IS IT WORTH IT? DO 2473 9/88
1. I don't know how we could have had a Revolution without being against the churches, because they failed on almost every point! But don't you think the Family is sorry now that I was so sexy? (Maria: No, they like it!) But it's caused them a lot of persecution. (Maria: If our enemies hadn't persecuted us for that, they would have persecuted us for something else.) Are you sure they're not sorry I wrote all those sexy Letters with all those sexy pictures? (Maria: I don't think they're sorry at all, I think it really liberated them!) Yes, but it's also caused them a lot of persecution. Our enemies hate our freedom. (Maria: The [EDITED: "ACs"] & the churches would have found a lot of other things to complain about or to use against us if we hadn't been sexy.)
2. Well, I don't see how we could have had freedom without being free, & I don't see how they could have gotten liberated unless I'd written those Letters! And how are you going to illustrate'm without being sexy? God bless our artists for their courage & daring! But now those pictures are used as a witness against us. (Maria: The World publishes sexy pictures & they don't complain against them so much.)
3. How could we have had all these beautiful sexy women if I hadn't set'm free? How could we have had all these big strong handsome men to give them all these beautiful children if we hadn't liberated'm? How could I have made'm happy without setting'm free?
4. You don't think they blame me for their persecution now? (Maria: No, I haven't seen any indications of that!) It's my Letters & pictures that are used against them. (Maria: They chose to be part of it when they chose to join the Family, they made their own decision.) You don't think they're sorry now? (Maria: No, of course not! If they were sorry, they'd leave & do something else.) It's pretty hard on them hiding all the time. (Maria: It's exciting, too!)
5. I don't see how they could be really happy without freedom! It seems like you have to sacrifice one kind of freedom to have the other kind. We have to sacrifice religious & political freedom for genuine spiritual & physical freedom. Isn't that funny? Well, it's not really funny, it's rather odd. You can't have one without the other. You can't live Godly--that means like gods, think of that, with the joy & freedom & power & light & Love of God, be like gods, like Angels--without being treated like devils by the World! "If we were of the World, the World would love its own, but because we're not of the World, therefore the World hateth us!"--John 15:19.
6. You just can't have both! You can't have the Lord & the love of the World at the same time. "Love not the World. Whosoever will be a friend of the World is the enemy of God!"--1Jn.2:15; Ja.4:4. That's the trouble with the churches, they tried to compromise & have both, to have the admiration & respect & love of the World at the same time with God's Love, & it just didn't work! As a result they've compromised. If we were trying to please Man & please the World, we couldn't please God, & worst of all we couldn't get the job done.
7. "They that live Godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."--2Tim.3:12. They that live like gods in Jesus have to pay the price of persecution for it. We have the joys & the ecstasies, the Love of Heaven. At the same time we have to pay a price for it because it brings on the wrath of Hell! It's a real battle! But praise God, thank You Jesus, it's worth it! PTL! I don't think I'd want it any other way!
8. I had the other for 50 years, & it didn't satisfy. I was always dissatisfied & disgusted with the churches. I knew there was something wrong, something lacking. Thank God I finally found out what was wrong. They just weren't what they were supposed to be. They weren't really full-fledged out-&-out, totally sold-out children of God. They had one foot in the Kingdom of God & tried to keep one foot in the World.--But we pulled out! PTL!
9. That's what it takes to be a Revolution, you've got to revolt against something! You've got to be against something as well as for something! When you're against something, you're against somebody, & it makes'm mad, & that means they're against you! So that's the price we pay for being like gods, having the wisdom & the freedom & the love & the power & the beauty & the happiness & the joys & the pleasure of gods!--God's gods, Angels, citizens of the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of gods!
10. "Ye shall be as gods!"--Gen.3:5. That's at least one truth the Devil told. In a way, we're already like gods, like Angels! We have everything but the physical transformation, & the transformation into the spiritual Heaven. Our bodies are still of this Hell on Earth, but our minds & our spirits are in Heavenly places, they're free.--Eph.2:1,6. Our bodies are still bound to this World, but thank God our spirits are free! Even our bodies are free when we can get away with it!
