UNDERSTANDING THE SPIRIT OF THE CHARTER!         Peter #77        11/94
Prophecies from Summit '95, with Comments by Peter and Gary, Gleaned from Summit '95 Meeting Notes

Introduction by Peter During a Summit '95 Meeting
         1. The best way to understand the spirit of the Charter and why it needed to be written is to study the prophecies that the Lord gave us the other day when we asked Him to speak to us about how He sees the Charter. Let's go over these prophecies in order to determine what the Lord wants our response toward the Charter to be, and how He wants it to be implemented.

God's Word Shall Stand!
         2. (Prophecy:) If this work be of man, it will come to naught, but if this work be of God, no man can stand against it. I have taken your David from you to prove unto all that this work is not of man, but is of Me. David is gone from you in the flesh, yet his words live on in the spirit, for My Words are spirit and they are life. My Words are this movement, and they live on in the hearts of those who will receive, obey and follow them. They are golden seeds, and though they may lie dormant and buried, sometimes for long periods of time, yet each seed shall explode with the fruitfulness and the revolution that I have ordained, in My time, when exposed to the light of My love and the water of My Word.
         3. Therefore, seek not to quench the candle, or to tell it to burn this way or that way, for by your traditions ye can make the Word of God of none effect--your tradition of answering everyone's questions and trying to help everyone to do their jobs.
         4. I would show you, and show the world, that this is the work of My design, and no man can stand against it. Wherefore, ye must have faith in the manual that I have given you these many years, even this latest manual. For if any man will do My will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God. Your flocks will follow this pattern that I have given you and they shall know of the doctrine, that it is of Me, for it will work. If they disobey and fail to follow the plan that I have given them, they shall learn the hard way; but each shall learn in his time.
         5. My Words shall continue to lead and guide as each one looks to Me. They shall guide each one through every decision in these perilous times ahead when you cannot be there.
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         6. (Peter:) The Word is the basis of the Family--that's what counts. It's not our counsel as leaders that will live on, but it's the Word that is in the Family's hearts. We've been investing and investing and investing the Word and training for years, and now it's time for those investments to pay off, and we believe they will as we allow people to start operating more according to their own faith.
         7. The Lord says, "Seek not to quench the candle or to tell it to burn this way or that way." He is warning us as leaders that we must not take things into our own hands, but that we must lovingly encourage people to follow the Lord and to hear from Him fresh every day, to apply the Word as they believe and feel they should.
         8. We must ask ourselves if we are quenching the faith and initiative of our people. One of our "traditions" as leaders has unfortunately been to answer everyone's questions and to help everyone do their job instead of making them seek the answers for themselves from the Word, as well as our trying to ensure that everything is done exactly the way we think it ought to be done.
         9. The Lord is promising that people are going to learn their lessons in their time. We have always been so conscious of trying to help people not to fail, implying that it was bad if they failed and made mistakes. But this attitude does not leave room for people to learn and grow, because we grow the most through our mistakes.
         10. Further down in the prophecies the Lord says to those of us leaders who are gathered here: "Haven't you stumbled? And haven't you fallen?" Isn't that how we have learned--and are still learning? Every one of us has blown it badly, but we've learned and grown through those falls. But we as leaders try to prevent it from happening to others. If your child is trying to learn to walk, but you want to keep him from falling and you're always protecting him, he might not learn to walk and run properly, or it will take him much longer.
         11. Our job is to give people the Word and hope they will follow it without too many falls along the way. But we have to realize that there will be some, and when these happen, our job is to encourage them to try again.
         12. I think one purpose of the Charter is to allow people room to grow, to experiment, without leadership jumping in to say, "No, you can't do that. You don't have the training, you might make a mistake." Or, "You're really needed where you are, we can't let you go." Or, "We've always done that a certain way, so you'll have to wait until we can counsel with top leadership about your trying something new. You might cause problems."

Faith for Change!
         13. (Prophecy:) The Words that I have spoken unto you, they are spirit and they are life, and the Words that I have spoken unto your Father David, they are spirit and they are life, and they will bring spirit and life to My dear Family. They shall receive them with rejoicing.
         14. I shall lead you with the right hand of My righteousness. I find great joy in setting My people free. Remember that in the Spirit, in the Spirit, you will know what's right or wrong. In the Spirit, in the Spirit, you can really kick the gong. In the Spirit, in the Spirit, you can sing a brand-new song. In the Spirit, in the Spirit, you can be happy oh so long. For that is the will of your Father David, that My people be free and happy in their service to Me.
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         15. (Peter:) If we encourage people to follow the Word, it will bring forth the Spirit--the Spirit that they're lacking, and the life that they're lacking. Dad's wish was for people to be happy and free in their service to the Lord.

