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AS WE CONSIDER THIS SUBJECT, THERE IS ‘POWER IN THE WORD,’ we turn to the book of Romans. And you start summing this up with the words of the Apostle Paul. And he makes this statement to the church, that the will of God is Mighty. ‘It is in my mouth, and in my heart and in the word of Faith. The word of God is nigh unto me even in my mouth and in my heart, and this is the word of Faith.’

Following this passage we turn back to the book of Matthew, and there God speaks out and he makes this declaration: “Man cannot live by bread alone.” These are the words of YAHSHUA (JESUS): “Man cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”
In the book of Hebrews, we discover the attributes of Faith and the word of God. And it tells us that ‘Faith comes by hearing the word of God.’ And we understand that Faith is the substance of all things most precious. It is the evidence of all things not seen. Therefore it is by Faith that we can understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God. So that things as are seen with the natural eye are not made of things which do appear.

THERE IS NO QUESTION IN THE EYES OF BIBLE STUDENTS that we are in a very turbulent time. We are in the edge of great transition. And as an American citizen, we have been in all the background of our heritage, identified by certain symbols and certain emblems which are of great significance to Bible students. This is the great nation which God said was to have the outstretched wings of the Eagle.

The nation which is to carry on a great responsibility before God in the world today. That responsibility was to be the instrument for gathering together peoples of our race form every nation of God’s Kingdom. Predominately, this nation would be under the Anglo-Saxon culture, or under that facet of our background in which our language would be the one in which we would be identified. We find that the English language contains some of the oldest phrases and words to be found in the background of our race. There is much to be said about the English language and in association with the ancient Coptic (Aramaic), and the true tongue of our race associated in our Semitics. In the tracing of our Semitics, there are many words that come out of all the Household of God. We see words that have an affinity with words of the Germanic people, the Scandinavian people, and the people of the Anglo-Saxon race, because they are one and the same people, one race. And again, thru the tracing of our Semitics, there is much that identifies us as the ancient people of the Household of God.

Then as we look upon the seal of our nation, once again, we see our identity with the great Household of God. This identity was understood by those leaders of our nation in the days of the forming of our independence.

WE TURN TONIGHT TO THE SUBJECT OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE CHRISTIANS to politics, and the church as to her part in politics. In the “Life Magazine” we have seen this laid out, as to what the church has to do in order to exist. And we have reported that on the attitude of many Clergy who should not even be qualified as Clergy, in the church of Jesus Christ. But we make this assurance unto you that the church does not have to change its God. The church today is not qualifying its survival by eliminating Jesus Christ and who he is supposed to be. From the content of our faith and our thinking, in order not to be branded as superstitious or accepting the mythical.

Again we want to make this foundation clear to you. That upon the foundation of the Christ can the structure of Christianity be filled. For the very words Christianity and Christian are identified with Christ. It is identified with identity and identified with his place. Of all of the areas of usurpation in all time and history. If the man Christ Jesus was not the embodiment of God, not the fulfilment of Messianic destiny. If not who he claimed himself to be, then he was the biggest impostor in history of all times. And if HE is, and now we know that HE is who he claimed to be then, my friends, His concept his purposes are fulfilling the destiny of which HE had ordered. Then this is the most important area of commitment that you and I can participate in.

I FELT DRIVEN TO SPEAK ON THIS SUBJECT WHEN LAST FRIDAY I HEARD HUBERT HUMPHREY MAKE A SPEECH. And he said, ‘I am the only man that the people can choose for President for I am the only man of Peace.’ And he said if you elect me I will give you Peace and Safety. And the moment that he said that, then there came to my mind what the Apostle Paul said, in the writings of book of Thessalonians. When you say Peace and Safety, then comes sudden destruction.” And Mr. Humphrey said that there is only one way to have Peace and that is not to fight. He said that the people are looking for leadership with the Vietnam conflict. And the only way to have peace is to stop bombing them.

We just need to bring our men home and there will not be any fighting, and the people will call me the man of Peace. I would go over every month to the Soviet Union to work out a program of Peace, for the fighting must stop to have Peace. And whether it take appeasement or any process the human mind can work out still it is worth it to have Peace.

Now this man wants Peace at any price. But I am going to tell you, my friends, that as a child of God, we want Peace thru victory. This is the truth from the Word of God. For this Word talks about Peace thru victory. It never talks about Peace at any price. Never talks about Peace by acquiescence. It never talks about Peace by giving in to the powers of darkness, or the forces of evil.

WE ARE THINKING OF THE PATTERNS OF REVELATION, of the day the angel came to John and said: “Come, John, and I will show you the great whore that sitteth upon many waters, and with whom the kings of the earth have committed their many fornications.” John discusses this very thoroughly, and says: “He carried me away in the Spirit, and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.”

This is mystery Babylon the great, and further in chapter 17 of Revelation, John continues: “I saw the woman, and she was full of the blood of the saints (believing offspring) and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus The Christ (Yahshua), and when I saw her I wondered about her. And the angel said unto me: Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman. The seven heads are the kingdoms on which the woman sitteth. There are seven kings, five are fallen, one is, and one is yet to come; and when he cometh he must continue a short space. Then the eighth is to come out of the seventh.” And he talks about how these ten are ten kings who have no kingdom as yet, but will rule with the beast system for one hour in the attack of the beast upon Yahweh’s (God’s) Kingdom.

AS YOU TURN TO OUR SUBJECT THIS AFTERNOON, I think that you are well aware that there are people in the world today who have great fear as to the knowledge of God’s judgment. The relationship of the believer and his father is always found in the concept of the individual and in the background of the teaching he has received as a Child, or, has he been raised in any area of theistical or theological thought. Therefore the attitude of the Individual as to what is to come to pass, or what God’s attitude is toward him is all dependent on what he has been taught.

