Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-10-26
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON VI, FOURTH QUARTER, IN
TERNATlOilAL SERIES, NOV. 6.

Memory Verses, 10-13-Golden Text, IL
Chron. Xxx, 8-Commentary Prepared by
the Rev. D. NJ. Stearns.
copyright. 1885, by d. NJ. stearns.]
/. "Come to tho house Of the Lord at
Jerusalem to keep tho Passover unto the
Lord God of Israel" This was the mes
sage of Hezekiah, king who did right In
the sight of tho Lord (chapter xxx, %, to
all Israel and Judah, regarding them as
one people. Although long divided into
two nations, they are one In His sight and
shall yet be one in the eyes of all nations
(Ezek. xxxvii, 81, 22). Hezekiah repaired
the house of the Lord and restored the
worship He wrought good and right and
truth before the Lord his God and did ev-
cry work with all his heart and prospered
(chapter xxi, 90, 2D. He would have all
Israel remember their deliverance from
Egypt and rejoice in the Lord and serve
Him.
2, 8. 1.-THE king had taken counsel, and
his princes and all the congregation in
Jerusalem to keep the Passover In the Sec
ond month" Although the first month
was the regular time for the feast, there
was provision in the law to keep it in tho
second month If necessary (Ex. xii, 1S;
Mum. TX, 10, iD. Place and time and
form arc not SO important in Gods sight
as heart that is right with Him. Even
feasts and Sabbaths are shadow Of things
to come. Christ is the reality of oil, and
apart from Him nothing is real (Col. II,
16, ~.
4. "And the thing pleased the king and
all the congregation. 1t Is written OF
David in II Sam. Iii, 96, that whatsoever
the king did pleased all the people. !"
When king and people please each other,
and all together please God, that Is surely
sample of the kingdom of God on earth.
Thus it shall be when Israel shall have be-
come righteous nation with the Christ,
the Son of David, as their King (Ez.
xxxvii, "a, 25).
s. make proclamation throughout all
Israel to keep the Passover unto the Lord
God of Israel at Jerusalem" This feast
conmemorating the great deliverance OF
Israel out of the bondage of Egypt by the
mighty power of God was to be kept every
year, but in tho Old Testament we have
an account of only five after the first one
In Ex. xii. These records are found In
Mum. tx, Josh. V, II Chron. xxxv, Ezra
vi and in our lesson. The greatest Pass
over in the New Testament Is recorded In
Luke xii, IA, Is, and in the other gospels
as having been kept by our Lord and His
apostles on the night before He was sacri-
feed for US as our Passover He spoke at
that time of future fulflllment in the
kingdom of God duke xii, 16), and In
stituted the Lords supper as a memorial
of His death to be kept by His redeemed
till He shall como again.
6. "Ye children of Israel, turn again
unto the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and
Israel and He will return to the remnant
of you" Letters from king to his peo-
Pile urging them to turn to the Lord God
would be most unusual occurrence In
our time. Evcn II church is in need OF
funds, it is moro customary to turn to
some wealthy pcoplo or to some worldly
way than to tho Groat Head Of the church.
Z. "Bo not 70 like your fathers and like
your brethren which trespassed against
tho Lord God of their fathers" Their sin
is briefly stated in Jcr. ii, IS, "My people
have committed two evils; they have for
snken me, tho fountain Of living waters,
and hewod them out cisterns, broken cis-
terms, that can hold no water" Thus they
changed their glory for that which could
not profit. The Lord was their judge and
lawgiver anu king, but they turned their
backs upon Him and preferred their own
way. Is there any analogy nowP
8. "Yield yourselves unto the Lord, and
servo the Lord your Cod" The margin
says "Give the hand unto the Lord" In
Rom. vi, 13, it is "Yicld yourselves unto
God as those that are alive from the dead. I"
AS unsaved sinners all we are asked to do
is to receive Christ.
8. "The Lord your God is gracious and
merciful and will not turn away His face
from you If ye return unto Him." His
name in Ex. xxxiv, 6, is "The Lord, the
Lord God, merciful and gracious, long
suffering and abundant in goodness and
truth" Read also verse z. He says In
Nal. iii, 6:"I am the Lord. change not. !"
In Heb. xiii, 8, He is "Jesus Christ, the
same yesterday, today and forever" He
is not willing that any should perish, has
provided eternal redemption for all and Is
ever saying, "Him that cometh to me
will in nowisc cast out" John vi, 37.
10. $50 the posts passed from city to
city, but they laughed them to soorn and
Knocked them that is, many of Ephraim,
Manassch and Zebulun did. The final tes-
timony concerning Judah is, "They mock
cd the messengers of God and despised His
words, and misused His prophets until the
wrath of tho Lord arose against His peo-
pie, till thore was no remedy" II Chron.
xxxvi, 16) This is the carnal mind which
Is enmity against God and Is ever the
same, but these were not the heathen who
never heard of God. They wcro the people
of God for whom He had dono more than
for any nation on earth. See II Tim. Ill,
1-5.
II. "Nevertheless divers of Asher, Ma
nasseh and of Zebulun BUNDLED themselves
and came to Jerusalem. When Paul
preached in Rome, some believed the
things which were spoken and some be-
lieved not (Acts xviii, 24). So it ever
has been and will be till the end of this
age. The parallels Of the sower, the tares,
tho mustard seed and the leaven of Math.
xiii, all teach this, as also tho plain in
struction to both prophets and apostles in
Isa. vi, 8; Jer. /, 10; Eek. Ill, 70; Math.
<, 16. Tho messenger of God may always
be sure that some will receive the message
and that tho word Of the Lord will never
return to Him void.
12 "Also in Judah the hand Of God
was to give them ono heart to do the COM
mandment of tho king and of the princes,
by the word of the Lord" 1t Is God who
worketh. He dooth according to His will.
Ho guides His willing people and makes
even the wrath of man to praise Him.
13. And there assembled at Jerusalem
much people to keep the feast Of unleay-
enod bread" 1t was very great congre-
CATION, so those who would not come hurt
none but themselves When God Is work
ing. thnse who will not full in with Him