The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1920-01-17

BY Apostle Willis F. Jordan
I. THE MINISTRY AND SUFFERINGS
OF THE APOSTLES (6:l-1O)-Con-
tinued from Chapter Four, Verses Eight to
Twelve.
l. United to, and cooperating with, Jesus the
Christ-Verse One, first half.
g. The Apostolic hortation-Verse One, last
half
g. The parenthesis of Verse Two-the accept
able time and the day of salvation Compare
Isaiah 49:6-10; Luke 4:16-2l; Hebrews 3:7-lo
offence" Verse Three), that it be not blamed
for lack of tact, common sense, too much talk,
etc. We should be discreet, swift to hear,
slow to speak, slow to wrath" Compare Matt
hew 1886; Mark 9:4o, So; Ephesians SAT;
Read especially, Colossians 40 and James 10.
5. Verse Four: "In all things approving our
selves as the ministers of God"-in life, con-
duct, walk and conversation, association with
men and women, as we'll as in doctrine and
preaching.
| e. The sufferings of Paul and others of the
| first Apostles, duplicated in the lives of Dr.
John Alexander Dowie, Wilbur Glenn Voliva,
and others of lions faithful officers-Verses
Five to Ten
For the Scriptural record of Paul's suffer-
| ings as an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ,
| read together Acts OILS, 10; l3:44-52: 14:1-22:
| l6:1640; I:1-10; 1911; 1870, 23-41; 20:17-
| "a; 2l:10 to the end of Acts; l Corinthians 4:
| 8-14; 1881, 81; II Corinthians Asp; OSLO;
| 1919, 10; Philippians 1:12-20; Colossians "a;
| Thessalonians 2:14-18; II Timothy 2:7-14; 3:
| 1913; 4:5-18.
II. ENLARGEMENT AND SEPARATION
! -6:11-18.
l. The enlargement-Verses 11-13.
2. The separation Scripturally required
Verses 14-18. Compare l Corinthians 1914
%; Ephesians 4:1732; 5:1-18; Philippians 2:
1910; Colossians Silly; Revelation 1918.
How can the Christian Catholic Apostolic
Church in Zion have one single thing in COM
mon with the apostate satanic world-church
systematic soon-to-be onsoldated World
Federated Church, Babylon the Great?
The City of Zion should be today Gas when
tounded) under one leader-all worshiping in
| Shiloh Tabernacle. Had no one listened to the
Devil, nor followed his leadership, it would be
SO now. Let one and all repent and put them
selves under the leadership of Wilbur Glenn
Voliva, the General Overseer of the Christian
Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion.
| III. THE LY-SPIRIT-INSPIRED IN
SIGHT INTO PAUL'S INNER SPIRIT
| UAL HEART-Chapter Seven
| l. The promises" of Verse One are those of
| Chapter 6:16-l8.
| CD Il will dwell in them and walk in them"
| (2) twill be Father unto" them.
| 60 They shall by My sons and daughters
| These great promises are all conditioned
upon their obedience to the Apostolic COM
mandment: Come out from among them, and
be we separate, saith the Lord, and touch not
| the unclean'
| No commandment obeyed, no promise en-
joyed
Obeying the commandment, we will thus
5, cleanse ourselves from ALL flthiness of rhe
| flesh fornication, impure speech, testing, pro-
| family, beer, whiskey, tobacco, medical poisons
| pills and prescription connections, immodest
dress, dancing, bad thoughts) and spirit, per-
fecting holiness in the fear (sight) of God
Compare Hebrews 12:14-17
2. Paul must again defend his apostleship as
questioned by the Church at Corinth-Verses
2, g. Compare | Corinthians 0:1-6.
3. In his troubles and prosecutions God com
| forted PauPs heart by the loyal, faithful ones
in that Church and by the use of Apostle Titus
l-Verses A.
What comfort and strength each apostle
elder, and deacon in Zion could be to the
General Overseer!
4. The beneficial effect of Paups Apostolic
epistle, as reported by Titus-Verses Oil.
The epistle referred to, the writer believes
/ However, some Bible take the position
| that Titus took with him another epistle, bas-
ing their opinion upon II Corinthians 2:34
1t was, evidently, I Corinthians, because
| Paul refers to the man concerned in Chapter
Five, in Verse Twelve of II Corinthians, in
| our lesson.
The espistle and the mission of Titus
brought the Church to repentance and the
clearing of herself, clearly described in
Verse 8-11.
5. Note the vast difference between being sor-
ry and Borrowing unto repentance-Verses g.
IL. Sorrow toward God is unto repentance
tor the wrong has not only been done against
a tellowman, against a brother, against the
| General Overseer, against the Church. but also
against God.
There may be seen in these verses
!, CD The indignation of the Church (aroused
against the offender of I Corinthians, Chapter
Five) by PauPs epistle;
proval and fellowship;
60 Her fear of the Christening stroke of God;
| CD Zeal for the right as against the wrong.
g. Paups epistle was not so much in the in
terest of the father whom his own son q Corin-
| thlans, Chapter Five) had so grievously
Wronged, as 1t was to show the Apostolic care
of the Church (the important verse-Tweve)
The offended one here was the mans own
father-the man who had "his fathers wife,
eAN SPii1O|iiSA' DOlA WClC guilty., Out the man
was the most culpabe. Were the Bible only a
mans book it would have excused the man
and condemned the woman-John Sill
Paul was right in demanding that the
Church cleanse herself from the horrible scan
| dial.
l. That the Church had repented and done so
may be clearly seen in the report of Titus
Verses 1916.
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