Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-01-22
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL,
Lesson V.-First Quarter, For
Ian. 26, 1908.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.

Text Of the Lesson, John II, 1922
Memory Verses, IS, 16--ooldsn Text
p. xeiii, s-commsntary Prspsrss
by Rev. o. M. stearns.
copyright, 1907. BY American Press Association.
The more I study and write the more
the saying in Pet 1, II, grows upon
me, 1.-THE Spirit of Christ testified be
forehand the sufferings Of Christ and
the glory that should follow" This
sentence is summary Of the whole
Bible story, and every part has a con.
nection with every other. We must
never forget that the Spirit wrote
through John In order to set forth the
great truth that Jesus is the Son of
God, equal with the Father; that, be-
lieving In Him. we might have life,
and have 1t more abundantly Chapters
xx, 81; K, 10). We learn how by His
sufferings we become sons of God and
then, by feasting on the glory. how to
live as such here In these mortal
bodies. In the last lesson Nathaniel
was told that he should see the glory,
and now in the first part of this chap
ter we are told Of our Lords first mira.
Gle and that at the marriage In Cana
He manifested forth His glory (verse
III. The marriage takes us back to
Eden and to Adam and Eve and on to
Rev. xix, to the marriage Of the last
Adam to His Eve, the church. ''Then
shall we see and share His glory, and
His word will be to US light such as
we have never seen, and the water
shall be changed into the wine Of the
kingdom" 1t will be on the third day
also. counting 1000 years as one day
duke Kill. 32). Israel will have her
place In 1t. the names of the tribes be-
ing on the gates of the city, and then
shall the Passover have its complete
fulfillment In the national deliverance
and conversion of Israel, according to
Luke xii, 10, 16, $3.50; Jer. xxxiii, 10,
16. The temple at Jerusalem shall be
restored, according to Eek. xl to Xviii,
and the name of the city from that day
shall be "the Lord is there"-Jehovah |
shammah (Ezek. Xviii, 35). In the
new Jerusalem which shall come down |
from God out of heaven. that the ma
lions may walk-in the light Of II, there |
shall be no temple for the Lord God !
Almighty, and the Lamb shall be the |
temple Of It aud the light Of 1t (Rev.
xxi, 22-24). Then shall be seen the
complete fulfillment Of Jacobs vision.
These thoughts and many more on
hese lines are suggested by the Pass
'ver and the temple cleansing Of our
essen In John ii, which topics suggest
he practical questions, Am I truly un-
er the shelter Of the blood, and, If so,
m | consciously His temple? q Cor.
1, 49,
After this brief visit to Capernaum
verse 12), being rejected by His towns
len at Nazareth. He made Capernaum
lis center, and II is called His own
lty duke iv, 1881; Matt. tx, y. Ca
as 1t might be written, Is
he village Of Nahum, or the Comfort
r. Let us each be a Capernaum for
Tim and not hinder by unbelief. 1t
yas at a Passover that He was lost
, His mother for three days and when
1und In the temple uttered those first
accorded words In Luke II, 40, II must
e about My Fathers business" The
assOyer Of today's lesson Is the first
His public ministry and is signal
ed by His cleansing the temple and
'retelling His resurrection. That the
assover lamb typlfied Christ and His
God shedding is plainly stated in |
or V, Z Some of the lessons are safe
only under the blood the assurance
1t by the word of God. fellowship
it'll Him In eating the lamb, q sug-
,stion Of suffering with Him In the
tier herbs and the absence Of leaven i
e necessity Of putting away all evil. $
5 the first Passover marked the be- {
inning of lsrael's national history, the t
ture fulfllment spoken of by our t
ord at the last Passover duke xxifJ t
III be marked by deliverance that /
m never again be marred by fu- /
re bondage lisa. *. 1922: Amos *. T
, 15) From the beginning Of their Y
tional history there was a place for Il
ID to dwell In In their midst, first q Il
bernacle and then temple. each c
pical of Jesus. their Messiah. the a
lie tabernacle and temple But thsy a
re ever neglecting or detiling II, for d
Is mans way to defle everything. b
the time of the reformation under W
,zekiah they were sixteen days ST
ansing the house of the Lord, and al
, dizziness had reached even to the n
" place Gil Chron. xxx. 8, @, 1913. et
e Lord Jesus was the only temple cl
It never needed cleansing We as N
) redeemed ones are His temples,
are urged to cleanse ourselves not
Y from all filthiness OF the flesh, but
the spirit too I'll Cor. vi, l6: VII, u. 70
lat can be said of the buying and re
Ing and other filthiness found In 70
many churches today? And Is It TO
possible that He who looks on the ms
Irt rather than on the outward ap- nj
rance sees under many an outward en-
m Of seeming worshiper a very hi
rket place or a Wall street.. IN
here are deliverance and cleansing an
y In Him who died for us, rose again
ever liyeth as our great High co
est to intercede for US His disci- So
3 did not receive the truth concern uf
His resurrection until after He was pi
IN from the dead, and some of us
m just as slow to receive Col Ill., vs.,
We know from Heb. XII. 2, that tn
n He was sustained In His humilt. pi
,n by the Joy set before Him, and di
ess the resurrection, with all it's
ry. is very real to US we shall be- err
to dwell much upon the way aud A
dlscouragements. IN