The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1934-01-11, Page 7BAPTISM AND TEMPTATION OF
OF JESUS
THE EXET.ER T1MES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1934
Sunday, Jan, 14—Matt, 3;1 to 4:11.
Golden Text
Wherefore in all.things it behoov
ed Him to be made like unto His
brethren. (Heb, 2:17).
Some thirty years pass unrecorded
in Matthew's Gospel, bteween the
second and third chapters. We left
the babe Jeus in Nazareth, when Jo
seph and Mary had brought Him
back from Egypt; Matthew ^then
passed over thirty years and intro
duces us to the preaching of John
the Baptist, forerunner of Christ.
It was vigorous, powerful, unspar
ing preaching; it burned and seared
sinners in high places and low thro'-
out Israel, 'ft brought a country
wide response and repentance, .People
even thought that John was . the
Messiah, but instantly he disclaimed
any such honor: “I indeed baptize
you with water unto repentance; but
He that cometh after me is mightier
than I, whose shoes I am not worthy
to bear; He shall baptize you with
the Holy Ghost and with fire.”
Then a strange thing happened.
Jesus Himself joined the crowds
thronging his open-air preacher and
asked to be baptized. John protested,
saying: “I have need to be baptized
of Thee.” But the Lord humbly in
sisted: “For thus it cecometh us to
fulfil all righteousness.” Christ was
identifying Himself with his
through sinless and needing
pentance.
As this sacred and utterly
baptismal ceremony was completed
the heavens were opened, the Spirit
of God descended “like a dove” op-
on Christ, and a voice spoke from
Heaven:
in whom
People
that the
found only in a single passage, and
that a questionable one, toward the
end of the New Testament. But it Is
repeatedly declared, directly .or indi-
rctly, throughout the New Testament
and this is one of the key passages.
Here was the Heavenly Father,
speaking from Heaven in testimony
to His Son on earth, and the Holy
Spirit coming from the Father upon
the Son.
Another strange thing immediate
ly follows, that is, it seems strange
to us. “Then was Jesus led up of | “the god of this world” is indeed j
people,
no re
unique
“This is My beloved Son,
I am well pleased.”
sometimes mistakenly say
doctrine of the Trinity is
the Spirit into the wilderness to be
tempted of the devil.” The Holy
Spirit deliberately subjected the Son
of God to temptation, or testing, by
Satan.
A long fast of forty days- began,
and only after the forty da^s were
over did the three recorded tempta
tion begin.
The tempter, Satan, brought these
temptations, Let no one say that
they originated in the mind of Christ
that they were His inner impulses,
or questions, or gropings of uncer
tainty, aS some writers suggest. Men
can have inner promptings to sin or
wrongdoing; the sinless iSon of God
never had, and could not have.
The first temptation was an in
ducement to doubt iwhat God had
said forty days before; “This is My
beloved Son.” The tempter said: ‘If
Thou be the 'Son of ,God, command
that these stones be made bread.”
Our Lord was physically hungry;
He must have been very weak and
faint with hunger after the long fast
for he was living in a human body
like the rest of mankind. The eating
of food is, right, not wrong. But here
was a temptation to do a right thing
in a wrong way, for it involved
doubting God’s word. The answer
routed the enemy by the “sword of
the spirit, which is the word of God’
(Eph. 6; 17.) Christ answered Sa
tan: “Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that pro-
ceedeth out of the mouth of God.”
Because God had said that Christ
was the Son, Christ was not going to
doubt the word of God by proving
His Deity and satisfying his hunger
by a miracle—although such a mir
acle might be proper at another time
and under other circumstances.
Then Satan took the Lord to a
pinnacle of the temple in Jerusalem
and this time he quoted Scripture,
He asked that Christ cast Himself
down, and reminded Him of the
promise of the Psalmist: “He shall
give His angels charge concerning
Thee; and in their hands they shall
bear Thee up, lest at any time Thou
dash Thy foot against a stone.” (Psa
91: 11, 1.)
