The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
Quarterly Review = international
Sunday School Lesson for
March 10.
QUARTERLY REVIEW LESSON.
BY REV. WILLIAM EVANS, B. D.
Director Biblical Department OF the
Moody Bible Institute, Chicago; OFF,
cial Lecturer of the Cook County
(Chicago) Sunday school Assoc
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S.. S. Lessons.)
Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
Golden Text: land Jesus wen about all
Galilee teaching in their s~yhagogues and
preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, and
healing all manner OF sickness. Matt.
4.23.
Certainly no mistake can be made b.
making all the lessons Of the quarter
center around the person and work OF
Christ. Indeed the lessons for the en-
tire year of 1906 are taken up solely
with the life of our Lord as reveale !
in the first three gospel accounts.
Christ as Saviour, Teacher, and Work
er--as Saviour, in His relation to sin
ners, He is to be sought; as Teacher.
in relation to disciples, He is to be
obeyed and followed; as Worker, in
His relation to the needy, He is the ex-
ample of all to be followed in benefi-
cence and philanthropy.
Jesus as a Saviour.
Jesus is the only man known in his
tory who was born with specific refer
ence to the sin of the human race. He
was not a moralist, not a refOrmer, not
o philanthropist, at least not primarily
go; He came to be mans Saviour.
Jesus did not come into the world -
teach men how to live, nor how II
die; He came to show them how to
get rid of their sins. His name was
the insignia of His ofice-"Jesus, for
He shall save the people from their
SINS" The world has no other such
Saviour: Neither is their salvation
in any other; for there is none other
name given under heaven among men
whereby we must be saved"
A Divine-Human Saviour.
Our lessons teach us the perfec.
equipment of Christ for such a work.
He was a perfect man. He had a per-
feet human nature with al it's sinlesa
infirmities. He was born of a woman:
He grew as other boys grow; He was
subject to hunger, thirst, WEAKNESS,
pain; He slept, cried, suffered, died.
He was subjected to temptations JUS,
as we are, yet without yielding to
them. If He was to be the Saviour OF
the human race, then sit behooyed Hin
to be made in all things like unto His
brethren" There is not a note in the
great organ of Jul humanity which.
when touched, does not produce a SYM
pathetic response in The mighty range
and scope of u Lords being, saving
the jarring disccrd of sin.
Jesus Was Divine.
Not merely in the sense that we
are all divine. He possessed a deity
to which no mere human being could
lay claim. We become sons of
God John 1:12). Jesus be
came" such; He always was" the
eternal and only-begotten Son of the
Father. AS a child He was born"
but as a Son He was given lisa.
500. His miraculous birth; His
power to perform works which none
other man did, save in a delegated
power; His power owe sickness, dis
ease, demons, Satan, and death; His
preseience, omniscience, omnipo-
tence; His power over man to save,
over demons to cast them out, owe
nature to control it-these are incon-
trovertible evidences of the deity OF
the Christ. And such a redeemer is
Gods appointed Saviour of the world.
No mar can come to the Father, gain
an entrance into Heaven, spend an
eternity of bliss with God, the angels,
and the spirits of just men made per-
feet, unless it be through Him Who
was God manifest in the flesh"
Christ as a Teacher.
He was the greatest teacher the
world has ever known. He was "the
teacher come from God" He alone
perfectly revealed the Father. His
teaching was with absolute author
lty, and not as the Scribes." What
aver may be said with reference to the
voluntary limitations of Christ in 9TH
er respects, it cannot, it must not be
said that He was limited in His teach
ing. God gave not the Spirit by
measure unto Him" in this respect.
His comments were not governed by
popular opinions, but by direct revela
ton from the Father. Christ made no
mistakes in His teaching The disci-
pies of Jesus Christ will therefore fin l
in His word and teachings the ulti-
mate authority in matters of faith and
practice. When Jesus has spoken the
last word on any question OF faith or
practice there is nothing more to be
said on that subject. His words are
the court OF final appeal. They form
our standard both here and hereafter
the word that l have spoken, the
same shall judge. him in the last day."
1t is because Jesus was God, divine,
deity, that His words have this final
and ultimate authority. We must not
make the mistake many are making
to-day-that of seeing in Jesus the
greatest of all merely human teachers.
. was that, and all of that; but File
was more: He was divine wisdom in
carnate. We must value the teaching
because of the Christ Who taught. not
value the Christ because of the teach
ing.
Jesus as a Worker.
Jesus Christ not only preached the
Gospel; He lived it, He worked 1t.
Words of love and deeds of love went
hand in hand together. He preached
the Word, He healed the sick. He
came down from the pu.pit and en-
tered the hospital. Such was His
whole life. He preached; He was
beneficent; He was philanthropic.
HE own lifo uac the hest cOmmpntai v