Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-04-15
International grssnils.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON ~, SECOND QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, APRIL 23.
Text of the Lesson, John xiv, lila.
Memory Verses, 2-G-Go1den Text
John xiv, documentary Prepared
by the Rev. ID. NJ. Stearns.
copyright, 1899. by D. NJ. Stearns

| Copyright, 1899. by d. NJ. Stearns.1
! /. "Let not your heart be troubled; ye
believe in God, believe also in Me-" 1t is
the last night before His great agony, and
one would think that He would need some
one to comfort Him, but with entire self
remuneration He comforts these weak ones
and us through them. He teaches us that
in the world we shall have tribulation
xvi, 33), but we need not have our hearts
troubled. In Math. xiv, 6, He says: "Ye
shall hear of wars and rumors of wars.
See that ye he not troubled" In 1sa
XVI, 8, the secret of perfect peace is shown
to be mind sfaid on Him.
2. 81 go to prepare place for you. "
When on earth, He lived for us and died
for us and rose again. Now in heaven He
ever liveth to make interccssion for us
and, as He said, is preparing place for
us. We may not understand these many
mansions now and just what they mean,
but it should suffice to know that He who
loved us enough to give Himself for us
and bear our sins in His own body on the
cross is preparing place for us in glory.
It will be worthy of Him who prepares it.
8. 81 will come again and receive you
unto Myself" He wants us with Him to
see and share His glory (chapter xvii, %,
24). Concerning His coming again see
Acts /, II; Thess. iv, 16; Heb. *, %;
Titus ii, 1S; Rev. i, 7-12. Do not think Of
His coming as death or the coming of the
Spirit at Pentecost or any other event, but
always as His literal personal return, first
to the air for His saints and later to the
earth with His saints to set up His king
dom here on the earth with Israel as q
center.
4. "And whittier go ye know, and the
way ye know" He had often told them
that He had come from the Father and
would return to the Father. He had also
told them that He would die and rise
again the third day. So had they believed
His words they might have known much
more than they did To Him the going
to the Father was very real, for with the
Father He had been from all eternity.
5. Lord, we know not" Thus said
Thomas who also after the resurrection
said, Except I shall see, will not be-
lieve" (chaptcr Xxx, 25) He knew not be-
cause he believed not Some want to see,
and some want to understand before they
will believe. Such not only grieve the
Spirit, but lose much personal joy. To
them the Lord says: "Be not faithless, but
believing. Blessed are they that have not
seen, yet have believed" Chapter Xxx, 81,
29).
6. "Jesus saith unto him, 1 am the way
and the truth and the life" He is the
new and living way Heb. x, 20), in con-
trast to all the forms of the ceremonial
law, and as the antitype of all types and
substance of all shadows. He is the truth,
for God is the God of truth lisa. lxv, 16),
and His word is truth John xviii ~. In
Him is life, and He is our life. He that
hath the Son hath life John /, 4; Col. iii,
4; I John V, II, 12). There is no other
way to heaven or to the Father (Acts
", 12).
I. "1f ye had known Me, ye should have
known My Father also, and from hence
forth ye know Him and have seen Him"
To know God is life indeed and peace and
joy and q forGtastc of heaven. 1t is better
than all the riches or wisdom or might Of
this world John xvii, 3; Job xii, 21;
Jer. ix. 90, 24). How wise are those who
give themselves up to know our Lord
Jesus Christ as revealed to us in the Scrip
lures, and thus to know the Father!
s. "Philip saith unto Him, Lord, shew
us the Father, and it sufliceth u.s." He
had said many such words-as THE Fa-
ther sent Nc, 1.-THE Father is with Me,
II and My Father are one, >" Il do always
those things that please Him." and from
such sayings they might have gathered
that to know Him was to know the Father.
8. "He that hath seen Me hath seen the
Father" He is the image Of the invisible
God, the brightness of His glory, and the
express image of His person (Col. /, Is;
Heb i, 3). Shall we ever see the Father?
We shall expect to and yet be satisfied if
in the glory we sec only, as John saw, on
the throne one like the appearance Of
jasper and sardine stone (Rev. iv, -.
Whom no man hath seen, nor can see Il
Tim. vi, 16) may mean no mortal man.
10. "BclicvcSt thou not that I am in
the Father and the Father in Me?" Then
He adds that all His words and works
were not His but the Fathers. He takes
no credit to Himself for anything. AS to
His words He says elsewhere that the Fa-
ther gave Him II commandment what Hc
should sly and speak (xii, 49). 1t was the
same with prophets and apostles; they
were given by God the words which they
should speak (Ex. iv, 12; Jer. i, 2, 9;
Eek ii, Z; ill., 4 Math. Y, 2O).
II. "Bclicvc Me for the very works
sake" In the previous verse He asks if
they do not believe that He is in the Fa-
thcr and the Father in Him, but now He
commands them to believe it and calls
upon the works as evidence. In chapter
V, $3.50, He says that the Father and His
word and works all bear witness that He
is what He says He is-one with the Fa-
thcr, the Lord God of the holy prophets,
the Messiah of Israel, the Son of God. He
| is the Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince Of Peace lisa
*, 81.
12. "Vcrily, verify, say unto you, he
that bclieveth on Nc, the works that do
shall he do also; and greater works than
these shall he do, because 60 unto My
Father" Thus will be manifest the union
of the believer with Christ, as His union
with the Father was made manifest. 1t
is God who worketh in us both to will and
to do of His good pleasure, and He will
work in us those things which are pleas
ing in His sight (Phil. ii, 13; Heb. xiii,
2D.
13. "And whatsoever yc shall ask in My
name, that will do, that the Father may
| be glorified in the Son." We are supposed
to ask only for those things which will
plorify God When the lame man at the