The Red Cloud chief., 1916-01-20
INTERNATIONAL.
SUNlASC[lOOL
LESSON
tBy e. o. SELLERS Acting Director Of
the Sunday School Course Of the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago)
Copyright. 1915. Western Newspaper Union-)
LESSON FOR JANUARY z
THE SPIRIT OF LIFE.

The connection of this lesson with
the others of the series Is In the fact
that this chapter Is O panegyric re.
ing of which we have 80 recently
studied Read prayerfully in this con
nection Gal. 5:22, &c. We somehow
feel that we ought to study this entire
chapter rather than that portion as.
signed. The key to the whole is found
In verse thirty.seven. We are more
than conquerors.' If conquerors, how
be more than conquerors? Very sim
pie. Some victories leave the victor
80 exhausted that he cannot possess
nor enjoy his victory; not so the spirit
filed Christian for he Is more than
conqueror."
Previously in this epistle the spirit
Is mentioned but once $50; In this
chapter he Is mentioned nineteen
times. Over what is the spirit.filled
man conqueror?
I. Over the Condemnation Of Sin,
v. I. The spirit.filled Christian lives
in another realm than that of the flesh
". 81. The spirit removes us from
the realm to that OF the spirit. quick
ening us q. g, making us alive who
were dead in sins) to condemn sin In
the flesh and enabling us to walk
not after the flesh. but after the
spirit"
u. Conquerors Over the Power and
Dominion Of Sin, w. "a. While we
still have the body yet it Is our priv.
ilege, through the spirits power at
work within us, to put to death its
deeds every day and each minute
(Gal. SIG. %, 23). To live otherwise
is to displease God ". 81. Those who
surrender their lives to the control OF
the indwelling spirit are sons of God"
and therefore free from the law OF
sin and death" ". q. for the same
spirit that raised from the dead"
". III not alone makes us sons but
| gives US the same POWER.
~. Conquerors over Fear, v. IS.
The righteousness of the law is full.
filled in us who walk not after the
flesh but after the spirit" ". ~ and
having received the spirit of adop-
ton" q. g.. being placed as sons) we
cringe not before God in terror, nor
call him a tyrant, or even ruler. but
exclaim abba, my father" AS sons"
we are spiritually minded and have
life and peace" ". 6. Gal. 4:6).
w. conquerors Over Suffering, v.
IS. We are Joint heirs with Jesus III
80 be we suffer with him." Our posi-
ton and heirship i'm Christ involves
our participation in his sufferings
(Gal. 6:I7, ii Tim. 2:l1. IL, Acts
l4:22). What we often call Affections
are only discomforts and frequently
the results of our own foolish care
lessness But as contrastci with his
glory there is no comparison. Only
eternity will enable us to comprehend
what 1t means to be made perfect
through suffering phil. $40. II Tim.
2:12, Heb. 5:S). II we IRE heirs of
all God has and all that God Is. we
are likewise an heir just as Christ Is,
and to the extent that Christ Is an
heir and hence to his sufferings 1--WE
suffer with him) though we are even
him we too shall rise triumphant
| over all tnlngs.
v. Conquerors Over Vanity, v. 20
This glory Is contrasted with the crea
ton now subject to vanity, but which
Is in degradation by comparison. The
creature ". az q. g., creation) wal
made subject not willingly but by rea
son of him who subjected Il In hope
J that the creation should yet be de
live. ID from the bondage to the prin
, ciples of death and decay into tn,
glorious liberty, or the liberty of thu
glory, OF the children of God.
VI. Conquerors Over infirmities, v
20. The believers all-sufiiciency ant
+ perfect security in the Lord Jesus. W.
: may not have all we want yet we hav'
all we need phil. AID. This suffici
ency is IN the privilege we possess II
praying according to the will of God
we know not how to pray az W
3 ought but the spirit maketh interces
Q sion for US ". 26); so also Chris,
4 "who Is at the right hand of God,
u intercedes for us ". 34). The spiri
/ knows the mind of God the father
teaches uo how to pray and at time
8 places yearning in our hearts to
= deep for our own comprehension.
r Even God must search the heart
Q know the mind of the spirit ". q
/. and In this God does "exceedin
abundantly above all that we ask {
Il think" (Eph. $500.
Il vi. Conquerors Over All Things,
n 28. The browning privilege the spiri
q filed life has, is in knowing that a
things work together for good an
70 hence we are free from all possib
10 anxiety of heart under any and all CT
n. cumstarces Whatever comes to II
n. is a part OF his "all things" ar
I, therefore / should be grateful becaus
Or the outcome will be good. We al
b. not tore.ordained to salvation irr
Dr. spective OF what we may be or do b.
we are tore-oraained as believers g
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