The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-03
SUBJECT -.
"Christ Giveth Rest"


Son to humanity there come to two of Scripture
describing the reception accorded the Christ the be-
ginning of His ministry and the other describing the nen
sy of His feelings He compelled to realize that the
very to whom He had and for whom He
give His lfe had refused Him and showed signs of
repentance.
The first selection of Scripture is recorded in the first
chapter of the Gospel according john eleventh verse;
where it says:
"Jesus came unto His own and His received Him
not the selection is be found in Matthew
twenty third chapter at the thirty-seventh verse
90 Jerusalem Jerusalem, thou that kiest the prophets
and sonest them which sent unto thee how often would
gathered thy children together hen gather
chickens under her WINGS and We would mott Be
hold your house left unto you desoate For say unto
you Ye shall Me henceforth till shall say Bless
ed is He that cometh in the of the Lord"
The Gospel of Kingdom has Faithfully Preached
During past years have presented to you Jesus
the Son of God He in the centuries past Heaven
How little know about Him only here and there on the
sacred pages little light is given John, the beloved Apos
M who to have gotten the heart of Christian
y than any of the Others says n the beginning the
Word and the Word with God The Word became flesh
and dwelt among and the Apostle Paul. said to these
people nPhpp, Let this mind be in which was also
in Christ Jesus"
Paul said that Christ was in the form of God and
thought it not robbery to be equality with God but
Christ laid that all aside Jesus the Christ put it all down.
He had eye to pity and said Look at humanity down
there-lost!' Some people took good look upon
humanity Perhaps they talk with of these
Seventy workers from Chicago they could tell something
about sinsck humanity If could only be given power
to over Chicago Saturday nights and have piercing
eye look behind the scenes hoves and also into many
of the luxuriousy furnished rooms what awful
would greet the eye That which appears the surface is
bad enough but God only knows what is underneath the
surface While the outcass in the novels create scenes
the heart they than of the scenes
in the magnificent brown-stone fronts. God the Almighty
can all. Jesus the Christ humanity He saw you
and me- He sad eff humanity is to be saved My Father
says that must go and sacrifice My life
Christs Heartw Humanity
Jesus the Christ had broken heart humanity and
so every Christian and if you have not this afternoon
touched and thrilled and set fire with
the love of God.
Jesus Christ saw humanity Now there choice
to be made Here all the attributes of divinity, that
which made Him to be equal with God To humanity
what did say? He sad 81 will put all down. will give
it all up and will go down from Heaven and will take the
forrn-not of king not of monarch not of man that
lives in sumptuousy furnished palace with all the rich
foods and vands that earth aords-bu the form of
ant and will be obedient unto DEATH that humanity
may be saved that humanity may be healed that humanity
may be ceansed from all their nquites that humanity may
have home in the skies"
Christs has Pictured in Words.
/ have held up Christ from tnaC STANDPOINT before
have pointed the Christ in the at Bethlehem
and shown YOU how He became ncarnate in the esh and
presented Him as went about doing good for Christ
came to serve not to be served have pointed Him out
as He sat by the sparkling waters of the little sea OF Galee
and spoke in parallels to the people, standing by the bed
side of the sick and suffering and how by His touch He
healed them have pictured Him to in three sermons
how at last as the shadows of Gethsemane and Calvary
began to come upon Him. that He said to His Apostles
that He must go up Jerusalem and be betrayed and de-
have pictured Him to you far as any human beng can
picture Him. suffering all alone in the Garden of Geth
bearing burden of all the sins and diseases and
sorrows of humanity have pointed Him out on Calvary,
and today despite all opposition to hold up Jesus
the Christ know will get the same kind OF treatment
He got then do expect anything else and know that
faithful servant of the Christ will get the same treat
ent He received for Jesus sad The disciple not above
his Master nor the servant above his Lord.
Christ Invites all to Rest in Him.
am here this afternoon to show you the Son OF God
standing for moment with His heart full of joy whereas
few minutes before it had beaten full of sorrow and you
can see Him with arms outsreched and saying, Come unto
Me- all We that labor and heavy laden and Will give you
restnrestl wonder this afternoon as God looks down
unon this audience how many hearts He sees resting