The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-01-25

You, being true children or l1OQ, nave wonder
| full opportunities that men and women of the
world have not You can take the messages and
LEAVES OF HEALING and go out with them,
down into the worst dives of Chicago and do
good work and God will bless you. You can
give the salutation, ''Peace be to this house!"
"And into whatsoever house We enter, first say,
Peace be to this house.
.'And if the Son of peace be there your peace
shall rest upon it if not, it shall turn to you
again" Luke 1915, 6.
The salutation is another thing that was re-
stored to this Church Jesus gave this sautaton.
There is not truth taught in the Word of God
that we cannot have in this Church.
There is another grand thing about this
Church. if there is a sin on earth that we can
not fight in the Christian Catholic Apostolic
Church in Zion, do not know what that sin is.
Zion fights sin in high and low places.
We have in this Church the gifts of healing"
Paul tells us that these gifts are something that
belong to the Church God put them there.
They are to be exercised by men who are or
dained of God-of1cers in this Church In James,
we find these words
''Is any sick among you? let him call for the
elders of the church and let them pray over him,
amounting him with oil in the Name of the Lord"
The Lord had only one Church in the begin
ming there were various branches, but only one
Church and the time is coming when there will be
only one organization, for the saints of God will
be gathered together into one body, and the Apos
tie Paul tells us that that body is the Church-not
A church, but THE CHURCH. The Christ is
the Head of that body and the Church is the
Bride of Christ. He is coming for His Bride, or
His Bride is to be caught up to meet Him in the
air.
There are certain orders and gifts which be-
long to the bride that are recognized in this
Church. but in no other body that you will find
on earth.
This Church is composed of people of all ma
tionalities. 1t was not so with the Israeltish
nation. Israel was called out as a nation of
people. God did not deal with any other people.
So far as a nation was concerned Israel was
Gods chosen people down to their rejection of
the Lord, when the Church came into existence.
The commission given to the Church in the last
Chapter of Matthew was quite different to that
given to Israel in the Tenth Chapter of Matthew.
GO not into the way of the Gentiles, and into
any city of the Samartans enter We not:
"But go rather to the lost sheep of the house
of Israel" Matthew 1915, g.
In the commission in the last Chapter of Mat
thew, Christ said:
"All Authority is given unto Me in Heaven
and in earth.
eco We therefore, and teach all nations, bap-
tizing them into the Name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Teaching them to observe all things whatso-
ever | have commanded you: and, 10, I am with
you Away, even unto the end of the world"
Matthew 28:18-2O.
Here in this great commission we have for the
first time Triune Immersion when Jesus said,
"Baptizng them into the Name of the Father, and
of the Son. and of the Holy Ghost" (Revised
Verson) They had never had it before and it
had never been mentioned before 1t is the bap-
tism that Jesus Himself gave. Johns baptism
was not that baptism.
John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach
the baptism of repentance for the remission of
sim Mark A.
Trlune Immersion, the Ordinance of the Lords
Supper, and the manner of sending out the work
ers with the salutation-"Peace be to this housep'
were given by Jesus to His disciples
And God hath set some in the church, first
apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers
after that miracles, then gifts of healing helps,
governments, diversties of tongues"-I CORN
thians :28.
When was there ever such church as this, ex-
cept the early church, until the Christian Cath
oic Apostolic Church in Zion was organized?
remember the time when there were eighty
different nationalities in this Church and we
have many now. That is another evidence to me
that this is the restored Church of the Lord Jesus
Christ
| thank God that the Christian Catholic Apos-
tolc Church in Zion was ever founded I thank
God for the teaching we have received, espec-
tally during the past year.
My desire, purpose and determination is to do
the will OF my Father in Heaven. | have come
to the full determination that cam do it in this
Church. There is no other church for me-
May God bless His Word as it is being taught
in Zion