The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-12-25

in God by saying Here is lake, from it flows the
river from the river flows the rvuet But still that does
not satisfy.
seems an impossbility to find in the finite world an
illustration that will make plain this glorious doctrine of the
rinty-God the Father God the Son. God the Hov Ghost
selfexstent uncreated with the attributes of loveomn
science omnpresence omnponce three in one and one in
hree-God the Father, God the Son. and God the Holy
Ghost
Ah no. cannot understand it by standing up three
men, three persons because that is not true illustration
There is but one essence and that is spirit.
The Bible teaches what I have said-God the Father
God the Son. and God the Holy Ghos-nd that as far as
1t makes it plain that the Son to reveal the
Father and that the Holy Ghost to reveal the Son. It
makes it plain that Christ God; that He never had
beginning. There was time when He did not
exist-self- exstent.
Does not the Bible say of Christ: "In Him was life;
and the life the light of men At the very outset in
the very first chapter of Genesis, In the beginning God
When they came to the last great creative acfor this
earth created for and poet wrote descrb
ing the various steps of creation "A creature of
exalted kind wanted yet and then designed
conscious of thought and then have the statement et
usGod the Father God the Son. and God the Holy Ghost
the Godhead in counc-'Let make in our image
after our likeness"
desire to mention in this connection-because God
making plain to some things which hope day will
enable to deliver address that will lift men up out of
the my clay to the high level where they will their
dowments and their possibilities and how that man is in
the image of God.
CHRIST, THE EXPRESS IMAGE OF COPS PERSON. IS MANS
WAY TO THE FATHER
In this connection desire quote from the first of
Hebrews where speaks of Christ the express image
His person." the "effulgence of His glory"
Christ the express image of Goldman created in the
image of God and given dominion the fowls of heaven
the animals of the EARTH and the fish of the the
GROWING act of Gods great creation.
Letm repeat hundred times: God the Father, God
the Son. and God the Holy Ghost, expressve-noe what
of the reations but sense used as
intmatng that there time when God the Father
did not exist when God the Son did not exist when God the
Holy Spirit did not exist
Christ God; the Bible says so.
Oh | could bow my head and shed tears all the
Jews, all the Untarans all the Mlennia Dawn
crowd all the people who deny that Christ is God and
who therefore, cannot find God because Christ declared
UNTO THE FATHER, BUT Me-
Whoever rejects the Christ cannot find his way back to
God the Father. People may say eve believe Cod but
reject the Christ We believe in Christ but believe
that Jesus of Nazareth only man." They are mis-
taken. They find God until they acknowledge
that Jesus Christ God and that He the Way the
Truth and the Life. By HIM, and HIM ALONE must they
come to the Father
GOD THE FATHER GOD THE Son, GOD THE HOLY GHOST!
And they said, "Let us make in our image after
our likeness"
God the Father is a free moral Agent, or Being God
the Son is free moral Being God the Holy Ghost
moral Being. They have the power of choice But their
attributes Self Existence Truth Omnipresence Omni-
science, Omnipotence, Love.
Now, when They made in their own image they
made him free moral agent with the power of choice and
when they made him they knew the end from the beginnings
and everything that God the Son did the Savior of the
world He did of His volition absolutely.
There is after like the quoted proving
that not only before He empted Himself but afterwards in
the fesh the Son of God had the power choice What He
did was done voluntarily He said 81 lay down My life
lay it down of Myself have power to lay it down. and
have power to take it again." He dismissed His own
Spirit. Everything He did of His own voition
They knew that man would sin, and sooner had he
nned than there given gracious ntimation of the
coming Deliverable of Messianic Prophecy from
which rises that majestic stream that flows onward
deepening and widening until in the 53rd chapter of Isaiah
reaches it's greatest breadth and it's deepest depths in the
picture of Christ's crucifixon.
From Heaven they sinner.
Now, what mind in Christ?
God the Father humanity-one God in three per-
sons, three persons in One God
want to tell you of the most awful crimes that
old Mary Baker Eddy committed and God knows she
committed