Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-01-05
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON I, FIRST QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SET. ;, JAN. 7,

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NJ. Stearns.
90. "And God said, Let Us make man in
Our image, after Our likeness, and let them
have dominion" At some time in the past,
known only to God, called in the first verse
"the beginning" God created the heaven
and the earth-tbat is, He spake them into
exstence-as is proved by Ps. xxXiii, 6;
Heb ri, 3. He must have everything good
for He always does. That lie did not create
the earth without form and void is stated
in lsa. XIV Is. Compare the r. V. What
happened between verses | and 2 to bring
about this chaos we shall know some day
About 5000 years ago God brought order
and beauty and fruitfulness out of the
chaos and confusion into the space of six
days, as is here described See also Elk. Xxx. II.
And now on the sixth day He makes man
to have dominion over all. How He male
man and woman is more fully stated in
chapter ii, Z, 2l-25, and that he called their
name Adam is stated in chapter V, g The
words Let Us" imply the Trinity, which
fact is also clear to simple minded He
brew scholar in the word for God.
%. $50 God created man in His own i'm
age in the image of God created He him;
male and female created He them" Then
this man and woman must have been the
finest pair that ever walked the earth.
Whatever else is implied in this image of
God, it is evident from Eph. iv, "a, that
righteousness and holiness of truth are in
cluded. How much more we shall know
when in that bright morning of the resur-
rection we shall have been made like Him
who is the brightness Of the Fathers glory
and the express image of His person Il John
/ iii, 2; Heb i, -.
2S. And God blessed them, and God said
unto to them, lie fruitful and multiply,
and replenish the earth and subdue it, and
have dominion" The blessing of the Lord
it maketh rich, and toll addeth nothing
thereto prov. X, %, r. W. When in the
sixth year God commanded His blessing on
Israel, there was as much produced in one
year as ordinarily in three years Qev. XIV,
2D. When Jesus blessed the lads loaves
and fishes, they fed many thousands. He
says, Herein is My Father glorified that
We bear much fruit; so shall We be My dis
ciples" John XIV, s.. The time is coming
+ when the last Adam will subdue all things
/ unto Himself for He is able. But now He
/ is gathering out and training the subduers,
| who shall in that day have dominion with
| Him. | find it helpful to pray, Lord, in
asmuch as Thou art able to subdue all
things unto Thyself phil iii, 2D, subdue
me wholly to Thyself now"
20. And God said, Behold, | have given
you every herb bearing seed which is upon
! the face of all the earth and every tree in
the which is the fruit of tree yielding
seed to you it shall be for meat" God
would have His children at perfect rest
concerning food and raiment. As to cloth
ing such as we wear, they had none iii, 25),
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clothing which was part of themselves,
doubtless Adam and Eve, made in the i'm
age of God were, like God, clothed with
light Ups. civ, /, y. And now here is full
provision for their bodies as to food. We
have no record of flesh being eaten till after
the deluge (chapter tx, 81, though we do not
say that it was not eaten. But He who fed
sinful Israel for 40 Years in the wilderness
will always provide for His own.
30. And to every beast of the EARTH and
to every fowl of the air, and to everything
that creepeth upon the earth wherein there
is life, have given every green herb for
meat-and it was So" Not only man, but
beast, is provided for These wait all upon
Thee that Thou mayst give them thei"
meat in due season ops. civ, 20 Behold
the fowls of the air, your Heavenly Father
feedeth them. Are not five sparrows sold
for two farthings, aud not one of them is
forgotten before God (AIath. vi, 26; Luke
xii, g.? Observe the phrase Il have given, -
and think of Rom. viii, 80. He who spared
not His own Son, but delivered Him ur
for us all, how shall He not with Him
also freely give us all things?
81. And God saw everything that He
had made, and, behold, it was very good
And the evening and the morning were the
sixth day" This is the seventh time that it
is written, God saw that it was good {"
God is love, and lie cannot do or make
that which is not in His sight good. lie is
good, and His mercy endureth forever (Ps.
cXXxvi, y. He is round about us as wall of
fire and will not possibly permit aught that
is not good to come to us, so we can surely
bless the Lord at all times Czech. ii, 5; Ps.
xXxiv, y. In all the days it is first evening,
followed by night and then morning. So
now it is the worlds night, but the night
is far spent, and the day is at hand. The
morning cometh (Rom. xiii, ~; Isa xxi, ~.
l. Thus the heavens and the earth were
finished and all the host of them" "1hus. "
How Why. by the word of His mouth
ops XXXiii, u. In chapter it is written 10
times, And God said" Now, since lie
thus created all things, what is there lie
cannot do? "Ah, Lord God, behold Thou
Thy great power and stretched out arm,
and there is nothing too hard for Thee" der.
xxi, ~. If Christians, how thankful we
should be that God, who commanded the
light to shine out of darkness, hath shined
in our hearts to give the light of the knowl-
edge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus
Christ I'll Cor iv, %. On 'the host OF
them" see Deut. iv, 10; Elk. xii, Al; Ps. CHI,
81; Sam. i, 3.
2. And on the seventh day God ended
His work which lie had made, and He rest
ed on the seventh day from all His work
which he had made" The words finished
and ended" are suggestive of some other
works in due time finished or to be finished,
as the tabernacle, the temple, the work of
atonement and the redemption of the world
(Iix. Xl, 80: IL Chron. vii, IL; John Xxx, 30;
Rev. xxi, 3, O.. God "rested" cannot imply
WEAKNESS, for He fanteth not, neither is
weary (Isa Xl 2S). But He ceased AS the
mamma ceased or a work might cease
Joshua v, Il; Neh. vi, 81. And if we would
enter into His rest we must cease from our
own works rs God did from HIS (IIeb iv, l0).
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