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LESSON |, THIRD QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, JULY I.
The Text of the Lesson Is to BE Found
In Ia. xiv, 1-12--Goiden Text, He
brews viii, 1O-Conmentary by Rev.
II. NJ StearnS.


II. NJ. StearnS.
condensed from Lesson Helper Quarterly by
permission of Ii S Hoffman, Philadelphia pub
| Usher.
After spending twelve months on the
| Gospel by Matthew-the Gospel of the
| King and the kingdom-we now return to
! the history of the beginning of the existence
| of Israel as nation, the people whom God
| formed for Himself to show forth His praise;
people terrible from their beginning hith-
erto; a nation yet to blossom and bud
and fill the face of the earth with fruit
lisa. xiii, 2l, xviii, 2-7 xvii, g. The lessons
of the next six months, upon which we now
enter, will be of greatly increased interest to
us if we remember few scrptural facts and
become fully persuaded that these things |
am about to mention are indeed plainly and
most emphatically asserted in the Scriptures.
In our lesson today they are three months
out of Egypt, having crossed the Red sea on
| dry land and journeyed down to Mount
| Sinai, where they are now encamped, having
been guided thither by the Lord, who went
| before them by day in a pillar of cloud to
| lead them the way, and by night in pillar
of fire to give them light With bread from
heaven were they fed morning 10y morn
ing, and water from the rock quenched
their thirst A supernatural people as to
their origin, their deliverance from their OPP
pressors, the supply of their daily wants and
victory over their euemies-but, OH, how
natural and how sinful as to their daily lfel
for already had they more than once muir
INJURED against God and in their hearts turned
back to Egypt. How strange that God,
knowing beforehand just how they would
act, chose them for His people In them we
see ourselves, and in Him the Interchangeable
| Jehovah
Moses, Aaron and two of his sons, with
seventy of the elders of Israel are invited to
come up on the mount to meet God, the more
full account of this we have in verses 9 to II
of our lesson But notice here that Moses
alone shall come near" the others are to
worship afar off, they shall not come nigh.
The Tabernacle at this time not being built
nor Aaron and his sons set apart as priests,
Moses. whom the Lord knew face to face
Deut. xxXiv, 10, stands before us as a type of
the true mediator and daysman, the Lord
Jesus Christ, our prophet, priest and king
Deut xviii. 15-l9) BY the finished work of
the Lord Jesus all who receive Him are made
nigh (Eph ii, l3j, and all who trust in His
merits and are washed in His blood have
access at all times to the very presence of
| God by faith in Him. One of the most beauti-
/, full names of Israel is that in Ps. cXlvii, II:
"a people near unto Him" the fun meaning
Of which is yet to be made manifest All true
believers in Jesus Christ are even now so
near to Him that we are called "members of
His body, of His flesh and OF His bones"
(Eph V, 30, and if we would tut believe
that we are as near to Him and dear to
Him as He says we are, would surely be
constrained 10y His love to honor Him and
seek HIS glory more than we do
g. Moses came and told the people all the
| words of the Lord. and all the judgments
2 In connection with the receiving of the law
and the instructions about the Tabernacle,
Moses went up to God III the Mount just seven
3 times, and on two occasions he remained with
, God forty days and forty nights, and neither
did eat bread or drink water. Ex. xix,
! 8, s, 20 Xxx, 81, xiv, '2, xxi, 80; Xxx.
A. This We. ga tells us of his return from his
y foi Tn visit, at which time he repeated to the
people the words which we have in chapters
c xxi-xxiii and the people, not knowing the
n sinfuness and decetfulness of their own
hearts, replied with one voice; "All the
s words which the Lord hath said will we do. .
"And Moses wrote all the words of the
y Lord" All the words of the Lord were very
precious to Moses, he spake them to the PEG
e pie and wrote them down for future use
j. the people were to set their hearts upon them
= as their life Deut XXI, 40, they were tc
have them in their hearts, teach them unto
their children and talk of them in the housC
and by the way Deut. vi, 40 1t is to be
( feared that many Christians think that they
Y can get aloug quite well with "A very few OF
: the words of the Lord and that there are
, some who consider a large portion of tho
Bible unnecessary for them to give any heed
s to- There may be some teachers who are