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boring room to play and sing, “Lord, I’m Coming Home,” in entire ignorance of what was taking place so near ner. A fur ther half hour of struggle which left phys ical exhaustion, but spiritual triumph, brought first the surrender of the real hin drance in her life and second the surrender of her life to God and the assurance that now she could go home.
head, crying, “ Oh, I want to go home.” In stantly the time when she would really want to go to her eternal home and would be barred out even more effectually by her sin of unbelief in Christ, than she was from her father’s home because of her own will fulness, was presented to her and the gospel story given. As the struggle; was going on, God sent an unknown woman to a neigh International Sunday School Lessons Concluded from page 451. some degree). Both suppers proclaim the Lord’s death till He come (Exod. 12:24, 26, 27; 1 Cor. 11:26)—to the Cross, to the Crown. 2. The Lord’s Words of Institution. He “took the bread,” identifying Himself with it; He "blessed” it (gave “thanks,”—1 Cor. 11:24), the blessing is still on and in it. He was thankful for a body (Heb. 10:5) that could be given. How does that fit you—thanks for the ability and privilege to sacrifice self? " brake it,” mechanically necessary in order to distribute, and typi cally to signify His broken flesh (1 Cor. 11:24), but spiritually each receives a whole Christ. “ Take” (the R. V. omits “ eat” but Matthew 26:26, retains it.) Both acts are essential, for we must receive Christ and “eat,” or digest and assimilate Him into our own life (being, self). "This,” He said, "is my body.” They could not, with His body there among them, take Him literally. “H e took the cup" and said, "this is my blood.” Romanists say He spoke literally, in which case “ the cup,” not its contents, would be His blood, and is to be drunk by us all. They say that His body is multi plied through the ages and the world, if so the metal of the cup ' should be so . also. “He gave it to them,” but the priests, act ing for the pope who they say is vicar of Christ on earth, does not give it to the people, but drinks it himself alone, "and they all drank of it.”
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I am also greatly disturbed in mind when I read the imprecatory Psalms. Were these awful prayers taught by the Holy Spirit or are they the outpourings of a heart filled at th e. moment by unholy passion written by the will of the Holy Spirit but not ap proved by Him? In the Psalms, as we see by a careful study of them, we have not only the prayer and praise inspired by the Holy Spirit, but in some instances the Holy Spirit’s record of the prayers that uninspired men offered and of God’s comments upon those pray ers. But in regard to the imprecatory Psalms, Dr. Scofield’s words in his intro duction to the Book of Psalms set forth the truth well. He says: “ The impreca tory Psalms are the cry of the oppressed in Israel for justice—a cry appropriate and right in the earthly people of God, and based upon a distinct promise in the Abra- hamic covenant (Gen. 15:18 and other pas sages) ; but a cry unsuited to the Church, a heavenly people who have taken their place with a rejected and crucified Christ.” It might.be said in addition to this that many of these imprecatory Psalms are prophetic, prophecies inspired by the Holy Spirit and to be fulfilled literally. It might be said further still that it is far better to refuse to avenge yourself upon your adversaries with your own hand as David did and to commit vengeance to God to whom it be- iongeth as is done in the imprecatory Psalms.
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