Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-12-14
Jnteraatiunal gessall.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON XII, FOURTH QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, DEC. 22.


Memory Verses. 13-1G-Golden Text,
EN-. xy, documentary Prepared
by the Rev. ID. NJ. Stearns.
[Copyright, 1901, by American Press Association.l
13. IA. "Fear ye not. Stand still and
see the salvation of the Lord which He
will shew to you today. The Lord shall
fight for you. and ye shall bold your
peace" We are given the choice OF
Christmas lesson from lisa. tx, IL, but
as the burden of that lesson is lsraeis
deliverance and future glory with but
two or three sentences referring TO Ills
coming in humiliation, and the lesson in
Exodus is concerning great deliverancc
by the same Lord, who was afterward
born in Bethlehem, the Child born, the
Son given, whose goings forth have been
from Of old, from the days Of eternity
Mic. V, 2, margin), we have chosen the
regular lesson, calling the attention OF
those who prefer the Isaiah lesson, to the
throne Of David tverse u, which, accord
ing to Gabriel, the Son of Mary is yet to
fiji when He shall reign over the same
Israel, whose great deliverance is record
ed In our Exodus lesson Luke i, 81, o3).
According to Isaiah. it is the zeal OF the
Lord of Hosts that shall bring the king"
dom, not any power or wisdom of man,
and it is the zeal of the same Lord which
we are to consider in our lesson today.
On the great Passover night Of the last
lesson everything came to pass just as
the Lord had said. Just 43O years after
the first promise to Abram in Ur (for
the 30 years probably cover the tarry-
ING at Haran and the 20 years IN
Canaan before Isaac was born tGen. XII,
4: XIV, Is; xxi, 81. Israel came out Of
Egypt BY the strength of the hand Of the
Lord lex. xiii, 3, 8, II, 1G). G0O,OO0
foot men besides women and children (Xll,
80. "He brought them forth also with
silver and gold, and there was not one
feeble person among their tribes US. cv'
81. They took the bones of Joseph with
them, and the Lord Himself led them by
day In a pillar Of cloud and by night in
a pillar Of fire, which He never took from
them xiii, 1929. AS soon as they were
gone from Egypt the heart Of Pharaoh
became more hardened, and he followed
after them with all his chariots. and our
lesson opens with Israel ty the Red sea
and the hosts of Pharaoh behind them
and escape seemingly impossible. They
cry to Moses, and these first two verses
of our lesson give US Moses reply to
them. God leads His people into diff
culties in order to show His mighty pow
er on their behalf.
Is, IL. Speak unto the children OF
Israel that they go forward" In connec-
ton with the Lord fighting for Israel see
Deut. iii, %; Xxx, 3. 4; Joshua <. IA; xiii.
8. 10: II Chron. Xxx, Is, II, %, and then
see Zech. xiv, 3, 4. concerning His COM
ing again to fight for Israel in connec-
ton with the kingdom to be established.
It will not be by might nor BY power, but
BY His Spirit and His zeal, yet He will
use human instruments as He used
Moses. There are times for us to stand
still and see what He will do, and there
will be a time to ''go forward at His
command. On tE;- occasion the sea di-
yided before thu before they came to
its waters, but when they crossed the
Jordan the feet of the priests who bore
the ark stepped into the waters before
they divided Joshua iii, Isl. We must
ever keep in mind that "it is God who
worketh" and that our Lord said, with
out Me ye can do nothing" lPhil. ii. 13;
John Nv, B., and that nothing is too hard
for Him.
II, 1S. "The Egyptians shall know
that | am the Lord when | have gotten
Me honor upon Pharaoh. upon his char.
lots and upon his horsemen." So it shall
turn out that all the opposition OF the
adversary, whether manifest in Pharaoh,
or Sennacherib, or the antichrist of the
last days, or Cain. or satan himself. shall
somehow bring glory to God in their over.
throw. He will be exalted through all
and in spite Of all circumstances. Them
that honor Him He will honor, while
they that despise Him shall be lightly
esteemed II Sam. ii, 30). though He will
be glorifed in their overthrow. Faithful
witnesses are unto God sweet savor OF
Christ in them that are saved and In
them that perish III Cor. ii, 15).
10, 20. 1.-The angel of God, which went
before the camp Of Israel, removed and
went behind them" He made the pillar
in which He went before them to be
darkness to the Egyptians, but light to
Israel all the night so He was their
shield, as He said to Abram. ~ am thy
shield" and as the Spirit wrote through
the psalmist, '"The Lord God is sun
and shield" (Gen. XIV, /; Ps. lxxxiv, Ill.,
21, 22. 1.-THE Lord caused the sea to 90
back by a strong east wind all that night
| and made the sea dry land. and the wa.
| tiers were divided" So the waters were
a wall unto Israel on their right hand and
on their left, not as at Jordan. where they
were piled up as wall on the right hand
and ran away to the Dead sea on the left
leaving the bed of the river dry, but in
| either case what wondrous thing-the
waters of the river and of the sea stand.
ing as a wall for hours by His mighty
power.
%, 25. LET us fee from the face OF
Israel, for the Lord 6ghteth for them
against the Egyptians" Thus said the
Egyptians when in the morning watch
| their chariot wheels came off as they fol-
lowed Israel into the midst Of the sea.
1928. 1.-THE Lord overthrow the Egyp.
tians in the midst of the sea. There re-
mained not so much as one Of them" II
was "in the morning watch" or when
the morning appeared" tyerses "a, ~
| and points onward to another delirerance
Of which it is written, God shall help
her when the morning appeareth" FPS.
Xvi, 5. margin). The upright shall have
dominion in the morning. Weeping may
endure for night, but joy cometh in the
morning: therefore we wait for the Lord
more than they that watch for the morn.
ing FPS. xix, IA: Xxx, 5; cxxx, g.. Dan.
lei came out Of the lions den victoriously,
and his enemies were cast in and perish
ed in the morning tDan. vi. 1920. 1t
was in the morning watch. after the dis
ciples had been toiling against wind and
waves all the night, that Jesus came to
thon MARI ii 4Sl and He will come