11. To be free, to keep our bodies free, it seems like we have to keep fleeing the System! They keep wanting to bind us, shut us up, confine us & keep us quiet! They don't want us to tell their children how to be free. They don't even want us to tell'm there is freedom. Hallelujah! TYL! Such freedom in every way! TYJ!
12. (Looking at pix of girls:) Praise God! Hallelujah! Look at all those beautiful women, how free they are! They look like they're rejoicing in their freedom! Just think, they would never have been free if they hadn't heard the Gospel of freedom in Jesus! They wouldn't all be free & happy like that. God bless all those beautiful men, too, that keep those beautiful women happy & give us those beautiful children, & win so many hearts! PTL!
13. I told you some day our children would be the proof of the pudding & our greatest witness & win the most hearts, & that's exactly what's happened! And we couldn't have had all those gorgeous children without all that wonderful sex! And we wouldn't have had all that wonderful sex without all this wonderful freedom! Hallelujah! TYL!
14. Thank God for sex! No wonder the Devil hates sex! He must hate sex, look how they hate us for sex! We're called the "sex cult," that's their name for us, & they hate us. So what do they hate us for most of all?--Sex, our sexual freedom! So there's your proof that the Devil hates sex, he hates us & our sexual freedom. They want to try to stop it, they even want to keep it from our kids.
15. My God, what a crazy World! They're the ones that are nuts, not us! We're the only ones that are sane! TYL! We're the only ones that are sane & free & happy & saved! PTL! So, it's a small price to pay for eternal freedom & happiness! The little persecution that the Lord allows us to get is a small sacrifice to have to pay to be happy & free!
16. I keep trying to remember that verse about "our light affliction of the moment worketh for us a far more exceeding & eternal weight of glory!"--2Cor.4:17. You don't have to wait till Heaven for that either, it's now! We're having glory right now, in the Spirit & in the flesh, in our hearts! We're having tremendous glory right now, for which we have to bear a little light affliction from the God-damned World that hates us for it! Because our happiness & glory, joy & freedom proves there's a Heaven, proves there's a God, & the Devil hates that!
17. We're the proof that God exists! He's trying to destroy the proof of God's Creation with his stupid, idiotic, demonic, devilution, & he's just about persuaded all the fools & stupid idiots to believe it, people who want to believe it, people who don't want to believe in God! They choose to believe it, they want to believe it & they desperately do everything they can to try to prove it! Governments are spending billions of Dollars to try to prove there is no God, by trying to find some other source of the Universe & some other reason for His creations, some other origin of Man, blah blah! "The fool hath said in his heart there is no God!"--Psa.14:1. They're fools!
18. We're the proof there is a God, amen? Because we are like gods. We're like God. We live Godly in Christ Jesus. We have the powers of gods, the freedom of gods, the beauty of gods, the joy of gods! We are gods!
19. Jesus was accused by His enemies of blasphemy, claiming to be the Son of God, so He used the Scripture on them, "Have I not said, Ye are gods?"--Jn.10:34; Psa.82:6. We are gods because we are God's, we belong to God! We're like God, we're free, & we hate the Devil & his kingdom & all his anti-Christs, & they hate us! A man is known by his enemies. If the Devil & his World didn't hate us, there would be something wrong with us (Jn.7:7), just like the churches! They've accepted the churches & they don't persecute them, they don't hate them, which proves the churches are wrong & there's something wrong with them, something false, or the World would hate them & still be persecuting them! "Woe unto you when all men speak well of you, for so did their fathers to the false prophets!"--Lk.6:26.
20. The churches have moved out of the arena up into the grandstands! They've taken a grand stand for the Devil & his System, so now the Devil & his System accept them, even glorify them, praise them for having joined him & his System! Let me tell you, if you're accepted by the System there's something wrong with you!--Unless you're just using it for a cover.--Which goes to show you how they like you only if they think you're one of them. They can accept a lot of your differences & improvements & good points if they can just be persuaded you're not that different. As long as they think you're harmless & not out to destroy them, if you can persuade them of that, they're usually willing to tolerate you.