But this would have been presump
tion, not faith, and the Lord quoted
the word again: “Thou .shalt not
tempt the Lord, thy God.”
In the third temptation Satan took
the Lord “up into an exceedingly
high mountain, and showeth Him all
the kingdoms of the world, and the
glory of them; and saith unto Him:
All these things I will give Thee, if
Thou will fall down and worship
me.”
Could Satan have kept his word?
Many think he could mot, and that
this was an empty boast. But other
Scripures plainly show that it was
no empty boast, and that he who is
permitted of God, for the present, to
reign as an unsurpey; and the time
will come, according to many scrip
tural prophecies, when he will find a
man who will worship him and to
whom he will give “all the kingdoms
of the world.”
But it is inconceivable that the
Lord Jesus Christ could worship Sa
tan, as His reply showed: “Get thee
hence, Satan; for it is written, Thou
shalt worship the Lord thy God, and
Him -only shalt thou serve.”
It has been pointed out that the
three channels of temptation that
come to mankind are these; the de
sire to enjoy things; the desire to
ret things; the desire to do things.
The late Prof. M. G. Kyle, who point
ed this' out, gave this definition:
“Temptation is the incitement of a
natural desire to go beyond the
bonds set by God.”
These statements throw light on
our Lord's three temptations.
During his earthly lifetime He liv
ed the life of faith, as we must; and
1-Ie used the weapon we are to use,
the Word of God. So Paul’s inspired
word rings down through the cen
turies to us, as “we wrestle not
against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers against
the rulers of darkness of this world.*
“Above all, taking the shield of
faith, wherewith ye shall be able to
quench all the fiery darts of the evil
one. And take . . . the sword pf the
Spirit, which is the Word of God.”
(Eph. 6:12-17.)
SCHOOL REPORT OF S. S. 8, HAY
SALADaHB BHBBI BHhHBB H Hi
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"IT ■ ■Orange Pekoe
Blend
Fresh from
the Gardens a
Jr. IV—Ada Gaiser 72; Emerson
Lovie 70; Roy Baynham 65; Mabel
Harlton 64; Malieda Clarke*; Iva
Pickering*; Earl Pickering*.
Sr. Ill — Harold Finkbeiner
Robert Gower 73; Kenneth Baker,
70; Hazel Pickering 61.
Jr. Ill'—Melvin Gaiser 68; Roy
Clarke *,
Sr. II—Jack Ratz
Sweitzer 75; Donald Ratz
Jr. II—Jack Pickering
Gower 72.
Sr. I—Lila Finkbeiner
erine Keogh 74; Ross Pickering 70,
I—Joan Dellow 75.
Pr. Audrey Finkbeiner 80; Harvey
Pickering 79.
Lillian Thompson, teacher
DIES AT AILSA CRAIG
81;
82; Stuart
72,
82; Iva
AILSA CRAIG—Mrs. Elizabeth
Woodward Reid died in Ailsa Craig
in her 86th year. Until a few years
ago she was for many years a resi-
dtnt of Lieury, Surviving are six
sons, James, of Brandon; David, of
Kenora; Alex, London; Will, Lieury
John and Thomas, Ailsa Craig and
one daughter, Mrs. Walter Stokes,
Ailsa Craig. The funeral was held
on Friday.
Jones, who
was totally
is the sec
ha s lost by
tents owned by Wesley
lives south of Crediton,
destroyed by fire. This
ond dwelling Mr. Jones
fire in four years. His first one was
struck by lightning and destroyed
with most of-the contents.
Mr. Arthur Kellerman ,of Dash
wood, left on Monday of last week
to resume his studies at North-West
ern College, Napierville.
15 YEARS AGO
Jr.
The following is the report for
the pupils of S, S. No. 8, Hay for
the first term. Those marked with
an asterisk were absent for one or
more tests.
Sr. IV—Reta Masse 74.1.
Jr. IV— Kenneth Weber 77.4;
Eunice Oestreicher 72.7.
