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Suday School
Lesson
For Sunday,
Oct. 8th
By Dr^ Paul Caudill
Chinese
THURSDAY, OCT 5Ui, liM
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OSS Treacherous River
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Topic:
Jesus* Progrsun for Meeting
Life’s Problems
Bible MsSerial:
Mat. 4:1^; Mat. 6:31-84;
Lake 4:16-21
"In considering the lile of Je
sus, we sometimes lose sight of
the fact that he had to deal with
problems concerning his own life,
Just as others who lived about
him. While he was the Son of
God, he was also bom of woman,
and had to experience suffering,
in the realm of the material, Just
as we today. He was both human
and divine. He grew hungry. Just
as we. He became tired, just as
the disciples. He was tempted by
Satan. Just as was Simon Peter
That is why the present lesson
should have for us all such vital
concern. It sets before us in bold
outline Jesus’ program for meet
ing life's problems.
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every individual must face, is the
matter of bodily appetites. As Dr.
Broadns suggests, “Our bodily ap
petites form the occasion of many
of our severest temptations”. In
the ease pf Jesus, it was the mat
ter of his hunger for simple
bread. The background of the
scene is laid in the wilderness
where Jesus had been led by the
Spirit, and where for forty days
and forty nights he had fasted.
Jesus was led into the wilderness
immediately after his baptism in
the Jordan by John, evidently in
preparation for his public minis
try which was soon to begin. Find
ing him in the throes of hunger,
the tempter came and said to him,
‘Tf thou art the Son of God, com
mand that these stones become
bread”. Satan was tempting Jesus
to satisfy a reasonable, natural
desire in an unnatural way. There
was nothing wrong in the desire;
the wrong iay in the proposed
method of satisfying the desire.
Oftentimes our bodily appetites
“are not sinful in themselves;
the sin consists in seeking exces
sive or essentially improper grati
fication of them, or in seeking
lawful gratification by improper
means”. (Broadus).
Jesus’ program for meeting the
problem raised by Satan is simple
and clear cut: He met It with a
sword of the Spirit. “The Father’s
Word was to him the sword with
which he conquered the great
spiritual enemy.” He merely
quoted the tempter a passage of
scripture: "Hut he answered and
said, it is written, man shall not
live by bread alone, hut by every
word that proceedeth out of the
month of God”.
Many a problem in life, that
has to do with the carnal desires
of the flesh, would be solved if
wo would only apply the sword of
the Spirit—^God’s Word, The dif
ficulty lies in our unwillingness
to search the Scriptures for light
and strength in dealing with our
problems. Too many of us wrestle
with the strong arm of self, feel
ing that we alone are sufficient
to grapple with any problem that
may exist in our lives. We lose
sight of the fact that “the Word
of Cod is living, and active, and
sharper than any two-edged
sword, and piercing even to the
dividing of soul and spirit, of
both joints and narrow, and quick
to discern the thoughts and in
tents of the heart” (Hebrews 4;
12)
.VI..L TE-MPORAIj w.ants—
In the second passage of the
text (Matt. 6:31-34), Jesus deals
with the problem of temporal
wants in general. Specifically he
is talking about clothing and food,
i but he evidently has in mind all
i the things of the class to which
food and raiment belong ... all
temporal wants. This is the pas
sage, we understand, that was
read most often by the Ricken-
backer party during their long
days at sea in the open life rafts.
Let us read them again; “There
fore take no thought, saying,
What shall we eat? or. What shall
we drink? or. Wherewithal shall
we be clothed? (For after all
these things do the Gentiles seek:)
for your Heavenly Father know-
eth that ye have need of all these
things. But seek ye first the
kingdom of God, and his right
eousness; and all these things
shall be added unto you. Take
therefore no thought for the mor
row: for the morrow shall take
thought for the things of Itself.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof”.
The word rendered “take no
thought” in verse 31 and 34
comes from a root meaning “to be
split into factions”, “to cut to
pieces,” “to draw in different di
rections”. Jesus is seeking to
say to his disciples, “I do not
want yon to be distracted over
temporal wants. 1 do not want
you to develop a split personality
over material things. Ton put
the kingdom of God and his right
eousness first in yonr Uves and
these temporal wants will be
taken care of. Your Heavenly
Father knows about your needs.
reminded his disciples that Solo
mon In all the glory of his station
was not arrayed as the lilies of
the field. God had made a mer
ciful and gracious provision for
the lily that could not be surpass
ed even by the wealth, fame end
beautiful garments of the king
Solomon. In my ministry to
scores of the “down and out”
class, I have not found one who
was able to look me straight in
the face and say, “Yes, Pastor,
for the past year I have sought
diligently to seek ‘first his king
dom and his righteousness”; and
this condition in which I now find
myself has come upon me in spite
of it all”.
In the last verse of the passage
Jesus is reminding us that we
should not concern ourselves too
much about the anxiety of to
morrow. It is enough for them
to be felt on the morrow; they
should not be borrowed today.
ONE LIFE’S OALIJNG—
The lesson closes with a tender,
beautiful picture of Jesus in the
synagogue at Nazareth, where he
had been brought up. There be
fore his own people he read a
passage from the ancient prophet
Isaiah, rel^itlng it to his own mis
sion. Jesus considered the whole
of the Old ’^Mtament as prophetic
of his life I^ Vork. It was to
him a harbinger of his mission in
the world. Luke tells us of how,
following the resurrection, he
spake unto the disciples saying,
“These are my words which I
spake unto you, while I was yet
with you. that all things must be
fulfilled, which are written in the
law of Moses, the Prophets, and
the Psalms, concerning me. Then
opened he their mind, that they
might understand the scriptures”.
His mission was “to preach the
acceptable year of the Ix>rd”, and
to see that his followers might,
through the church, make known
unto the principalities and the
powers in the heavenly places
“the manifold wisdom of God ac
cording to the eternal puriiose
which he purposed in Christ Jesus
our Lord.” Jesus' interpretation
of the prophecy “was at the same
time a fulfillment of it; for the
voice of him of whom the prophet
wrote was sounded in their ears”.
We too can get help from the
Scriptures with reference to our
own life’s calling, as followers.
He stands ever ready to give us
wisdom, encouragement, and
strength according to every need.
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