The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-05-26
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL,
Lesson lx.- Second Quarter,
For May 31 1903.
THE. INTERNATIONAL SERIES.

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Text or the Lesson, John Xxx, 1.1s.
Memory Verses, IS, 1e-Golsan Text.
Rev. i-1s-commentary Prepared ny
Rev. D. M. .Stcarns.
tcopyrisht, 1905, by.ameriean Press Association. J
we. should certainly be sra;ef3 for
three resurrection lessons in ssHcces-
sion; but even thirty such would do US
nosgoed III We do not see ourselves az
crucifed with Him and risen with
Hin and our life hill With Christ In
God, that so our affections may be set
on things above and our hearts upon
the appearing with Him in glory Co.
iii, Ia. The more fully we are grasp
ed BY the great truth of His resurrec-
tion the laore earnestly will we pray
! the, prayer "that ! may know Him
and the, power Of His resurrection"
{Phil. ill, 10, 11), for unless our re-
: ception Of Him as the one crucihed
and risen for us and our intimate ae-
uuaintance@ with Him as the ascended
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 Els
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
giveness of sins, no gospel to preach,
II Christ be not risen is fully set forth
In / Cor. xy. The emphasis given to
1t by the apostles in their preaching Is
seen in such passages as Acts Il, p,
80; iii, Is, 26; iv; 10; V, 80; XII, 2S, So
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 abhorrence
of such deed; but. as we saw In the
last lesson, the hardened heart OF SIN
full man could scoff at and .eride 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-
proyal they made the tomb as sure as
they could. sealing the stone and set
ting 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 sitteth in the heavens shall laugh;
the Lord shall have them in. derision.
CPS: ii, ~.
At the appointed time on the third
day Ie came forth victorious over sin
and death and the grave, and He
showed Himself alive by many infalll-
BILE, proofs. during forty days, speaking
of the things pertaining to the king
dom Of God (Acts /, 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
nations worshiping Him as the Mes
siah Of Israel, they having become
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. lnasmuch as
our mortal bodies shall be made like
unto His glorious body, for we shall
be like Him (Phn. Lii, 21: John i'll, p,
1t 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
appearances, 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-
ten, but redemption will be found TO
include our BODIES also at the resurrec-
ton Of the just q Cor. XIV, sly. 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 (Nlatt. xviii, 81; therefore the
resurrection body was a real, tangible,
material body, as we shall see more
fully in the two succeeding lessons.
We gather nothing Of the nature OF
that body from His appearing to Pc
ter, for we have only the record Of the
fact duke xiv, 34), but from His ap-
pearance 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 do-He vanished out Of their
sight. This we shall also be able to
do when we have bodies like His.
One prominent truth in connection
with His resurrection talks is that we
grieve Him greatly when We fail to be-
lieye what is written concerning Him.