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PROMISE OF RENEWAL.
LESSON XII, FIRST QUARTER, INTER
NATIONAL SERIES, MARCH 10.

Text of the Lesson, Eek. XVI, 1888.
Memory Verses, 25-27--GoIden Text,
Ezek. xxxvl, 2o-Commentary by the
Rev. ID. NJ. stearns.
25 "Then will l sprinkle clean water
upon you, and We shall be clean; from all
your flthiness, and from all your idols,
will cleanse you" Six lessons in Isaiah,
four in jeremiah and one in Ezekiel give
us but the merest glance at the 1866 chap
ters of those three books, and yet the
teaching OF these lessons Is in perfect &C
cord with all prophecy, The words of this
verse refer primarily to the yet future
cleansing of the nation of Israel oversees
1924; Jer. xxxiii, T. -, and yet may apply
in sense to every true believer.
26. "a new heart also will / give you,
and u new spirit will | put within you"
The seat of all our difficulties being within
us, there must be change there before
anything can be right.
~. And will put my Spirit within you,
and cause you to walk in my statutes"
The same spirit who spake and wrought
in Christ, and in prophets and apostles,
God will give to Israel and gives now to
every believer. Our part is to welcome
Him, and surrender to Him our whole
being and He will do the rest. John xiv,
10, II, 20; XIV, %; xvi, 1877
%. "And We shall dwell in the land that
| gave to your fathers; and We shall be my
people and | will be your God" There is
no way of applying the first part of this
verse TO the church or to believers now; 1t
is peculiarly and only for Israel in the
future. The church has no special land,
her inheritance is heavenly, the New Jeru
salem, from which she shall reign wit
Christ over the whole earth. The last pal
of the verse may be spiritually applied to
the church, See II Cor. vi, 1918.
90. II will also save you from all your
uncleannesses; and lay no famine upon
you" No good thing will He withhold
from them that walk uprightly FPS lxxxiv,
ID, and while Jesus, by His great work of
atonement. saves from the wrath to come,
He also saves by His present power and by
His word and Spirit in us. from daily sin
(Aath i, 81; Rom. V, 10; Jude xiv, r. W.
3d. And will multiply the fruit of the
tree, that We shall receive no more re-
proaoh among the heather" Peculiarly
for Israel, and yet when believer is seen
ANhEillS iOi chu NhJOyihS bhc bllluRS VI WIS
world that are not of God Il John ii, 1910,
then it is as if he said, Jesus cannot sat
isfy me; must have the world too" and
thus the manifest famine in such a soul is
n reproach to God.
81 Then shall ye remember, and shall
loathe yourselves in your own sight for
your iniquities." The Lord will pour upon
them the spirit of grace and of supplica-
tons, and there shall be true repentance
when they see their long rejected King
Czech, xii, l0) The sight of the King in
His glory always causes loathing of self
lisa. vi, 3; Job xiii, 3, 6; Dan. Y, s.. Pride
or self esteem is a proof that we have not
seen Jesus.
80. Not for your sakes do this, saith
the Lord God, be it known unto you"
Israel was not in the first place chosen for
any good that was in them, but all was
done for them because of Gods promises
to Abram and to David Deut. TX, 5, 8, "a;
! King Xi, SO, 81; Mic. vii, 20). Jesus Of
Nazareth Is son Of David. sou Of Abram,
the promised seed (Nath. j, l; Gal. iii, 16),
and all who are in Him have ali things
made sure to them for His sake gal. Iii, 90.
49, Thus saith the Lord God. l viii al.o