Sr. Ill—Gerald Masse 71.9; Carl
Oestreicher 70'.6; Elmore Rader 62.8
Orlen iSchwartzeutruber 62.1,
Jr. Ill—Jack Weber 69.4; Esther
Price 68.4*; Martha Miller 68.4;
Hilda Rader 59.4; Hilda Becker 54.2
Ernest Masse 5 2.9.
II — Eileen Miller 7 4.7; Louise
Finkbeiner 74.5; Louise Masse 61,
I— Lorna
Miller 79.4;
Helen Miller
timber 59.2.
Primer—John Masse 76; Howard
Finkbeiner 75.4; Meria Miller 60.
Agnes Robertson, Teacher.
Education seems to pay most
everybody but the educators.
25 YEARS AGO
January 16, 1919
AUX SABLE RIVER FLOODS
PORT FRANK
Jan. 14, 1909
THREATEN
waters of the Aux
subsided consider-
Mr. Herman Prior sang in
Miller 84.3; Rosaleen
Dorothy Price 71.8;
6'5.5; Lyla Schwartzen-
REPORT OF S.S. NO. 7, STEPHEN
Following is the report of |S. S.
No. 7, Stephen, for months of Nov
ember and December. Those marked
with an asterisk (*) were absent
for all or part of the examinations,
Sr. IV—'Ida .Sweitzer 77; Milton
Sweitzer 50*.
The turbulent
Sable River had
ably Saturday morning, and inform
ation from Port Frank indicated
that the situation which was serious
Friday morning, is now much re
lieved. So far as the toll of the flood
has been 'confined to two outbuild
ings of the school house, and some
salt building equipment. The founda
tions of the school house, however,
are still in danger. The greatest
danger is now said to lie in erosion
and children have been warned not
to play in the school yard, which is
on the river bank. Robert Lockrey’s
house was still in some danger Sat
urday, the water being up to his
back door. Many cords of wood
were carried away in the swirling
water, but volunteers saved a steam
engine. Hydro workers were busy
protecting poles.
1
Many a man is a hero to himself
without having to work at it.
the
James Street Church very acceptably
Sunday eveniug.
T. E. Handford shipped two car
loads of horses west on Tuesday. P.
Coleman and F. J. Stacey accompan
ied them.
W. H. Levett has engaged Ezra
Oestricher as bookkeeper in the
place of Hugh McKay, who is at
tending the Exeter High School Com
mercial Department.
M?( M. Howey, who has been
spending the past year in the west,
has returned home.
,J. C. Collins, who has been very
ill at Forest for the past few weeks
is improving and will be back to re
sume his duties as dvai> cleaner.
Rev. Johnston, of Elimville, left
last week to attend the University
for another term.
Wm. Brown and David Baker, of
Crediton,, who have been working in
Pittsburg for some time have return
ed home.
Last Saturday morning about six
o’clock the dwelling with its con-
Mr. W. T. Down, of Usborne and
Messrs. Jones Bros., London Road
purchased Ford tractors last week
for their farms.
On ‘Friday of last week, Mrs.’ Wm.
Heaman, who makes her home with
her daughter Mrs. Ambrose Cottel,
accidentally fell on the kitdhen floor
and broke the bone in her right leg
above the knee. She is 9 4 years old,
Louis Kirk, who is engaged with
Mrs. Samuel Cudmore in Usborne,
met with a>n unfortunate accident on
Tuesday of last week. He was op
erating a .gasoline engine on the
farm of Mr. Robert Bell where they
were cutting wood, when his mitt
getting caugiht in the clutch on the
engine drew his hand into the ma
chine and the wrist was badly
broken.
Miss Anna Dow has been
to teach the Primary class
ter School and Miss Stella
is substituting in the High
Miss Josephine Davis went to
Brantford on Monday owing to Mrs.
Ed. Dyer of that city having falen
while walking on the street and frac
tured her hip.
Lieut. H. A. Eckert, V.S., has open
ed an office in Crediton opposite
Wuerth & Son’s Feed Store.
engaged
in Exe-
Gregory
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