The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-06-18
Sunday School
Lesson
Sunday school Lesson for June 10

sunday School Lesson Tor June ID
Scripture: Luke 4-16 to 81 and
Math 1884 to 40.
We find people in this country
who are telling US that they are So
cialists and that they are preaching
Socialism, Anyone who has gone to
tine root of the question knows that
their position is lie. True Social
i'm and true Christianity are one and
i,p very same thing. The salt of this
earth not the worlds in the
church and the very cream of that
salt is in the Christian Socialist work
and life The so-called Socialist re.
jects the Bible and the church. but to
the Socialist the thought has never
come that he must turn down the
church or the word of God in order to
he true to his fellowman. II ever
there was time when one was just
red in turning his back on the church
It was in the days Of Peter, John and
raul. Bat we see Peter and John
oCing tC church. Acts 81.
The Jewish people-tyDe of the
church had rejected and killed the
Lords Christ, but they went TO
church. 1t is no uncommon thing 10
find d people who have too much reli-
sion-so they call ito 90 or mix up
with the people in the church This
country for many years has been
spending shiplouds of liquor on the
same ship with the mission workers
Truly did Paul say truth in Eph.
6-12: For we wrestle not against
/ flesh and blood. but against princi-
palities, against powers, against the
rulers of darkness OF this world,
against spiritual wickeGness in high
( + gees. The highest places on this
earth are the government and the
church. Only yesterday a woman
said, Il dent believe in a devil" NJ
one under the sun would dare do the
cursed work that he does.
There are very intelligent people
! who'll laugh at The idea of a devil.
/ Hear the wcrd of God, Job 1-6, And
satan came also; verse I, Satan an
severed g.; verse II. Satan went
forth; Acts 5-3. Why hath satan
hlled thy heart to lie? Math 12-14 |
Your father the devil and his lust
will We de-; Muth $50 "A man !
] possessed with devil; Math. 13-39. |
The enemy that SCwed them is the |
devil And mind you. we have min
/ listers who say Paul made mistakes
/ They dent get such sentiments from
I The Bible the Blessed Word of Cod |
lut frCm the iniidelS in the schools |
where they are supposed to be Bible |
men, teaching the Bible But Jesus
said the devil, as long as he-the devil |
can make the ministry believe and
| teach there is no devil, he can get |
along fine. Sam Small said, If the |
devil should meet person on the |
street in a shade he'd know him, do |
you think he'd shake hands with him. |
Why the devil never could catch him, !
but he comes dressed up so nicely"
Don't you see how the devil can fight
,ur Lord and His cause with poor us ?
Never shall | forget the first time
read Gen. 3-15. IT shall bruise thy
bead and thou shalt bruise his heel.
| didn't know that the 1T spoken of
was the first promise of our blessed
Savior. but saw that the serpenf
was to get it in the head and that
was fine. OF all things | hate is the
serpent. Then | saw that man should
Sc; bruised in his heel Truly man
has his already Sad indeed is the
condition OF this old world. Slowly
goes our work of making the social
order Christian, because we have let
the devil in our ranks.
When we made our civic league the
saloon keepers said, You're not 60
ing to be able to do anything, we are
going to join your league They
joined. But they didn't know that on
he outside OF our regular program
| arranged for two detectives to come
to the city and in ten days time put
five of them in Jail and out of bust
ness. SO if the devil does get his |
name on our church record he can't
hinder the cause if we are in touch |
with headquarters Where sin did |
abound, grace did much more abound |
Pom. 5-23. "He hath sent me and as
My Father hath sent me, l send you |
to open the blind eyes of the soul"
I And the eyes of all were fastened on
Him Yes and as soon as we take !
stand for Him, every eye is fastened |
on us and that's why David prayed, |
Pisa. 27-11, to be lead in a plain path |
because he was being watched. Babes |
in Christ are watching for the real |
thing, the backslider is watching for
hook in us to hang his sin and fail
IRE and the devil is watching and |
holding UP the hypocrites before all |
who II look at him, but he'll never
show you the one who walks under
your own hat And now don't you
know, when We go to the bottom Of
our subject, it's truly wonder that
we have served our precious absent |
Lord so well as we have. The truth OF |
the matter what he has done, he has |
~ l, htrN s,, Rf 1N,.t
~ has always been so. He spent three |
years with II men, one betrayed Him, |
one denied Him and John says we all |
left Him. Surely we all need to pray
Him to forgive.
Nj pEDIVTrLy