corinthians, reproving them for sin in their church, “…such fornication as is not so much as
named among the Gentiles…” (I
Corinthians 5:1). In 60 AD Paul
writes his second epistle to the Corinthians wherein he warns them of those
that would come and preach “another
Jesus,” “another gospel,” and, that they would receive “another spirit” (II Corinthians 11:4). He said these were false apostles, deceitful
workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ (II Corinthians 11:13). In the year 66 AD Paul wrote his second
letter to Timothy in which he named five false teachers by name, warning
Timothy to beware of them. That same year Peter wrote his second epistle
to warn the believers of and to identify the false teachers that were in the
church teaching their doctrines of covetousness. Jude, also the same
year, wrote of the false teachers that were turning the grace of our God into
lasciviousness. Peter said these were
corrupt men that cannot cease from sin (II
Peter 2:14), so much like the false teachers of today with their ungodly
followers.
Just a few years later John writes his first epistle in the year 90
AD. All the other Apostles have been murdered because of their gospel
faith. John is the only one left as he begins his epistle. That which was from the beginning, which we
have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our
hands have handled, of the Word of life; For the life was manifested, and we
have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was
with the Father, and was manifested unto us. The false teachers of
Gnosticism and the Nicolaitans were filling the churches with their false
doctrines. Heretical doctrines were on
every hand as John writes to establish that which was from the beginning (I John 1:1) of the New Testament
church. He gave test after test in his letter whereby we even in this day
could know the difference between the truth and the lie, light and darkness,
and the Spirit of God and the spirit of antichrist. John clearly establishes that God is light,
and in Him is no darkness at all (I John
1:5-6); that those that say they have fellowship with Him and walk in
darkness are liars with no truth in them. He makes it extremely clear
throughout his epistle that those who are born of God are not sinners, closing
his letter with this reminder, we know that whosoever is born of God sinneth
not (I John 5:18).
Finally the last biblical writing is the Revelation given to John
in 96 AD. In the Revelation is revealed horrible things to come in the
future of the churches, ending with the Second Coming of Jesus and the final
victory of the Lamb of God. In His message to the seven churches the Lord
examined their works, beginning each letter after its introduction with the
words I know thy works. It was their own
works that revealed that five out of seven of the churches were in serious
trouble and in danger of being totally rejected by the Lord. All of these
conditions in the seven churches were within sixty-six years after the day of
Pentecost. The New Testament church had, in large part, fallen from grace
before the first century AD ended and by the third century AD had become a
harlot church, ruled by the spirit of antichrist, under the name of Roman
Catholicism. Righteousness was a thing
of the past, and murderers now ruled the church just as the prophecy had said (Isaiah 1:21). The journey that
brought the early church from a faithful city to a harlot, from a noble vine to
a degenerate plant of a strange vine, took three centuries to finish.
That same journey was accomplished by the church of the twentieth century in
only one-century. That which God had
planted a noble vine, wholly a right seed has become the the
degenerate plant of a strange vine (Jeremiah
2:21).
Anti-Christ
Almost the whole world is waiting and looking for the appearing of
The Anti-Christ. The mental picture has been painted in the mind of the
church for many years now. First, the
rapture of the church, then the appearing of The Anti-Christ. The Anti-Christ will make a treaty with the
Jews for seven years. During the first
couple of years the Jews will rebuild their Temple and re-institute animal
sacrifices. In the middle of the seven year treaty The Anti-Christ will
break the treaty, stop the sacrifices, move into the temple and declare himself
to be God, requiring the whole world to worship him as God and take his mark in
their hand or forehead. Obviously The Anti-Christ, according to this
scenario, must be a powerful political figure. For much of the last
century many different world leaders were suspected of being The Anti-Christ. Some of those I can remember in my lifetime
were Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, FDR, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Kissinger, Reagan,
Gorbachev and Clinton. For this reason I will take the space in this
message to relate what the Bible has to say about antichrist.
It will be a surprise to many to learn that the term The
Anti-Christ is not found in the Bible even one time. Secondly, the
apostle John is the only writer in the Bible that ever mentioned antichrist
and, thirdly, he told us more than once that it was already in the world even as
he wrote his epistle. In the fourth place, antichrist was never referred
to a politician or a world leader. Every
mention of antichrist in the Bible is of the spirit of antichrist working in
false teachers and false prophets. John
said there were many antichrists already in his day. Lets turn to I John 2:8 to begin this study.
Little children, it is the last time:
and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many
antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
I John 2:18
In the first decades of the church the believer was warned of the
coming of antichrist. Jesus had told
them there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great
signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the
very elect (Matthew 24:24). Jesus said they were coming, but John, sixty
years later, said they are here.
They went out from us, but they were
not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with
us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all
of us.
I John 2:19
These were false teachers; teachers that had turned away from the
truth. They went out from the church as
though they represented the church, but they taught lies that made it clear that
they were not of the church. A few
verses later John makes it clear who these antichrists were.
Who is a liar but he that denieth that
Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the
Son.
I John 2: 22
Incredibly, there were those teachers in the realm of the churches
that denied that Jesus was the Messiah, or the Christ, that was to come.
They claimed to worship God but they denied the Son of God. Most likely this particular mention of
antichrists referred to Jewish teachers that had turned away from the truth and
sought to pervert the true teaching of the church of Jesus Christ.
