The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-04-21
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM.
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Subject: Warning and Invitation,
Matt. 11:2O-3O-Commit
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GOLDEN TEXT.-"Come unto Me,
all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest" Matt
11:2S.
TIME.-Midsummer A. D. rs.
PLACE.-Capernaum
EXPOSITION.-I. Warnings or
Unutterable Woe to the ImpenkeR6.
2O-24. The works of God area call
to repentance (cf. Ro. ga; Acts IT;
30, 81. The greater and more man
ifest the works the louder the call to
repentance. II we see great works Of
God and do not repent. we bring
greater guilt and condemnation upon
ourselves. Chorazin and Bethsaida
had been witnesses to marvellous
workings OF Gods grace and power in
Jesus Christ. These should have
brought them to repentance and the
acceptance of Jesus Christ as the Sa-
viour and Lord. But they had not re-
pented. They had closed their eyes
and hardened their hearts and that
which was intended for their saliva
tion became their condemnation
Christ accepted brings salvation and
eternal life; Christ rejected brings
greater condemnation and more intol-
erable judgment and penalty (Heb.
1928, 29). Their impenitence was
utterly without excuse and Jesus up
braided them for it. But we have
more light than Chorazin and Beth
saida. How then must Jesus regard
those who do not repent among US?
Sodom was a very guilty city. It's
vileness has become the synonym of
all that is most indescribably loath-
some In vice, but the guilt of New
York and Chicago, London and other
American and English cities is great
er than that Of Sodom; for these cit
les have rejected greater light. The
amount of light given and rejected is
the measure of the guilt of the ma
ton and of the individual. Caper-
naum thought it would surely be ex-
alted to heaven because of the great
grace bestowed upon it, but Jesus
saicehis would drag it down to hades,
because that boasted grace was de-
spised and neglected. Our blessings
as a nation will drag US down to
hades unless we repent. Jesus con-
templated the coming judgment of
Chorazin and Bethsaida with unut-
terable sorrow (cf. Matt. 23:3D.
How great must be the sorrow with
which He contemplates the judgment
soon to come on the men and nations
of to-day who reject the woldrous
light given them. Jesus puts the re-
lection of Himself as the supreme sin
and the one meriting heaviest con-
demnation, another proof OF His
deity. Jesus Is the supreme manifes-
tation of truth and God The rejec-
ton OF Him is. therefore, the final
revelation Of heart welded to dark
ness, error and sin; 1t is the supreme,
decisive, damnins sin (cf. Jno. 3:1S,
19.
II. Promises of Unspeakablc Joy
to Those Who Come to Jesus, $3.50.
In v. 25 we find one of the most i'm
portant principles upon which God
deals with men in the revelation of
His truth. If we are to get Gods in
Unite wisdom we must renounce our
finite wisdom. The man who Is full
OF his own wisdom cannot have Gods
(cf. Is. 5:21; 1 Cor. 1:1S-27). If we
are to be wise with the true wisdom,
we must take our place as fools to be
taught by the All-wise Il Cor. 3:1S-
2ol. Jesus Christ rejoiced in the
Spirit and thanked God that this is SO
(Luke 1921, r. W. The 9th verse
contains a tremendous statement of
the authority committed to Jesus. 1t
Is to be taken in the broadest and
most absolute sense Matt. 2S:1S:
Jno. 1886; 1873; 1872; Eph. 1920
23; Phil. 2:10, IL; Heb. 2:S-1O; Acts
1O:36). God has actually committed
the whole universe, celestial as well
as terrestrial, into the hands Of Jesus
Christ. We have a wonderful and
mighty Saviour. He is also a wise
Saviour, He thoroughly knows God.
He alone does, and those to whom He
wills to reveal Him. How foolish
then are those who seek to know God
by a study of philosopny or theoso-
phy, or comparative religion. Out
side OF the revelation Jesus Christ
makes OF the Father, God is, indeed,
as the agnostic says, "the Unknow-
able.' But there is one who knows
God and who is ready to give to any
one who will believe on Him an un-
derstanding that he also may know
God II Jno. 5:2O). The words of v.
2S are among the most wonderful
that ever fell from the lips of Him
VINO spake as never man spake. Here
again His deity shines out bright and
ciear. what presumption or lunacy
IL would nave been in Jesus to have
SAID this II He were mere man. But
that it is neither presumption nor In
nccy is amply proven by the fact that
thousands upon thousands have put
these words to the test of actual ex-
pertinent and found them absolutely
true. Jesus does give rest. Note
four things in this wonderful inyi-
tatfon: Cd Who invites-Jesus. (2)i
Whom He invites-all that labor and
are heavy laden. Commentators have
sought to set various limitationsfhpon
this, e. g., those who laborSt4 Gder
burden OF guilt" 1t inclrdefne,ps
but Is not limited to them. ItYZkns
Just what 1t says, "All that labor"