Truth Magazine

By Dennis Abernathy

There is an old American saying, “Let’s get down to brass tacks.” It dates from the nineteenth century before the day of the department store. In the dry goods stores of that day, the measurement of cloth was done my means of brass tacks set at the edge of the counter and spaced about a yard apart. This method of getting exact measurements is the origin of that saying, “Let’s get down to brass tacks.” It means to talk about things in plain terms that are based on facts.

In this article, we want to “get down to brass tacks”; we want to speak in “plain terms” about faithful attendance to the church assemblies. God has always required assemblies by his people for specific purposes. In the Old Testament there was the observance of the Sabbath and other holy days along with the various festivals. In the New Testament we have scriptural evidence that Christians assembled to worship God on a regular basis. The fellowship enjoyed by Christians in the assemblies was a vital and impressive thing. Men and women from all ranks and stations in life met together, saluted one another and praised God. Apparently all of them found something in the assemblies, for they were constantly coming together (Acts 2:44; 4:31; 20:7; 1 Cor. 5:4; 14:23,26). Assembling together was not a matter of “have to” but “want to.” They were brothers and sisters in Christ . . . and members of a family love to be together. They assembled in expectancy and departed with a blessing.

We are admonished not to “give up meeting together” or as the King James Version translates it: “not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together” (Heb. 10:25). Assembling together with the saints for worship and fellowship should play a vital role in every Christian’s life.

Surely we realize that God emphatically requires obedience to his will. Obeying him strictly and carefully is not “legalism” as some would call it, but rather, a deep and detailed concern for doing the precise will of God is reflection of our faith in God and of our love for him. Faith in God causes us to implicitly trust his every word. Love for God causes us to desperately desire to please him.

1. With regard to attendance many are just not willing to pay the price. King David, long ago said, that he would not give a sacrifice to the Lord “that costs me nothing” (1 Chron. 21:24). But, many Christians today would! The majority today are apparently looking for a religion which “costs them nothing. ” They are seeking after a ” convenient religion.” They will come to the church meetings if everything is just “so-so,” and nothing else comes up to hinder them. Many have adopted the doctrine of Jeroboam by reasoning that “it is too much” to attend the assemblies of the saints if it interferes with what they want to do (see 1 Kgs. 12).

Some brethren act like the rich young ruler in Mark 10. He heard the word eagerly. He believed what Jesus said. He wanted to obey. But he went away grieved, because he was unwilling to pay the price. What a tragedy! Listen carefully: God never said it would be easy to do his will. Jesus said, “difficult is the way which leads to life,” in Matthew 7:14. But some, it appears, automatically assume that if faithful service to God (attendance to the services) makes it difficult on them, that they can just dispense with it altogether. But didn’t Jesus encourage us to “count the cost” and warn of the exacting demands of discipleship? (See Lk. 14:25-33.)

If I am going to follow Jesus, I must be willing to give up everything, to sacrifice all! This includes possessions, family, my time, my recreational pursuits, and even my own desires. My brother or sister, are you willing to pay the price? Would you have sacrificed Isaac if you had been Abraham? Would you have sold everything if you had been the rich young ruler? Would you have divorced your wife if you had been the Jews of Ezra’s day (Ezra 9-10)? Will you give up or sacrifice some of the cares of this life to faithfully assemble with the saints? Or, will you reason that God couldn’t possibly require anything so costly and extreme? Please remember, that going to heaven is worth everything! “For what will a man profited, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” (Matt. 16:26)

2. We all find time to do what is important to us. Even at our busiest, we seem to find time to go and do what we really want to do. Parents seem to find the time to get their children to the ball practices and ball games. We find the time to make the various club meetings and community functions. We take our turn working the concession stands for band, choir, etc. We go to movies, take week-end trips, etc. What do we do when a big event comes up? Maybe it is a big ball game or trip. We began early to plan our schedules so we will be able to attend. We don’t plan anything for that particular time. Why? Because this event is important to us and we want to go! I’m afraid that too many brethren plan worship assemblies around their schedules rather than planning their schedules around worship assemblies.

