Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-02-21
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson vIII.-eirst Quarter, For
FEB. rs, 1912.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES

| "srS ., S-ii-memory Verses, Matt.
Nv, 3, @GoIden Text, Heb. ii, rs.
Commentary Prepared by Rev. o. NJ.
Stearns.
The record Of the baptism 10 found Ia
Matthew, Mark and Luke. but most
fully in Matthew. In Luke I'll. %. we
read that Jesus began to be about thir-
ty years OF age, and we cannot bur
wonder at the lowly and submissive
life OF all those thirty years at Naza-
reth. How can we ever murmur mt
limitations and humiliations in our
lives rs we think OF this life lived for
us? He came from Nazareth. where
He had been brought up luke iv. 49,.
and after His return to heaven He
called Himself Jesus OF Nazareth"
(Acts xxi. 81. yet Nathaniel said. Can
there any good thing come out of MAJ
nreth?" afterward acknowledging that
out OF Nazareth came '1he Son of God
the King OF Israeli John /, &c. 4M.
He came to Jordan. river OF Judgment.
yet there was nothing in Him TO be
Judged. Others were baptized OF John.
cOnfeSsing their sins. but He had no
sins TO confess. We do not wonder
that John said to Him. 81 have need
to be baptized OF Thee. and CONTEST
Thou to me2" But our Lords Suffer
it to be 50 now has helped many n
humble follower to submit to seeming
ly unnecessary things that the right
eousness Of God might be seen in them
and others won TO Him. This ard
that other saying. About My Fathers |
business" His two first recorded ut
terances. are good for all Of Us in our /
daily life AS He came up out of the /
water something happened from the /
skies-the heavens We're opened, and 4
the Father testified, Thou art MY be /
loved Son, in whom am we'll pleased
At the same time the Spirit OF God de
seconded in bodily shape like dove
upon Him. The Father had told John
that 1t would be so, and John bare rec
ord that He was the Son OF God John
|, 33. 34). The one who sent John also
testified that the one on whom the
Spirit would descend and remain would
Himself baptize with the Holy Spirit
Then what binders us thus TO be hap
TIED! Luke tells us that Jesus was
praying when the heavens were open
ed. He seems TO have prayed always
and about everything and sometimes
all night. He tasted too. Is that
where we fail? Consider the other
SIX places where we read of the heav-
EN- being opened and always see Him
self. Consider well every place where.
as here. the Father. Son and Holy
Spirit are seen or mentioned. as IN
Matt xviii. 10: ii Cor. xiii. ii:
Heb TX. If. See in John xiv. II. 23.
how the Spirit and the Father and
he Son make the bodies of believers
heir abode or mansion and TO their
whom shall 1 send, and who will 30
or u.s." Let us gladly answer, Here
I'm /; send me-" remembering His
words, "As My Father hath sent Me,
wen so send I you" lisa. vi, s: John
X, 21.
When Spirit filled we may then eK-
'ect 10 be specially attacked by the
Ievil. As our representative He was
ed by the Spirit into the wilderness
D be tempted OF the devil. Both Mark
nd Luke say that He was forty days
empted of the devil. Matthew and
luke say that lie tasted forty days
nd forty nights; that He did eat moth
ng. Thus did Moses on two occasions
nd Elijah once, and these three we
nd on the Mount OF TRANSPORTATION.
nd we hear them speak of the devils
lost awful piece Of work. the death Of
csus. He is the fearful adversary OF
iod and man and has been at work
such ever since he deceived and |
onquered Adam and Eve. and he will
OF cease till he shall be shut up in the
II FOR 1000 years. As the devil tempt
d Eve on the line Of the lust OF the
esh, the lust OF the eyes and the pride
life Il John ii. 16) and won the day.
he tempted the Lord Jesus, but was
efeated. Eve had everything that :
ne Lord saw that she needed. yet she
te the forbidden fruit. The Lord Je- !
is, having tasted forty days and be
ig hungry. yet overcame by the
'ords, Man shall not live by bread ;
lone. but by every word Of God"
luke iv. A.. The devils ambition TO {
e as God conquered Eve lisa xiv, II;
en-. fill. -. but the Lord Jesus con.
1ered by the words. Thou shalt not Z
'mpt the Lord thy God" Adam and
We had been given dominion over ali
lings Gen. /. 2G-2S). but they lost 1t
y giving heed to this great enemy.
nd he has ever since been the god OF
lis world QI Cor. iv, ~. The Lord
esus, the last Adam. knew that some a
iy He would restore the dominion to a
an. and the kingdoms of this world
Ill be His kingdom Rev. II. 15). So =
a GnltIH 81