Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-07-05
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON I, THIRD QUARTER, IN
TERNATloNAL SERIES, JULY 7.

DRY versus, 3-l1-Golden Text, Luke !
x, 2T-Commentary by the Rev. ID. NJ. |
stearns.
|, 2. While we now turn back from the
life and work of the Lord Jesus. as revealed |
to us in the gospels to the story of the
Lords dealings with Israel on the way to
the promised land, we are learning of the |
same Lord whose goings forth have been |
from of old, from the days Of eternity Mic |
" g marsin). 1t was not because of any
worthiness in them, but only because of
His own faithfuness and His promise to
Abraham that He brought them out of
Egypt (Deut. vii, :, S; Gen XIV, 10, 14). 1t
was now the third month since they had |
been redeemed from the bondage of Egypt |
They had come to Mount Sinai, and the
Lord had offered to make them peculiar
treasure unto Himself above all people,
kingdom of priests, holy nation, if only
they would obey His voice. This they
readily promised to do, and now we
see them gathered about Mount Sinai,
the mountain quaking greatly and COW
cred with fire and smoke, out of the
midst of which God speaks the words of
our lesson to the peope. See chapter xix
and Deut. V, 4, 22 "A, 26. It was day, in
this respect, unlike any before or since in
them that their redemption from Egypt
was wholly Iii, doing without any help of
theirs. fu' salvation is of the Lord" (Jonah
ii. 90. ana He never asks an unredeemed
soul to l.e p His commandments. The only
command to the unsaved is to believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ q John ill., %; Acts
xvi. BID then when Christ has become to
them the end Of the law for righteousness
He will fulfill in them the righteousness of
the law, enabling them to walk not after
the flesh, but after the spirit (Rom. Y, 4;
viii, -.
3. Since they were redeemed by the only
living and true God, to make Him a name
on the earth in the sight of all nations
Oil Sam. vii, %; lsa. xiii, ~, 1D, therefore
they We're forbidden to have aught to do in
any way with the gods of the nations,
idols of wood and stone, the work of mems
hands Gil Kings xvii, So 81; Jer. Y, 10, ~.
We who have been redeemed from the curse
of the law by the work of our Substitute
Gal iii, 13) are to have no idols between
our soul and God, but make it manifest
that we worship only Him.
40. Because they saw no similtude on
the day that God spoke to them out of the
midst of the fire, therefore they were to use
no images nor likeness of anything in their
worship of God. God is seven times called
jealous God. The other six plae : are
Ex Xxxiv, IA; Deut. iv, "a; V, 9, vi, 10;
Joshua xiv, 49,; Nah i, 2. Thc word
translated jealous also means to buy, pur-
chase or redeem. We are redeemed TO be a
people for his own possession Titus il, IA, Il.
" and He wants us all for Himsel
T. The nape above every name must be
ever halowed as Jesus taught us . pray
(Alath. vi, 81. Not only is all kin of 50
called profanity forbidden, but as tie name
stands for the character Gen. XXX y, 80
all that would in any way belittle tn char
acter of God must be carefully a oided.
We are here to honor Him in every way and
magnify His name.
Sill The Sabbath was made for man,
and the Son OF Man is Lord of the sabbath
! Mark Ii, 81, 2S). If, then, He is my Lord,
the Sabbath is specially mine thai on it
may have special communion with lin. In
| lisa. lviii, IL, II, we are taught that We are to
honor Him, not doing our own ways, nor
! finding our own pleasure, nor speak ing our
own words, and that thus we shall delight
| ourselves in the Lord. In Col ii, It.. II, we
read that even the Sabbath is shadow of
things to come, perhaps referring to the
keeping of "a Sabbath that remains for the
people of God (Heb. iv, 81 but which we can
foretaste even here (Heb. iv, 10).
II. The first four commandment Ord-
narily known as the first table of me law,
are summed up by our Lord Jesus ~ Mark
xii, 80, 81 Quoting from Deut vi, Band Jer.
xix, 49, as loving God with all t.r heart,
and the last six as loving our neighbor as
ourselves. Or as it is in Rom. xiii, 10,
Love is the fulfilling of the law" This
fifth command is spoken of in Eph. vi, ., as
| The first commandment with promise ~
| Next to God we are to honor our parents,
and a curse is pronounced upon such rs do
otherwise (Deut. xvii, 10; Prov. 30, ~.
10. Thou shalt not kill" In our Lord ;
commentary ON this in Math. V, p. y, ..e
teaches that anger lies at the root of muir
der, and in John hi, -, it is written that
"he that hateth his brother is a murderer"
referring back to the story of Cain and
Abel. Not only are we forbidden to hate
any one, but we are forbidden TO speak evil
or even imagine evil against another
DANES iv, IL; Zech vii, 10; viii, ~.
a. "lhou shalt not commit adultery. ~
That this command reaches not only to the
sinful act but is broken by even a sinful
thought. is clear from our Lords comment
upon it in Math. V, ~ %. Another aspect
of it is found in Jas. iv, 4, where we are told
that to love or be a friend of the world
that hates God is in His sight "A form of
adultery. Let us pray;
Wash, Lord, and purify my heart,
And make it clean in every part,
And when It's clean, Lord keep it, too,
For that is more than can do.
10 "Thou shalt not steal" Many would
scorn to take what does not belong to them,
as between man and man, who possibly
might have to plead guilty when searched
by the question, Twill "A man rob God?' In
asmuch rs our relation to God is the first
question, let the believer ask himself, Am |
robbing God of any portion of my being or
my time or my money? He claims our body
as His property (Rom. xii, l, 2; l Cor. vi, 10,
20) and at least a seventh of our time and a
tenth of our income
IT, Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbor." Some love lying
rather than righteousness (os lii, -, but
such are finally found without the city
(Rev. xxi, 15). He that worketh deceit
shall not dwell within my house; he that
telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight" CPs.