Let My People Go!
         16. (Prophecy:) In the words of Moses and the words of your Father David, "let My people go" that they may live according to their faith. You [leaders] have been their teachers, and they have been under schoolmasters for these many years. But the time has come that they must go forth and put into practice that which they have learned, that which they have studied, that which they have been taught.
         17. Therefore, I say unto you, let My people go, and bind not heavy burdens upon them. For I free them that they may go forth in the power and the might of the Spirit that I have put within them. Doth not nature itself teach you that there are seasons--seasons of growth, seasons of death? And My disciples shall have their seasons too. Each shall have his turn, each shall have his time. Therefore, hold not back that which I have put within them.
         18. Stand back and see My little ones burn free for Me. Stand back and be not like those who would burn their hands as they hold them around the flame to encumber it and envelop it and snuff it out, even those who are lovingly trying to guide and lead the flame. The flame of David cannot be led. The flame of David cannot be enveloped by loving hands, but must be set free that it may burn free and bring forth the fruit which I desire. Therefore, I say unto you, let My people go, and you, yourselves, let go of those heavy burdens that bind you, that ye may be free to serve Me in the power and the might of My Spirit.
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         19. (Peter:) The Lord is saying that now is the time for our folks to start getting their answers from the Word, and not so much from their teachers. He wants them to have a closer personal relationship with Him so they can hear from Him and follow Him according to the guidance that they receive from the Word. He is trying to get through to us that this is a time that we must set them free from school, and let them graduate. We've instilled years of education and training in our Family members! It's time now to go out on the job and put the training into practice.
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         20. (Gary:) We don't need "professional students" who keep going to college, because after a while such folks become afraid to face reality, afraid to go out and get a job. We want people who are going to take these years of training and put them into practice.
         21. Of course, even after going to the Word and doing all they can to find the answers, there will be times when people will have some questions, and it will be our responsibility to counsel them in love. But perhaps one of the best answers we could give in many situations would be, "According to your faith."
         22. Of course, if what they are planning to do is something that would be diametrically opposed to the Charter or Family doctrine, that's another matter, and we would need to offer counsel and a warning that what they are planning is not permitted under the Charter.
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         23. (Peter:) You can lead them to the Word; that's what we need to be experts in. Show them, "Here's what Dad or Mama said on the subject." But also teach them to pray and counsel together, to go to the Word and find answers themselves, instead of you just constantly feeding them the answers.
         24. He also says to us leaders, "And you, yourselves, let go of those heavy burdens that bind you."--All the burdens that we leaders carry, the concerns we have that everybody is doing what they should be doing. He wants us to cast our burdens upon Him and let go of those burdens and concerns so He can also set us free to serve Him in the power and the might of His Spirit. The Lord wants to set you free so that you can do the job of helping others and leading them to the Word through your inspiration, and thus inspiring others to burn free.
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         25. (Gary:) In "Scatteration" (ML #318), Dad says that our movement must be melted together by love, not frozen together in formality; that the key is a minimum of supervision by the apostles, not a dictatorial, hierarchical, centralized government. This is not to say that as leaders our entire job is to now only go around telling people, "Jesus loves you, and we love you."
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         26. (Peter:) The idea is to let people find their own level of service, and as long as they don't fall below the standard of the Charter they can remain DO disciples. The Charter makes the DO discipleship standard less rigid. Though we may agree that those with a higher standard and who are doing more are worthy of greater investment of our leadership's time and training, we must refrain from coming to the guy living a lower standard and saying, "You've got to be up here, you're blowing it because you're not up here.--You're not reaching the standard."
         27. He is reaching the standard, the minimum standard, if he is obeying the "Charter of Responsibilities and Rights" and the "Fundamental Family Rules." If he is above that line, he is a DO disciple. And if he is a DO disciple, he has the right to choose at what level he wants to serve the Lord. If he falls below the standard set by the Charter, then we should work to help him, by explaining how he is operating below the minimum standard for discipleship, and offer to help him improve in those areas, or correct him if necessary.
         28. When you or your VSs visit Family members who you feel need help, the best help you can give them is to point them to the Word on the various areas that they may be weak in. If they're above the line of DO discipleship, we can only give them counsel and guidance to convict them, but we can't force them to do more than they are doing, nor can we condemn them or punish them for what they're not doing. Of course, if they go below the standard line of conduct befitting a DO disciple, we'll have to warn them that they're putting their DO status in jeopardy. However, for those who operate above the line of DO discipleship you can--and should--still give counsel and suggest they read certain Letters, and give the Word to convict them and to show and teach them in areas in which they could use improvement.

