Legalism

The word “legalism” does not occur in the Bible. It is a term Christians use to describe a doctrinal position emphasizing a system of rules and regulations for achieving both salvation and spiritual growth. Legalists believe in and demand a strict literal adherence to rules and regulations. Doctrinally, it is a position essentially opposed to grace. Those who hold a legalistic position often fail to see the real purpose for law, especially the purpose of the Old Testament law of Moses, which is to be our “schoolmaster” or “tutor” to bring us to Christ (Galatians 3:24).

Even true believers can be legalistic. We are instructed, rather, to be gracious to one another: “Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters” (Romans 14:1). Sadly, there are those who feel so strongly about non-essential doctrines that they will run others out of their fellowship, not even allowing the expression of another viewpoint. That, too, is legalism. Many legalistic believers today make the error of demanding unqualified adherence to their own biblical interpretations and even to their own traditions. For example, there are those who feel that to be spiritual one must simply avoid tobacco, alcoholic beverages, dancing, movies, etc. The truth is that avoiding these things is no guarantee of spirituality.

The apostle Paul warns us of legalism in Colossians 2:20-23: “Since you died with Christ to the basic principles of this world, why, as though you still belonged to it, do you submit to its rules: ‘Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!’? These are all destined to perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings. Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.” Legalists may appear to be righteous and spiritual, but legalism ultimately fails to accomplish God’s purposes because it is an outward performance instead of an inward change.

To avoid falling into the trap of legalism, we can start by holding fast to the words of the apostle John, “For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” (John 1:17) and remembering to be gracious, especially to our brothers and sisters in Christ. “Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand” (Romans 14:4). “You, then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before God's judgment seat” (Romans 14:10).

A word of caution is necessary here. While we need to be gracious to one another and tolerant of disagreement over disputable matters, we cannot accept heresy. We are exhorted to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints (Jude 3). If we remember these guidelines and apply them in love and mercy, we will be safe from both legalism and heresy. “Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1).

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This article is reprinted with permission and was originally published on gotquestions.org.

The Rejected Preacher

On January 13, 2012, I published the transcript of a sermon Walter White delivered in 1958, on the evils of education. Here is a sermon delivered (during the same church service) by Ernest Nichols, an FOC preacher who was later rejected from the ministry. Does this sermon resonate with the realities of the current church?

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I want to bear testimony to the words brother Rosy (an elder at that time) spoke here tonight and read to us (Revelation 3), and I hope that we don't prove out to be that kind of a people, and we'd lay down the cross of Christ, and in our minds we'd get sufficient and we wouldn't have need of nothing, and be without God … that's awful easy for a people to do … lay down the cross. And then they'd just have a form of godliness like the sects have out here, they worship a God and they don't even know the God they worship. They don't even know how to worship God. And they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, like Paul said the Jews was back there, they just go about to establish their own righteousness. Well, we could be the same way, we could just get ignorant of God's righteousness and we could lay down the cross of Christ and we could just have a form of Godliness working amongst us, and we'd just be a group of people, without God, in the world.

That's the way the church was a-gettin, that brother Rosy read about (in Revelation 3). They'd left the word of God, they'd left the love of God, they'd left their zeal, they'd lost their salt that they had had in themselves and their determination, and they had set their minds and their affections on the things of the Earth, the ways to increase in goods.

We could get the same way today. We could take our minds off Jesus Christ, and set our minds and our affection on things of the Earth, and we can be alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that's in us. We'd become an alien to him. He won't know us, we won't know him. And when we'd cry to him for help, we'd already left him and were not worshiping the true God.

So brethren, I hope that we can keep all of those things in our minds, and not get ourselves just lukewarm in the Earth, and get too content in our minds, satisfy our minds and deceive our own hearts in the Earth, and displease God. One thing in these last days that we're living in that we're awful short in among the Followers is faith. We lay down the cross.

I was thinking when we was singing that song, The Old Rugged Cross. It said that it was an emblem, it was an emblem of suffering and it was an emblem of shame, and this world despised it.

Well, we're living in a day and an age when it's awful easy to lay down that cross and love the praise of men rather than the praise of God. And we can get sufficient in ourselves, and our sufficiency wouldn't be of God. Then we'd be lukewarm, wouldn't be either hot or cold, we'd just be lukewarm, and he'd spew us out of us mouth. He'd have no pleasure in us.

