Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-02-16
international gessai1s.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON TX, FIRST QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, FEB. 81.

Text Of the Lesson, Math. II, 20-3O-Mem-
ory Verses, 2s-3O-Golden Text Math.
Il as-Commentary by the Rev. d. NJ.
Stearns.
copyright. 1897. by D. NJ. stearns.l
30 Then began He to upbraid the
cities wherein most of His mighty works
were done because they repcnted not
Before He chose the twelve He had been
about all the cities and villages teaching,
preaching and healing, and after He had
chosen and Instructed them He continued
to teach and preach in their cities (chap-
ters *, 35; xi, ~ He never seemed to
rest except when He had to because night
had come but even then He sometimes
spent the night in prayer. Being anointed
with the Holy Spirit and with power He
went about doing good and healing all
that were oppressed of the devil, for God
was with Him (Acts <, S8) God is not
willing that any should perish, but that
all should come to repentance (11 Pet iii,
o. Even the awful judgments of the
period of the great tribulation will be
poured out in order that men may repent
according to Rev tx, 20, 81; xvi, 9, II.
21-24. 1t shall be more tolerable for
Tyre and Sdon, for Sodom and Gomorrah,
than for the cities in which He had done
His mighty works. The people Of Ninevah
and the queen of Sheba shall condemn
those who heard a greater than Jonah or
Solomon, yet repented not (chapter xii,
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swers at the day Of Judgment, and He
knows for He is the appointed Judge
"God commanded all men everywhere to
repent because He hath appointed day in
the which He will Judge the world in right:
eousness by the man whom He hath Or
dained, whereof He hath given assurance
unto all men in that He hath raised Him
from the dead" (Acts xvii, 80, 81 Not
only will every one Of us give account OF
himself to God, but God will bring every
work into Judgment with every secret
thing, whether it be good or whether it be
evil Every idle word that men shall speak
they shall give account thereof in the day
of Judgment (Rcm. xiv, l2; Eccl., xii,
IA; Math xii, S6) Yet we must not think
Of so called general judgment day when
all who have ever lived from Adam to the
kingdom shall appear at one grand assize.
but rather let us get the mind of God,
which is briefly this: All who are saved
by Jesus blood can see on Calvary that
the Judgment for their sins Is past lsa
xiii, 25; John v, 24), but all saved ones
must appear at the Judgment scat of Christ
that their service as such may be tried
with the possibility Of loss or approval
from. xiv, 10; II Cor v. 10; Cor iii. II
15).
25. "At that time Jesus answered and
said, / thank thee, o Father, Lord of heav
en- and earth. because thou hast hid these
things from the wise and prudent, and
hast revealed the1E unto babes " ThaEk
God for all the babes who are willing to
believe every word their Heavenly Father
tells them The wise and prudent In their
own estimation must continue to walk in
the light of their own fire and in the
sparks that they have kindled (Isa- l. ll),
because they are to wise to accept God s
light. The world by its wisdom knows
not God Il Cor. i, s1)
96. Even so, Father, for so it seemed
good in Thy sight" In the French this
verse reads, "Yes, My Father, this is SO,
because that Thou hast found it good
We must remember that the words lat
that time of the last verse direct us to
the time when servants were doubling,
Israel mocking ard men despising They
had called Him glutton and winebib-
ber, friend of publicans and sinners
Even John the Baptist in his lonely prison
seemed to be listening to satan's doubts
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to put yourself in his place., and under all
these and much worse as the time OF His
awful agony drew nigh He was content to
have it so, if only the Father might be
glorifed in Him.
| 81. "All things are delivered unto Me Of
My Father, and no man knoweth the Son,
but the Father Neither knoweth any
man the Father, save the Son, and he to
whomsoever the Son will reveal Him.
The Father loveth the Son and hath given
all things into His hand John Iii, 35) 1t
makes us think of the words of Abraham g
servant concerning the only son, Unto
him hath he given all that he hath" (Gen
xiv, S6) No one but the Father in heav.
en- ever fully understood the Son OF God,
and no one but the Son knows the Father
or can make Him known. If therefore you
would know God, it must be by knowing
Christ for His words still hold good, HE
that hath seen Me hath seen the Father
(John xiv, 81 "All things" include "all
power in heaven and on earth" (Math
xviii, lS), power over all enemies, so that
He need not have submitted to single
thing unless He chose to.
% Come unto Me all ye that labor
and are heavy laden, and will give you
rest Unless we consider, as we have
sought to do the circumstances under
which He uttered these words we will
miss much of their force He was, hu.
manly speaking, weary and heavy laden
because of the unbelief and ingratitude Of
those He sought to help and He found His
rest in the will of God and His meek &C.
ceptance of the same manifested in His
Eyes, My Father" Mr. Spurgeon used
to say that he saw in this verse great
proof of our Lords divinity, for when he
tried to comfort even few heavy laden
ones in his congregation he soon found
himself getting burdened, so that any one
who could give rest to all the heavy laden
of earth must be none other than God
Himself
30. Take My yoke upon you and learn
Of Me; for am meek and lowly in heart,
and ye shall find rest unto your souls
Not in crying and striving, not in endless
doing, but in Him and in His love is rest:
not in running from Him, but in running
to Him. In returning and rest is saliva
tion, and in quietness and confidence is
strength lisa XXX, l5) Whosoever Will
NAV take the water Of life freely and be
saved (Rev. xii, ~, whosoever will may
take His meek and lowly fellowship and
find perfect peace, but there is no other