God Bless all who love the unshakable truth of our loving Creator.
          Why Obedience is Better Than Sacrifice                                   by Dr. Wesley Swift       8-30-61 This
afternoon we are discussing a subject which is quite significant as we survey
the strategy of the opposition of God’s Kingdom and that which must be
understood to accomplish the victories which belong to the household of
God. Tremendous amounts of energy are
being put out today, to accomplish the objectives which we are being told in
the Ecclesiastical orders of our times of the services of God and the work that
He would have us perform. Throughout
the length and breadth of our land, and throughout Christendom, throughout the
world, a false strategy has been empowered by the forces of darkness. This is to seek to interpret for the Church
of God the purposes of God which the forces of darkness would like to have the
Church of God destroy. It is quite reasonable to expect that the forces of
darkness are not interested in the purposes of God’s Kingdom, for they would
like to retain the earth under their control throughout the ages to come. They are also well aware that in the
strategy of God’s purpose and in the operations of the Church, that this is the
great spiritual center of His Kingdom.Â
It is the oracle, the meeting of their congregations, and their
awakening and the catalyzing of their thought, discerning His purposes for an
individual hour. All these things stir
up and carry out the directives of God.Â
And as it becomes the great force for the nations of God’s Kingdom, the whole
family of God in earth then assume their responsibility and as it occupies in
earth, the kingdoms of darkness are shaken.Â
And the forces of evil realize that we are getting closer to the day
when they will no longer control the earth, and when the kingdoms of this world
shall become the Kingdoms of our LORD and His Christ when manifested sons and
daughters who say that every knee shall bow and every tongue proclaim that He
alone is God. And then He determines
these words that even this synagogue of Satan is going to worship at thy feet
and know that He has loved you and has placed you in the earth for this
accomplishment. Therefore, we point out that one of the master designs
in the areas of the powers of darkness today is to seek to penetrate the center
of this energized resistance to the powers of darkness. At no time was the Kingdom of God taught the
way of acquiescence. At no time were we
asked to retreat from the major objective for which the Kingdom of God was
planted here in earth, which is the overthrowing of darkness and the raising of
Divine Standards, the ruling of the earth under the administration of God’s
Kingdom and the forced recognition if necessary, that the revelation of the
manifestation of God was still the Almighty--Alpha and Omega. From this objective there could be no
turning away. The sons and daughters of
God were placed in the earth to accomplish these objectives from their very
beginning in the earth. When we start with the Genesis of this book, we start
with the household of God And it is their book and of the Kingdom of the MOST
HIGH. But as we talk about Genesis of
creation, we are talking about antiquities far beyond the descriptive work
provided for us in the opening of the Genesis book. But in the course of these patterns of events, we came here with
a mission and that mission was the Kingdom of God. We are well aware that there are many people who have tremendous
views of what is before them in life.Â
They have tremendous numbers of objectives. And as they survey the situations in their environment, they try
to maintain those objectives.  Many of
them are the acquisition of substance or the enhancing of their Academic wealth
and their status in society, and of the attaining of what they view as security
for their families. And these become
permanent objectives in their lives. Now, these objectives are not objectives in which
there is condemnation. But there must
be evaluation for proper perspective in relation to the purpose for which they
entered the earth. It is important that
first they must seek the major objective:--“Seek ye first the Kingdom of God
and all of these things shall be added unto you.â€Â Nothing
has the Father retained from His children and His Household in their occupation
of the earth. There is no good thing
that He would withhold from His people and the secret of attainment, the secret
of a full functioning operation of a son and daughter of God walking in the
earth with full perspective of His Light, and the evaluation with which he puts
the charge of his responsibility, which is the helping to bring in that
Kingdom, while seeking to find His application in relationship to it, seeks
then the imputed righteousness of God.Â
Not that he might exalt himself above his brethren, for there have been
charges of humility, not as it relates to the world about it, nor as it relates
to the status of our Sonship, but as it relates to our authority one over the
other. The desire and attainment of
leadership shall be, and must be in proper perspective to the strength and
maintainment of the Kingdom and its programs. As we look out over the world today, we find that God
has planned throughout time that He would stir out those who were selected and
chosen by Him for a specific task.Â
There is no doubt that as far as the Omniscience of the MOST HIGH, there
is the fact that He knew our timing into the earth. He knew the areas by foreknowledge of your particular choice,
your profession, and your operation and function. But in this certain time table God had established forever among
His people, this fact that there would be spiritual leadership whose
responsibility would be to SEEK TO KNOW, and by His assurance, he was provided
a knowledge of God concerning His purposes and His plan, concerning the very
wavelength of inspiration in which He declared and claims His authority. Thus the establishment of this plan of
raising up ministers and leaders was ordained from the beginning. And specifically did He set this line over
your household and your race when He selected Levi to remain as His ministers
over your race forever, and then dispersed them among all the household of
Israel and all of the nations of His Kingdom, and selected, called and
stimulated them out of the background of the pattern of life by a persuasion
with them, and by the illumination within them of the purposes and plans of
God, until they felt the calling of God and knew that there was a ministerial
challenge that had been given unto them. But the problem we are dealing with today is how has
this been changed or tampered with as it effects the perspective of God’s
people. Well, the Luciferian forces had
an idea. They planned on perfecting
more and more this idea of a professional Clergy.  And then they moved this professional Clergy into the Church. And thus would see that they were
academically fitted with sufficient knowledge to support the individual areas
of support for their church. Generally
it was to lead people away from the whole foundation of the original doctrine
and carry them into unlimited objectives which would appear as tho the finest
devotion which could be supplied by men which would help and produce a better
condition for society. They sought to
transfer the worship of God into a ‘World Social Service’ in which with great
devotion and intense energy, men would devote themselves to the betterment of
the people of earth. Thus we had what
even developed into a ‘social doctrine.’ We have not detected in our thinking this afternoon,
at any time the church’s responsibility of lifting up Divine standards. More than this, in showing responsibility
