TIT FOR TAT!--No Tat, No Tit!    DFO 1320         11/82
--New Lit/Tithe Policy!--Reaping What You Sow!

         1. I AM FURIOUS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN GIVING LITTLE OR NOTHING FOR ALL OF THESE EXPENSIVE PUBLICATIONS!--Bookshelves-full, tapes, diaries, color calendars & all kinds of things!--Yet there are even a few people who give absolutely nothing!--Or $4 or $8! My God, that couldn't begin to pay for them!
         2. I AM CERTAINLY GOING TO STOP THE MAILING TO ALL THOSE WHO ARE NOT GIVING ENOUGH TO EVEN PAY FOR'M, NOT EVEN THE POSTAGE! I am furious, & when I get furious it usually means God is furious with some people! As God said to the children of Israel in the last book in the Old Testament, the last time that He even spoke to them or gave them a Prophet or the Word of God for 300 years!--He said,
         3. "WILL A MAN ROB GOD? YEA," HE SAID, "INDEED YE HAVE ROBBED ME OF TITHES & OFFERINGS!" (Mal.3:8) So He cut them off & He cut them out of the land of Israel & they had some of the worst times they had in their whole history during those 300 years of the Maccabean Wars.
         4. NOW DON'T TELL ME THAT THERE IS A HOME IN OUR FAMILY WHO SENDS IN A TRF & IS GETTING OUR MAILINGS WHO HAS LITTLE OR NO INCOME!--Or who has only a $40-a-month income or even an $80-a-month income! No Home in the World can live on that little money, not even out in the jungle! Which means, as far as I am concerned, they're as bad as Ananias & Sapphira, they are liars! (Acts 5:1-11) [W]e'd be better off without them, like the Early Church was better off without those God-damned liars, deceivers, withholders & cheaters trying to lie to God & the Holy Spirit & to us!
         5. BUT EVEN IF IT WERE TRUE, that we have any Homes in our whole Family who have no income or only $40- or $80-a-month income, then if God doesn't care anymore about them than that, if He's not taking any better care of them than that, if He's not even giving them enough money to live on or to feed them or house them or clothe them & He doesn't give a damn about them any more than that, then I don't either, & I don't think they ought to get our mailings!
         6. IF GOD'S NOT BLESSING THEM, THEN WHY SHOULD WE BLESS THEM?! In God's Word it's a law of God's finances, life, everything, that "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap!" (Gal.6:7) And "With what measure ye give it out it shall be given unto you again!" (Lk.6:38) And if they are not reaping enough to even eat on, if people are not giving them enough to even survive or exist, then it must be because they're not sowing very much & they're not giving out very much!
         7. YOU FIND ME THE BIG GIVERS & I'LL FIND YOU THE HARD WORKERS, the ones that are busy tilling the soil & sowing the seed & giving like mad to everybody & everything including WS, & that's where you'll find the people that God is blessing & showering & pouring it on to them so they can pour it on to everybody, including WS!
         8. BUT YOU FIND ME THE PENURIOUS LITTLE PENNY-PINCHERS who can hardly tithe one red cent for all the valuable publications they're getting & I'll show you the people that are selfish & penny-pinching & not giving to anybody but themselves & not working hard & not tilling the hard soil & not sowing the seed & not scattering it.
         9. "HE THAT SCATTERETH ABROAD IT INCREASETH, BUT HE THAT WITHHOLDETH IT TENDETH TO POVERTY"! (Pro.11:24) These people who are in such poverty, it is because they are withholding, they're not giving, they're not working, they're not sowing!
         10. THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A POOR GIVER! According to the laws of God & His finances & His blessings, there is nobody who gives generously & abundantly, even if it's only the Widow's mite, all they've got, who is poor! Because if they have given everything, God will give them everything, & so they can't be poor!
         11. ONCE THAT LITTLE WIDOW GAVE HER MITE, "even all her living" (Mk.12:44), do you think for a minute God let her continue in that poverty-stricken condition after that? I have an idea He just heaped the blessings on'r after he'd made her an example to all history, to all the liars & the hypocritical self-righteous Scribes & Pharisees who pretended to be giving so much & probably weren't even giving their tithe!