How important is the worship of God to you? How important is the encouragement of your brethren to you? David said: “I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord” (Psa. 122:1). Are you glad to come to the assemblies of the house of the Lord (the church, 1 Tim. 3:15)? Examine your record for the past year. It will tell you something about the importance of worship to you.

If we do not have time to read the Bible, pray, write a note to a sick brother or sister, call a friend or brother, worship God in the assemblies of the saints, then these are not as important as some other things that we make time for! Didn’t Jesus make this point clear for all to see, when he said: “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Matt. 6:21). A short article by the late and beloved Luther Blackmon makes the point well. Read it and profit:

Have you ever tried to picture in your mind what would happen if some eccentric multi-millionaire philanthropist should announce in the local paper that one night during one of our meetings (he would say which night) he would give each person present one thousand dollars? Well, I have. And in fancy’s vision I see a strange and motley crowd. The rich and the poor, the fat and the frail, Republicans and Democrats, scoffers and cynics, “God-is dead-ers,” segregationists and integrationists, the famous and the infamous. People who haven’t spoken to each other for years would sit side by side if necessary. The once-a-weekers and onceIn-a-whilers would be there. Grandpa would rub his “rhumatiz” leg with some goose grease and turpentine, and he would be there. Folks who haven’t been there because they were afraid to drive at night would chance it; all the backsliders would suddently warm up and suddenly take their place up where they could be seen. All the puny excuses and anemic alibis and other kinds of lies we have been telling ourselves and others about why we didn’t attend worship would disappear like dirt before “intensified Tide” or roaches before “Raid.” We would have crowds that would make a democratic convention look like a country picnic that is, until the money was passed out. We would look for a slump after that. What kind of “Christian” would do for money what he will not do for the sake of his soul?

3. Is assembling for worship a chore and boring to you? A newspaper article appeared some time ago stating that a particular denominational church in Mesquite, Texas will drop Sunday services during the summer and hold its worship meetings on Friday evenings. When asked about such a practice, the pastor stated: “We asked ourselves why do we demand that the only chance for recreation for urban man, Sunday, be negated by attempting to drag the people into the church and do the same thing to that day that the world does to every other day.”

A few observations are in order: It seems clear that these people are more wrapped up in recreation than in worship. So, they want to make it as convenient as possible. Don’t cut into the only time we have for recreation. (Being in Texas, and high school football being as popular as it it, I can already tell you that they will disband services on Friday evenings.) The Bible teaches “and upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread. . . ” (Acts 20:7). But, to people who are more concerned about recreation on Sunday than they are the things of God, who cares what the Bible teaches!

The “pastor” said they were “attempting to drag the people into the church.” Sounds more like a trip to the dentist. Poor people – worship just keeps getting in the way of the demands of urban man!

We nod our head and sigh at such shallowness of conviction. But, I am wondering how many in the Lord’s church feel this way. When the beach is beckoning, the fish are jumping, the new putter needs to be tested, or some leisure outing calls, how many feel it is an inposition to have to go to church. Have you decided that Sunday evening is wasted in going to the church assembly? What about Wednesday evening? What of gospel meetings and special studies? Are you casting your vote to cease worshipping at these times? Which is worse, to change the Lord’s day services to suit our recreational desires or to just miss the Lord’s day services for the same reason?

The prophet Amos condemned Israel for worshiping on God’s holy day, but at the same time wishing that it would soon be over so they could get back to their own selfish pursuits (see Amos 8:5). The prophet Isaiah, long ago warned:

If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord’s holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you will find your joy in the Lord (Isa. 58:13-14, NIV).

We are seeing more and more Christians who are lax with regard to church attendance. Why? I don’t know all the reasons, but it surely evidences a lack of love for God (Matt. 22:37) and our brethren (Heb. 10:24). It definitely says that our affections are not where they ought to be (Col. 3:1-2). It loudly declares that first things are not first with us (Matt. 6:33).

But, what will this practice indicate for the future? Children will be taught, if not by word, surely by example, that the worship assemblies are not very important. Certainly not as important as recreation, school activities, community functions, family reunions, etc. The next generation will be even weaker than the present one with regard to attendance. Children will seldom do better than they are taught. If parents do not faithfully attend the assemblies of the church, can we expect better of the children? I think not. Parents, I beg you, please do not fail your children in your service to God, but set that good example in word and in deed.