And we recognize that from the beginning of Christ’s teaching to his disciples, and the great areas which preceded this through out the great development of theological knowledge of our race that there was biblical teaching, and foundational teaching concerning God’s plan, concerning the individual, concerning his destiny, the conclusion of his purposes, and ultimately what was to be his destiny. We are to understand that in the multiples of old testament scriptures, with a great number of these scriptures not found in our bible, but they still exist. And in the records which we have of the scriptures we can pick up these things in Revelation. In the New Testament, in the new Covenant we continue to pick up the pattern of Revelation. We are vitally interested in what Christ taught his disciples, what he brought back to their remembrance, and what the spirit bears witness to in the days of the early church.

We are more concerned about their opinions and the things they received directly from God, than we are as to what was interpreted in Rome, or any of the Protestant leaders from that day onward. We are well aware that an attempt has been made through out the years seeking to change the foundation of scriptural truth. They also by these changes pervert God and his nature in many ways and have created barriers to divine understanding.

AS WE TURN TO DISCUSS THIS SUBJECT OF ‘OUT OF THE NETHERWORLD,’ it comes sometimes as a shock to some people in this sophisticated age, that there are forces and powers with which they are not acquainted. And what it is that is making war upon the kingdom of God may not be understood by them at all. There never has been a period of history like this one. But we have arrived now at the very climactic hour of human events. The struggle for the earth is about to take place. And there are a lot of people who do not want to be realists.

They do not want to face up to the fact of the time of the hour. They would like to just think about things that are pleasant. The things which they feel are elevating to their minds. They do not want to be bothered by the continual things that are before us. Thus it is, they say, ‘I am tired, I don’t want to hear anything more about communism. I do not want to hear any more about Johnson. I do not want to hear any more about any of these things.’ But you might as well be a realist. For this is the time that it is. So we point out these facets and we think it is always important to remember who you are and what you are here for, the difference between you and the powers of darkness and the forces of evil.

The struggle for the earth is just as simple as this. For we can reduce it to simplicity. It is the struggle for control of this planet by Lucifer, a fallen Angel, and all of his hosts, and the Eternal God who put it all together, and who is going to have the last word, and whose children you are. It is just this simple. You dwelt in the dimensions, and then you volunteered to come. And we knew from the beginning whose names were written in the Lamb’s Book of Life and whose destiny was known to HIM.

THIS AFTERNOON WE THINK UPON THE TREMENDOUS EVENT and we lay background for the celebration which we find throughout all Christendom at this time of year, the Birth of Christ. It is impossible for us to understand in full the impact of this event except it become personalized to us and the whole panorama of these events become a part of our thinking and our living. One of the most significant things is to hear people everywhere singing ‘Peace on earth, good will unto men.’ I hear clergymen everywhere trying to extend this peace on earth to include all the enemies of God and His Kingdom.

They try to extend ‘peace on earth’ as a process to all who would destroy and they actually expect you to make ‘peace’ in your nation and outside your nation with every force that would destroy. They do this because they do not understand the great significance of this ‘peace’, or how it must be maintained. Before we go into our thoughts concerning this hour, I would tell you that there is no ‘peace’ ever advocated in the program of God’s Kingdom which is not related to Victory. It is not by acquiescence or by appeasement. It is not today by withdrawing from positions of leadership and joining hands with the pagans of the world, or the Communist in their stronghold that we will introduce, ‘Peace’.

WE ARE SPEAKING ON THE SUBJECT OF INHERITANCE AS SONS, this is the third in this series which started with redemption, and consummates with this particular area of thinking. As we talk to you about our inheritance as sons, it is most important that you understand our relationship as sons of God. When we talk to you about sons and daughters of God we are not talking about a process which by mental gymnastics, by the acceptance of an individual pattern of persuasion, or by any area of development which comes by applied ministry, changing, .transforming, or making you something that you were not before.

I want you to know that truth is eternal. Truth is based on face, and for you the ultimate truth is the things God knows, which emerge from his mind. We are more interested in all the things in the mind of God, all the knowledge that is in the mind of God. For incidentally this mind which was in Christ Jesus is also in you, in your celestial consciousness. Therefore we are really interested in truth, and we are not as interested in dogma, unless it is built on truth.

AS WE TURN TODAY INTO OUR WORSHIP SERVICE, we find that all Christendom is worshiping in the area of Psalm Sunday. Some churches are passing out pieces of palms, and the Catholic and Episcopal churches would call your attention to the fact that this is Palm Sunday. And as we observe also these areas of Palm Sunday then we want to point out to you that pageantry and such is not often mentioned when we are given just the bare facts in the scriptures. But every man is taught of God. For God makes this declaration that “I am thy maker and thy husband”, speaking to your race. HE says, ‘I am YAHWEH of hosts and this is my name. I am the redeemer, I am the holy one of Israel. I am also the God of the whole earth.’ And therefore HE says, ‘All thy children shall be taught of YAHWEH. Great shall be the peace of thy children. No weapon ever formed shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against thee, thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their righteousness is of ME, saith the LORD.’

Thus, He hath taught them and it became essential that they be grounded in His Word. They have been taught that God would become embodied in the earth. And in the areas of this we again turn to this declaration to the Virgin Mary that she would have a child, and this would be a holy child. And we remember that this was in six months of the time that Elizabeth a cousin of Mary was told that she also was to have a child. And this child would be a tremendous child, and he would be a prophet before the Highest.