Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-23
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
For Nop. 26-Luke s
BY DIR, MARION MCH. HULL

touches which show how marvel
ously He loved us.
His Message
AS He went everywhere He preach
ed and demonstrated the glad It'd
ilgs of the Kingdom of God. Jesus
did not preach what Paul preached;
and what Paul preached was more
than what Jesus preached. Jesus
Preached the glad tidings of the
Kingdom Of God, Paul preached the
glad tidings Of the Grace Of God.
This includes part Of what Jesus
preached but far more. Let us see
IS nat is the difference.
All Of the Old Testament prophets
had told of the Golden Age to be.
When Israel or Judah was under
oppression, they would say, Cheel
up, the good time is coming. This
was based on certain covenants
which God had made. The first Was
with Abraham, then the Palestinian.
covenant; then the covenant with
David. God gave Abraham two
promissory notes agreeing in the
first to bless him and his seed and
all the families Of the earth through
Sim; and in the second agree4rg to
give him and his seed forever al
the land that he could see from the
top of the highest point in Pales
tine. The Palestinian covenant
agreed that if the people of Isarel
should be dispersed for their sin
they should be restored to their
land if they repented and prayed
for the restoration. It was thera-
fore an amendment to the contract
with Abraham. The contract with
David agreed that his son should
sit on the throne forever, that his
dynasty should not be replaced nor
supplanted.
Now when Jesus came He preach.
ed the. glad tidings Of the Kingdom
of God-that is, [ am David S son
spoken of by all the prophets; l am
ready now to establish the King
dom long promised; l am here to
fulfill the contracts that my Father
made with Abraham and with David
and with His people. This is the
good news. My father is ready to
pay His notes and have you realize
on them their face value with IN.
terest.
Jesus was in no sense referring
secret, afterwards revealed to Paul;
it was not until Jesus had been re-
Jected that he mentioned the church;
and then He spoke of it in the tu-
ture tense CT will build my church y
Matt. 1918.
Some people confuse the Kingdom
and the church, thinking that they
are one and the same. ard there
fore get muddIed in their under
standing of very plain scriptures. If
| they are, one and the same the terms
could ba Interchangeable; but how
would it sound in the Lords Prayer
to say, "Thy church Gomez" or in
Jesus opening message. Repent,
for the church is at hand of in this
| passage, that "Jesus went from vii
| lage to village preaching and show
| ing the glad tidings of the church,"
| There are many other and stronger
rea~ rs for stating positively that
| the church and the Kingdom are
not one and the same. but space
! forbids a further discussion of it
now.
Paul Dre .ched the gospel of the
| Grace of God-the good news of
a salvation complete and free, a
salvation that does not depend upon
anything that we can do and in
spite of what we have done, that
! depends upon what Jesus has done.
| Jesus had not made the complete
sacrifice when He spoke; the nation
had not rejected Him as yet.
Pau spok after this had Jeen done:
and the gospel of the Grace of God
which he preached included what
has already been stated and the
further truth: that eventually the