The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-20

Jesus is the Christ-are believers in the
New Testament sense:
e. This is the only way that men can be-
come lovers of God and the brethren.
3. The proof that we are born again is
that we love God and keep (obey) all His
Commandments, including love of the breth-
rem.
4. It is easy for the "born again" ones
to keep His Commandments; it is hard
battle for Gods children to continually DISC
hey His Commandments. They include
Baptism, the Lords Supper, prayer, conse-
Grafton, Bible study, 1.-THE paying, regular
attendance in Gods House and all else re-
quired of Christians in the New Testament
Verse Three.
5. The 'born again" ones do overcome
the world, the flesh and the Devil; they do
it by faith in Jesus the Christ Verses
Four and Five
II. How Jesus THE CHRIST WAS Pre-
sENTED TO MEN, ENABLING THEM TO Be
COME BORN AGAIN" oNEs.-Verses Six to
| Thirteen.
l. AS the Son of God, by virtue of the
Incarnation.
2. By Water: His baptism at the begin
ming of His ministry Luke 3:21-22).
3. By Blood: His life given on the Cross.
Verse Six. Galatians l a; Ephesians
5:25-27).
4. The Spirit beareth witness in the re-
cord He has caused to be written in the New
Testament concerning Christ and how He
came.
S. Verse Eleven is spurious 1t has been
left out of the Revised Version. 1t is not
needed to prove the doctrine of the God
head.
6. The three great lines of testimony to
Jesus the Christ are the Spirit, the Water
(baptism) and the Blood (the Atonement)
Verse Eight
7. The testimony of God is much greater
than the testimony of men, Verse Nine.
8. The born again" ones have the wit
ness, the testimony, the Holy Spirits i'm
press within themselves, their understand
ing, their inner consciousness.-Ve Verse Ten
9. By believing the record God hath given
(the New Testament and the prophecies of
the Old) of His Son, we become 'born
again" and are put in possession of Eternal
Life which Life is in His Son.-Verses
Eleven and Twelve
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
are the only Beings Who have self-existent
life. All other beings derive their life from
pare John 1897.
10. Verse Thirteen declares why, and to
whom John wrote his Epistles.
III. PRAYING IN FULL ASSURANCE Verses
Fourteen to Sixteen.
l. God will hear us if we pray in Jesus
Name John 14:13-15; 157; 1923, 24)
and according to His will-Verse Four
teen.
g. The real comfort in knowing. Verse
Fifteen.
g. Pray for any who commit the sin not
unto death, but do not pray for any who do
commit it-Verse Sixteen.
w. THE Nervousness OF SIN-Verses
Seventeen to Twenty-one.
l. "All unrighteousness is sim
2. Verse Eighteen is great one. It
means what it says.
3. Verse Nineteen: The whole world
system belongs to the Devil. He has, as
it were, the world in his arms, carrying it
down to hell.
f. verse twenty: only the porn again
ones have the God-given understanding.
5. Verse Twenty says that Jesus Christ
is "the True God and Eternal Life" Com
pare 3 10 where Jesus is again called "God. "
6. Verse Twenty one: Little Children
the whole Church-should not worship
idols. Today, as never before, the earth is
full of idols. There is the pleasure god,
the money-god, the unclean, lustful god, the
gossiping god, and SO on. They have ruined
Israel, the apostate church, the Gentle
world, and are seeking foothold in Zion
Very timely is Johns exhortation: Keep
yourselves from idols.