The Spirit of Liberty!
         29. (Prophecy:) There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is destruction. But this way that I have given unto you leadeth to life. As I gave the law unto Moses of old, so have I given this Word unto My servant David, to guide My people into paths of happiness. For unto My servant David I have given laws of love, and ye must lay a foundation in building a work, even the cornerstones upon which the work of My Spirit is built. For where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
         30. This work of your hands, the Charter, is the actual proof of what I want My people to do--to walk by faith and to grow.
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         31. (Peter:) The Lord speaks of the Word that He has given Dad as the "laws of love" which He has given for the purpose of guiding His people into happiness and liberty and consideration for one another. The Charter contains these laws of love that the Lord has given Dad. "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty" (2Cor.3:17). The Spirit of the Lord is love, and where there is love and people operate according to the laws of love, there is liberty. The Lord said that the Charter is laying out the plan for what He wants His people to do--to walk by faith and to grow into the responsibility that He has for them. In accordance with the Charter, we as leaders must let people operate according to their own faith without our interference, except for those areas that are our responsibility under the Charter.
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         32. (Gary:) You'll notice that the prophecy refers to Dad's laws of love being the foundation and cornerstone of the work. One of you mentioned Dad's "Rock by the Road Dream," where he was digging a hole for this big foundation stone that was about to be laid. (See ML #2517, Lifelines 19.) Dad said it was his final monument to the Family. Dad didn't fully understand when he had this dream, but the Lord certainly knew its fulfillment was coming in the Charter. Also, in the dream Dad went on to stand on another higher vantage point so he could look down and give further direction on exactly how to lay it so it would fit right into the hole, the cornerstone for this whole movement and building.

Choosing Your Own Path!
         33. (Vision:) I saw a game board similar to the Mountain Man chart, with little paths leading off. The first thing you were supposed to do, instead of rolling the dice, was to chart your path--"chart" relating to the Charter. The plan was to get from the first point to the final point off in the distance, which was a pyramid that I took to be the Heavenly City.
         34. On the right there was a path, that, although it looped a little, was a fairly direct circuit to the pyramid. But on the left was a path that was much more circuitous and winding. I had the feeling or the knowledge that the path on the right, which was very direct, was the obedient path that got to the Heavenly City via a shorter course. The one on the left, which was longer and more winding, was if you made wrong decisions. Nevertheless, the point was that everybody on the circuit eventually got to the end, to the chosen lesson, the chosen destination or whatever.
         35. There were little sheep on the path, as well as on the side of each path. I was asking, "How do you stop the sheep from bunching up along the line?" It seemed if there were too many sheep or people on any one path, it would bunch everybody up, and nobody would get beyond that point. But then I realized that the path was more like a conveyor belt, and as soon as you took the first step on the path, you were moving, either to the right or to the left, and there was no way you could keep from moving along.
         36. Along the path there were certain little sheep that had stepped off the path for a period of time to rest, or were sort of grazing in the pasture; but as soon as they got back on the path of their own choice, they continued on toward the destination.
         37. There were sheep entering the path at different points, and also some who had gotten off were now getting back on. Just like an airport luggage conveyor belt, the path was structured in such a way that there were things to nudge you back on to it; everything was being nudged to the middle of the path. It was all flowing very gracefully, there weren't pile-ups or snags or anyone falling off. (I thought that was encouraging.)
         38. It seemed that if any of the little sheep went on the left path, which was perhaps the path of lesser obedience, that there were also arteries shooting off from it that wound their way back to the right artery--the direct path of obedience that they could choose.
         39. The Lord has designed our pilgrimage so that it's up to people's individual choice, and so that they will all get there. It's just a question of time--a question of them choosing their own direction--but it's designed by Him so that nobody can lose the course entirely.
         40. I also got the impression that there was more than one chance. Similar to when you claim your baggage at the airport: If you miss it the first time around, you have a chance to get it the next time it comes around. Many got there right away, and others took longer; but whether it was the path of full obedience or lesser obedience, everybody eventually got there.
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         41. (Peter:) When a sheep gets off the straight and shortest path, we as leadership tend to worry about it. If they go off on the road to the left, the path of lesser obedience, there are still ways back. Like the Letter "Keep on Believing" (ML #1268, Vol.13)--sometimes you miss it, but you can get back.
         42. We can guide and counsel and try to help people, but if they make the wrong choices, you have to be open to the fact that maybe it's the Lord's way, because it's the choice they've made. Nevertheless, the Lord will use it and can eventually get them back on the right path once they've learned the needed lessons.
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         43. (Gary:) Mama's Letter, "When Teens Leave the Family" (ML #2942, Lifelines 21) epitomizes this principle. We have to trust the Lord and realize this time is only a few moments in God's history. Even if one of our teens wants to leave, or we face some other personal tragedy, we shouldn't fall apart over it, because that one event is a small matter in God's great eternal plan, despite the momentary pain.

