The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-01-03
THE WORD
MADE FLESH
Sunday School Les,Oa IOI Jan. 5. 1908
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LESSON TEXT. John Ills. Memory
I Verse. =
7 GOLDEN TExT.-.-The Word was
made flesh. and dwslt among us.--John
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scRIPTURAL REFERENCES. = The
Z Divine Christ Heb LILO: John 5.ls. a..
! Col i:is. n. lisa. 30 Phil zs-ii. Rev. Is
/ LIS Ths Word Made Fiesh-Study what
new light 10 thrown upon this statement
BY the accounts Of the virgin birth in
Luke and In Matthew By Iohn ais.
Heb. ~. ?. Rom. 81: Phil IL: Heb. 20: l
John III. ?
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
He Is the Word OF God And the
Word Was God. l. In the beginning. =
as 10 Genesis l. Back Of all manifesto
tons OF God was the word which pro
ceeded from him. The Word Is the
revealer OF the ineomprehensibla and
invisible Cod Exp. Greek Test Words
are the expression OF what Is In the
soul-reason. conscience. will. purpose
The word was with God The Greek
proposition expresses not merely be
ing beside. but a living union and
eommunion. implying the active no
ton Of intercourse The divine word
not only abode with the father from
all eternity. but was In the living. &C.
tive relation % communion with him =
M. r. Vincent. The word was God s.
There is only one God. and this state
ment guards against the error which
the phrase with Cod might suggest
that there Is more than one. No one
can more emphatically assert the abso-
lutte unity OF God than both the Old
and the New Tesiamenis. and the
whole Christian church.
v. 3. -All things were made By Him. "
Whatever God does. the Word does.
In Col ISIS. 16 we are told that
Jesus
Is the image OF the invisible God
the firstborn OF every creature.
Fooby him we're All things created
that are in Heaven. and that are in
earth. visible and invisible. whether
they be thrones. or domlnlons. or
Prineiralities. or powers. an thines
we're created b. Him. aud for Him.
And in Heb. 1913
Who being the brightness of HIS
glory. ard the express image o. His
person. and UNFOLDING an things by
the word OF Ills power. when Re had
by n4::;;ss=si; .surged our sins. sat down
on the right hand OF the Majesty on
high"
See John s:Is-ls: Phil. 2:5-lI: Rev.
Is. 1916: lisa. CSC
He is the source Of life. Va. In
Him was life THAT power which
creates life and maintains all else in
existence was in the Word" He was
the fountain OF existence TO all things.
including every form and degree and
kind OF life. natural and spiritual, SO
Exp Greek Test For as the Father
raiseth the dead. and quickeneth them,
even so the Son quickeneth whom He
viii John 5:2l-26: s:47-5s). In the
first chapters OF Genesis the word Gre
ate WHOSE meaning Is interpreted by
'. Of this chapter. ito cause TO come
into being'1 Is used only three times.
On Of matter. (2l OF life. 81 OF the
soul Of man: and at each OF these
points the efforts Of men 10 produce
either Of these by the forces OF nature
have proved a complete failure Life
must come from life. II includes in
tellectual life. based on the physical
life. and spiritual life based on the in
tellectual.
He is the source Of light Va. and
the life was the light OF men For
not only was the first effect OF life on
matter to produce light. but the frsi
condition OF seeing the light is life. All
the light IN the universe cannot make
dead things see Dead minds cannot
know.
And mere life without light Il Of
little avail II IL difncult for NJ 20
reaiiIe what 4 light does for Us.
Jesus Christ IL the revelation Of the
Father. V. 1918. The witness.
The testimony Of experiences. Y. 10.
-of His fulness.- His inexhaustible
store OF grace and truth. which belong
to the Son OF God: a fountain forever
flowing: q sun forever shining. Have
all vs received We know What these
are b. experience: We have felt His
love. HIS forgiving love: We have re
eeived His grace In our hearts: We
have seen His loving deeds: we have
heard His gracious words. We received
His gift Of Psntecost: His graees have
begun 10 grow IN our hearth: We have
been transformed by Him.
Illustrations. Jesus Is the mex.
haustihle source OF grace and truth.
In TIE Morse legends. Thor was
given a drinking-horn. which he vainly
tried TO drink dry. He afterward
learned that II was connected with the
ocean. and he would have had to drink
all the water OF the world before he
could have emptied the cup.
An eastern king was showing his
treasure-chest TO the ambassador OF
the king Of Spain. after their discovery
OF the mines in America. The ambas.
sador put his hand to the bottom OF
the kings chest. and said. Il can
reach the bottom OF your treasures:
bu, there is no bottom. no end. 10 the
treasures Of my Master"
Points Of Contact with Modern Life.
/. Here We find exactly the Saviour