God has pleasure in His people that worship Him and trust Him, and put their confidence and their faith in Him. That's the kind of people that He set up in the Earth, and brethren let's be that people, and let's anoint our eyes with eyesalve that we could see, and let's have a contrite heart working in us, and fear God. Not fear man, but fear God almighty. Lest the promise being left us, that we'd come short of it, through unbelief.

He has promised us eternal life. Everyone of us that will obey him, he will give us eternal life. If we will just do it. So brethren there's a promise left us, and if we lose out it's because we lose out through unbelief and we don't believe God anymore.

God didn't draw us into the faith to cut us off, He's not willing to let a one of us perish. He's long suffering to us, not willing that anybody perish in the Earth. He wants every man to come to repentance and to acknowledgment of the truth, and to save himself. God has no pleasure in burning anybody up. He's not that kind of a God.

He's a God of love, and He's a God of fire, and he's a jealous God, he's jealous of the human family, He wants them to worship him, and will give them eternal life if they will do it. But if they won't do it, he has prepared a lake of fire, and they can make their choice. They can live in a world without end, where life will never cease, were there will be no pain nor sorrow if they obey Him in this life.

And if they don't want to obey Him in this life, if they don't love the way of righteousness, and they don't want the way that Jesus Christ set up in the earth, he's built a bottomless pit that brother Rosy talked about. And he said the fire is not quenched and where their worm dieth not.

That's why God's people ought to fear him and have to keep his sayings. That's what's essential. And if they will just do that, if they will only just do that he'd give them eternal life. Now that very little that he asks a human being to do.

All he asks him to do is to lead a good, honest, upright, clean life, righteous life in the Earth. Now anybody would love that kind of a life … it's a good life … it's a clean life … it's an honest life … it's a pure life. It's better than any life that the human being in the Earth can choose today. So I don't see where he asked too much out of the human being in the Earth. I don't see where it's so hard to carry the cross and endure it in the Earth. It's the best life that there is. It's a most trustworthy life.

He will care for his people and anything that'll confront them in life. In their sickness he will be with them. When they die, He will be with them. And when the first resurrection comes, He will bring them out of their graves, through obedience. I don't know where people get it into their minds that it's so hard to obey God. Where it's such a mystery and such a problem, and such a burden to obey Jesus Christ. There's nothing hard about it. It's easy, the cross is not hard to bear. It's what people make out of it, they get ashamed of it and they go to despising it and they won't endure the cross, so they throw it off to one side. They don't want the cross around them, they are afraid of what men will say about them because they have the cross of Christ with them. That's what makes it tough on the human being, and there's nothing hard about the cross that he's left on Earth.

He didn't ask anything that's impossible. If He'd asked us to do anything that was just impossible for a human being to do, then we might have something to murmur and complain about. But he never asked a human being to do anything but what He'd done himself and he said it's easy, and His burden is light. No hard deal about it at all. So I don't know why people all over the world wouldn't rather choose a good life. I don't know why they wouldn't want an honest life. I don't know why they wouldn't want a pure life in the Earth. Unless their deeds are so evil that they are afraid to turn to the light. That's the reason people will turn Jesus Christ down. They despise the cross that He has set in the Earth.

It's an emblem in the Earth. It's spoken against in the Earth. If they see somebody trying to live an honest, pure, upright life, they begin to speak against that kind of a life. Well, brethren, that's what God almighty expects people to do of us in the Earth. He don't want us to go around the Earth with men a glorifying us and praising us in the Earth. He says “woe unto you when all men speak well of you.” So, why do we want men of this present evil world to speak well of us in this present life? Life a Godly life in Jesus Christ is what he wants in the Earth. That's the way God wants his people to be in the Earth, and there ain't a thing hard about it in that Bible, not one thing.

There's not a thing a man can't endure. He didn't ask anything impossible. So goodness sakes I don't know why we haven't got the most wonderful life that any human being ever thought of having in the Earth. Why we couldn't be a contented people. Why we couldn't be happy. Why we couldn't rejoice that we'd found the way of life. It's the best way that there is. So, brethren keep that in your minds and don't think of the troubles and how hard it is and how rough the path is that you have to follow.

It's rugged, a coward can't follow Jesus Christ. It's a rugged cross he gives to carry in the Earth. It's contrary to the flesh. It's something the flesh don't enjoy at all. That's what makes it a warfare, it's an old rugged cross we have to carry, and we have to bear, and we have to endure.

