BEWARE! JUDGE NOT OTHERS! 1
TRANSGRESSION OF GOD‟S PEOPLE! 5
“I WILL NOT FAIL THEE, NOR FORSAKE THEE”. 8
THE GUIDANCE OF GOD. 10
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YOU ARE IN GREAT DANGER BEWARE! JUDGE NOT OTHERS!
(Rom.2:1-16; Math.7:1-5; Luke 6:37, 41 & 42; John 7:24) These are the days when people care so much for “discernment of the thoughts and intents of the heart” and even try to falsely show that they have the prophetic gift just to fool people; but the Bible says, “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh” (Math.12:34). We also notice that wherever two or three believers, evangelists, pastors, or apostles get together (who are of various denominations or groups, or are haunted by denominational spirit), immediately they will start talking bad about other fellow-believers, fellow pastors, etc., or about full time workers who are depending totally on God‟s Word and on God for their daily livelihood and on whom the power of God rests. They will create lies and propagate lies and judge every other fellow-being than themselves. They are trying to remove “straw” out of other people‟s eyes when they have 1000 times more weighty sin in them like a “beam” in their eyes, under which they are groaning. Just like a man under water cannot feel the weight of water, they are so much under sin that they do not realize what a great weight of sin is pushing them down, and just like that man under water, in trying to come out and breathe, sighs and groans, these judgings of others are the “sighs and groans” of a sinner deep in sin. Yes, “out of the abundance of their heart, their mouth speaketh”. (Luke 6:45).
If you read Romans 2:4: Many people write great placards of this verse for General Repentance, but to my surprise I was shocked that this repentance is called for only for those who judge others. Read this chapter very closely and seriously; and if you meditate on it for a while, you will find, judging others is a terrible sin of almost every believer throughout the world. This is the fundamental sin of Christians, causing them to lose power. If you have the “Righteousness of God”, you will immediately stop from this great Danger. If anyone “points his finger”, it is a sign of self-righteousness and he is on the path towards death and hell. In Isaiah, Ch.58, God asks the prophet to Vs.1: “Cry aloud, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins”; but you will be astonished to see that these were not bad people and not people in downright sin as the world calls; because Vs.2 says: “They seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinance of justice; they take delight in approaching to God”. Do you not understand that these are regular church-going, tithes-paying people preaching the gospel in special attire with a “Holier than thou” attitude? Their prayers are not heard as said in Vs.3-5. Then in Vs.9 God gives the secret of how and when He hears the peoples prayers; that is, if and when they take away from their midst, “the putting forth of the finger” (that is, judging others), “speaking vanity”. This “judging of others” happens, (Romans 2:5) because their hardness and impenitent heart treasure up unto themselves wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgement of God. Such people (Vs.4) despise the riches of God‟s goodness and His forbearance of long-suffering, which should make such people repent immediately. Do they do so? No! No! No! Brother and Sister, think for a while deeply and repent, wherever you are standing or sitting while reading this, or even if you are lying down relaxing. Otherwise you are in Great Danger. They think that they are going on in Glory; but see, they go to tribulation shortly. Vs.8: “Unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, (to them), indignation and wrath, Vs.9: Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil” (that is, judging others). But, see the Great Blessing to the Obedient. Vs.7: “To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, (to them), eternal life: Vs.10: To every man that worketh good, glory, honour and peace”. Now, let us turn to Matt.7:5: “Thou HYPOCRITE, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother‟s eye”. See how the Pharisee points his finger at the Tax gatherer, not understanding the “beam in his eye” - (Luke 18:10-12). How many are similarly blind among the so called “Good Christians?” What a pity? That is why Jesus said that when people tell falsely about you, “not to fret”, “but to rejoice”, for “your reward is great in heaven”. (Matt.5:11-12). Why should you lose these blessings, this great reward in heaven, by fretting and foaming? “Jump and Rejoice” at the top of your voices and drown the merciless false charges. When this truth came to light, I forgave all my enemies (false accusers) in my heart, and now I also forgive every one of those who have falsely charged against me, if you are one of them; and I rejoice in God and thank you for bringing me into such heavenly blessings, but humbly point out your danger. See, when Jesus was invited to Simon‟s house and a woman who was a sinner anointed Jesus in his feet with a costly perfume, after cleaning them with her tears and her hair, kissed His feet unceasingly. Jesus knew her heart and commended her act, and her sins were forgiven by her loving Jesus the Word much and not by her relying on any code of law, while the law-lover Simon was taught with a nice story of a creditor having two debtors (Luke 7:36-47). The qualification was “She loved much”. (Vs.47). Anyone who loves Christ Jesus much, their sins which are many are forgiven, but to whom little (nothing) is forgiven, the same loveth little (Vs.47). But what does a Pharisical believer think or say? Oh My, the woman was kissing the feet of Jesus; O, what a sin it was she being a sinner, and how he allowed it!! Please read also Matt.18:21-35 and meditate on it. In 1962, a brother did such a harm to me that I could never forgive him and love him. The grouse turned into hatred was deep in me and some of my worldly friends even wanted to kill him. One day one of my close friends was planning to take him in a jeep to a jungle with petrol and kill him and burn him to ashes, but I stopped him to wait for God‟s judgement if that brother does not repent, and pacified him (my friend). This hatred brought a terrible skin disease on me and blocked every spiritual blessing. Then suddenly light dawned on me and the Grace of God brought conviction and love in me and I forgave that brother totally and even though this humbling brought a crushing defeat to my pride, God made me the possessor of heaven and earth. Hallelujah! Dear Reader will you also, for the sake of your spiritual prosperity, for that great reward in heaven, do the same filled with the Love of God? I love you all and I do not hate one person in the whole world, which is the secret of my standing true to God‟s Word. Will you not also do the same and make the Glory of God rest on you? If this tract blesses you, please write to us to that we can continue to praise God for you.
