The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1911-06-03
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson x.-Second Quarter, For
June 4, 1911. i.

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THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.
Text Of the Lesson, John xiv, 16-1s
Memory Verses, 25-27-GoIden Tsxt
John xiv, 16-commentary Prepared
by Rev. o. M. stearns.
As Israel's penitence and Gods par
don, according to Hos. xiv, the regu-
lar lesson for the day, can only be by
the Holy Spirit, we will consider briof-
ly that lesson, but give most Of the
time to the gospel lesson. It Is az
they shall Look upon Him whom they
have pierced, when they shall see Him
coming in glory, that the Lord will pour
upon the house Of David and the In
habitants Of Jerusalem the Spirit OF
grace and of supplication, and there
shall be a national mourning and q
national forgiveness Czech. xii, 8; xiii,
u. Then shall Hos. xiv be fulfilled,
and after that He will pour out Ills
Spirit upon all flesh Joel II, ~, 2S.
1t is only by the same Holy Spirit
that believers ~ this present age can
know the meaning of sin and right
eousness and judgment by knowing Je-
sus Christ as the great sin bearer and
by seeing In His sufferings how hate
full sin is to God. Jesus Christ can
only be a great Saviour to such az
have seen themselves to be great sin
ners. Paul saw himself to be the chief
Of sinners, and to him Jesus Christ
was such a great Saviour that he could
think or talk of no one else. 1t will be
just so with his people Israel, and aft
er their conversion there will be a ma
ton Of Pauls to make Jesus Christ
known to all the world.
In this present age If every believer
was filed with the Spirit as our Lord
Jesus swould like us to be then the
world that seeth not and knoweth not
and cannot receive the Spirit Of truth
would see something of Jesus Christ
in His people, and many would want
to know Him. The Spirit always ties.
titles Of Christ, teaches things concern
ing Him, guides into all truth, shows
US things to come and brings to re-
membrance what we have read or
heard about Jesus John xiv, 16, II, 20;
XIV, 20; xvi, 7-13). He is specially ''the
Comforter (partakelos) and is so
called four times in these verses just
referred to.
So we have comforter in the pres
ence Of the Father and a Comforter
dwelling In us, but more wonderful
still, according to verses II, %, Father,
Son and Holy Spirit all dwell in us If
we are true believers and make our
bodies their abode, or mansion, for the
word translated abode in verse % ia
the very same word which is translat-
ed mansion" in verse 2, and it is used
nowhere else, although the verb from
which the noun comes is used a great
many times and is variously translat-
ed-abide, remain, dwell, continue.
1t is impossible to fully grasp such a
truth, and yet it Is stated again and
again in such words as these: Christ
liveth in me-" '"That Christ may dwell
in your hearts by faith," 1.-THE life of
Jesus made manifest in our body"
(Gal. ii, 20; Eph. Iii, II; II Cor. ", 10,
ny. In verse 10 Of our lesson He seems
to say that He expects that the world
will see Him in u.s. His life at the
Fathers right hand, where He ever
liveth to make intercession for us,
makes sure our life, and If we would
more steadfastly behold Him and not
people or circumstances we would be
more manifestly changed into His like
ness by the Spirit QI Cor. Lii, 49,. He
longs to reveal Himself to us and
through us, and He does this by His
Spirit and His word q Sam. Ill, q;
Ps. cxix, 100; II Cor. iv, 6; John vi,
88; xiv, 21-23.
We must not only read His word and
memorize 1t, laying it up in our hearts,
but we must eat it, appropriate II, make
1t our very own, according to Jer. XIV,
10; Job xiii, IL; Eek. i'll, IA; Rev. K,
81. Thus only can we know the
peace which He alone can give. He ia
the Prince Of peace, the God Of peace,
the peace Of God, our peace Elsa. tx,
8, Z; Heb. xiii, 20; Phil. Nv, 6, 7; Col. .
LII, Is; Eph. II, 40. BY the blood Of
His cross He has made peace, and
when we truly receive Him we have
peace with God and may be filed With
Joy and peace in believing (Col. 1, 20;
Rom. v, /; XIV, 49,, but the peace Of
God will only keep our hearts when |
we commit everything to Him in pray
er and rely on Him to see to It,
AS to neither being troubled nor !
afraid see also verse / and compare
Matt. xiv, 9; Luke xiv, 3s, and no.
dee how He closed this discourse in /
John xvi, 33, with the assurance that 7
we must expect tribulation. II any
one else had said you shall have trou-
BILE, but do not be troubled, we would /
think them very unbalanced, but He |.
was God (verse u, and He is God and
8 increasingly caring for us and max I
ng all things work together for our
highest good, assuring us that all our
Affections are light and but for n mo-