and wisdom and knowledge which would extend and carry forward God’s purposes
and to challenge the children of God’s Kingdom to establish that Kingdom, to
expand its power and to bring into complete truition, the status of God’s
Kingdom. But the church has not been
challenged. Nor is its responsibility
to lift and change the social order of the world and to provide an economic
dispersion of the world’s very goods to the people who deny the very God who
brought it about. Nor is it the
church’s responsibility to assume a social impact upon society, rather than
first discharge our spiritual responsibility. So under this situation, it
was a very skilled design in which they introduced a professional Clergy. And today, they are charged that throughout
the Denominations and the Ecclesiastical institutions, throughout not only our
nations, but throughout the nations of the world, extending into all branches
of Protestantism. And Rome itself has
produced a professional Clergy. Now, those men have selected as they thought
throughout the past, that they would be a direct service to mankind. Many of them have been induced to enter into
this area and apply themselves to study every economic and social problem. And then they become the instrument as the
way WHICH SEEM RIGHT UNTO MEN.  Thus it
is that the propaganda program of our enemy was to turn us to the establishment
of God’s Kingdom. It was to get us as a
system of ‘Good will’ to accept all of the theology and all of the religious
systems of men. That the will rounded
student of theology would embrace all efforts of theology as it approached unto
God and thus was received with power and received as a ‘Brotherhood’ of mankind
and a ‘fellowship of religion.’ All of
this, my friends, extended into the very flowery expressions of the modern
theological approach which would seem that they were finding a wonderful
approach and everyone was moving into a Utopian age. But I want you to know that these very principals and foundations
of embracing and accepting and joining and expanding all the pattern of
theology, all the existing religious systems of the world, and then eliminating
from the church the absoluteness of the One and only True Deity and HIS
Revelation in the earth,---this process is not the process of the Church. The Church is the Oracle of GOD. It is the Oracle of God’s Kingdom. It is the Gospel which is the Good News of
the Salvation of the Throne of God which reaches out to HIS sons, establishes
HIS Kingdom and reaches out to the ends of the earth. So in this instance, I want to make this clear this
afternoon, that there exists today in all of the church, as its physical body
might be identified, that there are two types of Clergy.  Those who have been called of God, who are the Levi of God
throughout the nations of God’s Kingdom, and a professional Clergy who follow
away on the path which seems ‘right unto men,’ but the end thereof is death. Now, in this instance, they spend their lives in so
much activity that they never have the time to read. They are moving and coming and going and working on every program
of so-called socialist betterment. I
heard the other day of a church which had meeting after meeting and raised
ninety-seven million dollars to supply the Negroes in their revolution against
law and order. And these churches have
sacrificed ninety-seven million dollars and have entered into a program to give
this to a people who violate the law, who oppose the standards of God and the
very law of His Kingdom. Now, some will say, what a tremendous work, the
activity which went into this. But God
does not smile at this activity at any time.Â
More than this, instead of the Church saying, ‘Thus saith the LORD,’ and
holding up the standards of God’s Kingdom, and with all this desire to render
service as almost all Christians do, to the betterment of the society, and the
conditions of their land---but there was no provision made inside the program
of God’s Kingdom where they advocate policies which would be destructive to
God’s Kingdom and to the standards of His civilization. Thus we point out to you that this is just
another one of those areas in which a professional Clergy who does not know
‘Thus saith the LORD’ applies himself to errors that are destructive. Within the same area, we find ourselves
being approached today by certain instruments being set up by the ‘World Order’
to the Anti-Christ, and to its entrapment of our own nation. When God told us to come out of Babylon lest
we be partakers of her judgements, He was warning us of this World Order
system, which is being pushed as the economic and social solutions for the
world’ problems. And would join us with
an unprecedented majority, who would out vote and out maneuver us with pagans,
and idol worshipers and those who have nothing in common with us. In this situation we are told that we are
buying peace and security. We are
killing ourselves with the darkness.Â
And we are mixing the salt of the earth with sand and we are losing
savor. And as a result, this is a
disaster to God’s Kingdom if it were followed. But fortunately for us out God is a merciful God who
does not intend to see His Kingdom swallowed up. He does not plan to see the end of this age bringing about the
victory for the forces of Lucifer. But
we point out to you that the strategy is one which they have been selling us
from our pulpits a very, very light message of the beauty of the flowers as
they have done in Asia for a long time.Â
And while they speculate on the Lotus flower, they live in poverty and
they live among the vermin. And they
live with catastrophe and have no spiritual vision. In the instance of all this today, we are to look upon
the beauty of not resisting anything, while excepting and working with all
things. And now they would carry out
its basic construction. Across my desk
continually come directives from the National Council of Churches, programs
which the Federal Government is actually not supposed to have anything to do
with. But they are seeking to influence
churches to implement their political invasion into the new areas which they
have taken on, which is expanding across the world. Everything from feeding the world to coordinating the strata of
all nations and men into one working Brotherhood and Fellowship, confined in
‘error’ which blacks out for all times the path of truth. We find this significant when we are asked to answer
questions and join with the placing and identifying the church and its position
with all of these strange strategies, and they want our acquiescence into this
program of error. And they then turn to
the process as to which churches will be qualified by exception, and others
that will go alone and fit in, while others will be denied the hand of
government which they might possess and who will lose their tax exempt status
while being denied the right of performing any specific function such as
marriages, and any of these civil contracts.Â
And it will be taken from them, the government recognition of their religious
status unless they complied with the world board. And now the United Nations is setting up such a situation. A great World Church building in the United
Nations is to be completed in just a few weeks. It camps on the United Nations property in New York City. There are twelve stories in this religious
building from which the United Nations now plans to control the religious forum
and the religious activities of the churches of the world. And this reduces the structure of the church
to a social organization to carry out the social objective of a social
service. And you in your state will
have a social service to look after its needs and meeting the problems of
