The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1912-07-12
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson Il.--Thlrd Quarter, For
July IL 1912.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.

Text cg the Lesson, Mark ~, f.20
Msrlory Verse, o--GcIdsn Text, Jas.
i-2f--cemmeutary Prepared by Rsv.
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Jesus went about ali Galilee teach.
ing in their synagogues, and preachs
ing the gospel of the kingdom, ana
healing ali 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. iy, %; Acts K, Ss). The great
topic Of Scripture is the kingdom fore
shadowed In the dominion over an
things granted to Adam and Eve and
consummated 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. i, 26-2s: Rev. xi, 15). After
Adam lost the dominion by listening
to the devil, handing the dominion
over to him and thus bringing sim
and the curse upon our race and the
earth, God began to reveal by type
and plain statement Redeemer and
redemption and a 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. i'll, IS, 81, 24).s
Later It was revealed that the Re-
deemer would be the seed Of Abraham,
having special people on earth called
Israel, the twelve tribes from the
twelve sons OF Jacob, and tsat through
them all nations would be blessed.
Still later it was revealed to David
that the Lords anointed would pro.
ceed from Him, sit upon His throne.
and reign forever, and to Him give all
the prophets witness. Matthew'S gos.7
pei opens with statement concerning
Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son
OF Abraham, the one In whom all the
promises would be fulfilled. During
His public ministry Of three or four
years and also during the forty days
between His resurrection and ascen.
sion the kingdom was His one great
topic, but those to whom He specially
came despised and rejected Him, ask
ed for a murderer instead Of Him, said,
I'VE have no king but Caesar" and
cried concerning Jesus Christ, Cruelty
Him, cruelty Him" 1t was after they
determined to kill Him that He began
to teach in parallels as In the lesson Of
today, which is recorded also In Matt.
xtii and Luke viii. The words In Matt.
xiii, /, 'SThe 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 a special people for a special
purpose. In Heb. III, 5, g, we read Of
Moses faithful in all his house as d
and Of Christ as a Son over
His own house. In Matt. xiii. 8S, 80,
Jesus said. Behold your house ls left
unto you desolate. for I say unto you
ye shall not see NE henceforth till ye
shall say, Blessed is He that consth
in the name OF the Lord" We are
waiting for that "till," or as It is In
Luke xix, 18, occupy till come, and
in Cor. xi, 20, "Shew the Lords
death till He come" or In Ezek. XXI, z
"a; Acts fiji, 81, II win overturn till He
come whom the heavens must receive
until the times Of restoration Of all
things which God bath spoken By the
mouth Of all His holy prophets" The
kingdom Is no mystery, but one Of the
plainest things revealed Ia 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 ir
Eph. iii and elsewhere. This age In
which we still live is covered by the
seven parallels OF Matt. xiii, the tirst
Of which and its explanation we have
in our lesson in Mark today. He
spoke the parable to the multtudes.
but explained it to Ills disciples when
alone with them, saying, Unto you it
is given to know the mystery OF tha
kingdom Of God, but unto them that
are without all these things are done
In parallels" Then He gave the rea.
son oversees 10-l2). In verse Is Hs
seems to indicate that this parable of
the sower is key to all the parallels
or that this one is 30 simple that II
they understood 1t not It would ba
difncuIt for them TO understand any.
With the explanation given so fully by
Himself, no further comment is necess
sary. Let as, however, note carefullS
that the great work given us Is TO soc
diligently the incorruptible seed Of tizx
word Of God (I4uke viii, ii: Pet.
23), remembering that He win watch
over IL and lt will not fail to accom-.
plish His pleasure Ger. l. IL. r. vi
lisa. lv, III. The devil is always ready
TO snatch away the word lest peouls
should believe and be saved. He III
the god OF this world, binding tha
minds Of those who believe not Oh Cor.
iv, ~. The thing to do is to receixa
the word with meekness and brina
forth fruit with patience Jas. |, at
Luke viii, 16,. If we are true believers
saved fully and forever by the greaA
sacrifice of Christ. we viii, by EKia
grace, have victory over the cares ok
thle world. the fIeceitfs1lnesa of riches.