THERE'S NO WAY OUT BUT UP!
25/12/92
DO 2837
1. The Devil's doctrines concerning sex, which have become the churches' doctrines, are totally contradictory to God's sex position and how God feels about sex! As I've outlined in many different Letters, when God created man, He made the organs involved, and He made them to feel like they do! He made sex an absolute necessity for man, otherwise, in selfishness, neither man nor woman would have ever wanted children. The Devil, however, branded sex as something evil and wicked and shameful from the very beginning--starting very cleverly with nudity, the exposure of the body and its sex organs.
2. We and most churches are worlds apart, the difference between Heaven and Earth, when it comes to the subject of sex of any kind! The gulf is so great it cannot be bridged, between God's opinion on sex and the Devil's opinion, which the world follows.
3. To the great denominational churches and the Catholic church, sex is sin. According to God's Own Word it is sin for them because they think it's sin (Rom.14:23). But to us, because we know it is not sin, therefore it is not sin! So on those two positions we are totally worlds apart, and it's impossible to convince most churches, who follow the Devil's doctrine, that they're wrong, that sex is not a sin and that all things are lawful to us Christians if they're done in love. It's simply impossible for them to see that, because the carnal, natural mind cannot comprehend such great truths as true love applied to sex. So they have made doctrines and laws opposed to the love of God, and have set up their mores and moral standards in opposition to the Laws of God.
4. They know it's obviously God's will for the creation of children, but in their eyes all sex other than that within institutionalized, formalized marriage is wrong. As the old song goes, "Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a baby and a carriage!" That's what the Catholic church has taught, and what the Protestant churches have followed, that the only really truly legal and moral sex is sex motivated by the desire to create children.
5. In fact, that's why the Catholic church teaches that the woman should not enjoy sex. They literally teach that it's wicked and sinful for women to enjoy sex. For men it's a sin that's sort of tolerated, because it's something that men have to have; therefore women must submit to it.--Although to be saintly, a woman must not enjoy it, but just have in mind that her motive in submission is to create children for the will of God. Not only the Catholics, but also a lot of the Protestants follow that same line of logic.
6. So we are far out of range of their way of thinking! The Lord Himself said that His ways are as high above man's ways as the Heavens are above the Earth! "So are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts" (Isa.55:8,9). So they can't even hope to understand, and we certainly can't hope for them to understand how we feel and how we think about sex as being pure, made by God, intended for us to enjoy in fellowship with each other, to become one flesh, the total fulfillment of physical love. We can't expect them to grasp, much less receive, our attitude about sexual freedom!
7. They've pronounced us guilty of sin and there's nothing we can do to change their verdict, because it's utterly impossible for them to understand the truth of God's love laws and feelings about sex! (Maria: "The carnal mind is enmity against God" [Rom.8:7].) It's impossible for the carnal mind to understand God!--Or to understand the spiritual, or understand His Word! (See 1Cor.2:12-14.) They'll never do it! In fact, they're so opposed to the truth we preach that they'll even come to the point of killing you and thinking they are doing God's service! (John 16:2).
8. We don't ever expect them to receive it and believe it. We don't expect them to be able to accept it. Therefore we know they will judge us guilty, persecute us, crucify us, and probably even eventually kill us in defense of their own sexual attitudes. They have to. Since they do not have such freedom, they have got to prove that we're wrong; otherwise they've got to admit that they are wrong. And if they can't prove somehow that we're wrong and stop us legally, if there's no other way to stop us, they will not fall short of killing us to prove they're right and we're wrong!
9. This has been the world's attitude since the very beginning, from the time of Cain and Abel. God told Cain he was wrong. Cain claimed to be right, and he was furious over being proven wrong, since God was thereby proving that Abel was right. So Cain, in his self-righteous defense of his own wrong, killed righteous Abel, and that was the beginning of this whole battle between grace and works, between the true church and the false church. (See Gen.4:8-16.)
To Him That Thinketh It a Sin, It Is Sin!
10. The Devil told Adam and Eve that they should be ashamed of being naked, ashamed of their sexual freedom, and that they should try to cover it up--that's obviously what he told them--and therefore sex must be evil, it must be wrong, it must be wicked!--Which is why they were ashamed. God said, "Why are you ashamed? Who told you you were naked?" (Gen.3:11).
11. Adam and Eve--the dumb clucks that they were, having disobeyed God and no longer understanding God--believed the Devil's lies and ran and hid themselves and made themselves cover-ups for what they were now convinced was sin.--Just like the world is convinced of it, although they of course enjoy it greatly. And having enjoyed it and still enjoying it and thinking that it's against God, they therefore feel they can't be religious, they can't go to church, they can't accept Christianity and they can't accept the Bible because they're so convinced that they're hopeless sinners!
