DON'T GIVE UP, STAND UP!         DO 2843  1/1/93
--The End Has Come!--No Place to Run!
--A Talk to the Family on New Year's Day!

         1. Well, praise God, we're fighting back now! We're not just on the run any more, and we're finding out that standing up for Jesus really pays! It has won us a lot of friends, won us a lot of encouragement and enthusiasm, and has been a great witness! Of course, we've always stood up for the Lord, and we've always tried to stay out of trouble. This was our policy for a long time and probably why we managed to evangelize the world and last this long.
         2. But now the end has come and there's no more time for running! In fact, we've just about outrun everything we can and run out of all kinds of refuges we used to have. The Family has been to nations all around the world, and there are really not many places we have to run to or run out of any more! There are no more refuges left! Everything's getting tighter! Immigrations procedures are getting tighter, visas are getting tighter, rules are getting tighter. The Enemy's clamping down and attacking everywhere.
         3. It's just amazing the lengths they will go to in order to try to get us, to try to hurt us, even grabbing our kids! That's where it hurts most, and our enemies know it. They've built up a whole big worldwide campaign against child abuse. They want to get our kids out from under us where they can make little devils out of them, they think. But thank God for our kids, who are like the little Dauphin of France I told you about. They tried to corrupt him after the French Revolution and he said, "I won't do it, I won't say it. I was born to be a king!" I think our kids are like that. They're not going to do it, they're not going to say it. They're born to be kings and queens! Thank the Lord! Praise the Lord!
         4. But the end has come! It's not just coming now, it has come as far as I'm concerned. I mean the Endtime when things are really going to get rough. And it doesn't seem like there's much use running any more, because there's no place to run to! So we've finally just had to stand up and fight, and we've found out it's done a lot of good! It's been a great witness!
         5. The Lord said, "I will bring you before kings and magistrates to be a testimony against them!" (Mat.10:18; Mark 13:9). And did you notice how He phrased that? He wants us to be a testimony against them! They're taking testimonies against us, but He's making us a witness and a testimony against them--our enemies--even the judges and the magistrates, some of whom side with our enemies.
         6. Just remember this: We're not going to win'm all! Victory doesn't always mean winning. What do you think it was in the case of the martyrs who burned at the stake, and sang and praised the Lord to the very last? Was that a defeat? (Fam: No!) It looked like they lost their lives, but they didn't. They gained their new life and they were a witness! Hallelujah! (Tongues) Thank You Lord! "Hear ye the words of your Father David and listen to what he has to say!"
         7. So we've come to the end of our run and there's no place else to go. Like the little talk I gave the other day about how there's no place else to run now, no way out but up! Hallelujah! Thank You Jesus! Now that we're going to stand up and fight and buck the System, there's now no way out but up! We're not going to win'm all. Some of us are going to have to pay the price, and the price in some cases is going to be your life, and you may be thankful when you die! Don't fear death; that's the easy part! That's your graduation, that's your release! You can look forward to that. It's just getting there that's a little hard.
         8. Stick around as long as you can. Annoy'm as long as you can. Be a thorn in their flesh as long as you can. Hound them with the truth, the Spirit of God and the Scriptures and your testimony and your witness, like dear old Martin Luther did. At the Diet of Worms they were trying to get him to deny certain things about his salvation by grace, and this, that and the other, and he just came out and hit back, and he socked it to all those prelates and bigwigs and high hats with their tapestries and gold and jewels. They thought they were big shots, but they were nothing! This was the big shot standing in front of them whom they were accusing of all these sins and going to excommunicate by order of the pope in Rome and blah blah! And he said, "Here I stand, I can do no other!" (Dad weeps.) Here I stand, I can do no other!

This Is Not the Day to Run Away!

         9. So what are you going to do? What am I going to do?--Back down like some people want me to do on the things I've said about sex? Well, I can honestly say that I'm sorry that those Letters have been published publicly, especially that they have fallen into the hands of our enemies, and that people who are unspiritual, who don't understand the things of God at all, are now reading them and using them against us; they sound bad to them because of the way the world is conditioned mentally. They talk about us using mind control and mental conditioning, good night, the world is full of it! They're totally mind boggled, all the time!--Especially by the AC media and the AC press and the AC movies! Their whole mental concepts are shaped and under anti-Christ mind control!
         10. Like Martin Luther said, "Here I stand, I can do no other!" And the Lord protected Luther by the princes of Saxony, and kings of Sweden, and his Reformation caught fire and saved Northern Europe from the Catholics. He even lived to a ripe old age. Can you imagine?
         11. I sometimes think the Lord has been too good to me, He's spoiled me! Look at all He's given me and all He's done for me, and how He's blessed the work and kept us going. Every year I think, "Oh, this is going to be it, this is going to be our end!" Instead, every year is a bigger year than the past one. But don't always expect that, because things are going to get rough and tough! I don't think we have that long, I think this is going to be it! This is it! But if they nail you down, now is not the day to flee, as we have before. Now we're just going to have to stand up for the faith and be crucified! That was Jesus' greatest witness of His love for us! Are you willing to stand up for Jesus and His Own?


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