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PASTOR'S REPORT, April 23, 1979
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But too many seem to forget JESUS CHRIST is the LIVING, ACTING
HEAD of this Church� We must all quit leaving Christ out of it. But
Christ LIVES--and this is NO'T just a "work" of men--above all, it's not
just a "work
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I as a human thought up and developed. The living Christ
BROUGHT ME BACK TO LIFE! And iiIBY'? What has He been doing through me?
Swiftly He has been TURNING THIS CHURCH AROUND--setting it back on GOD'S
track, as GOD'S Church--NOT MAN'S�
And we needed to
brougnt closer--eve
one of us to GOD in
prayer and fasting and in dedication, sacrificing everything form now on,
for GOD'S WORK. God has allowed this mass
PERSECUTION by the State
of California to drive us to our knees--closer to GOD, and bound together
CLOSER AMONG OURSELVES. Now God
lowed the most listened to TV program,
"6 O Minutes," to attack and malign and F-ALSELY represent us to MANY more
people than
State of California persecution reached.
GOD IS DRP,WING US CLOSER TO HIM, AND CLOSER
TOGETHER!
And now--Christ is moving me to set His Church on GOD'S organi
zational str�cture. For though the Church is NOT a legal corporation, it
IS a SPIRITUAL ORGANISM
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and that spiritual organism is intended by the
mighty GOD to
ORGA.l�IZED--and organized HIS WAY!
I have realized for 52 years that God's form of government is
rule from the TOP down.
In God's rule over the UNIVERSE, we have God at the TOP, and under
Hirn, and over all else, is CHRIST! But they are DIVINE beings! They
are not human, or subject to human mistakes. I have had to learn that on
the far lower HUMAN plane all is dif rent.
I made the MISTAKE of thinking God intended the same form in the
HUMAN government over His Church.
I was WRONG!
You see, Garner Ted Armstrong, my son, was not perfect like Christ
nor I like God. I said to
more than once in the past ten years, "Ted,
how wonderful it would be if--as there is a Father-and-Son over the whole
UNIVERSE--there could be also a human father-and-son over God's Church ON
EARTH!" In their PERFECT divine relationship, the Son does not shut those
under Him OFF from the Father--nor does He say it would be taking it over
His LChrist'�/ head
we go directly to the Father (in prayer).
I mentioned how Jesus said, "I have done nothing of myse
The
Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works." Jesus taught ONLY what
God the Father told Him to teach. He said, "I have not spoken of myself,
The
which sent me, He gave me a commandment what I should speak."
Jesus said, "My Father is GREATER than I." He said,
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I have kept my
Father's commandments." Jesus was always in PERFECT HARMONY, and always
UNDER His Father" But every time I mentioned this Father-and-son harmony,
Ted very quickly changed the subject. I did not know
then--but he has
made it perfectly clear since he was excommunicated from God's Church
that he NEVER agreed with his father--and that means in regard to many,
many beliefs and doctrines.