37. FFing        --page 295--

         And He saith unto them, Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men (Mt.4:19).

         [HomeARC note (9/98): FFing was discontinued in 1987.]

         1. Jesus is your message! If they don't want Jesus, they don't want you! They can't have you without Jesus!
         2. Just as Jesus had to dirty Himself to save you, you have to go to them & dirty yourself to save them.
         3. If you strike a thorn or rose, Keep a-goin!
         If it hails or if it snows, Keep a-goin!
         'Tain't no use to sit & whine
         'Cause the fish ain't on your line,
         Bait your hook an' keep on tryin'. Keep a-goin!
         4. God has not even withheld His Own Wife, the Bride of Christ, the Church, but has given her as a flirty fish to the World to try & woo & win them.
         5. If you've got it, flaunt it!
         6. A deep look into someone's eyes can move the emotions & body as much as a deep kiss into their mouth!
         7. If there's real spiritual contact in a look, it's just like getting naked into bed with someone.
         8. To a lot of people, sex is the ultimate proof of love.
         9. The church talks about love, but they stop at the bed. We go beyond the bed all the way to Heaven!
         10. You must be willing to go to any length to show you love them.
         11. Never underestimate the power of sex! It can win you lots of friends & catch you lots of fish.
         12. We can't stop our way of saving souls just because it makes someone with a weak unWorded conscience stumble.
         13. You cannot stop saving souls just because some people condemn your methods!
         14. Avoid the sharks: look for the fish!--And carry plenty of bait!
         15. Try giving the Beauty of God's love to some "Beast" today, & see if he won't turn into a Prince Charming!
         16. I don't lose daughters, I gain sons.
         17. People must learn to love you first, before they can learn to love your God!
         18. If the Devil has his spells, certainly the Lord has His--the influence of the Holy Spirit!
         19. Don't break God's spell!
         20. You have His magic in your entrancing hypnotism of the charming beauty that we see looking out through your eyes--those windows of your soul--from the very depths of your being, in a language that no words can speak!
         21. Never underestimate the power of a woman! Godly women are tools of the Lord!
         22. FFing is the acid test, the ultimate in sharing!
         23. Sex is the bait, & it's God's Own bait!--And He's going to use it!
         24. If you believe FFing is wrong, it is because you refuse to believe the Word!
         25. Most religions haven't got enough love to go to bed with a sinner to save his soul, to go to bed with his body to save his spirit!
         26. If you're to be God's whore, you can't have much pride!
         27. They have to believe in you first & your love, your body, your beauty, your unselfish gift of love to them, before they can even understand the love of God!
         28. If you're not willing to give your wife, you're not willing to give your life!
         29. Every travelling salesman has a broken heart.
         30. To learn FFing is to learn a trade, because even if the Antichrist isn't interested in women, his men will be!
         31. If they have to fall in love with you first, before they find it's the Lord, it's just God's bait to hook them!
         32. If some women & men of this World "play for pay," why can't we sometimes play for love, the love of God, & expect God to foot the bills for His Own glory?
         33. Flesh can satisfy flesh, but only Spirit can satisfy spirit, & we've found that we've had to give both to satisfy "all their needs according to His riches in glory." (Phil.4:19)
         34. There is nowhere to draw the line between the two, flesh & spirit. There is no halfway, there is no "almost."
         35. Every woman's a prostitute!--Some do it for fun, some for money, some for information, some for power & some for husbands at the highest price on the lifelong installment plan! We do it for love & souls as a sacrificial loving service & gift to the needy.
         36. Some men like flesh, some like brains, some like beauty, some like spirit & some like'm all!--Be sure you use the right bait for the right fish!
         37. If you just catch one, it's worth all the days that you didn't catch any & all the sacrifices you made.
         38. You're wielding the most powerful weapons the World has ever known! Phooey on the atom bomb! This tiny pill bomb of love is enough to blow any country apart!
         39. In a way, God had to love Jesus a little less for Him to be able to love the World more.
         40. The little that I'm sacrificing of your love & losing of you, results in obtaining their love & gaining them.
         41. FFing is the greatest most sacrificial service that you can possibly give, outside of actually dying, because it is laying your life on the line for love!
         42. Love others ... with your hands, your lips, your mouth, your tongue, your eyes & your body broken for them as He was for you, your blood shed for them as His was for you, even dying for them as He did for you!
         43. Like Christ was your atonement & bore your sins for you, you are their atonement before they find the Lord.
         44. An angry, frustrated, unfairly deprived fish can sometimes turn on you ferociously.
         45. The bigger they come the harder they fight, & if you're not very patient you can lose them altogether.
         46. If you're a hooker for Jesus, don't forget Who you're hooking for & don't forget to constantly point your hook in His direction!--Then they'll know why you're doing it & Who you're doing it for.
