The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-08-02
YELLING ABIDING INDICATE FIXED RELATIONS OF BE-
LEVERS TOWARD GOD

DWELLING ABIDING INDICATE FIXED RELATIONS OF BE-
LEVERS TOWARD GOD
"He that DWELLETH in the secret place Of the Most
high IF ABIDE in Me- and My words abide in you-God
did not say He that visits God month twice year.
he that traveller lodge for few hours"
NO!
"He that DWELLETH" = he that comes to his home at
his Fathers side, to ABIDE there day and night all the time
through life, until God calls him up higher
"He that dweeh in the secret place of the Most High
shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty
May God, by the Holy Spirits power help to cause you
to see what means to be Christian you the prv
eges in God the opportunities that ours help to know
the powers that command if are only truly con-
verified and sanctied and filled with the Spirit of God
My brothers and sisters do read the Bible without under
standing it, without realizing little of its meaning?
"He that dweleth in the place of the Most High
Oh think of the wordness of the wcedness of the pofesed
Christians of the world linen and who say "What
harm is there theater? What harm there in dance?
What harm there in playing cards What harm there this
and that and the other thng?'
THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY AND ALL Things ARE BECOME
New"
tell you, when you united with Christ when you
born again. when converted when you anched
you will have inclination for these things than have
this afternoon for tobacco the old the old Adam
ture that wants these things
The in Christ Jesus has Spiritual appeites and he
longs for God and for Christ and for the Holy Spirit for the
Word and for the meetings The longs for oppor
tune do Christian work. and he will have hungerng and
thirsting after righteousness
Oh, if you could only know the pangs of hunger suffered
by the lost traveller away the DESERT If you could only realize
what the sensation of hunger is just before Death
his relief If you could only realize the intensity of thirst
where travellers have been lost in the DESERT until their lips
swollen so that they scarcely be recognized as lps
Oh, if only then, you could have Spiritual hunger,
Spiritual thirst that could be felt! Then God would fulfill His
Word.
Jesus said BLESSED they who hunger and thirst after
righteousness: for they SHALL BE FILLED"
My brothers and sisters, have down the
fooshne gone and gone forever The keynote that
is struck in ZION is RETURN TO GOD! Surrender your
sees Prepare yourselves for the coming of the Lord And
those who will be prepared for the Lord will be clad fine
linen = the righteousness of the saints
BLESSED the pure heart: for they shall Cod
He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh corrupon
but that soweh the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap LIFE
EVERLASTING"
If you clean spirit whittier than snow, if you
pure blood and strong WE'LL vigorous body give yourselves
God obey the Spirit and do follow the usts of the flesh
'He that dwe1eth in the place of the Most High
have you been there? Can you witness this afternoon
you have been there know you may have gotten
within forty miles of that grand sublime snowcapped mountain
peak perhaps but have you stood the of the peak
itself?
Continued next week.