The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-07-11
TIE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
esson In the International Series
for July IL. iooi-iicS inning OF
SIN and Redemption.
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L. And the serpent said unto the woman,
!e shall not surely Gle:
s. For God doth know that In the cay ye
,at thereof. then your eyes shall be opened,
md ye shall be as gods, knowing good ana
vii.
G. And when the woman saw that the
Tee was good for food, and that IL was
heasant to the eyes, and a tree to be de-
hred to make one wiss. she took OF the
ruit thereof, and did eat. and gave also
,nto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Z. And the eyes Of them both were opened.
md they knew that they were naked; ana
hey sewed fig leaves together. and made
themselves aprons.
S. And they heard the voice OF the Lord
;od walking In the garden In the cool OF
he day; and Adam and his wife hid them
elves from the presence OF the LORD God
amongst the trees OF the garden.
g. And the Lord God called unto Adam,
nd said unto him, Where art thou?
10. And he said. | heard Thy voice In the
:arden, and | was afraid, because | WAS
naked; and hid myself.
H. And He said, Who told thee that thou
vast naked? Hast thou eaten Of the tree,
whereof | commanded thee that thou
ihouldest not eat?
- And the man said. The woman whom
Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of
he tree. and | did eat.
L. And the Lord God said unto the wom-
IN, What is this that thou hast done? And
he woman said, The serpent begui!ed me,
Ind | did eat.
Il. And the Lord God said unto the SER
,ent. Because thou hast done this, thou
art cursed above all cattle. and above
every beast of the field upon thy belly
shalt thou SO, and dust sh;vt thou eat all
he days of thy life.
Is. And | will put enmity between thee
md the woman, and between thy seed ana
,er seed; 1t shall bruise thy head, and thou
halt bruise his heel.
GOLDEN TEXT.-Whcrc sin abound
ID, grace did much more abound
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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The lesson OF to-day presents pic
;ure in sad contrast to that of our last
esson. Then We read of God and the
wonderful works of His hands; We
.ead of the creation of man in the i'm
age of God with Eve, his wife, placed in
ahe Garden of Eden, surrounded by
erything that was beautiful. pure
and calculated to make them happy.
The picture of this lesson is the great
olack blot of sin and its accompanying
misery and desolation. The story is
.amiliar to all, an outline is sufficient
70 recall all its essential points.
rho Serpent Tempts Eve. ............ .Ch. SA-s
Adam and Eve Yield to Temptation: vs.. 8
rhe Results OF Sin. l-a
Life Apart from God ..Ch. 4:l-26
The Serpent Tempts Eve.-ln the
story Of the temptation notice careful
y three points: W The power of evil
suggestion. The serpent Tor, we may
say, Satan, speaking through the SER
pent) made no bold assertion at first.
aor did he pluck fruit from the forbid
len tree and offer 1t 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 gardep?" The subtle
suggestion is al once apparent. or all
.vil things the most evil is the evil sug-
yestiOn. and the more subtle the sug-
yestion the more powerful the evil.
| i2) 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 a thing Us
noble discomfort which spurs one on
to endeavor that will enable him to rise
from lowly surroundings and to mount
the ladder of aspiration to higher
things; but discomfort, in and Of itself
considered, is a thing to be despised. 1t
regards neither ways nor means, ask
ing only that its object be attained,
and 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 - 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: aye
shall surely die" Satan said: "ie
shall not surely die"
The Results Of Sin.-All the rest OF
the Bible, beginning with the seventh
verso Of the third chapter Of the frs,
book, 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. 1.-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 ply sica
body does man now find his way back
to the paradise of God.
Incidentally, we have here 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. 1t is the beginning Of the
story of man taking the life of man
} 1t Is a picture darkly drawn. but crime
has been rampant on the face of the