         47. The hook is the Word!
         48. The bait softens the blow of the hook a little bit & makes it a little bit more palatable!
         49. You can't expect to catch fish with a naked hook!--it takes naked bait!
         50. You don't hafta like 'em, but you sure gotta love'm!
         51. God lets His wife make love to the world!--Why not you?
         52. FFing with God's love is the ultimate weapon! It's God's last-ditch stand to try to reach the World--They've heard, known & tried everything else.
         53. Sex is the ultimate weapon! Sex is the weakness in their armour: They just cannot resist it!--& when empowered by the Spirit, Love & Word of God, it's the most powerful weapon in the World!
         54. In falling in love with you, though they may not know it at first, they're really falling in love with God in you.
         55. The Lord shares His wife, the Church, with the World to prove His love.
         56. God is a pimp!--He uses you to win souls!
         57. Don't start something you can't stop!--And don't try to stop something you've already started!--It can be dangerous!
         58. Male fish can be satisfied with a mere nibble or a bite, or a mouthful or bellyful of bait!--Whereas the female fish want the fisherman, the tackle, the trap, & the whole darn boat!
         59. Watch for the worthy ones & wait for the witness of the Spirit.
         60. The Spirit & the Word of God encased in frail feminine flesh has turned out to be the most powerful, effective weapon the Lord has ever used!
         61. The quickest way to get a man excited is to look right into his eyes.
         62. Looking into the eyes is almost the next thing to having intercourse, because you're instantly having spiritual intercourse & it really has an effect!
         63. Where the spirit goes the body follows!
         64. If you have to refuse a man, do it sweetly & as nicely as you can, with a smile, & say "later" or "another time" or "I'm sorry, but I'm tired," or give them some good excuse. Don't just say a flat "no."
         65. Any kind of fishing requires a lot of patience, a lot of waiting, a lot of faith.
         66. Don't ever leave your mate alone without a babysitter & don't believe them when they say they don't need one!
         67. You're an adornment to the Gospel!--You really dress it up & decorate it & make it look pretty!
         68. Why shouldn't the Gospel come wrapped up in a beautiful package?--it's the greatest gift in the World, the Good News!
         69. Never underestimate the charm of a woman!
         70. If it's going to be all bait & no hook, then you might as well forget it! If it's going to be all sugarcoating & no pill, it's all in vain!
         71. The Devil uses sex to hook his followers--why shouldn't the God Who made it, use sex to hook His Own?
         72. One kind word from you can mean more than a selfish bed from some of those selfish old whores!
         73. We're salesmen trying to sell our product, the love of God--and it costs something!
         74. Unless you can show them that God loves them by your own love from God, they'll never know it.
         75. All hail to the eyes as the most potent witnesses of God's love!
         76. Your loving looks have the loving answer to the need of every hungry heart.--The look of love which unlocks the doors of many of the hardest & heaviest hearts!
         77. Are you willing to suffer to save others?--To offer your life or your wife, or be offered as God's wife, or both?
         78. Godly hurt, sacrifice and suffering to help others are good for us.
         79. Are you strong enough to give it? Are you free enough to live it? Do you love enough to lose it?
         80. We weave the web with the strong, flexible, lasting, unbreakable cords of love.
         81. Sometimes when Fishing, "a little of the bait is lost and eaten, but it shall live on in the flesh of the fish to give sustenance to others as he, too, becomes food for them that hunger."
         82. "For thou art My bait and I have need of thee!"
         83. There's no amount of love that could possibly be illegitimate to try to win a soul!
         84. Dancing & how well you dance is a spiritual thing! For a woman to be a good dancer it takes total surrender--like sex!
         85. Sow good ground, fish fruitful waters & hunt likely game! Stop wasteful, indiscriminate, blind, lazy sowing on sterile ground, fishing in polluted waters & hunting dead ducks! Choose your targets & hit'm!--Missing the mark is sin!
         86. The bait has to give its life to catch life!
         87. Sex-plus-God is an irresistible power!
         88. This is the ultimate weapon--sex! We have found the chink in their armour! All we have to do now is to attack it with love & sympathy & kindness & the Word & the Truth & the Spirit--& sex!
         89. When empowered by the Spirit of God & the Love of God & the Word of God, sex is the most powerful weapon in the World!
         90. God is going to take the sex weapon He created Himself & use it for His Own glory to win souls for His Own cause!
         91. If you can't tell the difference between a good clean fish & a catfish or a shark, you've got no business being a fisherman!
