Evening star., 1926-04-17
Sunday School Lesson

ways of pleasantness, and all His
paths of peace; but the approach TO
them had come through obedience OF
the divine commands and denial Of
the flesh. Satans suggestions ap-
peared to be pleasant, appealing to
the eyes, pride. and the flesh, but
when she followed them she learned
the tragedy of sin. Like all sinners,
she sought companionship by enticing
her husband to share in her disobe-
dience.
No sooner had both transgressed
Gods commands than they realized
their folly. They learned they had n
conscience. 1t showed them that
through disobedience and sin they
had put themselves some distance
from God. They were overwhelmed
by the nakedness of their souls. Glen
Frank recently pointed out that
Americans rejoicing over their ma
terialistic triumps did not realize the
great spiritual loss. they had sus-
tanned. They could not escape from
the voice of God. We can insult Him,
but we can not evade our responsi-
bility. Unless America commences to
realize her responsibility to God, as a
nation, then the prosperity. position
and power. that is ours today, Will be
be the source of our undoing in the
future. We cannot serve God and
mammon. We must not deceive our
selves. Adam and Eve could not face
Him when He called, for they were
towards.
They had no way they could cover
the nakednesS Of their souls. They
knew that He understood what they
had done. They had no excuse. Adam
tried to place the responsibility upon
the woman that God had given him,
when Gods love was calling them not
only to pronounce a fourfold Judge
ment, but to give them q new oppor-
tunity. The serpent had evidently
been, as his body shows today that
formerly it was an erect creature.
Although it can outclimb the
monkey, outswim the fish, overleap
the zebra, outwrestle the athlete and
crush the tiger" the serpent crawls
through the world today in accordance
with the curse placed upon him.
Light i'm the Darkness.
God placed an eternal enmity be-
tween the seed of the woman and the
serpent. Woman is called upon TO
suffer whenever she places her life
upon the altar in the interest of the
human race. Man finds his work
brings weariness and death has passed
upon dIi tAlctI vain
ground of the picture that paints the
psychology of sin in our own life, as
we'll as telling of it's beginning. We
have a portrait of the gospel. 1t is
worth while for us to look at the les
son and learn how we today are
tempted, fall and the terrible price
We pay not only i'll the scars upon our
body, but moer especially those upon
our souls; but also to see In it the
first CLEAN of the gospel ever preached
which assures us that finally there
will come a day when the weary strug-
gle against sin will be crowned with
victory.
When the two sinner were driven
out Of the garden, they We're encour-
aged by the first 'Messianic promise
of the coming of Savior. who would
destroy Satan's power. The Redeemer
of the race was to be of 'the seed OF
the woman" From this time on to
its close the Bible is full of the story
of the Messiah. and it is an evidence
of Gods love for sinners that he gave
this promise with the first entrance
Of sin into the human heart. We
know that it was a part of Gods
eternal program for Christ TO come,
but He could not proclaim II until
after sin entered into the race. Para
disc was lost but q new way was open
in the highway of the Lord for thei
salvation and our, teaching us that
''as in Adam all die, so also in Christ
shall all be made alive"