Mower County transcript., 1904-02-03
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LESSON VI, FIRST QUARTER, INNER
NATIo oNAL SERIES, FEB. 7.

NATIONAL SERIES, FEB.
Text of the Lesson. Mark Il, 2l.34.
| Memory Verses, 21, 22-GoIten Text
| Luke iv, ,t4O-Co1nnlentaryP PreDtanrr d
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copyright, 1908, by American Press tion.J
| The events Of this lesson were prob
ably Immediately subsequent to those
! of last week This well filled Sabbath
| day included His teachingsin the syn
! agogue and healing demon possessed
man there: then the rest of the day
ut Sinon's home; where He healed
| Simon's wife's mother, and at sunset
| all the sick who gathered about ST.
| mons door. The record Of the first
part Of the day is found in Luke iv, as
| we'll as in Mark, and the record Of tthe
rest of the day is found in Matt viii.
| as we'll as in Luke iv.- The record Of
this and every day of His public min
istry is we'll summarized in Acts x,
3S, Amounted with the Holy Ghost and
with power He went about doing good
and healing all that were oppressed Of
the devil, for God was with Him"
This also ought to- be true in some
measure of every believer. for the life
of Jesus should be manifest in us4QI
Cor. %iy, 10, ID. One has said that the
eye Of the world takes in more than
the ear and that Christians lives are
the only religious books the world
reads. Therefore there is not so pow
erful a sermon in the world as aeon
sistent Christian life. IL:
Having been cast ont of Nazareth,
He made Capernaum HIS home. which
is spoken of as His own city" Matt.
tx, u, and there and throughout all
Galilee He preached the gospel of5the
Kingdom and healed all manner OF sick
ness and disease (Matt. iv. 23). John
the Baptist was now in prison, and our
Lord was probably in the latter part
of His first years ministry. AS He
taught the people heard that which
they were not accustomed to, for He
taught with authority. He said only
what the Father told Him. His text
book was the law, the prophets and the
psalms, and He expounded in all the
Scriptures the things concerning Him
self John xii, 4S, 40; Luke xiv, 27,
A, 49,. Just the same teaching and
exposition are needed today. and those
who teach otherwise than according
to the Scriptures are not following our
blessed Lord.
Evil spirits still possess and speak
and act through men, women and chill
dren. and such are sometimes found
in church and Sunday school to this
day They want to be let alone con-
cerning righteousness and temperance
and judgment to come. They say,
"Speak unto US smooth things, prophe-
sy deceits; cause the Holy One of Is
rael to cease from before u.s. Qsa. Xxx,
10. ~. Saying true things about sJe
sus Christ as this man did or as the
woman did at Philippi (Acts xvi, is
not necessarily evidence of az (rue
knowledge of Jesus, yet there are peo-
pie even among the preachers whose
knowledge of Jesus does not seem to
exceed that of these evil spirits. Where:
there is no true reception of Jesus
Christ as the Saviour of sinners there
is no life eternal John i, -; John Y,
12).
The Lord Jesus by. His word deliv-
cred this man from the evil thing in
him, and the man was whole. When
| people talk and act like the devil lie:
us remember that Jesus still lives, and
He is able and willing to- cast4out the
evil spirit and give instead His Nown
Spirit. If we trusted Him more fully
i'm these. things how His fame would
spread abroad! 1t had dsbeen strange
morning in that synagogue at Caper-
naum, for such an event had never
transpired there before. The power of
God had been seen, for Jesus was God
manifest in the flesh. AS Simon, An,
drew, James and John walked from the
synagogue to Simon's home what may
have been their musings? Possibly the
healing of the demoniac may have led
them to tell Him quickly Of the sick
one in Simon's home. r
AS soon as He took the sick one by
the hand the fever was gone. and she
was able to rise and minister to them
This is not the way that fever patients
generally recover, but such recoveries
are all easy to Him who made us
Demons cannot abide Him, sickness
fees before Him. He is life and health
and light and strength, and nothing t
the contrary can abide in His presence
Soon the fame of Him and His won
derful works spread through the city
and at even when the sun was setting
the Sabbath day being then passed, al
the sick and demon possessed within
reach were to be found at Simon'
door. He cast out many demons will
His word and laid His hands on ever,
one who was sick and healed then
Nuke iI 40, A. We do not read tha
they had faith to be healed, though
their faith may possibly be seen in til
fact of their being there We do SCI
) two great realities-on their part {,
> great and felt need and on His par
+ a great and Oyerflowinp fullnass