Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-10-03
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON |, FOURTH QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, OCT. ?.

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This lesson follows Immediately af
eY that OF three weeks ago concernin
Jesus silenclng the Pharisees and Sac
ducees. Matthew says xxi, 81
when the Pharisees had heard tina
he had put the Sadducees to silenc
they were gathered together" He ha
put them to silence on the matter 0
tribute to Caesar or not, also In refer
ence to the resurrection, and nov
their question is, (Which is the frs
commandment of all?" or, as in Mat
thew. (Which is the great command
ment in the law" Jesus replied by
summarizing the Ten Commandments
according to Deut vi, 4, 8; Lev. xix
IL, as loving God with all our hear
and soul and mind and strength and
our neighbor as ourselves, to which the
scribe replied so discreetly that Jesus
said to him, "Thou art not far from the
kingdom of Godp (verse 94). The scribe
said that to love thus was more than
all, whole burnt offerings or sacrifices
(verse 33), and in saying this one might
judge that he understood the slgnif-
canoe of all sacrifice, which was to set
forth the love of God to us In giving
His own Son to be sacrifice for our
sins. All the sacrifices from Gen. iii,
81, onward illustrate the great sacri-
fee of the Lord Jesus, who perfectly
fulfilled the law and then voluntarily
suffered in the stead of those who had
broken that law that He might save
them from its consequences. Such love
to God with all the heart and to our
neighbor as ourself was never seen on
earth but in Jesus Christ, who is the
end of the law for righteousness to ev-
cry one that believeth Rom. x, d.
1t seems to me that the story Of the
giving of the law from Sinai and the
after history of the two tables make
the matter very plain. The law was
given to redeemed people, redeemed
by the mighty power of God and by
the blood of the Passover Lamb; there
fore the unsaved are not asked to keep
the law, for God knows they can't do
1t (Gal. ii, 16; Iii, 2D. Having redeemed
them, God gave them the law from
Sinai from the midst Of the fire. for
our God is a consuming fire, and the
people, not knowing their weakness,
said they would keep it, Moses went |
up to God In the mount to receive from |
Him the words which He had uttered, |
written on tables Of stone, the tables |
the work Of God, the writing the writ
Ing of God. Moses was gone forty
lays and came down from the mount
10 find the people dancing round a
golden calf and calling 1t the god who
brought them out Of Egypt. Thus they
Kept the promise they had made to
worship and serve the living and true
God. Moses. seeing how they had
broken the law which they had prom
sed to keep, threw down the tables
nd broke them before their eyes, as If
o say, or saying In the most impress
i've way, This is what you have done.
be first and bring them up to Him,
nd He would write the same words
n them, but he must make an ark or
hest of acacia or incorruptible wood
nd cover it within and without with
old and make lid or mercy seat Of
ure gold and put the tables in the
TX and cover them with the lid and
eep them there. That ark and mercy
lat are to me Of all the tabernacle I
pes of Christ the most wonderful. 1
e alone could say. "Thy law is within .
Y heart; | delight to do Thy will, o
y God" FPS. xl, g.. a
Verses 35 to 81 Of our chapter, taken y
It'll Matt xxi, 41-46, tell us Of the L
iestion Jesus asked the Pharisees: l
What think We of Christi" "Whose Son
He?" Their reply, or Son of Da- +
d." led Him to ask, How, then, doth y
avid in spirit call Him LordT' quot c
g Ps. OK, l. No one could answer, +
r they did not understand that the q
lrist, the Messiah of Israel, was to be
'th God and man, David's Lord as II
ell as David's Son, the root as well o
the offspring Of David (Rev. XIII p
}, which also was set forth in the a
Id and the wood Of the ark of the o.
venant. e
Verses 3S to 40 contain a warning III
ainst those who were only religious CT
twardly and for pretense, that W
ey might have the praise of men h'
-att. xiii, %. Against all such hypo- III
ties the Lords words concerning IL
eeping and gnashing Of teeth are al
iys directed, and here He speaks of bl
greater damnation for them, for hs
ere are degrees of punishment for tv
: lost as well as degrees of glory for 10
, saved. There are no degrees in so
walton, for the blood of Christ saves an
ially all who are redeemed by it, but
} redeemed shall be rewarded &C. as
ding to their works, and the lost all
III be punished according to desert pc
sv. xii, IL; Luke xii, 1913. to
he last verses Of our lesson tell of De
JUS sitting over against the treasury Fl,
hOW tue DtODAt CdSJ
lr money in. Inasmuch as He Is the me
ne always, always "this same Je- WI
!" (Heb. xiii, s; Acts /, H. He is -,
] observing how people give into 1t
treasury and estimating each ones WI
at its true value in His sight, who o oul
II reward every one according to onl
work. He sees whether we are an,
Ing out Of our abundance or out of you
poverty; whether we are giving
bout feeling it or saying, like Da- ou
Il will not offer the Lord that to
oh doth cost me nothing Oh Sam. A
v, "a. There are many who might to
, much more than they do, but call ing
1t they give "the widows mite" N
noticing that this widow gave two ed
es, and those two were all she had. the
me
Tho Eastern Eye. the
be eyes of the yellow people are not y ;ss
H. III