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THE USEFULNESS OF SOME EDUCATION

         1. WE ARE NOT ENTIRELY AGAINST ALL EDUCATION; in fact, we have quite a bit of our own, & actually, to educate people in the things of the Lord, even in our witnessing, is our major task. To go into all the World & preach the Gospel to every creature is a pretty big job of education--the Lord's education. The basic meaning of the Latin roots of the word literally means "to lead out"--& this is surely what we're trying to do--lead people out of the Pit of the Devil's education, materialism & sin & darkness--into His glorious light & Love of His Salvation and the wonderful fellowship of the Kingdom of God.
         2. NEVERTHELESS, A LITTLE OF THE WORLD'S EDUCATION SOMETIMES CAN HELP in a few instances where you have to deal with the World & meet the System on its own grounds, especially business & the art of communication!
         3. THIS IS ONE REASON WE HAVE OUR OWN SCHOOLS, to teach the basic practical knowledge necessary for survival, communication & business with the System, particularly the socalled three R's: "Readin' & Writin' & 'Rithmetic!"
         4. SO BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT EDUCATION & be sure to qualify your remarks to others as to what KIND of education you're talking about--& only damn the Devil's kind--not the Lord's! You're enjoying HIS right now--& even my Letters are an education.
         5. GOD WILL USE EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT IF YOU'LL LET HIM & I've personally found out that there's nothing the Lord has let me learn in the past that has not later come in handy, in both past & present--including my own personal experience in a multitude of fields & jobs. And since God was even then preparing you for His Service, even before you were saved, He's undoubtedly going to use your hidden talents at some time or other, sooner or later, somewhere, if not here, if you'll just be patient & faithful! "Be not weary in welldoing, for in due season ye shall reap, if ye faint not!"-Gal.6:9. PTL!

GOD'S EDUCATION & TRAINING

         6. SO "LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK" & "WAIT PATIENTLY ON THE LORD", "For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the Will of God, ye might receive the Promise!"--Jam.1:4; Psa.40:1; Heb.10:36, 6:12.
         7. DON'T QUIT TOO SOON! DON'T FLUNK OUT BY RUNNING OUT JUST BEFORE GOD'S SCHOOL BELL RINGS & He's about to promote you to another grade! Don't run away from your school of Laban just before you begin to inherit the promises!--Genesis 29. What patience Jacob had: He worked seven years for one girl, fourteen years for another & twenty-one years for the flocks! Some of you can't even wait a few weeks!
         8. WAITING & LEARNING PATIENCE IS PART OF YOUR TRAINING, because if you flunk that test, you haven't got much faith or perseverance & you wouldn't last long anywhere! A few of our folks have gone back just when we were about to promote them to something they really wanted to do & felt they were capable of--but God knew they wouldn't make it because they had no patience! So thank God they left, before we had to find it out with bitter experience!
         9. REMEMBER THE STORY I TOLD YOU ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN ON THE ICE FLOE & the Russian soldier, who exchanged places at the last minute, just as God was handing out the crowns! The Christian missed it; he didn't last quite long enough--& the Russian got it! You may be surprised who might steal your job, if you're not faithful! Don't let it happen to you!
         10. HOW ABOUT YOU? ARE YOU GONNA STICK--OR HAVEN'T YOU GOT THE FAITH THAT IT TAKES? Patience is the result of real faith & without faith it is impossible to please God, because faith worketh patience!--Heb.11:6; Rom.5:3-5. Have you got it? We have our eye on you & we're waiting to see! Like Admundsen, the famous Arctic explorer, we don't want to rescue you prematurely or take the heat off until you're well done--or it may leave some flaw or impurity in the finished product, some weakness that would cause it to break later under severe strain in time of emergency, when your job is much more important!
         11. WE CAN'T AFFORD TO LET THAT HAPPEN--NEITHER CAN THE LORD, SO HE'S TESTING YOU NOW; He's putting you through the fire to burn out the dross & through the storm to blow away the chaff; & through deep waters so you can learn to swim, when you haven't got us to lean on! PTL! Do you wanna make it? We all hope & pray you do & we're rooting for you, trying to make the growing process as painless as possible; but it's not always easy, 'cause if it were, you couldn't stand the hard knocks later!
         12. BETTER TO LEARN TO TAKE IT NOW, WHEN YOU HAVE OTHERS TO LEAN ON, THAN TO HAVE TO LEARN IT WHEN YOU'RE OUT THERE ALONE! But learn it you will, here or there, the easy way or the hard way, if you really wanna serve Him. THIS way is a shortcut!--Out there, it may take a lifetime of bitter experience to learn it& that may be too late to do much good! The people who are ever learning & never coming to a knowledge, who never profit from the lessons learned, who never make the grade, who never stay in God's school till the bell rings, seldom accomplish much for the Lord. He just can't trust them--& neither can we! Hope it's not you!

