The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-25

D-@D - NOlutu itNts EDns 10
Commit Verses 10, 1O-Com.
mentary.
TIME.-A. D. g. PLACE.-Rome.
EXPOSITION.-I. No Fellowship
With the Unfruitful Works of Dark
ness. Cid. The believer In Christ is
child of light w. 81, there can be
no fellowship between light and dark
ness, the believer must therefore re-
fuse all fellowship with the works of
darkness (cf. 2 Cor. GID. This set
ties our duty about the theatre, dance,
etc. etc These works Of darkness
bring forth no fruit for God from
6:2D. SO far from having fellow
ship with them we should even re-
prove them, l. e., expose and rebuke
their badness Darkness" does much
of its work in secret" light does its
work in the open The things done
by those who are "of the darkness"
in secret it is disgraceful even to men
tion. Many sins are better unde-
scrlbed. Don't let out the darkness.
but let in the light. The light makes
everything manifest, and that which
is thus made manifest by turning the
light on to 1t becomes light itself (v
13, r. W The believer who has
any fellowehip with darkness is
asleep. The sinner is deau jvf. EpS.
2:1). God calls the sleeping believ-
er, the one who is having fellowship
with the unfruitful works of dark
ness, to awake from his sleep and
arise out from among the dead, /. e.,
from the sinners with whom he is
fellowshipping, as live man among
corpses (cf. Ro. 13:1D.
II. Understanding What the Will of
the Lord is, 1J-17. 1t will not do TO
| carelessly take it for granted that our
walk is all right unless we have
| looked very minutely into It, There
are two kinds of walk, the walk OF
| the unwise and the walk of the wise.
In order to walk wisely we must buy
up the opportunity" ". 16 r. ",
Marg) As the far sighted merchant
| buys up all that which he sees to be
| of large and constantly increasing
value. so we must lay hold of every
! iwiftly passing opportunity of doing
! ood and of growth in the knowledge
| Of and likeness to God. The fact that
the days are evil" is not a reason for
| discourageme but for more ear.
nest improvement of every opportu-
nifty that offers. This Is a reason for
| not being foolish" (v. II, r. ",
sSy strocg word literally without
>ason,' sense, ,sss) The only way to
void being foolish is by under
tanding what the will of the Lord
s." The Lord here ii JesuA Tvs. 90
and 81.
III. Filled With the Spirit, 1920.
! Paul here takes up one especial form
of folly, fruit of darkness that has
cursed every age since the days of
Noah, drunkenness (Gen. 9:20-25).
| Perhaps Paul warns against this spe-
cial form of folly because 1t is the
root of almost every other kind of
folly. But by Gods wondrous grace
one who has been a drunkard may
be washed 'sanctified," Justified"
and may then inherit the kingdom of
! God Il Cor. GID. In drunkenness
there is excess" or riot" (R. ", in
| corrigibleness, abandoned profiigacy) E.
Any one who has had any experience
of life knows how true this is. The
drunkard becomes lost to every noble
ambition and holy desire. Note that
it is drunkenness, not merely with
, whisky and rum, but drunkenness
with wine that Paul warns against
and proposes as the cure for drunk
enness the only sure cure, being
allied with the Spirit" To be "filled
with the Spirit means to have the
Holy Spirit take possession of the
whole being Luke 1:41, 40, ca;
Acts ga; AS; 31:13, 3, 1O). 1t is
nearly synonymous with being "bap-
rized with the Holy Ghost" except
ing that the expression being "bap-
tized" with the Spirit is never used
of a second experience, while being
filled" is (cf. Acts 1:5 with 2:1-4
and 10:44-46 with IL, IS, 16). When
one is drunk with wine" wine takes
possession OF every faculty, and when
one is filled with the Spirit the
Spirit takes possession of every fac
ulty. IntoXication is the DEVILS coun-
terfeit of being filled with the Spirit.
The effects of being filled with the
Spirit is that one is lifted on to a su-
pernatural plane of life and activity.
The best way to keep a man from
having recourse to the devils stimu-
lation is to have him filled with God s.
He that knows the wine of heaven
Us. 55:1) will not want the wine of
hell, The literal force OF the words
translated 'be filled with the Spirit"
is be getting filled with (or in) the
Spirit /. e., be getting constantly
filled. One filling Is not enough,
tueIe must De constant lnpOur1nB.
As to- how to be filled with the
Spirit" study Acts 1898; 5:32; Luke
liza; Acts 4:31; S:15-17. When
one is filled with the Spirit he will be
full of joy and song ". 19), there
will be melody not only upon his lips
but in his heart as well (cf. Is. S.:
IA. But the songs will not be the
songs OF this world. but psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs" The
Spirit-flled man is taken up with
God and Christ (Aets 2:4, II; 4;31
33) and his songs will be about
Christ, The Spirit-flled man will
also be filled with thanksgiving ~
20) He will be returning thanks all
the time tcf. Ps. 34;D and for al
things" His Spirit-illumined soul
will see something to be thankful to
God for in everything Il Cor. IA; |
Thess. r:2, 3; 2; 13; 2 Thess, 1: :3.
2:13; Acts SAL; 1885; job 1:21)
Antiquity of the Oath.