Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-02
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
For Nop. S, 1922. Luke 4:31; 5:39.
BY DIR. MARION McH. HULL

lie knew Jesus was mountain
| boy, had been raised inland, and
didn't know a. thing about fishing
on the sea. So he said, Teacher,
we have fished all night and haven't
caught a minnow. You don't know
anything about fishing-no! That
was probably what he was thinking;
but when he saw the Teachers face
and remembered some Of the things
he had heard Him say and seen
Him do, Simon said-"nevertheles
at Thy Word I will let down the
net"
Well, he was we'll paid for the
use of his boat-Jesus always pays
high rents. But that was not the
thing Luke has especially in mind
here. 1t was what happened to
Simon see what his real need was.
a word to him, he just fell on his
knees before Jesus, and confessed
his sin. The Great Physician saw
Simon's need, and applied the rene
dy--a boat load OF fish-that made
Simon see what his real ned was.
So the Great Physician heals spirits
as we'll as bodies and minds. dis
eased.
Going through a certain city one
day, a leper saw Him. 1t was not
an early case; DR.. Luke tells us
how far advanced it was-fuH Of
leprosy; there wasn't a whole spot
on his skin. Horrible, repulsive,
loathsome creature - an outcast
from business, society, church, home;
beggar with no other possible
means of subsistence, in rags. No
wonder he said eff thou wilt" He
had gotten from everybody else, he
canst." But with the treatment he
had gotten fro meverybody else, he
doubted his willingness.
All, just see that Great Physician,
what that poor fellow needed was
love; he needed someone to make
him and said, II will, be thou clean"
worth helping, that there was some
body who was willing to help him,
to do something for him, who
wouldn't give him a kick and
frown. Jesus, moved with compass
sion, put forth His hand and touched
him and said, 1 will, be thou clean"
The Great Physicians heart went
out to this miserable, repulsive crea.
ture. He looked through his rags,
to his royalty; He looked at a beg
ger, but saw a man made in the
image of God, but marred miserably,
The great heart of the Great Ply
sician gave him what he needed
most-love and sympathy, and then
a new skin.
Then the Great Physician had to
withdraw into the wilderness, and
pray again. 1t cost Him a lot to
heal that leper.
His Limitations
When it was learned that He had
vol IN
multitude gathered. You, couldn't
get near the door for the crowd. In
the company We're Pharisees and the
L. l.. DIS from Galilee, Judea and
Jerusalem: land the power of the
Lord was present to heal them
but they were not healed.
There was a paralytic healed that
day. His four friends had faith.
They brought him, tore up the roof,
and lowered him into the presence
of Jesus. The Great Physician
couldn't keep from blessing such
faith as that, and said to the para
lytic, Man, thy sins be forgiven
thee" Sin was the cause of his
paralysis, and the Great Physician
went at the cause first.
The Pharisees and L. u. DIS look
ed shocked. But to show them that
He had that power, He did the easier
thlng-told the paralytic to get up,
roll UP his bed and walk on home.
Which he did Immediately.
But the PnariSees and l.. L. DIS
were not healed, as far as they got
was to say, "We have seen strange
thing today"
A few days later, the Great Ply
sician healed Levi, a Jewish tax COL
leCtor, of the disease of covetousness,
loving money more than anything
else. That was about the most diff
ficult case He treated. :, Levi had a
supper a few nights later and in
vited his friends to meet his new
Friend; he wanted them to know
this Great Physician. Now his bust
ness had cut him off from all other
folks as friends except publicans
like himself and other sinners. When
the Pharisees and l.. l.. DIS heard
of His eating with these, they criti-
c1zed Him severely. His only reply
was that the Physician didn't treat
well folks, only those who were sick.
So this Great Physician had both
His limitations and His critics. They
criticized Him because His followers
didn't have long faces and lean hun
cry looks from long fasts. His linn
itations were those created by lack
of faith in Him, and by lack of
sense Of need Of Him.
Yet He was the Great Physician.
for He healed body and mind and
spirit. He gave love where love
was needed; He cured covetousness
nothing was too hard for Him.
He can cure you. He takes into
consideration the whole man. He
will be criticized; but His only lirni-
tation will be lack of faith or lack
OF appreciation of your need of Him.
"Himself"-not something that He
can do apart from Himself. Your
great need is just Himself"
"Brain on Fire"