The Spirit of the Charter!
         44. (Prophecy:) Behold the heart of the law: The spirit of the Charter is for you, My people, to know Me and to love Me through the laws of David, which I, the Lord your God, have spoken unto you. To have faith for situations according to your own faith, and for you, My people, to be happy and to be fruitful. The Charter is the will of your Father David. The law was given through Moses, but mercy and understanding and grace were given through My Son Jesus. Think not that I have come to abolish the law, but I have come to fulfill every precept of the law.
         45. Ye must understand the spirit of the Charter. Therefore, you as Levites have to know the Charter, the spirit of it. As the body without the spirit is dead, so the Charter without the spirit, without understanding the weakness of My people, is of no avail. Therefore study and know how to rightly divide the Word in the Charter so that My people shall have peace throughout the land.
         46. Consider the timing in which I have taken your father unto Me, and ye will be very much aware that the dark days are ahead. And My people each have to stand upon their own faith, their own initiative. Communication might be cut off, but Heavenly communication is always there, and if ye can teach them how to abide by the spirit of the Charter, through visiting and teaching them how to connect with the source of My Charter, then even though the days are going to be dark and confused, My people shall be blessed with peace and plenty because they abide in My Word through this very thing.
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         47. (Peter:) Isn't that an amazing statement about, "Behold the heart of the law." In other words, the heart is the love with which the Charter must be implemented. The heart will give life to the Charter, whereas without love, it will be cold and dead. It's got to have a heart or it's just cold, hard rules that kill instead of giving life. Love is what breathes the Spirit into the law and makes it a helpful tool in our service to the Lord and to others--because it's love being put into practice in every area of our lives.
         48. The heart of the law is the spirit of the Charter. It lists three things that are the spirit of the Charter: 1) for My people to know Me and love Me through the laws of David; 2) for each disciple to have faith for situations according to their own faith; and 3) for My people to be happy and fruitful. That's what Dad wanted, for people to know and love the Lord through the Word, to exercise their faith and to be happy serving the Lord. That's really what Dad was all about, and above all putting it into practice by witnessing.
         49. The source of the Charter is the Word, Jesus is the Word. So our job as leaders is to teach them how to abide by the Spirit, by going around and teaching them how to connect with the Source. So then even in the days that are going to be dark and confused, the Lord will bless our people with peace and plenty because they will abide in His Word. We need to teach them to find their answers there so we don't have to be there to answer everything; because some day we're not going to be.

The Charter: God's Plan!
         50. (Prophecy:) But the people who do know their God shall be strong and do exploits. But how can they know Me if you are in the way? How can they know Me if you are filtering their communications from Me? Therefore, let every man take heed, for he shall give account of himself unto God. And this is the manner I have given to cause this to come to pass. Each shall give an account unto Me in that day, and even in the days to come they shall stand before Me. According to their faith they will live, and according to their faith they will die.
         51. This is My plan: that I may cause you to shine and go forth and conquer this world. For darkness has covered the world and gross darkness the people, but My light is shining upon you, and upon all of My children upon the face of the earth, that they may become the diamonds of dust that I would have them to be. It is for this purpose that I have given this Charter.
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         52. (Peter:) The Lord said, "How can they know Me if you are filtering their communications from Me?" The communication from God to the Family is prayer and the Word. So one way we filter it is, instead of encouraging people to pray and search the Word in making their own decisions, we come and say, "This is how you have to do it. There is no other way to do it but this way." Everything has to go through this filter of "only one way," when in fact there might be many ways.
         53. They have to have more personal faith, so we have to stop filtering the Word or filtering communications by our interpretations or our traditions, or in demanding that things have to be done a certain way. We have to let them pray and hear from the Lord and shine with their own light.

