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t-Lesson Helps for the Week of February 14, 1971Sabbath SchoolLessonfor February 14,1971HUMILITY BEFORE GOD:Luke 14:7-11; 18:9-14.Comments by John K. GaultThis lesson contains two parables ofJesus, each of which is designed todemonstrate the truth of the axiom that"whosoever exalteth himself shall beabased; and he that humbleth himselfshall be exalted." In the providence of Godthis axiom is always a self-evident truth,even though it is not always evident topeople, who work in time, but God worksin eternity.1: Christians Should Not SeekWorldly Honor as an End in Itself.This thought presented is the parableof the lesson which concerns those whoseated themselves in the best seats, whenthey were invited to a social affair, such asa wedding. Jesus saw how the Phariseesdid this very thing and so He said, "Whenthou art bidden of any man to a wedding,sit not down in the highest rooms; lest amore honorable man than thou be biddenof him; and he that bade thee and himcome and say to thee, Give this manplace; and thou begin with shame to takethe lowest room." Evidently the personswho chose the best seats desired to make ashow of themselves before all the otherguests. This was an indication of a proudand haughty spirit and of such a spiritProverbs 16:18 says, "Pride goeth beforedestruction, and an haughty spirit before afall." In Romans 12:3 Paul said, "For Isay through the grace given unto me, toevery man that is among you, not to thinkof himself more highly than he ought tothink; but to think soberly, according asGod hath dealt to everv man the measureof faith."-: Christians Should Humbly AcceptDeserved Honor.Continuing in what Jesus said in thisparable, we read, "But when thou artbidden, go and sit down in the lowestroom: that when he that bade theecometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, goup higher: then shalt thou have worship inthe presence of them that sit at meat withthee."When this would happen the humbleone would receive the praise of the otherguests. In Proverbs 27:2 it is said, "Letanother man praise thee and not thine ownmouth; a stranger and not thine own lips."Those who chose the reserved seats atfirst were praising themselves, and suchan attitude usually incurs the dislike ofothers.3: In Seeking God's Favor OneShould Not Compare Himself with Others.In the second parable of the lessonJesus told about the Pharisee and thepublican, who went into the temple topray. Each of these two persons wentthrough the motions of making contactwith God, who is the only deity to beprayed to. The Pharisee started in bythanking God that he was so much betterthan other people. Perhaps he was betterthan some others and perhaps he wasn't.If one could read his thoughts he might nothave been any better than some whom hementioned. So, one thing was certain andthat was that the Pharisee was a sinnerwho needed to repent. He had committedone of the greatest of sins and that was tothink that he was righteous in the sight ofGod. He seemed to be f<strong>org</strong>etful that thewhole sacrificial system was based uponthe fact of man's sin. The Pharisee,therefore, presumed to worship God,trusting in his own self-righteousness andnot in the undeserved mercy of God.4: In Coming Before God One CannotEarn His Favor by Doing Things.This was another presumptuous actof the Pharisee. He proceeded to informGod of the good deeds which he had done.He said, "I fast twice in the week, I givetithes of all that I possess." The law ofGod didn't require him to fast twice aweek; so. he must have had some othermotive for so doing than to please God. Heseemed to think that he could win thefavor of God by the good deeds which hehad done. The Reformation sparked byMartin Luther was based upon this veryissue that one cannot lay up a fund ofmerit before God by doing good deeds orpaying a large amount of money to thechurch. Salvation is gained solely throughthe unmerited grace of God which was aresult of His great mercy.5: Humility Before God Is the ProperAttitude to Take in Prayer.The other man who went into theTemple to pray was a publican, or taxcollector. He, no doubt, was a Jew who hadbought the franchise of collecting taxesfrom the Roman government. ThePharisees hated these tax collectors. Butthe publican "stood afar off." It wouldseem that he considered himself to beunworthy even to enter the sacred place.He was acutely conscious of his sins for"he would not lift up so much as his eyesunto heaven, but he smote upon hisbreast," which indicated self-abasement.All he seemed to be able to say to God was"God be merciful to me a sinner." TheRevised Version says that the translationshould be "the sinner." instead of "asinner." This showed that the publicanwas thinking of his own unworthinessbefore God and was not about to comparehimself favorably with others. Herecognized in his prayer that it was onlyby the mercy of God that he could beaccepted for he prayed, "God be mercifulto me." This has brought the salvation ofall whom God has chosen for He said, "Iwill have mercy on whom I will havemercy, and I will have compassion onwhom I will have compassion. So thenit isnot of him that willeth. nor of him thatrunneth, but of God that showeth mercy"(Rom. 9:15,16).f>: Praying to God in the Right WayLeads to Justification.After recounting this parable concerningthe Pharisee and the publican,Jesus said of the latter, "This man wentdown to his house, justified rather than theother." This did not mean that thepublican was no longer a sinner for hewas. But it did mean that God haddeclared him just He was just because hehad cast himself upon the mercy of Godand not upon what he had done or not doneIn the answer to question 33 of the ShorterJANUARY 20, 1971 11
