The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-11-01
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

TIE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON VI, FOURTH QUARTER, IN
TERNATloNAL SERIES. NOV. 9.
Text of the Lesson, IL Chron. XXX, 1-13.
Memory Verses, 1O-13-Golden Text, II
Chron. Xxx, documentary Prepared by
the Rev. ID. NJ. Stearns.
copyright. 1898, by D. NJ. Stearns.]
!. "Come to the house of the Lord at
Jerusalem to keep the Passover unto tho
Lord God of Israel" This was the mes
sage of Hezekiah, king who did right in
the sight of the Lord (chapter xxx, y, to
all Israel and Judah, regarding them as
one people. Although long divided into
two nations, they are one in His sight and
shall yet be one in the eyes of all nations
(Ezek. xxxvii, 81, 22). Hezekiah repaired
the house of the Lord and restored the
worship. He wrought good and right and
truth before the Lord his God and did ev-
cry work with all his heart and prospered
(chapter XXI, 90, 21). He would have all
Israel remember their deliverance from
Egypt and rejoice In the Lord and serve
Him.
2, 8. "The king hnd taken counsel, and
his princes and all the congregation in
Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the Sec
ond month. Although the first month
was the regular time for the feast, there
was provision in the law to keep it in the
second month if necessary (Ex. xii, 10;
Mum. ix, 10, 11). Place and time and
form are not SO important in God S sight
as heart that is right with Him. Even
feasts and Sabbaths are shadow of things
to como. Christ is the reality of all, and
apart from Him nothing Is real (Col ii,
16, ~.
4. "And the thing pleased the king and
all the congregation. 1t is written of
David in II Sam. iii, SO, that Whatsoever
the king did pleased all the people. y
When king and people please each other,
a sample of the kingdom of God on earth
Thus it shall be when Israel shall have be-
come righteous nation with the Christ
the Son of David, as their King (Ez
xxxvii, "a, 25).
8. Make proclamation throughout all
Israel to keep the Passover unto the Lord
God of Israel at Jerusalem" This feast
commemorating the great deliverance of
Israel out of the bondage of Egypt by the
mighty power of God was to be kept every
year, but in the Old Testament we have
an account of only five after the first one
In Elk. xii. These records are found in
Mum. tx, Josh. v, II Chron. xxxv, Ezra
vi and in our lesson. The greatest Pass
over in the New Testament is recorded in
Luke xii, IA, Is, and in the other gospels
as having been Kept by our Lord and His
| apostles on the night before He was sacri-
feed for us as our Passover. He spoke at
that time of future fulfllment in the
Kingdom of God duke xii, 10y, and in
stituted the Lords supper as memorial
of His death to be kept by His redeemed
till He shall come again.
6. Eye children of Israel turn again
unto the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and
Israel and He will return to the remnant
of you. Letters from king to his peo-
pie urging them to turn to the Lord God
would be most unusual occurrence in
| our time Even If church is in need of
| funds, 1T is moro customary to turn to
some wealthy people or to some worldly
| way than to the Great Head of the church.
2. "Be not ye like your fathers and like
| your brethren which trespassed against
the Lord God of their fathers" Their sin
is briefly stated in Jer. ii, 10, ssMy people
have committed two evils; they have for
saken me, the fountain of living. waters,
and hewed them out cisterns, broken els
terms, that can hold no water" Thus they
changed their glory for that which could
not profit. The Lord was their judge and
lawgiver and king, but they turned their
backs upon Him and preferred their own
way. Is there any analogy now?
8. "Yield yourselves unto the Lord, and
serve the Lord your God.' The margin
says, "Give the hand unto the Lord" In
Rom. vi, Is, it is Yield yourselves unto
God as those that are alive from the dead"
As unsaved sinners all we are asked to do
is to receive Christ.
g. 'The Lord your God Is gracious and
merciful and will not turn away His face
from you if We return unto Him. His
name in Elk. xxxiv, g. is "The Lord, the
Lord God, nerciful and gracious, long
suffering and abundant in goodness and
| truth. /" Read also verse 2. He says in
Nal. iii, g." Il am the Lord. / change not. "
In Heb. xiii, 8, He is Jesus Christ, the
same yesterday, today and forever" He
Is not willing that any should perish, has
provided eternal redemption for all and is
ever saying, Him that cometh to me l
will in nowise cast OUT (John vi, s7).
TO- $50 the posts passed from city to
city, but they laughed them to scorn and
Knocked them '-thatis is, many of Ephraim,
Manasseh and Zebulun did. The final tes-
timony concerning Judah is, 'They mock
ed the messengers Of God and despised His
words, and misused His prophets until the
wrath of the Lord arose against His peo-
pie, till there was no remedy" Oh Chron.
xxxvi, 16). This is the carnal mind which
is enmity against God and is ever the
same, but these were not the heather who
never heard of God. They were the people
of God for whom He had done moro than
for any nation on earth. See II Tim. ILL.,
1-5.
II. Nevertheless divers of Asher, Ma
nasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves
and came to Jerusalem When Paul
preached in Rome, some believed the
things which were spoken and some be-
lieyed not (Acts xviii, 24). So it ever
has been and will be till the end of this
age. The parallels of the sower, the tares
tho mustard seed and tho leaven of Math.
xiii, all teach this, as also the plain in