The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1920-01-10
BIBLE SCHOOL LESSON
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Go now and read the Bible and learn of
''the hope in Christ" Verse Five) Compare
I Corinthians 1910 and Hebrews 6:13-2O
8. Absent from the body (the earthly tent
or house, and present with the Lord-not in
the Third Heaven, but in Paradise until the
Rapture VERSES Six to Nine).
Now eve are at home in the body"-the
earthly tent or house, and "absent from the
Lord" Gin Paradise).
Even now, 1--WE willing to be absent
from the body (the earthly house or tent) and
to be present with the Lord"-in Paradise,
while we wait for the Rapture
9. To be present with the Lord in Paradise
would be "far better" than to remain here in
the Devils world of pain, sin, sickness, sorrow
and death. But to please the Lord and to do
His permissive will, gladly will we remain.
Here is the true New Testament Christian
apostolic philosophy.
TO- 1--WE labor"-we work hard and stead
fastly-"that, whether present absent,
may be accepted of Him"-Why? When?
How? Where?
II. AT THE BEMA: THE JUDGMENT
SEAT OF CHRIST FOR REWARDS
Verses Ten to Thirteen
l. 1t is "set in Heaven" at the beginning of
the Seven Years, when the Rapture has oc-
Judgment Seat, or Throne" of Christ, referred
to in Matthew 16:25-27; Romans 14:9-13;
l Corinthians 3:1O-15; Revelation 22:12 and
here in our Lesson today.
Only those taken up in the Rapture ap-
pear before it. 1t is for Rewards, not Sal
vation It's object is two-fod:
CD To check up and announce out loud each
saints rewards for the deeds done while on
earth in the body (the earthly house or tent)-
Verse Ten
Remember, this is for both the good"
and the bad"
inf hafor hot will he
punished in some way for every sin or wrong
done in the body unless it has all been con-
fessed and made right with the Great High
Priest, Jesus the Christ.
This punishment Paul calls "the terror
of the Lord" in Verse Eleven. Compare
Hebrews Alp, Him" (not it) with Whom
we (the church, have to do" 10:2331 II: H.
IS, %, 49,
(2) To bestow the Reward of Joint Ruler
ship: place and position over the Theocratic,
Messianic, Israeltish, Davidic, Millennial King
dom.
D. There will be no glorying in appearance
and attainment by one single saint before the
awful heart and motive searching out Bema,
Judgment Seat of Christ Werses Twelve and
Thirteen).
Ill THE WORD AND MINISTRY OF
RECONCILIATION-V Fourteen to
Twenty-one.
l. 1t is saturated with THE LOVE OF
CHRIST'-not our love to Christ.
This wonderful "love" "constraineth us"
the Church and true ministers. CONSTRA1N
means to render uneasy; to disturb; to push
out; to send forth; to declare.
D. This ministry unitedly judges and de-
cides that if One Oesus the Christi died for
ALL then all disconnected with
God, lost adrift, shooting the rapids, far away
from God, no anchor, DEAD"
3. The object of His death was to fulfill
4. Since the Ascension, Christ no longer can
be known after the flesh" His is not body
of human flesh earth, but BODY OF
GLORIFIED FLESH forever in the Heavens
Verse Sixteen)
No one in the flesh ever can see God or
Christ; hence the First Resurrection and I'm
mortality must first come to
5. All regenerated and consecrated ones
described in Verse Seventeen
6. Both the Word and Ministry of Recon-
Citation, as we'll as every other constituent
item in the Plan of Redemption, is "of God"-
the One Great Reconciler Verse Eighteen).
7. Jesus Christ is Gods one and only Re-
conciiing Ageent-"God Who hath reconciled
us (the church, unto Himself BY Jesus Christ"
Verse Eighteen)
8. "The ministry of Reconciliation given
to us"-the Apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ.
What TRUST to be committed into our
hands! We must guard the deposit
tend earnestly for the Faith which was once for
9. "The Word of Reconciliation" contains
this always fundamental and to be declared and
defended fact: God was in Christ John IA;
Galatians A, 5; l Timothy 3:16) reconciling
the world unto Himself (Romans 5:8=1D, not
imputing Qaying up against them) their tres
passes unto them" Verse Nineteen).
H. Now During the entire Church Period)
we (the Apostles) are ambassadors for Christ"
Representatives of-sent forth by HIM.
Ambassadors have nothing to say or do
for themselves They are told where to go,
when to go, where to reside, what to say and
when to say it. Their office is always and
supremacy in the interest of the ruler and gov
eminent sending them out.
Woe to that ambassador who tratorous-
ly changes his certificate and letter of instruc-
tons. His ruler and government would speed
lily recall him and bring him to strict account
Chrst's apostolic ambassadors love Him,
honor Him, obey Him. They never change His
instructions, Word, Plan or Ordinances. THEY
ARE HIS REPRESENTATIVES.
II. They are Gods mouthpieces: GAS though
God did beseech you by us"-the Apostles
Verse Twenty.
II. 1--WE (the Apostles) pray (beseech) you
in Christ's stead Gin His room and place, dur
| ing His absence) be reconciled to God'-come
back to God Some of you "have wandered
| far away from God" and wasted many pre-
cious years in sim" Now come back home.
| Submit to Gods plan through Jesus Christ
the Lord. Believe in Him. Repent and make
all things right. Obey the Word Be baptized
| (baptism by Triune Immersion is the only
baptism the Scriptures know anything about.
Come into the Christian Catholic Apostolic
| Church in Zion, Gods Ark, His place of refuge
in these closing years of the Gentle Times.
Take your stand openly for God and Zion.
| Is. WHY? Verse Twenty-one He hath
made Him sin "a sin-offering, a sacrifice for
SIM for us"
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