Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-06-15
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON XII. SECOND QUARTER, IN
TERNATlCNAL SERIES, JUNE II.

A'Nt VI the Lesson, Iss liz LIZ, n hlsslon-
AIRY Lesson Memory Verses, 1912.
Golden Text, Ps. ii, S-Commentary by
the Rev. ID. NJ. stearns.
Some one has said that, as in the first
book of Moses, the hook of the beginnings
of earth, life, man and Israel, it's types
are the lives of men, so in the first book of
Psalms q to Kid we have Gods purposes
and counsels in relation to mailman in
general ii to viii), the man of the earth @
10 15) and the man Christ Jesus xvi to
Kid. The first two psalms seem to give a
summary of the whole of the first book
and speak of the time when Jesus shall be
king over all the earth, the man of the
earth overthrow, but the blessed man
prospecting forever
1. "Why do the heather rage and the
people imagine a vain thingY" Although
there is no title to this psalm, nor authors
name, the Spirit tells us in Acts iv, %, that
the Lord spoke these words through Da-
vid. The words were the Lords, but He
used David's mouth. See also II SAM
xiii, 2; John xii, 49, As in the days of
Noah every imagination of the thoughts
of mans heart was only evil continually
Gen. vi, 81, so it was in David's day, and
so it is still
.. "The kings of the earth set them
selves. and the rulers take counsel together
against the Lord aud against His anoint-
ed saying" This had a special fulfillmeut
when Jesus was here i'm humiliation to
suffer and die acts iv, 21. lthas had a
fulfillment in every persecution of Chris
tians by rulers. but it, greatest fulfllment
will he at the second coming Of Christ.
3. "Het us break their bands asunder
and cast away their cords from us. This
is the continual altitude of the carnal
mind toward God ever since man fell
(Rom. viii, -. such are ever saying, 1--WE
will not have this man to reign over u.s.
duke xix. l4). They make a covenant
with death, and with hell are they at
agreement, but it shall .pot stand, for the
Lord briugeth the counsel of the heather
to naught; He makcth the devices of the
people Of none effect (Isa. xviii, 10, is; Ps
xxxii lO
T. "He that stitch in the heavens shall
laugh; the Lord shall have them in deri
sion" See the same thought in Ps xxxvii.
ID; lii, S, and more fully in Prov. |, %,
90, "But ye have set at naught all my
counsel and would none of my reproof; |
also will laugh at your calamity; | will
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God is not willing that any should perish
and is long suffering and slow to wrath,
yet it is possible to sin away the day Of
grace and bring upon us the wrath Of
God so long in mercy restrained III Thess. J.,
40.
5. Then shall He speak to them in His
wrath and vcx them in His sore displeas-
ure." Our God shall come and shall not
keep silence: Il fire shall devour before
Him, and it shall be very tempestuous
round about Him (Ps |, 81 He has spo-
ken by the prophets, He has also spoken
by His own Son. but for long centuries He
has kept silence. When He speaks again,
it will be ut His coming to punish the in.
habtants of the earth for their iniquity,
to take away the rebule of His people
from off all the earth, and to cause Israel
to blossoms and bud and fiji the face of the
earth with fruit (Isa XIV, S: XVI, 81:
xvii, g.
6. "Yet have | set My king upon My
holy hill Of Xion,' or, as in the margin,
upon Zion the Eill of My holiness. There
is only one holy hill of Zion referred to in
Scripture as being on this earth, and that
/ is in the holy city Jerusalem, in Pales-
tine. And notwithstanding all the hatred
/ of Gods enemies, all the scofling of unbe-
I
/ because of the false prophets who speak
out of their own hearts, Jesus shall yet sit
on David's throne and reign over the house
of Jacob
:. 81 will declare the decree. The Lord
hath said unto Me, Thou art My Son; this
/ day have begotten Thee" The Holy
Spirits commentary upon this is that it
refers not to the birth of Christ but to
/ His resurrection from the dead Acts xiii,
33). This is also in perfect agreement with
Rom. l. 4, where Jesus is declared to
the Son of God, with power by the resur-
rectiun from the dead This does not con
flict with the testimony of the Father in
Math. iii, II; xvii, 5, for in His sight who
sees the end from the beginning the resu~
rection was as good as accomplished.
s. ASK of Me, and shall give thee the
heather for thine inheritance and the ut
termost parts Of the earth for thy posses
sion" This is perhaps one of the most
misapplied and msquoted verses in the
misapplied because it is given to
missionaries as an encouragement to look
for the conversion of all the heather in
this age, whereas this is the age of gath
ering out from all nations the elect church
| (Acts XIV, IA Rev. V, Q, 100; misquOted be
cause the next verse is always omitted, as
! II WOULD spoil us dppllcatlOn 10 the pres
ent preaching of the gospel of peace.
8. "Thou shalt break them with a rod of
iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like
potter's vessel" This is not consistent
with the con- mission Of the church to suf-
fer, and submit, and be like lambs among
wolves, and endure, and be content to ne
killed for His sake, but it is in perfect
agreement with the stone smashing the
image Dan. ii, A., 49,, and with the prom
Use to the overcomer (Rev. ii, 20, 20, when
we shall come back with Him in His glory
after the first resurrection.
10. "Be wise now, therefore, o We kings;
be instructed, ye judges of the earth. -
When God gave Nebuchadnezzar vision
of the world powers up to this very time
of breaking to pieces and warned him of
his own impending humiliation, Daniel
advised him to break off his sins by right
eousness and his iniquities by showing
mercy to the poor dan. iv, 20.
II. "Snrve the Lord with fear and re-
joce with trembling" We cannot serve
the Lord till we are saved, for they that
are in the flesh cannot please God Rom.
viii, -. The order is given in Thess. 1,
y, 10, where they turned to God from Idols,