Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-17
THE DISCIPLES SEE HIM.
LESSON XII, FOURTH QUARTER, IN
TERNATloNAL SERIES, DEC. 20,

Compiled from Lesson Helper Quarterly by
permission of Il. S. Hoffman, publisher, Phil
adelphia.l
/. "After these things Jesus showed Him
self again TO the disciples at the sea o.
Mberias; and on this wise showed He Him
self"
The appearances Of the risen Christ thus
far seem to have been as follows: To Mary
Magdalene, to the other women, to the two
men going to Emmaus, to Peter, to the
eleven at Jerusalem, then a week later to
the eleven again, including Thomas, so
that today's lesson gives us His seventh
appearance or the third to the disciples.
g. "There were together Simon Peter,
and Thomas called Didymus, and Ma
thanael Of Cana in Galilee, and the sons
of Zebedee, and two other of His disciples"
Seven in all, and at least four of them
were His very first disciples (Math iv,
1929; John 1, 45), and some Of them were
called from their nets on the shores of this
very sea.
O. "Simon Peter saith unto them, go
a-fshing. They say unto him, We also go
with thee They went forth and entered
into a ship Immediately; and that night
they caught nothing"
4. "But when the morning was now come
Jesus stood on the shore; but the disciples
knew not that it was Jesus"
Unbelief makes us blind, so that we
recognize Him not when He draws near to
MS.
5. "Then Jesus saith unto them, Chill
dren, have ye any meat2 They answered
Him, No."
A nights toll and nothing to show for it,
Many still labor in vain and spend their
strength for naught. He said, "Without
me ye can do nothing" John XIV, 81 but
when we are obedient to Him. doing only
what He says, moving only at His word;
when lit is God who maketh," then there
will surely be something accomplished and
our glad testimony will be, mot ], but the
grace of God which was with me-" See Isa
!, 10; John ii, 5; Mum. tx, %; Phil. ii, 10;
Eph. Ii, 10; Cor. XIV 10. Until we learn to
work on this line we shall only display our
emptiness and helplessness and have to
confess our poverty.
8. "And He said unto them, Cast the net
on the right side of the ship and we shah
find. They cast, therefore, and now they
were not able to draw it for the multitude
Of fishes"
T. wherefore that disciple whom Jesus
loved saith unto Peter, 1t is the Lord. Now
when Simon Peter heard that it was the
Lord he grit his fishers coat unto him (for
he was naked, and did cast himself into
the sea-"
John Is the first to recognize the voice of
the Master, and yet even John is slow, for
1t is not till after the miracle that be
recognizes Him. One would think that
all the disciples should have cried out, at
IL the Lord" But they were not like
Mary seeking Him; they had gone a-Gsh
ing. Our hearts are not right till we
see Jesus only and seek Him only and al.
ways. There are only eight miracles in,
this gospel, and the first fourth and
eighth are miracles of abundance, teach
ing us how full we might be of all things
needful if we would only abide in Him.
See John XIV, II; xvi, "A; xvii, ID; Eph
iii, 90.
s. "And the other disciples came in a lit.
tie ship (for they were not far from land,
but as it were two hundred cubits), drag.
ging the net with fishes"
Jesus was then only about hundred
yards from them and yet they did not
recognize Him till they saw His power lie
says to us 80 am with you Away" and
in all the events of life He is saying, at is
!, be not afraid" (Math. xviii 20; xiv ~,
o. "As soon as they were come to land
they saw fire of Goals there, and fish laid
thereon and bread "
10. "Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the
fish which ye have now caught"
How graciously He puts it, 1.-THE fish We
have now caught" Yes truly they caught
them, they handled the net and took the
fish, but not without Him. 1t was in
reality His doing although He spoke as if
they did it.
II. ''Simon Peter went up and drew the
net to land full of great fishes, an hundred
and fifty and three, and for al there were
so many, yet was not the net broken"
In Peters first lesson of this kind their
nets brake" O4uke V, @; but not so now
Who bias eyes to see this strange sight?
This is resurrection lesson. And what
about the hundred and ffty-three and the
strength of seven men given to Peter to
draw them TO land. Read II Chron ii, 12, |
II, ard observe the wisdom and prudence
given to Solomon to build the house, and
the $4,000 strangers who helped, and be
not surprised if in the resurrection you see
a connection between these events and the
house now being buidcd by and Of stran-
gers to whom Peter first opened the door
Fph. ii, 1922; Acts X)
19 "Jesus saith unto them, Come and
dine. And none of the disciples burst ask
Him, Who art ThouP knowing that it was
the Lord"
The r. V. says, Come and break your
fast" and does not this give us the light
upon why they went fishing They were
hungry and Jesus was no longer with
them and where He was they knew not,
and they felt that they must now take
care of themselves, aud SO they had to
learn that they could not after all do any
thing without Him, and that they must
rely on Him unseen rs much as they did
when He was visihly among them.
10. Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread,
and giyeth them, and fish likewise"
The risen Christ is the Interchangeable
Jesus. As in the days of His humiliation
He waited upon them so in His rcsurrec
ton body He waits on them aud ministers
TO them still Though now asceudCd ON
high and invisible to these eyes He is not
a whit different in His love to His disciple,
and in His care of them, from what lie
was when mortal man among them on
earth. Look up, believer, and see at Gods
right hand the very same person who said
that we should not be careful about either
food or raimenu but have confidence in our
Father in Heaven
IA "Thisis now the third time that Jesus
showed Himself to His disciples. After that
He was risen from the dead
The seventh time To- any, but the third to
the company of the disciples. (See on
verse ~ Then after this lie is seen at
least three times before He assembled WISH
bly, from them Il Cor. XIV 6, :; Luke NXiy,
so, 81. During those forty days He seems
to have had but one topic of conversation
"the things pertaining to the kingdom of
God" (Acts /, ~. The words in this chap