Covenanter Witness Vol. 55 - Rparchives.org

. thetoECHOES NUMBERBIBLE LESSON FOR THE WEEK OF AUGUST 14, 1955CovenanterwtnessVOLUME LV, NO. 4 TOPEKA, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1955A RevealingPortrait ofThe First CommunistDick Hillis*The first communist was a disciple of Jesus.Here are the facts :The Time : A few days before Christ died.The Place : A home in Bethany. Jesus is there.His disciples are there. Martha is busy serving. Marykneels before Jesus and breaks an alabaster box ofcostly perfume. The rich fragrance fills the air . . .everyone turns to watch Mary as she anoints thefeet of Jesus and dries them with her hair. The creature is worshiping her Creator . sinner ex.pressing her love to her Saviour.A harsh voice shatters the silence of the moment, "TO WHAT PURPOSE THIS WASTE?" thefirst Communist: declares. To give to God ... sacrifice ... to worship... is Waste. That's what Judasmeant.For eighteen months, while living under theCommunists in China, we heard these words repeatedly: To what purpose this waste? Be gone withChristianity! Your worship of Christ is waste, it issuperstition, it is opium to the people!These are devil-inspired words! We had betterface it Communism is no mere ideology. It is thedeification of man a vicious, Satan-inspired religiondesigned to destroy man, both body and soul.Why was not this ointment sold and given tothe poor? What a cover ut> ! Give to the poor Give. . .to the poor! parrot the Communists. Are they sincere? No more than Judas was. So cunningly hadJudas said it that even the disciples would have beendeceived had Jesus left it there. So brilliant areCommunist writings and so shrewd their propaganda,that even Christians are often duped.Give to the poor ... is a diabolical plan to usethe poor to subjugate the rich, and then in turn toenslave the poor and conquer the world.*Rev. Hillis is Director of Orient Crusades and aveteran missionary to the Orient.Give to the poor . . . noble words! But Jesusexposes Judas, declaring, "This he said, not thathe cared for the poor, but because he was a thief."Judas was uncovered ... as a thief, a liar, a deceiver,yes, a murderer.Communism is the brain child of Satan, Judaswas its first disciple. He betrayed and murderedChrist. Thousands of God's people have been sincemurdered by the followers of Judas. Thousands aredying as martyrs today by the hands of those wholike Judas pretend to tolerate Christ, but in realityawait their time to betray Him. The hammer andsickle of atheistic Communism rules one third of theworld its shadow moves swiftly across the remainder of Asia and then you are next !Lenin ordered, "Asia first . . . and then America!"What can we do to stop this terrible force?RECOGNIZE it as a Satanic spiritual force, thefastest moving religion in the world.REALIZE that America, yes, all the free world,is its objective.PRAY. Communism has no instruments withwhich to combat the spiritual forces of supplicationto Almighty God.PROCLAIM. Only the Gospel of Jesus Christthe Light of the World can disperse the doctrine ofdemoniac darkness.To millions, it is either Christ or Communism.The answer depends upon us. A man brought toChrist can never be a Communist. The Communistsare prepared to pay all to conquer the world. Theirmotto is :all for Communism.Communism for all, and myDARE WE DO LESS? Ours too, must be totaldedication . . . Christ for all, and my all for Christ.Such dedication cannot be delayed. It is now or never.This article is available in tract form from"Orient Crusades" Los Angeles 33, Calif.