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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON FOR NOV. rs
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Text of the Lesson, Rom. xiii is.
Memory Verses, 6-8-Golden Text,
Rom. xii, documentary Prepared
by Rev. ID. M. Stearns.

Rom. XII, documentary prepared
by Rev. ID. Nj. Stearns.
This Is our last study In the epistles
for some time to come, but the believer
who desires to grow In grace and walk
with the Lord win study them con-
stantly. In our lesson Of two weeks
ago we gave some attention to the
whole of this epistle. but little repeti-
ton will be helpful, with some addi-
tonal thoughts. The epistles, as a
rule, are for believers or saints or
saved sinners to build them up and at
them for service, that God may be
glorified In them and other sinners
saved to help complete the church and
bring the time Of the kingdom. The
first eight chapters Of this letter teach
most fully and clearly that all. with
out exception, Jews and gentiles, are
sinners and guilty before God and that
salvation is wholly Of grace, apart from
any works of ours, and that, being
justified freely by His grace, we are
made children of God, joint heirs with
Jesus Christ, In the love from which
nothing can separate us; that, while
we wait for our redemption bodies and
the deliverance Of the whole creation
from its bondage and grooming. We
have all things freely given rs In
Christ and all things are working to-
gether for our highest good.
Chapters TX, K. xi. may we'll be called
an epistle within an epistle concerning
Israel and her future. Then In our
lesson chapter and onward we are tsld
how we ought TO live here to the glory
Of God because Of all that He has done
for us through grace. II beseech you,
therefore, brethren, by the mercies Of
God" because Of His great grace. His
great love, His great salvation, the
great glory Of the kingdom to which
he has called you, all that He has
done for you, Is doing now and will yet
do. Let Him have your body to live
In, to make a mansion of, while He is
preparing your mansion In glory. In
Rom. viii, 20, 81, "a, we learn that the
Father, Son and Holy Spirit are all
for us, and In John xiv, II, %. we learn
that they will make their home In Us
If we are willing, making each OF US
mansion for the indwelling Trinity
while our mansion In heaven IL being
prepared. The words mansion" and
abode" in John xiv. 2o. are the same
word in the Greek, a little noun or
only four letters. and used nowhere
else.
The same truth Is stated a little DIFF
ferently in Eph. fiji. II, that Christ
may dwell or make His home In your
heart by faith" The living sacrifice
consists of our being willing to die to
all that Is OF self for His sake. 1t
cannot be self and Christ. 1t must be
"Not /, but Christ" (Gal. II, 20). 1--WE
who live are always delivered unto
death for Jesus sake that the life also
Of Jesus might be made manifest In
our mortal flesh" Oh Cor. Nv. 10. III.
AS 1t is written In Rom. viii. 36; Ps.
Xiv, %, For Thy sake we are kill
ed all the day long" Being made ac-
copied In the Beloved at such infinite
cost, so great sacrifice on His part.
1t is a reasonable service that we
should be willing to be sacrifice for
Him, both in word and deed, that He
may be seen in US and known through
us Phil. ". IS; Heb. Kill, 10, 16). We
have been called out of the world TO
continue In 1t, but not be Of It The
whole world lieth In the wicked one. IL
is an evil world, and It's ways and Gus
toms are all opposed to God. and the
only correct attitude for the believer Is
crucified to 1t and II to US (Gal. 1, A;
vi, IA; John v, 49,.
The works OF God are beautiful, but
men at enmity with God are under the
control Of the devil. and the condition
of things In Europe June, 1919 gives
US some idea of what he can do. He is
a deceiver, liar, destroyer, a muir
derer, and all who are not In Christ
and on his side are on the side of the
devil. How can child Of God be
willing to be conformed to such d
world? The word that is translated
transformed" is used only four times
and twice In the account Of our Lords
TRANSPORTATION Matt. xvii and Mark
ix). The other place besides here rs
III Cor. III. Is, where the translation fs
ARE changed" Our lesson verse says
that the change must be inward. the
renewing OF our mind 1t begins
when we receive the Lord Jesus and
thus become new creatures in Christ;
then as we continue ,beholding Him We
are changed by the Spirit day by day.
proving more and more fully how good
and acceptable and perfect the viii OF
God is.
All that follows In our lesson chap