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international gessolls.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON X, THIRD QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, SEPT. 4.

LESSON x, THIRD QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, SEPT. 4.
Text of the Lesson, II Kings Kill, 1925.
Memory Verses, go. 21-Gclden Text, Ps.
cxvi, 15-Commentary by the Rev. d. NJ.
Stearns.
H. Nov Elisha was fallen sick Of his
bokness whereof he died. And Joash, the
king of Israel, came down unto him and
wept over his face and said, o my father,
my father, the chariot Of Israel and the
horsemen thereof" This chapter records
the death of five people and the resurrec-
tion of one. Why should not Elisha be
Translated and escape death as well as
Elijah? God doeth according to His will,
and none can stay His hand or say unto
Him, "What doest thou2" dan. iv, 35).
The king Of Israel uses the same words to
him that he had used of Elijah. Prophets
and kings may die, but God, and not they,
lis the chariot of Israel. When Uzziah died,
the prophet Isaiah looked up and saw a
King who never dies Elsa. vi, y, and this
ls the only way of peace
Is. "And Elisha said unto him, Take
bow and arrows. And he took unto him
bow and arrows" The king was wise to
obey the man of God without questioning.
The one thing that brings salvation to the
sinner is obedience. God commands US to
repent and believe (Acts xvii, 30, 81; l
John iii, 23). This any one who Is will
ling can do, for the reception Of the Lord
Jesus Christ implies repentance or a
change of mind on our part and faith in
Him. Truly receiving Him, the soul Is
saved John ], 12) Then If as saved peo-
pie we would be blessed and made bless
ling the one way is simple, trustful obedi-
ence Elsa. /, 1s, 19).
16. '"And he said to the king of Israel,
Put thine hand upon the bow. And he
put his hand upon it, and Elisha put his
hands upon the kings hands" Elisha's 8
hands upon his meant the hand of God,
for Elisha was a man of God representing
God before the people. The great joy Of
our Lord was that the Father sent Him
and that He was on earth for God to glo-
rify Him, and that God was with Him,
speaking and working through Him. he
saws to us, "As the Father sent me, so
send / you," and ~, the Lord, thy God,
will hold thy right hand, saying, Fear not,
I will help thee" (John Xxx, 81; lisa. xii,
13).
IL. "And he said, Open the window
eastward, and he opened it. Then Elisha
said, Shoot. And he shot And he said,
The arrow Of the Lerd's deliverance. "
God was directing the prophet to encour-
age the king to have confidence In Him
for none can deliver like Him and none
can deliver but Him. In verse we
read that "The Lord gave Israel Sa'
viour." In lisa. xiv, 81, %, it Is writ
ten, "There is no God else beside Me, a
lust God and Saviour, there is none be-
side Me; look unto Me and be ye saved,
all the ends of the earth, for l am God and
there is none else.''
1S, "And he said, Take the arrows.
And he took them. And he said unto the
king of Israel, Smite upon the ground.
And he smote thrice and stayed. rive
times he was told just what to do without
any possibility Of his doing otherwise II
perfectly obedient, but this si1th time
there Is a possibility of much or little, as
be will, for he is not told how oft to smite.
10. "And the man Of God was wroth
with him and said, Thou shouldest have
snitten five or six times, then hadst thou
smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed
it, The exceeding abundantly OF the
Lord Is always within our reach, but we
limit Him by our lack of faith and lack OF
zeal for Him. He is saying unto US, III
ye shall ask anything in My name, l Twill do
j it," and "Call unto Me, and will answer
thee and shew thee great and mighty
| things which thou knowest not" (John
xiv, IA; Jer. xxxiii, -.
20. "And Elisha died, and they buried
him. And the bands Of the Moabites in
yaded the land at the coming in OF the
year." Elisha died-that Is, his work be-
ing done, he found himself "absent from
the body and present with the Lord. "
Some of the angels who watched over him
while In the body received him as he left
the body and bore him or escorted him
home to his God and Saviour, to Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob, to Moses and Joshua and
David and to Elijah, who had called him
to his public service.
81. "And they cast the man into the
sepulchor of Elisha, and when the man
was let down and touched the bones OF
Elisha he revived and stood up on his
feet" 1t looks as if some Israelites were
burying a man, and, seeing a band OF
these invading Moabites, they, being near
Elisha's sepulcher, put the dead body
therein with the result described, suggest
iB2 the resurrection. Of all who truly touch
Him Of whom Elisha was type, God my
Saviour. If it was the Moabites who were
burying the man, then there is susges-
tion of life to the Gentiles through the God
of Israel. think there are but three res
direction stories in the Old Testament
the widows son, tho Summarizes son and
this one-and all associated with Elijah
and Elisha
%. "But Hazael, king of Syria, op-
pressed Israel all the days Of Jehoahaz. "
In verse we read that it was because OF
sin He delivered Israel into the hands Of
the Syrians. The book Of Judges is REQ
ord of repeated expressions of Israel by
their enemies when they sinned against
God and Of Gods deliVerances when they
called upon Him.
23. "And tho Lord was gracious unto
them and had compassion on them and
had respect unto them, because of His
covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
and would not destroy them, neither cast
He them from His presence as yet. Not
for their sakes, but for His oSwn names
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