Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-03-07
The GREAT PHYSICIAN.
Lesson y, First Quaster. Internationai
Series, March

Compiled from Lesson Helper Quarterly by per-
mission of II. S. Hoffman, publisher Philadel-
phia.l
SO. "And in the synagogue there was
man, which had spirit of an unclean devil,
and cried out with loud voice. After
being rejected by His own tOwnsmen of MAJ
areth, He came to Capernaum and taught
in the synagogue on the Sabbath days. The
first part of our lesson is the record of an in
cident that occurred while He was thus teach
ing one day. Then, as now, all kinds of peo-
pie went to church, some with one object,
some another, and then, as now, Satan went
also among them. As far as we can learn
from the Scriptures there is but one devil
properly so called, the leader of all wicked
spirits, whose other names are Satan, the old
serpent, the dragon, the god of this world,
the prince of the power of the air, the father
of lies, etc. (Rev. Xxx, 2; II Cor iv, 4; Eph.
ii, 2; John viii a.; but he seems TO have as
sociated with him innumerable other wicked
spirits properly called demons, and so trans
lated in the II. " margin; and the great
business of the devil and his demons is to
enter into and possess and control people for
their destruction. A man possessed by one
of these demons was in the synagogue on this
particular Sabbath day while Jesus was
teaching.
Thee, Thou Jesus of Nazarethi Art Thou
come to destroy u.s." Thus the demon in the
man cried out as Jesus was teaching.
II know Thee who Thou art; the Holy
One of God" On one occasion when GER
tain men who knew not Jesus tried to cast
out demons, the demons cried out: Jesus |
know, and Paul know but who are yea
And the man with the demons leaped on
them, and overcane them, and prevailed
against them, so that they fed out of that
house naked and wounded acts xix, -, 49,.
The devil and his angels do not know Jesus
for their good in any way. but they know
Him as the Son of God, the Holy One, the
Christ, and they fear Him, and they know and
fear those who are truly His, as Paul was.
80. "And Jesus rebuked him, saying: Hold
thy peace, and come out of him. And =
! he came out of him, and hurt him not -
| He addressed the demon in the man, and
| His word compelled the evil spirit to leave
| the man, and he was healed "He cast
out the spirits with His word" Matt viii, 16)
| There is no doubt that the devil and his
angels possess people today, and through
them say and do the fearful things of which
we hear and read and which we see with our
own eyes
sc. "What n word is this for with au-
thority and power He commanded the UNI
clean spirits, and they come out" The last
verse of the last lesson Tvs. 32) says that His
word was with power the source of the
power is given us in Acts Y, IS, where we are
told that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth
with the Holy Ghost and with power who
went about doing good, and healing all that
were oppressed of the devil, for God was with
Him" We have His word, We have His
spirit, God is with us. And if we were only
willing to be filed with the Holy Spirit, we
would not only be ourselves delivered from
all unclean spirits, but we would be blessed
in leading others to the Great Delverer.
81 and the fame of Him went out into
every place of the country round about"
His name is as ointment poured forth.
IS. And He arose out Of the synagogue,
and entered into Simons house"
80. He stood over her, and rebuked the
fever, and it left her; and Immediately she
arose and ministered unto them" A little be-
fore He had rebuked the unclean spirit, and
now he rebukes the burning in this woman's
body, and as quickly as the spirit fled from
the man, so this great fever fees before the
same Almighty Word, and the woman is in
stantly WE'LL so well that she is able to min
lister unto them, and she does it at once.
40. And He laid His hands on every one
of them and healed them" Tidings from the
synagogue and from Simons homo soor
spread through the city, and people sick with
all kinds of diseases are brought unto Him
every one of whom is sent away healed.
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speak, for they knew that lie was christ.
How many happy homes there were IL
Capernaum that night; people now perfectly
we'll who had long been sick and had suffered
much. neonle now about ON the streets enf
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az VIZ. wa WY il''I' 1i1u i
ioi many u'9 P'pPio Nv" 'i'eeN "D" senI'
TO whom you could not speak before with
out being insulted; and all because Jesus haC
come His word and His hand did it all anC
He still lives, and is accessible to all whc
+rrI, cool, Him
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anu Went INTO 4 desert place MARX say
that he rose great while before day anc
went away to pray Mark i, 30. How milk,
a so-called minister's Monday. What hun
gerinq, for communion with His Father VIVA,
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