Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-10-10
THE LORDS SUPPER.
LESSON II, FOURTH QUARTER, IN
TERNATlONAL SERIES, OCT. IL.

! Text of the Lesson, Luke xii, 1-2O.
Commit Verses 10. eO-Golden Text,
Cor. ri, e6--Commentary by Rev. ID. NJ.
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We pass by many most interesting Incl
dents in the last days ere the crucifiXion,
and all His great discourse on the Mount of
Olives concerning His coming again and
the end of the age, and are brought in this
lesson to His last passover with His disci-
pies the night before He was crucifed.
T. "Then came the day of unleavened
bread when the passover must be killed"
Or, as in the first verse, 1.-THE feast of un-
leavened bread drew nigh which is called
the passover" This takes us back to Elk.
xii, where we have the record of the last
night in Egyptian bondage and their de-
liverance by the mighty power of God
s. And He sent Peter and John, saying,
Go and prepare us the passover, that we
may eat" These two we have found spe-
cially privileged on several other occasions
at the raising of the rulers daughter
and at the TRANSPORTATION, and we shall
find them again in Gethsemane. They also
are the prominent two in Acts iii and iv in
connection with the healing of the lame
man and the conversion of five thousand
9. "And they said unto Him, where wilt
Thou that we prepared" This is as it al
ways should he with Il disciple of Christ.
Where wilt Thou? What wilt thou? Not
as will, but as Thou wilt. Thy way, not
Mine.
TO- "And He said unto them, Behold,
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a man meet you bearing pitcher of water;
follow him into the house where he en-
tereth in" As when He told them by His
omniscence just where and how they would
find the ass and the colt; and as when Sam
uel by the same omniscient spirit told Saul
Just whom he would meet and what they
would say and do luke xix, 30; Sam. X,
2-9). So now knowing all things He di-
reefs them.
II. "And We shall say unto the good man
of the house, The Master saith unto thee,
where is the guest chamber, where | shall
eat the passover with my disciplesf" He
not only tells us when and where to go and
how to act, but He also tells us what to
say. In the gospel by John He very often
speaks of Himself as sent by the Father,
and not only so, He says the Father gave
Him n commandment what He should say
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So when He sends His disciples He tells
them just what to say Matt X, {, 49, Luke
xix, 80. When the prophets were sent
forth they, too, were specially instructed
to speak only the Lords message DER. i, 4;
Eek. ii, Z; IIag. i, 49,. And well would it
be for all preachers and teachers if they
were always the Lords messengers, speak
ing the Lords message.
II. "And he shall show you a large up
per room furnished; there make ready"
Forget not from the last worse that He must
enter the house as master: and see again
the oneness of Christ and His disciples
Father, will that those whom thou hast
given me be with me where | am" (John
xvii, "a. Here is a willing owner of a
house; it looks a. if he must be "A disciple;
he will oifera large furnished room, and do
it cheerfuliy. Are our homes as cheerfully
placed at the Masters disposal, and is every
thing excluded from the home that He
would not like?
b. "And they went and found as He had
said unto them; and they made ready the
passover" Prompt and cheeful obedience
is our part as His followers.
II. "And when the hour was come, He
sat down, aud the twelve apostles with
Him" With God there is time for every
thing, and He is never too fast nor too
slow. "When the fullness of time had come
He sent forth His Son" He has appointed
a day in the which He will judge the
world" Gal. iv, 4; Acts xvii, 81. Many
a time they tried to take Jesus to put Him
to DEATH but they could not touch Him till
the appointed time came, and then He gave
Himself into their hands. AS to our saliva
ton, the time is now: today, if We will hear
His voice; the hour now is, when they that
hear shall live lisa i, Is; II Cor. vi, q
Heb ill., 10; John V, 25
Is. "And He said unto them, With de-
sire have desired to eat this passover
with you before l suffer- or, as in the
margin, II have heartily desired" We
think of Him at the passover, at the age OF
II and at the first passover of His public
ministry. We look away back to the first
passover in Egypt, and think of the one in
the wilderness, and at Gilgal, and the great
ones of HeZekiah and Josiah and Ezra; but
this one which He desired so greatly to eat
with them was the greatest of all, for II
, was the fulfillment of all, and He who now
ate it with them was on the morrow to be
Himself slain, the great antelope of all the
9 passovers that were ever kept, the true
Lamb of God in whom alone is redemption
and deliverance from the great oppressor
Is. For say unto you, | will not any
more eat tnereO1 until IL be tulnlled IN the
Kingdom of God" If He is the true
Paschal Lamb, and His death about to be
" accomplished, the fuifillment of all the
= types, then what is this that He says about
a fulfillment in the Kingdom of God? Ii
the church is the Kingdom, as so many
teach, and the Kingdom has already come
5 then let some one who so believes please
explain this verse. But if the Kingdom i:
postponed till His return, as He taught il
. chap. xix, Ills; and if at His return there
, is to be a great gathering of Israel, from
y all the corners of the earth, as all the
= prophets teach; and if it shall be according
to the days of their coming out of Egypt
) (Mic. VIII l5), then it seems to me all plain
II. and He took the cup, and CAV,
p thanks, and said Take this and divide il
among yourselves"
is. For say unto you, will not drinl
of the fruit of the vine until the Kingdom
4 of God shall come" Then shall all Israeli
fast days become joy and gladness ant
cheerful feasts. Then the ransomed of tn,
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