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"Do As You Please"
This is a proverb that the editor dreamed of while he
was a patient in the hospital.
Do as you please, keep God busy. You will surely be
successful in all you undertake. Do as you please, give
God a rest, you will surely be good business for doctors,
hospitals and funeral directors.
The synonymy and antinomy describe and give the
meaning of God, which he useages along with three active
verbs, "God is the spirit", "God is love," "God is truth,"
ye that trust him, motivate all three of these active
verbs.
For the last ten or twelve years the different races,
churches, schools, homes and community organizations
have been in deep grievements. Therefore they are march
ing, they are dissatisfied because the big boss has been
mistreating them or they don't want to be ruled or govern
ed by their leaders.
What is the big question? The little employee is not
satisfied with his salary. His boss disagrees with his
joining a union, to bring about a better relationship be
tween them. Sometimes they have to march all day and
night. If their grievements are right, that motivating
power of God, truth, the spirit help to keep them walk
ing. The love of their fellow men keep them walking with
each other. This is done until something is done profitable.
Many people have been living under poor conditions
and they remain that way until someone trys to help, then
they become dissatisfied. God is resting.
Some ten or twelve years ago, when the students of
A&T College marched down town and sat at the counter
to be served, they were asked to leave. They had that
motivated spirit and more went back each day, until all
the cafes, motels, hotels and places where black people
were not allowed to go, opened their doors to all the
people- That type of grievement spread all over the coun
try. People all over began to march against unrighteous
ness. Do as you please, put God first and his spirit will
spread.
Can one say that the students of Dudley High are all
together wrong, in their grievement that they are hav
ing at this time. Can one put themselves in their place,
not only in the grievement of Dudley but the big university
of New York, Boston and several other colleges who are
marching under grievances. There are several hundred
highly educated people, to help direct the many who have
been thrown in jail because of their dissatisfaction.
I A few Sundays ago we celebrated Easter, in memory
of the occasion when God sent his son to die for his people.
The young students in college and community are
marching because of grievement. Would they be any better
now in the war where many are fighting and souls are
suffering and dying for the big boss, who just sits there.
They say its his duty to his country. Over here the black
are put in their place, but over there in the war there is
no place and the bullets know no color.
If these students at Dudley are in the wrong, if they
love their parents and teachers and they say they are in
the wrong. There God is resting. They should be taught
lore as it is quoted in the Bible: "If ye love me, Ye will
keep my commandments." In many cases teen-agers don't
think of this kind of love, until its too late. The young
girl will surely call on mother when she runs around at
night and comes up with an illegitimate child. This grieve
ment always has been, is now and forever be.
It is up to you. Do as you please, give God a rest or
keep him busy
DRIVE SANELY
This Weed's Sunday School Lesson
HOW TO STUDY AND
UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE
12. Keys to Understanding
The Bible
What Is Our Concern?
"I am an American," This ap
parently simple statement may
mean many different things, de
pending on when and where it is
said. If it is spoken in a meet
ing of an ultrapatriotic men's
club, it may be a cheap attempt
to establsh a reputation for be
ing one of the good guys. At a
foreign immigration desk, It
may be spoken hesitantly, be
cause the speaker does not know
if he will be met by friendliness
or hostility. If it Is aald to a
member of the Viet Cong, the
speaker risks a bullet through
the head.
"I am an American" is an
expression of selflidentiflcation.
The four words Identify the
speaker with a particular cul
ture and nationality and, above
all, with a particular history.
The one who says them can no
longer be anonymous. He has
declared and committed him
self.
Consider also the words "I
am a Christian.' They too are
an expression of self-identifica
tion. With what tradition and
history do they identify us?
What commitment do they car
ry wth them? Do they not de
clare that we have accepted the
biblical tradition as our per
sonal history?
This lesson is the first in a
unit of four (May 18 through
June 8) entitled "How to Study
and Understand the Bible/^Our
concern in this lesson is to study
what it means to see in the
biblical view of life a definition
of ourselves.
Before Yon Bead the Scripture
In this study we must ex
amine both the printed pas
sages and also the other' pas
sages suggested.
John 5:37-47. The setting is a
controversy between Jesus and
the Jews. The Fourth Gospel
does not use the word Jew pri
marily as a racial or religious
name. For the writer of the
Gospel of John the term the
Jews is a semi technical term
for those persons who rejected
Jesus' claim to be the Revealer
of God oa the ground that di
vine revelation was
in the Law of Mom (SUB, 38,
45-47).
This passage la saying
the meaning of the Old Testa
ment become* clear only in the
light of the ministry of
The Scripture* witness to him,
and Moees (peaks of him.
(Verses 39, 46)
The word glory in verses 41
and 44 means "approval." Al
though approved by God, Jesus
was repected by men. (Verse
41) The reason was that his
hearers did not really care about
divine approval. All they want
ed was approval from one an
other. (Verse 44)
John 16:12-15. After Chrfist's
death his followers would be
without the direct rddance of
their great Leader. Theoretical
ly Jesus could have prepared
them for, the eew situation by
tailing them in advance what to
do. But this would have been
too much for them to take.
