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The greatest tribute that can be made to mortal man is not man's greatness, but "What hath God wrought!" (Numbers 23:23) through them. "He that glorieth, let him glory in the LORD" (1Corinthians 1:31). My beloved wife of thirty years, Katie Stewart, recently passed into the presence of the LORD without any warning, illness, or accident, when a blood vessel burst in her head. "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the LORD" (2Corinthians 5:8). Everything that you read at WhatSaithTheScripture.com (WStS) prior to early June 2004 was placed online by Katie Stewart-- edited, promoted, and quite often written by her. [She finished posting online that day "How I Know God Answers Prayer" ---New Window by Rosalind Goforth, only hours before the blood vessel burst in her head.] "And I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the LORD from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them" (Revelation 14:13). Katie was born in Kansas as the Baby Boom began, and grew up in California, where we met, married, and have raised our family. "Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them" (Matthew 18:20). Leaving Roman Catholicism, she was born of the Spirit at the time of our engagement; and, where I was by the skin of my teeth barely able to precede her, having only just been resurrected out of a dead Protestantism. "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" (Amos 3:3). She was acquainted with adversity, for she had contracted polio early as a child; and, God would use that adversity as the future occasion for her sanctification. "Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin" (1Peter 4:1). As a working girl, she was a telephone operator for several years; and, as a wife and mother, she departed this Earth, leaving in the hands of God myself and three grown and Godly children. "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold" (Proverbs 22:1). Though the value of Katie's life will be measured by the Almighty at the Bema Seat Judgment, the impact of her life may be felt by all through the impress of the Truth by which she lived. "Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus" (Acts 4:13).
How but the power of God can we explain the miracle of the New Birth? "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit" (John 3:8). Before I was engaged to Katie, I already had a profession of Christ in a denominational church, but nothing about me betrayed that I lived for anything but myself and my own purposes. "Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD" (Jeremiah 17:5). Katie was fully persuaded about what she was taught. She was catechized in the teachings and traditions of a faithful, lifelong Roman Catholicism. We had caught the eye of one another, while both of us volunteered time at a community service bookstore. We had plenty of time to talk, when things were not busy. We talked and agreed upon current events and politics; but, you could tell that we were becoming serious when the topic turned to religion. "15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of My mouth" (Revelation 3:15-16). I had a nominal upbringing in Lukewarm Christianity-- taking the Christian stand on the certainty of a Genesis 1:1 Creation, the necessity of a John 3:16 Salvation, and the benefit of clean living-- but otherwise, quoting the Bible was (positively) for professional clergy or (negatively) for fanatics. "But sanctify the LORD God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear" (1Peter 3:15). I had enough Protestant prejudice to be suspicious of Roman Catholicism, but I was open to listen to her Catholic arguments, if that meant that I would not lose Katie. In the Providence of God, I happened to ask the pastor of my Bible Church (which I had only recently started attending with my parents) what he knew about Roman Catholicism. He loaned me a booklet outlining the errors of Romanism based upon Scripture. When I got home, I quickly read it! For the first time in my professedly Christian life, I made a decision based solely upon "What Saith the Scripture?" (Romans 4:3). I determined that I could never marry into the Catholic Church, though marriage had never technically entered into my conversation with Katie. I gave her the booklet; and, when she got home, she quickly read it! She was sure that I was wrong; but, just to prove it to me, she compared it with her family's Douay Bible and its official Catholic annotations. In the booklet, it said that Mary was not always a virgin-- in opposition to the Perpetual Virginity position of Rome-- citing the fact that Joseph consummated his marriage to Mary after the birth of Jesus. "And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called His name JESUS" (Matthew 1:25). Further, Jesus had brothers and sisters, indicating that Joseph and Mary were truly husband and wife. "Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not His sisters here with us? And they were offended at Him" (Mark 6:3). Katie told me the next day that the Catholic Church had lied to her and that she now believed the Bible, not the Pope, priests, or nuns. "Howbeit in vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men" (Mark 7:7). As we sat alone talking in the bookstore, still without any outright mention of marriage, I asked her when we should get married. We didn't set a date right there, but she agreed, we were to be married. "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" (Amos 3:3). From the very beginning, it was plain to both Katie and myself that the Truth of the Word of God must be the foundation of everything by which we live, and, if the LORD tarries, by which we die. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God" (Matthew 4:4). Willingness to obey Christ is to be a Christian, and those who do not live by the Word of God are either lost or backslidden. "3 And hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His Commandments. 4 He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His Commandments, is a liar, and the Truth is not in him" (1John 2:3-4). [Many years later, I composed "An Earnest Appeal to Roman Catholics: Or, Roman Catholicism Examined in Light of the Scriptures" ---New Window. "We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her" (Jeremiah 51:9). On the subject of Rome, James A. Wylie published "The History of Protestantism" ---New Window (1878) to remind us that there is still a difference, and that we need to be ever vigilant of "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH" (Revelation 17:5).]
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