Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-07-11
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson ll.-Third Quarter, For
luIy IA, 1912.
The INTERNATIONAL SERIES.

Text Of tho lesson, Mark ", 100.
Msmery Vsrss, Golden Text, Jas.
-commentary Prepared by Rev.
p w. steafns
Jesus went about all Galilee teach.
iag il their agaagogues. and preach
ing lhe gospel Of the kingdom. and
healing al manner Of sickness and all
manner of disease among the people"
Amounted With the Holy Ghost and
with power, he went about doing good
and healing all that were oppressed of
the devil, for God was with Him"
Matt ~, %; Acts K, sst The great
topic Of Scripture Is the kingdom fore
Swallowed 10 the dominion over all
things granted to Adam and Eve and
| consummatea when the kingdoms Of
this world shall have become the king
dom Of our Lord and of His Christ,
and he shall reign for ever and ever
| Gen. /, 2G-2S. Rev XII, 15) After
Adam lost the dominion by listening
| to the devil, handing the dominion
over to him and thus bringing sin
! and the curse upon our race and the
earth, God began to reveal by type
4 and plain statement a Redeemer and
I redemption and restoration Of all
that was lost by sin. The Redeemer
\ is first mentioned as the seed Of the
woman, the redemption is set forth in
| the sacrifice which provided the coats
| of skins, and the restoration is seen
! in the cherubim (Gen. iii, 10, 81. 24.
| Later it was revealed that the Re
4 deemer would be the seed of Abraham,
having a special people on earth called
Israel the twelve tribes from the
4 twelve sons of Jacob, and that through
them all nations would be blessed.
Still later it was revealed to David
4 that the Lords anointed would pro-
ceed from Him. sit upon His throne
4 and reign forever, and to Him give all
( the prophets Witness Matthew'S gos-
/ pei opens with a statement concerning
Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son
4 Of Abraham, Tie one in whom all the
II promises would he fulfilled During
His public ministry of three or four
\ years and also during the forty days
4 between Ills resurrection and ascen,
sion The kingdom was lis one great
topic but those TO whom He specially
came despised and rejected Him, ask
ed for a murderer instead of Him, said.
We have ito tSing but Caesar" and
cried concerning tesus Christ Cruelty
4 Him, cruelty Hsmtn 1t was after they
determined to Kin Him that He began
to teach in parallels. as in the lesson of
today, which is recorded also in Matt.
4 xiii and Luke viii The words in Matt.
xiii /, 1.-THE same day went Jesus out
/ of the house and sat by the seaside"
are very suggestive of the fact that
He was about to leave the house of
Israel and gather from the sea of ma
tions special people for a special
purpose In Heb. iii. 5. 6. we read of
/ Moses faithful in all his house as
servant and Of Christ as a Son over
\ His own house LID Matt. xiii, 3S, 80,
X Jesus said, Behold your house is left
unto you desolate for | say unto you
ye shall not see Me henceforth till ye
shall say, Blessed is He that cometh
in the name Of the Lord We are
waiting for that "till,r or as it is in
Luke xix, 10, occupy till come and
IN Cor ri. 26, Sbew the Lords
death till He come Or in Eek. xxi,
4 81; Acts iii, q, q will overturn till He
come whom the heavens must receive
until the times of restoration of all
things which God hath spoken by the
mouth of all His holy prophets" The
kingdom is ne mystery, but one of the
plainest things revealed in the Scrip
lures, but that the kingdom which
was at hand should be postponed and
an age intervene between its rejection
and its actual coming was something
not before revealed. and only fully
revealed later to Paul. as he states in
Ephs iii and elsewhere. This age in
which we still live is covered by the
seven parallels of Matt xiii. the first
of which and its explanation we have
in our lesson in Mark today. He
spoke the parable to the multitudes,
but explained it to His disciples when
alone with them, saying, Unto you it
Is given to know the mystery of the
kingdom Of Cod but unto them that
are without all these things are done
in parallels Then He gave the rea-
son oversees 1912, In verse IS He
seems to indicate that this parable of
the sower is a key to all the parallels
or that this one is so simple that if
they understood it not it would be
difficult for them to understand any
With the explanation given so fully by
Himself, no further comment is neces
sary. Let us. however, note carefully
that the great work given US is to sow
diligently the incorruptible seed of the
word Of God Duke VIII, II; ! Pet. l.
4 231, remembering that He will watch
over it and It will not fail to accom-
plish His pleasure der. J., II, r. ";
Isa. III, liz. The devil IL always ready