poverty. But the vast program is to use
the church to accomplish these various objectives, while it deprives the church
of recognizing the one and only True GOD, while virtually asking it to accept
all religious systems and to give approbation to any process as long as any man
says he is worshiping something. Well,
men have been worshiping sticks and stones, pagan gods and idols throughout all
of these days. But you, as members of
the Church of Jesus the Christ, are challenged to oppose all witchcraft
practices, all false doctrines, all false teachers, all false processes, and
with ‘Thus saith the LORD,’ worship the One and only True GOD. And every denomination today that is a
Christian Church, irrespective of the name they hang over that assembly of
Methodist, Baptist, or Presbyterian, --it does not make it their basic
responsibility, the advocacy of the recognition and the recognition of the
sovereignty of the one and only true God, and has no reason to identify Himself
within the Christian Church, if it is willing to embrace all theology and all
religion, and perform only the program of the anti-Christ, then, my friends, it
no longer will exist as a church. Yesterday I spoke with a person who was interested in
a lot of important things which are effecting our nation, interested also in
what he called ‘Right wing’ thought.Â
But in the course of discussing this matter, the fact came up that he
belongs to a Christian Church in this community. But the pastor of that church cannot seem to believe in the Deity
of Jesus Christ or His virgin birth.Â
This is something which is unrelated to just accepting the good things
of the teaching of Jesus, and therefore we should remember that we are a
Christian society and we should stand up for private enterprise, and stand up
for all the things which are the by-product of Christianity. But let’s not make a real issue our of the
Deity of Jesus, and let’s not get into a real struggle against other religious
systems. This, my friends, is the
criterion of the whole thing. But if we are going to establish the Kingdom of God,
then it must be our God, the right God, the only God, irrespective of what all
other opponents, all other gods, and all other functions, like it or not. Now someone will say, ‘But there has been
tremendous amounts of service applied as you are accomplishing these
objectives.  My--the propaganda
machines that are turned loose today to move us on to the way which we are told
is for our good.----We are to accept these processes altho there is an aversion
within us. Today we were listening again to the basic
instructions which were being lifted out of the program of the World
Order. This clergyman was now talking
about why all churches should join now to overthrow all attitudes of bias and
why we should support the programs to complete the integration and complete
this idea of equality, to now break down all barriers of race. Yet if we discover that there are people
round about to whom we have an aversion, or if we find that races or
collections of people or individual groups which create an aversion in us---it
now ‘dawns’ upon us that we have aÂ
supposedly great responsibility.Â
We are told that if we are to follow the way of the humble Christ, then
this is what we must do. We must
convince ourselves that we like what we don’t like and that we are drawn in to
what we have an aversion to. Thus the
clergyman said, ‘There is now a basic responsibility upon us and upon all
Christians. If you have a racial bias
or a prejudice which God built within you, if you have a resistance unto this,
then you must tell yourself over and over---that I like these people, we must
absorb these people, and I have nothing against these people.’  What if there is a specific personage who
approaches you and you have a revulsion to?Â
Then as a Christina you have the responsibility to do as the Church must
do. You must conquer this within yourself until you have an overwhelming desire
to embrace this thing which you have an aversion to. Someone said, ‘But is that not a good practice? Is that not what the Holiness Churches have
been telling you over the years---‘There is a way that seems right unto
this?’---Let me tell you something. The
most important thing for you to understand this afternoon, is that your race
which is begotten of the MOST HIGH GOD was begotten by GOD’S SPIRIT. Since you are begotten of God’s spirit, then
your spiritual being possesses perception and capacities of realization that
people not begotten by the spirit of God do not possess. More than that, these are built in cycles
for your security and your survival.Â
These are cycles of God’s Kingdom because they are in cycles born out of
waves of complete agreement and permanent with the spirit of the Father. You are the very essence of His own
being. And you, being His Issue, are
spirit of His Spirit and light of His Light.Â
Because of this, there are whole areas of functions that can move thru
you, and very definitely move out of your spiritual being from the seat of the
soul consciousness and become also resident powers that move thru the areas of
communication and the patterns of the central nervous system. Some of them who are not as aware as to what
it is all about, it may be almost like an extrasensory area of perception, or a
reflex pattern of action. But I tell
you that you are of the Household of the MOST HIGH GOD. You have been begotten of the spirit in the
heavens and you have been begotten into this household of the Adamic race,
which is also the Household of God in the earth, by the process of your fathers
propagation and thru the process of your fathers posterity for the entrance of
the children of the MOST HIGH GOD and for the expansion of the race, that the
Kingdom of God might be brought in. Now, there are nine gifts of the spirit and they
require a cognition and awareness before they are applied. And some people possess gifts that they are
not aware of. But resident in everyone
of you are all the effective capacities and abilities within the area of that
spirit as the essence of God’s spirit, with the fullness of its powers, for all
of these gifts. And it requires an area
of cognition for the functioning of some of them. Now, there is a perception to receive these things
which can be wrought by men and which God can quicken at any time. But there are areas of these gifts
functioning in people at all times. One
of the things which God has sort of built into you, is a radar system. It is a perception system that measures and
feels without you having to do any reasoning upon this matter, and it measures
and it feels as tho it were like an invisible antenna. But radar or sonar, it reaches out. And the moment it makes contact with people,
it has a reaction upon you which you fee.Â
Thus it is that we may refer to this as a buffer or aura, and what happens
when you meet people, you are either drawn to them or you find yourself in some
instances, being repulsed. There are
individuals who you will find a repulsion for, and you will want to be far away
from them, for you have nothing in common with them. This then giver you a built in pattern concerning races. There is an automatic feeling at the same
time that you move or see the Negroes.Â
Now, you do not feel a revulsion against them for a situation that they
cannot help, but you feel immediately a difference which you may not be able to
explain. There is an irritation which
automatically without you having to think about it, but which you are willing
to accept. You are willing to help them
in an hour of need; you are willing to help them if they have a wreck, or help
them when they are starving. Or you are
willing to educate them. You are
