Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1911-05-31
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson x.-Second Quarter, For
June q, 1911.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.

AS israel ; penitence ana Gods par
don, according to Hos. xiv, the regu
lar lesson for the day. can only be 10y
the Holy Spirit, we will consider brief
ly that lesson, but give most of the
time to the gospel lesson. Ii Is ms
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 i'll
habitants of JeSusaleu the Spirit OF
grace and of supplication, and there
shall be national mourning and a
national forgiveness Czech. xii. o: Kill.
u. Then shall Hos. xiv be fulfilled.
and after that He Will pour out His
Spirit upon all flesh (Joel II, %. 2S).
1t is only by the same Holy Spirit
that believers in this present age can
know the meaning of sin and right
eousness and Judgment by knowing Je-
sus Christ rs the great sin bearer and
by seeing in His sufrerings how hate
full sin is 10 God. Jesus Christ can
only be a great Saviour to such rs
have seen themselves TO be great sin
ners- Paul saw himself to be the chief
OF sinners, and to him Jesus Christ
was such 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 n M
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 would 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 tes-
dfies 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, 10, II, 90: |
Nv, 20; xvi, 7-13). He is specially "the |
Comforter" 0artakelos) and is so |
called four times in these verses lust |
referred to-
SO we have a comforter in the pres
ence of the Father and a Comforter
dwelling In us, but more wonderful
still, according to verses IL. %, Father,
Son and Holy Spirit all dwell in us II
we are true believers and make our
bodies their abode, or mansion, for the
word translated abode" in verse % is
the very same word which Is translat-
ed mansion" in verse ., and 1t is used
nowhere else, although the verb from
which the noun comes is used n great
many times and is variously translat-
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1t Is impossible to fully grasp such q
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. iv, 10,
III. In verse 10 of our lesson He seems
to say that He expects thdt the world
will see Him in us. His life at the
Fathers right hand, where He ever
Iiveth to make intercession for us
makes sure our life, and IL we would
more steadfastly behold Him and not
people or circumstances we would be
more manifestly changed into His like
ness by the Spirit Oh Cor iii, 1S). He
ongs to reveal Himself to us and
through us, and He does this by His
Spirit and His word q Sam. iii, 81:
Ps. cxix, 100; ii Cor. iv, G; John vi.
%; xiv, 21-23).
We must not only read His word and
nemorize 1t, laying it up In our hearts.
out we must eatit, appropriate 1t, make
our very own, according to Jer. XIV.
g; Job kill, IL; Eek. iii, IA; Rev. Y.
I'll. Thus only can we know the
'eace which He alone can give. He is
he Prince of peace, the God Of peace.
he peace of God, our peace lisa. tx.
}, Z; Heb. Kill, 20; Phil. iv, 6, Z; Col.
Ii, 10; Eph. ii, 14. BY the blood of ,
lis cross He has made peace, and
when we truly receive Him we have
'eace with God and may be filed with
oy and peace in believing (Col. 1. 90;
Rom. V, 1; XIV, 49,, but the peace of
sOd will only keep our hearts when
We commit everything to Him in pray
r and rely on Him to see to it.
AS to neither being troubled nor
fraid see also verse 1 and compare
datt xiv, 6; Luke xiv, 3S, and no
Ice how He closed this discourse I'm
Ohm xvi, SO, with the assurance that
We must expect tribulation. If any
ne else had said you shall have trou :
lie, but do n6tbe troubled, we would
hink them very unbalanced, but He
vas God Verse y, and He is God and
, increasingly caring for us and max
og all things work together for our
ighest good, assuring us that all our
are light and but for a mo
nent comparatively and are all work
ng for us far more exceeding and
ternal weight OF glory QRom viii. %;
Cor. Nv, II, 49,.