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UNIFORM Sunday School Lesson DR. C. W. BATES Pastor. Swannanoa, N. C. Swannanoa Methodist Church i Lesson for Sunday, February 19: dfe’s Greatest Choice. r t v Lesson Text: Luke 19:1-10. Perhaps as a background for t this lesson it would help us tc find out something about the sys tem of collecting taxes through out the Roman Empire during th< time of Christ. It differed so muc) from our way of doing it that no' to know that may lose for us the point of the story. So let me quote from the Standard Rible Diction ary: “Publican: a word originalh meaning a contractor for publie works or supplies, or a farmer o public lands, but later applied t( Romans who bought from the gov ernment the right to collect taxe? in a given territory. . . . Provin cial capitalists could not buy tax es, which were sold in Rome to tht highest bidders, who to recoui themselves sublet their territorj (at a great advance on the pric< paid the government) to the loca (native) publicans, who in theii turn had to make a profit on theii purchase money, and being asses sors of property as well as collec tors of taxes, had abundant oppor tunity for oppressing the people who hated them both for that rea son and also because the tax itsell was a mark of their subjection tc foreigners.” How well that fits into the les son: “And, behold, there was i man named Zacchaeus, who was the chief among the publicans, anc he was rich.” Here he is—a Jew ivho had sold out to the Romar government, collecting taxes from riis own people and making a for tune on the rake-off he gets from ilium...in 1 VACUUM I CLEANER g WITH COMPUTE SET OF ATTACHMENTS | • ROLLS EASILY | • CLEANS EASILY | • STORES EASILY I • ALWAYS READY FOR ACTION ! 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COOK Electrical Contractor Phone 3 0 8 2 Black Mountain, N. C. «>« publicans Sifarjs?* 4** jz»,iss»*?f: & are not honestly made ever do bring happiness? Ill-gotten gains do not bring joy to human hearts They cannot buy the things that make for happiness. Zacchaeus, in spite of his wealth, was shut out of the Synagogue; he could have no religious fellowship with the Jews in Jericho. They would not invite him and his family to their homes. He was to all intents and purposes an outcast. He \c as rich, but his riches did not satisfy the deep longings of his heart : the longing for the respect and esteem of his fellows, the affection and love that might have been his if he had not been a publican, the chief publican. Position is no sub stitute for popularity. And then it is quite possible that his conscience hurt him. All that he had accumulated had come out of the pockets of his own country men, most of them his fellow church members. He could not walk the streets of Jericho with out seeing the results of his greed in the wan faces of the children, the almost ahject poverty of the people. The rich were very- rich and the poor were very poor. How could a man with any heart at all go to bed and sleep peacefully vhen he knew that many of his c U’PVP OF1 tho of starvation because he wanted to be rich “For they that will -be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruc tion and perdition. For the love of money is the root of many kinds of evil; which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced them selves through with many sor rows.” That was cerainly true of this man. He was despised by his fellow countrymen; and I think he despised himself. But there was hope for him; hope greater than he knew. “Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.” The town and his posi tion being what they were, he must have heard of Jesus long be fore Jesus came to Jericho. The town was a sort of port of entry for Jerusalem, twenty miles away. It was on one of the great high ways. Travelers passed through the city gates from all the provin ces and beyond. And Zacchaeus must have heard them talking as he sat at the receipt of custom, even as Matthew the publican had, of this Rabbi from Nazareth, who was not only amazing the people with his preaching and healing: but startling them with his atti tude toward the common people, the sinners, and particularly to ward the publican like himself. “He goes into their homes and eats with them!” “How outrageous,” said the Jews. But the publicans and the sinners were saying. “How wonderful!” And now the rumor comes that this Man of Galilee is going to pass through Jericho, right by the door of the custom house. “And Jesus entered — Jericho.” Zac chaeus hears the murmur of the multitude, looks out to see the crowd following and surrounding this unmistakable Figure coming 1 down the narrow street. “And he ; sought to see who Jesus was, but | could not, on account of the crowd, | because he was small of stature. I So he ran on ahead and climbed j up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way. And when Jesus came to the place, j he looked up and said to him, ‘Zac chaeus, make haste and come down; for I must stay at your house today’.” I How did Jesus know Zacchaeus ? Did somebody say, “Look, Master, there’s Zacchaeus, the chief pub lican, up there in that tree!” 1 don’t know; but I doubt it. And it wasn’t necessary. Jesus knew the man was up there; and he knew his name. I think the same thing happened to Zacchaeus that happened to Nathaniel. And when Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, he said of him, ‘Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no 'guile.’ Nathanael said unto him, (‘Whence knowest thou me?’ Jesus I answered and said unto him, ‘Be fore that Philip called thee, when ; thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee’.” So Jesus looked up and saw Zacchaeus, one of the sheep .whose name he knows; a sheep who had gone astray, but who hadn’t lost his name. “Zacchaeus, come down; I must stay at your house today.” He saw beyond the face of the man in the tree a hun I gry heart. “He needed not that any man should tell him, for he know what was in man.” So he does with all men. He looks be yond our faces, beyond the out I ward appearance; he looketh on i the heart. r Williams Brothers Distributors Black Mountain, N. C - Phone 7110 I There was a kindness in the voice of Jesus as he invited him self to "he the guest of a man who was a sinner.” Zacchaeus. despised by those who called him that, instinctively felt the friend and sympathetic understand ing- of Jesus. And he responded ,0 its warmth as the flower does the sun. "And he made haste and oa-ne down, and received him joy fully.” You have heard it said that ‘ Zacchaeus was converted be tween the limb and the ground. In the very act of coming down, he went up—up to a new manhood and a new outlook. \s Jesus went in to be a guest in the home of Zacchaeus, the door closed. On the outside was ,he curious, censorious crowd. Within Zacchaeus, Jesus, some of the disciples. We know what the crowd on the outside said; He is gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.” And that con demned Jesus. The Jews would never forgive Jesus for that. What jeilus said, so far as the record t^lls it, we do not know until aftei Zacchaeus had spoken. “And Zac chaeus stood and said to the Lord, •Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor.” They tell us that word “give” doesn't mean that he had been generous with his money, sharing it with the poor; but that now, since he had seen jesus and his life had been chang ed, he will hunt up the poor for whose poverty he is largely re sponsible, and try to make right the wrong he has done them. Not “I have given,” but "I w-ill give. The compulsion comes out of con version. And, of course, the same is true of the other thing he feels compelled to do: "If—and he could have left that word “if" out—-I have defrauded any man of any thing. 1 restore—I will restore—to him fourfold.” Restitution must follow repentance. Here are evidences oi ^“Yci sion: the greedy, covetous heart of the tax collector is completely changed: he does the very opposite of what he had been doing. He has become a “new creation in Christ Jesus. Old things, old de sires, have passed away; behold, all things are become new.' That will happen to any man who will bring himself face to face with Jesus. Just as he is, to face Christ honestly, sincerely, humbly. Christ can and" will make men over. “Thou art Simon—a pebble; thou shalt become Peter—the rock." “And Jesus said to him, ‘Today salvation has come to this man, since he also is a son of Abraham. ’ He was a lost son until Christ found him and he found Christ. That relationship w'as restored as he confessed his sin and found forgiveness. That is what Jesus is still in the world to do: “The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” The subject of our lesson is “Life's Greatest Choice.” Zac chaeus made that choice; made it deliberately, while “Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.” He looked at his gold, ill-gotten and unearned; and then he looked at Christ. He decided that Jesus had something to offer him that his money could not buy’. He turned away from his gold—to find God. “My peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you.” If any man is willing to repent and make restitution he can have what Zacchaeus found: “righteousness, and peace, and joy in the holy Ghost.” And he can have it, as Zacchaeus had it, “TO DAY.” Three Men Here Join Marines S-Sg-t. Carl W. Ripley, marine recruiter for Black Mountain, an nounced today that three men left here to join the ranks of the most elite service in the world, the U. S. Marine Corps. These men, Vaughn Ray Greene and Garrett W. Greene, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Greene, and Grady Swann, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Swann, were sent to Par ris Island, S. C., where they will undergo their 10 weeks of boot training. This 10 weeks of training will consist of military customs, mili tary courtesy and discipline, health and hygiene drills and ceremonies, and qualification with the different weapons of the Marine Corps. Pvts. Vaughn and Garrett Greene and Grady Swann will be given a 10-day leave after their first phase of training. After this leave the men will be transferied to one of the many marine bases throughout the world to be given further training in one of the 470 job specialities of fered to Marines in either the land sea, or air branch of service. SWANNANOA SCH<HU. hash brown potMoe. ertu 6 «Hced tomatoes ch r> p • ^ Tuesday, Feb. 14 , ith ,alad sandwiches, cupcakes Peanut buJtter r, Meat loaf, Wednesday, Feb. & • ' , j mashed potatoes, slaw PCfhursda^ltF^. 1^-Bnked ham, green beans, buttered corn, apple rri*5P hot biscuits. Friday, Feb. 17- Baked beans, tossed green salad, potato chip., corn bread, cheese fudge. 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