Dear Fellow Believers,
Why is it that tradition seems safer to Christians than truth? It's because truth, historically, is held by a very few who necessarily swim against the popular tide. Holding to truth is always painful in the short run, but in the long run produces the peaceable fruit of righteousness. Christians, being short-sighted and addicted to the immediate thrill of nearly worldwide acceptance,
falsely equate numbers with safety—as though God even once in Scriptural history gave truth to vast numbers of people. He never did it then, and He doesn't do it now. This fact is lost on the Christians.
Who wants to stand before Christ and be found holding to the teaching of the failure of Christ, that is, the failure of a Savior Who came to save the world but Who ended up losing most of His creation to adversarial forces? Who? Christians, that's who. This strange gaggle of satanic dupes actually feel comfortable with the failure of Christ, at the same time calling out those who
hold to a God "Who is the Savior of all humanity (1 Timothy 4:10) as "weird" and "cultish." What is the real cult here? You know very well.
In 1995 when this audio was recorded (in Grand Rapids, MI), I did not yet understand what is obvious to me now, that those who hold to tradition rather than truth are, despite their confession, unbelievers. (Naming the name of Christ is no test of truth; the real test of truth is believing truth.) I wrote a correction into this production, which Rodney Paris then had the foresight to
provide a voiceover alongside, for those who listen to rather than watch these special Sunday productions.
Thanks again to Rodney Paris for bringing this timeless message—originally produced on cassette tapes—to new life via digitization and the addition of video and text frames.
I commend this production to you and I hope you will send the link to those of your acquaintance whom you suspect would benefit from it.
Oh—I especially like the modern-day video from the MZTV archives that Rodney tagged onto the end. It perfectly complements the audio of 26 years ago. How handy is it that truth is timeless? Very.
I am remaining yours, in love, from the edge of the bottom of the Floridan peninsula,
—Martin
