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SABBATH SCHOOL.
INTERN ATIONAL LESSON FOR
OCTOBER 8.
Lesson Text: "Redemption in
Christ" Romans ill.,, 1926
Golden Text: Romans
ill.,, 24-Commentary.

10. CHOW we know what things soever the
| law saith, it saith to them who are under the
| law that every mouth may be stopped, and
all the world may become guilty before
| God" He has been proving both Jews and
| Gentiles all under sin, and that there is none
righteous oversees 9, 10). But what about the
law that is holy and just and good (chapter
| vii, 12), and those who conscientiously try
| 10 keep it like Paul himself, who said that
| as touching the righteousness of the law he
| considered himself bameess (Phil. ill.,. G..
| This verse in our lesson says the law is to
| stop mans mouth and prove every one
guilty, for until we are ready to plead guilty
| before God there is no hope OF our redemp-
ton. In Math. v, %. Jesus teaches that q
sinful look breaks the seventh command
ment, and in John ill.,. Is, we learn that
hatred breaks the sixth, while in Jas. IL, 10,
we find that ''whosoever shall'' keep the
whole law and yet offend in one point is
guilty of ALL
90. "Therefore by the deeds of the law
there shall no flesh be justified in His sight,
for by the law is the knowledge Of sin"
David recognized this when he said. ''In
Thy sight shall no man living be justified"
Cps. cxliii., p. The law, although go holy,
cannot give life because OF mans sinfulness
or weakness OF his flesh (Gal. fiji, 81 Rom.
viii, g. } Only one Man ever kept the law per-
fectly. He came to fulfill the law and the
prophets even to fulfil all righteousness
knew no sin He did not sin Il John lii, 5,
II Cor. ", 21 Peter IL, 22). He could
truthfully say. II delight TO do Thy will, o
my God-yea. Thy law is within my heart"
(Ps. H., 81. He was and is 'the righteous
ness Of God" All our efforts to keep the
law, seeking thus to obtain righteousness,
are like Adam and Ewes fig leaf aprons,
l.l l,,J o;.l <v;,, nlo TO
the coats OF skins OF Gods own providing.
Our righteousness are as filthy rags lisa.
Xiv, 81.
81. But now the righteousness of God
without the law is manifested, being wit
messed by the law and the prophets. To Him
give all the prophets witness that through
His name whosoever believeth in Him shall
receive remission Of sins acts X, 43). Paul
in all his preaching said none other things
than those which the prophets and Moses did
say should come Acts XVI, 22). Jesus be-
gan at Moses and all the prophets and ex-
! pounded unto them in oil the Scriptures
the things concerning Himself Luke
XIV, 27. Righteousness is the great
essential. God demands It. and He has
right TO. He says the unrighteous shall not
inherit the kingdom of God, and that unless
we have something bett er than that OF the
scribes and pharisees we can in no case enter
into the kingdom of heaven Il Cor. vi, 9;
Math. ". 2Oj. But what God demands He
also provides-if wedding garment is nee
essary, then wedding garments are provided
(Math. xii. II, l2l. Does He demand
righteousness? Then He provides righteous
ness as freely as He provided the clothing for
Adam and Eve (Gen. ill.,, 2D.
%. Even the righteousness ofGod, which
is by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all, and upon
all them that believe" God hath made Him
to be sin for US who knew no sin, that We
might be made the Righteousness OF God in
Him. He Is made unto us righteousness Oh
Cor. ". ,21 : I Cor. l., 30). By Him all that
believe are justified from all things from
which we could not be justified by the law OF
Moses (Acts xiii, 39). Therefore the soul
that truly receives Him can say, II will
greatly rejoice In the Lord, my soul shall be
joyful in my God, for He hath clothed me with
The garments Of salvation, He hath covered
me with the robe of Righteousness" Elsa. lxi.,
10). But how many are going about to es-
taolish their own righteousness, either
wholly ignorant OF or utterly desplsing the
glorious righteousness provided for them In
Christ Jesus, who IS the end OF the law for
righteousness to every one that believetn
(lfom. y, 3,4).
%. For there is no difference, for all
have sinned and come short OF the glory Of
God" In Adam all die q Cor. xV., 22).
There is not just man upon earth that
doetn good and sinneth not (Eccl. vii, 20),
or as In verse 10 OF this chapter: There Is
none righteous. No, not one" Such Is the
description Of all men by nature, and while
all are not equally great sinners all are. with
out exception, sinners. Since Adam was
driven out of paradise all have been born out
side the garden there is no difference. When
Noah was shut in the ark, all the rest except
those with him were shut out and perished
there was no difference.
a. Being justified freely by His grace,
through the redemption tnat is IN Christ
Jesus" All redemption is in Christ out OF
HIN and apart 1rom Him there Is none. 1t is
tne blood tnat nlaketn an atonement Tor the
soul Lev xvii. IL ana none but His blood
coulo do II (Acts W.. ~. But having by His
lie and death and resurrection obtained
eternal redemption for us (Heb., ix., 12) Hs
bestows it. or rather himself for it IS all III
HIM. upon whoso.ver will receive Him (John
ILL.,, l6 Ker. xii, II Epn. l., 6, y. At in
finite cost He has purchased II, but in His
great grace He gives 1t freely to even the
cEiet OF sinners as soon rs they truly turn TO
HIM, SO tnat even sucn as are described in
Cor. W.. jill, could rejoice in having be-
come by His blood washed, sanctiCed, jassl-
fed.
25. '.Whom God hath set forth to be a
Precipitation through faith in His blood, to
declare His righteousness for the remission
OF sins that are past. through the forbear-
ance OF God" The word here translated
':propitiation" is found only elsewhere in
Heb ix., 5, where it is translated 'mercy
seat" In each Of these verses in the X. V. 1t
is in the margin ''propitiatory." The merry
seat or lid Of the ark, thus designated, was
never to be removed. It was sprnkled with
blood. and beneath it in the ark were the to
! bles of testimony containing the Ten Com
mandments, that holy law, the ministration
OF death (II Cor. ill.,. y. Christ is our mercy
seat. who by His own blood stills the con-
demning voice OF the law. And because OF
this blood. which was in due time shed on
Calvary. God in former days granted remis-
sion of sins, all blood sprinkled on the mercy
seat being typical OF this precious blood
which was shed once for all.
26. ''To declare. say. at this time His
righteousness. that He might be just, and the
justiher of him which believeth in Jesus"
He that justifieth the wicked, and he that
condemneth the just. even they both are
abomlnation to the Lord prov. xviii, l5).
But what shall we say when the Lord Him
self, in order that He may make righteous
the abominable wicked. takes the place OF
the condemned. suffers and dies in the SIN
ner's stead, becomes a curse for us, is made
sin Offering q Pet. ill.,, is Gal. lii, 13 II
Cor. v, 21), all to enable Him to justify the
greatest of sinners who will receive Him.
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