The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-06-26


II want to rule myself It is not necessary to form any de-
Tense for monarchca form of does not
enter into the question These revolutions simply the
wild outburss of the spirit of the age 81 want to rule
myself
ZION IS A THEOCRACY
I want to emphasize before ZION people many things
that they may hold of lions position am satisfied
that of all the people that to ZION CITY, only small
number comparatively ever really gotten any grasp
at all upon the position of this Movement relative to the
fairs of this world-he affairs that are popularity denomin
ated secular and sacred 1t is good thing man
to know that he is called of Cod also good thing for
the people to know that the Movement Of which they
part is Of Divine origin 1t good thing to find
it's place and to know something of it's destiny then you
will be anchored ZION must exist to do the will of God in
all things Righteousness is to be practised.
THE TRUTHS OF ZION MUST WITHSTAND EVERY TESTING
Oh how thankful to God you ought to be- those of you
who have stoodbu do not think because you have stood
to date that you going to stand by of that
for the next ten years. LET him that thneth he sandeh
take heed lest he fall" Other tests will this would
not be ZION that not true While you have wthstood
of you all the tests other tests will come until the last
particle of dross If you all right you
not need test If you will respond to the mpeng in
fuences of the Holy Ghost you will not need to be purified
by Judgment Gods discipline is carred through the
mpeng influences of the Holy Spirit and the restraining
influences of the Holy Spirit
THE PERSON WHO EXPECTS CHRIsT's COMING is ALWAYS
CAREFUL AND PRAYERFUL
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If you officer as a member will firmly grasp
the great fact of the second coming of Christ and will
member in the light of the Scriptures that He may
day. then you will be very careful of your thoughts very
careful of your Words very careful of your deeds
A Church which does not keep prominently before it's
people the second coming of Christ is dead Church,
all know that they do not do it, because if they did the
people in them would not live they living for every
knows that you line the rank and file of Church
members and line up equal number from the world and
would be difficult observing their conduct to tell which is
the Church and which is the world
We want the genuine article we do not want any
conterfeits We do not want to have people deceivng
themselves believing that they Christians when they
have nothing which to base the belief.
ZION has engaged the practice of setting dates
cannot say, this morning. that Christ will in ten
years. that He will in twenty-five years. say
that from all the signs, living in the period of His
coming living in the closing years of the present
age and behooves each and every make full and
complete conservation
ONLY THE OvERCoMERs CHRIST ON HIS
THRONE
Our conflict is with the world the flesh and the devil
Unless overcome the world the world will overcome u.s.
Unless conquer the fesh the flesh will conquer and it
is to the flesh that the devil appeals Men and alb
sent themselves from the House of God because they yield
the flesh. Men and le STEAL commit adultery
centious and everything that is ve because they yield to
the flesh The flesh is the channel through which the devil
works; and the principal instrument that he employs to
destroy people that little unruy member the tongue
much that the Psalmst in speaking of certain
Glass; that their Threats open sepucher and again
told that with the tongue bless God and with the
tongue curse God-that it is member that no man can
tame but that does not that God cannot tame if
willing to submit to Him.
WHAT DOES CHRIsTs SECOND COMING INVOLVE?
What is involved in the preparation for the second
ing of Christ? have given to the Seventies today to dis
in no