The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-11-22
Worlds Temperance
Sunday
Sunday School Lesson for Nov. "a. 1907
Specially Prepared for This Paper

! GOLDEN Judge this rather.
hat no man put a stumbling block or an
occasion to fall in his brothers way
Romans 14:13.
LIGHT FROM OTHER SCRIPTURES.
DRUNKENNESS 21-2O, 21
Prov. 2O:1; 21:17 1920. p. 1914; 31:4. 8;
lisa. 5l1, %; Hos All: Hab. 2:15; Matt.
A;49, 80; Luke 2l:3i; l Cor. 5:1l; Gal.
j:2l
TEMPERANCE-Ro 1913; Cor.
I:25-27; / Tim. 49, 3. s; Tit. 2:12; Pet
~; SIS; 2 Pet. lie.
The Principals Paul Laid Down for
Our Guldance.-Vs. 1928 The method
of settlement is that employed all
through the Bible, of laying down gen.
eral principles, and not definite rules
and commands. For the principles
abide eternally, but the application OF
them varies continually. We have no
trouble whatever about some of the
questions which almost rent the an
cient church asunder. They were set
tied long ago. But We must apply the
same principles TO our modern prob
lens. The application of great divine
principles to our daily lives in varying
circumstances is a large part of the
discipline by which we grow in grace
and develop a strong and holy charac-
ter.
First. The Law of Liberty.-V. 70;
1 Cor. SO; 1929; Gal. IA.
V. -. $50 then" AS a conclusion
from what Paul had been saying.
Every one of us shall give account of
himself to God" Each is responsible
to God and must act as in his sight.
No one can lord it over his brother in
the Christian church. Each one must
define his d-ty so far as concerns him
self. Liberty does not prevent any
one from holding decided opinions,
and speaking of them, and arguing
for them. Liberty is not Indifference.
Permitting liberty does not endorse
all that is permitted.
Second-Vs. II, %, %. "The fullest
freedom must be balanced by the full.
est sense of responsibility to Cod
Expositor's Greek Testament. For
we shall all stand before the judgment
seat of Christ" ". 100.
V. %. Hast thou faith?" Do you
really believe that what you are doing
is right and approved by God? Have
this liberty of yours in the presence Of
the Father. I'VE still keep this joy
and strength of liberty even when for
loves sake we forego the particular
acts from which, if we considered only
ourselves and God, we should not be
debarred. Lyman Abbott. Happy
is he that condemneth not himself"
who is so convinced that his course is
right that his conscience never con-
dennis him, even when he 'sits alone
with his conscience" amid the mani
festations of Gods power.
V. %. "He that doubteth." Is unset.
tied in his conscience as to what is
right for himself. Abbott translates.
He that disputeth with himself" "Is
damned" is condemned, the usual
meaning of the Greek word. He has
no right to do an act which he feels
may injure others. Whatsoever is
not of faith is sin" "All that a man
cannot do remembering that he is
| Christ's-all that he cannot do with
/ the judgment seat ". 10) and the
cross w. 49, and all their restraints
and inspirations present to his mind
/ is sim"
Third. Toward such persons we are
! forbidden to have either a censorious
or a contemptuous estimate of their
| character. V. 10. Let us not there
! fore judge one another" not condemn
/ those who honestly do not see things
as we do. We must allow others the
same liberty We ask for ourselves.
| Condemning as unchristian others
who honestly differ from us may be
quite as great a sin as that of the one
condemned.
But Note ID that this does not re.
quire one to refrain from arguing
against any course as injurious. CD
That the principal does not mean that
we should never do anything which
others do not like, at which they take
offense, or with which they find fault.
Nor that in any case should we yield
in duty or teaching, because some
may stumble even over the truth.
Even Christ could not so act that
none took offense. Paul could not
Fourth.-Vs. 1916. " 13. But
Judge this rather" That is, turn your
Judgment to yourselves, and see to IL
that by your use of your liberty you do
not cause others to fall into sin. We
are never to give up our liberty OF
thought and action, but to use it in
the right way, as in the verses that
follow. IAN occasion to fall" 1t is
contrary to the very essence of the
gospel to put a stumbling block in the
way of any, and especially of the weak
and tempted.
V. IA. II know, and am persuaded
by" rather as r. ", lin" the Lord
Jesus" abiding in his presence and
filled with his spirit. In one case troub.
ling the church Paul felt perfectly
sure that he was right so far as his
conscience was concerned.
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