Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-03-28
THE. SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson xIII.-First Quarter, For
March 20, 1908.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.

copyright, 1908, by American Press Association
All Scripture is given by inspiration
Of God and is profitable, = that the
man of God may be thoroughly fur
nished unto all good works. Whatso-
ever things were written aforetime
were written for our learning Oh Tim.
iii, 16, II; Rom. XIV, A.. These sayings
certainly include the book of Proverbs
as we'll as every other part of the
Scriptures. This has been called
book on godliness or holy living, con-
trasting Gods wisdom and mans fol-
"; it is Gods wisdom for mans igno-
rance. The words wise and wisdom are
used over 100 times and the words fool,
folly, foolish. foolishness, over ninety
times. In chapter viii and elsewhere
wisdom evidently refers to the Son
of God, for He is the wisdom of God
q Cor. i, pa. By contrast we think Of
the fools of whom He Himself Spake,
who hear His words but do them not
who are rich on earth, but not rich
toward God; who have no use for
prophecy Matt. vii, &c; Luke xii, 20,
81; xiv, 25). In verse of this lesson
chapter we read Labor not to be
rich; cease from thine own WISDOM"
for it is mans wisdom to get rich
quickly and at any cost. for he is slow
to believe that riches make themselves
wings and fly away Verse 81.
Our lesson, with it's immediate con-
text, sets forth the folly of bad women
and strong drink, two of the great
evils of this world by which the great
destroyer destroys multitudes. Con-
corning the former it is written, "Her
house is the way to hell" chapter VII
20, and, concerning. both, they cannot
inherit the kingdom of God q Cor. vi
GID, but that even such have been
saved and may be saved for Ch1lst
Jesus came into the world to save sim
ners, to seek and save the lost. Woe
and sorrow is the present portion of
all such, and if they die in their sins
then it will be torment that will covet
drop of water to cool the tongue, and
finally the everlasting fire prepared for
the devil and his angels duke xvi, "a;
Matt. XIV, Al.
But God is not willing that any
should perish, and in the person of His
Son He became man of sorrows and
acquainted with grief, was wounded
and bruised for us, bearing our sins in
His own body on the cross, suffering
the just and the unjust, that He might
bring us to God Qsa. lii, 3-5; Pet
ii, "a; iii, 49,, and he it is who says
se, ioo
fore get wisdom, for wisdom is better
than rubies, and all the things that
may be desired are not to be compared
to it, for whose findeth Me findeth life
and shall obtain favor of the Lord"
Chapter iv, q; viii, II, 35).
All sin is a form of self1shness, the
qualification Of the carnal mind, which
is enmity against God, and the only
hope for any kind of a sinner is a
new heart, clean heart, which God
Himself must create in us, and does
when we receive Him who was made
sin for us. Every one, moral or openly
SINFUL must be born Of God, as we
learned in our recent lesson on John Ill.
The carnal mind, the natural man, is
made new Rom. viii, 2, but the Son Of
God, the wisdom Of God, will receive
any sinner who comes to Him John
vi, 30, will enter any heart that IL
opened to Him, and then the sinner
becomes a new creature in Christ.
II Christ Is then allowed to have the
right Of way in the life that he has
redeemed and to work out the works
which He has prepared Eph. II, 1OD.
God will be glorifed and the life OF
Jesus made manifest in that life.
In verse SO of our lesson we read OF
the eyes and the heart, and in Lam.
fiji, 81, we learn that the eye affects
the heart, and In Job XXI, z, that the
heart walks after the eyes. If, there
fore, we would live as we should we
must look in the right direction and
continue so to do. In verse 81 we
read, "Look not" but there must be
counter attraction, therefore the COM
mand, "Look unto Me and be ye saved"
'Behold the Lamb of God" run with
patience, looking unto Jesus" Qsa. XIV,
%; John /, 20, Sc; Heb. xii, 1, p. BY
looking unto Him there is life for
every lost one, and by continuing to
look there is a life Of triumph for
every saved one. Apart from Him
there is no life, and looking anywhere
else but unto Him there is no victory.
The words "at the last'' in verse 80
should lead us to consider well chat
there is last opportunity to repent, a
last call to turn to God, and che that,
being often reproved, hardeneth his
neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and
that without remedy" xxx, y. For
the sinner Of every kind there is a
last indulgence and then, If cut off in
sin, eternal woe. Consider Dan. V, 80;
Luke xii, 20, and the context.
Verse 81 of the lesson makes us
think OF that word OF David, Truly
as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul
liveth, there is but step between me
and death" q Sam. H, 81. The last
verse suggests chapter xvii, %,
Though thou shouldst bray a fool in