The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-07-19
First Lords Day of Nineteenth
Feast of Tabernacles
Continued from page o7)

How many IN this congregation this
afternoon know Jesus Christ, and how many
are known of Jesus Christ? Practically all
of you are processing Christians, but unless
you have become new creatures in Christ
Jesus, and experienced the regenerating
power of the Holy Spirit, Christ will refuse
to own you.
Nevertheless the foundation of God stand
eth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth
them that are His. And, Let every one that
nameth the Name of Christ depart from
iniquity. - II Timothy 2:19
"The sheep know the voice of the shep-
herd, and stranger will they not follow.
There are just two things in the world
for an individual to do one is to believe in
God Almighty with all the heart, in Jesus
Christ His Son, and in the Holy Spirit; to
believe in the Bible and accept its precepts
with the simplicity of child; to realize the
fact that all men have sinned and come
short of salvation; to recognize that he is
sinful and corrupt, and that his only hope
is in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ; to
let the Holy Spirit come in and separate
him from the world, the flesh and the Devil,
and to let God have full sway in his heart
and in his life.
1.-The other is to serve the Devil and be
as low down and degenerate as one can
become There is no middle ground. Ye
cannot serve two masters.
"You are either child of God or child
of the Devil, and the fact that YOU are out
wardly leading moral life, teaching a
Sunday School class, and passing yourself
off as clean, honorable, respectable man,
does not make you any the less sinner in
the sight of God You must make the full
conservation and realize YOUR unworthiness
before God
I'VE will now turn to the third chapter
of the First Epistle of John. I am preach
ing this afternoon as though this would be
the last sermon [ would ever preach. 1t
would be no surprise to me at any time if
the trump of God should sound, because
all things are now ripe for the Lord to
come for His saints, and for the time of
turmoil and trouble to set in, such as the
world has never seen.
Behold! Behold!
"What is that word there for? To get
your attention.
II cannot read the Word of God to people
who are gazing around over the audience
and thinking of everything except the truth
that am laboring to drive home to them.
I cannot get the Word of God into mans
heart if he is thinking more about his houses
and farms than he is about serving God, or
| if he is sitting there in the audience fgur-
ing out the price of herd of cattle on his
cuffs.
Behold, what manner of love the Father
hath bestowed upon us, that we should be
called the sons Of God. Il John 81
The sons of Godp
"Do you get that? Can you realize it ?
| The sons of wrath have inherited from
Adam corrupt nature, and every thought
and imagination of their heart is evil con-
| tinually until they are reclaimed by the
atoning blood of Christ.
GLOW some men like to hear that self
reformation is all right that they can save
themselves through their good works; but
they never can accomplish it.
"It is beyond the finite mind to conceive
of love in the abstract that can take poor,
depraved, sinful creature, cleanse his heart
and elevate him until he becomes the son
of the living God
! Behold, what manner of love the Father
hath bestowed upon us.
"This Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Episco-
palian diabolical teaching that man can be
saved by forms must be destroyed; the
diabolical lie of Christian Science, falsely
so-called, that man is all right, that there
is no such thing as sin, and consequently
no repentance, must be annihilated In
these closing hours before the Lord de-
sends this witness must be given, and then
the doors will be closed.
"This afternoon it is within your power
to yield to the mellowing influence of the
Holy Spirit, and step out into new life
in Christ Jesus
"The greatest of all Gods creative acts,
greater than the universe, the sun, the moon,
the earth, the planets, is the Church the
Bride of Christ, and not Israel
Now therefore We are no more strangers
and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the
saints, and of the household of God;
And are built upon the foundation of the
apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself
being the Chief Corner Stone;
In Whom We also are builded together for
an habitaton of God through the Spirit =
Ephesians 2:19-22.
eve are told that before the foundation
of the earth was laid, God chose every mem
Der of the Bride of Christ Way back
yonder in eternity, every member of the
true Church was selected from the day OF
Pentecost to the Rapture.
1--WE are promised a share in the glory
of the Lord Himself, and this afternoon
! every tr11e Christian has become partaker
of the Divine nature