Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-07-12
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson In the International Series
for July IA, 18O1-Beginning Of
Sin and Redemption.
Prepared by II. c. Lenington.1
THE LESSON TEXT.


THE LESSON TEXT.
Genesis 3:1-15.)
4 And the serpent said unto the woman.
Ye shall not surely die:
S For God doth know that in the day ye
eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened,
and We shall be as gods, knowing good and
evil.
6. And when the woman saw that the
tree was good for food, and that it was
pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be Ge-
sired to make wise, she took of the
fruit thereof, and did eat. and gave also
unto her husband with her; and he did eat
z. And the eyes of them both were opened.
and they knew that they were naked; and
they sewed fig leaves together. and made
8. And they heard the voice of the LORD
God walking in the garden in the cool OF
the day; and Adam and his wife hid them
selves from the presence of the Lord God
amongst the trees of the garden.
9. And the Lord God called unto Adam.
and said unto him, Where art thou?
TO- And he said, heard Thy voice in the
garden, and 1 was afraid. because was
naked; and hid myself.
H. And He said, Who told thee that thor
vast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tres
whereof I commanded thee that tho
Shouldest not eat?
r. And the man said, The woman whoIA
| Thou gavest to be with me. she gave me OF
the tree, and did eat.
Ii. And the Lord God said unto the wom-
| an, What is this that thou hast done? AHd
| the woman said. The serpent beguiled me.
and did eat.
| A. And the Lord God said unto the SER
pent, Because thou hast done this. thou
| art cursed above all cattle. and above
/ every beast of the field; upon thy belly
/ shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all
| the days of thy life.
/ : Is. And I will put enmity between thee
/ and the woman, and between thy seed and
her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou
shalt bruise his heel.
GOLDEN TEXT.-Where sin abound
ed, grace did much more abound
Rom. $500.
| NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The lesson of to-day presents a pic
ture in sad contrast to that of our last
| lesson. Then we read of God and the
wonderful works of His hands; we
read of the creation of man in the i'm
age of God with Eve, his wife, placed in
the Garden of Eden, surrounded by
everything that was beautiful, pure
and calculated to make them happy.
The picture of this lessonis the great
black blot of sin and it's accompanying
misery and desolation. The story is
familiar to all, an outline is sufficient
to recall all it's essential points.
The Serpent Tempts Eve. Oh. 3:1-5
Adam and Eve Yield to Temptation; vs.. 6
The Results OF SIN ;......-........-,;V IS; -
Life Apart from God. ..Ch. Ais
The Serpent Tempts Eve.-In the
|
ly three points: G) The power of evil
suggestion. The serpent Cor, we may
say, Satan, speaking through the ser.
pent) made no bold assertion at first.
nor did he pluck fruit from the forbid
den tree and offer it to the woman.
That means would have been an invita-
ton to defeat. He put a question:
Hath God said, ye shall not eat of
every tree of the garden?" The subtle
suggestion is at once apparent. OF all
evil things the most evil is the evil sug-
gestion, and the more subtle the sug-
gestion the more powerful the evil.
(2) The spirit of discomfort as the
opening wedge for sin. The serpent's
evil suggestion created in the woman's
mind the spirit of discomfort. 1t is
possible that there is such thing as
i noble discomfort which spurs one on
to endeavor that will enable him 20 rise
from lowly surroundings and to mount
the ladder of aspira ton to higher
things; but discomfort, in and of itself
considered, is thing to be despised. 1t
; regards neither ways nor means. ask
!. ing only that its object be attained,
und that object is usually one not
worth the attaining. Have your aspira-
! tions, but keep down the spirit of dis
content. The sin of discomfort is the
more clearly realized when we recall
that it is ever awakened at the call of
) an evil suggestion. (3) Satan follows
, up his own evil suggestion, and the
consequent spirit of discomfort awak-
, ened in the woman's mind by denying
: the word of God. God had said: eye
shall surely die" Satan said: eye
4 shall not surely die"
; The Results of Sin.-Al1 the rest OF
the Bible. beginning with the seventh
rerse of the third chapter of the first
Look, and all the history of the world
IS the story of the consequences of sin
The immediate result was banishment
from the paradise originally intended
;. for man. God had said the penalty
would be death. t'The wages of sin is
DEATH" Separation from God is death
Sin drove Adam and Eve from the gar.
den, and put flaming sword which
turned every way to guard the way to
The tree of life. Only through re.
pentance and the death of the physical
body does man now find his way back
to the paradise of God.
: Incidentally, we have here a hint
of the redemption through Christ
Among "the seed'' or descendants, OF
the woman was to be the Messiah
Jesus Christ. By Him has the head OF
, the serpent been crushed
Life Apart from God.-Read the
fourth chapter of Genesis for hint as
to the results of sin, and of separation
from God. It is the beginning of the
story of man taking the life of man
e It is picture darkly drawn, but crime
. has been rampant on the face of the