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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON V, FIRST QUARTER, INTER
NATIONAL SERIES, FEB. 4.

Text of the Lesson, Gen. xii, 1-9-5Iem-
DRY Verses, 1-3 - Golden Text, Gen.
xii. documentary by the Rev. .. y.
Stcarns.
1. "Eow, tho Lord had said INTO
Abram, Get thee out Of thy country, and
from thy kindred, and from thy fathers
house, unto land That viii shew thee
We have come down the stream of time
over 200 years since he last lesson. After
the deluge God began the race again with
Noah and his sons, but as before, man left
TO himself proves Il failure. Noah is
drunken, Ham brings = curse upon Ca
naafi, and in5luity consummates in an or
gained ,,niol against God. Les. they be
| scattered and to make them name, they
will build 8 tower reaching to the skies.
At the close of the nineteenth century
we find ours elves in an age Of tower
! building and man worship, but as the
| Lord coniounGad and scattered thor1 il ne
| plain of Shinar, SO again when all Shinar
associations shall have had heir consum-
nation as in Xccn. Y. II: lev. xvii and
xviii, the Lor win h,im3le ali the pride
of man ard .c Gl1ne be exalted in that
day tia.s ii, /. IN. After the Babel judg-
nicut il seem from Josh. xiv, 2, that the
| people fell q eatly into idolatry, and from
such surroT dings IN the land Of Mesopo
ta'nia, the Cod of i-l)ry called ont Abram
| acts vii, q to make OF him Il faithful wit
/ ness unto tie truth. 4 study of Gen. vi
! viii show that Sh I'm, ArphaXad, Salah,
| Eber, Reu and Serrg were all living when
/ Abram and Terah left Ur Of the Chaldees
/ bus whether ever one had become an
! idolator or not is nos clearly stated The
neTy departure now is that instead of de
! strOying or scatter ng them He will take
/ out and separate ole from them who will
| walk with Him as Enoch did. 1t was Il
mistake to take rerah along, for Akram
was only hindercd b. him until he died at
Haran xxi, 81, 80; Acts vii, 3, y,
q ''And | viii make of thee great ma
/ ton, and | will bless thee and make thy
name great, and thou shalt be u blessing, :"
! The people OF Shinar wanted to make
| themselves ~ name xxi. -, but Jehovah
| says to Abram that Tic will mako him a
name. Those who today try the Shinar
| plan will fell as they did, but those who,
like Abr.m. prefer to obey God viii have
name without seeking it. Abram was
to he blessed in order to &c IL blessing, and
Israel is destined yet to BE blessing to
! all nations Czech. viii. 49,. When we are
willing TO be a blessing TO others and for
I getful OF ourselves, then we shall indeed
be blessed. But It must be the Lord S do
! ng FROM first TO last, and lie must have
the glory.
4 "Aad will bless them that bless
/ thee and curse him that curseth thee, and
in thee shall all families Of the earth he
| blessed" iiefe is the true idea OF election
as taught in Scripture choosing OF one
or more to make them a blessing 10 others
and wbosoeyer will may be elected. for
! him that cometh will in no wise be cast
ont lIohn vi 31 Who can possiblv find
fault with this? See also how God takes
| man into union with Himself II makes
| ns think of these words. ssFIe that heareth
YOU heareth Me. and he that elaspiseth YOU
despiseth Mel luke X. lGl. We shall lind
this covenant reneated four times after
this to Abrara and once each to Isaac and
Jacob. making seven in all. The fullness
of its meaning is vet to be seen.
A. $50 Abram denarted es the Lord had
snoken unto hin. and I,ot went with him.
! and BRAN was seventy and five wears old
when he. ,lel.artad ont of IIprfn. :" IIewent
out. not knowing whittier he went Heb.
xi. 81. lie oaly knew that God knew and
that the end of il all v.ou.d be n city which
hath foundations whose builder and maker
is God (EIeb. XII. tO), and with implicit con
fidenca in God he went on. He believed
the gospel, and all who believe today will
I be blessed with him gal. iii, 8, 81 and
/ made a blessing to others.
3. "Aud Abram took Sarah, his wife,
and Lot. his brothers son. and all their
! substance that they had gathered and the
souls that they had gotten in Haran. and
they went forth TO 90 into the land of Ca
naan. and into the land of Canaan they
came" Haran WIS but Il partial obedi.
ence This is now full obedience. which.
it IA to he feared, the Lord gets from very
few of us. MANY are content TO be him
dered by the affections of those who will
go part of the way but not all the way to
the promised land of whole hearted sur
render to God. Yet Jesus saws. 'sUe that
loveth father or mother, son or daughter
more than Me is not worthy of Me- (Math.
! X, 3T}.
6 UAnd Abram rassel throlch the land
into the place of Siche,n. unto the plain
cor oat)of Moreh. And the Caaaanite was
| then in the land" To the neighborhood
of Ebal and Cierizir he came sec Deut. XII.
%. 3O full half way down through the
! land. and he saw the land filed with nao-
pie, vet believed that God would give ii to
him MS He had said. He walked not bv
| sight, but by faith, and was fully persuad-
ed that what God had promised He was
able to perform from. iv. 20, 2i). If we
think more of the Canaanites than Of God.
| we will be discouraged. like the 10 spies.
The only way is to see no man save Jesus
only tAiath xvii, 81.
1"And the Lord appeared unto Abram
and said, Unto thy seed will | give this
land And there builded he an altar unto
the Lord. who appeared unto him" We
read of no appearance at Haran and no
new communication. for Ahram there had
not done as he had been told ITO him
that knoweth TO do good and doeth il not,
to him it is sim (Jas. iy, Ia. Therefore
if we are not living up to the light we
have and are consciously disobedient we
cannot expect any fresh revelation of God