IMPORTANCE OF THE VISITOR'S MINISTRY & GUESTBOOK

         13. EVEN THOUGH THE LORD PROMISED US & PREDICTED THAT, DUE TO OUR SAMPLE, THEY WOULD COME TO US, YOU SEEM COMPARATIVELY UNCONCERNED ABOUT THIS MINISTRY, giving far more attention to your "sermons" on the streets! I AM ABSOLUTELY STUNNED BY THIS NEGLECT & we shall undoubtedly have to answer for it at the day of judgement, for the many souls who have been care lessly handled, offended, neglected, turned away & even lost, as a result of your lack of attention to the needs of the door ministry!
         14. THE IDEA OF YOUR SPENDING SO MUCH TIME, SO MUCH ENERGY, SO MUCH EXPENSE & SO MUCH MAN-POWER ON TRYING TO FORCE YOUR MESSAGE ON THE FULL, while the hungry, who actually come to your very gate seeking help, are turned empty away, is just utterly beyond my comprehension! You've completely reversed the Scripture, "He hath satisfied the hungry soul, but the rich He hath sent empty away"!--Luk.1:53. You've got it completely turned around & have most of your people running all over the place trying to cram it down the throats of those who don't even want it, while multitudes of hungry little lost souls have been knocking at your door & getting very poor attention, to say the least! Even the souls you've won are turned away because you're too busy to care for the children you have borne, casting them back into the street where you bore them!
         15. THEY COME FOR HELP, BUT ARE SENT AWAY, BECAUSE THE PERSON WHO BROUGHT THEM INTO THE KINGDOM IS TOO BUSY to nurture them further! You can't expect everybody to join! Jesus Himself only had from twelve to seventy: But I'm amazed how many do join! But neither can you turn the rest away & simply ignore them & even all but curse them because they don't join. Jesus also ministered to the multitude, even healing & feeding them & doing miracles for them, even if they didn't follow Him all the way. How much more "him that cometh unto Me, I will in no wise cast out". "Feed My sheep!"--Jn.6:37; 21:15-17. How can you do otherwise? '
         16. HOW CAN YOU TURN THEM AWAY, WITH SO LITTLE SATISFACTION? You cannot expect them all to be leaders or even allout disciples--but at least you can give them a chance: Jesus did! What's the matter with us? If you really read your visitors' log, it should have broken your heart at your ineffective failure to properly feed these little lambs at your door; even those who want to enter your fold are turned away into the night, the cold & to the wolves!
         17. YOU ARE NEGLECTING ONE OF THE MOST FRUITFUL MINISTRIES THAT GOD HAS PROMISED US--the ministry to the stranger within thy gate, which even the Old Testament Law exhorted God's Children on. This is pure religion & undefiled: To visit the widows & the orphans in their affliction--but CERTAINLY take care of them when they come to you!--Jam.1:27, 3:10.
         18. THIS IS ONE OF OUR MAIN MINISTRIES & WE'VE WON MANY SOULS, GAINED MANY DISCIPLES & MADE MANY FRIENDS THROUGH IT!--But from the way our log sounds that your visitors are treated, it seems you'd just as soon not be bothered. You wish they'd go away, while you're too busy feasting, fellowshipping, fanaticising, forsaking, formulating & whatnot! I just can't do the subject justice!
         19. WATCH OUT WHEN GOD RUNS OUT OF WORDS: HE'S ABOUT TO SWING A BIG STICK!--Just as I did with some of you when you were little: When words & warnings fail, the chastisements & judgements begin to fall. That's the only way you would listen! If we won't keep His commandments & heed His loving warnings, in love, He is forced to chasten us with the rod to rescue us from the ruin of our folly! May God have mercy!

WARNING TO CARE FOR VISITORS & HOW

         20. A SPECIFIC MEASURE TO CORRECT THIS SITUATION might be to leave half your shepherds home to take care of all the little lost sheep that are flocking to your fold, while the other half are running around looking for them. It might also be wise to leave some of your best & most tactful, diplomatic, gentle, patient & understanding men available near the door, responsible, experienced, well-trained leaders, to handle your important, official, parental & systemite callers!
         21. WE CANNOT ROB PETER TO PAY PAUL & LET THE HOME BASES GO TO POT, while we're running around on the road, as important as new bases may be! A foreign invasion is senseless if we leave the home base defenseless & allow it to collapse into disorganised confusion!

