Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-05-24
international gessoa.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON TX, SECOND QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, JUNE I.

Memory Verses, S-1O-Goluen ieAt'
III Tim. IL, ,3-Commentary Prepared
by Rev. d. NJ. Stearns.
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ciation.l
$40. 4 man lame from his birth, haV-
ing never walked, hears Paul preach
the gospel, and, having faith to be
healed, Paul commands him to stand
upright, which he Immediately does,
leaping and walking. Such is briefly
the story Of these three verses. Being
expelled from Antioch, in Pisidia. the
apostles came to Iconium and, not
withstanding opposition, abode there q
long time, speaking boldly in the Lord,
who granted signs and wonders to be
done by them. They so spake that a
great multitude, both Of Jews and
Greeks, believed, but the opposition
became so great that they finally fled
to Lystra, where we now find them
preaching and healing. They not only
preached the gospel, but they lived it
in their daily life Il Thess. ii, 1O). and
this is always the great need Oh Cor.
iv, 10. 1D.
II. II. The gods are come down to US In
the likeness Of men, and they called Bar
nabas Jupiter and Paul Mercurius.
God had truly come to earth in the
likeness Of man, for God was in Christ,
and Jesus Christ was God manifest In
the flesh QI Cor. V, 10; Tim. i'll, 16).
But these blind heather knew nothing
of the true God and worshiped many
fanciful gods which had no existence.
They gave to the servants Of God these
heather names. just as the heather
did to Daniel and his friends in Baby
lon. We must not be offended If peo-
pie give us false names. for they called
Jesus Beelzebub, glutton. wine bibber
and told Him he had devil.
13. Then the priest of Jupiter which was
before their city brought oxen and gar
lands unto the gates and would have done
sacrifice with the peePle.
They were about to worship Paul
and Barnabas, believing them to be
more than men. 1t suggests the ques-
ton as to whether in the lives Of most
Christians there is anything to cause
people to say: THAT is not natural.
There is something supernatural about
that person. That meekness or pa
tience or wisdom or power is Of God"
Il. They rent their clothes.
Are we as Mortified to hear given to
us the praise which ought to be given
to God only. or are we apt to covet
this very thing and love to have 1t
given out that we ourselves are some
great people? (Chapter viii, 81 The
Lord Jesus sought neither His own
will nor His own glory, but always
glorified the Father John vi, 3S; viii.
so; xvii, d.
L. Turn from these vanities unto the
living God which made heaven and earth
and the sea and all things that are there
In.
With great earnestness did the apos-
ties seek to turn the peoples thoughts
from themselves to God, as when the
angel said to John, "See thou do it
not; worship God" Rev. xii, 81. The
tendency today is to think more of
man than Of God. and the great trou-
BILE is that many men do not feel trou-
bled about it. but love to have it so.
l6, II. Who in times past suffered all ma
tions to walk in their own ways.
Since God placed man on earth He
has been trying him in every possible
way-in Eden and out Of Eden, with
out law and under law, under grace
and the special ministry Of the Spirit
and he shall have one trial more under
the personal reign Of the Lord Jesus.
In due time it shall be fully proved
that man apart from God is only fail
ure. In Rom. /, 20. 81, 1t Is made plain
that in all ages all are without excuse.
Is. With these sayings scarce restrained
they the people that they had not done
sacrifice to them.
Having seen the impotent man heal
ed through Paul and Barnabas, it was
hard to convince them that the work
was not done by these men, but by
one unseen whom these men represent,
ed. The natural man walks by sight
and it Is difficult to persuade him that
anything is different from what bis
eyes see. Consider II Cor. iv, 1S; v, q
Heb. xi, q.
1s. Having stoned Paul. they drew him
out Of the city, supposing he had beer
dead
How tickle is man! The servants OF
the devil had followed Paul and Bar
nabas from the other cities and were
so successful that these people who
were ready to worship Paul are now
just as ready to stone him, and they
did stone him and left him for dead.
%. He rose up and came into the city.
While the disciples, helpless to pro
tect him, stood around his apparently
dead body God gave him back to them
to their great surprise and JOY, for bis
work was not yet accomplished. II
may be that while his enemies were
bruising and so Ill treating his poo'
body he was enjoying that of which
he tells In II Cor. xii, IA. and, having
seen the glory, was strengthened fol
future service.
81. The day after the stoning Pau
and Barnabas set forth tc Derbe
where they also preached the gospe
and made many disciples. and then in
stead Of going on to Pau's home al
Tarsus. to which they were now quite
near, they turn about. retrace theil
steps and visit again the very places
where they had been so prosecuted.
90. Here are great words for us. By
His word and Spirit we must be estab
lished and continue duke viii. IS; Johr
viii. 81; ii Chron. Xxx, 20) and learn tt