Catechism it is said, "Justification is anact of God's free grace, wherein Hepardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us asrighteous in His sight, only for therighteousness of Christ imputed to us, andreceived by faith alone." God declared thepublican to be just because he was humbleand confessed his sin. He cast himselfupon God's mercy and thus he was acceptedin the sight of God. Justification isan act of God's free grace and it is not theresult of anything that man can do to earnit.Jesus closed this second parable ofthis lesson by repeating the axiom withwhich He closed the first parable: "Forevery one that exalteth himself shall beabased; and he that humbleth himselfshall be exalted.""Lesson based on International SundaySchool Lessons: the International Bible Lessonsfor Christian Teaching, copyrighted 1966by the Division of Christian Education, NationalCouncil of Churches of Christ in theU.S.A."Junior Topicfor February 14, 1971UNIT:LATER OLD TESTAMENT DAYSMrs. H.A.HaysJonah, the Unwilling ProphetPsalms: We begin the memoryPsalm for the next period. Psalm46:1.2,5,6, p. 118.It is good to lay up these words in ourhearts. There was a time in Syria when wehad to go through days of rioting. The girlsand boys chose Psalm 46 to sing duringtroublous times. We never know when ourcountry will be brought to her knees to callupon God for mercy. It will be a blessing ifwe can sing and say these words at such atime.Psalm 40:1-4, p. 102; Psalm <strong>86</strong>, pages210-211. Choose verses as needed.Scripture: Examples of people whowere disobedient. Genesis 3:11; 19:26;Leviticus 10:1; Numbers 20:11,12; ISamuel 13:13.Memory verse: Blessing promisedfor obedience. "For as by one man'sdisobedience many were made sinners, soby the obedience of one shall many bemade righteous."Aim: To point out to the children thatobedience is necessary in the Christianlife. We are obeying God when we do the12little jobs for our friends and for our lovedones.BackgroundWe are going to leave Israel andJudah for tonight and travel to far awayNineveh. Nineveh is only 500 miles fromJudah. That seems but a short distance tous, but in the days of Jonah, 500 mileswould be quite a journey. Nineveh was avery big city of three million people. TheJuniors in Los Angeles would know howlarge a city that is because that is thepopulation of their city. It was a very richand splendid city. Now, doesn't thatdescription fit one of our big cities?Beauty and splendor! Ah, yes! A wonderfulplace for Satan to have fun.Nineveh was a heathen city; it was a verywicked one. These people needed apreacher, didn't they? God knew just theman for this job, Jonah, a prophet of theLord, who lived in Israel. So this is whathappened. If a map is handy, use it.The Lord spoke to Jonah, and toldhim to go to the great city of Nineveh. TheLord wanted Jonah to tell the people ofthat great city that unless they turnedaway from their wickedness, God woulddestroy their city. We, today have men ofGod telling us that we had better turnaway from our sins or God will make thisnation suffer. We can be glad that we arebeing warned about our sins. Jonah did notwant to go to that great city of Nineveh. Hehad to go across the sandy desert to reachNineveh. He didn't like the idea oftraveling through the sand storms. Jonahwalked off in exactly the opposite direction.He was being disobedient. He was aprophet of the Lord, but he wasn't ready toobey the Lord. Did he get away with hisdisobedience? No, no. He thought that hecould run away from God.He went down to Joppa or Jaffa, as itis called today, and there he found a shipthat was going to Tarshish in Spain. Hepaid his fare and went into the ship. Didn'tJonah know that he could not run awayfrom God? God is everywhere. But he isgoing to learn the hard way that it doesn'tpay to be disobedient.At this point the leader could havesome one tell the story of Jonah and thewhale. This story is so well known to mostchildren; I am sure some one of the olderjuniors could tell it.After Jonah had been cast into thesea and swallowed by the whale the Lordcame to Jonah the second time telling himto go to Nineveh. Did Jonah obey thistime'' Yes, he did. It must have takenJonah many days to make the journey.When he arrived in Nineveh he told thepeople that in forty days Nineveh would beoverthrown because of their wickedness.The people were afraid. Theybelieved God.Boys and girls, sometimes it takes avery difficult and hard lesson for us toobey the Lord. Jonah became a willingprophet after his experience. Let us learnfrom the experience of Jonah to be readyto say, "Here am I, Lord; use me for Thywork."Prayer: Our God and Father, take usand use us to serve Thee in Thy kingdom.We want to be used in Thy work. We thankThee for Thy love and for Thy Son, JesusChrist, in whose name we pray, Amen.Prayer MeetingTopicfor February 17, 1971PRAYER FOR CYPRUSMASONRY ESSENTIALLY PAGANMackey in his "Symbolism of Freemasonry,"on pages 28 and 34 says:"Many, indeed nearly all, of theMasonic symbols of the present daycan only be thoroughly comprehendedand properly appreciated by this referenceto sun-worship... the religioussystem of Masonry comes from theEast, and has reference to the primitivereligion, whose first occupationwas the worship of the sun. Webb saysin "The Freemason's Monitor" page284: "The meeting of a Masonic Lodgeis strictly a religious ceremony. Thereligious tenets of Masonry are few,simple, but fundamental." We havealready shown those tenets to be thefatherhood of God, the brotherhoodof Man, salvation by character, etc.This is also the teaching of theModernist churches! By such falsedoctrines, multitudes of unsuspectingsouls are being seduced and lured totheir eternal doom. Real Christians inthe lodges will hardly want to beparty to such strategy of the Devilwhen they know the facts. Of thesedeceptions it is certain our God-givenduty to warn men both lovingly andplainly.Wm. E. AshbrookChristian CynosureCOVENANTERWITNESS
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When Sorrow ComesRev. Robert McMill
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