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Mrs. Mouse and their six children. Mothers and fathers are supposed to take care of their children, but these silly parents do not. This round trap is a gambling trap. One hole is baited with a marble. (Before giv ing the lesson, cut out a round piece of stiff paper, color it, and paste it above the hole.) Do any of you boys play marbles for “keeps” ? If you do, you, like Max Mouse, are caught in the devil’s trap. See! The devil peeks out to see who got caught. May Mouse gets caught in the hole baited with a playing card. Look! The devil peeks out and dances for joy because another silly mouse is caught. Marvin Mouse likes dice, and he gets caught in the gambling trap. Listen! What is the devil doing? “Dancing for joy.” Mabel Mouse likes to bet on horse races, and she is easily caught in the hole baited with a little horse. (Cut out of stiff paper.) This next trap is baited with a pair of dancing shoes. (Use a picture.) Listen to Mrs. Mouse talking to Minnie. (Squeak the large one.) If you don’t understand mouse language, I will tell you what she is saying. “Minnie, if you will learn to dance, you will be graceful,” she says. See she is shoving Minnie toward the trap! Poor Minnie, she is caught, and the devil is dancing for joy. Mr. Mouse is now telling Mickey to learn to smoke and be a real big mouse. Mickey is caught in the trap baited with a cigarette. The devil’s trap is well baited for Mrs. Mouse. It says, “Admit One,” “Bank Night,” and “Screno.” It smells good, but it is still a trap! The better a trap smells, the more dangerous it is. She is tired and thinks she needs recreation, and thus she gets caught in the devil’s show trap. The devil has a big dance this time. Mr. Mouse gets in the trap baited with a little brown jug. “Whiskey!” Yes, and it is the first drink and not the last that makes a drunkard. Now the silly mice are caught, and of course the devil no longer stays hid. He comes out and dances boldly over them. Not only does he dance, but he also has a black sack, and he shoves the trapped mice into it. Listen! Hear their cry! (Shake the sack up and down.) This reminds me of what Jesus said: “There shall be weep ing and gnashing of teeth.” You don’t need to get caught in the devil’s traps. Accept Christ as your Saviour, and trust Him to keep you. grace of God. Indeed he thought that to go to the Gentiles would be to make him self ceremonially unclean, according to the requirements of the Law (cf. v. 8). Peter, with the other disciples, had not as yet been given the truth concerning the mys tery of the churchv-the one body composed of born-again Jews and Gentiles (cf. Eph. 3). The call to Peter was threefold. First, there came to him a vision of a sheet let down from heaven, containing all manner of beasts and creeping things and fowls, clean and unclean (vs. 5-10). With this vision that was three times repeated, there was heard a voice saying, “Arise, Peter;
that they had become children of God,' they went right on living the way they used to live, fighting and hating and quarreling. Paul told them that this would not do. They must not only stop doing wrong things themselves, but they also must be forgiving of others when others did wrong. Every time Christians had an opportunity, Paul said, they must do good. Now that they were children, of God, they were to act as His children should. And we must listen to Paul’s instruction and obey it, too. God is even more sorry than our mothers and fathers are when we do wrong things. The way we act should make other boys and girls want to belong to our heavenly Father. Have you ever thought of that?
den to carry the burden of others, it is also our privilege to ' roll the whole load upon His great shoulders. Perhaps this is the reason that He said: “My burden is light” (Matt. 11:30). Having laid the burden upon us, He then proceeds to carry both us and our burdens. 4. "Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things” (v. 6). The word “communi cate” does not mean merely “to talk” to some one, as in modern English. It means to "share.” The passage therefore urges upon those who are being taught, the duty of sharing their “good things” with the one who teaches the Word. If this duty of “sharing” were accepted by the church, it would settle the problem of ministerial support, putting it on a spiritual basis. G olden T ex t Illustration The Word of God says, “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap,” and human history is filled with illustrations of this solemn truth. Having stung his father’s heart, Jacob’s own home becomes a nest of hissing vipers. Having destroyed another’s home through lust, David had his own destroyed through the lust of his wicked son. Having erected in deepest malice a scaffold fifty cubits high for the Jew he hated, Haman later was hanged upon it while Mordecai went to the throne. Having slain her husband that her son might ascend the throne, Nero’s mother was next slain by her son to make that throne secure. Having originated the bit ter cruelties of the French revolution, Robespierre, the once mighty, fell headless beneath the bloody guillotine. The law of spiritual harvest touches life all the way from the cradle to the judgment throne of God and farther. It pays a man in his own coin. “Be not deceived ; God is not mocked.”—W. E. B iederw olf . Paul had never been a lazy man. Before ® he became a Chris tian, he had been full had used his strength and power in the wrong way. He had and his one desire was to wipe out and destroy and kill. But after he knew God, he was completely changed. Instead of hate, love filled his life. Instead of wish ing to destroy and kill people, Paul desired more than anything else to go and tell them about Jesus. • Lesson Story: Everywhere he went, Paul told the gospel story. He told men how to be saved. He showed them that they were sinners, and that because of their sin they were separated from the God who had made them. He showed them that the only way to get back to God was to believe that Jesus, God’s Son, had died for their sins. Many believed H ow to Behave G a l a t ia n s 6:1-10 Memory Verse: “Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good” (Rom. 12:21). Approach: Last week we talked about the difference in the life of Saul after he became a Christian. Even his name was changed, and he was later called Paul.
Objects: Two large rubber mice, six small ones, a round four-hole mouse trap, two small mouse traps, two large rat traps, a skeleton with spring legs to represent the devil—or a picture of a skeleton may be used, a can of talcum powder, a bottle of perfume, and a black sack. (Bait the traps as suggested. The rats and traps may be secured at a novelty store.) Lesson: How would you like to. have a lesson in trapping? My brother and I used to trap when we were boys, and I will be glad to tell you some of the trap per’s secrets. I brought five traps with me to show you just how it is done. I have called these the devil’s traps. Did you know that he is a trapper? After the traps are all set, he hides behind this black piece of cardboard. A trapper always stays out of sight. We will let a skeleton represent the devil, because the devil brought sin and death into the world. Traps must be disguised, and I will sprinkle powder on these. Are they still traps? “Yes!” I will put some of this perfume on them. They smell good, but they are still traps! It looks as if we intended t'o catch mice, and so we do. Here they are—Mr. and LessonText: Acts 11 :S-18; Rom. 1:15-17. Golden Text: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). O utline an d E xposition I. P eter a n d t h e C a esa rea n s (Acts 11:5-18). T h e call to pr ea c h to the Gentiles came to Peter with startling surprise. As a Jew, Peter had been accustomed to look upon Gentiles as being outside the
AUGUST 23, 1936 THE GOSPEL FOR ALL MEN A cts 10:1 to 11:18; R o m a n s 1:13-17
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