(Verse II) They would have to
depend on the guidance of the I
Spirit when the time came.
(Verse 13) The new form of '
guidance would create no gulf
between Jesus' teaching and
the life of the church, because
the Spirit, Father, and Son are
one. (Verses 14-15).
Acts 8:26-35. The courts of
Eastern monarchs regularly in
cluded castrated men (eunuchs).
Since their condition removed
them from sexual temptation,
they could safely be admitted
to the moot intimate aspects of
court life. They often rose to
high positions.
The territory south of the first
cataract of the Nile was a Ne
gro kingdom (Ethiopia), ruled
by queens who bore the title
Candace (KANN-duh-see).
(Verse 27) The eunuch whom
Philip encountered had become
interested In Judaism. He may
have been a convert. At any
rate he had visited Jerusalem
and was on his way home when
Philip met him.
The angel (the Greek word
means "messenger") of the Lord
(verse 26) should not be
thought of as being physically
visable to Philip. In verse 29
the one who speaks to Philip is
called "the Spirit." The ancient
world attributed to angels ??*
spirits the inner promptings and
convictions that today we
tend to describe in psychological
terms.
^icts 1 1 un iiia second
missionary journey .Faui, ac
companied oy isuas, crossed
irom Asia Minor into Mace
donia. Their preaching in me
synagogue in Tnessalonica lea
to a street riot, and they had
to flee to Beroea, about forty
miles away. There they found a
more open-minded ("noble")
audience and had some initial
success. (Verse 11) But emis
saries from Thessalonica stirred
up trouble and they had to
move on. (Verses 13-15)
The apostles preached first
in the synagogues of the cities
they visited, in these centers
of prayer and Bible study they
encountered not only Jews but
also converts from paganism
(proselytes) and p*|rni attract
ed by Jewish doctrine and mo
rality but not fully committed
to Judaism. Prom the last two
foupa came the "Greek wom
en" who believed. (Verse 12)
James 1:22-26. The "word' in
this passage is not the HiK|e
but the church's preaching about
Christ This preaching, a
law, requires obedience, but
obedience brings liberty. Hence
the word concerning Christ is
"the perfect law, the law of
lberty."
What the Scripture Says
The Scripture lor today is
John 5:37-47; 16:12-16; Acta 8:
36-36; 17:10-12; Junes 1:22-26.
Selected verses are printed be
loW. See Home Bible study sug
gestions in the back of the
quarterly.
John 16:12-15 v
12 "I have yet many things
to say to you, but you cannot
bear them now. 13 When the
Spirit o t truth comes, he will
guide you into all the truth;
tor he will not speak on his
own authority, but whatever he
hears he will speak, and he
will declare to you the fhingn
that are to come. 14 He wll
glorify me. for he will
what is mine and declare it to
you. 15 All that the Father has
is mine; therefore I said *h?t
he will take what is mine
declare it to you.*
Acts 17:10-12
10 The brethren
sent Paul and Silas away by
night to Be-roe'a; and when
they arrived they went Into tbe
Jewish synagogue. 11 Now these
Jews were more noble **"?
those of Thessaloni'ca, for they
received the word with all eag
erness, examining the scripture*
daily to see If these things were
so. 12 Many of them therefore
believed, with not a few Greek
women of high standing as well
as men.
James 1:22-29
22 But be doers' of the word,
and not hearers only, deceiving
yourselves. 23 For if any one im
a hearer of the word and not a
doer, he Is like a man who ob
serves his natural face In a mir
ror; 24 for he observes a#
and goes away and at once for
gets what he was like. 25 But
he who looks into the perfect
law, the law of liberty, and
perseveres, being no hearer that
forgets but a doer that acts, he
shall be blessed in his doing.
Memory Selection: You search
the scriptures, because you
think that in them you have
eternal life; and it is they that
bear witness to me.
? John SAB
How We Understand
The Scripture
The Scripture passages for
this lesson come together iiv*
building blocks, forming a pat
tern of the way the Bible la to
be understod from the Christian
point of view.
1. The Bible bears witness
to the acts of God. The mightiest
of God's acts is the life,
and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The Old Testament history, tha
record of God's acts in the liia
of Israel, points toward Jesus
Christ. The first acts of tha
drama cannot be understood
apart from its final scene. (John
5:38, 45-47)
2. Xne purpose of God and the
purpose of Jesus Christ are
identical. (John 16:1.5) tv.t
Bible testifies to this all-im
portant fact, but it is not tha
only witness. The Spirit of God,
working in the experience of the
believer, leads him into navr
truth. (John 16:13) But tha new
truth merely puts the old m?
sage n a new form, applicable
to new and changing circum
stances. The direction the Spirit
points out is that contained in
the unified purpose of God and
Christ (John 16:14-15)
3. In Beroea, Paul and Silas
preached a word of hop* lor a
new life and a revitalised fu
ture. It was received "with all
eagerness." (Acts 17-11) But be
fore committing themselves to
it, the Beroeans measured what
they had heard against what the
Scriptures told them about tha
nature and activity of God.
1 The converts In Beroea
heard the word preached, coo
firmed its validity by a study
of the Scripture, and believed.