Page 28 - Just What Is the Purpose and Mission of The Church Pt.

GOD’S WAY, you take a step away from that way, begin to liberalize, compromise with Satan.”
—Herbert W. Armstrong, ” ‘Satan Deceive and Use Me? Never!!’ ” Worldwide News, December 8, 1980
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“If someone tells me my house is on fire, I’m not going to laugh at him and refuse to take it seriously. I’m going to examine, and BE SURE! If he’s wrong, then at least I shall KNOW my house is safe. I learned years ago that it can be very dangerous to carelessly ASSUME, or just take for granted. It’s much wiser and safer to get all the FACTS, and then decide.
“And one’s LIFE for eternity is much more precious than his house.”
“I have given you God’s Word faithfully. It is not popular. It is not what the popular majority will tell you.”
“My responsibility ends with TELLING you. I have cried aloud. I have lifted up my voice.”
—Herbert W. Armstrong, Which Day Is the Christian Sabbath? (Worldwide Church of God, 1972), pp. 7, 93.
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“In His Message to His true Church of this time, which is yielding itself to be His instrument for shouting this very warning, and carrying Christ’s GOSPEL to the world, Jesus said: ‘Because thou hast kept the WORD of my patience, I will also keep thee from the hour of trial [Great Tribulation DAY of the Lord], which shall come upon all the world.’ (Rev. 3:10.) But those that are lukewarm, careless, indifferent, Christ says He will spew out of His mouth. (Rev. 3:16.)”
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Comment: Here Mr. Armstrong wrote very clearly that the Church as a whole needs to yield herself to be God’s instrument for shouting this very warning. God having removed the spearhead. That leaves you and me to decide whether we will do this as the collective instrument of God. God still calls His ministers, but they must be faithful to their calling. ================================
“... if by God’s grace, thru HIS power, I can make this REAL enough, I can be the means of saving some of you. And your lives are VERY PRECIOUS! Every single one that is saved is worth all the effort – all the criticism from those who want soft and smooth things and deceits – all the persecution.”
“YOUR life is very precious. It’s a potential CHILD OF GOD! I hope to see you, and know you, and LOVE you, in the KINGDOM OF GOD! Yes, YOUR life is very precious to ME! I’m going to try to WAKE YOU UP to reality, if I can. Criticize and condemn