The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-07-12
The SUNDAY aLhUUL.
lesson In the Inter national Be viss
for July -. 1oOi-5cEinnin1 od
SIN aud Redemption.

for July -. IoOI-1csinninI Of
Sin aud Redemption.
tPrepared by H. c. Lenirgion.l
ThE LESSON TEXT.
| tGenesls 3:i-l5)
| 4 And che serpent said unto the woman
Ye shan not surely die.
| 6. For God doth know that In the day ye
eat thereof. then your yes shall b. opened,
and 80 shah be as gods. knowing good ard
| evil.
| &. And when the woman saw that the
tree was good for food and that II was
| pleasant to the eyes. and tree 10 be &C.
J sired TO make one wise. she took of the
| fruit thereof. and did eat. and gave also
unto her husband with her: and he ala eat.
Z. And the eyes OF them both were opened,
and they knew that they We're naked and
they sewed ng leaves together, and MADE
| themselves aprons.
| God walking In the garden in the cool Of
| the day. and Adam aud his wife hid them
| selves from the presence OF the Lord God
amongst the trees OF the garden.
.. And the Lord GOD called unto Adam.
| and said unto him. Where art thou?
10. And he said. heard Thy voice in the
| garden, and l was afraid, because 1 was
naked, and hid myself.
| IL. And lie said. Who told thee that thou
vast naked? Hast thou eaten Of the tree,
| WncTtOl i tHtc tHdt lHOu
| shouldest not eat.
H. And the man said. The woman whom
| Thou gavcst 10 be with me. she gave me OF
the tree. and did eat
l3 And the Lord God said unto the wom-
an. What is this that thou hast done? And
| the woman said. The serpent beguiled me,
| and l did eat
| II. 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 60 and dust shalt thou eat all
| the days Of thy life.
| is. And ! Will put enmity between thee
| and the woman. ard between thy seed and
| her seed. IL shall bruise thy head and thou
| shalt bruise his heel.
GOLDEN TEXT.-Whcrc sin abound
| 81, grnce did much more abound
Rom. $50.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The lesson of to-day presents 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, place in
the Garden If Eden, surrounded by
everything that was beautiful. pure
and calculated 10 make them happy.
The picture Of this lesson is the great
black blot Of sin and It's accompanying
misery and Lesolation. The story is
familiar to all, an outline is sufficient
to recall all It's essential points.
The Serpent Tempts lcve.,,.........Ch. 3:l-s
| Adam and Eve Yield TO Temptation. vs..
The Results q sin. ;..-.............Ns. ~
| Life Apart rom GcC..... ..........Ch. 4:l--l
The Serpent Tempts Eve.-In the
story OF the temptation notice careful
" three points: % The power of evil
suggestion. The serpent Cor. we may
say. Satan. speaking through the SER
pent) made no bold assertion al first
nor did he pluck fruit from the forbid
den tree and offer il to the woman
ton TO defeat. lie put a question:
Hath God said, We shall not eat Of
every tree Of the garden?" The subtle
sugge stion Is at once apparent. or all
evil things the most evil is the evil sug-
gestion. and the more subtle the sug-
gestion the more powerful the evil.
CD 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
q noble discomfort which spurs one on
to endeavor that will enable him I o rise
from lowly surroundings and TO mount
the ladder Of aspiration TO higher
things; but discomfort, in and of itself
considered. j. thing TO be despised. II
regards neither ways nor means. ask
| "A, ha ~ fni cd
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 il j. ever awakened at the call OF
an evil suggestion. CD 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
shall not surely die"
The Results of Sip.--All the rest Oh
the Bible. beginning with the seventh
verse Of the third chapter Of the first
book. and all the history OF the world
|
The immediate result was Punishment
from the paradise originally int nded
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 "a
the tree Of life. Only through re-
pentance and the death Of the physica
body does man now find his way bach
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 q,
TO the results Of sin. and of separation
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