The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1908-01-25
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL,
Lesson lV.-First Quarter, For
Jan. rs, 1908.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.

Text of tho Lesson, John ii, 1922.
Memory Verses. IS. 16-GoIden Text.
Pc. xciii. SCommentary Prepared
by Rev. D. M. Stearns.
copyright. 1907. by American Press Association
The more study and write the more
the saying IN I Pet. I. IL. grows upon
me. 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 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-
Iieving In Him, we might have life.
and have ii more abundantly chapters
Xxx, 81; X, 1O. We learn how by his
sufferings We become sons Of God and
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 he to us light such, as
we have never seen, and the water
shall be changed into the wine Of the
kingdom" 1t will he on the third day
also, counting 1000 years as one day
duke xiii. 32). Israel will have her
place in it. 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. Is. 16. $3.50: Jer. xxxiii. ID.
16 The temple at Jerusalem shall be
restored. according to Eek. II to Xviii.
and the name Of the city from that day
shall be 1.-The Lord is there"
shammah (EZek. Xviii. 35). In the
new Jerusalem which shall come down
from God out Of heaven. that the ma
tons may walk in the light Of it. there
shall be no temple for the Lord God
Almighty. and the Lamb shall be the
temple Of 1t and the light Of it Rev
xxi. 22-24). Then shall be seen the
complete fulfillment Of Jacobs vision
These thoughts and many more on
these lines are suggested by the Pass
over and the temple cleansing Of our
lesson in John II, which topics suggest
the practical questions, Am truly un-
der the shelter Of the blood. and. If So
am l consciously His temple? q Cor
vi, 49,
After this brief visit to Capernaum
(verse 12). being rejected by His towns
men at Nazareth. He made Capernaum
His center. and IL Is called His own
city duke ~, 1881: Matt TX. II. Ca
pernahum. as 1t might be written, Is
the village Of Nahum. or the Comfort
er. Let us each be a Capernaum for
Him and not hinder by unbelief. 1t
| was at q Passover that He wds lost
to His mother for three days and when
found in the temple uttered thoee first
recorded words In Luke II. 70. II must
be about Ny Fathers business" The
Passover Of today's lesson Is the drst
| of His public ministry and is signal
lied by His cleansing the temple and
| foretelling His resurrection. That the
Passover lamb typified Christ and Ills
blood shedding is plainly stated in l
Cor. Y. 7. Some Of the lessons are safe
| ty only under the blood, the assurance
Of 1t by the word Of God. fellowship
with Him In eating the lamb, a sug-
gestion of suffering with Him In the
bitter herbs and the absence Of leaven
the necessity Of putting away all evil.
As the first Passover marked the be-
ginning Of Israel's national history. the
future fulillment spoken Of by our
Lord at the last Passover duke xii,
will be marked by a deliverance that
! will never again be marred by a fu-
ture bondage Qsa TX, 1922: Amos TX,
IA. 15). From the beginning of their
national history there was a place for
| God to dwell In in their midst, first q
| tabernacle and then a temple. each
| typical Of Jesus. their Messiah. the
! true tabernacle and temple. But they
| were ever neglecting or defiling it. for
| 1t is mans way to defle everything
In the time of the reformation under
Hezekiah they were sixteen days
cleansing the house Of the Lord. and
| the dizziness had reached even to the