HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1928-05-17, Page 2Thursday, May Z7tb,
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL SON •
LESSON VIII VIM' 20,
4f 'esus Teaching itt the Temple"
Golden Text, --He taught them as one
loving authority,- 'Matt. 7: 2e.
THE LESSON I,N ITS SETTING.
Time, --Tuesday, April 4, A.D. 30,
the week before Christ's crtici-
xio n.
Plage,--The temple at Jerusalem,
A QUESTION .OF TRIBUTE.
"And they send unto Him certain of
the Pharisees end of the Herodans,"
"They" were the Jewish authorities
ataleaders, all combined against
Jesus though +visually the various
groups here mentioned were at
swords' points, The Pharisees -We
have often seen mentioned; they
were the strict theologians and the
ardent Patriots, the popular party.
The Iierodians were merit a the
court, partisans of the
royal
familyi!
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of Herod, ruling elsewhere) in Pales-
tine and very powerful in Jerusalem
also, though at the time a Roman
governor was in authority there,
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"That they Haight catch Hint in talk,
They had access to the wisest teacher
of the wprld's history, and their only
desire was to trip trim up in His
statements, to catch Him asieela and
entrap Him, So is it with°many still
who read. Christian books and hear
Christian sermons,.. net to learn the
truth, but if possible to discover err-
ors,
"And when they were conte, they
say unto Him, Teacher, we knowthat
thou art true." They sought to put
Christ of his guard by means of
flattery. "You are a teller; of• the
truth " they said in effect; "there
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fore you will not hesitate to give
your honest opinion, no matter whom
it may offend." "1 am the Truth,"
Christ once said, and in addressing
Hint thus the, Pharisees and Herod-
ians spoke the truth, though with a
false motive. "And carest not for
anyone." It was true that Christ was
absolutely independent of human
judgement, for He Himself was the
Judge over all.; but it was not at all
true that he cared not for anyone.
"For thou regardest not the person of
nen." This also was true of Christ
in a sense;' He did, not concern Him-
self with differences in rank or fam-
ily or wealth or influence; He
praised the poor widow for her two
mites, He ate with publicans and
sinners, He called Herod "that fox."
"But -of a -truth teachest the way of
God." Theywere ready to admit that
Jesus taught the right way, but they
were not ready to admit His declara-
tion that He was the Way, and that
no one could come to the Father ex-
cept by Him. "Is it lawful to give
tribute uato Caesar, or not?"
"Caesar" was the title of the Roman
Emperor, "Kaiser" and "Czar'' being
modern forms of the word. Aug-
ustus Caesar, the first Roman Em-
peror, ruled, at the thine of Christ's
birth; the Caesar at, this time was
Tiberius, the second Emperor, the
stepson, son-in-law, and adopted son
of Augustus.
"Shall we give, or shall we not
give?" The repeated question indicates
their eagerness, and perhaps also that
the query was put forward sep-
arately by the. Pharisees and the Her-
odians, the former, as the popular
party, being opposed to the payment,
and the latter, as the court party,
favoring it. It would be impossible.
to devise a question morecrafty,.
more likely to bring Jesus into diff-
iculties`no matter how it was answ-
ered, "But He, knowing their hypo-.
easy.' :Their hypocrisy lay in their
pretending one thing, namely, a de-
sire for the true course, while really
intending 'a quite different thing,
naively, to involve Him in some
trouble by His answer. As it was,
they twisted his answer, in giving
testimony at His trial, into exactly
the . opposite of what it was (Luke
23;2). 7,vlattliew (22;X8) says that Je-
sus perceived, their "wickedness";
'i.es
c
Luke (20;20 calls it titer, " rafte t s
both are correct, "Said unto them,
Why make ye trial of me?" He saw
at once that they were not coining
to Him as learners to a. teacher, but
as inquisitor's to one ' whom they
would entrap. "Bring me a denarius,
that T may see it," The denarius was
a Roman silver coin, •and the taxes
were in' terms of it and paid with it.
It was the day's wages of a common
laborer, , and so had a purchasing.
.
power about equal to two 'dollars with
us:
"And they brought it." Other local
money, not bearing the Emperor's
image, was in common use, but the
denarius had to be fetched. "And he
saith unto them, Whose is this image
and superscription " The obverse of
the denarius bore the head of the
Emperor Tiberius, surrounded by
the inscription, in abbreviated, Latin
words: Tiberius Caesar, Divi Augusti
filius Augustus, Inperator, "Tiberius
Caesar, the august son of the divine
Augustus, Emperor." The Roman
coin stood for the Roman govern-
ment. In using the Roman coin, once
accepted all that it signified of . niat-
erial advantage.
'And Jesus saidunto them, Render
unto Caesar the things that • are
Caesar's, and unto God, the things
that are God's." Christ meant that,
in return .for the worldly blessings
conferred by Rome, it. was right to
make payment in the form of taxes,
and that such a payment did not con-
flict with complete allegiance to God
in return for the heavenly blessings
which God conferred. The enemies of
Jesus suggested a conflict of duties;
He showed that there was perfect
harmony. "And they marvelled great-
ly at Him." Our Lord had indeed
made a wonderfully sagacious reply.
