The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-08-24

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DISPENSATION OF THE GRACE OF GOD
(Ephesians 3:2
This Gospel, or Revelation, concerns THE
CHRIST AND THE CHURCH. Ephesians 5:
$780, 80.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also
loved the church, and gave himself for it;
That He might sanctify and cleanse it with the
washing of water by the word,
That He might present it to Himself glorious
church, not having spot, wrinkle, or any such
thing but that it should be holy and without blem-
ish.
So ought men to love their wives their
bodies He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
For no ever yet hated his own flesh; but
nourisheth and chersheth it, even as the Lord the
church:
For we are members of His body of His flesh,
and of His bones.
This is great mystery: but I speak concerning
Christ and the church.
This Revelation was committed, and thor
oughly explained, to Paul in the desert of
Arabia = Galatians /: III, II, 1918:
But certify you, brethren, that the gospel which
was preached of me is not after man.
For 1 neither received it of man. neither was
taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ
But when it pleased God, Who separated me from
my mothers womb, and called me by His grace,
To reveal His Son in me- that might preach Him
among the heather; Immediately conferred not
with flesh and blood:
Neither went up to Jerusalem to them which
were apostles before me- but went IN 10 Arabia
and returned again unto Damascus.
Then after three years went up to Jerusalem 10
see Peter and abode with him fifteen day.
Romans :25, &c; Colossians l :24-29 and
Ephesians BILL unite in declaring that tins
Revelation of the Gospel Of Grace concerning
the Christ and the Church was the Hidden Mys-
terv until made known to Paul in Arabia
w. Paul like Moses Joshua, Elijah,
Nehemiah John Alexander Dowie and
Wilbur Glenn Voliva - was much crit
icized, greatly opposed and had many
Enemies
|. Thos in Asia. II Timothy is:
This thou knowest, that all they which are in
Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygel-
lus and Hermogenes.
9. Demas forsook him, others went about
their own personal affairs, and only Luke re-
manned with him to the last = IL Timothy 4:
10, IL:
For Demas hath forsaken me- having loved this
present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica;
Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia
Only Luke is with me- Take Mark and bring
him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the
ministry.
g. Alexander the coppersmith. ! II Timothy
Ala, Is:
Alexander the coppersmith did much evil: the
Lord reward him according to his works:
Of whom be thou also; for he hath greatly
withstood words.
f. The Judaizers or Seventh Dayists, of
Acts Is = read the entire chapter. Note these
first two verses =
And certain men which came down from Judaea
taught the brethren, and said Except we be circum-
cised after the of Noses ye cannot be saved
When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small
diSSenSiOn and dlsputat1On with them, they deter-
mined that Paul and Barnabas and certain other OF
them should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles
and elders about this question.
s. His own countrymen. i Thessalonians 2;
14-16:
For ye brethren became followers of the church
es of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus for
We also have suffered like things of your coun
trymen, they have of the Jews:
Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own
prophets and have prosecuted us; and they please
not Cod and are contrary to all men:
Forbdding to speak to the Genties that they
might be saved to fill up their sins Away for the
wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
6. The Judaizing Seventh Dayists again in
Galatians = read the entire epistle to the Gala
tians with this thought in mind. Before they
got in their work, the Galatians were ready to
receive Paul as an angel, even as the Lord Jesus
Christ - Galatians :13-15:
Ye know how through nfirmity of the flesh
preached the gospel unto you at the first.
And my temptation which was in my flesh ye
despised not, rejected; but received
angel of God, Christ Jesus.
Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for
bear you record, that, if it had been possible We
would have pucked out your eyes, and have
given them to me.
After the Seventh Dayists got in their nefar-
ious work the Galatians considered Paul as an