The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-03-20

Fasting alone in the desert
Tell Of the days that He passed,
How for sins He tempted,
Yet triumphant at last;
Tell of the years of His labor,
Tell of the He bore,
He was despsed and afflicted
Homeless rejected and poor.
Tell of the cross where they nailed Him.
Writing in anguish and pain;
Tell of the grave where they laid Him
Tell how He liveth again.
Tell how that story TENDER
Clearer than [ see;
Stay, let me weep while you whisper
Love paid the ransom for
in Beginning with
my God, pray that Thou wilt give to this entire
gregation "a glorious and vision of
Christ Himself said Before Abraham was, ann; John
1859 and the Apostle of love wrote under inspiration n
the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God
Just before the Savior gave Himself ransom for the
world lifting His eyes to His Father He said among other
things 20 Father glorify Thou Me with Thine self
with the glory which had with Thee before the world
John :59 We must see the Christ with the Father in
stricken and dseasesmen humanity and responded to
the call of His Father for while God sent Him. He will
ing and paid the price which brought to Him the
which is above every He laid aside the attributes
which He possessed and took upon Himself the form of
servant and though that not enough He still fur
Their descended the valley humiliation suffered
DEATH even the cruel death upon the cross.
"A a Jesus
This afternoon want you to take walk with Jesus
and you walking with Him want you to talk with
Him.
Let us start at the manger-cradle in Bethlehem and
study how and why that satan sought to destroy His
life while He infant and how Joseph, behoding the
angel that from the Father to speak words that would
lead to the saving of His life took Him and His mother down
into Egypt then, after period OF sooun there back to
Nazareth for you will remember that when He began His
ministry the question asked in conemptuous manner
"Can any good thing come out of NAZARETH"
Walk with Him then when twelve years of age down
to JeruSalem Him there the Temple dSputlng with
the leaders Of the people at that tme the anxious par
ents searching for Him and hear His voice. Know We not
that must be about Ny Fathers busness They did not
understand it.
No more do you see Him until He appears on the banks
the River Jordan demanding to be baptized of His fore
John, with true humility, said II have need to be
baptized of Thee, and contest Thou to me (Matt. 3:14
But Jesus replied Suer it to be for thus be-
cometh to fulfil all Righteousness. Them having
ceved the amounting of the Father the acknowledgment of
His Sonshp by the Father, God said, "Ths is My be-
loved Son in Whom well pleased He passes into the
awful wilderness where He to through experiences
that were necessary as part OF the fument OF Ills great
to mankind and where He was beset by satan in
three different How unlike Judas lscariot how
the Apostle Peter the Christ answered the temp
ter every time, 1T is written
Repent Repent" Chrsts Introductory Message
Jesus the Christ began His ministry the most wonder
full ministry exercised among the children of men, by
calling upon men to repent
Jesus the Christ began his ministry by sternly demand
HEAVEN is at hand" Soon thew were whispering around
to each other Who is this? Where did He from? He
does not preach like preacher He does not preach like
the Scribes and Pharsees He speaks having
authority and they not used to that 1t struck them
as something out of the ordinary to hear speaking
with authority from God whose words must be obeyed
the dsobedence would bring the penalty to the full degree
The Gospel of Repentance Stirred Up
Christ had not preached long until He opposed by
His relatives, and by people of classes One
Sabbath day He synagogue at Nazareth and
read the Scripture lesson prophetic of His coming sa 81
12) and told them about Naaman the eper and how, al
though there prophet Israel there but eper
healed His language understood applying to hem
and they CRASHED upon Him. and up with Indignation
and they ready to put Him to death by throwing Him
over the precipce; but He escaped from them
Jesus the Christ wherever He went spoke His mes
and say shame thousand times shame, upon any
to whom God has whispered by His Spirit to and
proclaim message, who will turn traitor and coward and
listen to the voice of his friends and be afraid to speak the
word that God has given him. loud appause) would
rather die thousand tmesI would rather die today and
lose the friendship of every and in Z0Nthan
to lose the favor of God Who has called and trained
to speak message to this people at this time (Amens)
Jesus the Christ some but wherever He preached
He drove away and they CRASHED their teeth upon