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but
try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone
out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that
confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: and every spirit
that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and
this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come;
and even now already is it in the world.
John 4:1-3
This mention of antichrist refers to false prophets that were gone out into the world. John gave a
test by which you could know them.
Foolishly, many today teach that the test is to ask them is Christ come
in the flesh? According to this test, if
the answer were yes they would be
judged to be true prophets of God.
Obviously a false prophet or a false
preacher/ teacher would be careful to have the correct answers. The fact is, the test is not of what the man
(or woman) confesses with their mouth, but what the spirit that works in them
confesses. The test John gives is the
same test Jesus gave us to know false prophets in Matthew 7:15-20. Beware of
false prophets, which come to you in sheeps clothing,
but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their
fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns,
or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit;
but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring
forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit
is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall
know them.
In Galatians 2:20, Paul says
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth
in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the
Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me. In I
Timothy 3:16 Paul tells Timothy without controversy great is the mystery of
godliness: God was manifest in the flesh.
The false teachers and prophets of Johns day taught that the spirit of
the believer is holy, but the flesh (body) is sinful. Along with very
many of the deceived of today, they believed a person could be born of God and
accepted of God even as they lived sinful lives in the flesh. This is the
heresy of antichrist. Paul said it is
Christ that liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by
the faith of the Son of God. And again, the mystery of godliness is God
manifest in the flesh. The false
prophets claimed it was the Spirit of God that worked in them even as they
lived ungodly, sin filled lives in the flesh.
John said you can know it isnt God that is in
them, but antichrist. Every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ
is come in the flesh is not of God, but is that spirit of antichrist. Jesus Christ does not dwell in sinful flesh. Regardless of how great the sign or the
wonder they might do, if the life they live in the flesh is contrary to the
life of Jesus Christ, you can know they are not of God. All such is
antichrist.
Ye are of God, little children, and
have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in
the world.
I John 4:4
Antichrist is not to be feared by the child of God. It is
enough that we recognize them for what they are. In so doing they have lost all power in the
presence of the people of God. John addressed
his letter to fathers, young men, and little children (I John 2:12-14). It is noteworthy that he told little
children that ye are of God, and have overcome them (antichrists) because
greater is He that is in you than he (antichrist) that is in the world.
God speaks in the words of our text in Jeremiah 2:21; Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right
seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto
me? Notice the questions of God concerning His people. How did the
faithful city become an harlot? Why did
His vineyard bring forth wild grapes, and How did His noble vine become the
degenerate plant of a strange vine. How do these things happen? Israel degenerated into a degenerate
plant. Jerusalem turned away from God and became a harlot. Much of
the New Testament church fell from grace and went into every known philosophy
and heresy, whether Judaism or paganism. The sanctified and glorious
church of the first decades of the twentieth century ended the century as a
church that has carried its doctrine into every nation to almost every city,
but in large part is a church that is laden with sin and shame. Much of
what remains of the Pentecostal revival of a hundred years ago has given itself
up to strange doctrines and been given over to strange spirits. When you see grown men and women crawling the
aisles of churches, barking like dogs, roaring like lions, or screeching like
eagles; when people are slain by the spirit, only to be picked up and slain
again, repeatedly, while others are turned into statues and carried about on
the shoulders of men; when such things as these take place in the house of God
and declared to be the mighty power of the Holy Ghost, you can know that
strange spirits are at work. These
spirits do not confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. The decades of the eighties and the nineties
were a shameful period in the church.
Greed and immorality brought on the scandals of the late eighties. A lust for the supernatural brought on the
revivals of the nineties. Most certainly as the laughing revival, the
falling revival, and every other revival of phenomena during this period were
in full swing, God almighty must have been asking how and why did the church
become such as this?
If God must ask how? and why? certainly I do not have the answers
to those questions. This message has been a feeble attempt to show a
little of what happened to the church in the last century. I must, however, close this message on a
little different note. In Isaiah
1:24-28 God spoke of a change. The faithful city that became a harlot
would be restored. “Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of Israel,
Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies: and I
will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all
thy tin: And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be
called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. Zion shall be
redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. And the destruction of the transgressors and
of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be
consumed.”
Conclusion
God has sovereignly intervened in behalf
of His faithful remnant. He has dealt with our nation according to His
purpose instead of according to our works (II
Timothy 1:9), and according to His great mercy rather than our worthiness
as a nation. God has placed righteousness in the White House. A man in whom there is no guile has been
placed as our American president by God Himself. The next three and a
half years will be a great opportunity to reach the nation and the world with
the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Those that continue in the frivolity of past errors will be treasuring
up unto themselves wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the
righteous judgment of God (Romans 2:5). The name of Jesus will be preached by and
glorified in His children. The Lord will
work with them, and defend their cause. I have much more to say about
these things in future issues, but I will close this message with this word;
God has given us three and a half years to reach this nation. The ground has been plowed; it is ready for
seed. Let the sowers go forth with the precious
seed of the gospel. If we do, we will
return rejoicing. I do not wish to speak of the things that await us at
the hands of unbelievers if we fail to do so.
Go ye into all the world, and preach
the gospel to every creature.
Mark 16:15
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