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PASTOR'S REPOR'l', June 4, 19 7 9
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But that job is far frmn con�lete!
a member:
I quote from a letter from
He says, "How come noboJy preaches about third tithe anymore?.••
There were things bein9 s2id by ministers to plant doubts in my mind
about it."
Fellow Minister,-
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1 ,c,J i:o you by Christ's authority that for
one claiming to be a m�nister of Jesus Christ and receiving a salary
as a minister of, and <01)r�sentative of this Church, to water down or
make less bindinq the t:eachin<Js and doctrines Jesus Christ put in this
Church through me, i �; Lak i nq monc�y ( salary} under false pretenses.
It is SERIOUS and a :·;EJ>.lUU:� ·;r;� .. God will call everyone who does that
to account.
Compare this to a.ca:9ta.1n in the army. He is in a comparatively
low authority, but he .[;:; ovE
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r first and second lieutenants, sergeants,
corporals, etc. Suppose �n ar1ay captain begins to water down or change
the military rules. Supµose he tells those under him, "You don't need
to obey this or that oi�dec---unlesr; you want to." Such a captain would
be court-martialed and PU'l' OU'l
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\Jith DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE!
Ye.t ministers who on,:Jli i: t:o know better have said to those under
them, "You don't ne�d to tj.th� if you don't want to."
I know that the large �ajtlrity of you ministers are faithful in
preaching the doctriner; U!e Living Christ has put into His Church through
me. Yet under my son
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a,;:::1<Jnlng more authority than had been given
him, there was
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great 11:<.dcMn ancl lk:reliction of duty creeping in
through a port ion of the r,,: n i �:cry. In the army, during wartime, such
dereliction of duty might j1Js� �i0 the guilty officer by a firing squad.
HOW MUCH MORE SERIOTJn T[; l' !/'.'J'}�:r:.:r;,rc D0Wt:·J Of' DOCTRINES AND THE FAITH IN
GOD'S
WORK'?
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't·.c,.· 1h;j,,CJ:,i L,eing said by
to plan l duut)tS in rny ,,. , n<·""
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When I was (in Ambas
teachers and ministers
'I'h(;re llas been enl ire-·1,; too much of this "planting doubts" in
the minds of (.'.hrn:ch mr·!t,ber:�., llesu�; Cln:ist is CHALLENGING ME to CHALLENGE
YOU on tbi::; question, z,nrt le
:;,iy
that
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rHERE IS AUTHORITY in God'::; Church-
it is the one and un.ly p1,,,,,. on <:':nth where THE GOVERNMENT OF GOD is
being adm:ini.stered
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ifjt hol<h, ME accountable for how I admini
ster HIS GOVERNMEN'(' !
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Ln L:: te r plants doubts in the minds of his
congregation, rernernber "He, tl1at rloub,:eth is damned." Jesus said that
for one to deliberdLcJy lpcJ! even one of "these little ones" astray,
it would be better it ,1 lllillutone were hanged about his neck, and he
was drowned in the oc·c,<tn.
This is a S ElUOUS t-i/\'1
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'f'EH WT'l'H GOD!
In comparatively
rr:Cdlt
yea.u; a ''doctrinal committee" raised it
self up at Pasadena. nut I soon learned that these "scholars" we�e
not searching
for ni'::W dJH,
.,dcEU.onal '!'RUTHS. They were trying to de
stroy or watP-r down 1�x1"h:·:
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a;rPr1.dy had. I have dissolved that
"committee".