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DRIVEN INTO THE WILDERNESS.
Mark, i, eli; Matthew iv, Iii
.BIRLE.S STUDIES
Feb. 25.

For in that He Himself hath suf-
fered, being tempted He is able te
succor them that are tempted He
brews ii. Is.
Our study for today is a most inter
esting one. 1t points us to the time
when Jesus reached the age of thirty
and was permitted to offer Himself
without spot 10 God as the world $
Sin-offering. Saint Paul quotes as ap-
plicable to Him the words of the Pro-
phet. 10. | come TO do Thy will, oh
God" as it is written in the volume OF
the book concerning Me. l now pre-
sent Myself to be the Antitype, the
fulfiler of every feature-ef the Law
applicable to Me.
There the Redeemer became the an
titypieal Passover Lamb. the anti
typical bullock OF the Atonement Day
Sin-offering. There lie gave up His
life to the doing of the Fathers will
there He as the Man Jesus died-theye
He as the antitypieaI bullock was slain
there He was begotten of the Holy
Spirit and became the antitypical
Priest-the Saeriiieer Through the
following three and half years of
HIS ministry He carried out this con-
seeration and completed it at Calvary,
CRYING, 1T is finished!ii
Led of the Spirit-lnto Temptation.
When Jesus received the begetting
of the Holy Spirit at the time OF His
baptism, il was the begetting TO the
divine nature. and with il came great
enlightenment To His mind, as repre-
scented in the words, And the heavens
We're opened unto Him." Forthwith
He could see clearly into the Divine
arrangements and purposes respecting
Himself in e manner not possible to
Him prior 10 His conservation.
At once the Master realized the full
import of the Day of Atonement sac
rifices, of the Passover Lamb, of the
prophecies that spoke of Himself as
being led as lamb to the slaughter,
and of His being the Antitype of the
brazen serpent, lifted on high for the
healing of Adams sin-bitten race.
As these thoughts began to rush into
the Sayior's mind. He was the first of
all pressed of the spirit tHis own spir-
iD to go apart for awhile and to study
out the full import of the Law and the
Prophets and His own obligations ae-
made. For forty days and nights His
intense carnestness made Him oblivi-
Gus to almost everything else. Appar-
emily He neither ate nor slept until the
forty days were ended; and He after
ward hungered." Then it was that the
Adversary appeared as tempter--at
the moment of His physical weakness
as the result of fasting-when His soul
was overwhelmed with the realization
of the Importance of the great contract
He. had made and of what ii would
cost Him to fulfill its terms. 1t was
the severest test ina ginable. Would
the Redeemer prove loyal to God-te
the Divine Programme His covenant
of conservation. unto death? or would
He feel that the Father had poured too
bitter cup for Him,-that God had
made the tests of loyalty and obedi-
ence too severe-that 1t was neither
just nor loving to allow Him to enter
into such a contract?
How glad we are to note the loyalty
which triumphed over every tempta-
ton. With the angels we acclaim
worthy is the Lamb who was slain