The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1898-02-23
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON X, FIRST QUARTER, INTER
NATIONAL SERIES, FEB. ~.
Text Of the Lesson. Math. nj. 2O-3O-Mem-
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DRY Verses. 1850 Golden Text, Meth.
ri, ss- Commentary by the Rev. ID. M.
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Copyright 1897. by ID. NJ. Stearns
go Then began He To upbraid the
cities wherein most of His mighty works
were done because they repented 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 I'm their cities (chap-
tiers TX, 80; XII, IL. 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 x, 3S). God Is not
willing that any should perish, but that
all should come to repentance Oh Pet. iii,
o. Even the awful judgments of the
period of the great tribulation will be
poured out i'm order that men may repent
according TO Rev. TX, 90 21; xvi. 3, III.
2l-24. 1t shall be more tolerable for
Tyre and Sidon, for Sodom and Gomorrah,
than for the cities i'm which He had done
His mighty works The people of Ninevah
and the queen of Sheba shall condemn
those who heard greater than Jonah or
Solomon, yet repented not (chapter xiii
Al, 42) But when will this be? He an
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
iained, whereof He hath given assurance
unto all men i'm that He hath raised Him
frm the dead Acts xvii, 30, 81. Not
on will every one of us give account of
himsC If 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 (Rom. xiv IL; Feel, xii,
IA; Math. xii, 36). Yet we must not think
of a 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 lisa
xiii, %; John V, 24), but all saved ones
that their service as such may be tried
with the possibility of loss or approval
| (Rom. xiv, 10; III Cor. V, 10; Cor ill., a,
| 15).
% 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 them unto babes F" Thank
| 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 lisa. |, ID,
because they are too wise TO accept God
| light. The world by it's wisdom knows
not God Q Cor. i, 2l).
26. Even so, Father, for SO it seemed
good i'm Thy sight. In the French this
verse reads, Eyes, My Father, this is So
because that Thou hast found it good. I"
! We must remember that the words at
that time" of the last verse direct us to
the time when servants We're doubling
Israel hooking and men despising. They
had called Him glutton and winebib-
Der, friend of publicans and sinners
| Even John the Baptist in his lonely prison
seemed to be listening TO satan's doubts
! lido not condemn him till you have tried
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 il SO, If only the Father might be
! glorified in Him.
%. "All things are delivered unto Me OF
Ny Father ana no man knoweth the Son,
but the Father Neither knoweth any
man the Father save the Son, and he 10
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 s
servant concerning the only son. Unto
! him hath he given all that he hath (Gen.
xiv, 36) No one but the Father in heav-
Ell 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, IL must be by knowing
Christ for His words still hold good, He
that hath seen Me hath seen the Father"
! (.Iohn xiv, o. "All things include all
power i'm heaven and OH earth" (Math
xviii, 49,, power over all enemies SO that
He need not have submitted to single
thing unless He chose TO.
20. Come unto Me all We that labor
and are heavy laden and will give you
rest" Unless we consider, as we have
sought 10 do, the circumstances under
which He uttered these words, we will
miss much of their force He was, HUI
manly speaking, weary and heavy laden
because of the unbeief and ingratitude OF
those He sought to help and He found His
rest i'm the will of God and His meek ac-
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 a 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 he none other than God
! Himself
20. Take My yoke upon you and learn
of Me; for | am meek and lowly in heart,
and We shall find rest unit, 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
ton, and I'm quietness and confidence Is
strength lisa xxx, 15). Whosoever will
may take the water of life freely and be
saved (Rey. xxi, ~, whatsoever will may
take His meek and lowly fellowship and
find perfect peace, but there is no other