         12. DON'T YOU THINK HE REPAID HER FOR IT? Don't you think He took very good care of her after that, & she had a lot more than just a mite to give from then on? I believe it! She might have gotten down that low just to be an example one time, but I doubt if God let her keep on going that way!
         13. I WANT TO KNOW THESE "POOR TITHERS'" RECORD, & I want to tell you something right now, I'm not going to send them another thing until I get it! I don't think they deserve another thing unless they can give us mighty good reasons for why they're in such a helluva mess!
         14. I CANNOT SEE HOW ANYBODY, EVEN A SINGLE PERSON LIVING IN A ROOM BY HIMSELF ANYWHERE THAT HAS RENT TO PAY & FOOD TO BUY, CAN HAVE NO INCOME WHATSOEVER! If it is a catacomber living with his parents who hate the Family & don't want him connected with us, then he is not supposed to get mail separately at his home anyway.
         15. IF IT IS A WIFE whose mate hates the Family & she claims, "Well, I love the Family & I want to get the Letters etc., but he never gives me a penny!"--If she never has one red cent in her palm, not a penny, not even to spend on the kids or even on the groceries, my God, why is she living with this scoundrel? She could go out & litness or something & get some kind of money!
         16. DON'T TELL ME THERE'S ANY FAMILY MEMBER OR HOME WITH A NAME & ADDRESS WHO GETS SEPARATE FAMILY MAILINGS WHO HAS ABSOLUTELY NOT ONE RED PENNY EVER TO THEIR NAME FOR A WHOLE MONTH SO THAT THEY CAN'T EVEN SEND A CENT! There's nobody in this whole Family who can't afford to slip in some kind of a little piece of currency, a little piece of paper, a dollar or something!
         17. NOW WE GOT TOUGH LIKE THIS BEFORE & WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN. The thing God warned me about this is that it's a security loophole. Some people are getting information they don't deserve & they shouldn't have & it's even dangerous for them to get it.
         18. THESE WHO CLAIM TO BE TRFers & TITHE LITTLE OR NOTHING ARE CHEATERS & LIARS & ROBBERS OF GOD! If we don't weed them out we are not only going to have cheaters, liars & robbers in our midst, we are going to have traitors! And a traitor becomes a betrayer & an enemy! They are not friends & they don't belong in the Family & I'd just as soon get rid of them!
         19. WE'VE BEEN TOO LENIENT, too easy-going, & apparently we've got a lot of freeloaders taking a free ride on us right now! I want to tell you right now, we are not a Pauper's Society or a Welfare Society in business merely to support the poor, I don't care how poor they are! It doesn't matter to me if they're starving, they can fast, & if they fast to the death, they can go home a Saint, praise God!
         20. I PERSONALLY WANT TO KNOW THE NAME & ADDRESS OF EVERYBODY IN THIS FAMILY WHO GIVES LESS THAN $20 A MONTH AS THEIR SUPPOSED TITHE & expects to get hundreds of dollars of mailings for it!
         21. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE, I WANT TO ANALYSE WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THEM. THEY'RE FAILURES AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED! There must be a formula for failure that is common to most of them!
         22. AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, THEY'RE A DEAD WEIGHT WE'RE CARRYING ALONG FREE! I can't see why we should! If they can't accomplish or earn anything more than that, they don't even belong in the Family!--And they certainly don't belong on the mailing list!
         23. DON'T TELL ME THERE'S ANYBODY IN THIS FAMILY WHO REALLY CAN'T GIVE ANYTHING OR NEXT-TO-NOTHING WHO DESERVES TO GET MAILINGS! If they can give a name & address to send them to & send us a TRF every month in order to get them, then they can afford to send some money to pay for them! And if they can't afford to send enough to pay for all of them, then we'll just have to send them only what they pay for!
         24. OUR INCOME IS DOWN & IT'S DOWN FOR SOME REASON! Family income is down according to the reports. We're no longer asking for the actual income figure, so we don't really know if all the Family is being truthful & honest or not, & I'm convinced some of them aren't, especially these non-givers or the ones giving almost nothing!
