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PASTOR'S REPORT, July 2, 1979
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Roman armies there. There was a Roman governor, and he had military forces.
Jesus healed one man who was a centurion; in other words, he was a Roman
soldier over 100 Roman soldiers.
And so it was the government of Caesar that came lashing out at Christ.
And what did He say? He said, "You blind leaders of the blind, you hypo
crites," yo\1 are lower than any animal. A snake is about the lowest animal
--it crawls on the ground. You are lower than that, said Jesus to these
people. He didn't mince words, He talked right back�
Now some few have tri
to misapply the scriptures relating to our personal
conduct. But they forget that we are to render to God the things that are
God's. Now in our personal everyday life, we must be subject to the powers
that be and we have always taught that, brethren. Concerning what happened
in Pasadena, nobody was attacking the State--all we did was defend and
protect the property of God. No one made any attack against people of the
State. We didn't try to harm them. We didn't try to club them, to stab
them or to shoot them. We did nothing of the kind. We had no arms at any
time.
Peter and Paul had to spend all night in prison for preaching the truth
about Christ and preaching the gospel. This suit has come on us because I
preach the gospel around the world. After Peter and Paul had spent the
night in j 1 for preaching the truth about Christ, the next day the govern
ment told them, "Don't you dare ever again preach that word about Jesus
Christ anymore. You shut up your mouths and quit preaching." What did
Peter and Paul do? They said, "Well, we shall obey God rather than man."
When it comes to defending Christ and His property against the government,
that's a different matter altogether. I hope that you all understand that,
and that some of the enemies of the Church are not going to mislead you.
Well, we're having nice hot weather over here, I don't know what you're
having in Pasadena. But usually whatever you have today we'll get over
here tomorrow. It just takes about 24 hours for the same weather you have
to get over here. But we are thankful for one thing, the smog seems to
settle somewhere along the way. It doesn
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t get all the way here and we
don't have to endure that. Our temperature has been up above a hundred
a great deal lately, but it's a dry heat and we have air-conditioning, so
when we come inside we're out of it.
Well, I'd like to be there with you; I will be as soon as I can again.
Thank you again a million times from the bottom of my heart! Good-bye.
FROM PASTORAL ADMINISTRATION
Dear Fellow Minsiters:
Greetings again from Pasadena! We are all well here and in good health
--and it is a joy to have Mr. and Mrs. Dean Blackwell out here on our team
permanently now. His literal wealth of experience in the ministry will be
a great asset to our headquarters team. And, again, I would like to ask all
of you in the Dallas, Nashville, Kansas City, and Milwaukee areas to report
directly to Mr. Blackwell when contacting headquarters about anything involv
ing P.A.D. or the ministry. I know he will be a fine help to you and to all
of us in the future.