Guardian of Truth XXXVI: 8, pp. 236-237
April 16, 1992

By William C. Sexton

Many things are capable of influencing us in the wrong direction. Some of them in our day are movies that show and glorify corrupt behavior, things that are sinful, disgraceful, contain profane and vulgar language. Literature, too, has the same downward pull on us if we read the wrong kind – that which gives explicit accounts of sexual behavior, foul and abusive language. Music glorifying sinful behavior, such as sexual misconduct, drinking alcohol and using drugs, etc., also pulls down ones morals. I challenge each of us to acknowledge the terrible price we’ll pay if we allow these things in our environment to influence our minds, behavior, and become a part of our everyday surrounding!

No one can make us watch these movies, listen to the music or read such salacious, erotic, indecent and lewd materials. The fact that they are so prevalent in our day, used by so many, however, may result in us being desensitized, and in time slip into the practice or toleration of it. At first we may gradually allow such to enter, only giving cautious reception. Over time however, we’ll allow such to become “common stuff’ or “old hat,” if we are not very vigilant and consciously resisting.

Pornography is defined as, “writings or pictures or films, etc. that are intended to stimulate erotic feelings by descriptions of portrayal of sexual activities.”

A man executed in the last couple of years, for sexually assaulting and murdering a number of women, revealed that much of his deviant behavior stemmed from pornographic materials that he was exposed to in his early days. Watch out!

I feel sure that most honest observers see the damaging influence of much of the materials which are available to the public today -movies, magazines, and other kinds of printed materials, as well as music. Are we wise enough to recognize the danger, or are we wanting to get as close as possible without falling over the cliff of destruction?

God has given us ample warning against the power of the downward pulls of sinful practices. Let us observe what happens to people who yield to such temptations and resist with all our might.

Consider Proverbs 7:6-23. Read it and meditate on the powerful force of evil involved.

Next read the following words: “Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned9 So he that goeth in to his neighbor’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent” (Prov. 6:27-29).

“Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise” (Prov. 20:1).

Beloved, are you aware of the destructive force in this area? Are you willing to choose to be entertained and enriched by the decent literature, music, and films? There is so much good material and so little time, why in the world not be selective and stay with that which will be helpful?

Young people of our day have so many opportunities, yea, forces pulling away at them to go in the wrong direction. Each of us needs to be on his toes, aware of the various ways Satan will appeal to lead us away from God. Let us heed the many warnings issued in God’s book, the Bible. Let us stay clear of the evil pit!

Guardian of Truth XXXVI :7, p. 205
April 2, 1992

By Larry Ray Hafley

In order to promote a greater sense of spirituality, some ask us the question of our title. Is the church an organism, or is it an organization? Dutifully, we are supposed to respond that the church is an organism. That being true, we are then told and taught that we ought not to think that faithfulness to an organization is required of us. Rather, we are to seek a “personal relationship with Jesus Christ,” a “covenant fellowship with the person, Jesus Christ.”

Continuing their usage of the “trendy” terms of fundamental, evangelical denominationalism, these modern spiritualizers berate the “ten step mentality” of the “organizational mindset which is so common in the Church of Christ’s institutional concepts.” (Note: The “ten steps” are: hearing, belief, repentance, confession and baptism, followed by singing, praying, giving, communion and teaching.) These ten steps reveal your trust and reliance on the organizational, institutional church to save you. What you need to do is to see the church as an organism, not an organization. You need to trust in the living, loving Lord, not in a cold, sterile, ritualistic organization.

While it is good to stress our faith and trust in Jesus the Christ, I find as much direct and specific reference to a “personal relationship with Jesus Christ” in the Bible as I find certain warnings against trusting in a “ten step organization or institution.” Neither admonition appears in those terms. And what is a “personal relationship with Jesus Christ”? Define your terms. Is there any such thing as an impersonal relationship with Jesus Christ?