12. Their whole religion is a religion of works and suffering; therefore saints should suffer and not enjoy religion, and certainly not enjoy sex! Their whole religion is built on the false premise that because sex is enjoyable, it must be a sin. "This is so good, it must be sinful!" The self-righteousness of the church is the self-righteousness of Cain, who, despite the fact that God told him that Abel was right and he was wrong, he insisted on trying to prove that he was right despite what God said! His brother had done the right thing and obeyed God, yet Cain didn't want to admit it. Therefore in the final analysis, to shut Abel up and to stop him, he felt he had to kill him!
The Devil's Tactic: If You Can't Stop'm, Kill'm!
13. This has been the Devil's tactic throughout all ages: "If you can't stop'm, kill'm!" And that's what it will come to eventually in the coming Antichrist world dictatorship, where true faith and true worship and true love of God and belief in Jesus Christ will be absolutely forbidden, and worship of the Devil will be commanded, obligatory and enforced--or you're killed! (Rev.13:15).
14. Right now they're trying to do it legally. They figure that if they can catch us on something that's illegal in the eyes of the world, in the eyes of the law, that they can criminalize us, put us in jail and coop us up and shut us up to where we cannot preach God's truth and freedom any more. This is their purpose, because they belong to their father the Devil and they believe his lies, and they really think they're right! In the eyes of the law, they're legal and they're working hard to pass laws to make us and other Christians completely illegal! So what else can we expect from the law, man's laws, but to be contrary to the laws of God! What else can we expect but persecution, incarceration and some day even death.
15. What can we expect from the fiendish, Devilish, ungodly world who think they're righteous and think that they're without sin and think that we're the ones who are unrighteous, when we're so utterly, totally in opposition in our positions! The Devil, having prepared the way for centuries, even for millenniums, has convinced his wicked world that they are right and the true Christians are wrong, so that they have persecuted them from one end of history to the other, and have found countless excuses and justifications for persecuting Christians!--Creating laws against them and casting them into prison, torturing them, burning them at the stake, putting them through the Inquisition, and all kinds of excuses throughout history!
16. And the coming Tribulation is going to be the most widespread persecution ever, the final persecution, when the edict will go out to kill everybody who refuses to worship the Beast, the Antichrist and his Image!--The Devil, in other words. (Rev.13:15). The Devil is finally going to make it a law. It'll be illegal not to worship him!--Illegal to worship God and Jesus, illegal to be a Christian!--Or a Jew, or a Muslim, or anybody who believes in God or any other religion but the Devil's own religion of worshiping himself in the person of his Antichrist Superman, the Devil-possessed dictator of the world!
17. So what can we expect? We can expect nothing better from the world, since our doctrines are totally at sword's points and totally in disagreement and totally contradictory! They've been trained and persuaded by the Devil's own doctrines for thousands of years, that according to them and to Satan, certain things are wrong and sinful, which to God, the Creator Who made us, are not sin!
Here I Stand, I Can Do No Other!
18. So what can we do? I feel like Martin Luther before the Diet of Worms. They were asking him to recant his writings and say that his position of salvation by grace was false, and that works would save, particularly on the point of the observance of the Eucharist, or as we Protestants call it, Communion. He was asked to deny his faith in salvation by grace. He said, "Here I stand, I can do no other! Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the Pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not retract anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. I cannot do otherwise." And thank God, because of the dukes of Saxony and their protection, they saved him from certain death, execution by the Pope for his stand for grace instead of works. We are in the same position today! They want us to deny our position on the saving grace of God, that all things are lawful in love because of God's grace.
19. God's only Law is love! As long as it's in love and hurts nobody, then it's lawful! But this is totally contrary to the world and the morals of the public and the program they've been building up.
20. We are standing up for a principle of freedom in God's grace where "all things are lawful," as the Apostle says (1Cor.6:12; 10:23), although they're not always the safe way to behave. Some might say, even our friends, that it was unwise for us to take such a public stand and to write it down, even if it's true, because the world will never accept it. This is what some of our friends are trying to tell us: "You've got to change your stand on that because it'll never be accepted by the world."
21. So we stand convicted in their minds already! We're already misjudged because by the world's standards they're convinced that we're wrong. The legal system has been made by worldly, carnal men, people who are totally ignorant of salvation by grace. They do not understand the freedom of God's love and the freedom He grants to us under His Law of Love, and because of this, they cannot judge us fairly.
22. How can I go back on the truth of God and the truth of God's Word, and the truth of God's grace and the freedom of His love? How can I now recant and deny it, when I can't recant because I know that what we stand for and what we have taught and what is according to God's Word and our faith in God's grace and His freedom in love, genuine love, is right! I cannot go back now and recant!
23. There are so many things in which we've taken a stand regarding the wickedness of this world--against sodomy and baby murder (abortion) and all of their much worse sins, real sins!--Not to speak of the truth about the world conspiracy!
