The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-04
UNIFORM SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
April E.
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Lesson Text: Genesis 1877: Psalm
1oS:1-14; Matt s:24t34.
Golden Text: Our Father who art
IN heaven, hallowed by thy name"
Matt GO.
Senior and Adult Topic: God The
Father Almighty.
Lesson Outline.
1. God The Father In Creation.
Cen. III, 81.
III. God The Father In Rodemp-
uon, Psalm. 1o5:1-i4.
III. God The Father IN Provi-
dence, Matt 6.24-s4.
/ Introduction
/ The Lesson committee has ected
wisely In giving the senior and adult
classes AN opportunity during the COM
ing SIX months to study some of the
great teachings of the Bible. While
many know these things In a general
way. comparatively few persons have
ever taken the time to mako a close
study of the great Fundamental
truths of our religion. The student
! should look forward into the topics
given for our consideration during the
next two quarters, so that he may
pursue the course in ap intelligent
iend eTrectant manner. IT will be
oGnd that with the use Of variety
for the lessons, each one naturally
leads 30 the next. and the whole
constitutes most interesting and
profitable study. The results should
be seen In deepening of the spiritual
y NE OF those who are saved, and In
interesting the unssved In the impor-
'tsrce Of giving themselves to Christ
I The lesson Briefly Considered,
God the Father in Creation. Gen.
It:f. II.
no one knows when the beginning
was. Chronoloeista in other days
counted the world to be four tfous-
land years old when Christ was born
But modern scholarship has proven
beyond reasonable doubt that the
world is very old. While II la not
essential that man should know when
the world came into being, 1t Is OF
vital importance that he should have
4 firm belief IN the fact that God
created 1t.
Man was created In the image of
God in the sense Of being a moral be-
ms, capable of Righteousness. and "as
the new creation is only restoration
of this image. history OF the one
throws light on the other"
God the Father In Redemption.
Psalm, 1o3:1-14.
In this passage the psainist calls
upon sii hts powers 10 unite in Civ
ing praise TO Jehovah. who ts COM
ipiet@ in moral projections The
Pssimist was among those who had
fallen from the estate of his first
parents. yet is he striving TO reach out
after he righteous one, whose image,
though married, is stifi his possession
He would not forget any of the
blessings of Jehovah, and some OF
these he proceeded to enumerate
Jehovah exeeuteth righteous acts''
acts which were looked upon as
wonders. such as are mentioned in
Psalm 7s:l2f
He made known his ways to Moses
and his doings to Israel" tEee
Exodus 33:12-z3; Psalm 147:1s).
Tie will not always chide, neither
win be keep his anger forever. "
Compare Isaiah $3.50. HE hath not
dealt with us after our sins, nor re-
warded us after our iniouities -
'Surely IL Jehovah should give man his
Just deserts, his lot would be terrible
Jehovah Ia a God of grace, which
means that he extends to man I'M
inherited favor. His loving kindness is
great and he removes our transgres-
sions from him as far as the east In
from the west
We can only grasp divine pity
WV u6H human aHatVES. AHo hatacht
speaks after this manner when he
SAYS: st will spare them az a man
tspar~th his own son that serveth him -
| He knoweth our frame. he re-
rnembereth that we are dust In one
of the most comforting passages In
The Bible for II enables us to realize
that Jehovah fully understands the
weaknesses of our fallen nature.
| God tho Father In Providence
Matt. 6:24-14