Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-02
THE WORD MADE FLESH.
LESSON i THIRD QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, JULY 5.

compiled from Lesson Helper Quarterly by
permission of II. $. Hoffman, publisher, Phil
adelphial
We now enter upon the simplest, and yet
the highest and deepest Of all the gospels.
!. In the beginning was the Word"
We are here introduced to the Son OF
God as "The Word" the telling out of the
Fathers heart by whom we are to know
the Father. BY peoples words, II they ara
honest, we know their hearts, SO By the
son as the Word of God we shall know our
Heavenly Fathers heart toward us.
And the Word was with God, and the
Word was God"
Can we for moment wonder Mt His
oneness with the Father before He ever
came as n mans
q THE same was in the beginning with
God"
The words sin the beginning" in this
verse and the last take us to Gen. t. 1; but
who can tell when "the beginning" was?
"All things were made by Him; and
without Him was not anything made that
was made"
See how full the statement in Col. l. 10,
H. which closes with these words, "All
things were created by Him and for Him;
and lie Is before all things, and by Him
all things consist"
4. I'm Him was Life and the Life was
the Light of men"
Apart from Him no one, however good
morally or even religiously, has what the
Scriptures call Life.
B. and the Light shineth in darkness,
and the darkness comprehended it not"
Weak eyes cannot bear natural light,
neither can sinners bear the light Of God,
unless obey are willing to be healed, and
then Christ, the Light Of God will first be
their healer and then their life der xxxiii,
o; John y, 10). And they will soon learn
to sing Behold, God is my salvation" (or
healthy Elsa. xii, p.
9. "There was n man sent from God
whose name was John"
We now turn for few moments from
the Light to the herald of the Light. .Tesns
testified of him that "Amonq them that
are born of women there hath not risen
a greater than John the Baptist" Matt
XII, ~;
z "The same came for witness to bear
witness of the Light, that all men through
Him might believe"
The Spirit said through Malachi, "Be.
hold, / will send my messenger, and he
shall prepare he way before me'' (Mai. iii,
y. This is now the business of every be.
lever, to bear witness to the Light by let
ting the Light fill them and shine through
them.
8 'He was not that Light, but was sent
20 bear witness of that Light"
He bore witness by the Spirit in him, by
whom he was filled from his birt&Luke i,
15), and we can only be witnesses by the same
Spirit acts i, s..
0. THAT was the true Light which light.
eth every man that cometh into the world"
See His own oft repeated, 81 am the Light
of the world" (John viii, IL; tx, 5; xii, 4G),
and give good heed to the fact that there is
no need TO walk in darkness.
10. "He was in the w0rl l. and the world
was made by Him, AMI the world knew
Him not"
Having created all things for His pleas
ure and glory, He created man in His own
image MS the head of all things and to have
dominion over all things (Gen. j. 81, 2S):
but man having by sin defaced the image
and lost the dominion, the Creator came in
human form rs n man to restore the image
and the dominion. Yet He was treated as
a stranger in the world which He had
made. Seek, by in some faint measure put
ting yourself in His place, to realize some
what the state of things here described.
IL. HE came unto His own, and His
own received Him not"
"a stranger to His brethren and an alien
unto His mothers children" (Ps Xix, 81. |
Even Jobs experience when brethren were
far from HIM, acquaintance estranged,
kinsfolk failed, familiar friends forgot, a
stranger in his own house, wife, children,
servants, all against him Dob xix, 13-l0)-
even this was not equal to the eX-
perience of God manifest in the flesh.
H. "But as many rs received Him, to
them gave He power Cor the right or priv
ilege) to become the sons of God, even to
them that believe In His name"
While the nation rejected IIm few be
lieved on Him, and this was their privilege |
Each nearer has it in his or her power to
keep Him out or let Him in, and thus con-
tinue in darkness and death, or pass from
death to life
ID. (Which were born, not of blood, nor
of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of
man, but Of God"
The Jews thought that because they |
were of the blood of Abraham, descended !
from him, that therefore they were safe
viii, 33). They were full of the works of
the flesh, their own doings, aud that was
their righteousness in which they trusted |
H. "And the Word was made flesh and |
dwelt among us (and we beheld His glory, |
the glory as of the only begotten of the |
Father, full of grace and truth"
AS the glory of God was concealed from
the people in the Holy of lIoics, within |
the veil, in the tabernacle and in the tenn |
pie, so in the body of the Lord Jesus, rs |
within veil deb, X 20) the glory was
concealed from natural eyes while He was |
here in humiliation. But on the Mount of
TRANSPORTATION it shone forth
Is John bare witness of Him. and cried |
saying, This was He of whom | spake, lle |
that cometh after me is preferred before |
me, for lie was before me-
Not rs man born of woman was Jesus |
Son of Mary, before John, son of Ellie
beth, but as Johns creator and the creator |
of all men.
49, "And of His tullness lave all we re-
ceived, and grace for grace
at pleased the Father that in Him |
should all fullness dwell" an Him dwell |
eth all the fulluess Of the &c lhcad bodily" !
lCol. /, 10; ii, 81. And we M FILLED full in |
Him. Receiving Him (ver ~ we must
have all that He has and is.
IL "For the law was given 10y Moses, but |
Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christi
The law showed what man ought to be,
but never could give life nor make man
what he ought to be, because of his sinful !
nature, which cannot keep Gods holy law.
IS. "No man hath seen God at any time;
the only begottcu Son which Is in the boz
som of ehe Ia; her. lie hath declared Him"
See the first clause of the verse repeated
an John Nv, II. Jesus said 70 Philip, "He
that hath seen Nc hath seer the Father"
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