The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-10-14
HAVE FAITH IN GOD !"
Have faith in God.

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the sea; AND SHALL HEART, but shall
1EVE that those things which he saith to pass
He SHALL HAVE whatsoever he saith" MARK II 22 23)
And again. when we pray, BELIEVE that we that
Tor Wnlch We ask and pray, and YE TIP
And so this afternoon ZION say that have done
nothing All that has been accomplished to God be all the
glory.
And my brothers and sisters desire to lead you on
and on beside the still watersthe Water of Lfe-into
pastures where you feed the Bread of Life
away from earth UNTIL by the eye of faith you the
beautiful Home and the Mansions the Jordan-where
Jesus the Christ has to prepare place for all of
My heart yearns for you all today-that you may be
saved that you may be healed that you be ceansed
that may be blessed that you may be kept that you may
put on the garments of righteousness and be ready for the
Coming of the King!
If crawling upon my hands and knees in the dust would
help any of you, am willing to do it!
If laying down my life upon the altar will you,
am willing to do it,
Oh! plead with one and all-give yourselves to God
this afternoon Let your minds dwell upon the true upon
the venerable upon the just upon the pure and the holy
and the good; for GAS thinketh, so is he.''
And may God keep you and bless you and make you
blessing, is my earnest prayer!
The Subject which have announced for this evening
"THE KINGDOM OF GoD,"
and just when people about to sing think the leader
sometimes asks for the eynoe therefore, the very
beginning of this Feast of Tabernacles wish to sound the
keynote of the entire Feast
"THE New BIRTH
which expression get from the statement of Jesus the
Christ to Ncodemus recorded in the third chapter of
the Gospel according to St. john
EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN AGAIN, HE CANNOT SEE THE
KINGDOM OF GOD!'
No speaker who has studied the Subject any extent
could possibly make than simple beginning in an
hours time
The first reference that have THE KINGDOM
GOD is to be found in the Book of the Prophet Daniel
THE BEGINNING OF THE GOSPEL
When we come into the New Testament, we find that
John Baptist the Forerunner of the Christ the special
Messenger who fulment of specific prophecies to
prepare the way for the coming of the Christ began his
preaching by saying
Jesus the Christ-as you will observe by reading Matt
hew 47began His preaching using precisely the same
words.
It is necessary that any person who really and truly
desires extend KINGDOM GOD presented in the
Bible should remember the two facts that have just
mentionedthey very significant First that the fore
runner of the Chrst-concernng whom Jesus said, "Of
them that born of there hath not risen greater
concerning whom Jesus further said that he much
more than propheta special messenger-should begin
his Ministry by saying TiE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN AT
HANDI
And the second fact that the Christ the Son of
God-God manifest in the esh should begin His Ministry
by SAYING "THE KINGDOM HEAVEN AT HAND!
THE FORMS JESUS MINISTRY
The next reference which have to THE KINGDOM
GOD is the twentthrd of the fourth chapter
where we have the Ministry of the Christ summed up in
three hngs-a fact which very few ministers know and
which very few church members know but the whole Min
stry of Jesus the Christ summed up the twentyhird
of the fourth chapter of Mathew-n just three
things:
The first thing that Jesus did, He TAUGHT;
Next, He PREACHED; and what did He preach?-THE
GOSPEL THE KINGDOM
The third thing He did, He HEALED THE SICK.
You will find the thing mentioned in the thirty
fifth verse of the ninth chapter of Matthew.
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE KINGDOM OF COD
Passing into the fifth chapter of Matthew we begin the
study of the Sermon the Mount The fifth, sixth and
seventh chapters may appropriately be called The Con-
stituton of THE KINGDOM OF GOD'
John the Baptist having declared that THE KINGDOM
OF COP was hand Jesus the Christ having declared
the same TRUTH and His Ministry having been summed up
in three things-TEACHING PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF THE
KINCDOM and HEALING SICK-t was time that Jesus
shod nlanv set forth the conditions of membership in