If I Be Lifted Up, I Will Draw All Men unto Me!
         54. (Prophecy:) If ye abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, ye shall know the truth--the truth that shall set you free. For where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, and the Words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life. For this cause was the Son of God manifested, that ye might find freedom and joy unspeakable and full of glory, that ye might find happiness and pleasure in serving your King.
         55. For when you were a child, you spoke as a child, you judged as a child, you acted as a child; but the day has now come that you have grown, and now the Word needs to be lifted up. I have chosen you just as I commanded to choose faithful men, and you have been faithful to teach others so that they might teach others. Teach them to study to be faithful and to search the Word, for all the answers are in the Word. Seek not to give answers, but seek to direct them and lead them to My Words.
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         56. (Peter:) We are to try to help each person in the Family find that freedom, joy, happiness and pleasure. That should be part of our goal: to connect them with the Lord so they can have that joy and pleasure in serving God. Of course, part of having freedom, happiness, etc., is being closely connected to the Lord, and sometimes there is an element of discipline, direction, and training.

Promise of New Pastures!
         57. (Prophecy:) My sheep are not dumb sheep, they are smart sheep. But many are sickly and weak because they have grown weary of grazing in the same pasture. Therefore you must open the gate and let them go forth into new pastures where they may feed on new grass, where they may breathe new air, where they may see new sunshine. These so-called "dumb sheep" shall become strong and mighty men of David. I shall transform them before your eyes, and they shall do exploits. They shall be great and mighty in My sight, and they shall go forth to conquer. They shall come forth in time of trouble, and they shall do exploits.
         58. Hold them not back from that to which I have called them. Think not that they are dumb or sickly or weak or must be herded or forced forward with your thoughts. For I shall put My thoughts into their hearts. And as they feed of the fresh waters, and as they read the Words of your Father David, they shall become strong, and they shall hear My voice more clearly. They shall leave behind the shackles of this earthly world, and they shall come forth into the life of the Spirit, and they shall be transformed before your eyes.
         59. For would I have called unto Me so many weak and sickly and hopeless ones? In My great wisdom and foresight, would I have brought unto this fold weak and sickly and dumb and stupid and ignorant sheep who have no future, who have no worth? Do you think that I am an ignorant Father who knows not what I do?
         60. But I have My plan, and you must flow with it. Therefore, open the gates and let them free. Let them go forth to drink of the waters of My Word, that they may become strong and that they may stand on their own and that they may become shepherds themselves.
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         61. (Peter:) When you have sheep corralled, you have to feed them. You have to haul all the grain in, you have to clean their pen, etc. When they're in close quarters, they get sick easily, and disease spreads quickly. But when you let them out, you don't have to feed them and clean up after them. They feed themselves, they eat the grass. When they're loose and free and have pasture to graze in, they're one of the easiest creatures to take care of. All the shepherd has to do is protect them from outside attacks.
         62. As these Family members get out and are transformed before our eyes--transformed into mighty men of David--they will become shepherds to many. Many of our TRF Supporters have gone out and shepherded and cared for their little flocks. How much more should our DO Family, who are constantly getting the new Word, be out shepherding and caring for the sheep.

The Sheep Must Now Follow the Manual!
         63. (Prophecy:) Ye have been given children of your loins and children of your flesh, and ye have trained them well. And ye have been given children of the spirit, and ye also have trained them well. Now there comes a time that your children must depart from you. For the time has come, and well nigh is, that they must look into My wonderful face, that they may cling to Me, their Lord and Creator.
         64. Ye have trained them well, and ye have trained up a child in the way he should go, and many shall not depart from you nor from Me. I have given a handbook, I have given a manual, that they may know that the man [David] is in the manual. And that the man of God that they wish to be must be developed in direct, loving intercourse with Me.
         65. For ye have prepared them these many years, and now they must walk by their own footsteps. There will be stumbles, but I will be there to lift them up. Though many shall fall seven or more times, I shall be there to pick them up.
         66. Ye must lead and direct, but ye must find the balance that will allow them to grow themselves, that will allow them to find the path of their life that I have chosen for them as individuals. And they shall find it. For have you not found it for yourselves? Did you not stumble, and did you not collapse at times? But in falling and collapsing, you found Me, and this is My wish for My children and for the sheep of your flock, that they too may find Me.
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         67. (Peter:) If you've been wondering if all those years of training paid off, the Lord thinks so. Congratulations, shepherds! You've trained them well, and now that the children are older, they will not depart therefrom. They had need of schoolteachers, but the time has now come for them to go on.
         68. We have to realize that their stumbles are now going to be mainly their own responsibility, but the Lord promises that He will lift them up. We are still supposed to lead and direct, but we must find the balance that will allow them to grow themselves, which undoubtedly will be by letting them learn to make decisions, with us simply leading them to the Word.
         69. It's like when you have children: As long as they are in your house and you're telling them what to do, they have to obey you. But once they get married and venture out on their own, you still have the freedom to give them advice, counsel and direction, but you no longer have that same authority to make them do anything. If we feel we have direction to give them, then we should do it from the Word rather than according to the way we think, or the way we would do it.

