The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-12
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON xl, SECOND QUARTER, IN
TeRNATIONAL SERIES, JUNE 13.

| Memory Verses, 3, 1i-15- Golden
Text, III Tim. iii, Is commentary by the
Rev. ID. NJ. stearns.
The second cpistlcs are all suggestive of
the last days, when the world shall have
corrupted the church, and contain special
instructions TO God servants for times Of
disorders. conclusions, formality etc. The
faithful witness is taught how to deal with
those who "turn away from, "err CON
corning" and resist the truth, or twill
not endure sound doctrine" III Tim. |, 10;
Ii, Is; iii, S; iv, 81.
l. paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by
the will of God, according To the promise
of life which is i'm Christ Jesus" He
loved TO think of himself as one sent forth
by Jesus Christ and chosen for this honor
by the will of God. Why God should choose
any of us is certainly great wonder, but
If we have truly received the Lord Jesus
Christ as our Saviour, resting wholly and
only on His finished work of atonement,
we need not fear To believe that we were
chosen in Him before the foundation of
the world (Eph. /, a.; that we should be
holy before Him, and that He might send
us forth i'm His name, even rs the Father
sent Him John xvii, IS; Xxx, 2D. The
life that God gives is in Christ, and apart
from Him there is no life Il John V, 12).
2. "To Timothy, my dearly beloved son:
Grace, mercy and peace from God the Fa-
Their and Christ Jesus our Lord" In l
Tim. 1, ?, he calls him My own son in
the faith, and i'm Phil. ii, 90 (margin), he
wrote that he had no man so dear unto
him as Timothy. We first read of him in
Acts xvi, l. as n disciple living at Lystra,
his mother Jewess, his father Greek.
And Paul on his second missionary tour
took him with him. 1t is by the grace or
undesclVed favor of God through Jesus
Christ that we are saved.
g. Il thank God, whom serve from my
forefathers with pure conscience, that with
out ccasing i have remembrance of thee in
my prayers night ard day" Before the
council he also said that he had lived in all
good conscience before God (Acts xiii, u,
or as he puts it in Acts XVI, ., "After the
most stratest sect of our religion lived
Pharisee. lie does not attempt to excuse
his great sins against Jesus Christ and His
redeemed, but says that he verify thought
that he ought 10 do these things (Acts
XVI, 81.
4. Greatly desiring to see thee, being
mindful of thy tears, that l may be filled
with joy" Paul prayed much for those
whom God had given him, but he would
pray, especially for such a one as his son
Timothy. If Paul had the Philippian and
other believers in his heart (Phil. /, y and
prayed much for them, how much more
does our Lord Jesus carry, love and pray
for His redeemed ones We are not told
the cause of Timothy's tears, but if Paul
was mindful of them how much more is
our Lord of ours. There is comfort to hui
man weakness in the thought that the Joy
of such a one as Paul might be increased
by Timothy.
g. 'When call TO mind the unfeigned
faith that is in thee" Not in him only,
but in both mother and grandmother; not
that faith is hereditary, but children may
be so taught and trained that from carli-
est infancy they may be true believers in
the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed are the
mothers and grandmothers who so train
the children. UnfeignCd faith makes us
think of the "most surely believed" and
know the certainty of Luke i, !, 4.
q. Wherefore put thee in remembrance
that thou stir up the gift of God which is
in thee by the putting on of my hands.
He refers TO this also in l Tim. iv, a. The
spirit bestows gifts upon people seyerally
as He, the Spirit, will, and God places the
members in the body as it hath pleased
him Il Cor. xii, IL, 49, He gives to every
man his work and something to work with
and says, Occupy till come" MARK xiii
a. Luke xix, 49,. Then at His coming
He will reward every man according to his
works.
z. For God hath not given us the spirit
OF fear, but of power, and of love, and of
sound mind. y Judging from the portion
of the epistle following, such rs i, s, L., IS;
ii, 3, 10, ~; iii, l2; iv, b, is, we would
infer that the fear referred to is fear of
what one might he called upon to endure;
but thoughts of the perfect love of God cast |
out all fear Il John iv 49,
3-14. But continue thou in the things !
which thou hast learned and hast been as
sured of. Our Lord said, Continue We
I'm My love, IF We continue in My word, !
then are ye My disciples indeed (John XIV,
y; viii, 81. like to remember that Luke !
said in the beginning of his gospel that |
he wrote concerning the things which |
were most surely believed" that his |
friend might "know the certainty" of 1
these things duke i, 1, ~, and that Abra-
ham was fully persuaded that what God |
had promised He was able to perform |
Rom. iv, go, 21).
10. And that from child thou hast |
known the Holy Scriptures, which are able |
10 make thee wise unto salvation through |
faith which is in Christ Jesus" These
could be none other than what some de-
spise as the Old Testament writings. in
which Paul testiflcs there was wisdom I'M
10 salvation and the way of faith i'm Christ
Jesus. think the way of salvation, Gods |
way, is nowhere in all the Bible more sim.
ply set forth than in Gen. iii, 21. The Lord
Himself provided the clothing by the she'd
ling of blood, and Adam and Eve had only
20 drop as useless their own works. the
dg leaf aprons, and accept Gods provision.
Blessed are the children who from their
youth are taught these things.
10. "All Scripture is given by inspira.
ION OF God and Is profitable for doctrine,
or reproof, for correction, for instruction
N righteousness. While the Bible con.
aims the very words of God and some of
,he very words of the devil, as well as some
words of good and bad men, yet the whole
book, from beginning to end, was written
~ the Spirit Of God, He giving the men
whom he used the very words to write, "a
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