willing to do all these things. But
automatically a line is drawn. There is
something that I do not have to suggest, such as joining them or taking them in
for your sons and daughters, for you do not have to take them into your
family. You do not want to accept them
as you would accept your own. And we
are told today by interpretation out of the World Order, that this is a social
consciousness of error and we must quit this and bring ourselves into submission
and destroy this pattern. You now know what they are after you to do. It is to blunt this sensitivity which God
built into you for the preservation of this society for the Kingdom. I am going to tell you that what we need is
a more highly built-in awareness spiritual capacity.  That if there is any gift, that any Christian ought to advocate
and ask for--that God might quicken it within him---is this gift of
discernment. But I tell you that there
is nothing which is needed more throughout the length and breadth of
Christendom today than this awareness of the operation of this gift of
discernment. And when you have a
feeling which rises up in you that repulses, or you have that feeling which
moves in you that this is a definite lie, and there is a social contact that
raises up in you, you better follow that intuitive guidance. Don’t try to suppress it, for this is the
false voice of the powers of darkness trying to tell us that we have a new
social responsibility and then try to tell us that Jesus said do this and do
that. I want you to know today, that
the most important thing that you possess is this Divine blessing which comes
from your spiritual origin. These
capacities of discernment and these energies of spirit are a most vital thing. Therefore, we are told that the obedience to
God and the knowledge of God, and the reception of these gifts of God, as well
as the wisdom of God is the most important asset that you may receive. There are many spiritual gifts. And some have more value than others. And you have been asked to covet the most
valuable of these gifts. Now, in this instance, it is not to place within us a
sort of Ecclesiastical ecstasy which will put us off on cloud nine which has no
practical application with the reason why we came here. All you have to do to get back in the
essence of that condition is to just die and go back to where you came
from. Because that is how you lived in
the spirit anyhow. You lived in a media
of full spiritual expression without any hindering influence of a body such as
we now have which is subject to the temptations and the environment. But the purpose for which we have come, is
to occupy a physical order inside a physical body which the sons and the
daughters of God’s Kingdom will use to bring to a victorious acquisition and
victorious power and establish God’s Kingdom with its laws, His standards, and
His righteousness. Therefore, since we
are down here for a purpose, and we are down here in a physical body, let us
reason and carry out that objective and not cast aside that quality of
superiority which God has fitted into you, which is natural and spiritual which
happens to be the spiritual antenna of spiritual perception. I tell you that the difference between the children of
God and the children of the earth order----this difference if quite
obvious. The Apostle Paul says that
there is a natural man and a spiritual man.Â
And we have a lot of silly people talking---this is a natural man and
this is a spiritual man. But that is
not what it is talking about. For this
natural man has no capacity of discerning the things of God, for this is
spiritually discerned. But the world is
filled with them. For where is the
Enosh? These were creations, but they
were not the offspring of the Spirit.Â
But you the children of God’s Spirit, can be brought to an understanding
of all things. The spirit searches out
all of the deep things of God and makes all these things known unto you. And this was what the Apostle Paul was
unveiling in the book of Corinthians.Â
And I point out to you that every spiritual understanding and every
spiritual knowledge can be brought unto you.Â
That this realization of Sonship and this relationship of your gifts and
your relationship to God, means that you are to rise to accomplish the
objectives which God hath ordained.Â
This is again the reason why Jesus said, ‘You are capable of receiving
this spirit, even the spirit of that the World (Order) cannot receive.’ But you can receive it and it will lead you
into the knowledge of all truth. It
brings back to your remembrance, if we erect the pattern of that spiritual
understanding. Now, in this same area, it is NOT the purpose of the
MOST HIGH GOD to have the sons and daughters of God go out and work on all of
the projects of the World Order which are set before them without making their
first priority the operation of God’s Kingdom, and subjecting all other views
and operations to this pattern.Â
Therefore, it would be impossible for me as a son or daughter of God
understanding the program of God’s Kingdom,---it would be impossible for me to
tryout or work at building any branch of the United Nations. Because the spirit of God shows me that I am
not to be unequally yoked with these people and these organizations. It shows me that this is the program of
Anti-Christ. It shows me that if I work
for these objectives that I am strengthening the program of the
Anti-Christ. And therefore, this is not
the objective of God’s Kingdom.Â
However, this makes you anti-social or unpopular. The popularity of the world and their social
order is of no consequence and I would rather have the approval of the Father
and the blessings which He provides, than to have the approval of the rest of
the world where we are out voted six to one, for the accomplishment of the
destruction of my own race and the program of our posterity. I point out to you that God has laid out a blueprint
in this “Thus saith the LORD.â€Â But
every once in a while someone says that the programs of God are too austere
(too harsh). For we want more love and
more of a mild approach to these things.Â
But everytime you approach it, then you spread evil instead of stamping
it out. If the position of God seems
too austere, too firm, if it seems too impossible, that is because God has
never made a covenant with evil. It is
because God has determined that evil must be stamped out. His Grace is toward individuals, but there
has been no Grace toward evil. I want you to know that God can forgive the patterns
of error on the basis of environment and on the basis of reality. But He never gave an approbation or approval
for the evil itself, which by its own course is destructive. Nor does there seem to be any evaluation on
the part of God for preserving whole areas which produced catastrophe when
their eradication might have eliminated it from earth. And at no time does He seem worried as to
what happens to the spirit or souls of them who die. This is an important thing for us to remember. We are sometimes greatly worried about the
Ecclesiastical area of error and fear as to what happens to men when they die,
or if they die, what they call an ‘unsaved’ condition.’ Well, let me tell you that the patterns of darkness
are gathering their forces to destroy you.Â
And they who will wage the war of Armageddon on you on the fields of battle
or will carry out a war on the inside, are the ‘unsaved.’ The destruction of God’s plan is their
plan. And they are not planning
salvation as you understand this salvation.Â
But don’t worry about the ability of God to save all flesh and don’t
worry about His ability to find and save any fallen spirit. Don’t worry about God’s plan suddenly being
