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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL.5, N0.26
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
SATAN HASN'T GIVEN UP ON
MAKE-UP
by Herbert W. Armstrong
JULY l, 19 83
In November, 1981--a year and a half ago--I wrote an article with the
heading: "How Subtly Satan Used MAKE-UP to Start the Church Off the Track."
Ministers preached on it from pulpits over the world. Most women in the
Church did "come out from among them" of the world, and cease painting
colored dirt on their faces.
But not all. Some youths at summer camps have told us their mothers
wear cosmetics during the week, when seen by the world, but take it off on
Sabbaths when they attend Church services.
In this article I intend to make it PLAIN once for all!
Brethren, WHAT IS the Church? WHY is it? Do we not understand that we
are the "Called-out Ones"? This world is NOT God's world. It is SATAN'S
world started by the first man, Adam. But the one true Church is the embryo
of GOD'S world, started by the second Adam, Jesus Christ.
Jesus did not come to reform, change, or convert Satan's world. He
said "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him"
(John 6:44). He said to those of us God has called, "Come out from among
them [of the world], and be ye separate" (II Cor. 6:17).
This world started in SIN. Sin is the transgression of the law, and
the law is God's spiritual Law. It is summed up in the one word, "LOVE."
It is expanded into the great commandment, Love to GOD, and love to neigh
bor. That in turn was expanded into the Ten Commandments--the first four
expressing the principle of love toward God, the last six the principle of
love toward neighbor.
Jesus magnified the law--expanded it further, in principle. Under the
Old Testament, a man had not committed adultery until the actual literal
act. But in the New, Jesus said a man who even lusted after a woman had
committed adultery in his heart!
In II Corinthians 3:6, it is written that we must obey the law
according to the SPIRIT--that is, the principle or intent of the law--not
according to the specific letter.
Today, I'm afraid, some look at SIN through Old Testament eyes.
Unless there is a literal, specific, "Thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt NOT,"
then they say, "Isn't it OK?" If you look at it that way, you really mean
that you want to do Satan's way, and follow the world--that you only want to
follow Go�way so far as you are compelled.