The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-11-08
Continued from page 1922

T. Let those who think they stand take
heed lest they fall - Verse Twelve, with
Matthew 2o:3l-35; Galatians 4:8, 9, II; 5:1-9;
II Timothy 4: first two lines OF Verse len;
Hebrews 10:3o.
IT. THE BENEFITS OF TEMPTATIONS
IN THE MEANING OF TESTINGS-Verses
Thirteen to Fifteen.
|. These tests are common to all who pro-
fess to love God and Zion.
D. Each man can stand up under the testing
if he wills to do so;
a. For God is faithful to him. The test is
not sign that Gods love has turned into
hatred
(2) He will open way of escape when the
correcting the testing, the chastls1ng, the train
ing has accomplished its purpose
s. That these views are Scrlptura-see
I Corinthians IL 1892; Job 5:17-24; Hebrews
l2:3-17; James 1:2-4, II; Peter l:3-9; and
many others.
4. Jesus was the Great Example in endur-
ing chastisement tests and provlngs-see
Hebrews 2:l4-l8; Ala to 5:4, ~; 1888;
Matthew 4:1-ll; II Peter 29.
S Fornicaton mammon (covetousness,
which is idolatry) and idolatry are the tempt,
atoms (tests) over which men and women tall
more frequently than over any other things
| Verse Fourteen and | John o:Zl.
g. Let all Zion everywhere give close at
tention to Pauls apostolic teaching in this
| great Tenth Chapter of Corinthians (Verse
Fifteen).
III SHALL WE stat THE TABLE Of
DEMONS QDOLATERS: MAMMON,
| WHO'RE AND PLEASURE-MONGERS
TODAY AND THEN AT THE LORDS
TABLE? Verses Sixteen to Thirty.
/. The Lords Supper is the Communion of
the Body and Blood of the Christ-Verse SIX
| teen
/ and INe a NJ r.
take Cat the Lords Table, of that One Bread.
! Christ in all and all in Christ Verse Seven
teen); hence, WEI commune with Christ jesus
the Lord.
3. Three things appear here:
/ CD Israelites partaking OF the temple sacrl-
fees Verse Eighteen) identified themselves
with the temple ritual - became a part OF that
system of religion.
(2) Corinthians attending idol temple ser
vices and partaking of the banquets therein
spread, identified thems elves with that idol sys
tenn of religion Verse Nineteen.
60 Those attending services in Shiloh
Tabernacle, or in a Zion Branch, and partakk
ing of the Lords Supper banquet, identity
themselves with Christ and Zion.
A. The idol temple banquets were bacchan
allan, obscene, unclean, voluptuous, fornicatine
feasts What better are the feasts and frollc:
of the apostate churches, with their minister:
and members practically all of them) attend
ing their many pleasure and IDLE ldol
RESORTS?
How can any Christian one who reall,
loves God and Zion with his vow of abso
| lutte separation from the world, the flesh an
| the Devil, have anything to do with them?
| KEEP YOURSELVES FROM Idol
SACRIFICES AND SERVICES, which is tn
I religion and worship of demons-Verse Tween
| ty and Twenty-one.
II 5. You cannot eat and drink at the lido
| ! TEMPLE table of demons and then at tn
L LORDS TABLE Verses Twenty and Twer
ty-one) You must quit one or the other.
II If you partake of the sacrifices and Tab
set in the Christian Catholic Apostolic Churc
in Zion, you must 4quit every other temp
(church) sacrifice and Table. Come we o,
from among them and be We separate" T
careful, lest you provoke the Lord and T
strike in your chastiseH1snt Verse Invent
). two.