         92. You're to use your sex as a tool of real genuine love for God & your neighbour, love in the Spirit--& in the flesh--to try & win him to the Lord!
         93. I'm convinced that God knows the fish that are going to be there. He knows exactly who He's going to put you in contact with & He knows who He wants to reach that night, & if you pray, you'll be led of the Spirit to the right pond, even to the right table & to the right individual.
         94. FFing is an absolute extreme, but God in these last days has done it to show to what extremes He's willing to go to love & save people & reach them, to the utmost! He did it, He died.
         95. Even if you don't do them any greater favour than to convince them that real love really does exist, that there is such a thing, at least they've had a sample once in their lifetime, & this gives them faith & hope that maybe they'll still find the real thing because it does exist because they've experienced it at least once or twice.
         96. Every new witness, every new word to him if he doesn't respond, is just another nail in his coffin that God is going to remind him of one of these days when he stands at the judgement.--Of all the chances he had & all the sacrifices that were made & all the love he got. It's going to count against him. We are ministers both of salvation & damnation & the more they get from us, either the more they're going to be saved or the more they're going to be damned. the more they're going to be held responsible for.
         97. Even though persecution forces the main forces of the reapers to flee, there is still much that can be done by the girl gleaners who may even capture a few owners of the fields & thereby get it all, & even sometimes through their love & influence, move the owner to stop his underlings' persecution of the reapers & the gleaners.
         98. Esther & Ruth are two outstanding shining examples of God's FFers who became so famous & influential that two entire books of the Bible were devoted to their stories & named after them!
         99. Even if nothing seems to come of it, God will reward you for being obedient & for trying to help someone even if they don't always respond. Like with a drowning man, it's your obligation to throw him a lifesaver to try to rescue him. But if he doesn't accept it, that's not your fault, that's his funeral.
         100. Who knows--when all other avenues of influence & witnessing are closed to us, FFing may be our only remaining means of spreading the Word & supporting the Work as well as gaining new disciples & workers for the Kingdom of God.
         101. You are only to be concerned about them. That's your ministry--not to be concerned about yourself & what they think about you, whether they think you're a prostitute or a call girl in it for the money, or a sex-starved female, but just be concerned about them & giving them Jesus.
         102. Until you're willing, like Jesus, to make yourself of no reputation, or even a bad reputation of hobnobbing with publicans & sinners & drunks & harlots as Jesus did, & being called a wine bibber, a glutton & demon-possessed as Jesus was, & having your motives & good intentions questioned & your purposes in doubt, as His were, you'll not be a very good bait or fisherman, either one. (Mk.2:15-17; Mt.11:18-19)
         103. Every one of you boys who has a mate who does FFing is "playing God"!
         104. God had the FF blues when He had to send Jesus to die for us & be separated from Him all that time.
         105. Remember: The bigger the fish the less you can preach at him!
         106. A major part of fishing is just pure patience.
         107. We're trying to reach the System, the important & influential middle class whose souls are priceless & whose good will is essential to our work.
         108. Keeping dates faithfully is very important to both your word & their faith in you & your witness, to encourage them to trust in you & what you have to say.
         109. If you want to be a witness of God's Love, be sure you give God the glory so they'll always remember you did it in His Love, not just your own.
         110. Fucking is sometimes needful! What's a little fuck between friends if he needs it!--Not near as much to you as to him. It probably means much more to him than it costs you to give it.
         111. Fishing can be dangerous, unless you really trust the Lord & are led by Him!
         112. FFing is really strictly a volunteer ministry.
         113. Use a little wisdom & try to be Spirit-led! Not every guy who wants you necessarily deserves to have you.
         114. I'd rather have a girl be too willing than not willing enough. So to be on the safe side, if you're in doubt as to whether he can take a "no" or "later" in some touchy cases, instead of "When in doubt, don't," you need to "When in doubt, do!"
         115. Fishing can be fun, but fun doesn't pay the bills! You've got to catch a few to make the fun pay for itself.
         116. Your going into these clubs is a testimony that God is not a monster Who is trying to deny them everything & make them miserable.
         117. The first & most important thing to show them is that you love them. That's what most men & women need most of all, just somebody to show an interest in them.
         118. If you're not willing to sit there all night long & listen to their life story, then you don't love them!
         119. Be careful about ignoring good old friends in favour of new ones you don't even know. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush!
