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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JUNE 4, 1982
PAGE 12
How important it is that Mr. Armstrong is explaining continually to Church
members such topics as what is the Church, why are we called into God's
Church now and what does the Spirit of God do? These are topics that are
continually on Mr. Armstrong's mind and he wants the brethren to understand
their vital importance. It is obvious that the world as a whole is totally
blinded. "The princes of this world" (I Cor. 2:8), including its religious
leaders, know nothing of the plans and purposes of God. "But God hath
revealed them unto us by his Spirit.••even so the things of God knoweth no
man, but the Spirit of God" (verse
10-11).
This vital truth about the
spirit in man and this second spirit, the Spirit of God we can receive, has
been revealed to the true church through God's apostle in this end time.
Note also verse
12:
"Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but
the spirit which is of God: that we might know the things that are freely
given to us of God."
Another thing that struck me as I looked out on the massed throngs which
appeared to go almost a mile in the distance across from one end of Bella
houston Park, from up front where I was in the press section near the dais
to the rear, was that here are over a quarter of a million people, and not
one of them in all probability had a Bible with him, much less God's Holy
Spirit! They were there to see a man, to bask in his presence.
Well that's all for now. Tomorrow begins the very important free world
economic summit conference in nearby Versailles. President Ronald Reagan
has been here for the past two days on a visit preceding this conference.
And shortly thereafter the heads of government of the 15, or I guess now 16
with Spain's entry, NATO countries will be gathering in Bonn, West Germany
for a critical head-of-state NATO summit. These are two very important
conferences which could give us some indication of the future course of the
free world, and especially the relationship between the United States and
the European allies.
That's the "pope pouri" of news for this time.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau