"...I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the Good Shepherd: the Good Shepherd giveth His life for the sheep." John 10:10-11

"And when He was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to Him, and asked Him, `Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?'

GREETINGS! Rejoice, for God has spoken.... Today I speak to you through The Voice of Tomorrow, for The Voice of Tomorrow is the voice of happiness and of joy; it is the voice of great rejoicing because we are the children of God; and such who may not be the children of God can swiftly become His children, that they too may rejoice, and rejoice without ceasing.

Usually, Christians believe in tribulation, they believe that they were born unto trouble of all kinds, and that they should know little of joy or happiness in order that they might have joy and happiness in a future life which is commonly called heaven. My dear friends, I exhort you to reexamine the teachings of the Bible, and especially the teachings of Christ Jesus our Lord, that you may come to a true understanding of that which He actually did teach. I have ever believed that our churches have done and are doing a wonderfully good work, but unfortunately as yet, they have barely scratched the surface of Truth. Our Bible in general, and the teachings of the Lord Jesus in particular, have been so woefully misunderstood that they scarcely bear any resemblance to the truth.

The teachings which are common in our churches of today remind me of an amusing incident when I was a kid at school. I imagine that I was in about grade 3 or 4 at the time, and a classmate of mine, whose name was Oly, was asked by the teacher to go forward to the blackboard and draw a dandelion. So Oly immediately got up and went to the blackboard, and there he drew what he thought was a dandelion, but the dandelion turned out to be quite a nice-looking lion, for Oly had thought the teacher meant he should draw a dandy lion. It has been much similar with our churches and those who have been our spiritual luminaries. They have so misunderstood the Scriptures that they have drawn in word pictures for us a ferocious lion when actually they should have painted a beautiful flower.

The Voice of Tomorrow invites you to hear that joyous truth which God has committed unto His children. Oh to be sure, I am well aware that in the Bible, in the Old and the New Testaments, we can read plenty about troubles and wars and difficulties and trials and testings and tribulations and griefs untold and punishment almost without end, but the trouble is that we have not divided aright the Word of God.

Let me read to you a few words as spoken by the Lord Jesus, which you will find in the Gospel of John 10:10. Here He had been speaking to the Pharisees about His Own sheep. And concerning His sheep, He said these words:

"...I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."

Now you Christians who have had your peck of trouble, and maybe even a bushel of troubles, who say to yourself, "That man is all wet," I beg of you to hear me just a little further in order that you may enter into understanding from a correct perspective. Bear in mind that the Lord Jesus did not say that He'd come to turn a wolf pack loose on the sheep, nor yet that He was going to take a horsewhip to them, but rather that He, as the Good Shepherd, would go so far as to lay down His life for the sheep, because He loved His sheep. Again I know that there are those of you who would reply that He laid down His life that we might have life in a future and heavenly home.

The Voice of Tomorrow asks you to take a fresh look at those particular words and to reexamine your own evaluation of them. May I draw to your attention that thousands of years previously, through His Prophets and especially through His servant Moses, God emphatically promised life to His people who would worship Him according to the rites laid down by Moses (commonly called the Law). Jesus Himself corroborated that understanding when the rich young man asked Him what he should do to inherit eternal life, and the Lord replied to him, "How readest thou?" Then He reminded him of the salient points of the Law: that he should love the Lord his God with all his heart, with all his mind and strength, that he should love his neighbor as himself, and that he shouldn't do this and that and other things forbidden in the Law. Then the young man replied that from his youth he had kept those commandments, whereupon the Lord answered that he was not far from the kingdom of God (Mk. 10:19-21).

As we dwell upon the question by the young man, as well as the answer by our Lord in connection with oft-repeated promises of life, as given especially by Moses, then we must realize that the Lord did not come to lay down His Own life to grant that life which already had been promised them through the rites ordained by Moses. Life was an already established fact unto His people through the Mosaic Law; wherefore, it becomes utterly fantastic to postulate that the Son of God came to suffer horribly and die by torture to provide that spiritual life for His people which had already been ordained from of old.

Again think of His words in His speaking of the sheep, from the perspective of plain sheep. They are small, dumb animals herded by the shepherd and watched over by the shepherd here on earth. So far as is commonly known, they have but one life, and that is here; while the one outstanding enjoyment in life is that of good and plenty of tender grass, fresh water, and proper care by the good shepherd. Wherefore, we should be reasonable and understand that when He was using sheep to symbolize those who would follow Him, He spoke concerning the care, comfort, and the abundance for His sheep to convey the understanding to the people who would follow Him, that similarly would He provide for them if they would but hear His Voice and follow Him.

WHY do I believe in LIFE ABUNDANT without tribulation here and now? Because I have found it in the Bible and because I believe the Bible; I have put it to the TEST, and I have found that IT WORKS!

Yet hear The Voice of Tomorrow which declares to you the conditions under which you may enjoy that life more abundant, and that life of great rejoicing without tribulation here and now. The Lord Jesus said to the theologians of His day:

"...ye have taken away the key of knowledge; ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered (or prevented)." Luke 11:52

Now, bear in mind that as you search the Old Testament, you will not find any discourse about heaven or any promise to His people that if they were good little boys and girls that they were going to go to heaven. They all believed in a resurrection. Wherefore, when Jesus said to them that "ye entered not in yourselves," He certainly could not have referred to their entering into heaven, for they didn't even know about such a thing – it had never been taught to them, not even hinted at. You just won't find it in the Old Testament.

That leaves us but one inescapable conclusion to draw, and that is what He was talking to them about – entering into the joys of the kingdom of God here and now, instead of living a life harassed by sickness and badgered by accident, misfortune and tragedy. The Lord Jesus came preaching the kingdom of God upon earth here and now. In fact, those were His VERY WORDS in the commencement of His ministry personally, as well as relayed by His Apostles: "...the kingdom of God is at hand..." (Mk. 1:15). In that the Lord accused the theologians of His day (in the Bible they are called lawyers) of having taken away the key of knowledge, that implies very clearly and inescapably that there are keys unto the kingdom of God; that there are secrets not commonly understood by the people; that there are laws which determine kingdom citizenship.

The Voice of Tomorrow is the voice of joy and great rejoicing because it lays bare the key to the kingdom of God and the laws pertaining to its citizenship. Concerning some of these, I wish to deal NOW.

At the outset I mentioned the children of God. Briefly I want to quote a few passages from the Bible which bear on this matter. Starting out from the Old Testament, in Numbers 27:16 we find Moses speaking to God saying, "Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation." Here then, that Moses who had spent 80 days with God upon the mountaintop, spoke about the spirits of all flesh directly to God's face. Now we must assume that had Moses talked to God about something he knew nothing about, or if he was in error, that God would have corrected him – but much to the contrary. God heard him and answered him directly and favorably according to his request.

From there we will snatch a passage from the first verse of Zechariah 12: "...the Lord Which...formeth the spirit of man within him." These passages reveal clearly that God is the Father of the spirits in human flesh. It is because of that very fact that we speak of God and unto God as our Father; not because He created the body of flesh and bone, but because God, being a Spirit, has begotten a multitude of spirits: one spirit indwells every human body. Therefore does the spirit in man cry out unto God, Who is the Father of that spirit, and calls Him Father.

Now listen carefully, for we are to draw a fine distinction as to what constitutes the true children of God. I want to turn to the 8^th chapter of John's Gospel and read snatches to you from verses 37, 39, 41 and 44. At the time, Jesus was speaking to the Pharisees of His day and said to them, "I know that ye are Abraham's seed...," but very shortly thereafter He said, "If ye were Abraham's CHILDREN, ye would do the WORKS of Abraham." Then, almost in the same breath, He said to them, "Ye do the deeds of your father," and followed it shortly by saying, "Ye are of your father the Devil...." Now let us look carefully at those words, especially concerning their being the seed of Abraham. But then He said, "If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham," and this He followed up by a parallel statement in saying, "Ye do the deeds of your father the Devil." Therefore, we can only come to the conclusion, and I challenge its refutation, that what our Lord was speaking of here clearly meant that the true children DO the works of THEIR FATHER.

Now, a child is supposed to grow up with his father and therefore he learns to do the deeds of his father. Wherefore, according to the teachings of the Lord Jesus, it does not depend on who has begotten us, whether we think in terms of the physical body or of the spirit within. That is inconsequential, but the all-important factor is just what we do. For, if we do the works of the Devil, then is the Devil our father, said our Lord. While if we do the works of Abraham, then are we the children of Abraham, and consequently, if we do the works of God, then are we the CHILDREN OF GOD.

HEAR The Voice of Tomorrow: if you would be the children of God, then you must learn to do the works of God, otherwise, you are no children of His. Yet, let not this dismay you, for to do the works of God constitutes the greatest joys we find in life. To do the works of God is not difficult, neither is it a joy-killer, but much to the contrary.

Again let me take you back to the teachings of the Nazarene, reading briefly to you from the 7^th chapter of Matthew, verses 8 through 12:

"For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father Which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him? Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them...."

Here, then, we have – almost in a nutshell – precisely what I have been telling you: that IF we are the children of God, we can ask of Him whatsoever we will – according to the good pleasure of His Will: even the Will of a good Father toward His obedient children. Yet carefully observe the KEY statement our Lord made in verse 12 of Matthew 7:

"THEREFORE all things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to them: for this is the LAW and the Prophets."

I stress to you that opening KEY word "THEREFORE"; which means that IF we would have God's ear attentive to our requests, we must observe the Golden Rule with great diligence.... WHY? Because the Heavenly Father has a great multitude of children here on earth. If you are a parent, you will know that it isn't sufficient for your older child to merely DO the things you ask, but you will also require of him consideration and UNselfishness practiced toward his younger brothers and sisters. Otherwise you will tell him something like this: "Yesterday you took away from your younger brother that which had been given him. Because you hurt him, you hurt me. And now you think I should grant you a special request. But NO, my child: when you have learned to help those whom I love, THEN will my ear be open to your special requests."

HEAR The Voice of Tomorrow, CALLING His children together in LOVE – that your JOYS may multiply speedily, and multiply again. THIS, said HE, is the "LAW" (of the Kingdom) as revealed by the Prophets. But even as the Lord could not detail all the laws of the Kingdom in a few words nor hours (but took 3½ years of arduous labor), so neither can I set everything before you in 15 minutes, nor even in 15 talks.

But HEAR The Voice of Tomorrow as I share with you more of the treasures He has prepared for those that LOVE Him. I warn you, THE TIME IS SHORT as our era is rapidly drawing to a close. I received a commission to "call His people together" for consolation, and GREAT TIDINGS OF JOY, before the "night" sets in.

Often children and youngsters think their parents are so horribly mean, or hopelessly "old fashioned" because the young and old do not see "eye to eye." Similarly is it with so many people of this world: they think that the ways of God are not fit for the sons of men. It scares them: they are afraid to even investigate (the Path of TruthinChrist).

Therefore am I "Calling His people together" – to the end that understanding may "sweep away the refuge of lies" (Isa. 28:17), making it possible to clearly see the JOY-way – straight into the wondrous Kingdom of Christ our Lord, where every day overflows with joys unutterable!

It is true that the children of God may, at times, miss out on some of the "bangs" enjoyed (?) by the dupes of Lucifer, but that is only half the story. Indeed you might miss out on a drunken weekend, but also would the "big head" be missing on Monday; and many would also "miss" getting fired. You might even lose out on a weekend with your neighbor's wife, but likewise would you miss death by a shotgun blast, or a broken home of your own.

These "bangs" so many are afraid to miss are just as silly and unfounded as are the countless griefs in children's minds.

HEAR the Call of Christ our Savior: "Sanctify (prepare) yourselves, for shortly you shall go in to possess the Kingdom promised unto your fathers" (Josh. 3:5, 1:11).