The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-29

40 anu ~ ChIne tO pass rs lie y p.
alone praying His disciples VIC v-'th
Him, and He asked them. sayins. ahom
say she people that amp" II Is probable
that between the last lesson and this we
are to think OF the feeding OF both the
5000 and the 4, 600, His walking on the
sea and His visit TO the coast Of Tyre and
Sidon, and now He Is away north near
Cesarea Philippi, or Dan He had been
hearing from homo and sending word
thither--in other words. He had bcen pray.
tng-and then He asks this question. not
that He cared what people thought Of Him
or whom thes thought lie was. but lie
was Leading on to a confession from His
disciples tor purpose If we tolerate
care as 10 what people think or say Of US
or have an ambition to have a name
among me', We have not the spirit of itim
who empti d Himself for US and made
Himself of no reputation, coming here
mot to BIO ministered unto, but to minis
ter and to give His life ransom for
many" The message of Jeremiah TO Ba-
ruch Is always fitting, "Seokest thou great
things for myself, seek them not" (Phil.
ii, z, s.; Mnth. Xxx, 2S; Jer. xiv, 81.
10. "They answering said, John the
Baptist, but some say Elias, and others
say that one of the old prophets Is risen
know God In tho greatest thing, but we
cannot know God apart from Jesus Christ
(Math. XII, 27), and when we think we
know Him we may well apply this word
to ourselves "If any man tHinketh that
he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing
yet as he ought to know" U Cor viii, p.
AT best we know but In part now; not
tin then shall we know rs we arc known
Il Cor. xiii, D, l2). The natural man uan
not know the things OF God at all II Cor.
II, 14), but even the spiritual man is oft
times so carnal that he cannot discern
| spiritual things.
20. "He said unto them, But whom soy
| ye that am? Peter, answering, said, The
Christ of God" or as In Math. xvi. 49,
| John W. 60, "The Christ, the Son OF the
living God" Matthew says that Jesus re-
piled to this, blessed art thou, Simon
Bar-jona for flesh and blood hath not re-
vealed 1t unto thee, but my Father. which
Is In Heaven" II Is surely blessed Is 10
taught of God for who teachc;h like
Him" dob xxxvi, s2.) Before jesus LIT
His disciples He said that the spiri, whom
He would send wou,d teach the'.i all
things and guido them into ell trut' John
xiv, 80; xvi, 1877.
81 "And He straitly charged them, and
thing" In Math xvi, 90, 1t Ia written that
He said that they were 10 tell no man that
Ho was Jesus the. Christ. In the begin
ming of His ministry He said very plainly
to the woman of Samaria that II ; was the
Christ (,Iohn iv 25 26), hut now that they
have rejected Him, the next sign that lie
is the Christ will be His resurrection from
the dead. We will never know TIL II is too
late how much We have lost b. not sim.
ply believing His word We thus grieycd
the spirit and hinder Him from telling us
what He would like to. II, on tho other
hand we arc filed with the spirit, we
shall hear His voice and know when to be
still and whom to speak.
go Saying, The Son Of Man must suf-
fer many things, and DO rejected OF the
elders and chief priests and scribes aud be
slain, and be- raised the third day" There
is evidently some connection between this
and His forbidding them To say that Ho
was the Christ. On several different occa-
sions He told them rs plainly as this that
lie must die and rise again the third day,
but they received 1t not. They did not be-
lieve that Ile meant just what He faid,
and they could not put any other meaning
upon His words, therefore they lost IL all
23. "And Ho said to them all, II any
man will come after Me. lot him deny
himself and take up his cross daily and fol
low Me-" The true Christian life Is the
Christ life, tho life of Jesus made manifest
in our mortal flesh III Cor. Nv, 10, ID,
and this means the dying unto self, Away,
the constant reckoning dead of thu self
life, the old man, the carnal mind which
must be put off and kept off-not put off
and on as we would our clothes. Christ
never lived unto Himself In any way
either as to His will or His glory or His
pleasure (.Tohn vi, 80; will, 90; Rom. XIV
81. To take up the cross Is not to wear
some kind of pretty cross, for there Is no
such thing as n pretty cross recognized in
Scripture, but 1t Is just TO die constantly
to ones own will and way and pleasure
"Not /, but Christ"
"a. "For whatsoever will save his life
shall lose It, but whatsoever will lose his
life for Ny sake, the same shall save 1t.
Our life may be said to be that which
takes up our attention, which chiefly &C.
cupies our minds and our time, that which
interests us most We have TO engage IN
many and varied forms of business, but
even in these 1t may he orr main thought
10 rlorify God. aud thus God md not bust
ness will be our lifa. We shall be able to
say, "For mo to live Is Christ"
20. "For what is man edvantaged II
he gain the whole world and loso himself
or be castaway?" Let man live for his
business, or his home, or for pleasure or
for himself In any way and not receive
Christ, and he and all his life will be truly
lost, for he that hath not the Son OF God
hath not life. The word 'castaway' In
this verse Is wholly different from that ir
/ Cor. tx, az. There it refers to service re.
jected (see II. W but here evidently to
the loss of the soul.
30. "For whatsoever shall be ashamed OF
Me and of My words, of him shall the Son
Of Man be ashamed when He shall come in
His own glory and In Iii Fathers, and OF
the holy angels" The one who prefers
his own life to tho daily dying to self Ger.
tainly prefers self to Christ and may be
said to be ashamed of Christ. Such can
have no part In His kingdom. His com.
Ing in glory here referred TO IL His com
ing with His saints q Thcss. i'll, 10; Col
iii, A., they having previously met Him on
His way Il Thess. Nv, 1919 and received
thoir rewards and positions In His king
dom.
81. "But toll you of truth there be
some standing hero which shall not taste
of death till they see the kingdom of God. .
Inasmuch as in Matthew, Mark and
Luke this statement Is Immediately fol-
lowed by the record ct the TRANSPORTATION,
that event was doubtless tho fulfilling OF
this statement. Jesus with Moses and
Elijah suggest tho Son OF Man Glorlled,
associated with all the saints both risen
and translated, aud the apostles suggest
Israel In the Josh all righteous. Such will
be the center of the millennial kingdom,