The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-05-17
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(By REV. P. B F!TZWATER. ID, Dean
Moody Bible Institute of Chtcago.)
"a, 1928 Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for May 20
JESUS TEACHING IN THE TEMPLE

LESSON TEXT-Mark 12:1344.
GOLDEN TEXT-He taught them as
Ione having authority.
PRIMARY TOPIC-Jesus Answers
Some Hard Questions.
JUNIOR TOPIC - Jesus Teaches
Great Duties.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
IC-Jesus Answers His Critics.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP
IC-Love, the Law of the Kingdom.
I. The Parable of the Husbandmen
wv. 1-12).
Having put the scribes, chief priests
and elders to confusion by skiltul
counter question when they demanded
to know His authority, Jesus by means
of a story lays before them His claim
of divine authority, and charges them
with betrayal of trust and with plot
ting to murder the very Son of God.
His teaching cut them to the quick,
and they sought to lay hands upon
Him, but desisted for fear of the peo-
pie.
l. The vineyard ". u, represented
Israel (See Ps. 50 and lisa. 81.
2. The husbandmen ". u repre-
scented the rulers who were charged
with responsibility for the spiritual in
terests of the people.
8. Messengers wv. 30 represented
the prophets whom God sent to Israel,
even including John the Baptist.
4. The Son wv. 6S) represented
Jesus Himself.
5. The judgment of the Lord OF
the vineyard ". 81. This represented
the time when the Jews shall be
brought to account for their treat
ment of the servants of God and of
Jesus Himself
IL. The Tribute Money wv. 13-lO.
They already would have gladly
taken Him by violence and killed Him,
but they feared the people. In order
to destroy Him they seek to discredit
Him among the people ". 49,.
/. Their question ". 40.
"Is it lawful to give tribute to
Caesar, or not?" The Pharisees con-
tended that since God was the real
King of Israel, it was not obligatory,
yea, it was even sinful to give tribute
(taXeS) to a heather king. The He
rodians were supporters of Herod;
with tlattery on their lips, they put
this subtle question. For Him to an
swer Eyes" would have discredited
Him with the people, and to have said
tGGNros, ,,oo1o Him liDhlp IN
arrest as an enemy of the government.
2. Jesus reply wv. 15-1O.
He asks that a coin be brought and
inquiries whose image and superscrip-
ton it bears, declaring that those who
laccept the coin of Caesar should pay
taxes to Caesar. In this reply the
Lord escapes their trap and enunciates
"a principle which applies to all time
and conditions as to the Christians
responsibility to civil government.
Ill. The Resurrection of the Dead
INV. 1920.
The Pharisees and Herodians being
silenced, the Sadducees came with a
question which involved not only i'm
mortality but the resurrection of the
body. They denied the reality of the
resurrection, and believed not in angel
nor spirit (Acts 23:S).
1. The case proposed wv. 1929.
The law of Moses made it not only
legal but morally binding in the case
of man dying without children for
his brother to take his wife Oeut
i22:5) They propose the case of a
woman married successfully to seven
brothers. They ask whose wife she
will be in the resurrection.
2. Jesus reply wv. 24-26).
By a quotation from the Mosaic law
(Ex. 800 He proves the resurrection
of the dead, and their continued ex
istence after death as glorified beings
He shows that marriage is for this
present life. He points out thai
their great error was due to two
things.
1) Ignorance Of the Scriptures
". 24). In the very Scriptures which
they professed to believe was positive
proof of the resurrection (Ex. 800.
(2) Ignorance of the power of Goo
". 24). God Is able to provide life
where there is no death, no births Of
marriages.
Nv. The Great Commandment o
the Law wv. 2S-3Q.
Christ's answer shows marvellous
insight. He sums up mans who'll
duty in one word-love. The first ant
great commandment is supreme ant
undivided love of God. The second i
like unto it in that love is its center
but love for our neighbor in the meas
ure that we love ourselves. Having
put His questioners to silence, Jesu
now puts to them question whicl
involves the central doctrine Of TIN
Christian faith-the person of Chris
wv. 35-40). Is He human or divine
or both?
Some Good Advice