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TRANSGRESSION OF
GOD’S PEOPLE!
ISAIAH 58
Many good God-fearing people always take the attitude that every other one is a sinner except them. They take a ”holier than thou attitude”. They lead a good life, pray regularly, attend regular services, always think about God‟s way and they sing aloud, clapping their hands, ,even jumping and speaking in tongues; and to others it appears that they are in close approach to God. But God tells Isaiah about such people, “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet and show my people their transgressions” - (Vs.1). Kindly read this chapter carefully for a while and you will know how true it is and how we are deceived by our routine actions. Our prayers never go beyond the roof. They (My people) no doubt fast, and afflict their souls. (Vs.3); they seek God daily, delight to know his ways as a nation that did their righteousness, they forsook not the ordinances of their God, they no doubt ask God the ordinances of justice, and they took delight in approaching to God - (Vs.2). But what is the matter? They are theoretically correct in professing Jesus, but are not practical in life. Don‟t you think that you are one of them? God‟s interpretation of fasting is different. We have become hardhearted and have no sympathy for other human beings, even to such an extent as the worst street man would have. If a man carries a Bible in his hand and just shouts, “Praise the Lord”, and tells some lies, we take him to be a great man of God and help him, but he may never be in need. People suppose to be following the truth just for their stomach‟s sake, join in a group or a person or a denomination for regular salary; and because of financial advantage, they think that they can bring God‟s power down to earth by money, men and material. They have orphanages, but the people whom they support are not orphans at all; they seem to support widows who are not true widows; and so on. They conduct great eye camps and some social work purporting to be knowing the truth, but they never do it from a burden of their heart but to get money for their own sakes. The work done is not from a burden of their heart, but for money and public show. People collect large sums of money in Western countries as if people in the East are dying of starvation on the roads and calling them “natives”, and “primitive uncivilized people”, and “heathen”. They keep the collected money and send only a modicum of the collection to the cause which they advertised. They beneficiaries in India and else where are asked to sign receipts for monies they never receive. Those people say they send great gift packages of milk powder, etc., but the poor have never tasted this milk but see only the empty tins. Either those people who donate or those who distribute, are not God‟s servants, but are “racketeers”. What is this kind of religion called Christianity? Christ never preached this kind of religion.
And what about the “Color-bar” in some Western countries and the “communal feelings” in some Eastern countries? As a professing Christian, you may do all kinds of good and charitable things, but when the communal feelings (tension and bitterness) take the upper hand in the area of your influence, where do you stand? Especially, when you have to deal with the so-called low and backward communities like the Harijans, “colored brethren” etc., how do you react? Don‟t you like to fall in line with the majority and get applauded as their leader? - like Peter who dissembled with the other Jews in fear of the “circumcision” people, and whom consequently Paul had to withstand to the face - Gal.2:11-14. Or, as real Christian, do other personal interests, as God is no respector of persons? The same issue arises in Western countries where color-bar is practiced. If you don‟t rise above these petty communal and color-bar considerations, what is the use of your professing Jesus Christ and witnessing for Him? God gives water, oxygen, light, salt, etc., to all without respect of persons. When I travelled abroad in 1960, I met all the famous preachers of the world individually, but everyone of them wanted to put their yoke on me. I came back dejected, even not able to pay my return fare, but God came to my rescue. Let your religion go to dogs, if it does not satisfy the standard of Jesus. People say if we get a lot of money, we will help the poor. But, my friends, God wants a personal fellowship with the down-trodden. Will you, therefore,, not turn away from these ways, and move towards a more powerful life founded in Christ Jesus, by showing your real Christ - like love to the lowly, the poor, and the downtrodden? Let your life be built on a rock foundation, dug deep, (based on hearing the sayings of Jesus and doing them), so that no storm or flood could shake it. If otherwise, you build your life on sand (based on not listening to the sayings of Jesus and not doing them), it will be swept away by even a mild storm or a minor flood. Math.7:24-27 & Luke 6:47-49. And now in these last days you have to be still more careful, because storm or flood (water) will not test your life; but fire will try every man‟s work. I Cor.3:11-15. Do not get angry with me for these bold and blunt statements; you may keep these things in your heart to serve your selfish ends; but I cannot contain them in my heart; so I lift up my voice, and shout like Paul, “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth” - Gal.4:16.
