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Temperance Lesson, Romans 1873
14-Commit Verses 8, 10-Gol-
den Text: PUT We on the Lord
Jesus Christ" Rom. 1874.
TME.-spring, So A. D. PLACE.
-Corinth. :
EXPOSITION.-I. Love the Fulfill
ing of the Law, $40. Every Christian
would do well to let the opening
words of this passage sink deep INTO
! his heart, lowe no man anything.
II is a plain command, and as whole
some as it is plain. Debt is disobe-
aience to God. Debt is also slavery
(Prov. 22:O. But lowe no man
anything" means more than pay
your debts" 1t means never
20 into debt" 1t means more yet, 1t
means render to every man What IS
due to him, whether it be tribute, Gus
tom, fear, honor, obedience ". y.
The whole law of God can be put into
one word, and God has put it into n
word In this passage, love" Love
ls the fulfilling (or filling fulD of the
law. He that really loves his neigh
DOR will perform toward his neighbor
all that the law requires. Love WORKS
40 i'll. So it is not necessary to say
to one who really loves, thou sha
not. STEAL" for he won't steal, he cant
be hired to steal. 1t is not necessary
to say to him thou shalt not KILL
for nothing would induce him to Kill.
It is not necessary to say, thou shalt
not commit adultery" he would rath-
er die than commit adultery. 1t is
not necessary to say thou shalt not
coyet." for he would rather the other
should have than to have him
self. Love is the secret Of all right
doing. When love really reigns In
the heart even the ten commandments
become unnecessary, because h man
will keep them all without being COM
manded. What love will not do and
| what love will do is described in a
wonderful way in 1 Cor. 13:4-7, and,
again in 1 Jno. 3:16-1S. Love Is the
secret of true temperance principles.
The man who loves his brother abb
stains from all use of Intoxicating
liquors as a beverage because such
use tends to work i'll to u neighbor.
The ways in which 1t may work III
are countless. 1t may work Ill by
my becoming a drunkard myself, and
q drunkard is a curse not only to him.
self but to all who love him and to
the whole community. How many
hearts one drunkard breaks. The
only man who is entirely safe from
| ever becoming a drunkard is the mar
who never drinks liquors at all.
III. The Day is at Hand, Cast on
the Works of Darkness, lila. The
Day is Coming. Christianity is a re.
ligion of perennial hope. Evil men
and seducers may wax worse" q I'll.
3:13). Iniquity may abound and the
love of the many wax cold Matt
24:12). Some may depart from the
faith and give heed to seducing spir'
it's Il TT. AID, perilous times may
come e I'll. 3:1-5), but ahead there
is 1.-The day-star" and the sunrise
(Mal. 4:2) and it Is darkest just be-
fore day. AS the day is coming 1t IL
time to awaken out Of sleep. Let us
wake up and be ready to greet the
morn. Salvation was near when we
first believed (Luke 1879, it is near
er now (R. W. BY salvation here
Paul means not salvation in the linn
tied sense of pardon of sin, but the
full salvation that shall be ours at the
Coming of our Lord (Phil. 1920, Il,
r. "; Heb. 9:29; l Pet. 1:5, r. ";
l Jno. 3:2). The Coming of our Lore
SO near at hand is one of the might
lest motives for true temperance prac
tees (Luke 2~1:34-36).i AS the nigh
Is so far spent 1t Is time to put OF al
1.-The works of darkness" (all practices
that have their origin IN this present
evil world, that arise from moral ant
spiritual darkness and lead to eterna
darkness). These are too numerous
to specify, but one can safely pul
liquor drinking, tobacco using and
raising and selling, the theatre, care
table and dance under this head. Bul
it is not enough to put off, we mus
also put on Matt. 1874, 49,. Whai
must be put on? 1.-The armor of light
What is "the armor of light?" Eph
6:11-1S describes it in full. We must
walk in a seemly manner as in the
day. The word honestly" IS a total.
ly misleading translation. 1t means
Sin good form" Society people are
greatly concerned about what Is
good form by the standards of the
best society" Citizens of heaven
(Phil. 1920, r. W should be con.
cerned as to what is good form &C.
cording to court etiquette Of that
country. What good form" is &C.
cording to heavenly standards ap.
pears from the words that follow
"Reveling and drunkenness; chamber
ing (sexual SIM and wantonness Ill
centiousness), strife and jealousy
cannot be tolerated. Drunkenness
and RIGHTEOUSNESS are commonly as
ISOLATED together, for experience
shows that they are rarely if ever sep
arated. The use of alcoholic liquors
even in what is called moderation
stirs up all that is basest in men and
women. We do not usually put jeal-
ousy in the same catalogue with
drunkenness and RIGHTEOUSNESS, but
God does ". 13, R. W. The whole
secret of good FORM" or walking be-
comingly, is to put on the Lord
Jesus" to have our lives clothed with
Him (cf. Gal. 1927; Eph. 4:24). The
figure Paul uses here is that Of put
ting on a garment. The clothes we
wear should be Jesus Himself. When
we meet a man pretty much all we
see is his clothes, and when people
meet us all they should see should be
the Lord Jesus Christ (cf. l Pet. 3:
3-5). The way to have Christ upon
us is to have Christ in US (Col. LIT:
Eph. BID.
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