The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-05-16

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THE LORDS SUPPER.
LESSON VII, SECOND QUARTER. IN
TERNATiONAL SERIES. MAY 10.
init Verses e2-24-Golden Text, Luke
xii. i9-Commentary by the Rev. ID.
NJ. stearns.
Compiled from Lesson Helper Quarterly by per.
mission of II s Hoffman, publisher Philadel.
phia
II "The first day of unleavened bread,
when they killed the passover The last
day on earth in a mortal body had come. this
night He would keep the passover with His
Disciples. and on the morrow be crucified-
Christ our passover sacrificed for us u Cor
V, 0-and He went forward calmly, un-
waveringly, knowing every step Of the way
beforehand, 1t was over fourteen hundred
years since the hfst passover was kept that
night in Egypt, when by the blood of
lamb the first born of Israel were saved from
death and the nation brought forth from
their bondage by the outstretched arm of
Jehovah, and now the Lamb of God to whom
every sacrifice from the beginning pointed
Is about to be slain, whose blood saves
from eternal death all to whom it is applied,
and who shall yet accomplish for Israel
greater delverance than that from Egypt.
Let every teacher study carefully the story of
the passover and unleavened bread in FIX. XII
and teach the scholars to await with them its
future fulfillment in the Kingdom of God
13. "He sendeth forth two of his disciples
Just as when He wanted tho ass colt CHAP
xi, ~ but this time we know whom He sent,
for Lu. xxi, 8, says it was Peter and John;
He may have sent the same two on the previ-
GUS occasion, but we are not told He sendeth
whom He will, and where He will, and every
disciple is expected to be ready and promptly
obey, willing to be sent anywhere and just
as willing to be passed by and SEQ another
sent; the last is sometimes the hardest
"Go ye into the city, and there shall meet
you man bearing pitcher of water; fol-
low him. All things are naked and open to
His eyes. He is acquainted with all our
words and ways Heb. iv, l3; Ps cxxxix, 1-f;
it would help US to remember this Just as
in | Sam Y: Samuel told Saul that morn
HuOiI ue SuOGlu ttiCcL LniIt WuGC lucy
would be carrying. what they would give
him and say to him, so our Lord could tell US
every morning all the events CT the day that
is before u.s. let ~. practical effect of this on
us be- that whatever may come to us we shall
say, Nov my Saviour knew this beforehand,
He has permitted this and will be still and
hear His voice and see what He will do"
IA. 1.-THE Master saith where is the guest
chamber where l shall eat the passover with
my disciplesr What privilege to prepare
a room for Jesus and welcome Him and His
disciples to it; what a privilege to let Him
have the use of anything that we have, but
how slow we are to see it. Jesus knew that
mans heart, and knew that he would gladly
provide the guest chamber and therefore sent
the disciples to him. Does He SEQ that we
daily wait and watch for opportunities to
serve Him2
Is. "He will shew you large upper room
furnished and prepared there make ready
for u.s. This indicates the mans cheerful
and willing service; he did not do as little as
he could he did not say, Well, if give the
use of a room that is all He can expect of me,
but, like Mary in the previous lesson, he did
all that he could, he gave furnished and
prepared room. Jesus gave Himself, His all,
for us; unless we cheerfllly place all we are
do not know or appreciate His love to us.
1G "His disciples went forth and came
into the city, ard found as He had said unto
them; and they made resdy the passover"
When we obey Him we viii always find it
Just as He says; there is nothing SO safe and
sure and glorious as believing and obeying
God. If we are willing and obedient we shall
eat the good of the land lisa. /, 49,
II And in the evening He cometh with
the twelve" One of them had in his heart
the spirit Of murder, for he had been to tho
chief priests and agreed with them for a sum
of money to betray Him unto them Tvs. 10,
II), yet He continues with the twelve as one
of them, not thinking that the searcher of
hearts saw his every step and knew his every
word and act How many are like him to-
day and yet continue among the number of
the profcssed followers of Jesusl
ls "And as they sat and did eat, Jesus
said, Verify say unto you, ono Of you which
eateth with Me shall betray Me-" If you
would have tho complete record, read be-
tween tho last verso and this one Luke xxi,
1918; John xii, ill., and prsyerfully ponder
the things written there concerning the king
dom of God and tho present need of clean
ness, humility and loving ministry to others.
10. "They began to be sorrowful, and to
say unto Him one by one, Is it If' Luke and
John tell us that they began to inquire among
themselves. doubling of whom He spake.
What q testimony to the devilish skill of
Judas that he could be for three years thief
| and hypocrite, and these eleven not lind it
out and perhaps not suspect 1t; on the other
| hand what glorious testimony to the long
suffering and wondrous love of Jesus that He
bore so patiently with this wicked one and
never IN any way indicated to the others
| what he was:
90 "He answered and said unto them, 1t is
one Of the twelve that dippeth with me in the
DISH" II all dipped in the same dish this
would bs like saying, it is one who can eat
| with me and yet kill NC, which would be the
breaking Of tho most solemn vow Of friend
ship and fidelity. Matthew says, "he that
dippeth his hand With ne In the dish," which
might imply that Judas was sitting or reclin-
ing near to Jesus; he also tells US that Judas
then said master, is it lF' to which jesus
replied, Thou hast said" thus finally point
| ing Lin out before them ell, for the time had
conc as it wll surely come, ecaGer or later,
to all like him For fur..ser hight on this
| particular moment at the feast read John
xiii, 24-30
| 81 Good we're It for that nlan II lie had
| never been born.n Then plainly, it Is better
Chr, and ho hypporita.
-. And as they did eat, Jesus took hreal,
| AMI sleSscd. and brake it, ard gave TO them
| and said, Take, cat this is my body" We
| concln:ie from John xiii, 30, that Judas had
at this time gone cut, and now that the pass
| over sacrifice was about to receive its grand
| fuliilnient The future ful!flment in the kin e
| dom will he as 10 results, Jesus institutes O.
| new ordinance. which IS to be observed by
His followers till lie come again Il Cor. xi, 20.
% "a And He took tho cup,
and he said unto them, This is my blood Of
the neg testament which is she'd for many.n
After all had eaten of the bread then He
| passed 70 each the wine, bidding them drink
! Of it, and telling them tnai it ,ras His blood
shed for the remission of sins The smallest
child can understand that when Jesus
! said IL am the door, II am the
vi,s," II am the morning star" that
He did not nieasi tlat He Yss real door, or
vine, or star. such as ell children see and
know about, but that He was in some respects
like these, let the teachers explain; So when
He said this is my body, this Is my blood let
It bo made very plain to the children that ii
was actual bread and vino which He gave to
liis disciples and which they ate and drank,
and not in any sense Ills real flesh and blood,
any more thaH &c Ees real wooden door
| or yina
| BOB, THE LION kIlLE6,
An Old Wyoming Hunter Who Had p
Mountain Lion for Bed Fellow.
Near the head waters of Horse creek,