The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-03-24
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL,
Lesson XlII.-First Quarter, For
March II, 1910.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.
Text Of the Lesson, Mark xvi, 1-8.
Memory Verses, 6, AGoIden Text,
Rev. j, 18-Commentary Prepared by
Rev. D. M. Stearns,

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| Memory Verses, 6, 7-GoIden Text,
Rev. j, 18-Commentary Prepared by
Rev. D. m. Stearns.
| Having the option Of review or
resurrection lesson, we choose the
Easter lesson, as there is nothing so
grand as His resurrection, by which
He was declared to be the Son Of God,
with power and without which preach
ing and faith are vain and no one ever
has been or can be saved The resur-
rection, however, must include all of
His earthly life that preceded His
death. His life as the Son of Mary.
the seed Of David according to the
| flesh. Matt. gives the royal line of
n.avid's descendants through Solomon
to Joseph, who became the husband
of Mary, while Luke iii gives Davids
descendants through Nathan to He'll,
whose son-in-law Joseph became by
his marriage to Mary, and thus Jesus
| became heir to David's throne
The quarters lessons might be out
lined as, first. the genealogy and birth
of the King; second, the visit Of the
Magi and the fight of Joseph ard
Mary to Egypt and their return to
Nazareth; third, the herald of the
King and the declaration Of the Father
concerning Him; fourth, the Kings
victory over the great adversary. His
testimony and the calling Of some dis
| .if fifth m 10 IN xI-c nf
the kingdom; eighth and ninth. some
samples Of the nature of the kingdom.
| Now. as the kingdom was postponed
by the rejection and murder Of the
King we in this age must know the
power Of His resurrection if we would
walk worthy Of Him and manifest His
| life in these mortal bodies. The res,
direction Of the Messiah was plainly
forctold in Ps. xvi and xxi, Isa lii
and elsewhere. 1t was wondrOusly
foreshown in Isaac being given back
to Abraham from the dead in figure
Heb. ri, 17-10 In His teaching the
Lord Jesus Himself many times spoke
plainly of His death and resurrection,
and the great truth of Christianity is
that we have at the right hand Of the
Father in heaven risen living Christ
truly Man and truly God. in whom
alone is sa aviation, the only Judge Of
all mankint and the only One who cal,
set up Il kingdom Of righteousness on
| the earth.
The most horrible thing that ever
| happened on this earth and that which
shows the desperately wicked nature
of the human heart was the cruel MUIR
der of the Son of God, but God raised
Him from the dead and gave Him
| glory and will yet give Him dominion
over all the earth, and His redeemed
| shall share the kingdom with Him.
His disciples never received His
words that He was to be crucified and
rise from the dead the third day Matt
xx, 17-19), but some of His enemies
remembered them NIatt xvii, GO. CD
His mother and some of the other wo
men who ministered to Him remained
| by His cross to the last, and some Of
them after His body was buried re-
| turned and prepared spices and oint
ments and rested the Sabbath day ac-
cording to the commandment. intend
ing on the first day to bring the spices
and anoint His body duke xiii. So.
| sc; xiv, u. When they come to the
tomb on the first day morning early
they find the stone rolled away; they
see an angel. who tells them that lie
is risen and that they must go quickly
and tell His disciples When Mary
| Magdalene saw the stone rolled away
| she ran to tell Peter and John. who
| ran to the sepulcher and saw for them
selves and returned, but Mary remain
ed near the sepulcher, weeping, till
Jesus Himself, whom she thought at
first to be the gardener, spoke to her
and called her by name When she
and the other women told the disci-
| pies that He was risen from the dead
they believed not, and some thought it
an idle tale (verses II, Is, II; Luke
xiv, ~. giving Him occasion to up
braid them with their unbelief and
hardness of heart Many who now are
| told that the same Jesus is coming
| again think it an idle tale and believe
not, not knowing the Scriptures nor
the power of God and perhaps forget
| ting that Jesus said. 20 fools and slow
Of heart to believe all that the proph-
cts have spoken" duke xiv. 25). The
angels believe and desire to look more
| fully into these things oversees 81;
Pet. !, 12). DIR. Scotield gives in the
pp<riD Of
Jesus We seek-the Nazarene. the cru
Gifted. He arose. He is not here"
He also gives in his notes OH Matt
| xviii the order Of the events of that
morning and also the order Of the diff
ferent appearances during those forty
days. Note in verse of our lesson
how Peter is mentioned by name. the
true disciple who had treated Him the
worst, denying with oaths that he
knew Him. How true it is that weak
est lambs have largest share Of this
tender Shepherds care! However weak
and unworthy you may be, remember
that ''having loved His own He loved
them unto the end John xiii, y.
4 mere knowledge of the facts Of
His life and death and resurrection
will benefit us nothing unless. know
ing these things. we truly receive Him
as our own personal Saviour and place
our whole trust as lost people in the
efficacy of His great sacrifice Then
the joy Of being redeemed will lead
us to obey with gladness His com
mand in verse Is. counting upon full
tillment of verse 20. Our daily life
will be serving the living and true
God'' and our attitude waiting for His
Son from heaven" Il Thess i O 10