The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-04
THE SUNDAY.SCHOOL.
The Work OF the Holy Spirit-John ID
l.1S.-Memory Verses, Is. IL.


Especially Arranged from s. s. Quartersy.l
LESSON FOR NOVEMBER 8, 1891.
GOLDEN TExT-He will guide you into oil
truth. John 1913.
CENTRAL TRuTH.-The mission Of the Holy
Spirit is to convince the world Of sin, OF right
eousness and OF judgment, and to guide disci.
pies into all truth.
TlME.--Thursday evening, April Q, A, D. 30.
The night before the crucihxion. Immediately
after our last lesson.
PLACE.-An upper room in Jerusalem.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS lesson Is continue
ton of the discourse in our last lesson.
HELPS OVER HARD PLACEs.-l. BE offend
ed" stumble; fall into doubt or sin, because
troubles came Unexpectedly, when they looked
for the coming Of His kingdom in glory. Z. ut
is expedient for you that go away" why! ~
Because only when gloriHed in Heaven could
they see Him as He is in His divine nature. (!)
In bodily presence He could be with but few ut
time; now He can be with all alike at all
times. 90 BY His going away the Comforter
came. az Because they needed to be trained
to live by faith, not by sight. G) Only by 60
ing away (by the CROSSE could He make atone
ment for sin. 1.-The Comforter" (See Less. ~
II will send Him." first on Pentecost, two
weeks later, and ever after. g. 'Reprove"
convince, convict. 0. 'Of SIM" etc.: a. Re-
jecting Christ is rejecting all goodness, for He
is the sum Of all. i2) 1t is rejecting God. (3)
Only very sinful heart could resist His love.
~ Christ is perfect standard, and by seeing
Him we are convicted Of our own shortcom.
ings. o. Unbelief shows great ingratitude.
10. "Of righteousless:". Of Gods goodness, and
what We ought to be. (D Jesus going to His
Father made men see His goodness in its true
light. (s) BY dying on the cross He showed
perfect obedience. (3) BY His death for us He
showed how much He valued our becoming
good. az BY His going the convincing spirit
| came. 1.-THE need Of conviction of righteous
ness:" D That We may realize the absolute
goodness and love OF God our Master, and that
He must love good and hate sin with all His
Infinite nature, so that We may be iinpelled to
righteousness both by fear and love- (a) We
need to see the perfect standard in order to re
alize how far short we are, and how great our
need Of the renewing power of the Holy Spirit.
| (0 We need to be made to feel that righteous.
| ness is possible to US through Jesus and there
fore 1t is our duty to possess it. II. "Of judg.
| ment:" their false views and standards, and
Gods true and just judgment, and that God
will judge US for all the deeds done In the body.
1.-THE prince Of this world" Satan. is
5udged:' condemned; the mark Of disapproval
put upon him; his plans thwarted and defeat
| ed 49, "Guide you into all truth" SO that
they would be inspired in their writings and in
their plans for the new church. 49, "All things
that the Father hath are Mine:' all the Fa.
! TIERS purposes and deeds Of grace, accom-
/ plished or yet to be accomplished by tho
Saviour in His mediatoral office. Jesus would
show His disciples that His word and work
| were divine. Father, Son and Holy Spirit were
One God, with one purpose.
| LESSON COMMENT.
Jesus teaches that the Holy Spirit is
a person. Jesus is not the Holy Spirit,
nor is God the Father the Holy Spirit
He is different person from either.
That He is person, and not an unde-
fined influence, is apparent from the
way in which the Lord speaks of Him:
II will send Him." "He will reprove
the world of SIM" etc, "He, the Spirit
of truth" "He will guide you" "What-
soever He shall hear. that shall He
speak," HE shall glorify Me-" The
same truth is taught elsewhere in the
Word. 1.-THE Holy Ghost said, Sepa-
rate" etc. ACTS 1922; "The Holy Ghost
shall teach YOU Luke 1919; For as
yet He (the Holy Spirit was fallen
upon none of them" ACTS s:16); "They
were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to
preach the word in Asia" (Acts GIG.
These and other passages teach that
the Holy Spirit is as much an individual
as Jesus was en- individual, and that He
is not the same as either the Son or the
Father.
Jesus teaches that through the work
of the Holy Spirit men are convicted OF
sin. This is one of His ways of work
ing upon the hearts of men. When we
read the Word, or hear q sermon, OF
are in any other way aroused to sense
of our guilt before God, it is because
the Holy Spirit has awakened our
consciences.
Jesus teaches that through the Holy
Spirit men are born again. Not in this
lesson, indeed, but in John 3:5, He says
Except man be born = of the
Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom o.
God" No one can enter Gods kingdom
unless the Spirit renews him inwardly
Resolutions are worthless, and all out
ward things are, vain, without His
power. We are dead; life is what We
need. He only can impart life.
Jesus teaches that the work of tho
Holy Spirit is also to reveal Christ to us
"He shall receive Of miilo, and shall
show it unto YOU" Paul says phil 8
10Y that his desire is to "know Him
Christi, and in his wonderful prayer
in Eph. 3:14-21, he prays that they may
have Christ dwell in their hearts, ant
know the love of Christ. So, also, Pete
admonishes us to ''grow il
the knowledge of our Lord and Savior,
Jesus Christ e Pet. 3:1s). To "know'
Christ means more than to ''knov
about" Him. Devils knew more abou
Him than many of us. To know
Christ means to know Him as my Saw
Jour and as my Master.
Since, then, our whole spiritual Lift
and our eternal welfare arc utterly dc
pendent upon the work of the Hol,
Spirit, we see how solemn thing it i
to 'gricvc" the Holy Spirit of God
. whereby we are sealed" and how cvi
and suicidal thing it is to "quench
the Spirit. The world of lost is file
with spiritual suicides. Were a suic
. dial mania to affect any town, SO tina
one of ten took his own life, the worl
, would be filled with horror. Yet this
{ exactly what the angels see is happen
= ing everywhere. To stop this, and t
restore life, is the work of the Spirit
, Rev. A. T. Schauff1er, ID. d.
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS
1. Jesus shows us the dangers an
, difficulties of the Christian life to pre-
I pare us to meet them.