24. Can we back down on the truth? We can't expect any mercy from the world. Jesus said, "If you were of the world, the world would love his own, but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you! If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you!" (John 15:19,20). The Devil's world hates Jesus, and therefore hates Christians, and there's no way out of it except Up! We'll only be delivered when the Lord comes, and just before that we will go through the worst persecution, the most widespread the world has ever known. Jesus Himself said so! (Mat.24:21).
25. It's all a part of God's permissive will to test us and try us. He says, "The trying of your faith is more precious than gold!" (1Pet.1:7).--More precious, yea, than much fine gold! God loves to see the martyrs die for their faith because it is the final acid test of their true gold. (See Psa.116:15.) He doesn't enjoy their suffering, but He is thrilled with their sacrifice and willingness to stand up and die for the truth!--And it is coming again just as sure as we are here today--persecution of the righteous for their faith and their stand of faith for the truth!
26. So can we compromise? Can we deny that we really believe this and that? Can't we deny the grace of God and salvation by faith so we can save ourselves from the wrath of Satan and this world?--Not if we're going to please God! Because to God, having fellowship with the unfruitful works of unrighteousness and the wicked is sin! He says, "Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers, and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them!" (2Cor.6:14; Eph.5:11). To be in fellowship and in some way yoked and not rebuking and condemning their sins is a sin to us!
27. There's no way around it, no way we can get out of it, because to them our freedom in God's love is sin, but to us it's all a part of the grace of God, salvation by faith! How can I deny the truth of God's Word just to save ourselves?
28. In some ways the quicker the better if they kill us! Jesus said, "Fear not them which can kill the body and after that have no more that they can do; but rather fear Him who is able to cast both your soul and body into Hell!" Because that's what God will do to those who kill us, even though they think they're doing God service! (Mat.10:28; Luk.12:4,5).
29. We live in the most dangerous days for Christians the world has ever known! We're almost into the Tribulation, and some are already being tribulated. And of course true Christians of real faith have always been tribulated throughout thousands of years of Christian history! There have been many martyrs, many persecuted, many killed for their faith.
30. The world thinks it's so beautifully civilized nowadays. "Oh no, people wouldn't do things like that today!" Well, they're doing it right now in Yugoslavia and Africa, they're doing it right now in almost every nation on the face of the Earth! They're killing the righteous and even killing people for their faith. I don't think that this day is going to be any better than it has been for millenniums. We are living in a dangerous time; we're in a dangerous occupation of preaching the Gospel, the truth, salvation by grace through faith, and living the Law of Love and freedom!
31. Of course some of our friends are worried, because they can see the possible outcome, that there's no way to save us except for us to deny our faith and our beliefs. They can see themselves not being able to defend us or protect us or work with us if we won't, because they can see us being accused of what the world calls sin, and they don't want to be connected with people who are going to be found guilty of what the world considers sin. The world's ideas of sin are totally contrary to the Laws of God. There's no way of escape, there's no way out! We have to stand up for our convictions of the truth of God's Word, salvation by grace and freedom by love!
32. Sorry, there's no way out but Up! Just like all the other martyrs, we'll have to pay the price of standing up for the truth. We'll probably be some of the first of this generation. There have always been martyrs throughout world history. Christians have continually been hounded and persecuted and reviled and falsely accused and tortured and jailed and slaughtered! Today's world is no different; they'll get around to that as soon as they can. The Devil's rage is great because he knows that his time is short (Rev.12:12).--And there's no way out but Up!--To stand up for one thing, for our faith, and to be willing to leave this life and go Up to Heaven for our faith.
33. What else can we do? Like Martin Luther, all we can say is, "Here I stand by the grace of God, I can do no other!" All we can do is stand up, and go Up! There's no way out but Up! Death is our only hope, because as Jesus said, "He that believeth on Me shall never die!" (John 11:26). When we're put to death, we don't die; we get released from the body of this death, as Paul says (Rom.7:24). We go Up, but they go down!
34. I don't know what to do, except do what I've been doing all the time, and say what I've been saying. There's no way out, but Up! As Martin Luther said, "Here I stand, I can do no other!" Stand up for Jesus! Stand up for our faith! Stand up for the truth of God's Word! Stand up for our freedom and grace and love! Stand up for Jesus! Stand up and die, stand up and go Up!--Because the only way out is Up! God help us! There's no end to it, except our end, which will be our beginning!
35. They killed Jesus and they'll kill us too, especially in these Last Days when man is so wicked as to extol and exalt some of the most wicked sins of man--sodomy and abortion, the murder of defenseless babies!--While accusing us of sin because of our righteousness and the truth!--Condemning us when they're the guilty ones! And they have to kill us to try to prove it!--And they'll go to Hell! Their only way out is down!--Ours is Up forever! Hallelujah! TYJ! GBAKY till then--and He will--forever! Death is your promotion!--You've passed the grade and can graduate!--Out of their reach forever! TYJ! Just make it count as a testimony against them!--Like righteous Abel! GBY!--In Jesus' name, amen!
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