The church is a divine organism, a living, vibrant spiritual body (Eph. 2:19-22; 4:11-16; 5:23-33; 1 Cor. 12:12-27). It is also a divine organization or arrangement. Some ridicule the idea of the church’s being an organization. They say it is an organism, not an organization. The church is both an organism and an organization. It is a spiritual body, hence, it is a spiritual organism (cf. 1 Pet. 2:5; Eph. 1:22,23; Col. 1: 18,24). This divine organism has been designed to function and to work and is equipped with parts with which to act (Rom. 12:4-8; 1 Cor. 12:12-27; Eph. 4:11-16). As such, it is arranged or organized and exists as a unit; thus, it is a divine organization.

To show that the Holy Spirit is a divine person, we cite passages that reveal the attributes of personality – the Spirit teaches, testifies, speaks, can be grieved and lied to, etc. (Jn. 14:26; 16:13; 1 Tim. 4:1; Eph. 4:30; Acts 5:3,4). Likewise, observe the features of arrangement, the characteristics of an organization, that describe the nature and function of the church.

1. People were added to it (Acts 2:47; 1 Pet. 2:5; Col. 1:13).

2. The church feared (Acts 5:11).

3. The church was persecuted (Acts 8:1,3; Gal. 1: 13; 1 Cor. 15:9).

4. The church had rest (Acts 9:31).

5. The church had ears, could hear (Acts 11:22; Rev. 2:7).

6. The church assembled (Acts 11:26; 14:27; 1 Cor. 14:23).

7. The church had elders (Acts 14:23; 20:17,28).

8. The church provided transportation (Acts 15:3).

9. The church received guests (Acts 15:4).

10. Churches were confirmed (Acts 15:41).

11. Churches were established in the faith (Acts 16:5).

12. Churches grew (Acts 16:5).

13. Churches sent and received greetings (Acts 18:22; Rom. 16:16).

14. Churches had a treasury (1 Cor. 16:2; Phil. 4:15,16; 2 Cor. 11:8).

15. Churches sent “wages” (2 Cor. 11:8; Phil. 4:15,16).

16. Churches are to “relieve” widows indeed (1 Tim. 5:16).

17. Churches preach the gospel (1 Thess. 1:8).

Let no one be deceived. The church is an organized entity, a divinely authorized body, thoroughly equipped to do the work God gave it to do.

I would like for these people who decry the church as an organization while describing it as an organism to cite one organism from the material or animal world that does not also possess organization or arrangement to act, to function. Amoebas and armadillos are organisms. They are also functioning bodies or arrangements, and they possess the organization, the equipment, with which to work. Paramecium and porcupines are organisms, but they are also organizational arrangements designed to function. The church, too, is an organism. Like all organisms, it has duties, work, to perform. It performs these tasks through its organization, through its parts or members.

Therefore, all of this talk about the church being an 91organism” or a “fellowship,” a “relationship with Jesus Christ” and not “an organization or institution,” is out of focus and balance at best or it is a false doctrine at worst. All organisms require proper arrangement, an integration of a plurality of parts, or organization with which to function, and the church of our Lord is no exception.

Is it possible to have this nebulous, undefined “personal relationship with Jesus Christ” and to “love and trust Jesus Christ” without also serving as a functioning unit or part in his organism’s arrangement or organization (Eph. 4:11-16)? Is it possible for one to love and serve Jesus without performing his assigned duties in the organizational arrangement that Jesus left for us? That question needs to be answered before anyone rails against devotion to the church of the Lord. In other words, can I love and trust Jesus and have a “deep and meaningful personal relationship with him” while refusing to assemble with the saints, to give of my prosperity and perform other actions which he has authorized in his word? My answer is, “no” (Rom. 6:16; Rom. 12:4-7; Eph. 4:16).

“But,” we are told, “you have misunderstood us. We believe in keeping God’s commandments and in doing his will as members of his body. We just think that Christians should trust in Jesus and not in an institution.” Well, I do not know any sincere Christian who trusts in an abstract institution or organization and not in Jesus Christ, and I do not think you do, either.

