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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JULY 1, 1983
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WHY does God's true Church regard smoking tobacco as a SIN?
No
specific scripture says "Thou shalt not smoke." When I was converted and
bapti�ed, and first received God's Holy Spirit, I asked myself, '
'Is smoking
wrong?" The Bible says nothing about it. But I knew the law of God is the
PRINCIPLE of LOVE. I asked myself, "WHY do I smoke?" Does it express love
to God? Definitely it is not "a sweetsmelling savour" in His nostrils. Did
smoking express love toward neighbor? Perhaps someone might enjoy breath
ing it secondhanded, but many would find it objectionable and obnoxious.
And I knew it was harmful to my health in my lungs, even though no one knew
as yet it caused lung cancer. Therefore it violated God's law of LOVE to
ward God and toward man. Therefore it is SIN! I stopped what little smok
ing I had been doing.
That same PRINCIPLE applies to make-up. WHY do women do it?
When I applied this principle of God's law to myself in 1927 few women
indeed smoked--except harlots. Today cosmetics and make-up apply to women
rather than men--but the PRINCIPLE is the same.
Do women "change" (make up) their faces to please God? On the contrary
God's Word shows it is DISpleasing to Himi Does make-up show LOVE toward
other people? Or do they paint it on to be like the world--to be one with
the world? They do it because of VANITY, the root of all sin. They do it
to AVOID appearing to have "come out of the world, and being separate."
They do it to avoid criticism by the world.
How did SIN start?
The cherub Lucifer was set by God on the throne of the earth. He is
still there. He was perfect in his ways until iniquity was found in him
(Ezek. 28:15). WHY did sin start in him? God said of him, "Thine heart was
lifted up BECAUSE OF THY BEAUTY, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of
thy brightness" (verse 17). How many women professing to be God's women in
His Church are corrupting their wisdom by allowing vanity, the root of sin,
to lead them into perverted REASONING to try to justify SIN?
How did SIN start among the human race? It was when the first woman
strayed away from her husband's subjection and listened to Satan that she
"saw that the [forbidden] tree was...pleasant to the eyes" (Gen. 3:6), that
she led her husband and all humanity into SIN! Did mother Eve put on make
up? I think she would have, if she had possessed a mirror. IF THERE WERE
NO LOOKING GLASSES NO WOMEN WOULD PUT ON MAKE-UP!
GOD designed and formed mother Eve's face, and I for one believe it was
BEAUTIFUL without make-up--and so would be women's faces today if they
would quit trying to CHANGE the way God designed themi
This alone ought to be all any truly converted woman, led by the Holy
Spirit, should need to show her she is SINNING when she changes her face
with changed eyebrows and cosmetics. And you women who have been trying to
deceive the Church by taking it off for Church services while you wear it
weekdays before the world of Satan, are only adding to your sini
.The Church is not going to police you.
But YOU ARE BEING JUDGED,
N O W l The women of the world are not being judged as yet. Judgment has
begun with the house of God, the Church. We in the Church are deciding OUR