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GESSON ", SECOND QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, MAY /.
-Yext sof the Lesson, Math. xxi, 6-16-Mem-
DRY Verses, 9-11-Golden Text, Math. xxi,
o. Commentary by the Rev. d. NJ.
stesrns.
(, copyright. 1898. by D. NJ. Stearns.]
=. 6. And the disciples went and did as
Jesus commanded them" The time had
come to fulfill the prophecy of Zechariah'
quoted in the previous verse from Lcch
tx, 9, and, like all other fulfillments OF
prophecy, it shall be literally fulfilled, the
King of Israel, the meek and lowly one
ashall ride upon an ass colt into Jerusalem.
sEhere is set time known to God Tor the
fulfillment of every prediction and a sum
ecient reason for all seeming delays IL was
when the fullness of the time was come
that God sent forth His Son, made OF
woman, made under the law, to redeem
hhem that were under the law (Gal. Nv, 4,
~ Everything concerning Him and His
great redemption shall take place at the
appointed time.
z And brought the ass and the colt
and put ON them their clothes, and they
sset Him thereon" He had told them to
80 into the village, and as soon as they
entered it they would find a colt tied,
which they were to loose and bring to
Him. 1t is written that they went their
way and found even as He had said unto
fhem MARK XII, "a; Luke xix, 3O-32).
The disciples did not have to hire colt
and have it at the appointed place at the
appointed time He Himself arranged it
all When king was to be provided for
Israel, Samuel did not have to wonder
what kind of man would do and then
sscour the country to find him, but the
Lord said, II will send thee a man, and
thou shalt anoint him" Il Sam. TX. l6)
s. And very great multitude spread
their garments in the way. Others cut
down branches from the trees and strewcd
them in the way" Not only their gar
ments on the colt, but also on the ground
suggestive in very practical way for
those who have eyes to see and ears to
hear III lob Vi, ~, l!lan is compared to
a wild ass colt This colt had never been
<subducd, was found tied where two ways
met, was loOsed and brought to Jesus, and
becoming subject to Him became an in
4strumcnt to carry Him. itself hidden, but
Jesus exalted.
8. And the multitudes that went be-
fore and that followed cried saying: Ho-
sauna to the Son of David! Blessed is He
that cometh in the name of the Lord. Ho-
sauna in the highest" Their cry takes us
to Ps cxviii, 25, 26, and verse IA of that
psalm takes. us to Isa. xii, 2, and back to
Ex. XIV, 2, and all carry Us on to the full
fillment of our Lords words in Math.
xiii, SO when they should indeed vel
come and receive Him in the words of lisa
XIV, 8.
10. And when He was come unto Je
rusalem all the city was moved, saying,
Who is this?" DR.. Weston says that it
should be, ''All the city was shaken, and
he calls attention to the same word in
Math. xvii, 81; xviii, 4; Heb xii, 20
This last takes us back to Hag. ii, 6, 7,
81, and onward to the time when He will
come in power and glory, not on an ass
colt, but as a man Of war upon the white
horse, followed by all the armies of heaven
IRev. XIX 1l-16).
II. And the multitude said, This is
Jesus the prophet OF Nazareth Of Cali
Zee" But there was doubtless more in the
testimony of one Nathaniel than in a mul
titude of these voices when he said: "Rab
bi, thou art the Son of God. Thou art the
King of Israeli (.John i, 49). What does
your own heart say? What is He to you
personally, for He expects from every one
an answer to the question, What think ye
of Christ? He does not look for words
merely, but for heart utterance.
H. and Jesus went into the temple OF
God and cast out all them that sold and
bought in the Emple and overthrow the
tables of the money changers and the seats
of them that sold doves" Compare John
ii, 1916. 1t is very significant and con-
tains most heart searching lesson that
He should do the same thing both at the
beginning and end of His ministry. 1t re-
minds us that in us, who are temples OF
the Holy Ghost, He desires truth in the in
ward parts; that He wants none of the
acknowledgements of this world in His peo
piles hearts, but that our lives should
make it manifest that, though in the
world, we are not of the world but citi
zens of heaven and here Tor His service
and pleasure only.
ID. And said unto them, 1t is written,
My house shall be called the house OF
prayer, but We have made it a den OF
thieves" Speaking of Christ in Heb. iii,
6, the Spirit says, Whose house are we?''
and in Eph. H. 81, 22 An holy temple
in the Lord, an habitation of God through
the Spirit, are the names given to the
church, which is His body. The church
collectively and every believer individually
rs a house in which the Spirit desires to
make constant prayer on the lines of Math.
tx, So; lisa. xii, E, 7, and Rev. xxi, 20,
but if, instead of being wholly given up to
Him for such prayer and corresponding
service, we are given over to selfishness
and worldliness and our own thoughts
and ways, are we not more guilty than
Israel, inasmuch as our privileges are
greater, being His bodyP
IA. "And the blind and the lame came
ito Him in the temple, and He healed
them" Not to make money and gather
substance is the great thing in life, but to
have to give to those who need (Eph. iv,
-2S). To be means of bringing the grace
aof God and the riches of His grace to those
] who know it not and know him not-this
is life indeed To be channel of blessing
4 from the great and Only fountain (Ier Ill