140. USE IT!     --page 1077--

         If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? (1Cor.9:11).

         1. Let's use it!--As long as it serves us and we're not made to serve it!
         2. The Heaven and Earth are yours--take them! We shouldn't be ashamed of taking a little bit of what's already ours and enjoying it!
         3. If you'd abandon everything which the Devil uses, you wouldn't have much left!
         4. I'm for using the System and its gadgets for all we can get out of 'em to save the Lord's time and money and effort!
         5. Nothing is evil of itself, as the Apostle says, but it's all in how it's used.
         6. Don't knock the System!--Own it and use it--but watch out--don't let it own and use you!
         7. He has made the System His slave to set you free!
         8. I'll take anything the Devil's got, if I can get it away from him--including you--and use it for the glory of God!
         9. The System needs you, and God only lets it exist for your benefit! It belongs to you--just don't belong to it!
         10. Don't make things your master--make them your slaves! Don't work for them--make them work for you. Don't serve them--make them serve you!
         11. Don't expect to live off the poor when the rich at home could easily support you and should, when they're working for money and you're working for the Lord! They ought to support you! They owe it to you and the Lord and the unevangelised poor of the World!
         12. All things, including the System, work together for good to them that love the Lord! So don't knock it--just hate it and use it, but don't let it use you unless it's part of His plan.
         13. God always makes the System serve His servants, whenever it suits His purpose, if they have what He needs! "As using this World [or System] but not abusing it." (1Cor.7:31)
         14. God's children are always needing the System for something, even though neither He nor they like it.
         15. Even though God's children had their problems with the System, most of the time it was more of a help than a hindrance.
         16. Anything we can get the System to do for us--use it!
         17. If we were to go through the list of all the reformers and revolutionists God used, who used the System for their protection and benefit, we'd never get done!
         18. God created the System for His use, so His children wouldn't have to be bothered with little things like government, transportation, education, business, and earning a living! He has made the System His slave to set you free.
         19. God still uses the System to save us the trouble of getting involved in all the affairs of this World and its goods and to help protect and provide for His kingdom.
         20. The System is God's gift to us, His provision for our needs, His protection for our defense, created to serve us, not us for it--except in spiritual things.
         21. As the Apostle said, we should use it, but not abuse it: In other words, accept its help, its goods and services, but not impose upon it more than is necessary, nor take unfair advantage of it, not be unduly burdensome to it, nor make ourselves troublesome, but be helpful, obedient, cooperative, understanding, grateful and thankful.
         22. Don't let the System get you down. Disown it and its junk and only use it to catch God's salvation on to glory!
         23. Hate the damn System, but use the Systemite to get God's work done! But don't let the System get you. You're in it but not of it.
         24. Six is not necessarily an evil number, it's all in how you use it.--Just like man himself is not necessarily evil, but it depends on whether he's good or bad or how he uses himself or how he lets the Lord use him. The piano itself is not evil, it depends on who uses it and how it's used, whether it's used for evil jazz music or bad music or barroom music, or whether it's used in the Lord's service.
         25. A lot of our folks do a little begging. They might call us Gospel beggars sometimes but we look on it in a different light: We're just collecting what they owe us! We're collecting our dues from the System, what they owe us for being here and for the Lord protecting them and giving them peace while we're here.--Otherwise the Lord might have wiped them out or given them all kinds of trouble if they hadn't been good to us. So they owe it to us, we're just going around collecting it! So don't be ashamed to ask for it! Tax collectors are not ashamed to ask for it!

         (See also No. 27, 67, 163, 211, 212, 312A, 333C, 542, 567, 571, 673, 684, 685, 688, 834, 860, 922, 1036, 1039, 1364, 1453.)

         26. EXO.3:21,22 And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty: But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
         27. PRO.13:22b The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
         28. ECC.2:26a For God giveth to a man that is good in His sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner He giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God.
         29. ACT.27:1,3 And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band. And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself.
         30. 1CO.9:11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

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