21. But when they begin to see that your doctrines of love & freedom are getting dangerous & could destroy their system of hate & bondage, then they want to destroy you! So you just about have to operate [EDITED: "low-key"]. You don't dare let the System know your whole battle plan & your tactics & all your plans. (Maria: Or all your beliefs.) You just can't let them know everything, any more than any general in any war can let the other side & his enemies know all of his plans & tactics. Because when they fear you, then they hate you & want to destroy you!
22. Above all, they want to protect their children from your freedom & from knowing that there is Love, there is God, there's Heaven, there's Joy, there's Salvation, because then their children would know they haven't got it & their parents don't have it, that their parents have withheld something from them. Then they'd figure their parents don't love'm, don't really love them with real love, the Love of God!
23. "For this cause shall a man leave his mother & father & cleave to his wife"--God's Wife, God's Children!--Mat.19:5. Therefore, Jesus said, "the parents would hate the children & a man's foes shall be they of his own household!"--Mat.10:35,36. But some of our people are still so dumb & blind they can't see that, they just can't believe it, that their own relatives are out to get'm & rip'm off!--Or if they can't rip them off, rip off their children!
24. That's the price we pay for being Godly, like gods, having the beauty & the freedom & the joys & the liberty & the pleasures, the salvation of gods! For if you live Godly, like gods, you're bound to suffer persecution, they're bound to hate you & try to destroy you, because you prove there's a God because you are Godly! Amen? You live like gods, with joy & happiness & the freedom of gods. And the Devil's World hates that! The Devil hates for you to prove there's a God of Love & there's a Heaven, because he's trying his best to send them all to Hell!
25. So, which would you prefer?--Your present Godly joy, freedom & salvation with a little persecution?--Or stop the persecution by making peace with the Enemy & compromising with the World & living at peace with the Devil & his System?--And thereby sacrifice Eternity? Or have a little light affliction now, which is but for a moment, in order to enjoy the glories of our liberty & freedom, joy & salvation forever! PTL! Hallelujah! TYJ! Which have you chosen?
26. (Sings:)
"I am determined, I've made up my mind,
I'll serve the Lord!
I've left all this World & its follies behind,
I'll serve the Lord!
I'll follow wherever He leadeth,
I'll pasture wherever He feedeth!"
--It sounds like a lot of movin'!
"I am determined, I've made up my mind,
I'll serve the Lord!"
PTL! "Choose ye this day whom ye shall serve! If God be God then follow Him; if Baal be God, then serve him. As for me & my house, our Family, we'll serve the Lord!"--Josh.24:15; 1Kgs.18:21. Hallelujah! TYJ! PTL!
27. I was just thinking about that this morning, wondering if they still love me, even though I've caused them a lot of persecution? I wonder if they still believe it's worth it? I think they do, I guess they must, because they're still here! PTL!
28. Now I've gotta go to work & start fighting! I've gotta go to work on my papers, because it's a war of words! But our enemies can't speak the words that have the greatest power. All the stuff they write against us is so ridiculous & flimsy & silly & perverted. They speak hate & Hell & lies, whereas we speak Love & Heaven & the Truth! So PTL! Hallelujah! TYJ! Hand me my papers! Hand me my weapons!--The Word of God!--"Sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul & spirit, & of the joints & marrow, & is a discerner of the thoughts & intents of the heart!"--Heb.4:12. Boy oh boy, we know what they're thinking, what's going on in their filthy heads! But we've got the sharp swords that pierce'm to the heart!
29. That's what it says about what Stephen said, "They were cut to the heart!"--Acts 7:54. So the only thing they could think of was to try to destroy him, so they rushed on him & actually bit him like the dogs they were, & they killed him! But they only killed his body, they couldn't destroy his spirit which went straight to be with the Lord! Hallelujah! So don't forget that! They can only kill your body, they have no more that they can do. But you'd better fear God Who can cast both body & spirit into Hell!--Mat.10:28.
