Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-05
THE HOLY SPIRITS WORK
LESSON VI, FOURTH QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, NOV g.

stearns,
compiled from Lesson Helper Quarterly by
permission OF II. S. Hoffman, publisher, Phil
adelphia.l
"These things have spoken unto you,
that ye should not be offended"
Instead Of "be offended" the revised
version says "be made to stumble" 1t is
written in Ps. cXix. lG5, Great peace have
they which love the law, and nothing shall
offend them" Or, as IN the margin, "They
shall have no stumbling block"
2 "They shall put you out of the syna
gogues. Yea, the time cometh, that who
soever killeth you wiz think that he doeth
God service"
The man who was born blind had al
ready been cast out for His sake (chapter
TX, 35), and that was but sample OF
what should happen to them. How any
one could think that he was serving God
by putting fellow creature to death In
the name of religion is explained by the
confession OF Paul in Acts XVI, ell, and
In Acts xiii, |, he says he did 1t with
good conscience before God. In his epistle
TO the Romans and to the Philippians no
confesses that 1t was, however, through ig
norance Of God and His righteousness, and
In the pride OF his own self righteousness
(Rom. K, 8; Phil iii, 8, o.
And these things will they do unto
you, because they have not known the
Father nor Me-"
4 "But these things have told you, that
whep the time shall come ye may remem
Der that told you of them"
In His great love He forewarns them
that they may not be surprised nor dis
mayed when the events come to pass So
the Word OF God tells us Of the events of
the last days, that as they come we may
remember how all was foretold and not
be discouraged by otherwise perplexing
events Instead OF looking for the CONVEX
sion Of the world, those who believe God
look for perilous times, n form of Goodness
without power, lovers of pleasure, scoffers
at His coming III Tim. Iii, l-5 II Pet
iii, 3, ~
"And these things said not unto you at
the beginning, because was with you
8. but now go My way to Him that
sent Me; and none Of you asketh Me
Whittier goest ThouY
One OF the uppermost facts in the mind
of Christ was that the Father sent Him
for In this Gospel alone He makes mention
OF 1t more than thirty times That He
came from God aud was going back to God
Chapter xiii, 81 was to Him an ever present
reality So real was the unseen to Him
that He seems surprised that they do not
ask Him about 1t. II very rich friend
should visit us In a humble home, and tell
us much OF the grand estate where he lived
and to which he had given us cordial in
Vitation to come and make it our home, he
would think 1t strange II we had nothing
to say about the Joys lie set before us
o. but because have said these things
unto you, sorrow hath filed your heart"
Z. Nevertheless | tell you the truth, it
is expedient for you that go away"
This should have satisfied and quieted
them. Their response should have been
at Is the Lord let Him do what seemeth
Him good" or Just and true are Thy
ways" Il Sam. iii, IS, Hos, xiv, 0; Rev
XIV, g.
"For II go not away the comforter will
not come unto you; but IL | depart | will
send Him unto you"
8. And when He is come, He will re
prove Tor convict) the world Of sin, and of
righteousness, and OF judgment"
1t Ii wrong to speak Of the Spirit as an
influence, a thing, it the Spirit is a person
Observe the pronoun He" in these chap
ters applied to the Spirit See in Acts " 8
A. His oneness with God.
0. "Of sin. because they believe not Cd
Me-"
This is the sin of all sins. "He that be.
lieveth not is condemned already, because
he hath not believed In the name of the
only begotten Son Of God" John iii, 49,.
TO- "Of righteousness because go to the
Father and ye see Me no more"
The presence Of the Spirit is proof that n
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His right hand His own people, Israel
condemned Him TO death, but God raised
Him up and gave Him glory, and said unto
Him, "Sit Thou at My right hand till |
make Thy foes Thy footstool" q Pet, i, 81
Acts ii, "a, $50
n. "Of Judgment, because the prince of
this world is Judged"
In chapter xii, 81, He said, Now is the
judgment of this world now shall the
prince OF this world be cast out" Some
times this work OF the Spirit is spoken of
as II verse read Judgment to come, !" but
that expression is found in Acts xiv, 25
this refers to the Judgment of him who has
tho power OF death on Calvary
10 81 have yet many things to say unto
you, but ye cannot bear them now"
SO slow were they to understand that
He said to Philip, "Have | been 81 long
time with you and yet hast thou not
known Mer (Xiv, %. Reminding as also
of Pauls words concerning Melchisedec,
"Of whom we have many things to say
and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull
OF hearng" Heb Y, ~.
10 "How be it when He, the Spirit Of
Truth, is come. lie will guide you into all
truth"
This seems to give the light upon their
inability Of which He spoke In the previous
verse. What glorious word this is for
all who have received the Spirit, We have
His book and we have, Himself, and we
have this promise Of Him who gave us
both the book and the author that He will
cause us to know the truth. There is
therefore no need for any one to remain in
darkness concerning anything that is re
vealed.
"For He shall not speak of Himself, but
whatsoever He shall hear that shall Tie
speak, and He will show you things to
come"
The Spirit will not speak about Himself,
nor will he speak from Himself; He testi
fies Of Christ aud speaks only what the
Father tells Him. How both Jesus and
the Spirit unite to glorify the Father.
What emphasis it gives to such word as
"Glorify God" Whatsoever we do, do all
to the glory OF God" Il Cor, vi, 20; X, 80.
IA, 'He shall glorify Me; for He shall re
ceive of mine, and shall shew 1t unto you.
And thus honoring the Son, he would
honor the Father also (chapter v 23)
When our whole being is given up to glor
flying God, then we shall know the Spirits
power, then we shall ask whatsoever we
will, and it shall be done that the Father
may he glorihed in the Son Chapter xiv,
49, l4). Tho Spirit delights to reveal
Christ and to make known the riches of
His grace and glory Il Cor, II, l2). When
this becomes our delight we shall be filled
with the Spirit, or when it is our desire,
the Spirit will fill us that it may become
our delight.