THE "STRANGER IN THE GATE" MINISTRY

         22. WE CONSIDERED THE "STRANGER IN THE GATE" MINISTRY SO IMPORTANT, SO URGENT, SO VITAL & SO CRUCIAL TO OUR WITNESS AS WELL AS OUR WELFARE, that we took one of our very best & top leaders & teachers, with the most experience in this field, as a Pastor & put him at our door to personally handle & supervise these delicate situations, with some of our best witnesses & plenty of them, so we wouldn't be outgunned by the Enemy & would have an exceedingly strong, capable, talented & powerful front-line of defense.--Not to throw them over the fence, but to even try to woo & win them into the fold!
         23. AND HOW MANY NAMES & ADDRESSES OF FRIENDLY VISITORS HAVE YOU RECORDED, have they been put on your mailing list for a regular prayer letter?--Even someone else's prayer letter, if you can't handle it!

WARNING AGAINST THE RELIGIOUS SYSTEM & ITS BOOKS

         24. I AM WORRIED ABOUT SOME OF THE BOOKS YOU'VE BEEN READING & TEACHING OUTSIDE OF THE BIBLE, INSTEAD OF THOSE OF OUR OWN DOCTRINE! This is a REVOLUTION, not a reformation, & we've got no time for reformers & those who themselves have not broken with the System, cannot even see anything wrong with it or merely want to patch it up; or have some other log to roll. If you prefer their teachings, you ought to join them--& you're welcome to do so--any of you, but I don't think you'd be satisfied, because they're just not our cup of tea; or I'd say they're weak tea, compared to our strong liquor!
         25. HOW FAR CAN YOU TRUST A SYSTEMITE, WHO IS STILL A MEMBER OF THE DAMNABLE RELIGIOUS SYSTEM, some of whom you don't even know, so you don't know what their fruits are! Get rid of those books! Burn'm! Books were my downfall! They nearly ruined me! I oughta know--I used to have a whole roomful of 'm, so many I couldn't even read'm all, until the Lord showed me I didn't have time to read books if I didn't have enough time to read the Bible!--I don't care who the hell wrote'm! If you wanna read something revolutionary, read OUR stuff! At least you know who wrote it & what our fruits are!--You!
         26. THE WORLD'S HEARD ABOUT US--WHO THE HELL EVER HEARD OF THESE OTHER GUYS, except for a bunch of damn Systemites, stuffed-shirt Christians & namby-pamby little pipsqueak Pentecostals? We're right now rockin' the World & we're goin' to blow it apart for God! Who the Hell ever heard of these other guys! How many all-out followers have THEY got?
         27. THESE OTHER GUYS AREN'T PREACHING "FORSAKE ALL" OR "GO YE"! They're preaching "Pay me"! & "I'll go for you"!--a damnable doctrine of devils that has damned the Church for generations, until organised Churchianity is becoming a dying species, soon to be extinct!--And I'd like to help it along, so we can show the World what REAL Christians are like! If these other guys are so all-fired hot, WHERE ARE THEIR FRUITS? WHERE ARE THEIR RESULTS! WHERE ARE THEIR DISCIPLES? WHERE IS THEIR MOVEMENT FOR GOD? And how much of a dent has it made in this World? How much of this last generation of lost youth is it turning to God? Let me see their samples!-Where are they?

READ OUR REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS & BOOKS

         28. TO HELL WITH YOUR DAMN SYSTEM BOOKS! WHY DON'T YOU READ & STUDY OUR LETTERS & listen to our tapes or those of our disciples & teachers or even my mother or my grandfather--the people who started this Revolution of which you're supposed to be a member--or get the Hell out of it! You don't belong here if you don't believe in what we teach, preach & write enough to read it, study it, memorise it & teach it-at least your Bible, if nothing else--that's all you really need, if you learn it; & you'll never have enough time to learn enough of it for what you need! So get busy right now, Brother! Start studying, Sister! Get with it, Cat! Those other damn books are not where it's at! If they told it like it is, you'd be there, so why aren't you? Because they haven't got it! WE ALONE HAVE THE WORDS OF THE KIND OF ETERNAL LIFE THAT JESUS MEANS FOR PEOPLE TO LIVE & WE'RE THE ONLY ONES THAT I KNOW OF THAT ARE LIVING IT, TEACHING IT & PREACHING IT, in any sizeable number, with any sizeable effect! How about YOU?
         29. MAYBE IF YOU WERE REALLY READING & STUDYING & LEARNING OUR LETTERS & our tapes & living in your Bible, we wouldn't have so damn much trouble with you & your always getting out of line! You know what we expect & what God expects & what you've gotta do or else! Are you with me? Hallelujah!

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