The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-07-29
THE GOSPEL OF THE
KINGDOM
Continued from last week.
THE SHEPHERD PSALM

Now the instructions by Jesus the Christ to His Apos
ties have been very interesting to
Some great, big, knd-hearted individual loved the
Christ intensely that Jesus could say to His Apostles
Go into the city to such man. and say unto him, The
Master saith, My time is at hand will keep the Passover
at thy house with My disciples"
Unless Jesus had been very familiar with the
this would have been great breach of all the rules
of propriety.
Oh the Savior who had not where to lay His head,
knew what He meant when He said that if forsake
houses and lands, and father and mother for His sake
he should receive hundredfold in this life.
There many places that would take the Savior in
such the home of Mary and Martha and Lazarus, and
that of the whom these they went to eat the
Passover
Now, will you just this morning that house, and
the large upper and the table in the midst of the room
with the benches around where they recned and them
Staying the Lamb following the directions specifically
given in the Mosaic economy given by God and then see
the Savior and those Apostles gathering around that table
to eat the Passover with john the beloved Apostle recn
ing his head on the Saviors BOSOM
The Savior loved according to merit and must you,
and must it is impossible to do otherwise and be just
God loves all humanity but He loves the obedent and faith
full more than the disobedient
"He that hath My commandments and keepeth them,
he is that oveth Me- and he that oveh Me shall be loved
of My Father, and will love him and will make Myself
known unto him.
How many you can claim that love this morning? 1t
privilege to do and can claim it you only
will live for it.
And then there Peter; and there Judas. Just
let your minds pass all that transpred that little
room, and see those Twelve Apostles.
THE CALL OF THE FIRST TWELVE APOSTLES
Now let us go back and study their call, and then
shall take up this thread little later
You will remember that when Jesus began His Minis
try He said to Peter and Andrew, Follow Me, and will
make you fishers of men,"
The highest calling intrusted to is to be fisher of
men, go out and win the SINFUL the SICK the sorrowng
and the troubled and distressed and to be used of God to
the Salvation, Healing and Cleansing Of humanity.
thank God this morning look back at North Side,
Chicago and Cincinnati, and Australia I think of
many who my crown, who are my reward, who are
worth more to me the gold of Ophr-worh than
all the pauts accorded queens kings and presidents
worth than all the earth
Those who have been Saved, Healed, Ceansed and
Blessed-they mans true reward and every one OF
them will be gathered in the last day precious golden
sheaves
Then there is the call of Matthew who tax-gath
erer at the receipt of custom.
We do not know very much about the Others and yet
do not think fair say that the majority of the others
never amounted to much because it is not recorded
God knows what the Apostles did; you and | are not
their Judges Perhaps had been in their places we
should not have done well as they did.
In the Tenth Chapter of Matthew have the CORES
pondng story Of the Christ sending these Apostles out
Oh that Tenth Chapter of Matthew! How precious it is!
AS close my eyes, I can see it from beginning to end
THE GREAT HELPFULNEss OF MEMoRIzING SCRIPTURE
Last night sat down and in thirty minutes memorzed
the Fourteenth Chapter of John repeat backwards
this morning. and give you any you like to ask
for Oh what blessing got in doing that!
Now we come back into the upper Those Apos
ties were there, and they very sad.
How could they help being sad? They had been with
Jesus three years did they not dearly love Him? How
could they help loving Hm-the Son of God!
You and have no idea how much they loved Him.
You and | love Him-love Him very dearly; and we
want to follow Him today just the if He here
and took by the hand and led forward but cannot
realize how much those Apostles loved Jesus
They had been with Him day and night; they had
shared His tolls they had shared in His joys; they had
heard sermons they had witnessed His miracles and
had listened to His parallels; and they also had the
bitter enmity that hurled against Him.
Did you know who anything in the
Kingdom of God that prosecuted and much lied
about?
Why forget that of the seals of Divine call
is to have every imaginable wicked lie told about him
lust part of the seal of ones Divine mission the
preaching of the Gospel and it's being followed by signs and
wonders