The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-01-18

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together here
Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable Chit
Thanks be unto God for the Holy Spirit given
to the children of God. Thanks be unto God that
He lives in me; that He lives in YOU
It is for me and it is for you to say to the Holy
Spirit, ooh Thou great Comforter, teacher ana
Guide. here is nv life; dominate it for Gods
cause and for the cause of my blessed LORD anu
Master nothing do [ withhold here am l, take
me and use me as Thou canst and as Thou Wilt.
Have you something you can do? do 1t now
You do not have to wait single hour or moment
If God has put it into your heart and says, 40
and do that" come up and do now what God mas
told YOU to do The General Overseer or the
General Manager will see you at any time MY
message to YOU is what God tells you to do, 90
it and do not put it OFT.
remember the General Overseer said,-l think
it was on Lords Day,-'fWhen God, through the
Holy Spirit, tells man to do thing, ne shoulo
do it and do it then"
NV thoughts 60 back to the time when TOOK
nv stand for Zion in Melbourne. | delayed some
ought to have done it at the moment that | felt
the conviction did it afterwards, but want to
tell YOU it is often a dangerous thing to delay
when God YOUR Father, tells you to do certain
thing. When the Holy Spirit prompts man or
a woman to do something, they ought to do it and
do it then. How do you know what the next hour
or day will bring forth? Now is the time we
say to the sinner, To-day is the day of salvation
God SAYS to you and to me, His children,
"NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT"
Let us 90 from this meeting with the spirit of
God in our hearts to make this year the best OF
our lives and the best year in lions history.
ADDRESS BY APOSTLE DARMS
have been very much interested in the Watch
A. has o1V
year 1919.
Examine yourselves, whether we be IN the
FAITH" II Corinthians 1885
"Earnestlv contend for the FAITH which was
once for all delivered unto the saints" Jude,
Verse g.
The one word that impressed itself upon me
in these passages was, "FAITH." The faith Of
God! The faith that helps us to live in accord
ance with His Word and His will; and it is my
purpose during this year to examine myself as
never before.
In the First Episte of Paul to the Corinthians,
the Third Chapter and the Ninth and Tenth
Verses, it says:
"For we are labourers together with God: We
are Gods husbandry, we are Gods building.
According to the grace of God which is given
unto me- as wise masterbuilder, have laid the
foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But
upon
I do not believe that there is greater under
taking committed to the people of God anywhere,
or ever has been than the building of Zion City.
The proof of it is that Satan was on the job the
very first day that Zion City opened and that
he has never ceased to have legions of his demon
iacal hosts at work here to hinder the building
of Zion City and do everything he could to dis
courage the people and prevent the work from
being completed: We can be sure that whatever
the devil is determined to Destroy that must be
the work that God intends to be done.
The devil does not need to bother himself very
much about the apostate churches There are
few saints scattered throughout the world, how
ever We find few of them in the Roman Cath
Ole, the Lutheran, the Baptist and Presbyterian
Churches and in all the other denominations; but
they are bound hand and foot and are unable to
unite for the accomplishment of definite work
that will be testimony and witness to God upon
earth
This has been the first united, organized under
taking to bring before the world the teaching of
the soon coming of Jesus the Christ
We read great deal about conferences being
held here and there on the Second Coming of
Christ. Such conference was held in the CITY
of London, where the dignitaries of the Church
of England assembled to put themselves on
record concerning the coming Of the Lord, and
their manifesto has touched the hearts of thou
sands of Gods people throughout the earth Such
conferences also have been held in this country
in number of large cities; but be not deceived
my beloved brethren Zion stands in the lead: for
since the founding of this City it has been declared
to all the world that Jesus the Christ is coming
to establish His rule and reign and His Kingdom
upon the earth for thousand years.
proof of the fact that John Alexander Dowie
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