The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-02-01
Addresses Delivered at the
All-Night Meeting
1918 1919
Continued from last week)
f, ADDRESS BY APOSTLE JORDAN


r-lanter of Hebrews, in the Eighth and lentn
Verses. YOU will find these words: :,
"Rv faith Abraham, when he was calleu " 81
o,+ INTO . n1ace which he should alter receive
for an inheritance obeyed; and ne Went ou''
not knowing whittier ne went. ea,
"For he looked for city which hath tounoa-
t;ons whose Builder and Maker IS Ooo;
Verse Eight tells you what ne olo' anu Vei0o
Ten tells YOU why he did It.
In this Eighth Verse, the opportunity ~ VI a. a
lifetime was presented to Abraham, tne latiioi
of the faithful and the friend Of God
Now the opportunity Of a lifetime does not
cover the entire life, but it comes, as 1t Were'
suddenly and demands an instant decision - ah
acceptance or rejection.
n Ahraham's case, he saw the vision at once
and accepted it on the spot - accepted IL Gil,
Enthusiastically for the rest of his lie. ne cal,
of God came to him and it was so dennlte dhu
snecific that it demanded an immediate separa-
ton from all those things by which he had Deen
s,,rro,nded # was the passing over into new
environment with a definite object before h1nl'
= new purpose in life, new resolution, new
hone and new determination to accomplish sue
cessfuuv the purpose for which God had called
him.
CIV faith Abraham obeyed when ne was
called" to 90 out from the land Of Chaldea, from
his fathers house and country, into place un,
named, unrevea1ed, therefore, undescr1Ded ana
unknown -" "into place which ne shoulo aItef
receive for inheritance. What Woiiu "
meaning in that verse!
Abraham having walked by faith is known
as the friend of God, and the father not
father or one of the fathers, but the tather =
of the faithful.
Tn all nv reading, and it has been somewhat
extensive, / have never found description OF
any other man, whom God set apart by the use
of the definite article thereby eevating HIM above
all other men. -,
out from his fathers country He kept gong,
until one day, while he was travelling, Ood suo-
denly appeared unto him.
"And the Lord said unto Abram, after that
Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine
ewes and look from the place where thou art
northward, and eastward, and westward:
"For all the land which thou seest, to thee
will give it, and to thy seed forever. ."-Oenesis
1874, IS. :.
In the Fifteenth Chapter of the Book OF
Genesis it is declared er1phatlcaly that the Lord
made covenant with Abraham, saying:
unto thy seed have given this land, from the
river of Egypt unto the great river, the river
Euphrates."
Ezekiel calls this territory the middle Of the
earth. I believe it is the middle of the earth to-
geographically, geographically, historically, pro
phetically and dispensationally, and that it will
be the milennial and theocratlc center OF the
earth not many years hence.
Abraham obeyed and God led him. He went
on until God said he had gone far enough and
He gave him the land for his inheritance.
That was like Enoch in the Fifth Chapter of
Genesis. He walked with the Lord for three
hundred and sixty-hve years. He did not go
leaping but he walked Systematically, thoroughly,
continuously, patiently, and by faith, until the
Lord said, "It is enough" Since then he has
been walking in the planes Of Paradise, posi-
bly, arm in arm with Abraham Moses, John the
Baptist, John Alexander Dowie and others of
the faithful of God.
1t is marvellous what God will do, if we will
Just give Him chance in our hearts and lives !;
if we will surrender all and follow Him, allowing
Tesus the Christ to dominate and possess our
hearts and have His way.
The reason Abraham walked with God was
because "He looked for city which hath foun-
dations, whose Builder and Maker is God"
wonder what city it was he was looking for. L
wonder what its name and how big it was,
and how many miles you could drive down its
streets.
1t was a city he had never seen and in which
he had never trodden. He apprehended it in
his own mind, heart and spirit and it was part
of him. 1t was city of God You can call it
Jerusalem, Bethlehem or Zion-I do not care
what name you give it.
1t was city of God for which Abraham was
looking and of which he became a part. You
and | have the same privilege. We too can see
the city of God and can make ourselves part
of it. You and can be citizens of that city and
we can help to purify it.
What is this city by which we are surrounded
and to which we have brought our wives and our
little ones? What is this city, half way between
Reer and Rahe1 - half wav hetyueen Mima,,kee