The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-05-27
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON TX, SECOND QUARTER, IN
7ERNATlONAL SERIES. MAY 80.

yerses 14-17 Golden Text, jas. Ii
- Commentary by the Rev. ID. M.
Stearns. :
"A .sUbat doth it profit, my brethren, [
.honob q man saw he hath faith and have
not works? Can faith save hlmE Inc II.
V saws tCan that faith save him! Ahere
are no contradictions in the teaching Vi
Scripture, and one of the plainest doctrines
IN ali the book, taught even in this lesson
nv the Spirit, through James verse Sol
Is that the only salvation revealed TO us Is
that which has been fully wrought out ror
| ma nv the Lord Jesus Christ without any
| help of ours, and which we must receive
| Inv faith as a free gift from God. BEE hoii.
~ <. EDh Ill 8; Titus iii, 5. 1t Is nnos6
| enthusiastically clear that we are saved ny
| faith alone But it is just as clearly tauShO
| that the evidence of that faith Will Do seeh
in our daily lives by our walking IN tne
good works prepared for us zee hph. ~
10: Titus iii, 8. A faith that does not pro
duce good works and holy lie Is ho0
penuine but is an empty name
In 10 eff a brother or sister be naked |
and destitute of daily food, and one OF you
say unto them, Depart IN peace, NC ye
warned and filled, notwithstanding We give
them not those things which are neeolul
| 70 the body. What doth it protit?' Or as
John saws. "My little children, let us not
love in word, neither in tongue, pu5 IN
deed and in truth q John III, lol- Jesus
Himself said, ''NIy mother and My oreth,
rem are these which hear the word OF goa
and do it, duke viii 2l)- ana asaln'
mot every one that saith unto Me Loro'
Lord shall enter into the kingdom OF heiV-
on. hut he that doeth the will OF My fa-
ther, which is in heaven" (Math- VII, ~
II Even so faith, if it hath not Works'
is dead, being alone, " or, as In the mar
gin, "by itself Falth colhe'n y! - e.
ing the word of God (Rom. K, 17)-that IS
, | nv receiving the word of God, and the
word of God is incorruptible seed when IS
| sure to grow. Faith receives ChrlsU lh.o
O the heart, and Christ in us cannot De ma
: onv more than He could be hid In the
bonse in the borders of Tyre and Sldon
o Mark vii, pa. You walk by neiu III
:. which not a green blade is to be seen, al
. | +bouOb it looks as if it had been sown, ana
| the farmer says that he sowed IL with goou
. seed three months ago. Either the SEED
was no good or was destroyed aluer oeAnS
- | soWn or the farmer lied
:, ~ "Yea. a man may say, Thou hast
= faith and / have works. Show me thy
10 faith without thy works and Will snow
~ thee my faith by my works Inc ~ "
70 margin begins this verse, But some one
y! y! 1riu sav We can talk faith, but we can
~ not show faith except by our deeds IL Is
~ | the same with love. God does not need
our works to prove our faith, for He can
- | read the heart, but He tells us that bellev.
90 | ers should be careful to MAINTAIN gooo
oh works because they are good and prontaole
90 INTO men Titus iii, 81. Not only profit
-, able to those who do the works. Tor we ar
IN he rewarded according to our Work!
Rev. xii, -; Cor. iii, 8, 14, but profit
- able to those who, seeing the good WORKS
}" may be led by them to Him who worKeti
Dy in us both to will and to do OF his goo'
IL pleasure phil. ii, 49,
a 10 "Thou believest that there Is on
ria God Thou doest well. The devils also be
- 1ia1-e and tremble'' The R. V. say
Tn sshudder'' instead of tremble, ana the
V margin saws demons instead OF deN
oLA lis There is but one devil, though thel
co. are hosts of demons, his followers OF
ing b,s eaid that there are no atheists or IL
&C. | fdels in hell All who are there believe
tbc realities of hell and the devil, OF Go
md of heaven, but they cannot DeneNe
4, the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved Iho
who die in their sins can never come Whe
Christ is John viii, 2D. Therefore 1t
II" written. sBecause there is wrath, bewa
ave lest He take thee away with His strok
zen Then n great ransom cannot deliver thet
(Job xxxvi, 1S). 1t is greatly to be FEAR
that many protesting Christians are
:" better as far as salvation Is concerne
than the demons who believe and shuddt
They believe all about God and Christ al
have been received into church memD'
ship because of this knowledge backed
lyv a good moral character. But haVl
never truly received Christ (John l, i
n they continue lost souls
90 ''But wilt thou know, . vain ma
that faith without works Is dead!
l knowledge of God and of Christ that u
not lead one to receive the LORD Je'
Christ into his heart will only prove
greater condemnation. This class OF
ence nile is described in Heb. vi, 46, as enl1g
IS is ened. tasted the gift, knew somewhat
con- the Spirits teaching. But if the contil
fash ance in grace and good works Is lack1
but | then it is evident that they merely pene
the about Christ, but never truly recel
until | Him In II Pet. ii, 1922, we read ag
tier, | of such as We're to some extent peneh
1mes BY their knowledge, but were never III
ange new creatures.
81 ssWas not Abraham our father Ju
ken, fed by works when he had offered Is
the his son upon the altar?" This was
, the | outward and evident justification be
arket men, for we are justified freely by gr
able. | meritoriously by the blood OF CHRIST
IS no | fundamentally by faith Rom. iii, "a
era1, 8, y, and there is no conflict or contra
that ton in these statements. Abraham re
# all for 25 wears on the bare promise OF
entity. Then Isaac was given After he
grown to be a lad God tried his servaI
see if he was still resting on the pro
or upon the visible Isaac. Now, God L
his servants heart and did not nes
prove him that God might know, but
all generations might see that ADra
rested not in the visible gift OF COO
in God Himself and His sure word
%. 'Seest thou how faith wrought
his works and by works was faith ]
perfect" Faith, the germ, works
manifestation. 1t is written in Hell
1910, that Abraham, when he was
- by faith offered up Isaac, in whom
~ promises were to be fulfilled, beh'
that God was able to raise him up
- from the dead, from whence also n
= ceived him in a figure. In Rom Nv,
2 1t is written concerning the birth OF
that Abraham did not consider hi
nor Sarah. But strong in faith,
glory to God, he was fully persuaded
God was able to and would perform
He had promised.
90 "And the Scripture was full
which saith Abraham believed Goe
1t was imputed unto him for righ
,atisrn | ness and he was called the friend OF
When God told Abraham that his
blood | should be as the stars for multitude,
prompt ham certainly coulo ho' ieei Dha' ~
ers not be so. His only assurance was the W
r. what | God and because he took God at Hi
buuc1es we have this statement concerning
led con- Ten. XIV, 8, where we nave 1ne worn
pressed iieye'' and righteousness useo II
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