The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-10

but Thy will be DONE" That is what praying and
aboring for to bring all the place where they will say
Not my will, Father Then you will not hear any more
all be Gods time, Gods money, Gods business and,
Father here am What do to help extend
THY KINGDOM" There will be thought of getting rich,
and no thought of boarding money The only thought will
be to extend THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
Christ Asks His Disciples to Watch
told you while ago, that Jesus said, "St we here
that to all of them Then He took the three and said
'Tarry We here and watch with Me- What He watch
ing for? Lest enter into temptation and be overcome
Now there is an Indication of the Savors agony You need
only that He fell His face If you look in Micah
10 you will find the statement troll myself in the dust
We are told that job in his great grief fell on the ground
The Savior fell His face He overwhelmed by the
agony of soul that He Frustrated Himself on His face and
cried unto His God and said 20 My Father it be possible
out 20 my Father if it be possible let this from
It the custom in that country to hand to the prs
cup Of poison This is the suggestion Now, what
in that cup Jesus drank? Oh, that cup that awful
cup! is the cup that you and ought to have to drink
but thanks be unto God take and hand it
to Christ and don't have to drink it. you don't have to
drink yours But there sitting here today that
have become hardened that it is almost impossible to
reach them
It is said that one time when boy was about leave
home his mother presented him with Bible, and wrote
the Ay-leaf. "My boy, seek We first KINGDOM
his mother that gave it to him. but he had thought
of obeyng that injunction After he had been away from
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preacher and announced his text it Matthew e33
Seek we first KINGDOM GoD and His righteous
ness He thought to himself that that strange coin
cdence but did not realize that back at home that
mother pleading with God to break that sons heart
and to bring him to his knees He did what in this
audience have done. Men and women have gone out of
this place to their homes their hearts have been touched
and they have wept bitterly. They have told me
After many months absence from church, this boy
wandered into another church and the minister and
announced for his text Matthew 33. The young man
thought to himself that very STRANGE very strange
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take that text.
And he just screwed up his courage and put it off,
out of his mind; but more, after many months he
went to church again. and TO- the text read Then
he began to think very seriously He said to himself, Il
away now can't. would like to yield to God If had
only done long ago. when the Spirit of God spoke
but now have become so hardened that can't do it."
Christ Humby Submitted to Gods Will
The Savior said, Nevertheless not I will, but as
Thou wilt" Then he got up. You remember, first He
said to all of them st We here They distance
off, He knew that there to take them ALL That
of the of His He had instructed
Them but they slow to learn. He had wrought His
miracles before them but they couldn't grasp His mission
There Judas caro whom He loved and trusted and
admitted to the very circle had stopped
low that he would sell Him for thirty pieces of silver Jesus
was rejected by the Jews.
Christ asked a Searching Question
Here the three Apostles and He made unto them
these three statements: "Sit we here Tarry we here
and Watch with me- and left them for season; and when
He back He found all of them asleep He didn't say
James John, but He said "Peter!' Why did He say
Peer Because Peter had professed his great love for
Him and the Savior thought Surely Peter will watch
with Me. Peer, couldn't you watch hour? Couldn't
you stay awake hour? Watch and pray that enter
not into temptation The spirit is indeed willing, but the
flesh is weak Oh what battles between the spirit and
the flesh when feels that God is calling Him to per-
form certain duties How the flesh cries out "Oh my God
let off and me- Now, these three Apostles didn't
obey Christi they didn't watch and pray because when the
moment of temptation they fell. But the Savior
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So my friends today you let the opportunity to watch
and pray go by, just well make up minds
that when the moment of temptation comes, you will go
under it, You cannot take the time of the temptations
and make it a time of watching and praying tell you
when the opportunity is gone you call it back;
and my brothers and sisters God the Almighty is calling
upon this people to get into line for Z1oN ZION principles