HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1929-04-18, Page 2UHUBSDAY, APRIL 18 th, 1920 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
J7ie Junaay School Wesson
By CHARLES G. TRUMBULL, Litt. D,
(Editor of the Sunday School Times)
lealttwii I Cereal for Hot Breakfast37-44 ascribed to tlic prophet Isaiah
quotations from Isaiah 5;3 and Isa
iah 6. As’sO frequently, Christ apd
the critics do not agree.
After God’s punishment came
God’s comfort. “Comfort ye, com
fort ye my people, saith your God.”
The prophet had been faithful in
telling Judah that lfer sins must be
judged, and she andJterael must go into captivity. Now^ was divine
ly empowered to prophesy what lay
beyond the punishment and captiv
ity, and declare wondrous comfort
and blessing. Jerusalem is now
told “that her warfare is accomplish
ed, that her iniquity is pardoned; for
she hath received of the Lord’s hand
double for- all iher sins.”
How would the comfort come?
How could the forgiveness and^res-
toration be accomplished? In only
one way: by Him who is the Way,
Christ* the Son of God. It is startling
to read here, seven centuries
fore Christ became a man, a
phesy of John the Baptist in
very words that lie quoted seven
turies later: “The voice of -him
crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye
the way of the Lord, make'straight
in the desert a highway for our God:'
Turn to Matthew 3:3 find Mark 1:3
and we read the game wo; As on John
the Baptist’s lips.
iSins were, going to be lealt with
victoriously when
come, and So the prophe'
dared
exaltqd
should
should
rough places plain,
be righted as only God i
them right. This was to
the first coming of Chr
was done.
But now
sees, not a
was seven
coming of the Lord that was twenty
seven centuries or more ahead, as
he declares; “And the glory of the
Lord shall be revealed, and all
shall see it together.” By
authority could he dare >ay
“EJor the mouth of the Lord
spoken,”
All flesh did not see the glory of
the Lord when Christ came nineteen
centuries ago and lived in humility
as a man, and died in shame as the
sinner’s substitute, and was raised
again. But that same Christ is com
ing again to this earth in His glori
fied body. “Behold, He eometh in
the clouds; and every eye shall see
Him,” (Rev. 1:7.)
Do men need Christ? The pro
phet answers: “All flesh is grass,
and all the goodliness thereof is as
the flower of the field; '.he grass
withereth, the flower fadeth.”- Yes,
men need Christ. Men are weak
ness and helplessness, and, left to
themselves, their life would be brief
and ephemeral.
“But the word of our God shall
stand •forever.”
Word of God.
cause of man’s awful need
the comforting salvation
as men’s Saviour.
Isaiah tells Jerusalem
good tidings, to lift up
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and
that
Visit the
Christ
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comfort
(Isa. 66
bring
voice
the
be-
pro-
the
cen\ that'
flesh
what
this?
hath
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of the
And Christ is the
(John 1:1-4). Be-
God sends
of
the prophet goes on and
coming of the Lord that
centuries ahead, but a
VOMFORT FOR GOD’S PEOPLE
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Sunday, April 21.—Isaiah
Golden Text
As»one whom his mother
util, so will I comfort you.
13.)
The destructive critics
Bible have, told us that the Book of
Isaiah was necessarily written by
two or more persons; it could not
possibly have been written by one
man. The reason given is that the
•earlier part of the book, Such as the
first 39 chapters, declare God's
judgments upon and punishment for
:sin; while the latter part of the
book, such as from Chapter 40 on,
declares God’s forgiveness of sin
and restoration of the sinner. And
no one man, say the critics, would
talk about judgment and punish
ment for sin, and forgiveness of sin.
It seems incredibly strange rea
soning does it not? As though a
human father could not punish his
own child for sinning, and then
his arms around that child and take
him close to his heart and show him
a father’s love. Many a writer of
the Scriptures does the same thing,
setting forth God’s righteous judg
ments and His forgiving mercy. If
one and the same God can take both
attitudes, one and the same man can
tell about this.
The first 39 chapters of the Book
of Isaiah look toward the captivities.
The remainder of the book, from
Chapter 40 on, looks beyond the cap
tivities. “The change in style, about
which so much has been said, is no
more remarkable than the change in
theme. A prophet who was also a
patriot would not write of the sins
and coming captivity of his people
in the same exultant -and joyous
style which he would use to describe
their redemption, blessing
power.” *
Still further, let us remember
the Lord Jesus Christ, in John
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that every valley
, every mountain
be made low, th«
be made straight.
Wror>
sUould
•T.iah de-
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told blessing for Judah and Israel
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‘ Some people say Hie Old Testa
ment is interesting only as an ob
solete book, to be put bn the anti
quarian’s shelf, and of no practical
interest and value today. Yet in
this lesson are some of the most
precious passages of the New Testa
ment, uttered many centuries before
by an Old Testament prophet/ they
are repeated in James 1:10, I. Peter
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