The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-18
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON XII, THIRD QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES. SEPT. ts.

Memory Verses. IL, 14-9osden 1e1Is =
Chron. xviii e-COmmentary by the
Rev. ID. N. SteArns.
g. "And the children of Israel did Sc Y
cretlv these things that were not right
against the Lord their God" For ESQ
years God had borne with the continued
and increasing sin Of these ten tribes who
persisted in following in the steps OF their
first king, Jeroboam, of whom it Is writ
ten SO often that he made Israel to sin.
During these years they had 10 kings, but =
not one who feared God. In Deut iv, 26-
"a, they had warning a. 70 what would
come upon them II they sinned against
God, but in spite Of all warnings and en-
treaties they persisted In their sins Win
such words as Pa cxxxix, 1-1s, before them
how deceived By satan they were 20 think
that God could not ZEE in secreti
10. "And they set them up images and
groves In every high hill, and uncer every
green tree Even Solomon did this, ana
Judah after Solomon's death Il Kings II,
2, 8; xiv, 20, 23), but Israel exceeded See
the plain and express command forbid
ding these things in Deut. xii, 2-4, and xvi,
ri, 90, with the added words in XII, 81,
'sWhat thing soever I command you, OBJ
serve to do It; thou shall not add thereto
nor diminish from It," and the warning |
In Deut. will, 10, "n thou do at all forgee |
the Lord thy God, and walk after other |
gods, and serve them and worship them,
| testify against you this day, that ye shall
surely perish"
IL. "And there they burnt incense In
all the high places, as did tho beathen
whom the Lord carried away before them. I"
In the days of Samuel they insisted upon
having a king that they might be like 9TH
er nations Il Sam. viii, 1922, thus reject
I 7 - hox THAR KING and tuFn-
ing their backs upon Him who loved them
and had done all things for them. They
sacrificed unto their net and burned in
cense unto their drag (Hab. i, l6), think
ing that their blessings came through them
instead of from God.
l2 "For they served idols, whereof the
Lord had said unto them, Ie shall not do
, this thing" See Ex. xx, 3-5; Low. XVI,
l, and consider how the devil stirs people
to go directly against God even as when
, God said, ''In the day thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die" and the devil said,
. "Ye shall not surely die (Gen. ii, Il; iii,
a. One is our Master, even Christ, ana
we should be able to say, "Whose am,
3 and whom I serve (AIath. xiii, s, 10;
l Acts xvii, 23), for we cannot serve
God and Mamnon, but notwithstanding
q that we arc assured that the friendship OF
: the world is enmity with God and that we
are not to be conformed to this world (Jas
i iv, 4; Rom. xii, p, yet many who bear the
= name of Christ conform 70 the world an
| persistently as Israel served idols.
d 13. "Yet the Lord testified against Is
n rael and against Judah by all the prophets
and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from
:, YOUR evil ways" Consider Isa- /, Is; Jer.
= i'll, l2; XIV, 81 Eek. xviii, 81 xxxiii, III
Hos. xiv, /, and compare with II Pet Ill,
u @: John iii, 10, and see how from the day
r, that God sought Adam and Eve in theil
& hiding place in Eden until the story o.
rt Rev. tx, 20, 21, how He is ever seeking tC
IL have His wandering ones return to Him
He even puts the words In their moutl
= which they shall say when they return Il
y Him (Hos xiv, %. In the story OF tn
- urodipal in Luke xv He teaches us hov
~ the wanderer is loved and sought for b.
% God the Father, God the Son, and God tn
a. Holy Spirit.
Mt IA. Notwithstanding they would no
b, hear" In Isa. Xxx, 1b, He cries, In re
n turning and rest shall ye be saved; j
n quietness and confidence shall be you
~ strength, and ye would not" In Matt
y xiii, 81, He says, "How often would
nx and We would NOT In Ps. xxi, 13, IL, 3
at says, "Oh, that my people had hearkene
,os unto me, and Israel had walked in m
Dr. ways, but my people would not hearken
Id INV voice and Israel would none OF me.
ow He ever longs to save and bless, but ~
a,s to cry, Eye will not come unto me-" L
came unto His own and His own receive
Him not; He was in the world and u
IN world was made by Him, and the wor
ne knew Him not; He only asks US TO ha
tie faith In Him, to yield to Him, trust Ai
at and follow Him. Why will we notY
alf I6. "They followed vanity and becar
tri- vain and went after the heather that we
;th round about them" In Jer. Z, s,
- speaking of idols and their worship, {
Spirit, through the prophet, says, II
oo- stock is a doctrine of vanities; craven a
jus molten images are vanity and the work
nee errors" The same chapter says that
Lord is the true God. the living God a
ey- King Of eternity, the Creator OF heay
oo and earth. In Jer. ii, Is, He says that
tell people have forsaken Him, the fountain
- living waters, and have hewn them {
'0~' cisterns that can hold no water. ]
whole book of Ecclesiastes teaches that
the under the sun is vanity, but in the So
tell Of Solomon we learn Of Him who is al
1t q Rether lovely, who alone can satisfy
ing, soul.
and 16. "They left all the commandments
non the Lord their God and made them mol
- images" He brought them out OF Eg.
that He might be their God and they
people, that other nations seeing God
and through them might turn from
ned folly of idolatry to the God OF Israel,
ling only living and true God But when Isr
art, turns away from the true God TO wors
nil. the idols of the heathen what can
heather conclude but that the God Of Isl
is not as good as their godsf Thus Isl
dishonored their God
IL. "They sold themselves to do evil
pale the sight Of the Lord. to provoke SN ,it HIN
un to Ahab, "Thou hast sold thyself to "
and evil In the sight Of the Lord" See l
Isa- /, /; iii, 8. There are two bidders
lnly our souls-God and the devil The La
fat offers us the pleasures Of sin for seas