The Mississippi enterprise., 1963-07-20
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
JULY 21, 1868
WHERE ART THOTJ?n

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
JULY 21, 1868
WHERE ART THOU?"
Scripture Lesson - Genesis
3-11 Print - Genesis 3:1-1O.
22-24.
MEMORY SELECTION =
All we like sheep have gone
astray; we have turned every
one to his own way; and the
Lord hath laid on him the in.
iquity of us all. isaiah
$3.50. This great text begins
with the word "all" and ends
with "all'. We all come in with
the word "all" and we all may
60 out with the last "all." The
reason all men have gone a.
stray is because all men have
sought their own way. Hav.
ing ones own way will posi-
lively lead one astray. Having
ones own way is not the way
of peace, rest or happiness.
People have gone astray like
sheep. Sheep go astray more
easily than any other crea-
ture, and when lost do not
find their way back into the
fold. The latter part of the
text, that is, the Lord, Who
is the Father, hath laid upon
Him." that is, Christ, the in
iquity of us all. When men
receive and believe Christ
they will be rescued and re-
deemed.
THE TEMPTATION AND
THE FALL:
The serpent or Tempter ex-
celled and all other beasts
God made in being this way.
AS our story goes, the Temp
ter approached the woman
and asked if it was true that
God would not permit her
and her husband to eat the
fruit from any of the trees
in the Garden. The Woman
informed the Tempter that
they could eat of the fruit of
all the trees of the Garden
with the exception of one
tree, for God said, "You shall
not eat of the fruit of the
tree which is in the midst of
the garden, neither shall you
touch it, lest you die" To this
the Tempter replied, "You
will not die. For God knows
that you eat of it your eyes
will be opened and you will be
like God, knowing good and
evil" Well the woman fell for
the Tempter's statements and
decided that she wanted to he
equal to God, so she took the
fruit of the forbidden tree and
ate it. Of course, the next
natural and expected thing for
her to do was to share what
she thought she knew with
her husband and get him to
eat of the fruit also. This
she did, and her husband took
of the forbidden fruit and ate
it also. They both had dis
obeyed God. They had sim
ned, and this caused them to
fall from their perfect rela-
tionship with God.
GOD CALLED ADAM AND
HIS WIFE:
1t was true in the time of
Adam and Eve. After they
transgressed Gods command
and became aware of their
guilt, which sin had brought,
they tried to hide from God.
They tried to cover up their
sin and hide behind the trees
in the garden hoping that God
would not discover their guilt
and would not find them. But
there was no hiding place
there. God, moving about in
the garden in the cool of the
evening called out to them,
where are your" Adam an
Swered, II heard the sound of
thee in the garden and l was
afraid, because I was naked:
and | hid myself" Man can
never escape God. Sooner
than man thinks, he must rec
kon with the Judge of the
world. 1t is when we stand
before God that we really see
it is better to obey God and
follow His way than to take
our own way which leads to
a false state of joy and wis
dom and ends up in futility
and death.
GOD EXPELLED ADAM
AND EVE FROM PARADISE:
God put Adam and Eve out
of the beautiful Garden of
Eden. Adam was faced with
the hard task of tilling the
earth outside of the only place
he had ever been, and the
only place he knew anything
about. His own choice had