defeated, because someone cut off God’s plan suddenly in this conflict and
struggle for the earth. Because the
MOST HIGH GOD said concerning this, ‘Where do you think that you could go that
I could not find you?’ Is there a plain
or a dimension where you could go? Â
There is no area in the earth where you could go, be it the highest
mountain or in the depths of the sea.Â
There is no place where a man could get away from the recognizance and
the ability of God to find him, or to do anything he wishes to do. Nor is there any plain or dimension outside
an earth existence where a man could get away from God. I am not worried about the ability of God to
save to the ‘Uttermost.’ Salvation is
as flexible today as the conditions and the problems where the consciousness
resides.  For some people, salvation is
to bring them in to proper adjustment with God so that they might know who they
are and where they came from. Salvation
for some people is to extricate them out of control and out of the hands of
darkness, for they hold them in prison and under the bondage of the Communist
world. There are some people today, who
have no understanding of the God who is the Great and Mighty Savior, and who
can save and enter every area of human problems. But when we talk about saving men, we are not saving men from
God, but we are saving men TO God, but the cognition of His plan, His law and
His purpose. Thus, it pleases God to same men by the foolishness of
preaching. And anything which you or I
can do to save men is definitely in the area of bringing them into the
recognition of God, for there is no power in your fingertips that will add one
thing to what God accomplished by His Atonement. I would remind you again, that the objective of God
was not for the extermination of spirit souls, but it was for the adjusting of
these souls by the process which He instituted. But when He gives Eternal Life, they never perish. I point out then, that in this same area,
that an unusual apathy comes upon many.Â
And we must recognize that all of these men who today are saying ‘Thus
saith the LORD’ when God has not said it, are not to be accepted. For how many years they have spent in conflict,
or in how many years they have spent in studying theology or in theological
thought, in service to society---what have they denied themselves? Let me assure you of this. It would have been better if they had
proclaimed ‘Thus saith the LORD’ than all of their time spent on projects to
help the world order. I want you to
know that it is not only fair that men have to follow the way of Divine Law,
than the strategy which they think would be best. As Saul appealed to God, he said that Samuel was
wrong. For he had said that Amalek was
his enemy and told him that when he moved out he was to destroy Amalek and all
of his hosts, and he wanted all of those with the King Agag, the king of Amalek
destroyed. He did not want them to even
save their animals or any of their possessions or divide up their riches. Just destroy them. So Samuel delivered the message to Saul who said that he was the
‘arm of the LORD’ and he would do all of those things. The armies of Israel moved against those
superior hoards both in numbers and strength.Â
These were Amalekites which God has a war with in every generation,
because of the Cainanite taste for blood and the Satanic conspiracy of fallen
Angels, with blood in their eyes have always been against God’s Kingdom.            Then we turn over here to the book
of Daniel and we determine that something happened here. The word of God comes to Samuel the prophet
and it says that it seemed a sad thing that we have made Saul the King, for
apparently he is turning his back form following My command. For instead of destroying Agag and Amalek
and all the hosts and all of their people he has spared those with distinction
and wealth. And he spared the pig and
the finest cattle and the best of the livestock and their possessions. In fact, even now they are preparing a
sacrifice for ME and this sacrifice is to be some of the finest of the cattle
when I told them to destroy all of this evil---every part of it wiped out. Samuel is in tears and he is greatly
disturbed. And he approaches Saul and asks,
‘Why did you not obey the voice of YAHWEH?Â
Why did you spare anyone when God told you not to? Don’t look upon a former statute, do not
look upon their sudden appeal that you must therefore accept them as they are
willing to accept your status and accept your God and are willing to do
everything that you want.’ So the Akkod
were trying to make a deal with Saul.Â
They were saying, ‘We will serve you and we can enhance your kingdom
with our power, for we have connections out here.’ So Saul fell for the idea and he said, ‘See what we did? We took the finest that we captured to
sacrifice unto God.’ The word of God
came upon Samuel and he turned to Saul and he said, ‘Do you think that YAHWEH
delights in all your sacrifice when you do not obey?’ Then he said, ‘Obedience is better than sacrifice.’ I want you to know today, that Obedience is still the
solution. And it is much better than
sacrifice. In all of the areas of
America’s problems, in our economic problems, and our social and moral decay,
everything which has effected our society has moved in from an area where we
were not obedient. If we had been
obedient, there would not be one Jew resident in these United States. If we had been obedient, we would not have
permitted their colonization and we would not have permitted them as we had
been instructed by John the Apostle, and the records of the scripture in both
the Old and New Testament. We would not
have permitted these strangers who deny that Jesus is the Christ, to move into
our society or get an influence over us, or permitted them to gain a hold over
us for economic patterns. Go back in the history of your nation even in the days
when Benjamin Franklin was arranging for money for this coming new nation and
you find that Hiram Solomon and Samuel Marz and the rascals of Jewry were over
here negotiating with Congress to try to take control of your money. And they would then put up the money that
you needed, but of course you would then be in their power of usury. And they actually delayed the ship which
Franklin would return on so they could put over this deal before he arrived. Now, if we would have followed orders at that time, we
would not have permitted these people to stay in our midst, or would not have
allowed them to make any deal with us.Â
Because just as the scripture says, if you permit these people to stay
in your midst, and not follow the instructions as to what YAHWEH told you to
do, then pretty soon, you are going to discover that by his cunning and his
particular type of conspiracy, he is going to have control over your
economy. And you will be the people who
are slaves, and you are going to be the people under suppression. And he is going to take over certain areas
of your life and well being. And I
guess we have found out that these rascals have done just that. Back in the days of Wilson, (when Colonel
House was managing things for them) and Kuhn Loeb and Co. and Jacob Schiff were
in power, they put over the Federal Reserve System. Mr. Schiff directed this transfer over into the hands of he who
knew he was a stranger to the monetary control of these United States. And he wrote a very special letter to
Colonel House which I have in my library, saying, ‘You turned over the economy
of these United States to thy mothers people, and we are particularly
grateful. And you can have a blank
check for anything you need at any place in the world, at any time.’ And from that day, you have watched the
extension of increased taxation, of the creation of depressions, and
