Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1915-09-29
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson Fourth Quarter, For
Oct. 3, 1915.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.


Text Of the Lesson, I kinas xxi, 11-2o.
Memory Verses, 17-19-coIden Text,
Mum. xxxii. 23-commentary Pre-.
n.r.d nv Rev n IA s+.srn.
Ahab and Naboth side by side on
earth, the rich and the poor, meet to-
gether, but there is hereafter, as de-
scribed In Luke xvi, and the rich here
are sometimes awfully poor. and
worse than poor, when they leave this
world. 1t is certainly a pitiful phase
of sinful human nature when such as
Ahab desire also a poor mans all and
act like spoiled child when they can
not get 1t. He was heavy and dis
pleased when reproved by the Lord
for compromising with Ben-hadad, and
now he is the same because he cannot
have Naboths vineyard, and he went
to bed, turned away his face and
would not eat Xxx, 43: xxi, Ia. Many
a man in Naboth's place would have
been afraid to displease such one as
Ahab, but Naboth feared the Lord and
evidently remembered that the land
was His and was not to pass from
tribe to tribe Ley. XIV, %; Mum.
xxxvi, y, and he would rather dis
please Ahab at any cost than displease
the Lord. Such whole hearted people
for God are greatly needed-those who
will never bow to any, however
mighty, II thus they can glorify God
The fear of man always bringeth a
snare We must live In the fear Of the
Lord always.
Jezebel, on learning what allied her
husband. urged him to remember that
he was the king. that he should arise
and eat and be merry and she would
give him Naboth's vineyard fyerses
90. The people who give what does
not belong to them. no matter who
suffers by 1t, are still to be found on
neutrality-suspicious., proud. selfish, the
earth is mine; what right have you on
it? There are also plenty to do their
bidding. no matter what 1t Is. whether
to Cypress and ruin man or his fam
lily or business or even to take mans
life. as did these vassals of Jezebei
(verses S-l4l. Some one has said that
If the servants of Christ were as ready
to- serve Him as the servants of the
devil are to serve him many things
would be different all around.
II seems to US strange that the Lord
should permit the devil to affiict and
XIII Ills people. but He told His disci-
pies that they would pc put out OF the
synagogue ana even Killed Tor Ills sake
ana that they must not be AFRAID TO De
killed (Jonn XVI, l. z; Matt K ~. In
the very next chapter we see faith
1ui servant OF the LORD Micaian. the
son OF lmlah, put In prison and fed onI
bread and water because ne spoke the
Lords message and feared no mans
frown and sought no mans favor (xxii.
8, IA, q. 30. The time viii come. aft
ter the church is taken away, when
the saints then on earth. converts after
the rapture. the redeemed OF Rev. VII,
the great tribulation saints, shall SUI
fer terribly at the hands Of the serv-
ants Of the devil dan. VII n. IS; Rev.
Kill, SD. but their victory IL seen in
Rev. ", while the torment OF those
who prefer life and the favor Of man
is seen In Rev. XIV, OIL.
= Word was brought by the murderers
to the murderess that Naboth was
dead, stoned to death. like Stephen and
Saul, long afterward. but they did not
know the God Of Naboth. who ever
liveth and cares for His own. though
He often allows that which looks like
evil to come to them. 1t stands for
ever true that all things work togeth-
er for good to them that love God
Rom. viii 20. Ahab went to take
possession OF Naboth's VINEYARD, but
an awful message came to him from
the Lord by the mouth OF Elijah con-
corning both himself and his wife.
s~rhus saith the Lord. In the place
whore dogs licked the blood Of Naboth
shall dogs lick thv blood. even thine"
and ssrba dogs shau eat Jezebel by the