The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-10-29


lisa. lii. documentary Prepared By
Rev. D. M. Stearns.
Not only was there power in His two
words. Il am" to send them all to the
ground. but more than twelve legionS
of angels We're ready to respond to
His call if He had asked for them
verse SO; John xviii. ). g.. But He
came to fulfill all Scripture. and the
time had come for Him to let them
take Him. 1t was their hour. and the
power Of darkness. vt least twelve
times in Matthew's gospel it is written
that it might be fulfilled" or then
was fulfilled" Matt. i. ~; ii. Il. Il. %:
viii. Il: xii. Il; Xiii. 80: xxi. 4; XVI.
n. 30: xvii. O. :}5l. After His resur-
rertion He said that al things must
he fulfilled which were written in the
Law Of Moses and in the prophets and
in the psalms concerning Him Luke
xiv. 44). He came to fulfill all Scrip
ture. and He will: al concerning the
future rs literally as He has fulfilled
the past: so when we read any vet
unfulflled prophecy we should say this
shall surely come TO pass in His time
They laid hold on Jesus and led Him
away They took Jesus and bound
Him and led Him away to Annals first
verse -; John xviii. 80. 1t would he
an inconcrivable. Unimaginable record
were it not SO awfully true. that the
Creator Of all things. who civeth to
al life and breath and all things. suf
fered His rebcIiious creatures to take
Him ana bind Him and lead Him as
they pleased. According TO the golden
text. led as Il lamb TO the slaughter
and as a sheep dumb before its shear
erS. God in the hands of sinful man.
and submitting to all their i'll treat
mcnt, that we who by His SuiferinCS
for us are made children Of God when
we receive the Lord ItsuS. might learn
how to submit to i'll treatment for His
sake Il Pet. ii. 1870.
Peter followed Him afar off (verse
5Sl. but his story will come in n later
lesson. In verse 10 it is said that all
the disciples fOrSook Him and fed
This also was Il fultillment Of the
prophecy. Il will smite the shepherd
and the sheep shall be scattered"
There is an interesting statement in
this connection in Mark xiv. 81. -.
concerning a young man who followed
Him when He WAS arrested. having
only a linen cloth about his naked
body, and rs some laid hold on him
he left the linen cloth and fed from
them naked. As Mark is the only one
who gives this record. we shall have 70
ask him about it when we see him.
In the remainder of our lesson W..
see Jesus in the presence of the high
priest. the chief priests. the scriDcs and
elders and al the council. They sought
false witnesses against Him to put
Him to death. but though MANY bore
witness they did not agree. At the
last c;lme two who testified that Jesus
said. Il am able To destroy the temple
Of God and to build it in three days
hut neither did their witness agree to-
gnlher Mark xiv. -. 5M. Thus also
was Scripture fulfilled which saith
Fake witnesses are risen up a"ainS
are. and such as breathe but cruelty"
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