Well, let's carry it brethren. Let's resurrect it. Like brother Walter said the other day, he thought the time has come to the church to resurrect the old cross and get it out amongst us and go to bearing it about us in life, and I sure do too. I believe it's time the church begin to do that, get the cross of Christ out amongst us. Go to using it. Go to enduring it. And suffer the shame of it in this present evil world and brethren we'll be happy, we'll be a contented people and we'll have Godliness and with contentment is great gain.

So when we turn out to be the poorest people on the face of the Earth – in a financial way – if we keep the faith, we're the richest. And if we have contentment with it and godliness with it brethren, that's great gain. Goodness sakes, what is a man's life? It's just a vapor, he's just here today and he's gone tomorrow. Well, it depends on how he spend that life while he's here, while it' a vapor, while it just appears a little while. Let's keep that in our minds and be glad and thankful that he had enough mercy to us to show us the way of life. And give us an opportunity to work out our salvation. May God bless you and pray for us.

Remember what brother Rosy read, and let's don't get sufficient in ourselves and have a sufficiency of ourselves. Let's have it of God, and thank him for it, and be fervent, be zealous, and have salt in ourselves. Salt is the savor of the body, the Bible says. We all know what salt is, it's a preserver. But if that salt loses it's saltiness, it ain't good for nothing. It'll just be tossed out and trodden under foot of men. It's not even a good seasoning. So brethren, let's keep the salt in us, and our zeal, and our desire, and our love to obey God and to live again.

And contend for faith. That's what God's people ought to do in life. They ought to do that once in a while as they go through life, so their faith won't fail them, so it'll be increased and they can be strengthened. With might as the Bible says. By the spirit of the inner man, that's what they need to have their strength in, is that inner man to be strengthened and be renewed and have our pure minds stirred up.

That's what the Bible is for and that's what these meetings are for, is to stir up our pure minds. So let's do those things brethren that would be profitable in the Earth and we would be worthy of the new Heaven and the New Earth. Pray for us when it goes well with you and don't think of the cross as some terrible burden to carry, it's a good cross to carry, it's light, it's easy, there's no burden to it. It's not trouble to carry it, so if we'd just take it up and follow it and obey it and be glad we have it, it'll be a lot better for us, a lot easier for us.

May God bless you brethren, my prayer.

Ernest Nichols, 1958

Full of Faith and Scared to Death

In reading the letters I have recently published and the discussions that followed, I have come to question my long-held belief that the church was “right” up until Walter died. I don’t know. I wasn’t alive in those days. But, I’ve decided to give Ernest Nichols a closer look – having been led to believe all my life that Ernest was a bad, bad man. So, on Wednesday, I will publish a transcript of one of Ernest’s sermons. For today, please take in the last letter from the Tommy series (there may be more letters, and if I come across any more, I will publish them later).

e·pis·tle   [ih-pis-uhl]

noun

1. a letter, especially a formal or didactic one; written communication.

2. ( usually initial capital letter ) one of the apostolic letters in the new testament.

3.( often initial capital letter ) an extract, usually from one of the Epistles of the New Testament, forming part of the Eucharistic service in certain churches.

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Look at the people who backed the elders and Ernest Nichols the last 30 years. D., K.H., K.W., plus many more. These three backed Riley Keith over Freeman Smith to Let D.N. walk his daughter up the church isle. They wanted me to choose sides. I told them no sides, do what is right. If not, it’s wrong.

Walter White rejected D.N.. He saw him as a person with no spirit of God in him. Freeman was saying it is wrong to allow this wedding.  Riley was saying it is okay. These three men backed Riley. Dorothy (Walter’s widow) said to some of us that she feared for D. for what he was backing – Riley Keith and not Walter.

They all wanted to reject Freeman Smith. K.H.’s life was cut short. K.W. left after a Jezebel Whore (?), because of backing the wrong thing. There was a meeting held at D.’s home on this matter. Also look about you people in this church who went along with the elders over what Walter White taught and preached. Look how it was established. The gunk didn’t [told?] of a preacher, just go along and be happy and don’t go to Hell.

Like Walter said and I believe it, “They pushed me to the ocean and I am not going any farther. They can either believe what I preached or go along with the Gunk of Ernest Nichols and the elders and go to Hell with it. If people only knew and read their Bibles or remember what Walter White believed and preached. This church is privately being taught by disciples who are D., N.B., and whoever goes along with their lies and deceit and changing the Word of God. They teach another doctrine than what they were baptized under and preached to.”

Like Walter said of D., “There he stands all full of faith and scared to death” (in other words, afraid to do the right thing). Like people will whisper and say things now like was told to me and others L.D. died and was heard to say D’s family were wrong in that they went along with the elders and made peace not to withstand them anymore and be a peacemaker.

