Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-22
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson Xlll.-Third Quarter, For
Sept. rs, 1909.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.

lTIE NV EnRH lIOIVHL SEniES
Text Of the Lesson, Cor. x, .23.5s
Memory Verse, 24-GoIden Tex,
Rom. XIV, 2-Commentary Prepared
by Rev. D. Nj. Stearns.
This epistle is divided into severa
sections, beginning with the word!
Nov, concerning tr "Now. as touch
ing" (vii. /; viii. l.: xii. /. xvi. -. ant
our lesson Is IN the portion which be
gins with viii. /. Now, rs touching
things offered unto idols" While rec
| ognizlng that our idol IS nothing and
that meat commendcth US not to God
yet he says. IF meat make my broth.
er TO offend | will eat no flesh while
the world standeth lest make my
brother to offend" will. 49, Whatever
he did or refrained from doing 1t was
for the gospels sake lest the gospel Of
Christ should be hindered and that he
might by all means save some Qx. u,
%. 23). Referring to some events I'm
the history Of Israel, he says that all
these things happened to them for our
examples ard admonition, and he re-
minds us that God is faithful, who
will not suffer us to be tempted above
that we are able *. 11-13). He would
have us know that all our life Is either
hn nd hot Ia
we may lawfully do certain things, we
must not come under the power Of
anything or any one but the Lord
alone wi, 10; X, 23).
God having made us so rich in Christ
that all things are ours, things present
and things to come iii, 21-23), we are
not here to seek anything for our
selves, but only the welfare Of others
that they, too, may be saved and have
the same riches in Christ and then go
out to seek others *, 33). Love seek
eth not her own, and He who was
God manifest in the flesh never lived
to please Himself nor to sock His own
will or glory in anything xiii, 5; Rom
Ky, 3; John V, 30; vi, SO; viii, 5O). Paul
had to write to the Philippians. "All
seek their own, not the things which
are Jesus Christ's," MANY walk, of
whom I have told you often and now
tell you even weeping that they are
the enemies Of the cross of Christ,
whose end is destruction, whose God
is their belly and whose glory is In
their shame, who mind earthly things"
phil. II, 81; iii, 10, 10).
The twice repeated saying in verses
26, %, 'The earth Is the Lords and
the fullness thereof" is from the
psalm which speaks Of those with
clean hands and pure hearts who seel
the God of Jacob and open wide the )
gates to the King Of Glory. When He |
Is on the throne Of our hearts we will |
not be heard asking silly questions
about what we may eat or not eat, nor |
will we bow down to any idols within
)r without, but the one supreme
thought will always be to please Him,
o honor Him, to magnify Him, so that
others may want to know Him to
whom we have by His grace become
10 devoted. When we become thus
spirit filed, drunken with the new
vine Of the kingdom, filed with Joy
nd peace by believing, some will be
rawn away from the beastly drunk.
mess Of earthly things to the love
hat is better than wine, for which so
many souls are longing all uncon-
ciously. Is II not because the poor
sees nothing in processing
christians that can begin to compare
18th his pleasures Of sin for n sea {
On" that he holds on to his evil ways? s
he God Of this world, under whose
Ontrol the children of disobedience S
We, says to his blinded ones concern =
lg the church people, so called: Look
them. They go to church and sing
nd pray on Sunday, and the rest of
le week they come to us in order to S
, happy. I'll do better for you than
leir God. Come my way all the time.
ct us eat and drink and be merry, n
r there Is no lake Of fire nor place Of n
rment. No men of learning believe n
e Bible any more, and Jesus was r
lily good man who did wondrously n
bile he lived, but He is gone. and !,
ere are no more like Him." n
Does this sound familiar? Is 1t all O
,out you? Do you hear 1t on every II
lie? Then let 1t be a proof to you f,
at the whole world lieth in the n
cked one, the father Of lies, MUIR 8,
rer from the beginning, for whom RI
0 everlasting fire has been prepared. VI
d turn from him and all his lies to
m who gave Himself for our sins n,
ut He might deliver us from thr nj
'ath to come and from this present b,
Il age Il Thess. l, 10; Gal. i, A, and If w
Il do not see many lives that com NJ
md Him TO others let yours be one III
His grace that shall tell for Him
cry day and everywhere, life that re
en in eating and drinking rs well as 70
all other things shall glorify Goo IN
rise 81 and adorn the doctrine Of in
d our Saviour Crit. ii. 10). re
he phrase giving none offense' in a
sc 80 takes us to ii Cor. vi. 8. "giv- Of
no offense IN anything that the Of
nistry be not blamed" and back to &c
m. xiv. 10. let Us not. therefore, tn
ge one another any more. but judge to-
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lg hellwurd by our everyday life. his
us from tlAs time live wholly unto the
Lord. niSreHsatiCnal truth is most Tia
Dful I'm this matter and Is suggested to
verse -. which reminds us that Jal
', In TIT; age. the church of God is SIN