The Brinkley argus. (Brinkley, Ark.) 1883-current, 1898-01-06
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
International Lesson for January D,
1S0S Jesus Tempted = Matthew

International Lesson for January o,
ls0s Jesus Tempted Matthew
4s1-11.
[Arranged from Peloubet's Eotes.l
GOLDEN TExT.-For in that He Him.
self hath suffered being tempted. He is bic
to succor them that are tempted.-Heb 2:lS.
TIME.-Probably about January. A. D.
q. directly after His baptism.
LESSON NOTES.
The Initiatory Battle and Testing
AS the first Adam, the head Of the race,
must be tempted and tested at the be-
ginning of his career. so must the Sec
ond Adam, the head of the redeemed
people of God, be tempted and tested at
the beginning of his work.
1. Then: Immediately after His bap-
tism and full of the Holy Ghost" was
Jesus led up of (by) the Spirit:" Under
some constraining influence that
showed Him what He ought to do. ITO
be tempted of the devils" The SANDER
err. the false accuser, one who seeks by
false and lying means to injure others.
disappearing God, distorting the
truth. III -.
Temptation Through the Appetite
-. 4 oStCu Aoll ~ 0oJ - oho AcAAy
nights" Both Mark and Luke say He
was tempted all these forty days, prob
ably in the same general way as the
| last three great assaults now to be de-
scribed. He was probably thinking.
| praying, planning. HE was afterward
hungered:" When the reaction has
begun. hunger asserts its claims with
| force SO terrible that (as has been
| shown again and again in human ex-
] perience) such moments are fraHght
with the EXTREMIST periFto the soul.
3. "The tempter came to Him." Sa-
tan made his severest assault in the
time of jesus greatest weakness. He
still watches his time. and attacks us
when weary, sick, troubled, disheart-
ened. nervous and weak. IF thou be
the Son Of God:" if you really are Gods
Son, and hence are possessed Of mirac-
ulous powers, command that these
stones be made bread:" The wrong
was not in turning stones into bread,
but in doing it when He ought not to, at
the instigation of Satan, at the expense
/ of higher things. 1t would have de-
stroyed His power and mission as a
Saviour of men. He could not then be
/ tempted like as we are if He used His
supernatural power to save Himself
/ from hunger, forwe haveno such power.
4. 1T is written: in Deut. $50, quoted
from the Greek translation. "Man shall
not live by bread alone:" By food for
the body.
The Temptation-to Gain Good Things
by False and Presumptuous Faith
vs.. 81. S. '.Taketh Him up into the
holy city:" Jerusalem, literally, or in
spirit. ION (the) pinnacle (orrather,
wing) of the temple"
6. IF thou be the Son Of God:" Thus
planting a doubt in His mind. "Cast
Thyself down." Into the court of the
temple among the crowds. Itfwas pre-
sented as showing His faith inTGod, and
| giving the assurance that He was the
Son of God. if God sent His angel to
care for Him. Then. too, the people,
seeing Him coming down safely from
the height, would hail Him as prophet
and make Him king, as they tried to do
after He fed the 5000. AForft is writ-
ten" (Psa. 91:i1): He quotes this pas
sage. and misapplies it, to show that
1 Jesus could do it safely. and succeed
in proving His Messiahship. Many q
temptation has coine.from misapplying
Scripture.
Z. 1T is written @eut. 6:16) again"
On the other hsnd, ~ explaining the
words you quotes ~Thop shalt not
tempt the Lord thy G6dsv Thsd is.
distrust God or test His rpser pre-
| sumptuously. ~
Temptation to Gain sse6ess Even
Good Objects, by Wong De't&-s.
"The devil taketh Hfm up info e13ex-
ceeding high mountain:" ProbHbp e
shirt in vision. for there is no meQn-
i tain so high that all the kingdo4e 81
i the earth can be seen by the nediiy
eve. twas in some kind Of vision that
Satan showed him, in moment q
| time, fall the kingdoms OF the world.
and the glory of them:" The kingdom
Of power and law in Rome, with its
splendid court and triumphant atmies;
| the kingdoms Of literature, art apd cul-
ture inlGreece; the ''barbaric GYMS OF
| gold' Of the Orient; and possibly
vision Of the future with its glorious
civilizations, with its redeemed peoples,
fulfilling all that the pro'hets foretold'
or John on Patmos s0w OF the new
heavens and the new yarth:
o. "All these thinss will give thee:"
In 8 measure stan did have these
things. Christ later called him the
prince Of this rorld. If thou wilt fall
| down and wrship Mes" Satan does
not mean a,ald act Of worship. q bend
mo Ii outward reverence to the grim
King Of Darkness. Rather, Satan
asked such an act of worship as men
give when they worship money. by low
ing it better than God; when they wor-
ship success, by placing it before duty;
real. not formal, worship. Satan is
too shrewd to insist on the form If he
can gain the heart.
10. "Get thee hence. Satan." 1t was
by this proposal that Satan revealed
himself. "For it is written (Deut. 6:13),
Thou shalt worship the Lord thy Gods"
There is none other worthy of worship.
- sur1,o, <ba Iavi1 1aovafh Him"