What should we do? If you read Isaiah, Ch.58, from Vs.6 onwards, the Lord tells such people that the fast chosen by the Lord and acceptable to Him, is: to loose the bands of wickedness, to undue the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke. Vs.7: Is it not to deal thy bread to go hungry, -- (for that, you need not sell the truth to some denomination to get money by false means) -- and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? - (will you ever dare to do that?) - when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and (lastly) that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? (Marriage partner). See the result then! Read from Vs.8 onwards. Vs.8: Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall spring forth speedily; -- (you will be healed of your incurable diseases) - and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy reward. Vs.9: Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer, thou shalt cry, and he shall say “Here I am”. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, - (that is, pointing your finger at others, or judging others) - and speaking vanity - (always speaking worldly things connected with the five senses - which is vanity). Vs.10: And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day. See the further blessings. Vs.11: The Lord shall guide thee continually and satisfy thy soul in drought - (spiritual drought also, by outpouring of the Spirit) - and make fat thy bones - (no calcium necessary) - and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not - (there will be blessing on all what you do). More Blessings in Vs.12: And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in”. Read Verses 13 & 14 for yourselves, and rededicate yourself to keep the Sabbath holy and draw the consequent blessings. The Sabbath and paying tithes were before the Law. May this tract not cause you to get angry but let it make you ponder over the subject and to seek and secure the blessings of God. Why should you be responsible for God not pouring out His Spirit and His blessings on your life? Jesus Never Fails!
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“I will not fail thee,
nor forsake thee”..
Joshua 1:2-9.
You might have read or heard this verse very often but did you ever believe it or make it a motto and watchword in your life? This verse brings a thrill in our lives after an incident in the beginning of our full-time ministry for the Lord Jesus Christ. I found out the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour in 1943 in Ceylon after being seriously involved in the Indian Political Movement in 1942, leaving Christianity as a Western religion and seeking God if ever there is One, in other religions than through Christ and later a Godless young man. In 1949 I came to India again and was employed in the famous American Dr. Ida B. Scudder Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, South India. I was on fire for God and many flocked to my house for healing their bodies. On 19th August 1953, I was suddenly admitted in the Vellore Hospital for Diphtheria and on 23rd my condition was serious and the doctors gave up hope. I was in death-bed. At mid night my soul came out of my body and my dead body was on the bed and the Lord Jesus Christ appeared and talked to my soul for a while standing, put His loving Hand on me and pointed with His right Hand towards a massive railway train dragging slowly but steadily countless compartments full of people of all colour, creed and nationality, having diverse diseases and enjoying worldly pleasures heading towards unimaginable pit of fire and brimstone; he said, “I am sending you to warn them and save their lives, I have blessed your right hand like Moses‟ Rod and will show signs & wonders to prove that I have sent you. You should not tell your needs to anyone, but I will supply all your needs”. My wife and I left our lucrative jobs on 15th October 1953, sold all what we had and gave them to the poor as Jesus Christ commanded and ventured out on faith. One day we came to the point of no return. We had nothing to live on. My wife and three children were starving for fourteen days with me. On the fourteenth night when I was on my bed my last son who was three and a half years old and knew not a wordof English sang in a baritone voice like a man 45 years soundly sleeping:
“JESUS NEVER FAILS, JESUS NEVER FAILS, HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL PASS AWAY, BUT JESUS NEVER FAILS”.