Those who went along with the elders sold out to their doctrine and gunk over Walter who preached against that kind of religion. Rejected brethren for what he stood for all these years. Proof is for 30 years they don’t even talk of Walter White, who said when he was baptizing in this church in 1968, when your children were 6 years old they will be alright when the end of time comes in 1972. But now we have gone 30 years without asking for a preacher.

Walter said the fullness of the gentiles is in and without a preacher it surely is. The gentiles will be cut off and no hope for baptism unless God send a preacher. So your children with your lies and gunk are now 40 years old. They will be judged without the church. They are gentiles. Read the word of God. Don’t take my word for it. Teach those young people Walter lied to this church. No he never lied. He was a man of God. He was honest and truthful. All men are liars, but not God and his apostles.

Everyone after 30 years got to read an epistle reminding this church of what happened  and what Walter preached. Because one man remembered and wrote it down, Tom Nichols.  This letter was like a missile – it shot down all of us who were teachings something else and followed after the elders and their gunk and not following what Walter White preached and taught the truth to this church.

Fresh Air

Be Good Ole Boys

Here is another letter, presumably written by Tom Nichols, though not signed. I will publish the final letter on Sunday, and then move on to other topics.

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They all turned back to the inequities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words and they went after other doctrines and gods to serve them. The house of Judah has broken my covenant which I made with their forefathers. Therefore, thus saith the Lord, behold I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape and though shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them, so saith God.

Like the Followers of Christ church in Oregon City. They deny the word of God for a need of a preacher to save those that believe and their children who do not know the way except by self-righteous men and women who have followed after another doctrine and spirit which was not preached by Walter White, the only true apostle that taught the word in its fullness. If people think they can change the word of God, this will not happen. They are living and teaching the wrong doctrine.

Just like Timothy said, taught to him by an apostle of Jesus Christ, I thank god whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience that without ceasing I have remberence of thee in my prayers day and night. This I know: down through the years, God will come and wipe all you people’s self-righteous looks and smiles off your faces unless a change is made.

How can anyone not teaching and believe the teachings of Walter White, the apostle of Jesus Christ, survive? This church needs a preacher now. Even back in the 1940’s, people should pray and seek God to send a preacher for our children. Just like people follow off after men’s teachings not God’s word. No one can change the Bible or add to the Bible.

Just like your lying elders. They never taught that we need a preacher. Just be good ole boys and every one will make it to heaven. Like your last elder, the people bent over backwards to please a man who was a liar and taught all people by lies not the truth. If this man was for you people he would have taught the truth preached by Walter White and the need of a preacher for you and himself.

People will be judged for their wrongs especially the ones they never correct. Just like Tom and Phyllys’ boy, Mitch Nichols baptized and 24 years old when he passed away. He gave up all the worldly things and served God from youth up. Like was said which was told to me by Orville White, Walter told Orville White a higher reward that most will get because he served God from his young life and also was handicapped. All of us in this church treated a young man, 24 years old, who was baptized like he was nothing. It would have been better if a millstone was hanged on our necks than to offend one of these little ones, who had the spirit of God in him by being baptized.

The leaders or whatever you people call them did not so much as give this young man a wreath for his grave when he passed away. This was done by your lying elder Glenford Lee who taught and told you lies off the pulpit and on the pulpit and was heard saying how he handled people’s questions was he argued with everyone right or wrong and he Glenford Lee said that way nobody gets upset (because I told them all the same answer so [unreadable] off now and this letter take all the rest will bear witness against you people.

Amen

They Put This Church To Sleep

Here is another letter from 1998 or 1999. It is not signed, but is in the same handwriting and writing style as the one letter Tom Nichols did sign. Names have been shortened to initials to protect the privacy of anyone mentioned, though anyone in the church will be able to discern who it is - these same insiders have had access to the letters, so it should not be new information. In the case of the man who is mentioned / condemned throughout the letter, I only used his first initial.

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Circa 1998/1999

Brethren,

Due to ever-growing fake doctrine taking over in this church more and more, I will speak out. It start with D., in the back room of this church condemning and making fun of W.S. and his wife for letting their daughter leave their home (afterwards they kicked K.H. out of their home) who was going to try and get back with her husband B.H.. In simple words, D. did not believe according to Walter White who marriages together not split them.

