The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-04-14
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON III, SECOND QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL sERlEs, APRIL fe.

Text OF the Lesson, Luke via, 1-1y.
Memory vsrses, IA, I5--Golden Text,
John xi, 25-Commentary Prepared
by Rev. ID. M. sfearns.
Copyright. 1905, BY American Press Association
Y In all these studies we are beholding
true godliness, God manifest In the
flesh. q Tim. iii, 16), for ..God anoint-
ed Jesus Of Nazareth with the Holy
Ghost and with power, who went about
doing good and healing all that were
oppressed of. the devil, for God was
with Him {Acts x, 3S). We are also
seeing foreshad dowings OF the kingdom
when sin and sickness and death shall
have been forever banished from the
earth. and the work OF righteousness
shall be peace, and the service OF right
eousness shall be quietness and asstir-
ance forever Rev. xxi, 8, 4; Isa. xxxii,
10. While we wait for the kingdom and
live to hasten 1t this may. all be In
some measure reproduced IN our lives,
for as the Father sent Him so He sends
us In His name and filed with The
same spirit John xvii, 1S; XXX, 721;; Acts
], 0. !. ! Il ., .8.. 55 q 4 .3.
/ The discourse in Luke VI, immediate-
~ preceding our lesson, is largely the
teaching OF the sermon ON the mount
Matt. v-yii), but under different cir
cumstances and on different occa-
sion. Then He went up into noun
tain and sat down and taught, but
now He came down from mountain
and stood In the plain lvi, 10. He
thought it well to repeat the same
truths again and again. He who said
by the phophet, Precept upon precept,
line upon line" Qsa. xviii, 13). sprac-
ticed the same Himself. knowing the
hardness of our hearts. - ;5=SE 3 NJ n Il
/ We learn from Heb. xi, 6, that with
out faith it is impossible to please
God, and he that cometh to God must
believe that He is, and that He is q
OF them that diligently seek
Him. Frequently He reproved His.
disciples because OF their little faith
Matt. vi, 80; wifi, %; xiv, 81; xvi. 81,
but concerning this gentle He says, II
have not found SO great faith, no, not
In Israeli (verse 81, and to another
gentle He said, 20 woman, great is
thy faith: be 1t unto thee even as thou
Wilt (Matt. XIV, 2S). Why do we not
trust Him implicitly ? ,:-,s 8s.st
This centurion's servant, who was
dear unto him, was very sick and It
seemed as Ii he would die verse -,
and hearing OF Jesus, but not thinking
himself worthy to come to Him, he
sent the elders of the, Jews to ask for
the servants I restoration Ito health
(yerse 70. 4 1T looks from the account In
Matthew as il the centurion came ito:
Jesus himself, but Luke explains 1t,
for what we do by another whom we
have appointed to represent us is as If,
we had done it personally ourselves.
when Jesus sent out His disciples He
said, she that receiyethH 4, YOU III receivsth'
Me, and he that receiyetb Me receiveth
Him that sent Me- Matt. *, 49). NJ s.s3
The messengers said that the CEN
furion was quite worthy to receive this
favor, for he loved the Jews and had
built them q synagogue This Is mans
estimate of worthiness and goodness,
and it Ifs still a common saying, 'sWeli,
such a one viii surely reach heaven,
for he is always doing good, !. but 1t Is
q wrong thought, FOR NO one can be
worthy to receive anything from God
by anything that he can do until he Is
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