The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-03-06


ings bestowed daily We know that there is wonderful
future before Zion God meet with great power
do that which right Thy sight reference all important
questions Hear and bless Father for Jesus sake
Amen
Taking for granted that you all familiar with the
Eleventh Chapter of the Gospel according to St john will
attention to the principal points in regular order
You have heard great many sermons In reference to
Christ Public Teacher you have Him the
side delivering discourse large congregations have
seen Him healing the sick Won have seen Him going into the
Temple and driving the money changers and ovehrowng
their tables You have heard Him denouncng in the strongest
terms possible the hypocrisy of the religious leaders of His time
But this morning want give you vivid insight the
private life of the Christ for if you simply know the Christ
public Man, Preacher and Teacher moving men,
then you have but impartial knowledge of the greatest OF all
teachers
Very little given of Christ in His private life and
Inclined and always inclined to
extremes either minimize His Divinity His humanity
The Christ be understood only when you view His
Divinity and His humanity in proper proportions Christ in
His humanity like of except that He never SIN
ned, and guile never found in His mouth.
This morning want with me to the little town OF
Bethany Its location you need to have before you Ii was
about two miles from the City OF Jerusalem on the eastern side
of the Mount of Olives and in the great pictures OF Jerusalem
which have at different times will see the little mar
winding road leading around the Mount OF Oves TO the
little town of Bethany which you cannot see from Jerusalem
Bethany
There was home that little that had three
There believe
from that home in the true OF the word
that this brother and these sisters intensely devoted
each other and although they Jews, and Jesus was
desped the they had accepted Him the Christ and
their become His home when He in this little
town Bethany Very little known of Mary and Martha
have concluded that Martha very mpetuous woman
and Mary Of medatiVe characters that Martha
moved very quickly the impulse of the moment and that
Mary would sit and think subject before she made
move
AS study situation and the Son of God and yet
the Son of Man-or He took upon Himself the of
-aOtpr int
His feet looking upon Him the Great Teacher the affection
which they had for another must have been great
The sOrrowing Sisters Seek Help
The Record which have in the Eleventh Chapter Of
senger from His home and brought the to Jesus
'@Lord, behold he whom Thou lowest is sick"
very probable that when this delivered
dead and not when was delivered he probably
passed away soon thereafter
The sisters very first thought when this acion came into
home Jesus the Christ and He the first One to
Whom they sent for help.
And here lesson for every Of and particularly
protesting Christians who not connected with the Zion
movement for the fact Of the matter that the rank and file OF
processing Christians when trouble comes or when some one
stricken down with disease their last thought perhaps may
of Jesus but their first thought is Of DOCTOR or drug or
of nurse and sometimes of neighbor.
That not true in Mon thank God but it is true through
ChristendOm for the most part.
Physician
The first thought of Martha and Mary Of Jesus the
Christ and the simple that they sent was Lord ne
whom Thou lowest is sick These sisters knew very well that
could heal their brother from Perea and they did
to Jesus You down once they did not
even saw Speak word for they knew that Jesus stand
inc there in Perea could heal their brother and him up
They also knew Jesus had left Judea for His life
in danger Jesus afraid but He would
sarilv expose Himself and there is lesson for every Zion
worker Simply because man does not expose himself to
danger does prove that he coward When I'M
necessarily exposes himself danger proves that he is
wise and has shown very plainly here that it is to
take all legitimate precautions And yet when the time
the Christ returned udea and faced the ordeal of death
These sisters very well that for Him to back in
TO Judea and Bethany would probably His
because there number of Jews gathered into the
house Jesus and the rulers watching for Him.
and determined Him and put Him to death, il
possible
Christ's the Message of Mary and Martha
What did Jesus say? "Ths sickness is not unto death,
but for the Of God that the Son of God be glohed
thereby That is a wonderful statement and statement
which is often by people who want to claim that sick
ness is not the result and that does not from the
devil.
BY SAYING This sickness is not unto DEATH Jesus simply
meant that death would be the final result OF this sickness
but that out Sickness and out of the DEATH through the
manifestation of God God would be gohed and
further than that of God would be goed thereby
the resurrection of Lazarus was the immediate
cause death The working of His last great miracle
as YOU will see in this chapter the immediate and last
of His apprehension and crucifXlon