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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM
MENTs FOR JUNE 20.

INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM.
MENTs FOR JUNE %.
Temperance Lesson, Romans 1875
14-Commit Verses 8, 10-Gol-
den Text: "Put Ye on the Lord
Jesus Christ" Rom. 1914.
TD1E.-spring. 5s A. D. PLACE.
-Corinth.
EXPOSITION. Love the Fulfill
iRg of the Law, $40. Every Christian
would do we'll to let the opening
words Of this passage sink deep INTO
his heart, "owe no man anything.
It is plain command, and as whole
some as it is plain. Debt is disobe-
dience to God. Debt is also slavery
(prov. 22:7). But lowe no man
anything" means more than pay
your debts It means never
20 into debt" It 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 1t into one
word In this passage, ''love." Love
is the fulfilling Cor filing .full) Of the.
law. He that really loves his nelgn-
Dor will perform toward his neighbor
all that the law requires. Love works
no i'll. So it is not necessary to say
to one who really loves, thou shalt
not STEAL" for he won't steal, he CAM
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 shait
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 theten commandments
become unnecessary, because the man
will keep them all without being COM
manded. What love will not do and
what love will do is described in
wonderful way in 1 Cor. 13:4-7, and
again in 1 Jno.S 3:1 6-18. Love is the
secret of tfie 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 our neignbor.
The ways in which it may WORK Ill
are countless. 1t may work III by
my becoming a 6runkard myself, and
drunkard is 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 drunkard is. the man
who never drinks liquors at ALL.
II. The Day is at Hand, Cast OF
thee Works of Darkness, 11-14. The
Day is Coming. Christianity is a re-
liglon of perennial hope. EVIL men
and seducers may. wax worse" q I'll.
3:I3). 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-
its Il III. AID, perilous times may
come G. tt. 3:1-5), but ahead there
is 'tthe day-star" and the sunrise
+ (Alal. 4:2) and 1t is darkest Just be-
fore day. AS the day is coming 1t is
time to awaken out OF sleep. Let us
wake up and be ready to greet the;
morn. Salvation was near when we.
first belieFed (Luke 9:9 ] 1T Isl near
ger now r. ". 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 4 Phil. 1920, 21,
r. w.; Heb. 9.29; 1 Pet. /: ,sR. ";
) i Jno, 1929. The Coming OF our Lord
SO near al hand is. one of the might
lest motives for true temperance prac-
tices tLuEe 21:34-36): AS the night
is go far spent 1t Is time to put off all
"the works of darkness" ailpractices
that have their origin in this present
evil world. that arise from moral and
spiritual darkness and lead to eternal
darkness). These are too numerous
to specify, but one can safely put
liquor drinking, tobacco using and
raising and selling, the theatre, card
table and dance under this head. But
it Is not enough to put off, we must
also put on (Matt. 1874, 45). What
must be put on? "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 total
ly misleading translation. 1t means
"in good form" Society people are
greatly concerned about what is
"good form" by the standards of "the
best society,"" Citizens Of heaven
(Phil. 3:20, r. W should be con-
cerled as to what is good form ac-
cording to court etiQuete Of that
country. What "good form" is ac-
cording to heavenly standards ap-
pears from the words that follow
"Reveling aid drunkenness, chamber
ing (sexual SIM and wantonness Ill
centiousnessJ, st: lie and jealousy"
cannot be tolerated. Drunkenness
and licentiousness are commonly as
sociated together, for experience
shows that they are rarely II 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 5eal-
ousy in the sams catalogue with
drunkenness and licentiousness, but
God does (v. 13, r. VI. The whole
seer. o. ""good form" or walking be-
coningly, 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 garment The clothes we
wear should be Jesus Himself. When
we meet 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. Pet. 8:
3-5). The way to have Christ, upon
us is to have Christ in US (Col. 1927;
Eph. 3:17).