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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, June 13, 1980
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He answered, "Ye are our epistle (recommendation) written in our
hearts, known and read of all men" (II Car. 3:1-2).
Directly, or indirectly, you are all MY children in the Lord. This
Church is GOD'S Church. Jesus Christ is its living HEAD. He chose and
has used me as His Apostle--as His human servant and instrument through
whom HE, not just I, raised up all this Church. It was God the Father
who called me, and later all of you. Jesus Christ founded and built God's
Church. He raised up and built the present Philadelphia era of God's
Church.
But He used me as the human instrument in so doing.
WHERE DID YOU GET YOUR BELIEF--THE DOCTRINES WE ALL HOLD SO DEARLY?
Every doctrine--every point of belief--you received directly or indirectly
through me as Christ's Apostle!
Jesus Christ built this entire Work. But He caused me to work as
hard and as diligently as if I had built it--only, if I had tried to do
it WITHOUT Hirn, as others have tried to build THEIR OWN CHURCHES, it would
have fallen flat long ago.
Have I ever sinned? Yes, just as you and every one who ever lived,
except Jesus, has sinned. But I have stood before you even as the Apostle
Paul did, a sinner who DEEPLY REPENTED and WAS FORGIVEN BY THE BLOOD OF
CHRIST. I learned 53 years ago that we must LIVE the Christian life in a
spirit and attitude of repentance. I have done that, and my precious
Savior has FORGIVEN and cleansed me of all sin.
Jesus said, "by their FRUITS ye shall know them." I do not need to
dignify false witnesses by a denial of their malicious accusations, nor
does Mr. Rader. The FRUITS are all the answer I need.
Not only did Christ use me in raising up the present era of God's
Church, He used me in building it. And, when others to whom I had dele
gated responsibilities not only greatly exceeded the authority delegated,
but tried to LIBERALIZE God's Church and turn it gradually and subtly into
Satan's Church, Christ used me these past two and a half years in TURNING
GOD'S Church around and SETTING IT BACK ON THE TRACK. HE WOULD NEVER HAVE
SO USED ONE GUILTY OF THE SINS SATAN NOW ACCUSES, USING EVEN FORMER
MINISTERS DISFELLOWSHIPPED FOR DIVIDING AND LIBERALIZING GOD'S HOLY CHURCH!
Mr. Rader's FRUITS have been GOOD. His service has been mostly in
finance and legal areas, but the value of his services to the Church could
not be estimated in dollars. And he has been LOYAL.
Henry Cornwall and Sherwin McMichael also are accused by those put
out of the Church for trying on their part to DESTROY it. Their fruits
also are all the recommendation they need, and not our denial of accusa
tions by false witnesses. Mr. Cornwall is now my assistant, in addition
to serving as our advertising agent.
Jesus said that if they had persecuted Him they would persecute us
also. I counted that cost when I GAVE my life into Christ's service.
Read Matthew 26:59-60: "Now the chief priests, and elders, and all
the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put Him to death; ... At
the last came two false witnesses."
Accusing Stephen, "set up false witnesses" to put him to death
(Acts 6:13).