We rejoiced to hear this unusual way of God‟s dealing with us and our total dependence on God started from that day onwards. There is no room to narrate all incidents and miracles, during the past forty years as full-time minister for the Lord. Then the Lord led me to a 40 day fast and my wife to a 21 day fast drinking only water. Afterwards the Lord led me around the world on 5th July 1959, with only a few cents in hand. I met renowned preachers and great religious leaders all over the world. God taught me many things through the saints of God. When I was in Homossasa Springs Florida, I heard the audible voice of God speaking, “go and see my prophet William Branham without fail”. So I was led to Bro. Branham in a mysterious way and on Easter Sunday 1960, I was baptised in Bro. Branham‟s Tabernacle in Jeffersonville in the glorious Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I returned to India without joining any denominations and without any financial help and reached home with two dollars in my hand, but with great faith on the living God. In 1961, the Lord moved mightily in Madras City of South India and brought about the greatest revival experienced in the history of India preaching to over 100,000 people mostly non-Christians daily for forty days at a stretch in the S.I.A.A. grounds. Countless millions have found out the Lord, thousands have been filled with the Holy Spirit, numerous miracles were publicly witnessed and thousands have been baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Our little Team goes throughout the length and breadth of India conducting massive campaigns and every time God vindicates in a special way. Hundreds of young men have left their all and are serving God full-time as directed by the Holy Spirit. I am now 60 years of age and have had great experiences through hard life. My three sons also serve the Lord full time. On Moon-landing Day in 1969, the Lord again met me in a special way in the Life Tabernacle, Chicago, Illinois. And from that day the hidden things in the Bible are being revealed. I can now boldly say with Job, “My Redeemer Liveth”. Turn your hearts, O God‟s people to the Word of God and get ready to meet the Living God our Redeemer who is coming in the glory of the Father very soon.
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THE GUIDANCE OF GOD..
The Hebrew of Proverbs 4:12 reads “As thou goest step by step the way shall be opened up before thee”, What comfort these words bring to perplexed and troubled souls. We would like to know the end from the beginning. We would like to know what the future holds. We would like to make our plans years ahead, but God‟s way is for us to walk with Him one step at a time. Our fallen nature demands our obeying only our five senses. This is a life of faith and walk of faith. Perhaps some who read this are troubled by the black clouds that are gathering in the horizon. Perhaps you are confronted with problems that seem to have no answer. You are faced with such great difficulties that you do not see how that you can possibly get through. For this reason you are in the depths of despair. Your soul is cast down and filled with heaviness. You have lost the joy of your salvation, hence you have lost the testimony for Christ. The trouble is, you have your eyes on your troubles and not on Christ. His promise is “as thou goest step by step, the way shall be opened up before thee”. Our part is to keep on moving forward one step at a time. His part is to open up the way before us. He has prepared
everything for us (meditate on Eph.2:8-10).
Perhaps the Lord has put you in this difficult situation in order to teach you to try Him. He wants to teach you to walk with Him. You wish to walk and live in your own way, the Lord wants to teach you to walk in His own way. His way is the right way. It is the best way. See how he taught the Israelites in the wilderness and Job (Read Job 23:9-10 & Deut.29:5-6). See what price Job paid to shout, “My Redeemer Liveth”. Today people preach a false and easy religion of miracles and prosperity „the people who rejected God‟s way‟. See II Thess.2:7-14.
When the children of Israel crossed the river Jordan the priest had to dip their feet in the brink of the river before the waters receded before them. They did not stand still waiting for God to roll the waters back, and they did not plunge in over their heads. Neither did they stand scheming and planning how they might get across by building boats or bridges. They simply obeyed God and the things which he told them to do. This is God‟s way. What joy and peace we find as we walk in this way. To find the perfect will of God remember these points.
1. First your heart must not have the will of your own. Once you keep your heart at this point over a given matter, then you are only a little way to the knowledge of God‟s will (John 7:17). Totally depend on God.
2. Do not leave the result to feelings or simple impressions or false prophesies. If so you will come under great delusions as many Christians are without surrendering their will but dictate to God what their will is and asking God to obey their will. This is a powerful center for the devil and emotions to work.
3. Then see the will of the spirit of God in connection with the Word of God. The Spirit and the Word must agree. That is our Urim & Thummim. If you look to the Spirit alone without the Word like many believers, as they then you are in delusions too and become anti-Christs.
4. Now watch carefully the providential circumstances. This is walking, “without shoes”. We walk roughly with shoes on but slowly without them. These will indicate God‟s will in connection with the Word and the Spirit.
5. Then prayerfully ask God to reveal His will correctly and clearly. After considering all these things you will be able to come to some clear decision prayerfully. God hears your prayers at the end-time positively (John 16:23- 24). Then after a few “believing” prayer your mind will come to perfect peace. In my forty years of full-time dependence on the Lord I have found this method unfailing and I am able to please God totally. Otherwise I will be like Samson grinding the Mill without his eyes in some man made denominations. This way will keep your eyes open without getting into Spiritual blindness, and putting your load on others. I am a very happy man since I came to trust our Lord and Redeemer. In this way riches and prosperity are not everything in this world (I Timothy 6:9-10 & I John 2:15-17). The people of God are a movement not a dead monument. The donkey of Balaam had better guidance than the prophet Balaam (Num.22:12-35).
JESUS NEVER FAILS!
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