The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-09-14

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"LORD'S PRAYER :"
Zone of His disciples said Him, Lord teach pray
John also taught his dscpes"- Luke II Il.
In Matthew o9l3, the following prayer is recorded
Our Father which in heaven haowed be Thy Name
THY Kingdom Thy will be done in EARTH as it is in
heaven.
Give us this day Our daily bread
"And forgive debts, forgive Debtors
"And lead into temptation, but deliver from evil
For thine the kingdom and the and the glory forever
Amen"
This prayer popularity known the Lords Prayer Like
other popular views of Scripture it wrong The Lords
Prayer correctly speaking the which the Lord HIM
self offers found in John H.
The prayer noted above disciples prayer The prayer
which the Lord the nsistence of the disciples taught them to
pray.
This prayer wrought general service Of the Chris
tan church. SO made use OF on public and private OCCASIONS and
thought be emney of Christian faith and
devotion that impossible touch out of its accept
ed place without offending the concerning
and yet does not belong to the church, not for the Christian
a all and the ought to be self evident
l. The prayer for the kingdom the prayer and does
express the attitude the church The prayer of the church
in unison with that of the Spirit set forth in Revelation 22
"And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come"
The prayer of the church for the coming of the kingdom
but for the coming of the Bridegroom that the marriage may take
place and the Queen be ready the King when He
shall descend in the splendor of the kingdom.
The attitude of the church looking for the King
for the Son not looking for but listening for sounds
the sounds of His and the trump which shall her
meet Him. out for the manifestation EARTH but
be caught into the air. corng for revealed
but pleading for into the banqun house. and
His banner of love-
2. The ground of the prayer is Law, and not Grace.
Nothing could be legal than this:
And forgive debts forgive debtors For
ye forgive their heavenly Father will also for
give you.
But ye forgive their trespasses will your
Father forgive your trespasses." Verses II, IA, IS
According to Romans OLA and in the very Of the
the Christian under law himself the atmosphere
OF legality is to deny grace and to fall from it.
The assertion that the Father makes forgiveness for ourselves
dependent forgiveness of others accepted working
therefore from Sinai the mount of Beatudes law and the
ground the opposite of grace the opposite of all that
situes essential Christian characteristic.
So long grace and egais distinct and opposed
other the Christian consistently offer this prayer
g. If this prayer by the Christian it is equivalent
TO saying that his standing before God depends his relation
to be perfect these relations will make him imperfect
For the Christian present this prayer take himself off
the ground the mmutabe grace put himself
the shifting sand of his weak vaclatng temperament
TO offer this to deny both the ground and the
tainy of his standing
A. The Christian upon to pray for forgiveness
There Scripture for the Christian
and definite thing for him do and that is go confession Go
his Father heaven confess he
feses it Jesus Christ as his High Priesty Advocate will sustain h;
confession and advocate his forgiveness cleansing bringing
before the Father the memorial of the acri6cial
blood and tesyng the Father that when He shed
had anticipated this very failure and and the ground
perfect sacrifice the Father because He faithful just
forgive His erng, but child John 2:1 John g
AS Christians, the Spirit of Christ u.s. will forgive
those who have sinned against should without saying that
the Christian who in the pentude Of the Spirit will
otherwise nevertheless whatever else may be the
there be such thing that he will remain unforgven
God the ground of his failure men,
of the Fathers mercy such varying foundation as
that for the church.
S. This prayer belongs time when the church gone
from the earth and when Antchrist is in power.
1t will be the of the elect Jewish the day
the Great Ir1buaon Here is the explanation of TO-
"Ihy kingdom come"
AT the moment of this ueance the kingdom of Antichrst
the man known Scripture The Wild Beast will be over all
Europe and PALESTINE and these Jews called the Trans
ation OF the church by the gospel of the kingdom will lift
and that the kingdom of the Father which king
dom OF the Messiah and deliver them trbuaon
and woe that will then be rampant
According Daniel II 80 and II Thessaonians 2 4 this
Man the earth Wlfu King kino whose