EXCOMMUNICATION!                  DO 683                   3/78
        
         1. God will not allow Himself to be robbed! "Will a man rob God...ye have robbed Me in tithes & offerings."--Mal.3:8. The minute you start borrowing God's share, His 10%, when He's already let you keep 90%, He will not tolerate it! That is probably one reason some areas are sinking. I've heard of that happening so many times.
         2. People BORROW God's money, then BAM, God takes a COLLECTION! All kinds of things go wrong that God could have kept from happening if they'd been faithful, but they literally STOLE God's little 10%, His share, & God just didn't bless it!
         3. God will not tolerate you touching His share. He's giving you 90%, why should you rob Him of His 10%? He just will not bless it. People will tell you,
         4. "We just can't afford to give 10% this month because we're so low financially." You tell them, "You can't afford NOT to pay the 10%! God won't bless your work & He won't bless you financially."--That's probably what's wrong.
         5. Under the NEW Testament system God no longer requires JUST 10% as He did in the OLD Testament. You know what He requires NOW?--100%!
         6. He expects you to give your whole life & everything you own for the Lord, in fulltime service, as much as you can. But He certainly does not expect you to give LESS than 10%!
         7. I know God & I know His financial policies & there are TWO things that will definitely cut down your financial blessings: (1) If you DON'T WORK. You've got to get out & hump & do your share, whatever it is, litnessing, provisioning, writing letters or whatever. (2) If you DON'T OBEY.
         8. (Maria: Some of them won't even pay their new or old lit bills either. The ultimatum has been sent out, "Until you pay your lit bills, no more lit"--but they still refuse.)
         9. In a case like that, if they just continue to refuse, I would absolutely excommunicate them! Any Home that refuses to pay its bills ought to be reported & excommunicated!
         10. That should not require gradual declassification: It should be a total sudden excommunication, resulting in not receiving ANY mailings from WS until they pay their bills! That's the only rod we've got & we're going to have to use it.
         11. There is something wrong with any Home that God's not blessing with at least their NEEDS. You know it's not GOD. You know it's not US, we're doing OUR part. There is something wrong with YOU.
         12. It's got to be one of those few things: They're not WORKING enough, they're living too HIGH or they're ROBBING GOD, & maybe all three!
         13. You can say, "Okay, we don't have it all, but we agree to make MONTHLY PAYMENTS on it." I'm sure you could do that. Otherwise, you should CLOSE DOWN. If it's an outfit that's not doing the JOB, won't bring up its STANDARDS & won't pay its BILLS, it's a POOR TESTIMONY. I'd cut'm off completely!
         14. Just because I shipped away their tyrants doesn't mean that there are no rules & they can lie down on the job & do NOTHING! Apparently, delivering them from their tyrants is giving some of them the idea that they don't have to do ANYTHING now.
         15. Poor living standards merit a few warnings, then gradual declassification. We can WAIT for them to bring up their LIVING standard, but we CAN'T WAIT for them to pay their BILLS!
         16. Non-payment of the 10% also merits immediate excommunication, that's their PRIMARY BILL. If you don't pay GOD, He takes a COLLECTION!
         17. Any Family that closes down leaving bills behind ought to be named publicly & they should not be able to join any other Home!--Excommunicated until PAID! Of course, it might not be EVERYBODY'S fault in the Home.
         18. Find out whose fault it WAS & don't allow them back in the Family any place else until they pay their bills. Go out & get a job & WORK for it to pay it off if you have to! It's been a rule of the Family for years.
         19. People who have UNPAID BILLS are not supposed to join the Family. If they incur bills while IN the Family then they need to either PAY UP or GET OUT & PAY'M! People like that are not good testimonies, they're not honest, they don't keep their word.
         20. There's just no excuse for any servant of GOD not to have enough SUPPORT! If he's pleasing God & doing the right thing, God will drop it out of the sky if He has to. But you've still got to do your part & get out & WORK!--THAT'S pleasing God & doing the right thing!
         21. So remember: We're going to excommunicate Homes who don't pay their BILLS, TITHES or bring up their LIVING standards according to the Checklist!
         22. Sorry, but we MUST obey GOD & His WORD! We cannot tolerate Homes who are a bad testimony, not getting results, not taking care of their Family, not paying bills nor tithes nor nationalising, not splitting into ALL the World, & not litnessing nor winning souls!
         23. You're just not a part of THIS army-like Family if you don't keep the RULES!--So why should you be blessed with the LETTERS?--You don't DESERVE them!
         24. So come on, Family, let's get back to work! The party's OVER! It's time to do your PART instead of PARTIES!

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