catastrophes. For you have been
increasing in the hands of these people.Â
And it seems that you can never get outside of the control of these
people over these areas. Someone said, ‘Why have these things happened?’ It is because you have not obeyed the MOST
HIGH GOD. But you should have trusted
the MOST HIGH GOD even on the concept of how this nation should have been
founded. And there should have been a
creation for every area of goods that men produced so that men would not have
to carry them upon their backs. And then
we would have a medium of just and sound values. Not one that the usury system could manipulate. But violation of Divine Law has occurred and
now they say that we should embrace all people of every endeavor and join
ourselves to all people and accomplish this great design. But this planned design, my friends, would
be a catastrophe. I point out to you that we are even in trouble in our
schools. Someone says, ‘What has
happened when we see this universal disrespect for parents? When was it extended into our schools this
lack of respect for spiritual things?’Â
Well, we have brought into our schools a great number of refugees. And they may not have come in economically
as refugees, but they are not a part of your society, and they are not those
who will improve your society. And they
hate God. Frankly, a great Christian
nation should never permit anyone into any influence of power who is a
non-Christian who can influence their youth, or influence their education, or
have any kind of power inside of their Christian nation. If Christians carry out their responsibility
before God, they will demand the highest standard they can attain in every
affair which is over their lives. This
is why we have such a pattern of delinquency to day. For the Church or the homes are not supporting the processes of
the acceptance of Divine Law. There is
even in the area of pseudo-science and in many applications of education, that
which is trying to make agnostics of our youth, and turn from the actual
concepts and precepts of truth. I
talked to several young men who were home from college activity and one of the
things I noticed was that they said, ‘We have to carry a continual resistance
to every class room. We have to carry
this resistance because we have to listen to what the teacher is saying and we
have to pay attention to the instructor and follow some of the material
presented to survive examinations. And
we have to give answers in order to receive passing grades. But we know that the things we have to write
are not true. We know that the things
which we have to recite for the instructors are not true.’ And they said, ‘But, Dr. Swift, we know that
the instructor and the material is not true, and what we are going there to
study is error.’ Well, the responsibility belongs on us then, for we
have permitted this teaching of error with its impact upon our educational
system. Again I tell you that this
requires spiritual responsibility, spiritual endowment and home influence in
relationship to God. If this condition
is in our environment, it is to be counteracted at the level which is vital and
necessary for the preservation of our race. Thus you are a great Christian nation. You are nation under God’s Divine
status. We have a force inside which is
seeking to destroy and to mutate your Faith and your religion, and at the same
time, it has become a process functioning in the highest levels of
education. Again the law of God says
that these strangers were not to come into our midst. And those who many times have sought to deny the status of God
were never to be given a responsibility which would effect our society or our
economy, nor were they to be allowed to remain in our land. I point out to you that many seek to express this
statement that under religious liberty, under free thought, under all the
things we give advocacy to, that man has a right to speak anything or do
anything. Well, my friends, there is a
limit upon this. We have a very
extensive liberal interpretation upon this which did not come from the Oracles
of God or His true Church, but comes from this tremendous error which is trying
to create this attitude. For the
position of our nation was the support of a Christian civilization and a
Christian society. We are advocacy by
majority, a hundred and forty-five million of us should be the overwhelming
influence inside of our nation and our society. And we would not eliminate God from the areas of education and
the areas of administration. God’s
Divine Law would be the foundation. And
then if those who do not like to reside in a country in which the sons and
daughters of God, quickened and awakened determine their destiny, then let them
go to a country where they find a better affinity or live under our blessings
whether they like it or not. The scripture has been rather clear. I want obedience rather than sacrifice. I am not interested in how a man may have
worked or applied himself to an objective which does not advocate the program
of God’s Kingdom. I an interested in
“Thus saith the LORD.â€Â I point out to
you that when they are following the pursuit of the negation of God’s plan, and
they have no vision, I am sure that they are reproducing this seduction of
Lucifer. I point out to you that God
continually unveils the mighty status of this achievement, unveiling blueprints
and greatness of accomplishments in His Oracles to His ministers and to His
Church. I want you to know that the
Spirit of God continues to unveil and to show that whole area which is based on
Divine Covenant and Divine promise to those who have the capacity to
understand. Therefore, we cite to you
in this very hour that you who are the sons of the MOST HIGH GOD, you who know
who you are, must make this the most important area of your life and living
until we accomplish the objective of the Kingdom. Instead of giving acquiescence because it is popular to all the
areas of darkness, it is time for us to repudiate it and to resist it. Instead of going along with every thought
and function, because we are afraid of the pressure of governmental influence
in the wrong hands, or decide that you are worried about the price you might be
required to pay economically, under their system, the Household of the MOST
HIGH GOD must be aware that God has empowered them. They must profess Faith in His promises and in His
covenants. For God never lets you down
when you try Him on a great issue. You
will discover if you understand God, that He has never let you down. I tell you that it is time for Christians everywhere
to oppose the forces of darkness everywhere they effect the society of God’s
Kingdom. The program of God’s Kingdom
has been set in earth. We are here in
physical bodies and we anticipate then that the spiritual obligation of Divine
purpose shall be carried out by you who are the members of a race, or a
household, you are a part of this nation.Â
And it is important that this is no time to be going along with
acquiescence with the areas which are even now emerging from the Church. You should be opposing the Ecclesiastical
orders which are out of step with God’s Law and His Holy Church.          Let me tell you this.Â
The Episcopalians almost demonstrated this last week when they almost
resigned from the Holy Church. They
came out for advocating utter freedom and utter availability of all
literature. And they felt that this
filthy, foul dictionary, which is called ‘The Dictionary of American Slang’
should not be suppressed, but available to schools and libraries, because, ‘it
is a very valuable addition to the understanding of semantics in our day.’ And from top Bishops to lesser Bishops and
