The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-08-25

/. NOW IN the hrSt year of Cyrus, king
of Persia, that the word of the Lord by
the mouth of jeremiah might be fulfilled,
the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus 4"
All is done that the Scripture may be full
filed, and the Lord does it ALL The open
ing verses of this book are just the closing
verses of the previous book repeated and
therefore confirmed (Gen. xii, 32) or es-
tablished, that we may give special atten-
tion to them. God had said by jeremiah
that after 70 years He would punish the
king of Babylon and restore Israel to their
own land der. XIV, 10; xxx, 1O). He
had also called Cyrus by name more than
100 years before he was born and had said
that Cyrus would perform all His pleasure
lisa. xiv, 28; xiv, y.
2. 1.-THE Lord God of Heaven hath given
me all the Kingdoms of the earth, and He
hath charged me to build Him an house at
Jerusalem. The Most High ruleth in the
kingdom of men and giveth it to whomso-
ever He will (Dan. iv, 32). When any
one, be he king or peasant, accepts the po-
sition he occupies as given him by God
and seeks therein to do the will of God,
he cannot but be blessed, for God Himself
will see to it (II Chron. xvi, 81. There is
house now being builded, even the
church of God (Eph. H. 1929, and every
pastor and teacher and evangelist and mis-
sionary is authorized to help build up the
church, the body of Christ
g. "Who is there among you of all His
people? His God bewith him and let him
go up to Jerusalem and build the house of
the Lord God of Israeli Here every in
dividual who is willing is commissioned
to go up to Jerusalem and help to build
the house; SO each individual believer is
commissioned to take part in saying to all
who have not vet received Christ that He
loves them, died for their sins and rose
again and will receive them if they will
come to Him (Rev. xii II; John i, 10;
vi, 81.
4. "And whosoever remaineth in any
place where he soiourneth let the men of
his place help him." This help was to be
with silver, gold, goods, beasts, besides
the free will Offering for the house at Je-
rusalem No one was compelled to go to
Jerusalem, but those who did not go were
to help those who did go. So now no one is
compelled to go as a missionary to foreign
lands; it must be willing service; but
those who do not go must be ready to help
those who do go with all that they need
5. ssThen rose up the chief of the fathers
of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests,
and the Levites, with all them whose spirit
God had raised to go I'D to build the
house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem. "
Five times in our lesson is the house of
God mentioned. 1t is the central thought.
Not Jerusalem, nor the priests nor Cyrus,
but God and His house. So now the great
thought in the mind of every preacher and
worker and every believer should be the
house of God-that is the church of God
which He hath purchased with His own
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6. "And all they that were about them
siren sthened their hands with vessels of
silver. with gold. with goods and with
beasts and with precious things besides
all WILLINGLY offered u 1t must have been
a very great privilege to minister to the
Lord Jesus when He was here on earth
but we can still minister unto Him by
ministerinp to His people. specially to
those who 90 forth in His name to help
comn1ete His bodv and He will count it
all as done 10 Himself (Math XIV. 40)
sAlso CYRUS the king. brought forth
the vessels of the house of the Lord which
Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of
JerusaIem and had mt them in the house
of his Gods ), RecaI,se of IsraeI,s sin God
had suffered the holv vessels of His house
10 he carried TO Rahvlon Init He had His
eve unon them even when Belshazzar used
than at his drunken feast II "a suffered
sncb bolv men as Daniel and Ezekiel and
others to he carried into cantivitv for their
GOOD (Jar xxiv 5) When sneakinp of
Israel He sold III have given the dearly
beloved of NV soul into the hand of her
enemies,, (Jer xii, ~ MANY redeemed ones
are in greater or less measure in the hands
of the enemy. and it NAV be your privilege
70 restore some of these vessels to their
RIGHT Mace in tbe house of the Lord.
Z stEven those did Cyrus. king of Per
ella bring forth NV the hand of Mifhredath.
tbe traasurar and nunbered them INTO
Shesbbazzar the prinee of Judah All
Israel was numbered nv God. All the
saints are known nv name. The Lord
knowetb them that are His. and He saws
10 each one ssFear NOT. for 7 have re-
deemed thee: l have called thee bv thy
name: tbou art mine, lisa. xiii. II. Let
If comfort YOU. dear child of God. that Won
are a numbered vessel and that if He al
lows Won for time to be in the enemy's
hands He still careth for you and will in
due time show YOU His deiiverance (Rev.
ii. 10: II Cor. l. 10: II Tim. iv, II, ISL.
@ land this is the number of them:
Thirty chargers of gold, a thousand char
gers of silver. nine and twenty knives.
The small number of vessels of gold
compared with those of silver suggest that
the most precious vessels are comparative
" few. not that one redeemed soul is of
more value than another for the value of
the precious blood of Christ is the value of