“We have heard folks talk about blessings in the church, and they do not seem to realize that ‘all spiritual blessings’ are in Christ, not in the church (Eph. 1:3). So, we think people are emphasizing the church, an organization, and that they are not really looking unto the person of Jesus.” Now, that sounds good, and that it is often well-intentioned, I have no doubt, but here is how and where it misses the mark. The church is his body (Eph. 1:22,23; Col. 1:18,24). The only way to get into Jesus Christ, which is where the blessings are, is to get into his body. Note 1 Corinthians 12:12, 13, in this connection. Paul refers to the physical body as being one unit while having “many members.” Next, he says, “so also is Christ.” In other words, so also is the church, the body of Christ, for Paul says we are “baptized into one body,” the church. Hence, when we are baptized into Christ, we are baptized into his body, the church (Gal. 3:27; 1 Cor. 12:13). The only way to be in Christ is to be in his body.

If a germ or microbe is going to partake of you, the germ is going to have to get into your body. There is no way for a germ to partake of you, to share with you, to derive nourishment from you, without getting into your body. In like manner, the only way to share and partake of all spiritual blessings is to be in Christ, and to be in Christ, you must be in his body, the church. Suppose a germ were to say, “I want to be in you; I want to have a loving, sharing, trusting relationship with you, but I do not want to be in your body.” How could you accommodate such a foolish germ? You could not. Suppose the germ said, “But I want a personal relationship with you; I do not want to trust in the organizational arrangement of your body; I want to live with you.” Could you offer the germ any hope of consolation? No, apart from your body, the germ cannot partake of you. Similarly, apart from the church, one cannot partake of Christ and of his spiritual blessings (Eph. 1:6,7; 2:16,19-22; 3:6).

Suppose I began to preach, “Brethren, you had better beware of the mentality which says that you can glorify God in Christ. The Bible says, ‘Unto him be glory in the church,’ not in Christ (Eph. 3:21).” Would that be acceptable, scriptural? Should we preach that glory to God is “in the church” and not in Christ? God forbid! It is a false choice. It is an attempt to make a distinction without a difference.

That salvation can be obtained by cold, callous ceremonialism or by rote ritualism is equally false as both of the Old and New Testaments testify (Isa. 1:10-20; Jer. 7:21-23; Amos 5:21-27; 1 Sam. 15:22; Psa. 50:7-23; Prov. 15:8; 21:27; Hos. 5:6; 6:6; Mic. 6:6-8; Matt. 22:37; 23:23). No one argues that a large contribution or a pinch of bread and a sip of juice is righteousness, or that attendance at every service punches one’s ticket to heaven. Let that be understood. However, we must be wary of those who would denigrate and trifialize “the ordinances” which were delivered unto us by the apostles through the Spirit (1 Cor. 11:2,23; 14:37).

It is unsettling to listen to the way of the Lord being spoken against in subtle jibes and sarcastic jabs. There are those who speak against vague and hazy “traditions of the Church of Christ” (“vague” and “hazy” in the sense that they are not specifically identified). With fervor, cutting criticism is leveled against those who contend for strict adherence to New Testament worship. If we will not tolerate unscriptural additions to singing (such as humming or playing), if we will not take the Lord’s supper except on the first day of the week, we are denounced as legalistic Pharisees. The inference is that if we demand such things that we are relying on our own works of righteousness instead of the person of Jesus Christ to save us.

Ironically, the very ones who satirically slander and facetiously portray the faith as a farce, the very ones who resort to ridicule of the way of righteousness and mock and scoff at the old-fashioned, trite (“three songs and a prayer”) religion, are the very same ones who go into orbit if you reprove and rebuke infant baptism or show that the Pope is a “false apostle.” It is alright to scorn and scathingly skewer the worship habits of faithful New Testament saints, but do not be so “unloving” as to show that Baptist baptism is not Bible baptism! Yes, from the podium of a building provided by sacrificing saints it is acceptable to mock and ridicule those who cling to the New Testament ordinances and traditions of work and worship, but do not dare to scripturally show, from the same pulpit, that Pentecostal tongue speakers are duped and deluded. Where is the consistency (not to mention truth) in all of that?

Excuse me, but I have a difficult time allowing someone to occupy a pulpit and take support from a treasury that was provided by the very spirit that these people condemn If it were not for the “narrow-minded, legalistic, antis,’ those who were abused as “Campbellites” and seen as religious bigots, these modern darlings of the kingdom of sweetydom would have no place to preach.

