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CHRIST NEARING DEATH.
LESSON Il, FOURTH QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, OCT. H. ;


xii. 82-Commentary by the Rev. ID. NJ.
stearns.
iComplled from Lesson Helper Quarterly by
permission OF II, &. Hoffman, publisher. Phil
adelphia.
20. "And there were certain Greeks
among them that came up TO worship at
aha 1nAst"
a. "Ths same came therefore to Philip,
which was Of Bethsaida Of 6alilee, 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 ef
forts duke xix, 3, 5, 6, 81. When Petei
would fain have tarried on the Mount d
TRANSPORTATION, and have kept Moses and
Elijah, he and the Others were QuicklJ
taught that they were to zee mo man saws
Jesus only" (Math. 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 I"
This He delights to do and will do when
we rely upon Him (chapter xvi, IS, 49,
"a "Philip cometh and telleth Andrew;
and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus"
% And Jesus answered them, saying
The hour Is come that the Son OF Man
should be glorified."
The middle wall of partition between
Jew and GENTLE. is about to be broken
down by His death 30 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 (Enh. Iii, y. As Israel's Mes
slab He Is rejected end about to be cruel
fed, but God will give Him glory and a seat
at His own right hand until His enemies
be made His footstool Il Pet. 1, 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, 49,
"a. verify, verify, say unto you, EX-
cept corn Of wheat fall into the ground
and die, 1t abideth alOne but If it die it
bringeth forth much fruit"
%. "l1e that loveth his life shall lose it;
and he that hateth his life in this world
shall keep 1t unto life eternal"
See the repetition of this great truth in
Math. x, 80; xvi, %; Mark viii, 35 Luke tx,
"a; xiv, 20; xvii, 49, Self remuneration is
the only scriptural rule Of life
90 "lf any man serve Me, let him follow
Me; and where am there shall also Ny
servant be; ii 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 all
who are now willing to serve; but it seems
to me the emphatic part of this verse for
our present life is the twice repeated "Ifany
man serve mef" We may outwardly APP
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 "ovetin2 cny His approval
See Chron. xviii. o. and compare Phil. II
90, 81.
81. "Now is My soul troubled, and what
shall ! sayp Father, save Me from this
hour, but for this cause came unto this
hour"
%. Father, glorify Thy name Then
came there voice from heaven, saying,
have both glorlled it. and will glorify it
again"
His consuming desire was to glorify His
Father. The words He uttered and the
works He wrought were the Fathers
words and works through Him Chapters
xii, 40; xiv, lO). See how quick the COM
munication between earth and heaven.
90. "The people therefore that stood by
and heard it, said that it thundered others
said, An angel spake to Him"
The people heard noise but not the
words. The voice of God is to multitudes
nothing more than an indistinct rumbling
sound, with no significance.
30. Jesus answered and said, This voice |
came not because Of Me, but for your
sakes"
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, 42). 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, 80, |
xvi. IL; III Cor, iv, 4; | John, v, 10, r. W. |
ga "And |, II be lifted up from the
earth, will draw all men unto Me-"
3D. "This He said, sgnfying what death !
He should die"
That lie was not to be stoned to death |
but should die by cruchxion, was fore
shown In the ritual Of the passover lamb |
not bone of which was to be broken zen |
xii, 46), and was foretold IN Ps xxi, IS, |
"They pierced my hands and my feet" 4 |
little later Jesus told Peter by what kind |
of death he should glorify God xxi, l0), |
and He knows well by what life and death
we shall glorify God.
~. 1.-THE people answered Him, We have
heard out of the law that Christ abdeth |
forever, and how sayest Thou, The Son of
Man must be lifted upH Who is this Son
Of Manw
They evidently understood the Son Of
Man to DO 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 ut the
cleansing of the leper, or in the plain state.
ments OF Ps. xvi, Q, 10; lisa. Iii, 10.
B. Then Jesus said unto them, Yet Il
little while Is the light with you. Walk
while ye have the light lest darkness come
upon you, for he that walketh in darkness
knoweth not whittier he Roeth."
In chapter viii, ~, He had said, 81 am
the Light of the world" testifying to His
divinity; now He says to them, AS also in
verse 40, that the Light is about to pass
away from them, and II they would not
stumble through present darkness into
the outer and eternal darkness they had
better quickly walk in the Light
80. while We have light believe in the
light, that W may be the children of light
These things spake Jesus and departed,
aRd did hide Himself from them"
Children of darkness and children OF
light are the two classes In the whole world
Gen. /, 2, describes the condition OF every
soul out OF Christ-"W Without form and
word OF God finds an entrance then there
An liuht and life and no need of any fur.