Let My Sons and Daughters Go!
         70. (Prophecy:) Let My people go, that they may serve Me! Let My people go, that they may serve Me! Free My sons and My daughters, that they may serve Me! And I will pour out My Spirit upon them, and your young people shall prophesy, and they shall see visions and dream dreams. And they shall say unto you, "Father, free me that I may serve the Lord." And, "Mother, free me that I may serve the Lord. I will not disappoint you. I will not fail you. I may veer to the right or I may veer to the left. But you will see, I will come again, bringing my sheaves with me. And though there may be tears and mistakes, yet I will do my very best. Free me that I may serve the Lord."
         71. This is the desire of your father now with Me: that your children shall hear fresh from Me daily. This Charter, built precept upon precept and word upon word, shall be the rejoicing of the hearts of your young people.
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         72. (Gary:) We've got to let our people dream their dreams, fulfill their dreams, and not stand in the way of that. The Lord is extending the same liberty, the same rights, the same responsibilities to our youth, and is giving them the same opportunity as we had when we were younger.
         73. Their desire is to "come again, bringing their sheaves with them." There may be tears on their part, there may even be tears on our part. But their motives are going to be to serve the Lord and to win souls, so we must let them do it their way.
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         74. (Peter:) One of Dad's parting wishes and instructions to us was that we should put a far greater emphasis on reaching the lost with the love of Jesus and with His Word. He was really quite stirred up that we needed to do much more witnessing.

Love Is the Most Important Thing!
         75. (Vision:) I had three different pictures. The first was the cover of the "Key of David." I got that now that David is gone from us, this key is going to be activated in each child of David.
         76. The second picture was Jesus putting on a skit to show us how we were supposed to be as shepherds. He asked, "Is this how I was among you?" and I saw a picture of the 12 disciples sitting on chairs in front of Him. Each one had a bowl of water at his feet, and then I saw Jesus pointing His finger at each of them and asking, "Why can't you see? Why can't you hear? Why did you stumble? Why didn't you get this right?" All the different disciples were kind of hanging their heads in front of Him, trying to brush away these different spots and correct these different handicaps, but they couldn't.
         77. Then the picture changed, and Jesus said, "No, this is how I was among you." Then I again saw the disciples, each sitting on their stool or chair, but this time there was only one bowl of water, and Jesus was kneeling down by each one and washing their feet and comforting them individually. The result was that each disciple was lifting their hands and praising the Lord.
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         78. (Peter:) Perhaps the first picture of Jesus was a little more the way we were. "Get over your NWOs! Do this, do that! Why did you blow it?" as opposed to now trying to be more loving and caring for people and doing our best. It's not to say by any means that all you leaders have been blowing it. In fact, the Lord said you did a great job. But it's just a comparison to try to get us to see how things are supposed to change, how things are supposed to be.
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         79. (Gary:) We're going to have to go out and be known for our love. That's the greatest thing we can be known for--not our talks, not our projects, not our accomplishments, but our love. That's the kind of thing that the Lord is ushering in now, and He wants it to filter down through the ranks like never before.
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         80. (Peter:) With the advent of the Charter, the Lord is encouraging us to put into greater practice the law of love that we've been known and persecuted for. It's no longer going to be, "You just have to do this because I say so. I'm on the Home teamwork, and you're just a Home member." But now there will have to be mutual agreement. It has to seem good to all. That's going to take a lot of love, and if it's going to work, people are going to have to esteem others better than themselves. They're going to have to actually live these principles, the principles of the law of love.
         81. We all now have the same basic touchstone--the Charter--so when we make decisions or we discuss things, we can come back to the touchstone and say, "Is this decision helping to 'let My people go'? Is this helping to take away their burdens? Is this helping us leaders to be out of the way? Is this helping us all to be more loving?" God bless you! We love you and pray for you as you put the Charter into practice in your life!


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