Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-18

LESSON II, FOURTH QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, OCT. II.

Tort OF the Lesson, John I'll, 2O-30-Com-
mIt Verses, SO. s0-GoIden Text John
xii, s2-COmmentary by the Rev. ID. N.
stearns.
.lCompiled from Lesson Helper Quarterly by
permission Of II. s. Hoffman, publisher, Phil
adelphiA-l
90. "And there were certain Greeks
among them that came up TO worship at
the FEAST"
81. "The same came therefore to Philip,
which was of Bethsaida of Galllee, and de-
sired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. +"
They shall not be disappointed who sin
cerely desire to see Jesus. Consider the
story of Zaccheus and the result of his eff
forts duke xix, 3, 3, @, o.. When Peter
would fain have tarried on the Mount Of
CHARACTERIZATION, and have kept Moses and
Elijah, he and the others were quickly
taught that they were to see mo man save
Jesus only" IMath. xvii, 81 Whenever we
open our Bibles to read, or go to the house
Of God to worship, let our prayer to the
Spirit be, "Dear Teacher, show me Jesus
This He delights to do and will do when
we rely upon Him Chapter xvi, 10, l5).
"a. "Philip cometh and telleth Andrew
and again Andrew and Philip tell jesus
Bhe hour is come that the Son of Man
should be Rlorihed."
The middle wall of partition between
Jew and Gentle is about to be broken
down by His death 80 soon to be accom-
plished (Eph II, 14), and then would the
Gentiles be fellow heirs, and of the same
body and partakers Of His promise in Christ
by the Gospel (Eph. iii, o. AS Israel's Mes
slab He Is rejected and about to DE cruel
fed, but God will give Him glory and seat
at His own right hand until His enemies
be made His footstool Il Pet. /, 21). And
the time will yet come when His glory
shall be seen upon Israel, and the Gentiles
shall come to her rising lisa. TX 1-3).
"a. Verify, verify, say unto you, Elk
ceDt corn of wheat fall into the ground
and die, 1t abideth alone; but IL it die il
bringeth forth much fruit"
%. "He that loveth his life shall lose it;
and he that hateth his life in this world
shall keep it unto life eternal"
See the repetition of this great truth in
NMath. x, 80; xvi, %; Mark viii 35; Luke tx,
"a; xiv, 20; xvii, 83, Self renunciation is
the only scriptural rule of life.
20. "If any man serve Me, let him follow
Me; and where am, there shall also My
servant be; If any man serve Me, him will
My Father honor"
II we follow Him in His humiliation we
shall in due time share His glory. "If we
suffer with Him, we shall reign with Him
III Tim. Ii, l2) The honor is sure to ali
who are now willing to serve; but it seems
to me the emphatic part of this verse for
ourpresent life is the twice repeated "Ifany
man serve me" We may outwardly ap
pear to serve Him, while really we may be
serving ourselves A true servant of His
will be found doing His works and in His
spirit, and coveting only His approval
See ! Chron. xviii, 8, and compare Phil ii,
30, 81.
81 "Now is My soul troubled, and what
shall ] say2 Father save Me from this
hour, but for this cause came unto this
hour"
2s Father, glorify Thy name. Then
came there voice from heaven, saying,
have both glorfed it, and will glorify it
again"
His consuming desire was to Elorify His
Father. The words He uttered and tho
works He wrought were the Fathers
words and works through Him Chapters
xii, 40; xiv, 10Y. See how quick the com
munication between earth and heaven.
30. "The people therefore that stood by
and heard it, said that it Numbered; Others
said, An angel spall9 to Him"
The people heard n noise, but not the
words. The voice of God is to multitudes
nothing more than an indistinct rumbling
sound, with no significance.
90. Jesus answered and said, This voice
came not because of Me, but for your
salSes."
SO, ALSO at the grave of Lazarus He
prayed to the Father for the sake of those
who stood by, that they might believe that
the Father sent Him Chapter XII, 40. In
our daily life there are always some stand
ing or sitting by, or looking on, to whom
we may by word and deed testify Of Jesus
81. "Now is the judgment of this world
now shall the prince of this world be cast
out"
The devil is called the prince and the
god OF this world and the whole world is
said to lie in the wicked one Chapter xiv 30
xvi. II; II Cor. iv, 4; John, v, 10, r. W.
81 "And |, If ! be lifted up from the
earth, will draw all men unto Me-"
93. This lie said, sgnifying what death
He should die"
That He was not to be stoned to death
but should die by cruchXion, wns fore
shown In the ritual of the passover lamb,
not a bone Of which was to be broken lex,
xii, 46), and was foretold in Ps. xxi, Is,
''They pierced my hands and my feet" A
little later Jesus told Peter by what kind
of death he should glorify God xxi, 100,
and He knows well by what life and death
we shall glorify God.
81. "The people answered Him, We have
heard out Of the law that Christ abidcth
forever, and how sayest Thou, The Son of
Man must be lifted upp Who is this Son
of Mani"
They evidently understood the Son of
Man to be the Christ and they also seem
to have understood that being lifted up
meant death but they had not received tie
truths concerning the death and resurrec
ton OF their Messiah which they might
have read in their law in the story OF Isaac,
or In the typical two birds used at the
cleansing OF the leper, or in the plain state
ments OF Ps. XVI, o, 10; lisa. ill, 10,
30. Then Jesus said unto them, Yet "A
little while Is the light with you. Walk
while We have the light lest darkness come
upon you, for he that walketh in darkness
knoweth not whittier he goeth."
In chapter viii, ~, He had said, 81 am
the Light OF the world. ;" testifyng to His
divinity; now He says to them, as also in
verse 40 that the Light Is about to pass
away from them, and il they would not
stumble through present darkness into
the outer and eternal darkness they had
better quickly walk in the Light.
80. while ye have light believe in the
light that " may be the children of light
These things spake Jesus and departed,
and did hide Himself from them"
Children OF darkness and children of
light are the two classes in the whole world.
Gen. l. 3, describes the condition of every
soul out OF Christ-"Without form and
void, and lyirg In darkness" but when the
word OF God finds an entrance then there
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