By Dr. Wesley A. Swift
An excerpt from the original sermon in 1963
This is one
reason why that I tell you this afternoon, that was not the Great Commission. And the footnotes of these chapters
tell you that this was something which
was added to the scriptures, and of course, I have long researched this.
And I know that it was not in the
Alexandrian text. It was not in the original pattern of the scriptures. It was
added on later, and was not in the original Vatican manuscripts either.
Do you know
that you do not have to travel very far to see the difference? I had a chance
the other day to talk to a man who had been in a government administrative
program and they sent him over to India. He had come from a good Christian
family, had a good background in the normal things of our background and then
he went over to India. And he was going into the part of India where they have
streetcars and automobiles and modern buildings in a lot of the cities where
the people the men dressed in business suits and things he was used to except
for the masses who sat around the temple square. But do you know what he told
me? He said, ‘Dr. Swift, there is just one thing which impressed me everywhere
I went. I saw this abundance of temples, all kinds of temples to every kind of
grotesque god. I saw gods with eyes in their foreheads and in their feet, and
in their hands. And there were some peculiar gods and all were looking at you.’
He said, ‘I took photographs of the temples and some of those pictures I don’t
think I can get them developed here in these United States.’
Do you know why? These evil gods, these corrupt demons that
the people of India worship and I did say worship, including Nehru, and Gandhi,
who people made such a fuss about, Gandhi did not worship Christ. Don’t let
them fool you on that. He worshiped Brahma, Siva and Kali who is the assassin
goddess. And in this long panorama of these gods and he had pictures, all of
the immoral, depraved, and immorality displayed on the friezes of their temples
were sculptured out in stone. And the children being raised are being raised
looking at these sculptures of depravity. These depravities and immoral
activities are passed through their streets in
their parades, from the lowest to the highest caste, the great majority of
young girls from the age of 12 or 13, serve as these temples virgins to these
idol gods. They are the servants of the gods.
Most of the young men as they
pass through these temples of a night come to know the ‘marriage of the gods,’ which
is nothing but wholesale prostitution carried on in India. And in their
religion, the young men are told that they are meeting the gods in the darkness
and the girls of India are told that they are meeting the gods. And it is a
great brothel of evil run by a bunch of pagan Jew priests. And the results are
immorality and depravity and at least 25% of India’s illegitimate population
which over-crowds that country comes out of their evil religion. I don’t care
how modern a crane is out in the street or a steam shovel working in a ditch. I
don’t care how modern a laboratory which you built for them is which they did not
have sense enough to use. I am going to tell you that no people rise above
their religion. This corruption, this immorality, is something which you are
subsidizing. You are pouring millions and millions of your tax dollars into
supporting this kind of a society. And you have people working over there and
helping them to do things, and you have this great new organization known as
the ‘Peace Corps.’ And this has your predominately young people over there
trying to show those people how to be civilized. You cannot civilize anyone
while they are worshiping the darkness.
Preach to
them softly.’ No. Try it. For almost 2000 years, we have been preaching to the
people of the world. For hundreds of
years we have sent missionaries into India, Africa, and China. And now let me
tell you this. You have been trying to Christianise all of them and it did not
work. Do you know why? It never worked for they have all turned toward
Communism, back to the witch doctors. But why? In the 14th chapter of John, it
says, ‘You are My children, My offspring, My Household. And I send upon you the
Comforter. You are My Israel, having the wavelength of My mind, and I am sending
the intellectual wave of My own personal understanding upon you. And when this
spirit comes, it will lead you to the knowledge of all truth. It will bring all things to your memory
even the things which the world cannot receive.’ And 100 Billy Grahams could not
give it to them if the world cannot receive it.
You cannot pound it in with a
hammer. You can’t pour it in with a funnel. Then you say, ‘why is that?’ Because
these vibrations cannot be transferred from one language to another unless the
other erects in their consciousness an overwhelming realism, saying this is
truth, or this is God, and this is the way it should be done. There is within you, there has been born
inside of you a spiritual capacity to receive this truth. The Apostle Paul
tells us that this is being made known unto you. But it is this Divine quality,
this ‘Christ in you’ which is the hope of Glory. You say, ‘But why did not
Christ let us remember this all of the time? Why did HE not give us all this
knowledge?’ Oh, HE said HE would give you the knowledge of all Truth. But if HE
had not pulled the shade down over your remembrance, you would not have stayed
here. But we have too many people now who consider themselves as ‘good
Christians’ who want to get out of here. They are praying, ‘Lord take us away.
Lord gather us up and deliver us from this earth.’ In stead of saying, ‘LORD
help us deliver the earth.’ Instead of saying ‘God take us away,’ say ‘God
empower us to give us victory. God give us intelligent leaders to push
Communism back. God give us the vision to eliminate out of our society the
thing which destroys our race and the security that our society should have.
Don’t say ‘God take us out of here.’ It is too late.
The most important thing you can do is to stay alive and do the will of God,
to occupy until HE comes back. Let’s just pray that we can stay
here and finish this task or get as much of it done until we see the Mighty
Hosts of Heaven filling it until Christ returns. I don’t want to leave here. I
want to wait here until HE returns. I am going to tell you that the great
commission has been committed to your race, to occupy, to possess and not to
retreat, do not abandon you purpose, but to understand it. And in the understanding
of this, we can revel in the majesty of God’s Grace, the revelation of HIS
beauty, of HIS mercy and of HIS purpose.
The great
Commission is Occupy, take it and possess it. And then someone says, ‘there are
certain things which are called property rights.’ Well, do you realize that the
only place they have them are Christian nations? Someone said, ‘but we should
not be trying to push our will over everybody else.’ But do you realize that
the Communist world is trying to push their will over everybody else? The whole
pagan world wants to conquer you and subvert you to slavery. Why should you
apologize that you want to put truth over the darkness? Do you know that he who
is set free by Christ is free indeed. But you are not set free outside of HIS
will. You are set free in it. And our program for the world today is to set
them free from superstition, from darkness and error.
Someone said, ‘but they have to be born again.’ But you are the twice
born people, born in spirit and born in earth, and now regenerated with
spiritual consciousness. You cannot, my friends, transfer the covenants that
belong to you to someone else. God can deliver them by transition and HE
will do that as they are restored to from whence they came. But I want you to know
this afternoon, that your great responsibility is the proclamation of Truth.
There is one
thing that all people can participate in and that is repentance for error. That
is a very vital pattern for when people start to repent the error, they start
to correct the error. We want you to
know that you were never told to go and preach to every creature and to baptize
anyone in any name but that of Jesus the Christ. So there still remains the
work of the Messiahship to fulfil. And I want you to understand that this
commission is also the carrying out of God’s program for HIS Kingdom. And I
will tell you this. Before you are through, the soldier plays as high a part as
the clergyman plays, in the administration, for it is administration and it is
rule. Someone says, ‘But with a rod of iron?’ That is the Law of God. And men
are better off living under that then they are in living under the control of
the Beast System that has no moral, ethical or spiritual responsibility. For
you just serve God.
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