Evening star., 1932-03-12
Sunday School Lesson
Rev. Hugh T. Stevenson.

the world and the path to certainty and
peace: No other can offer salvation,
because. unlike all religions. Christian
ity rises and falls with the character Of
| Its founder.
The great problem that the apostles
were trying to solve was how could they
carry on after the loss of their Master,
when they would be called upon to en-
aure prosecutions. He solved their prob
lem by His promise to send them the
Holy Spirit. The assurance of the COM
Ing Of the Holy Ghost is the heart of
His farewell message. His mission is
eHorts to serve Christ. The promised
Comforter was to convict the world of
sin and recall to the apostles memory
the words and works OF Christ Jesus.
his distinctive mission is to testify to
Christ by convincing men of the Lords
righteousness, because He has gone to
the Father.
The Comforter is called 'the Spirit Of
Truth, the Spirit of God, the Spirit of
Christ, the Spirit of Adoption. the Spirit
of Holiness, the Spirit Of wisdom and
Eeveiation, the Spirit of Glory, the
spirit of Promises, the Spirit of Prayer.
tne spirit OF Power" The world could
not receive Christ, but the spiritual
minded are always ready to welcome the
Holy Spirit, because He supplies the
Christians strength with which to carry
on and glofify Christ Jesus by their
service.
Christian Service.
Christian service Is made possible by
eur Fellowship with Christ In the ira
oltional upper room in Jerusalem one
can see the ancient olive tree growing
ABOUT lts windows. Possibly Jesus may
nave pointed to that old viile when He
spoke of the Christians relatiofiship to
Him by claiming to be the vine and
that the apostles were the branches.
Our union with Christ is marked by
our being incorporated into Christ abid-
ing In Him, and bringing forth good
fruits. Throughout living union with
Christ we receive daily something of
Christs life. We live In Chfist by
dwelling deep in Him.
The vital fellowship is maintained
through the guidance of the Holy Spirit,
who guides us into all truth, showing
Us how we can glUrify Jesus Christ. He
tails to our minds the remembering Of
Christ Jesus, insists upon OUR devoting
our character and personality exelu-
sively to His service He helps us to
obey the Lord, ana by so doing demon
strate our love for Him. He fills us
with passion for righteousness and for
praying things through.
The Lords Prayer.
We are in the habit of speaking of
the prayer that Jesus gave to the dis
eipleS as a model for our prayers as the
Lords prayer. While He was the au-
thor of it., we find in the seventeenth
chapter OF Johns Gospel the Lords
prayer. There He peufs cut His soul for
His followers. He praised God for Civ
Ing them to Him and for the privileges
that He had enjoyed With them. He
requested the Father to keep His dis
eiples, give them something of His 10y
and sanctify them with His truth. He
sought by His pleading that God would
guard them diligently as prisoners of
grace. In the model prayer the dis
eipleS are instructed to pray that God
would deliver them out of all evil, but
when He draws His own petition to a
close it was that the love wherewith
Thou hast loved me may be In them
and In them"
Having pleaded for His followers.
Jesus then prayed for the restoration of
His glory. He had emptied Himself of
His glory when He became man. and as
the end OF His days in the flesh was
rapidly approaching the Master longed
for a restoration OF the glory that He
bad once enjoyed, He was not unmind-
ful Of the Fathers glory for He prayed
that He shotld be glorifed so that the
Father should be glerified He longed
for His help sp that He could complete
successfully His mission among men.
We should be equally anxious to glorify
the Father. we exist in the image and
likeness OF God to that extent that our
own glory becomes the glorying of our
God.