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Sunday School Lesson for May 3, 1908
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LESSON TEXT.-John - Memoi
verses 2. g.
GOLDEN TEXT. I'm my Father
house are many mansions. John 49,
TIME. Thursday evening. April 8.
ID. 3D. Jesus farewell discourse with Dbl
disciples was spoken the evening bef0i
bis crucihxion
PLACE.-An upper room in Jerusalem
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
The world and everything In IT. :
bundle Of needs. Everything is hur
cry. The ground greedily drinks &
the rain and the sun. The tire
stretches IFS hungry roots into th
soil and it's hungry leaves into the an
Your house is a focus for incomin
supplies. Of coal, and food and
thousand Injuries. Every man is hun
CRY for bread and air. and knowledge
and love
This sense Of need in man is q
good thing. Without H. there could
be no life. no growth When a child
is not hungry, its parents justly begin
10 fear for its health. When the SON
does not see IT'S needs, IL Is in q sad
condition
Perhaps the chief cause Of the dis
ciples trouble was Christs predicted
departure into the Great Unknown.
See John 1896 All that have seen
their dear ones slipping from sight IN.
derstand that one Of the principal I'm
man needs and desires is 10 know
whittier they have gone. and if there
is 10 be a reunion
Christ answered that question fol
them and for MS
I. by revealing heaven as a place
his Father house Heaven is a home
like place familiar and dear. witt
lights shining for ms in the windows
and the Father waiting for ms az the
open door
2. hy revealing heaven as a place
Of private. personal abodes. not a vast
oaravansary. In 1t ARE many man
sions. "ahidingplaces." mansions"
'oming from manere. TO remain These
ere permanent homes. not transient
iDodos like ours on earth
3. BY revealing heaven as a large
place with many mansions-room for
all Heaven will contain immense
ihrongs without being crowded. It's
children will be as the grains OF sand
that bar The oceans waves, or the !
stars that begem the vault OF night
Yet there is ROOM The many man
sions are not an tenanfed. Fl b !
Meyer.
1. By revealing heaven as a pre-.
pared place; prepared. moreover. by
The one best able TO make II delight
nj. since he is the creator of AN De
ightfu things on earth. and thor
luohly knows orr tastes and desires
8. Ry revealing heaven as the place
# communion with Christ That was
he purpose Of his going. which sad
Tened his disciples-to make ready
lace to which he could bring them
or a fellowship without any more
.arting
o. By insisting that what. was loft !
concerning the hereafter
3 10 be thought of as joyful and not
rievous "lf II were not So" If heav
n were not this warm, loving. home I
Re. beautiful place. Il would have b
lld YOU" would have warned You an, .
repaired you c
10 is not enough To know the truth Z
bout icd. or De In the way 10 God. or
ven 10 have the divine life IN ms. the :
uman soul longs after God himself q
Our Lord met this need by discIos \
g the final supreme truth. that nc
ms God. III ye had known me- 2
'cogniled my true nenrc-"yc 5
lou'd have known my Father also
pr Christ was The complete image OF 3
q Father But this answer did not
tisfy Philip. He wanted some mar h
l0us vision Of God such az Moses Is
" on Horeb Perhaps Of an the K
sciDles Philip was the least recep. =
10 and the slowest to comprehend
e thoughts and spiritual beauty Of -
e Master He was the materialist Of r
g company Rev. j. G. Green l
ugh.
Christ emphasized the great truth.
3 oneness with the Father
/. BY reminding Philip OF the long
ne he had been with Chrlst-for he
d been among the first Disciples
OF all the evidences he had seen
Christ's divinity.
,. BY specifying these evidences
ginning with the words" heahad
'ken. the wonderful parallels. the
the model prayer, the ser
ms, the private conversations u
rds so gracious. wise, and powerful -
Il they must cone from God.
. by naming ato the works he had
le. the long series OF convincing
'acles. showing such a mastery OF
ure, disease, and death as only God
I'D possibly possess.
. BY a personal appeal: Believe Spe
when tell you that am in the
her, and the Father in me-" Christ
g turns TO all the disciples, for MI
lieye' IS in the plural, and urges IN
m 10 consider his credibility. Was
the kind Of man TO lie2 to indulge
Empty boasts? TO be guilty Of what.
false, would be a horrible bias
my
he character Of Christ, even more
ngly than his miracles. proves the
h Of his claim to divinity.
BY a warning ~. PSI that they Z
e not 70 expect 10 see in the Man s-s
list the awful and splendid majesty
ehoyah. In Christs human body.
'o sure. dwelt "all the fullness OF IT,
Godhead bodily" (Col. 2:0: but
outward manifestation was cloggcd n,
ieshly limitations, by our human
mites which Christ took upon G
40 that he usuaf e..- NH.