         25. I'VE LIVED BY FAITH FOR YEARS, BUT I CAN NEVER REMEMBER IN MY WHOLE LIFE NOT HAVING SOMETHING TO EAT WHEN I NEEDED IT, or not having enough to wear or having no place to lay my head!--And I doubt if there's anybody in our Family in that bad shape either!--Not if they can afford to send in an address & a TRF for a mailing! And if they are in that bad shape, I don't think they belong in the Family! There must be a reason for it!
         26. AND I WANT TO ASK THE CROs: HOW DO THEY JUSTIFY THOSE MAILINGS TO PEOPLE WHO GIVE NOTHING OR NEXT-TO-NOTHING? They'll probably say, "Well, you said so yourself, Dad, that we weren't going to set a minimum anymore." Well, they were supposed to tithe! We did set a minimum, & the minimum is the Tithe!--And nobody has that little tithe! Tithe is the minimum God expects! Under the New Testament you're supposed to give everything you can!
         27. THE LAW IS NOT MADE FOR THE LAW-KEEPERS BUT FOR THE LAWBREAKERS! These new regulations are not coming out for the people who have been faithfully tithing, GB'M! The law is made for the lawbreaker & for people who have been lying & cheating & stealing from God! '
         28. WELL, LET ME TELL YOU, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GO BACK TO MINIMUMS! If God works on that principle that those that give get, & those that don't, don't, then I think we ought to work on the same principle! (Gal.6:7; Mt.16:27; Pro.11:24)
         29. I THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GO BACK TO CLASSIFICATIONS & MAYBE I'LL WIND UP MAKING TWO DIFFERENT GNs A MONTH--one with the real good hot stuff in it for Disciples Only, & one GP-type for those who are not really Disciples, who are not really following all the way & giving all, but giving so little it hardly pays for postage!
         30. SO WE'LL HAVE TO SET MINIMUMS: YOU WHO GIVE LESS THAN $30 a month will only get FNs, KIDZ & LINs! Less than $20: KIDZ & LINs only! Less than $5: LINs only! You know, you don't have to make $300 a month to give $30--you only have to make $30! That's the general idea of what I want to do, & I think it's Scriptural!
         31. THE LORD REWARDS US ACCORDING TO OUR WORKS! A lot of these things are not necessities, they are rewards! I think we're going to have to do it on a graduated scale according to what their tithe pays for! And we certainly cannot give everything to people who are giving absolutely nothing or next-to-nothing! Such people haven't time to read Books anyhow! They need to get to work! If that's all the working they're doing & all they're getting from God as a result of what little work they're doing, then we're just wasting the lit on them!
         32. WE NEED TO PLANT IN GOOD GROUND THAT BRINGS FORTH FRUITFULLY, ABUNDANTLY, & NOT WASTE SEED ON STONY & SHALLOW GROUND WHERE WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET ANY RESULTS! (Mt.13:5) They must not be doing much witnessing or litnessing or soul winning, or they certainly would have a better income than that!
         33. NO WONDER GOD ISN'T BLESSING THEM! And I wouldn't be surprised if it may run to about 10 or 15 percent of our people who are cheating God, & that's why our income is down 10 or 15%, just about in proportion!
         34. IF WE HAVE TO CUT DOWN 10 OR 15%, WELL THEN, LET'S START AT THE BOTTOM at the grassroots & start cutting down at where they don't deserve it. Let's lay the axe, as He says, at the root of the tree! (Mt.3:10) If they can't give any more than that, they're unfruitful trees obviously, & they're encumbering the ground! (Lk.13:7-9)
         35. WE ARE IN A FINANCIAL PINCH, & with a 15% reduction in income, we've got to trim 15% off somewhere!--And frankly I don't like to keep trimming it off the workers & missionaries & really fruitful projects! So why don't we trim it off people who don't deserve it? Let's work on dropping mailings immediately where they don't deserve'm or give enough to even begin to pay for'm!
         36. NOW ALL YOU MANY WHO'RE ALREADY DOING YOUR BEST, GET BACK TO WORK!--GBAKY busy!--But those few of you who are not, had better, or you're gonna be partially or totally excommunicated! GHU!--IJN, amen! You'd better get on the stick or you'll be off the lick!--Amen?--Mad Dad!


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