The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-10-30

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much about things here She used to be member of ZION
She said What awful pity that things happened here as
they have said, No pity at ALL it the best thing
that could have happened Thank God happened!' Why
certainly am thankful to God it happened want ZION
right-that is what want. tell you God Almighty had
better deprive you of every piece of property and every
dollar you have than to let you go to hell through the
love and the worship of money and when you tell God to
burn out all dros and when you tell Him to break you UP
and to melt and mold you into perfect in Christ
Jesus you had better know what you talking about when
you pray that There great many here this morning
that will have to be put into the melting Spiritually
they greatly deformed-and God will have to throw
them into the metngpot and melt them and then make
them over again. God has to use, gurativey speaking
the chsel and hammer and sandpaper, and so on You
have men working in quarry, haven't you? You
know what they have to do to handle piece of rock Now
if not willing for that, tell you haven't any
or part in THE KINGDOM OF GoD.
ZION does not have to have five hundred or thousand
ten thousand There is the difficulty there the real
ZION, and there is the nominal ZION. Some people are
only nominaly ZIoNthat is all they are; and suppose
will be that way until God Almighty permits the storms to
be so fierce that they will clean out every last that is
not pure gold; laterbefore the clock of God
strikes the last hour and the angel Heaven declares there
will be time longer tell you the prosecutions will
have been fierce and the trials and difficulties so great
that those who remain will be pure gold or they will not
stay.
Let get to the place where trust God absolutely
This is not my work-ths is Gods work. This is not my
city; it is Gods cyIf did not believe that would not
waste time here at all but if believe that this is Gods
work and Gods city, and that God by the Holy Spirit has
called into it, then have got to stay with it and stick
to it.
THE PATHWAY DESTRUCTION IS PAVED WITH THE
BROKEN PROMISES OF THE COWARDLY AND UNFAITHFUL
tell you these people who, during the time of trial.
ran off, and have been enjoying their eas will have to do
pretty deep repentng before they will have any
lot part in this work There people write
in and want to back to ZION CITY, and ask to send
them renewal application formand that is the last you
hear of it.
A good deal depends upon the whom God has put
at the head There just two ways keep this thing
right One by the leader giving the teaching and the
preaching which God and make fire to consume
the doss and the other by judgment Those are the two
ways. That is the way God deals with man. If man
will not listen to his wife and to the appeals of his children
to give up whisky the next thing he will get the judgment
of derum tremens Sometimes have got get there
to to their Senses and they will to their
before
THE CHRISTIANS CONVERSATION SHOULD BE OF
HEAVENLY THINGS
man is fool to substitute this world for God. What
does all amount to? It does not amount to anything We
have parents in this Church. the only thing about
which they talk how much money their daughter
making and how often the salary has been increased
That is great subject. What should the Christian
about how much makes! want to know whether that
boy has salvation whether he the road to heha
is what interested in don't what he is getting
He might be getting three hundred dollars month and be
of the biggest devils there is in the State tell you
when the chief topic of conversation is what boy is getting
or daughter is getting, how much money you made
last year, how many of land you boughthere is
not very much of God in the heart of of
that kind.
THE SPIRITUALLY MINDED MAN CAN TRULY EXPECT
PROSPERITY
believe that people right spiritually, they can
stand prosperity because people have right to expect to
be prosperous That is the Word of God and that
if does right and lives clean, pure, holy an
Industrious and economical le he will be prosperous
it cannot be otherwise. Poverty is Poverty of
the devil, just the sin is.
COMMEMORATE PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE
| think the people have made commendabe progress,
considering the bad training that they have had You
know if you take child that has had bad training for
four five years. is uphill work correct his bad habits
1t just looks to me like money had possession of great
many people who to this city. I think it had pos
session of the leaders, family and think it got possession
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