The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-04-17
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LESSON
(By REV. p. B. FITZWATER, d. D.,
Teacher of English Bible in the
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago)
Copyright, 1918, Western Newspaper Union.)
LESSON FOR APRIL II
JESUS TRANSPORTED, OR A
PORCELAIN OF THE KINGDOM
OF GOD.

LESSON TEXT-Mark 1929.
GOLDEN TEXT-This is my beloved
Son: hear We Him.-Mark 9:7
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL FOR
TEACHERS-Matthew 17:1-20; Luke 9:2S-
49, II Peter 1:1-21.
mountain.
INTERMEDIATE TOPIC-Meeting diff
fculties with prayer.
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL-James Sis
IS.
SENIOR AND ADULT ToPIC-vision
and service. -
The hopes of the disciples were
crushed when Christ announced his
death on the cross. They were unable
to see how victory could issue from
death. Jesus took with him Peter,
James and John, and went into the
mountain apart by themselves. Ac-
cording to Luke, they went there to
pray duke 9:2S). While, doubtless,
he longed for fellowship and sympathy
as the shadows of the cross were fall
ing upon him, his chief desire was to
get the disciples apart and into state
of receptivity, so that he might show
them the methods of the kingdom. Be
fore going into the mountain, he de-
clarcd that there were some standing
in his presence who would not taste of
death till they had seen the kingdom
of God come with power ". ~. That
their dropping spirits might be revived
and their confidence restored, he was
TRANSPORTED before them. The disci-
Piles sOrely needed such a vision. If
the faith of the disciples was to be
kept through the dark hour of the
them the light of the eternal must
beam forth. The disciple now, as
then, needs a glimpse of the glory be-
yOnd the cross in order to face the is
sues of the hour.
I. Jesus Christ GIorified on the
Mountain wv. 2, 81. He took his dis
ciples "by themselves" and was trans
figured before them" This shows the
purpose terminated upon the disciples
and not upon himself. Christ's rebuke
of Peter for his unwillingness to hear
concerning his death apparently for a
time estranged the disciples from him.
To heal this breech, an unusual trans
action was required. His shining raj
ment" was typical of that glory which
shall be manifest when he comes back
to the earth.
II. Peter, James and John Repre-
sent Israel in the Flesh In Connection
With the Kingdom ". p. Christ is
peculiarly the King of Israel. Accord
ing to Ezekiel 81 :21-27, they are to be
the central people in the kingdom
This people shall be gathered from
among the nations, united as one in
that kingdom in their own country.
III. Moses and Elias Appeared in
Glory With Jesus wv. 4-13). These mer
in the gloriified state are typical Of the
state of the saints in glory. Moses
who was once denied an entrance tC
Palestine, appears now in glory, repre-
senting the redeemed of the Lord who
shall pass through death into the king
| dom. The thousands of the Lord who
have fallen asleep, at Christ's coming
| Slldll NC dN anu pass lhIo lli'
kingdom through translation. Many
shall be living upon the earth wher
the Lord shall come, and they, with
out dying, shall be changed and pass
into the kingdom Il Cor. 10 :50-53
/ ThesS. :14-1S).
| 1. Peters foolish proposal wv. ), g.
Moses and Elias, who had been {
long time in glory, would be i'll a
home in a tabernacle on the mountain
side. 1t would have been to Peter
credit to have been silent, since h
knew not what to say.
>. The Divine voice out of the clOuc
wv. Z, 81.
He is declared to be the beloved Sol
in whom God is w V pleased. Whel
one desires to know what pleases God
look at his perfect Son, Jesus Christ.
3. Jesus charge wv. 9-13).
He instructed them that they shoul
tell no man concerning the thing
which they had seen until he had rise
from the dead.
~. The Mighty Power of the Divin
Servant wv. 1920. When they d.
scended from the mountain, they say
great multitude in a state of pei
plexity. The immediate cause of thei
perpleXity was the grievous state of
young man who was possessed with
demon ". 49,. The father of tn
, the young man had appealed to til
disciples to cast the demon out, bu
they were unable. When they brough
him to Jesus, the foul spirit was re
buked ". 25), and came forth. Thi
young mans state is representative Q
the nations who are oppressed by tn
devil. The people were grievously OF
: pressed.
/ There are times when the dev
is especially active in the o.
/ preston of men. During Christ's 81
iourn on earth he seems to have bee
very active, and we have reason to b
lieve from the Scriptures that just pr
ceding his second coming he will b