Listen for the sounds, the “buzz words” of contemporary “Christendom.” They are uttered by every sectarian who ever answered an altar call and “received the Spirit and got saved and baptized.” Sadly, they are being parroted in some circles among New Testament Christians. “The church is an Organism. You cannot be saved by being faithful to an organization. Jesus did not die for an institution. He wants you to have a close, personal relationship with him, not with the five step program of the Church of Christ.” Have you heard similar sentiments? Again, it is acceptable to rant and rail against scriptural New Testament practices, but calling attention to these devious devices and their dangers makes me and this paper “a classic example of all that is wrong with the Church of Christ today.”

The refrain of an old hymn is an appropriate melody with to close.

I love Thy kingdom Lord, The house of Thine abode;

The church our blest Redeemer saved with His own precious blood.

I love Thy church, O God! Her walls before Thee stand,

Dear as the apple of Thine eyes, and graven on thy hand.

For her my tears shall fall, For her my prayers ascend;

To her my cries and toil be giv’n, Till toils and cares shall end.

Beyond my highest joy I prize her heavenly ways,

Her sweet communion, solemn vows, Her hymns of love and praise.

Guardian of Truth XXXVI: 7, pp. 208-210
April 2, 1992

By Lewis Willis

The history of the ancient nation of Israel was long and turbulent. Almost every Bible student is aware of the time they spent in slavery in Egypt. We remember the difficult years of the Exodus under Moses, the years of battle under Joshua as the people were settled in the Promised Land, and the disturbing days of the period of the Judges. Things did not improve a great deal under Saul, David and Solomon, Israel’s three great kings. After the death of Solomon, the nation divided, continuing in this condition until 721 B.C. when the northern tribes were taken into captivity by the Assyrians. What remained was known as the Kingdom of Judah. This small kingdom continued to exist until it fell captive to the Babylonians in 586 B.C.

The period just prior to the Babylonian Captivity is the period on which this article focuses. Sin was rampant in the nation and there seemed to be no one with the interest or influence who could call the people away from their sin and back to God. Among those who tried was the great prophet Jeremiah. He was so saddened by the wickedness that prevailed in

Israel that he is known as “the weeping prophet.” I want to focus on just one statement that he made in trying to get Israel to come to its senses.

“Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number” (Jer. 2:32). Jehovah identified the problem – the people had forgotten him! No longer were they attempting to do his will. No longer was there a reverence and fear of Jehovah. No longer did the people know God’s law, nor were they teaching it to their children as God desired. No, they had turned aside to the abominations that existed in the world around them. Therefore, God informed Jeremiah that punishment was coming for their sin unless they repented. History records that they refused repentance and they were punished with a devastating 70 years in Babylonian captivity.

I suppose a lot could be written just here about the condition of the world around us, but I want to notice the Church. More and more we see the influences of worldliness, carelessness and indifference literally devastating the Church and its work. It seems virtually impossible to muster the people of God today for any purpose – we will not all gather on the Lord’s Day for a period of quiet worship and reflection. One has to wonder how long God will tolerate this.

The Church is so very much like Jeremiah’s Israel! He wrote, “Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, . . . that can hold no water” (Jer. 2:11-13). Many in the Church – too many – have turned aside to that which does not profit in either time or eternity. Too many have turned away from the Lord – they have forgotten him it seems – and they have tried to build for themselves safety and security with the things of this world. As in the days of Jeremiah, we need to repent and return from these things and resume our service to God lest we perish.

David said, “I have remembered thy name, 0 Lord, in the night, and have kept thy law” (Psa. 119:55). He also wrote, “. . . I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches” (Psa. 63:6). I am persuaded there is a desperate need that every child of God stop to consider this matter. It is urgent that we remember the Lord, his name and his law, meditating upon him until we have the will again to return to his way and walk therein. If we do not do so speedily, driving the world out of our hearts and devoting ourselves again to the pursuit of godliness, ours will be but another generation of shame, likened unto the people in that generation before the Babylonian Captivity. Have you forgotten God?

Guardian of Truth XXXVI: 7, p. 203
April 2, 1992