The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-04-10

and He sent the centurion his way rejoicing and God
rewarded his faith and raised his servant have pointed
Him out to opening the eyes of the blind opening the
of the deaf standing at the grave of Lazarus
took you Lords Day in Shiloh Tabernacle the
nunciatons of Hypocrisy and have taken you on
in these walks with Jesus the Christ and today want
to take to spot and want to hear Him saying
Oh don't want you to hear it, God forbid that there
should be any in this Tabernacle today whom the Son of
God will ever have to Sleep and take your
rest
Christ Found in Prayer-a First
you with Jerusalem and it's surround
ings you will know that far from that city, which
situated upon series of hills there spot just over back
of the guided doed temple that was where highland
it beautiful moonlight nght-from certain house
Jesus and His Apostles wendell their way in the silence Of
familiar to every little Junor-the Garden of Gethsemane
had Christ reached Gethsemane than He said to
His dscipes-and want you to follow this closely-three
things:
The first thing He said was, sit We here while go and
pray yonder | wonder if you ever saw the time when
wanted to be alone wonder if you the time
when felt that the best human friend could not say
word but that would add to your and the weight
of suffering The time had when Jesus Christ
must tread the path alone and that time will with you
brothers and sisters although today there hundreds
of loving hands stretched out to help you but the day
coming and with some who sit here won't be long, in the
natural of events when thousand hands reach
out to you: but they will be too short.
The Savior said to the Apostles "Sit We here while
go and pray yonder and He took with Him Peter and the
of zebedee You will remember that in the house
that the Mount of TRANSPORTATION He had taken the
three and the Mount He had given them glimpse of the
cation and therefore He showed them something of the
resurrection glory He took these three and left the others
very heavy Sometimes brothers and sisters you
struck by very light temptations at other times the
sky to be black and overcast with clouds and feel
as though you would be completely engulfed.
Jesus Christ after His baptism had been tempted and
He had in every battle Now, in Gethsemane, with
Calvary just beyond the cloud of temptations that Gas
know according to Scripture will the earth for
the moment came when even the face OF the sun was hid
and refused to look the crucxion OF the Son of God
He was sorrowfu and He heavy The Revised Version
puts it, HE troubled
There are two kinds of suffering generally speaking
mental and the other physical In the Garden of Get
Christ did not suffer physically; all His suffer
ing mental believe that Christ suffered more in the
Garden of Gethsemane than He did Calvary remem-
ber Elder Richert turning and addressing the Elder
when went to Mansfield that the real anguish far
when it stopped and we had to get off into that mob
In the Garden of Gethsemane the entire weight of all the
sins committed came upon the Christ How much
you bear? How often you hear father say drunken
son. envy Cod my heart is breaking cannot bear this
any longer Yet the Christ bore the weight of all the
drunkards and other sinners since Creations dawn How
often you hear mothers out anguish of spirit and
81 will die if my daughter does not repent It will
kill DO YOU not know that there are today fathers and
mothers whose hair has made whittier than forty
years before the time because of grief and anguish 1t
about all you do to bear own SINS and your own
sorrows your troubles but the Son of God bore all
these all humanity And He in the Garden of
Gethsemane He knew that the Of passion had to be
drunk by somebody; and He was sorrowful That word
sorrow" has the meaning of horror.
You have read in the Book of Genesis 1912: "And
when the sun going down. deep sleep fell upon Abra
ham and TO- an horror Of great darkness fell upon him
and it with Jesus Christ in the Garden of Geth
semane He very sorrowful and He very heavy.
Wordsorrow Pierced His
The next statement is, "He said unto them Chat u.s.
unto the hree) My soul is exceeding sorrowfu even unto
DEATH"
You remember that in the twelfth chapter of johns
Jesus said Now is My soul troubled what shall sayT
The first ZION sermon ever read was the sermon in
LEAVES OF HEALING upon the text: Now is My soul trou
bled; what shall say?" remember the first paragraph
was that better able to work for God than
when he reached the place where he could say What shall
say or when the human becomes subject to the Spirit
of Cod then is that the Holy Spirit will take and
use him and speak through him.
So Jesus said "My soul is sorrowful unto DEATH
His sorrow all human. You must forget that
Christ the Son of Man as we'll as the Son of Cod He
Divine and He human and in the Garden of Geth
semane He had the battle that people in ZION
CITY will have There the human will and there was
the Divine WILL and the great battle to bring that human
will into subsection to the Divine will
lot of the problems in ZION CITY would be instantly
solved if all her people would say, Not will, Father