The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-03-27
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This afternoon by the help of God Heavenly Father
want to deliver the third the subject Walks
and Talks with Jesus" 1t is necessary for to repeat
things that said in the first delivered
Any comprehensive study of the life of the Christ must
always begin with Him as He was when with His Father be-
fore the foundation Of the world How it at last that
God gave unto Him the Name which above every name
only be understood by those who grasp something of the
meaning of the words of the Apostle Paul when he sad
Let this mind be in you which also in Christ Jesus
equal with Cod but made Himself of reputation and
took upon Him the form of servant and made in the
likeness of and being found in fashion man, He
humbed Himself and became obedient unto DEATH the
death of the Cross.-Phlippians 2:5-8
The Work of Redemption Began in
Christ's work on behalf of humanity began in Heaven
and the beginning of His work that of sefdena and
all the way from His place in Heaven to the Cross upon
Calvary there sef-denia This afternoon
tne study of the great events which combine to close
His earthly there to two sweet little stanzas
Only a little while of walking with weary feet:
Patiently the thorny that leads to the golden
street
Suffer, if God WILL and work for Him while we may
From Calvarys Cross to lions is only little
way
The twenty-seventh Chapter of Matthew begins with
the simple sentence when the morning was come have
already pictured you that awful Thursday night how
they went into the upper recned the table
and patook of the Passover Feast how Christ revealed the
one who should betray Him. and instituted the Lords Sup
per- then how they hymn and arose. and under
the moonlight sky wendell their to the Garden of Geth
semane At o'clock in the morning Jesus the Son of
agony bearing the awful burden put upon Him by the
of humanity all the way down from Adam to the last living
man before all things shall come to close in Gods
The last place that the Christ is before Gaia
phas the memorable day. the day which the blacklist
crime in all worlds history committed the day when
the nobest all sacrifices made the day when the Lamb
of God slain for the sins of the world the day when the
Son of God gave Himself proptation-a act which
has driven away from millions of hearts and has
brought ioy and peace and hope into millions of breasts
then were the envous and jealous Chief Priests and Elders
on the alert for they determined to accomplish His
death
Chrss Caaphas Unjust
Before Caaphas the trial mockery for according
to the law guilty of capital crime could be tried
except in the daytime So told they betrayed Jesus
into the hands Plate the Roman Governor and thus they
completed the dasardy work of Judas Iscaro when they
took Him before Plate What did the Jews think of PLATE?
They hated the very ground which he STOOD but they
ing to make use of their enemy for Plate cruel and
mercess ruler yet trembling for fear the Jews espec
ally during the Feast of the Passover would rise and by
mob-law dethrone him.
for Compromised With Evil
Plate said to them, "Take we Him and judge Him
according to YOUR law. From the very beginning Plate
sought to excuse himself The Jews replied that they could
not nut any man lawfully to death Then, again, Plate
having examined Him. said, 81 find fault in this man."
he all the time seeking escape the responsibility and at
last the first two methods having failed he said to himself
' will appeal to the people, But alas for poor Plate his
appeal to the people great surprise or brought great
surprise
Him. cart Thou the King of the Jews?" Christ said
"Tynou Sovoe+V Then when the Chief Priests and the