The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-05-01
Tabernacle Addresses
By Wilbur Glenn Voiva
The People, in the Church Christ
the Ministry

not MAKE minister There is not college or semn-
airy on earth that make preacher minister.
college or seminary make preachers than you
can make diamond out of door-knob. God Almighty,
through the Holy Ghost makes preachers God calls them
ing MAKE disciples of all nations" ministry of that
kind will be ministry with authority, ministry with pow
err ministry that cares not what any says.
The Opinions O. not to be Considered
Il think and So. What should the minister of God
about what you think? It is simply disgusting wher-
goes whether he breaches in Chicago New York.
London Paris or any other place the people start How
like his language" sunnose minister Of Cod should
send agent advance and have the people up just
the kind Of sermon he should preach when he arriveand
it would be a checkerboard sermon, for
The Apostle Paul did not conceal the fact that he
an Apostle He let that be understood in the very begin
ming OF this Episte AS Apostle he had the right to
speak with authority he had the right to commando and
the command of an Apostle has to be obeyed.
In this twelfth chapter Paul lovingly beseeches them.
do not know of other chapter where the kind loving
heart of the Apostle clearly than in the first
verse OF this twelfth chapter of Romans He has set forth
the doctrines of the Gospel and he lovingly beseeches
hem although he had the right command
them, for he Apostle called of God-an Apostle not
Of men through but made by God through Jesus
the Christi yet he lovingly entreas and he beseeches he
ana the word R looks back to the preceding chap
1.-The merces of God'
Men Enreated to God by lis Mercy -
I wonder if you understand what is meant by 'the
ercles OF od Where God shows His mercy He bestows
blessings that wholly undeserved Mercy" and Gus
him who because of his transgressons deserves DEATH
and want to make you realize that all have snned and
human family because of their rebellion and their trans
gresson from the standpoint of Justice deserve only DEATH
but God has shown and He has provided His only
begoten Son. salvation to the uttermost for spirit for soul
and for body.
very deeply impressed during the Convocation.
when more than two thousand persons ne here and made
the conservation by the prayer of the little children
Father, take me as am and make what ought to be
IN spirit, in soul, and in body
Man has Three-fold Nature % be Saved :
Zion teaches the trpartite nature of man: that man
composed OF spirit of SOUL and of body that God the
Father of the spirit that He is the Maker of the soul and
Of the body The Apostle Paul. you will remember prays
blame You will also remember in Hebrews r. that
the Word of Cod that is Christine word there
Logos and not Rema as in the fifteenth chapter of
Johns powerful
For the Word of God is quick and powerful and sharp
er than any tWoedged sword piercing the dividing
asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints marrow
and dscerner of the thoughts ntents of the heart
Ihere we have mention Of the SPIRIT and the SOUL
to save the SOUL and to the body Salvation not only
tor the spirit but for the soul and the body Divine Heal
ing simply part of Savation and Salvation begins in
the spirit and then extends to the soul before healing
He provided the plan of salvation He made it possible
for us to receive pardon He made possible con-
demnation to be removed
He placed within the reach of every man and woman
salvation, healing, and holy living.
He had such great love that He gave His only begotten
He put hope within the reach of ALL
He lifted the VEIL and gave for His children revelations
OF the Millennium and glimpse of the age bevond the
Millennium.
He made possible for become "new creatures in
Christ Jesus and planted within the breast of Chris
tlan the hope OF being inhabitant, time the
new Heaven and of taking part in the "new song"
The "Merces O. a Powerful Incentive
what greater motive could Paul have put before the
Christians in Rome than ''the mercies of God?"
love that Hymn, Count your many Blessings Name
them one by one You cannot count your blessings The
Psalmst says:
Bless the Lord my soul: and all that is within me-
bless His Holy name.
BLESS the Lord, my soul, and forget not all His
benefits" 80
If you will only sit down in the quiet of your closet
and recount the ercies of Cod will be trouble for
you to make the full conservation You will then be able
to sing truthfully
"All have, and all l hope for
Thine for all eternity"
But do not forget when you sing, that God may ask
you for that farm before six o'clock night God
may ask to to India to China to Japan in to the
Sums of New York London Paris into the heart of Afr
ca God call for the last dollar you have if you have
put it on the altar and anything less God will not accept
and no man has been sealed by God with the Holy Spirit
who does not put himself the altar and all that he has,
here this morning, minister of the Lord Jesus Christ
The Christian Religion is NfostR i'm
seeking, in these talks drive home the hearts
OF all the officers and the members of this Church the fact
that there is reality in the Christian religion
The Lord Jesus said