The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-03-17
The
Sunday School
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM,
MENTS FOR MARCH 20.
Subject: A Paralytic Forgiven and
Healed, Matt. o:1-18-Com-
INIT Verse 9.

GOLDEN TEXT. ''The Son OF
Man hath power on earth to forgive
sins" Matt. 9:6.
TIME.-May or June, A. d. 90.
PLACE.-Capernaum
ExPOSITI0N.-I. The Healing Of
n Paralytic, 10. The full account of
this miracle Is found in Mark 2:1-12.
and Luke 5:17-26. They brought
this man to Jesus because there was
no one else who could help, and they
were confident that He could and
would. 1t was because of their faith
that Jesus did what they sought.
Their faith was a faith that could be
seen ". p. True faith can be seen,
it materializes in works Gas. 2:1S).
Jesus is ready to say to-day to every
paralytic and to every soul in distress,
Son, be of good cheer" IL the one in
distress will only trust Him. Jesus
forgave before healing. AS always.
so in this case, the professional fault
finder was present, and as often, he
| was high ecclesiastic, a scribe (the-
illogical professor). The Scribes
were there for the purpose of finding
| something to criticise Huke SIT;
John 5:16). They found it. They
| brought very common charge and
FSiy oOliouo dSdluoI JeSuo,
this man blasphemes" John 1888;
| Mark 14:64). Their reasoning was
| right up to a certain point, no one
| but God can forgive sins, and II Jesus
| was not God. He was a blasphemer.
| Granted the Unitarian conception Of
| Jesus and the Scribes were right, and
| His execution justifiable, but If Jesus
| is God, then it is the Scribes and the
Iinitarians who are the blasphemers
| Jesus demonstrated to His startled
| accusers that He was divine. and had
the power to forgive sins by reading
their secret thought ". 4; CT. .
Chron. $50; .Ter. 17:9, 10; Ps. 139:
| l. -. Then He gave another proof,
| He healed the palsied man. Jesus
wishes men to know that the Son of
Man hath power on earth to forgive
SINS" so He performs an act that we
can see. and which demands divine
| power for its accomplishment that we
may know that He has the power for
| that which we cannot see and which
also demands divine power for It's ac-
| complishment. So it is proven that
| Jesus has power on earth to forgive
sins. We not only hope that 1t is So
but we know" 1t is so. The palsied
man knew that his sins were forgiv-
en-. because Jesus said so. We may
know that ours also are forgiven on
the same ground (Acts 1896, 39).
| III. Jesus Eating With Publicans
| and Sinners, 1913. AS Jesus passed
along MS ey2 fell on Jew gathering
taxes for Rome, lining his pockets a,
the sacrifice Of his patriotism. He be.
longed to the class despised by the
Jews. but he was to write the dis.
tinctively Jewish Gospel. His bust
ness fitted him admirably to write
the Gospel. as tax gatherer. he had
been trained to accuracy, to judge
men and to be proof against impos
ture. It was very humiliating and Of
fensive to the self-rishteous religion
lists OF the day that Jesus shoult
choose one Of His most intimate disci
pies from the class they most de
spised. He acted in the most direc
opposition to the accepted notions o.
the ecclesiastical leaders when H,
made this choice. Matthew was at
tending faithfully to his bushes.
when Jesus called him, while the null
titudes had forsaken their usual avo
| cations and "resorted" to Jesu.
mark 2:13). This may have beer
from sturdy fidelity to business or 4
may have been Indifference to relig
ious enthusiasrls. The call was yer,
sudden. very brief and very much tt
the point. Follow Me-" There wa
world of meaning In It. 1t involved
the renunciation of self and takin:
u3 Of the cross and saying farewell t.
earthly ambitions. possessions ant
@.I"sts Matt. 1924; Luke 9:57
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