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PROMISE OF RENEWAL.
LESSON xl, First QUARTER, INTER-
NATioNAL SERIES, GAacH 10.

25 ''Then win | sprinkle clean water
upon you, and We shall be clean; from all
your filthiness, 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
tiers Of those three books, and yet the
teaching OF these lessons is in perfect NJ
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, Z, 81, and yet may apply
in sense to every true believer.
20. "a new heart also will give you,
and new spirit win / put within you"
The seat of all our difficulties being within
us, there must be change there before
anything can be right.
a. 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, &c, xvi, 49,
49, "And ye shall dwell in the land that
! gave to your fathers; and ye 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; it
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.
20. 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 ops. lxxxiv,
1D, 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
(Math. !, 81; Rom V, 10; Jude xiv, IL. W.
30. "And will multiply the fruit of the
tree, that ye shall receive no more re-
proaoh among the heather" Peculiarly
for Israel, and yet when believer is seen
longing for and enjoying the things of this
world that ire not of God q John ii, 15-17),
then 1t is as II he said, "Jesus cannot sat
isfy me; | must have the world too, - and
thus the manifest famine in such a soul is
q reproach to God.
81. "rhen shall ye remember, and shall
loathe yourselves in your own sight for
your iniquities." The Lord will pourupon
them the spirit Of grace and Of supplica.
tons, and there shall be true repentance
when they see their long rejected King
Czech, xii, 10). The sight of the King in
His glory always causes loathing of self
Qsa vi, 5; Job xiii, 3, 6; Dan, X, 49, Pride
or self esteem is n proof that we have not
seen Jesus.
90. Mot 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, B, 6, "a;
/ King XII, 30, 81; Mic. VIII 2O). Jesus of
Nazareth Is son of David, son of Abram,
the promised seed (Math. I, /; Gal. iii, 16),
and all who are in Him have all things
made sure to them for His sake Gal lii, 90
80. THUS saith the Lord God, | will also
cause you to dwell In the cities and the
wastes shall be builded." Compare Zech
viii, 7,s Cleansing first and then restora-
cion--thls Is always the order. If you have
lost fellowship with God through sin, the
sin must be confessed and forgiven before
the communion can be restored.
3D. "And the desolate land shall be titled,
whereas 1t lay desoate in the sight of all
that passed by" Its desolateness was a
reproach to God, and constant advertise
ment of Israe's sin. We as believers,
glorify God only when we bear much
fruit John XIV, 9. If our lives are selfish
and self indulgent we are then like Israel
In her rebellion and s!nfulness. Q1os. X, /,
8: ai, ~
81 "And they shall say, This land that
was desolate is become like the garden of
Eden" That will cause people to praise
the God of Israel, and thus other nations
will be drawn to God, even as the queen of
Sheba was drawn to Jerusalem by the
fame OF Solomon
&c. Then the heather that are left
round about you shall know that |, the
Lord, build the ruined places, |, the Lord
have spoken it, and l will do it." Multi
tudes out of the nations shall perish In the
Judgments preceding Israel's national CON
version, or IN connection Herewith, but
some shall be left, and these shall go up to
Jerusalem from year to year to worship
the. King, the Lord of Hosts Czech. xiv, 49,
The hand of the Lord shall be SO manifest
that all shall see it.
81. "Thus saith the Lord God | will vet
for this be inquired of by the house of
their hearts to pray for the blessing He is
about to give. This is His way. While He
is ever ready to give every good thing, He
will have us feel our need and ask Him.
When we are specially led therefore to pray
for any thing or for any one, we may safely
conclude that the spirit is leading us to ask
for that which He is ready to give us.
8S. "As the flock of Jerusalem in her
Al IA nit LA
filed with nooks of men, and they shall
know that am the Lord" Or, according
20 zech /, II, my cities through prosperity
shall yet be spread abroad; and the Lord
shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose
Jerusalem" And Zech. ii, 4, Jerusalem
shall be inhabited as towns without walls
for the multitude of men and cattle there
in" These days are already dawning, and
the full accomplishment must be near.
Oh, believer, make full surrender to and
have perfect trust in the Lord, that
He may make the most of You this
little while, and make Himself known
through you. One of the clearest evi.
dences that Israel will soon be restored to
her own land is that the restoration has
already begun, and even now the popula-
ton of Jerusalem has overfown the walls
OF the city, and numerous buildings are
being erected on the very lines mentioned
in Jer. XXI, $40, Jesus said that "Jeru-
salem shall be trodden down of the Gen
tiles until the times of the Gentiles be full
filed" duke xxi, 24). When city is visi-
bly, being built up and about to become &
railroad center, it cannot well be said 20
DO trodden down any longer. We there
fore know without a doubt that the times
Of the Gentiles are about fulfilled, Israel's
redemntioD f. near Though the tribulation