The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-07-12
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON III, THIRD QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, JULY IS.
Text of the Lesson, lisa. lii, I3, to ILL.,
12 Memory Verses, 10 GoioeH
Text. Isn. liii, documentary Fre-
pared by Rev. D. VI. StearnS


Text. Isa. lii, documentary fre-
pared by Rev. D. VI. StearnS.
Copyright. 1905, by American Pres; Assoea',on
We are granted two lessons III 'iiIs
wonderful prophecy Of Isaiah, the ile;lEo
of which. as Of all Scripture. Is the
suffcrincs of Christ and the glory that
shall follow duke XIV, 25-2I; Pet l.
| 10 III. Isaiah is q little Bible an
enirome Of the whole, divided into
thjrtv-nine parts and twenty-seven
narts. like the books Of the Old and
! Vow Testaments. It also begins with
sin and ends with the new heaven and
earth, and the name signifies The
Salvation Of Jehovah" II the prophet
i had actually seen the suherinSs OF
Christ he could not have written more
correctly than he has done in this
portion, but it was not the prophet,
but the Holy Spirit, who wrote through
him, and therefore 1t is so correct, Tor
we firmly and unwaverinGly believe
that the Holy Spirit wrote all the
words Of this book, the whole Bible.
See II Sam. xiii, .; Jer. xxxvi, !, u, 5;
II Tim. iii, 16; II Pet. j, 21.
That the words Behold my Serv-
ant" with which our lesson opens, re-
fer to Christ is plain from lsa. Kill,
IA: Matt. XII, 1921. His eNaltation
is seen by comparing verse Is OF our
lesson with Phil. ii, Gil, and by read
inc ':startle' instead of sprinkle IN
verse is (see Rev. Ver) we see how His
exaltation will affect the nations and
! their rulers, many of whom seem to
know nothing Of the coming glory of
Jesus Of Nazareth.
The marred form and risage OF verse
II make US think Of the ScourSed
back, the scourge possibly tearing the
face also; the crown Of thorns, the
pieyced hands and feet. Yet who be-
lIeves it-that is, truly receives it and
laws it to heart? (John j, ~ 10 how
many of those who hear is it the power
Of God unto salvation? (Rom. j, 1G)
This portion Of Scripture will be
ISraers national confession in days to
come, just as chapter Xii will be their
national anthem, but is it not true OF
the vast majority of those who have
heard OF Christ that in their eyes lie
Is still despiscd and rejected. not
esteemed, not desired? When on earth
He was trrly the Man Of Sorrows,
for~sO one ever had so many or such
varied ones, but they We're not His
! except as He accepted them for our
SakeS.
The criefS, sorrows, transgrcSslonS,
iniouities. We're all ours, laid upon Him
and borne by Him in our stead that
we might be healed His own self
bare our sins in His own body on the
tree" He suffered for sins, the just
for the unjust, that He might bring us
to Cod u Pet ii, a; iii, 1S). The first
two sentences Of verse any sinner
must confess to be true, considering
only his own experience, but the thlro
sentence is just as true, The LORD
hath laid on Him the iniQuity OF Us
all" ANY sinner who believes God
can therefore say: God laid my sins on
Jesus; He was wounded for IL. trans
eressions and bruised for my iniQuities
and I, receiving Him. am healed with
His stripes" Christ hath redeemed me
from the curse Of the law, being made
a curse for me- (Gal. iii, 49,
Verse not only describes His suffer
incs before Ca1aphas and PLATE, but
teaches US how to act when we are op'
pressed. He left us an example that
we should follow His steps, for when
He was reviled He reviled not again
when He suffered lie threatened not
but committed Himself to Him that
iudgeth righteousiy q Pet. II, y, 2o)
He was not allowed the semblance OF
a fair trial. \ prison and the law would
today protect even 4 criminal from
such treatment as lie received. but Hc
was no criminal, even as Plate re-
peatedly testified, II find no fault in
Him." his wife said. That just man,
and even Judas Iscariot said, L have
betrayed innocent blood.
Verse 9 would almost seem impossi
Bile Of literal fulfllment, but how literal
the fulfillment was-a place Tor His
body prepared with the malefactcrs
But it found resting place in the tomt
Of a rich man, where Joseph and
Nicodemus placed it. the tomb OF
Joseph Of Arlmathea. How can any
one question the voice Of God and the
hand of God in all this prediction ano
fulfllment unless he is totally blinded
by the god Of this world?
He shall see His seed, He shall pro
long His days, and the pleasure Of the
Lord shall prosper in His hand (verse
10). How clear O prediction Of His
resurrection. For how else could one
who died prolong his days and see his
seed? The great truth Of resurrection
IS seen in the cherubim Of Eden, IL
Isaac given back to his father, in many
an Old Testament type rs well as IL
the plain statement Of Ps. xvi, 10. Com
pare Acts ii, 81 In completed ano
glorlfed church, a redeemed Israel anc
the earth filed with His glory He
shall yet see Of the travail Of Hts sou
and be satisfied, and until that con
summation the pleasure Of the Lore
shall prosper in His hand, for lie shal
not fail nor be discouraged till He shall
place Righteousness il the earth Qsa
xiii, 4.
In verse i there is certainly al init
nation Of His sharing His glory witt
the overcomers, as He aftcrward sait
more plainly in John xvii, %, "a, and II
the promises to the overcomers in Rev
Il and iii. So we have in this wonder
full portion His humiliation, His sui
ferings, His death and burial and resur
recuon, His coming again and HI:
reign over the kings and kingdoms o.
this world, and as truly as the suffer
Ings have been literally fulfilled, ST
| choU tho GLORY he of us walk worthy