The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-10
SUBJECT
"SLEEP ON NOW AND
TAKE YOUR REST"

ANE 1OON NE4Cx
In the Gospel according to St. Matthew the twenty
sixth chapter the words in the foryfth will
text.
"Sleep on now, and take your rest"
In number of sermons devoted to study of the life
and ministry of Lord and Savior Jesus Christ have
presented Him to you,rst of ALL He when with God
the Father in the beginning pointed out to the
source, in Gods Word of that beautiful sweeping, and
majestic stream which Bible students denomnae Messanic
prophecy beginning in Genesis the third chapter where God
sad in pronouncng upon the serpent who had be-
guiled Eve 81 will put enity between thee and the woman
between thy seed and her seed shall bruse thy head and
thou shalt bruSe his heel"
OF in Prophecy by Many Names
AS the centuries came and passed away, God our
Heavenly Father, in His infinite love and mercy, human
ty could stand it, removed more and more the curtain that
hid the future from the eyes of humanity and through in
pred revealed to them the place of the Saviors
BIRTH and placed upon record indicative of His char
"WONDERFU wonderful in His sef-denial, His self
sacrifice His deep humiaton wonderful in that He was
begotten by the Holy Spirit wonderful in His incarnation
wonderful in His birth which, though unnotced and
sung by the children of men, heraded by the angelic
song GLORY to God in the Highest; Peace EARTH good
will to men = COUNSELOR" Counselor He who should
reveal Father and should bring to the children of
that wisdom which from God and compared with which
the greatest wisdom of men is fooshness THE MIGHTY
EVERLASTING FATHER for it is Jesus Christ Who, as
the First Born from the Dead the Resurrection and the Life
all who through Him, life eternal
PRINCE OF PEACE"-for He to destroy the works
of devil and wherever the works of satan destroyed
in the life of will come and take her abode;
and will pray today that God the Almighty, in His
and love- will breathe upon this congregation and touch and
break every stony heart and that unsaved
will leave this place today but that under the gentle in
uence the Spirit of the Eternal God sin and disease and
unceanness may all be swept away and everyone sing,
Praises be to our Cod" (Amens.)
Jesus was Sealed at Jordan Sons o
dout+ o Tho Christ He The
bank of that river Jordan and said to John
the Baptist Baptze Me- and John, with true humility,
shrank performing that duty, saying unto Him. Il
have be baptized of Thee and contest Thou to me
Jesus said unto him, Sufer to be for thus it
out of the water Heavens opened and the Spirit of God
descended Him in the form of 2 dove and for our
sake God in Heaven spake and sad Thou art My beloved
Son in Whom am well pleased.
Thus God set His seal upon Him. that He His Son.
Christ Began His Ministry by Demanding Repent
have pointed Him out to you as day quietly
talking to some of His friends (some of them already may
have been disciples of John the Baptist and become
quainted in a small with the CHRISTI He had
heard that John the Baptist had been cast into prison. and
soon thereafter He lifted up His voice and uttered cry
which has resounded around the world through all the
centuries SINCE the cry that ZION must be faithful in
peating to all men, Repent ye for THE KINGDOM OF
HEAVEN is at hand" No who has been born of the
Spirit of Cod who has heard Needed received and
believed and acted upon that cry will talk about being
American first and child of KINGDOM GOD after
ward No who has needed that cry will talk about
democracy repubcanlSm, or monarchy, unlimited or
auocracy or pluocracy but will realize down deep his
heart that when Jesus sad Repent ye for KINGDOM
OF HEAVEN is at hand" He proclaimed the Rule of God;
and shame ten thousand times shame to the
who calls himself herself Christian who would challenge
the right of God to rule much less himself herself
in active opposition to it.
Illustration of Kingdom
If should hold here my hand acorn, and should
saw Behold giant oak tree at hand when in fact it
will be hundred years from before that tree is tree
boorI with pandSh
SO John the Baptist the Son of God said centuries ago.
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN at hand and the Savior said
further to His Apostles, "Pray, THY KINGDOM Come"
God Seeks a People for His Kingdom
All these centuries God has been looking and waiting
for faithful people who should seek first THE KINGDOM
GoD" and the time will ZION when no longer will
it be the Kingdom in embryo the oak tree in in
he will across the mountains and