from officials in the Ecclesiastical structure of the Episcopal Church, they
came out to support those who want to keep this filthy book. Now, as I glanced at the context of this book, I was
never more shaken in my life by any book I had in my hand. I never saw anything that defining a slang
term leading to the whole revelation of a filthy perversion with the most
rotten and fallacious images. I have
never seen anything which is as foul, vicious, and suggestive. In fact, the average youth, with all of the
patterns as to how he is to become aware of these many things in this modern
age, will find whole areas of a rotten education in this dictionary. He will find areas of evil he never dreamed
of. He will discover that anyone who
opposes any of these evil things is bias and not ‘with it,’ adding that this is
frowned on by the ‘squares.’ This of
course is looking down on people of another age. Thus all the way thru, there is sort of secret approval to the
most vicious, foul, most evil interpretation, all in the interpretation of
these words. If all of the evil ever
put on the walls of latrines from filthy minds were put into one book, this, my
friends, would have been almost a revival as compared to the filth of this
book. Now, can you imagine---in the instance of this, when
intelligent people and clergy, and people of responsibility, would say---’WE
DON’T WANT THIS BOOK IN OUR SCHOOLS. We
don’t want this book in our Libraries.Â
We don’t want this legacy of thought with its opportunity to destroy the
minds of our children.’ And there we
have men who call themselves educators and then also have church men say, ‘this
is what we want to effect the minds of our children.’ My friends, concentration camps are too good for people like
this. If I was in an Episcopal Church
today, I would get my letter out of it right now. And I would just tell them that when our church wants to support
filth, then I want to join the Church of Jesus Christ. Now, this is a rather interesting thing. For among these clergy are men who have been
called of God and in the areas wherein then have sought for spiritual
guidance. They have been influenced and
effected with the desire to operate with ‘Thus saith the LORD.’ Yet the higher officials who go to their own
churches are trying to put pressure upon these men or force them to resign from
the ministry or stop their throats from saying, ‘Thus saith the LORD.’ It tell you that we have reached an area
wherein the very structure of the organization that the Anti-Christ feels he
has enough influence wherein he wants to control the very Church itself. But I want to tell you something this afternoon. The Church of Jesus Christ is an invisible
institution made up of all the sons and daughters of God who are joining with
themselves and not leaving off the assembling of themselves together to
produce. Whereas a physical structure
is essential in carrying out its objectives, I want you to realize today, that
the church is an Eternal institution and that what is going to happen in your
nation in the next few months, is going to be a revelation. For churches which support mongrelization
and integration and such books as these text books, and such churches which
support the United Nations and seek to find their status in the church building
of the United Nations, ---there will be a great cry coming out---’COME OUT OF
HER O MY PEOPLE.’  And I am going to
tell you that the churches which say, ‘Thus saith the LORD’ are going to be
filled to capacity. For we are going to
come out of Babylon. And the empty
husks of Babylonian Priestcraft with a form of godliness, but without the power
thereof, shall lose their control over the people of these United States. We are in the beginning of a great hour and a new
day. We are in the beginning of an hour
when we also must recognize a message----according to time. We not only need the guidance and wisdom of
great perceptions, and all of these things, but we need discernment. We need to be able to discern and be able to
feel the opposition. Every once in a
while someone moves into this congregation or into other congregations who
carries the very essence of destruction and more to destroy. I do not seek to win this person. I would just as soon they left. Why?Â
Because in the church today we have brought in too many of these
stepchildren and created an Apostasy inside of this institution. We are not out to see how many people we can
get irrespective of quality. We leave
that to the Will of God to add to our numbers. I point out to you that the message today is not to
take the world on your shoulders and hug it until you cannot tell a Buddhist
from a Christian. God is not calling
today for sellers, He is calling for soldiers.Â
He is not asking for everyone from the church to go out and go to
farming. No. He is calling for soldiers and for the farmers to beat their plow
shears into swords and their pruning hooks into spears for we are getting ready
for Armageddon. We are getting ready
for the Big Day. Now, if the church lacks discernment, if the minister
on the pulpit lacks the understanding of knowing the day which we live in, then
he lacks the call of God and should get out of the pulpit. We are living in the day and the hour when
God says, ‘I shall give My call before My Holy Army.’ And the prophet Joel tells us that all of the work of this hour
is to charge men to stand before the enemy and to resist the powers of
darkness, and battle at every plain against the forces of evil. That is why again, I tell you that the
ministry of this hour must be challenging God’s people not to join but to
resist. Not to seek to envelop, but to
oppose. No, my friends, to co-exist with
evil, but to rise above it. We will not discuss how acquiescence has become a
world and national policy. But I am
going to tell you that God has called on you to be His resistance and to put on
the whole armor of God, that you in this hour might be able to stand. This we tell you to do. And also we tell you that Obedience is better
than sacrifice. There is a way that
seemeth right to a man, but to oppose brings death. Not spiritual death, which you will not be able to understand,
because of the ability of God to reach even into the great beyond where there
is no dimension for God, but there is catastrophe and judgement, and problems
and wars and depressions and all of these lead to sin and death. A broad way of destruction is the design of
earth, when men are out of adjustment with God. But there is a process which is-----’Thus saith the LORD’. God has given you explicit commands for your
residence in earth. So it is a foolish
thing for the church to preach about your conduct in heaven. It would be a rather foolish thing for us to
tell you how you should perform and what you should do and what your
relationship is in the plain of spirit.Â
For it so happens that everyone of us this afternoon is right down here
in this body. And God knew that you
would be here, and the time when you would be here, and what you are here for. Â You are not however, just to live like a
vegetable and see how long you can survive.Â
You are not here just to stay until your go to seed. You are here as a militant household, a part
of God’s family to establish the Kingdom, to live by a very rigid policy to
establish that which is right and truth. As we followed this course, we were entering into the
ends of the earth we were colonizing----from the highest mountains of the
Himalayas of Asia to the furthermost lands of the Sierras, you will discover
that we were moving. And as we moved,
we were spreading the Gospel with power and establishing civilizations. In this same course we saw the establishing
of civilization and culture. And we
were helping creation. Yes, there were