30. So don't fear the persecutors, fear God, serve Him, love Him, & you'll escape all this one of these days! The persecutors may even help you escape by killing your body & liberating your spirit forever! So, PTL! Hallelujah! TYL! It will be worth it all when we see Jesus!--And I think it's worth it all right now! Amen? PTL! I've had a great time getting this far! TYJ! PTL! Hallelujah! Amen, TYJ! PTL!
31. (Looking at girls' pix:) What an inspiration those beautiful pictures are! They're proof that it works! Look how happy they are, how free they are! TYL! It's worth it! Even though the World criticises our freedom & condemns it, it's worth it! TYL! It's worth it all! Don't they look like it's worth it? God bless you folks who send me all your pretty pictures, they make it worth it all to see how happy & free you are! Praise God! Hallelujah! TYL!--How fruitful you are with all your beautiful children & converts, disciples & happy families!
32. (Sings:)
"We're a happy Family, yes we are!
We're a happy Family, yes we are!
All day long we sing this song,
Jesus will right every wrong,
We're a happy Family, yes we are, amen!"
PTL! Hallelujah! Thank You Lord for a happy Family in spite of all the World's wrongs, & one of these days Jesus is going to right'm, & we're going to help Him! One of these days we're going to help Him wreak vengeance on all those dastardly, demonic, Satanic enemies who try to stop us, who try to hush us up, even try to kill us! One of these days we're going to kill them! PTL!
33. (Sings:)
"We'll ride across the sky,
On white horses we're going to fly!"
Hallelujah! TYJ! PTL! That's going to terrify them, huh? They're going to be terrified then, they're going to fear us, & die! They try to wipe us out now, but they can't, but some day we're going to wipe them out, & we can!--Then! So don't worry, the Lord's going to get His vengeance & you're going to get yours against those diabolical, demonic, Satanic enemies who try to destroy us, but seldom can touch us, TYL!
34. The Lord's putting this Earth through every kind of test & the Worldlings are flunking every one of them! They're proving they're of the Devil! So you're not the ones that are going to be destroyed, they're going to be destroyed, & soon, thank God! PTL!
35. So whose side are you going to be on? Who are you going to serve? "Choose ye this day!" As for me & my house, my Family, we'll serve the Lord!--In spite of all the Devil's demons! Because our light affliction is but for the moment compared to all the joys & glories we enjoy, & freedom, Love & Salvation, & the Lord most of all! PTL! Hallelujah! TYJ! Amen!
36. I think that was a good thought. I'm sure it is, because the Lord gave it to me, TYJ! Is it worth it? Maybe that would be a good title. I was wondering if they still feel it's worth it as they get the persecution. Is it worth it? I'd say it is! Amen? It's worth it all! TYJ! PYL! Amen!
37. Now I've gotta go to war! Another day, another battle, TYJ! They used to say, "Another day, another dollar." We say, another day, another battle, another victory, another soul, more joy, happiness & freedom! TYJ! PTL!--Plus a little persecution! "An hundredfold in this life ... with persecutions!"--Mk.10:30. That's war! And all's fair in our love & war, praise God! TYL! In fact, it's wonderful! TYJ! PTL!--Fair, beautiful, lovely, wonderful! All's fair in our love & war! If all that we do, we do all to the glory of God, it's all fair! If whatever we do is for the glory of God, then it's fair. Praise God! TYL! So, sock it to'm! It's worth it!
38. Is it worth it, Honey? ILY, Honey, but all's fair in love & war. I'm sorry, but I've gotta go to war! The time for lovin' is not a time for war. There's a time for everything! (Maria: Well, we have to love all through the war.) Amen, our war is a War of Love! TYL! We kill'm softly with His Words! We kill the old man & create a new one, TYJ! We kill the Devil's work & create the Lord's new creation! PTL! "Killing me softly with His Words!" You used to say that was your song for me! XXX! ILY!--AMEN?
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Copyright (c) 1998 by The Family