Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-06-24
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM.
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Temperance Lesson, Romans 1853
14-Commit Verses 8, 1O-Gol-
den Text: Put Ye on the Lord
Jesus Christi Rom. 1874.
TIME.-Spring, So A. D. PLACE.
EXPOSTT1ON.-I. Love the Fulfill
ing Of the Law, $40. Every Christian
would do we'll to- let the opening
words of this passage sink deep into
his heart, lowe no man anything.
It is a 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" 1t means never
go into debt" It mean more yet, it
means render to every man what is
due to him, whether it be tribute, Gus
tom, fear, honor, obedience ". ~.
The whole law of God can be put into
one word, and God has put it into one
word in this passage, "love." Love
is the fulfilling Cor filling full) of the
law. He that really loves his neigh
Dor will perform toward his neighbor
all that the law requires. Love works
no i'll. So it is not necessary to- say
to me who really loves, thou shalt
not steal" for he won't steal, he can't
be hired to steal. 1t is not necessary
to say to him thou shalt not kill"
for nothing would induce him to kill.
1t is not necessary to say, thou shalt
not commit adultery" he would rath-
er die than commit adultery. It is
| not necessary to say thou shalt not
covet,' for he would rather the other
self. Love is the secret of all right
doing. When love really reigns in
| the heart aver the ten 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 a
wonderful way in 1 Cor. 13:4-7, and
again in l Jno. ~3:16-16. Love is the
secret of true temperance principles.
The man who loves his brother alb
stains from all use Of Intoxicating
liquors as a beverage because such
use tends to work i'll to our neighbor.
The ways in which it may work i'll
are countless. 1t may work i'll by
my becoming a drunkard myself, and
a 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
yer becoming a drunkard is the man
who v drinks liquors at all.
III. The Day is at Hand, Cast Off
the Works of Darkness, 11-14. The
Day is Coming. Christianity is a re-
ligion of perennial hope. EVIL men
and seducers may wax worse" G. I'll.
3:13). Iniquity may abound and the
love of the many wax cold (Matt.
PAID. Some may depart from the
faith and give heed to seducing spir-
it's Il Tt. AID, perilous times may
come G. Fl. 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 it is
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 OR. 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, 81,
r. "; Heb. 1929; 1 Pet. 1:5, R. ";
1 Jno. 1929. The Coming of our Lord
so near at handJis n of the might
lest motives for true temperance prac-
tees (Luke ~21:34-36)- AS the night
is so far spent it is time to put Off all
"the works of darkness Gall practices
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
1;~ro. n rir IipO foh0ooo 11cipo ond
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. 12:z4, 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 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 ac'
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 w%antonness Iii
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 10 basest in men and
women. We do not usually put jeal-
ousy in the same catalogue with
drunkenness and RIGHTEOUSNESS, but
God does ". IS, r. W. The whole
secret of good form," or walking be-
comingly, is to put on the Lord
Jesus" t o have lives clothed with
Him (cf. Gal. 3:27; 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. 1 Pet. 8:
3-5), The way to have Christ upon