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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
300 � GREEN ST
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003qq MLTN VA 01/16/86 JN03bl6
MR JAMES E MORTENSEN
BOX 111
UVALDE
TX 78801
PART 1 OF 2
DEAR FELLOW•SERVANTS OF JESUS CHRIST,
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JANUARV 16, 1980
BY NOW YOU HAVE RECEIVED OR WILL SHORTLY RECEIVE THE CO•WORKER
LETTER CONTAINING THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DEATH OF MR, ARMSTRONG,
GOD'S WAYS.ARE HIGHER THAN OURS, ANO HE SEES WHAT WE ARE
INCAPABLE OF SEEING, HE KNOWS OUR NEEDS ANO HE DOES TAKE CARE OF
THEM, THOUGH NOT ALWAYS IN THE WAY WE THINK HE SHOULO,
I LEARNED LONG AGO, WHEN MY OWN FATHER DIED IN THE FAITH, THAT
ALTHOUGH GOO DOES GIVE US HIS FAITHFUL AND UNBREAKABLE PROMISE TO
HEAL, UPON REPENTANCE AND FAITH, HE RESERVES THE DECISION AS TO
HOW ANO WHEN. IF INDEED GOO DOES CHOOSE TO ALLOW THE FAITHFUL TO
OIE, THAT DEATH IS NOT PERMANENT, BUT ONLY A TEMPORARY STATE OF
PEACEFUL REST FROM THE SUFFERING OF THIS· PRESENT EVIL WORLD,
AWAITING THE REDEMPTION OF OUR BODIES INTO THE GLORIOUS LIBERTY
OF THE SONS OF GODI
GOD �ERCIFULLY GRANTED US WHAT MR, ARMSTRONG CONSIDERED SEVERAL
AOOITIONAL YEARS OF HIS LEADERSHIP, TO TURN THE CHURCH AROUND
FROM THE LIBERALIZED PATH IT HAD 5TR• VED ONTO IN T�E ·-:-MIDDLE
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SEVENTIES, GOO USED HIM POWERFULLY TO GET THE CHURCH BACK ON
TRACK. TO A REDEDICATED, CONCERTED UNITY CARRYING OUT THE
PURPOSE OF OUR CALLING, THE PROCLAIMING OF CHRISTI$ GOSPEL OF THE
SOON•COMING KINGDOM OF GOD, ANO OF FEEDING THE FLOCK THAT IS THE
BODY OF CHRIST,
I AM PERSONALLY, OF COURSE, DEEPLY SOBERED ANO HUMB�EO BV THE
RESPONSIBILITIES GOD HAS PLACED ON MY SHOULDERS, T�! APOSTLE
PAUL STATED THAT HE WAS THE "LEAST OF THE APOSTLES" CI
CORINTHIANS 1519), IN ANOTHER PASSAGE HE CALLED HIMSELF THE
"LEAST OF ALL THE SAINTS" (EPHESIANS 318), LIKE PAUL, I AM ALSO
THE LEAST OF THE BRETHREN, VET I KNOW, AS PAUL DID, THAT "I CAN
DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME" (PHILIPPIANS
4113),
JESUS HIMSELF SET US THE EXA�PLE, HE DID NOT SPEAK ON HIS OWN
AUTHORITY, �E SPOKE THE WORDS ANO DID THE WORKS OF �IS FATHER,
TO REPLY BY MAILGRAM MESSAGE, SEE REVERSE SIDE FOR WESTERN UNION'S TOLL- FREE PHONE NUMBERS
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