But of D., out of his heart, he spoke his true feelings and was condemning B.H. and his wife getting together and trying to save their souls and marriage. But D. changed like a double minded man he is. He made people believe after he showed his hate and unbelief on their marriage. Someone told D. he was wrong. Why? Because after four to five days, he told people he was 100% behind this marriage being put back together.

Who was this person or people that told D. he was wrong? Why and if they can change D.’s mind on this marriage why can’t they change his mind on all the other marriages 20 or 30 who the elders destroyed these marriages and D. was backing the elders all the way and the last thirty years. He should tell G.W. and S.H. like he told W.S. and their children they were wrong and K.W.’s marriage to B.W. should have been saved. But no, D. stuck his nose in the marriage and the family and taught hate and teachings against that marriage.

What is the difference between these two families? Is it blood or water? Walter White would have put these marriages together. No, not D., he is a double minded man in all of his teachings and destroyed that marriage. Like the elders taught and tore apart.

I talked to a man in this church and I did not believe him when he said there were thirty or more marriages that the elders judged and condemned those marriages to Hell. Like I can read what Walter White preached and saved marriages by staying together and repenting and helping each other per chance God would let them make themselves a vessel to honor.

People will follow D. just like they followed the elders’ gunk and tore down Walter White’s teaching. Walter White put marriages together – and the count [of destroyed marriages] none against him. The elders count of destroying all those filthy men and women’s marriages, 30 and still counting.

Ask anyone in this church what good thing or honest thing that helped this church or people. Which elder and how many teachings you can name. None. They put this church to sleep. Believe it or not, we will all find out at the end of time. Another hate and try to get control of people.

Brethren are having dreams and visions of other brethren condemning them for doing the right thing and asking and talking for a preacher for their children. And they warn these unruly brethren not to teach their children or tell them that they need a preacher. Glory be to self-righteousness. It is like the scripture says, they will love the one with fine clothing and words of praise, the easy way is not to have religion because it is so much easier to sing songs and no scripture be read which would only condemn 99% of the church.

So they wait on God and don’t do anything like D.’s way. Because it is easy. No cross to bear, just sit back and be admired. Who did call D. and all these men who follow? D., who has backed the elders not Walter White. For the past 35 years, what has been talked and taught? Not wanting a preacher, no! Just be contented and sleep on!

What these men in this church are teaching, no preacher and be happy. They are falling and fell away and believed those lying elders when Walter passed away, and they are also perverting the word of God.

So this is some of the lies and gunk which has happened and being taught.

Unsigned

We Do Need a Preacher

Here is another letter from those sent out in 1998. The letter was unsigned, though the author claimed to be a 24-year-old man. I have chosen to use initials rather than names of the men who were mentioned in the letter, other than Walter White, Glenford Lee, and Tom Nichols. If you are, or were, part of the church the names will be fairly easy to figure out.

1998

I was born in 1974, five years after Walter White, the apostle, passed away. I never heard or was taught by my parents who he was or what baptism was for, and why only the old ones needed baptism, and not us children. Or from all the friends my dad and mom had. He was not talked about or what he stood for. Except by one man!

Finally I grew up and realized. Tom Nichols was a man who lived it and talked it for the last 30 years and everyone passed it off like it was nothing. I finally realized this when I read his letter. He never could have made up 36 pages of what Walter preached and stood for, what Tom Nichols wrote down.

I never heard or saw any man in this church question him on these things he told that had happened in this church. From 30 years ago up till now. I have realized that all of the ones who are baptized are self-righteous and self-centered and let me and all the ones who are not baptized be cheated out of a preacher, so we could be baptized and gain eternal life too.

Let me tell you this: I believe that my parents and their friends and all the ones who are baptized will have to pay a price for allowing this kind of doctrine to take over in the church. Before I told you I was born five years after Walter died. I am now 24 years old. Let me tell you all I was told of those five elders and their doctrine loud and strong by my parents and friends and all the ones who are baptized. But not what Walter believed and preached to all of them in this church.

Then in 1986, the last elder died, Glenford Lee. Believe you me, the still believe in his doctrine. Strong and he has been dead for 12 years. So for the last 24 years it has been the elders and now the elected and blessed five brethren. They were elected when I was only 12 years old. I grew up believing they were the elders or blessed by the last elder, Glenford Lee. Now at the last meeting of the men, I was told something different. After 12 years of believing that Glenford blessed and picked S.Z., R.R., and L.K. for the job. R.R., S.Z., and D.M. said that it was different.

It was said that D.M. picked one, S.B. picked one, Glenford Lee picked one. I believe that we all believed this and it was a lie because at first 12 years ago, we were told only Gelnford picked all three. What kind of religion is this lie?

