Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-05-27
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson TX. Second Quarter,
For May 81, 1908.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.

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Rev. o. M. Stesrns.
Copyright, 1905. by American Press Associstion.l
We should certainly be grateful fol
three resurrection lessons In success
sion, but even thirty such would do us
no good If we do not see ourselves as
crucifed with Him and risen with
Him and our life hid with Christ In
God, that so our affections may be sci
on things above and our hearts upon
the appearing with Him In glory Col
III. 1-4). The more fully we are grasp
ed by the great truth Of his resurrec'
ton the more earnestly will we pray
the prayer that L may know Him
and the power Of His resurrection
(Phil Ill, 10, III, for unless our re-
ception Of Him as the one crucified
and risen for us and our intimate ac-
ouaintance with Him as the assembled
Christ, our great High Priest, lead to
q reproduction Of His life In us He Is
not having the right Of way In our
lives, as He desires to have. AS His
whole life was covered by the one
word submission" so must ours be.
Submit to God. Resist the devil"
That there is no salvation, no for
glveness Of sins, no gospel to preach,
II Christ be not risen is fully set forth
in Cor. XIV. The emphasis given to
1t by the apostles in their preaching IL
seen in such passages as Acts ii, "a,
80; Ill, 10, 20; ", 10; v, 80; xii, 20, 81,
etc. At His death the sun was dark
ened, the earth did quake, the rocks
rent, the graves were opened, and all
nature seemed to groan in adherence
of such a deed; but, as we saw in the
last lesson, the hardened heart OF SIN
full man could scott at and deride Him
who was suffering for the sins OF
those very men. He died, the just
for the unjust. His body was laid In
Joseph's new tomb by the kind hands
of two secret disciples, who In that
hour Of emergency became bold for
Him. His enemies remembered that
He had said that He would rise again
the third day, and so with Pilates ap-
prevail they made the tomb as sure as
they could, sealing the stone and set
ting a watch (Matt. xvii, 62-66). To
mere human eyes it looked as II the
devil had the victory and the impostor,
as the scribes and Pharisees thought,
had been finally disposed of. But at
all mans thoughts and purposes HE
that stitch in the heavens shall laugh;
the Lord shall have them In derision"
Cps. ii, ~.
At the appointed time on the third
day He came forth victorious over sin
and death and the grave, and He
showed Himself alive by many infalli-
BILE proofs during forty days, speaking
of the things pertaining to the king
dom of God (Acts l. 81. There Is no
topic more plain in Scripture and yet
less understood by preachers generally
and, of course, by the majority who
Listen to them than the kingdom Of
God or of heaven, which our Lord
Himself described as the will OF God
done on earth as In heaven. 1t is de-
scribed as including all the nations
upon earth, all kings bowling down to
Jesus as King of kings and all the
worshiping Him as the Mes
siah of Israel, they having become n
righteous nation at His appearing In
glory and all nations blessed through
them. Then we who now accept Him
and serve Him and follow Him shall
in our resurrection bodies reign with
Him in His kingdom. Inasmuch as
our mortal bodies shall be made like
unto His glorious body, for we shall
be like Him phil. Ill, 81; John Iii, p,
it becomes to US a matter Of the great
est possible interest to note the pow
ers and the nature Of His resurrection
body. Our special lesson to day, al
though It mentions only one Of His
really covers four-that
to Mary Magdalene, to the other wom-
en-, to Simon Peter and to the two who
walked to Emmaus. We have called
attention to the fact Of there being no
redemption apart from His resurrec-
ton, but redemption will be found to
include our bodies also at the resurrec-
ton OF the just q Cor. XIV, 51). AL
though He forbade Mary to touch Him
because, as He said, He was then on
His way to His Father In His risen
body, He allowed the other women to
hold Him by the feet and to worship
Him Matt. xviii, 81; therefore the
resurrection body was real, tangible,
material body, as we shall see more
fully in the two succeeding lessons.
We gather nothing Of the nature or
that body from His appearing to Pc
ter, for we have only the record Of the
fact duke xiv, 34), but from His ap-
Dearance to the two who walked to
Emmaus we learn that He walked as
they did and sat at meat with them In
the house and took bread and blessed
and brake It, Then He did something
which they in their mortal bodies
could not dole vanished out Of their
sight. This we shall also be able to
10 when we have bodies like His.
One prominent truth In connection
With His resurrection talks is that we
yrieve Him greatly when we fail to be-
ieye what is written concerning Him.
The angels said to the women, HE Is
risen, as He said" and he Himself
told the two men on the way to En-
maus that they were foolish not to be-
ieve all that the prophets had written
IF Him, which things He expounded
unto them. II is written in our lesson
Peter and John that they
knew not the Scripture concerning Hts
resurrection (verse 81.