restrictions on whether they could eat one another in their villainy, and they
may not have liked the restraint. But
if all the outlaws got together today and they said, ‘No, look. Our civil rights are being stepped on, so we
want you to abandon the use of all police forces for they restrain us.’ Well, there are some silly people who are
advocating this. We just dedicated a
new prison anyhow. But right now the only
people who do not want policemen around are people who intend to break the law. The program of God’s Kingdom does not ask the prisoner
whether he likes it or not, or the pagan whether or not he is going to
obey. He says we are not only going to
win, but we are going to rule with a rod of iron, an inflexible rod of iron. And you are going to obey. This does not bother you and me, because we
are in sympathy with this rule. We are
not objecting to it. The program of
God’s Kingdom is therefore quite simple.Â
We think sometimes in terms of impossibility instead of the power of God
bestowed upon us. The great secret is
the knowledge, the vision, values, the initiative of HIS spirit.  Everything we see here except you and me,
has been created. Everything I see here
except you or me, is thought and form.Â
Everything except this body you are resident in right now, is thought
and form. Everything in the Universe
which grew by patterns of light and were put into your physical being was in
the thoughts of God. The food you eat
and the clothes you wear, the patterns of illumination, the instruments which
record my voice, the vastness of the cities, all of these are the patterns of
form in the creation. And the image of
your creation is what you call your civilization, your society. And the greater your knowledge, the greater
your understanding, the greater the expanse of this creation. We look at the magnitude of the great
expansion bridges, the magnitude of the sky scrapers which are built. But when you see that go up, then just
say---There goes some more thought and form going up. Now, we have wrought some changes in the earth. We have molded them. We have melted them.  And now we put up a new form because this
is what we have created. But I can tell
you that there is something more important.Â
Even more important than that expansion bridge. And this is for us to connect the bridge of
conscious understanding between the Father and His children, for the objectives
of the Kingdom. These bridges can reach
around the world for conscious objectives.Â
I tell you that even greater than the sky scrapers that we build, is the
cognition of how we build them and why we are what we are and how we can and
did extend the power and influence of civilization. It was not by acquiescence, but by determination that this is our
way and this is our God who put things together from one end of the earth to
the other. I want you to know that when sons know who they are, that all things are there. ‘Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His
righteousness will be added unto you.’  Â
God wants sons without fear. He
wants you to be about to look Him in the face.Â
He does not want you to look at Him like an ant or an beetle. You do not have to get down so humble that
you have to be like a beetle or an ant.Â
Let me tell you something. God
says, ‘You are My sons and daughters; I have empowered you with My Spirit; I
have justified you by My Grace; I have given into you My Life.’ He wants you to be able to stand up and look
Him in the face and say, ‘Hello, Father, I am your son; I have been justified;
I acknowledge your Grace and I expect Your righteousness and I am not
afraid.----I expect to be in Your Image.’Â
He is not taking happiness from you. A lot of religious leaders are worried about where
they are going to spend eternity. A lot
of religious leaders are worried about where they are going to spend
eternity. I am not worried about
Eternity, for I have confidence in my Father.Â
He said that He has set me free.Â
Eternity is just the great vista of endless tomorrows in the operation
of God’s Kingdom. Eternity is just the
great Vista of endless tomorrows in the operation of God’s Kingdom. We have not the time to talk about all the things of
this day. We are just a bunch of
amateurs floating around out here in space.Â
And my relatives are flying around in ships which they have been using
for thousands of years. We are just
amateurs in vision as we put it in form as these things are brought into our
cognition. Some people said the other
day that they were worried about where they would put all the people. Well, as I was returning the other day, I
passed by more land than I was about to see the end of. And there was not a house or a person on
it. I am not worried about where to put
people. I am just worried about the
kind of people that you are going to put here. As I look out over the vastness of this
Universe,-----do you know what happened last month? Bursting into form out in the constellation of Hercules was the
formation of a new solar system.Â
Nebulas gases were forming and apparently a new solar system is forming
which will have a great number of planets, more than our solar system. If we weren’t bound down by all of this
process and had the illumination which we should have been shouting for joy as
before when all the sons of God shouted for joy. The Morning stars would also be shouting for joy, because the
Father has just built a new solar system.Â
By the time we get things in order here, maybe that will be cooled down
and we can go out and look at it. Limitations,
no tomorrows? Let me tell you sons of
God, your Father has challenged you to rise and look and move with knowledge
and without fear. This responsibility
is your first job. Occupy here in earth
as you establish this Kingdom. You say
there are no more worlds to conquer?Â
The Universe is yours. For HE
says that HE is giving you this Kingdom in the earth and then throughout the
whole course of space for which God has ruled.Â
The book of Ephesians reveals that you are going to keep the Faith. So I tell you that it is not a sacrifice to
participate in the Kingdom. Today a lot
of people are trying to offer to God a sacrifice of the things He said to
destroy. And they are spending their
life and their service to accomplish that which is directly opposite of God’s
will. And then they expect that they
are going to get a blessing for this.Â
And in the hour, not too far removed, as Christ walked the earth in
stately majesty as King of Kings and Lord of Lords, a lot of fellows that have
walked around with their collars on backwards are going to come up to Jesus and
say, ‘Do you remember all the things that we told people to do in thy
name?’ And Jesus is going to say, ‘Now
look, you may have talked and said these things in My name, but it was not My
Word. And I don’t know you as
clergymen. You should go live with
these people and operate in these areas that you so desire.’ One of the great punishments is that God is
to take a lot of these preachers, (and I hope some Supreme Court Justices) and
let them live down in Africa. If you
want some evidence of this, remember how it says that some of them are going to
live in outer darkness. Some people
have some fantastic ideas about that.Â
But Africa is sort of the outer darkness. And then when you get to Greece and then start pushing out, you
get into the outer darkness. Ask anyone
who travels around the world today, if when he steps back into this country, he
doesn’t feel the light. Let me tell you something. A few years from now when you come, you will see the Light. For there will not remain a Cainanite in the
House of the LORD. (END
OF MESSAGE)
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