All along while I was 12 years old up until I grew up and got married I, in my heart and mind, saw these five men take care of everything – set bones, anoint, lay hands, and go out to sick people’s houses all hours. Marry kids like me and others. What else would you old men and old women who are baptized want us unbaptized people to believe?

You did not tell us the truth all these past 30 years and up till now still lying to all of us. Now the last meeting of the men, July 1998. Now get this: some of us young men told Tom Nichols not to ask any questions. Because us young men were going to ask questions. We got scared and did not ask our question but believe you me, J.S. (an older baptized man) stood up and asked what about a preacher and talking of one. People whispered and talked and said out loud bold that J.S. what out of order and sit down.

B.C. said, “Sit down.” M.W., who is not baptized, said, “Sit down and shut up,” like an impudent ass. J.S. told M.W. to shut up which most of us young men were happy about.

To make a point on these five elected brethren, big exalted K.K. stood up and said, “Why don’t you teach and tell these young men who these men are? Where and what they do in the church. So the young men would be able to understand.” Remember, I grew up from 12 years old till now at 24 years old and I was utterly confused when K.K. got through with his speech.

Just like K.K.’s boys do everything daddy says and just like D.W. and his boys, they do everything daddy says. And just like K.K. in his speech would look at D.W. and made sure that what he was saying was okay by D.W.

Why couldn’t they get up and teach and talk to us young men how to seek God and get a preacher instead of how to believe and understand these five elected men? I believe the old men and the old women in this church think God won’t do anything to their 24 year old and down to 1-year-old grandchildren because I hear out of their mouths, Grandpa and Grandma won’t let God or anyone like Tom Nichols wrote about hurt or harm any of you.

So old men and old women sit in church and sing 10 songs, 50 songs a month and say how good we are. I did hear Tom Nichols say after D.W. said wait on God and continue in sin so grace may abound. To what J.S. said, we do need a preacher.

Unknown

Still Coasting

Below, please find another letter from the series that Tom Nichols started in 1998. This letter came addressed by the same hand that addressed as the other letters and in the same handwriting and style as the first one, which Tom Nichols signed. This letter and all that followed were left unsigned.

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November 1, 1998

In 1969 Walter White passed Away. The elders of this church said you can coast for two or three years until 1972 which will be the end of time. Those self-righteous lying elders said. Here it is 30 years later. Those elders, so you young people will know, never taught anything that Walter White preached in this church about wanting and needing a preacher.

Still coasting. What is the matter with people in this church? Their children and grandkids are not baptized. The men and women in this church lie to those who are not baptized. Their kids, they tell you that are not baptized thirty years ago, you do not need to be baptized.

So when the men and women in this church will sit and talk about nothing and your 40 year old children are all right without baptism. So when your children reach 60 years old Christ could come and say, “Why did you and your forefathers go to sleep? You have neglected the greatest gift in the world, baptism so you could gain eternal life.”

Ask your parents if they are baptized and if they are ask them why you cannot be baptized. And if they tell you anything other than you should be baptized, they are lying to you. God hates liars. Where it started was back when the elders said they were running the church. If you don’t get in behind lying elders you will be sorry, so the men in the church got behind those elders and they never taught that you need a preacher or baptism.

So the men agreed with everything the lying elders said and here it is 30 years later. When Christ comes he will say, “Why did you let the men take your crown?” And the men in this church will say , “We did not know we were wrong.” And, Christ will say, “Depart from me you workers of lies and iniquity. I never knew you.”

What you young men do not know is this: the men in this church are teaching you the same lying gunk that those elders taught them. God destroys people when they do not follow His laws and commandments. For example, look at the Jewish people. To this day, He is letting their children be deceived.

God will not feel sorry for your parents or you because you can read through the Bible that Lot’s line, He (God) destroyed all their children for what reason all because they would not listen or pay heed to God and his law.

You young people can go over their heads and anyone who tries to teach you otherwise. So all you need to know is seek God and let Him know you need a preacher so you can be washed of your sins. Otherwise you will remain unclean until Christ comes to claim his own and judge all of us and the world.

Can you not understand for 30 years without a preacher, where did we all get our salt and who taught to obey God and testify our belief in this church so that we would not be judged with the world? But, be judged in the church with God’s people.

So sleep on. This letter comes from one who knows. But your eyes are blind and your hearts are hardened. So we never wake up. We all will suffer the Judgment Day.

Goodbye

I will post another letter on Wednesday