Arizona republican., 1916-01-22
International Sunday School Lesson for
 Jan. 23
THE SPIRIT OF LIFE

G2) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. Q3) For If ye live after the flesh. ye shall die; but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body ye shall live. Q4) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the sons Of God. 05) For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. G6) The Spirit itself beareth witness with our Spirit, that we are the children of God: CID And if children, then heirs; heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ: if so be that we suffer with him, that we may ~e also elorified together. (26) Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities; for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with grOan- ings which cannot be uttered. (2D And he that searcheth tne hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
  together for good to them that love God to them Who are the called ac- i cording to his purpose. (29) For whom ne did foreknow. he also did predes- tinate to be cOnformed to the image of his Son. that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. (30) Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he al- so called: and whom he called, them | he also justified: and whom he justi- | fled them he also glorified.
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 Exposition-i Believers, Sons of God. Heirs of God, and Joint-heirs with Christ, 12-17. It is out privilege to live | in another sphere than that of the | flesh, to live in the Spirit (v 9. When the Spirit of God dWells in us. He takes us out of the sphere of the flesh into that of the Spirit. Since the Spirit of 1 God does dwell in us. and as He is some day to quicken our mortal bodies i hy His Spirit that dwelleth in us, therefore. we have a debt not to live after the flesh, but to live according to the Spirit G2. 13). It is our privilege | through the Spirit to put to death the deeds of the body G3). We still have 1 the body but it is our privilege through the Holy Spirits power to put to death | it's deeds every day and every minute | Gal. ,: l6, =, 23). If we do this, we shall live" As many as are led by the Spirit of Cod i. e. all who sur
 render their lives to the control of the | indwelling Spirit of God are sons of I ,f +AAtf Q | words but we are so familiar with | them that we do not stop to weigh l their meaning There is difference in meaning between sons of God anu l children of God" A son is a child WEo has come to maturity. As long as we are under ordinances and prescrip- tions the rudiments of the world we are "children' (cf. Gal. 1: 3 R. VI, but when we enter into the larger life and liberty of those who are led not by q law outside of us, but by the living Spirit within us, We are sons (cf. Cal. Is: IS. E. ND. Mere law keeping IS "bondage" (v. 15) and is full of fear, hut when the believer receives the Holy Spirit. He receives not a spirit Of
 bondage unto fear; on the contrary, he receives the Spirit of adoption l. e. placing as a son. Having received
 such Spirit, we do not cry, My Ty- rant" or even My Ruler" but Abba, my Father" Many today who call
 themselves Christians do not seem to
 have received the Spirit of placing as
 sons: they cringe before God in ter TOT: their whole heart does not go out
 in the restful, glad, fearless trust oi the son toward his father There arc two witnesses to our sOnship, our own
 spirit and the Holy Spirit, who beareth witness together with our spirit that we are the children of Cod (v. 16) | Because we are children. God sends
 forth the Spirit of His Son into oul hearts crying. Abba, Father Gal 4: I6) It is glorious to be a child of God land it brings something else of vast
 moment along with it. namely, heir
 ship. and joint heirship with Christ
 Those are stupendOus words. Do we dare take them as meaning what they | say? Do we dare take them as mean ling anything less than what they say
 They mean that the believer is an hell | as Christ is heir and to the extent that
 Christ is heir. The only difference iS
 this, that Christ is heir by His owr
 eternal right and We are heirs because
 of our union with Him.
 IT. The All All-Sufficiency of the Lort
 Jesus and the Perfect Security of th'
 Believer, 26-30 While we do not have everything in this present age. we have all we need We have wonderful ful'
 ness of privilege and possession. Th' first privilege that we possess is tha 1 of praying, according to the will O Cod: we ourselves know not how t
 pray as we ought" but there is one wn'
 does know, who knows all the min'
 and will of God and HE helpeth ou infirmity. This is the secret of tru and prevailing prayer, depending upo1
 and expecting the Holy SpilH to hell
 us to pray When he does teach us t
 pray, we shall pray with intense ear | nestness, "groanings that cannot D uttered" Some times the yearning H lawakens in our hearts will be too deei and vast for our own clear comprehen
 sion Even God must search the hear | to know what is the mind of the Splr it V. 2O. So it comes to pass tha
 God does exceeding abundantly abov
 all that we ask or think CEph. , 20
 At other times we pray with the "Spir
 it and with the understanding also q Cor. IA: 15). But in whatever wa
 the Spirit leads us in prayer, the peti
 ton is according to the will of God and is therefore sure to he granted (