         120. Beloved, don't play around with hearts.
         121. FFing is deadly serious business.
         122. You've got to keep God's Love coming as long as they're willing to receive it.
         123. Many people can become Holy Spirit possessed under the hypnotism of your love.
         124. God is training you women to have this power over men because you are going to rule the Earth!
         125. I like strong soldiers who can take anything, including watching their wives go to bed with other men!
         126. You don't have to like'm, but you've sure got to love'm!
         127. God wants people who are cheerful givers, who are voluntarily doing it because it makes them happy & cheerful, because they know it pleases the Lord in helping others.
         128. Just a little companionship, a little real love, sympathy & God's answers to their problems--these are the things people need the most!
         129. This is a dedicated special ministry for only the absolute 100-percenters!
         130. First they have to fall in love with you & then Jesus, & then finally us.
         131. Thank God for a good soldier, a real soldier who knows how to fight, who knows how to use the weapon of the Word & how to wield it!--Even in bed!
         132. I would certainly say that FFing is not only the most effucktive, effective, efficient & fruitful method of soul-winning, but of course it is also the most sacrificial!
         133. There's no use in your going FFing if you're not going to ask the Lord ahead of time, "Give me real love now, Lord, help me to find the one You sent me to help tonight!"
         134. It's a tremendous blessing & a great encouragement to them, & inspires their faith to feel that you love them & really care, that you're actually concerned about them & their feelings & their happiness! It's such an easy way to show it by just a smile or a few kind words about the Lord's love, a few dances, a few affectionate pats or pecks--& occasionally even more!
         135. We feed their body in order to feed their soul, no doubt God is going to the final extreme to save souls by FFing, no doubt that's going to be their last chance. When God goes to that extreme to show them His love, I really think it's usually their last chance when God has to use such extreme measures to accomplish such extraordinary results.
         136. You literally are having to dip your hands into the slimepit, the dirty dishwater, to pull them out, to make things clean! So sometimes when you think, "Why do I have to go into that horrible Worldly atmosphere with all those evil creatures?" remember, that must have been exactly what Jesus thought when He had to come to this Earth to save you!
         137. Some people are worth saving & sacrificing for & even getting hurt for.
         138. This is the difference between lust & love. Lust is mainly to gratify your own greedy selfish appetite, like eating a meal. You may need it, but if you're stealing it from someone else & taking the food out of their mouth to stuff your own, this is selfish lust, not love. But if you're taking the food out of your mouth & giving your own meal to satisfy & feed another who is hungry & starving for love & needs it desperately & might not survive without it, then this is real love.
         139. It's like you're light, life & love to him--the gift of God to him. It's God's light & life & love. If he doesn't accept this precious price, this gift God has given him, God is going to close the Book & snuff out the candle & take it back with a kiss.
         140. The most fruitful form of witnessing is FFing, with the highest proportion of results for the number witnessed to.
         141. The 7 F's of FFing--effucktive, effective, efficient, fruitful, financial, official & forever. Hallelujah!--For our Father & our Family.
         142. If you don't draw the net you are throwing away the bait & losing the fish.
         143. FFing is largely a ministry for women, & I think maybe because the Lord said in the Bible that in the Last Days women shall rule, God is training our women to have this power over men because the women are going to rule the Earth!

         (See also No.293, 301C, 302C, 304, 309, 323, 501-522, 524, 525, 526, 527, 528, 529, 532, 533, 535, 537, 538, 542, 543, 547, 548, 549, 550, 552, 553, 555, 559, 560, 561, 562, 563, 564, 566, 567, 569, 570, 571, 572, 573, 575, 576, 583, 592, 594, 599, 603, 604, 635, 639, 647, 648, 652, 685, 699, 793, 817, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1120, 1238, 1415, 1468.)

         144. MAT.4:19 And He saith unto them, Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.
         145. MAT.5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven.
         146. MAT.10:8b Freely ye have received, freely give.
         147. MAT.17:27b Cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for Me and thee.
         148. MAT.20:26 Whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister.
         149. MAT.22:39 Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
         150. MAT.25:40b Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.
         151. LUK.5:10b Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.
         152. LUK.9:23 If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.
         153. JOH.12:32 And I, if I be lifted up ... will draw all men unto Me.
         154. JOH.15:12,13 This is My commandment, That ye love one another. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
         155. ROM.14:14 I ... am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself.
         156. 1CO.9:22 I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
         157. 1CO.13:8a Love never faileth.
         158. 2CO.3:17 Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
         159. 2CO.5:14 For the love of Christ constraineth us.
         160. PHI.2:7a But made Himself of no reputation.
         161. TIT.1:15a Unto the pure all things are pure.
         162. JAM.2:15-17 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Faith, if it hath not works, is dead.
         163. 1JO.3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
         164. 1JO.3:18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
         165. 1JO.3:21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

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