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There are many in these days who are as dishonest w ith th e Gospel as were the P harisees in _£his story, who heard th e facts (vs. 13, 15), trie d to obscure th e facts (v. 16)i, tried to disprove th e facts (vs. 18, 26, and fin ally shu t th e ir eyes to the facts (v. 34). Their gossip and speculation gave the healed man a chance to give a clean- cut testimony for Christ. The man who has had his eyes opened will be ready to stand up for h is Master (Rom. 10 :11 ). The m an’s faith grew stronger as he tes tified, un til he became bold for Christ. No Christian will backslide if he keeps on testifying of Christ’s saving power. The skeptics may cry out, “How? how? how?” (vs. 10, 15, 16, 19, 21, 26) and we may not be able to give a scientific answer, but what we have personally experienced, we KNOW. The theories of th e Pharisees could not account for th e FACTS. The religious discussions of some modern scholars are equally amusing. Their argum ents are as ridic ulous as the one advanced by th e P h ar isees, th a t the, man was not blind in the first place. They pick a fuss w ith self-evident facts. They deliberately ignore th e facts which they cannot dis-' prove. Why should a saved m an have to stop to explain “ how” it was done? Is it not sufficient th a t the work took place upon meeting th e conditions of Christ’s promise? The blind m an’s “One th ing I know” was a sho rt creed b u t it was unanswerable. The testi mony of “ I know” Christians (2 Tim. 1 : 12 ) has been th e th ing through the centuries th a t has been too much for the arm y of skeptics. “ You ask me HOW I gave my h eart to Christ? I do not know. There came a yearning for life in my soul So long ago. I found e a rth ’s flowers would fade and die—
I wept fo r something th a t could satisfy; And then— and then— somehow I seemed to jlare To lift my broken h eart to Him in prayer. I do not know ^-I cannot tell you HOW; I only KNOW He is my Saviour now.” •$!£. a 1*. THE JUNIORS DRINKING AT THE FOUNTAIN Jo h n 7:37 (To th e Teacher: — It will be noted th a t the passage chosen for th e Jun io r lesson does, not always correspond to th a t for th e Adult lesson, as we have selected for the Jun io rs those incidents which would especially appeal to children). You remember two weeks ago we had the story of the little lad who helped to feed five thousand people. (6 :9 ). How did he do it? (6 :9 .) b id he lose any th ing by giving his lunch to Jesus? Do we ever lose anything by giving to Jesus? A fter Jesus had satisfied the hunger of th e people, you remember, His disci ples entered into a boat and tried to cross over the lake (6 :1 7 ). Do you re member what happened when they were out in the middle of the lake (6 :1 8 ), in th e darkness? A fter they had safely landed bn the other side, they found all the people had walked around th e lake, and were w ait ing for-them there. (6 :22 .) Then Jesus talked to them quite a while, and told them th a t if they would believe on Him he would satisfy .the hung er and th irst of th e ir hearts. (6 :3 5 ). You remember in our lesson about “The Helpless Man,” we learned some th ing about the th ree g reat feasts which were held every year in Jerusalem , and how, if possible, every Jew w ent up to Jerusalem th ree times a y ear to attend these feasts— The F east of the Passover, in memory of the time th a t God took the Jews out of Egypt; the F east of Pentecost when they brought the first
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