Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-06-14
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON XII, SECOND QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, JUNE %.
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Memory Verses, 12-14-Golden Text
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& Owe no man anything but to love one
another. for he that loveth another w.
fulfilled the law.
We are asked to turn aside from our
studies in the Acts to what the con-
mittee term temperance lesson. but
those who are acquainted with our
lesson notes know that we never turn
aside from the gospel Of the grace OF
God and the glory Of God for any 9th
er topic, believing that the gospel In
cludes all else and that temperance
means the fullest possible self control
and self renunciatiop in every form.
Our lesson is part Of the practlcal
portion of this epistle. beginning with
chapter xii, l, 81 beseech you there
fore, brethren, by the mercies OF God,'
and all that follows Is enjoined upon
the believer because Of the free justi-
fication by grace given to the penitent
sinner through the redemption that is
In Christ Jesus Rom. Iii. 24). Apart
from the redemption that Is in Christ
no amount Of so called temperance
counts for anything in the light or
eternity. but when through His blood
we enter into the place Of mo con-
demnation and no separation (Rom.
viii, /, 3S. 39). then God expects us to
walk no longer after the flesh. but aft
er the Spirit and to let Him fulfill IN
us the righteousness Of the law Rom.
will, ~.
g. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy
self.
This is the Lords own summary Of
what is called the second table of the
law or our duty to our fellow man
Matt. xii. 36-4O). Some one has said
that love is the law itself In manifold
action, an obligation never fully dis
charged. 1t certainly was fulfilled per-
fectly in our Lord Jesus Christ. and
He is the end Of the law for righteous
ness to every one that believeth (Rom.
Y, y. When He set the law. the Ten
Commandments, before any one, say
Ing, "This do and thou shalt live." He
was endeavoring to convince him or
sin that he might turn to Him for
Righteousness, for the law cannot give
life, and by the deeds Of the law no
one is justified. because he cannot
fully keep the law. so that the law
simply shuts ones mouth and sends
guilty and lost to Christ (ROm. III. -.
20; Jas. II. 10; Gal. iii, 21-24.
10. Love worketh no III to his neighbor;
therefore love Is the fulfilling OF the law
Love studies to please and therefore
cannot injure. The man who takes an
others money and for it gives him that
which destroys his reason and beggars
himself and his family is not showing
any love. but the most intense selfish
ness He Is saying. 81 must have this
mans money. no matter what becomes
Of him."
II. And that. knowing the time. that
now It Is high time to awake out Of sleep.
for now Is our salvation nearer than when
we believed.
A condition Of Indifference to things
that should interest us is state OF
sleep. The most remarkable instances
Of the sleep Of believers Is that of Pc
ter, James and John. heavy with sleep
on the Mount Of TRANSPORTATION in the
presence Of His glory and actually
sleeping in the presence of His great
agony in Gethsemane. Think also of
the sleep Of Samson In the lap Of De-
lilah and It's consequences to him, and
Of the storm at sea when the heather
cried to their gods and the only man
on the ship who knew the living and
true God was fast asleep. and the cap
tain had to awaken him, saying, "What
meanest thou, o sleeper?" Does it not
seem as If millions of heather perish
ing in their blindness are crying to the
church today in the same words?
IL. The night is far spent. the day Is at
hand. Let US therefore cast off the works
of darkness and let US put on the armor
Of light.
We were once darkness, but now we
are light in the Lord, and we should
walk as children Of light (Eph. v, 81.
Light has no fellowship with darkness.
God is light, and in Him Is no darkness
at oil. If we say we have fellowship
with Him and walk in darkness, we
lie and do not speak the truth. Let US
therefore walk in the light, as He is in
the light Oh Cor. vi. II; John !. 5-n.
Although we have entered into the
twentieth century since Christ came. it
Ia still the worlds night, and no
amount Of progress can bring the day
which awaits His coming.
13 Let US walk honestly as In the day.
not in rioting and drunkenness, not IN
chambering and wantonness. not in strife
and envying.
These are varied forms Of intemper-
ance, impurity and passion to all Of
which the believer is to reckon him
self dead. Now, we are to watch and
be sober. putting on the breastplate Of
faith and love and for helmet the
hope Of salvation q Thess. V. 6, g..
Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts.
we are to live soberly. righteUusly and
godly in this present world. looking for
our Lord Jesus, who gave Himself for
US that He might redeem us from all
iniquity and purify unto Himself q
people for His own possession Git IL.
12.14).
IA. But put we on the Lord Jesus Christ
and make not provision for the flesh to
fulfill the luSts thereof.
We are said in Gal. Ill, q, to have
put on Christ. in Eph. iv. 1924, to put
Off the old man which is corrupt and
n,,t IN tho now man which 0fter God