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power and in economic dominance. Today the British are in such
financial difficulties that their government does not allow their
people to send money outside their nation!
Today the British are not prosperous enough so that their
people could, by God's system of tithes and voluntary free-will
offerings, finance such a powerful world-wide campaign as God's
Work must become today. And even those people in Britain who are
able to make modest contributions ARE FORBIDDEN to let their money
leave
their own nation! BRITISH MONEY CANNOT CARRY THE GOSPEL TO OTHER
NATIONS AROUND THE WORLD---it would be illegal!
But today America has just reached the very PINNACLE of its
tremendous world power, and is soaring at the very height of
economic prosperity---the greatest height ever enjoyed by ANY
nation of ANY time or generation! Co-Workers, do you suppose this
is all just circumstance? OF COURSE NOT! This is no accident!
It's by GOD'S DESIGN!
YOU are far more prosperous today than you would be, if
this great nation of ours were not in such a wave of prosperity.
You Co-Workers are not the rich or the wealthy, I know. God's
people seldom are. Usually they are among the more poor. But
LISTEN! God has made this nation SO PROSPEROUS that even WE
PEOPLE, whom God has called as Co-Workers together in his work,
have far more money than we could have except for this NATIONAL
prosperity which no other nation enjoys now, or ever did possess in
all history!
DO YOU GRASP WHAT THIS MEANS? God has worked things out so
that YOU CO-WORKERS do have enough money to PREACH AND PUBLISH
JESUS' GOSPEL IN EVERY NATION! This EXTRA money you have, because
of our national prosperity, was put in your hands FOR THIS PURPOSE
---and not just to enjoy temporary luxuries or things you would
like to buy with that money, now. Of course it means SACRIFICE!
God's PURPOSE is not to give us soft and easy going---but to
toughen us for the terrible ordeals prophesied soon to come on the
whole world---to DEVELOP GODLY CHARACTER in us.
Today WE are the richest, most prosperous nation on earth,
or in all world history. Today OUR government allows us to send as
much money to any part of the world as we are able, for spreading
Christ's Gospel. TODAY WE ARE THE ONLY NATION on earth whose God-
fearing people could be able to finance this work of God INTO ALL
NATIONS. God has seen to it that we are both ABLE, and FREE to do
it!
But there still ARE NOT ENOUGH OF US! And so, just as the
Apostle Paul, after God had opened the DOOR for him to carry the
Gospel to EUROPE, found he had to go back where he had started and
build up the work there further, before he could finish the work in
Europe,---so WE, after God opened the door two years ago to carry
the Gospel to Europe, have had to come back and INTENSIFY the work
right here in America, BEFORE we can have the necessary funds to
carry the Gospel into EVERY NATION.