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Lesson: Who can tell me how these matches are like people? “There are four colors, like the four races of people on the earth.” Yes, and there is another way—some are like Christians, and some are like un saved people. I will light these eight matches one at a time, blow out the light, and place them in this little box. They remind me of the Christians and unsaved people who have died and have been buried. These other matches are like people who will be living when Christ comes. I will put these two red ones in this little bed. The yellow ones I will put under these shrubs. The white ones will occupy the chair, and the black ones will stand by this little mill. This magnet reminds me of Christ’s coming for the Christians, dead and living. Paul said: “The dead in Christ shall' rise first.” The box, representing the grave, opens, and a yellow, a red, a black, and a white match jump to meet the magnet. It will be like this when Christ comes—some from every race will have accepted Him as Saviour and will be raised from the dead. Christ died for all races. Remember what the Lord Jesus said: “There shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.” As the magnet comes near the bed, one match jumps up to the magnet. Again, Jesus said: “Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.” The magnet moves over the field, and one of the matches goes up. As the magnet passes over the chair, one is taken and the other left. Jesus said also: “Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.” I will wrap these matches in this white cloth, which reminds me of the white robes of those who have been saved and are with Christ. The time will come when the unsaved dead will be raised and, witfi the unsaved living, will appear before what we speak of as “the great white throne judgment.” They later will be cast into outer darkness and into the lake of fire. We will wrap these in this black cloth, reminding us of the outer darkness. Be ready for ,the coming of Christ by accepting Him as Saviour, “for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.” But some of those who were driven from Jerusalem were Grecian Jews (v. 20). When these men came to Antioch; they preached the Lord Jesus to the Grecians there. The hand of the Lord was upon the messengers, and a great number be lieved and turned to the Lord (v. 21). The work at Antioch was one of the best evi dences that the Lord Jesus had risen from the dead and was making Himself known far and wide through His disciples. Thus the persecution, started by Satan in the hope of silencing the testimony con cerning Christ, resulted in the beginning of world missions and, humanly speaking, in the spreading of the gospel farther than it otherwise would have gone. Persecutions which arise because of Satan’s activity al ways result in the furtherance of the gospel (cf. Phil. 1:12, 13). It is still true that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
the command came to Peter, he said, “Not so, Lord,” and he refused to eat that which a Jew would regard as “unclean.” Then the voice said, “What God hath cleansed, that call thou not common.” Three times this vision and the voice came to Peter. What could they mean? As Peter was puzzling about the matter, some one at the gate called, asking whether Peter was there. Some visitors from an other city had come to ask Peter the way to be saved. These visitors were not Jews. Peter thought for a minute. These men were not Jews, but was the gospel story for them, too? Had Jesus come to save them, too? Perhaps Peter remembered then something that Jesus had said when He was on earth, “Him that cometh to me I will no no wise cast out.” These men had come to learn about Jesus. Peter must tell them about Him. That was what the vision meant.
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Objects: Sixteen matches, a little jewel box, a cardboard bed, a spool, a toy chair, toy shrubs, a magnet, a piece of black cloth, and a piece of white cloth. (Color the matches with crayons—four yellow, four black, four red, and four white. Insert a pin in the end of two matches of each color. Separate the matches into two groups, each group having one of each color with a pin, and one of each color without a pin. Saw one end off the spool, and cut the remainder in two. Take the part with the end on, and drive a peg into the hole. Whittle the peg small enough so that the top part of the spool will revolve on it. Drive a small tack for a handle in the top of the upper half. This is like a Palestinian mill.) Lesson Text: Acts 11:19-21; 13:1-12. Golden Text: “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mk. 16:15). O utline an d E xposition I. B egan by P ersec u tio n of G od ’ s P eople (11:19-21). T h e f ir st Christians thought that the gospel was to be preached only to Jews (v. 19).- This conception was caused by the fact that the first Christians were all Jews, and they had, as yet, no under standing of what the church was, nor of the breaking down of the wall of partition between Jews and Gentiles (cf. Eph. 2:14 to 3 :6). Just as Christian Jews were slow to give the gospel to the Gentiles, so the Christian Gentiles—with no excuse such as the Jews had—are slow to give the gospel to the Jews today.
AUGUST 30, 1936 BEGINNING OF WORLD MISSIONS A cts 11:19-26; 13:1-12
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