He had not only extracated Himself
from what seemedan impossible dil-
emma, answering His opponents and
putting them, to rout, but He had laid
down a. wiseand fundamental prin-
ciple for the church of all ages.
A QUESTION OF THE NEXT
LIFE. ,
Our Lord gave two answers. In
the first place, He said, they were
not to limit the power of the Creator
by imagining only the state of being
found on earth, for in the next life
there is no marrying, but men are in
the same condition as the blessed
angels in heaven. Thtts Christ hit
at two of the infidelities of the Sad-
ducees, and implied a. knowledge of
thefuture world which no mere man
could possibly possess. It is not a
world of the senses but of the spirit.
It is a world of love, but .not of car-
nal love, Friendships, -we may be
sure, are deeper there ` than on the
earth, but they are freed fromall
earthly limitations. This is oneof
the very few glimpses of our heaven-
ly state granted us by Jesus, but it
is a very wonderful 'glimpse, pictur-
ing an exalted life for which we shall
do well to make prepatration while on
this earth.
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A QUESTION OF COMMAND-
- MENTS.
"And one of the scribes came, and.
heard them questioning together.'
He was a rPharisee,,as we learn from
Matthew, and was learned in the law
(Matt. 22;34, 35). "And knowing that
He had answered theist well." Being
a Pharisee, he was pleased td wit-
ness the discomfiture of the oppos-
ing sects. "Asked Him, What comm-
andment is first of all?" This was a
test question, as Matt, 22:35 tells tts.
He tlid not inean the first comm
anment in the order of the Decalogue,
for any child could have told that,, but
what commandment is first in impor
Lance, in spiritual value? Jewish schol--
ars often debated this question.
"Jesus answered, The first is, Hear,
O Israel; The Lord out God, the
Lord is one." It is a very weighty
saying. First, it asserts that Jehovah,
the Covenant God of Israel, is Diety
absolute. Secondly, it asserts that this
infinite Jehovah is absolutely one, be-
ing Himself an infinite unity, all His
infinite perfections being in infinite
equilibrium, Thirdly, it asserts that
there is only one true God -namely,
Jehovah, Covenant God of Israel, This.
sublime annunciation marks a colos-
sal onward stride in the history of re-
ligion; for tn.onotheisna, or the doc-
trine that there is but one God, is the
basal stone of Christian worship. The
singleness and unity of God; is still
the corner -stone of theology.
"Attd thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, and with all
thy raid, and with all thy mind, and
with ,Fall thy strength." "Heart"
signifies the emotions and, affeet its,
"soul" the will and the Personality,
"mind" is the inteileot., and "streegtlt"
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the bodily powers. In short, man's
whole being is to be employed in lov-
ing service of his heavenly Father,
No corner of his nature is to be re-
served for any other use.
"The second is this, Thou shalt love
thy neighbor as thyself." Our "neigh-
bor," as Christ made clear in His
parable of the good.Santaritan, is not
merely the person living near us, but
includes anyone, near or far, who May
need its. "There is none other coantn-
andntent greater than these." God is
love, and as love animates more and
more like God, and more and more
pleasing in His sight.
"And the scribe said unto Him, Of
a truth, Teacher, thou hast well said
that He is one; and there is none
other but He." The Greek is stronger
and more enthusiastic: "Well said,
Teacher! Truly • hast thou said,"
etc. The scribe, himself a master
of the law; could appreciate Christ's
masterly analysis and condensation of
it all. t
"And to love Hiin with all the heart,
and with all the understandings, and
with all the strength." The scribe.
omits "with all the soul," since the
heart, understanding and strength
may be regarded as making up the
entire' being, the soul. "And to love
his neighbor as himself." Here is.
where Christ's opponents would have
found it hardest to follow Christ in
their lives, but this scribe was of a
brotherly nature. "Is much more
than all whole burnteofferings and
sacriiicies." Burnt -offerings and other l
sacrificies, with the many regulations
for each, formed a very large Part o1
the life of the strict Jew, but this
scribe' had read deeply enotugh, itt the
Book, to realize that the great .pro-
phot in whose presetlee he stood was
viii harmony with, all the other Jewish
prophets in tis emphasis on practi-
cal love as supretiie over merely for-
mat' religion.
"And when Jesus saw that he ans-
wered discreetly, He said unto him,
Thou art not far from. the Kingdom
of God." One who isnot far from the
kingd,oni of God niay in the end be
as far from it as the most terrible
sinner. Some imagine themselves to
be really Christians, being misled by
the fact that 'they are almost per-
seeded to be such. "And no mart after
that durst ask Him ani question."
But Christ Himself became the quest-
ioner' (verse 35). He issued a warn-
ing against the misleading views of
the scribes who had been examining
Him in hostile fashion, This refut-
ation Christ followed with a warning
against the character- of the scribes','
their pride, and vainglory, their hy-
pocritical long prayers, their cruel
oppression of the poor:' Theirs was
only an empty form of religion, and'
Jesus condemned it absolutely.
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