The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-01-23
TIE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson IV.-First Quarter, For
Jan. %. 1909.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.
Text of the Lesson, Acts iii. 1-26.
Merory Verses 9. 1o-Goidsn Text.
Acts III, 16-Commentary Prepared
by Rev. ,. Nj. Stearns.

Msrory Verses 9. 1o-Goldsn Text.
Acts III. 1s-commentary Prepared
by Rev. ,. Nj. Stearns.
Copyright. 1905. by American Press ASsociationl
In this chapter we have another
testimony from reter 10 the power of
the risen. living Christ in the presence
OF i large congregation in the temple,
who were gathered TO see the man
who had been lame from his birth
row perfectly healed. In this discourse
Peter looks back rot only to the death
and resurrection of Christ. but away
farther back to the prophecies concern
ing Him ard 10 the covenant made
with Abraham and then onward to
the time OF His coming again TO re-
store all things of which the prophets
have spoken. Thus We have another
example Of the contents of the Scrip
lures and how TO use them-the hu-
initiation and suffering Of Christ, the
center of all, and the kingdom the
circumference. See in ! Pet. 1. IL:
~, 13; Y. l. his repeated references TO
the suTcrings of Christ and the glory
that shall follow. II is written in lisa.
xzxy, 6, among other samples of king
dom life, that the lame shall leap as
en- hart" and in this man Of our les
son walking and leaping and praising
God we have fulflment of that
prophecy. for. as l understand il. the
kingdom was not irrevocably post
poned till by the martyrdom of Ste
phen they rejected the Holy Spirit, as
they had the Father and the Son.
AS the apostles preached the good
news there were not thousands saved
every day or every week, but daily
some saved ones were added to the
church Oil. AZ. There is quite con
trast between helping poor blind
beggar and winning thousands Of souls.
and yet the former may rs truly glo-
rify God as the latter. Not many lives
are filed with startling events. but
every redeemed life may be filed with
SO called commonplaces to the glory Of
God. 1 find much help and comfort in
meditating upon the life that was lived
in the humble home and the carpenter
shop Of Nazareth, with which the Fa-
Their testified that He was well pleased.
In the opening verses of our lesson
the temple is very prominent, but nei-
Their tabernacle nor temple was any
thing apart from Him who said, Let
them make Me a sanctuary. that /
may dwell among them eek. XIV, 81.
one greater than the temple. who
when He cleansed it said. Make not
My Fathers house an house Of mer-
chandise' Matt. xii, 6; John ii, 16,
10 rp,1n Ia- OF ,Syt f,v,<>
no real worship of God in the temple.
we must remember such as Zacharias
and Simeon and Anna and that our
Lord Jesus Himself often taught the
people there. The gate Beautiful Is at
least suggestive of Him who is alto
gether lovely" IS. Of Sol. V, 1G) and
points onward TO the time of the king
dom when the walls Of the city shall
be called Salvation and her gates
Praise Gsa. Xvi. -. The inhabitant
shall not say, 1 am sick, and there
shall be 10 more death nor sorrow nor
crying nor pain ON the whole earth
lisa. xxxiii. "A; Rev. xxi. Il. The
needy, the poor and him that hath no
helper shall find Il true helper in the
King who shall then reign in righteous
ness ops. lXXii: lisa. xxxii /. IL. If any
would inquire why this man wcs born
lame, see John tx, 3. aud lay to heart
verse and let God work His works
In US. This poor man asked. expect
ing to receive Cverse 81, which Is
more than can be said Of many who
profess to pray to God. May Ps. xii.
., become truly our own experience.
We see in the days in which we live
an unprecedented Erasping for silver
and gold because of that which people
think it will do for them, because they
know not the Scriptures. that neither
silver nor gold shall deliver them in
the day Of the Lords wrath" and that
no rich man can by any means redeem
soul nor give to God n ransom (Zeph-
1. IS; Ps. Xix. 6. y. In Jesus Christ,
the Creator Of all things, who alone
can truly say. The silver is mine and
the gold is mine Nag ii. s., are du-
rable riches and righteousness and
health for body and soul. To know
Him as Peter and John did is better
than ell earth's riches or wisdom or
might DER. tx, %, 2N. Peter washed,
sanctided. justified and Spirit filled is
In such conscious fellowship with the
risen Christ that he can he such a
channel CT health from Christ to this
lame man that all the people can see
II. All believers should be in such
fellowship with Christ that something
OF His life and power might lie seen
in each Of US, to the glory of God phil.
i, 20: II Cor. iv, III.
Talking TO israclites. Peter magni-
fed tie God Of Abraham. Isaac and
jacob, whose son Jesus, the Holy One.
the Just, the Prince OF Life had been
killed by them. but - God Lad been