3. In what three parables of one chapter did Jesus illustrate the saving of sinners? Lk. 15. 4. How many individual cases of saving sinners can you recall from the gospels? 5. Has Jesus saved you? Lesson I. FRIENDS AND FOES OF JESUS. Mark 3:20-35. July 7. I . THE ENTHUSIASTIC MULTITUDE. 1. Its Occasion. (1) Jesus' fame. This year (A. D. 28) was that of His greatest popularity. " (2) This was due (a) to His many and mighty miracles: healing the Centurion's servants (Lk. 7:1-10); raising the widow's son (Lk. 7:11-18); healing multitudes of all man- ner of ills; (b) to His words of spiri- tual wisdom (the Sermon on the Plain, Lk. 17 : 49 ); of holy denunciation (Mat. 11:20-24); His most gracious invitation, (Mat. 11:28-30); His condescension to the poor and outcast (Mat. 9:10-13); and withal His power over the Kingdom of Satan (Mat. 9:32, 33). 2. Its motives. Various (1) curi- osity to see and hear the great prophet; (2) to get physical healing for self or friend, and, with some, (3) to find sat- isfaction for sincere and wistful spiri- tual yearnings, not understood, but which they felt might, somehow, be satisfied through Him; (4) some to find occasion against Him, that they might discredit His reputation, and destroy His work, such were the scribes from Jerusalem. 3. Its lessons. Jesus' words are the same today, and His works as manifest and wonderful, though now confined to the moral and spiritual world. If by our lives and our testimony; by our eagerness to hear, to obey His doctrines, spread His fame, and bring our friends to Him for salvation, we glorified Him, multitudes would be gathered to Him, of whom many though they "came to scoif would remain to pray." If not it ia no fault of the Lord, no lack of His pres- ent power and grace. II. THE ENTHUSIASTIC MASTER. 1. The Lord's Way. He made them all welcome; whatever their motives He taught them the Truth and "healed all their diseases." He turned none away. It is His manner," Him that cometh to me I will in nowise cast out." (Jno. 6:37). * 2. The Lord's Zeal. (1) They gave, and He asked, no time to eat a meal, or a morsel, yet He ministered on.
5. Can men lie to God? Gal. 6:7. 6.What is to be the fate of liars? Rev. 21:8! IX. "HYPOCRISY AND SINCERITY, Mat. 6:1-18. 1. The text: "Take heed that ye do not your aims before men, to be seen of them; otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven." Mat. 6:1. 2. What did the hypocrites do when they gave alms, and when they prayed, or fasted? (Mat. 6:16). 3. What did Jesus say we should not do when we give? (Mat. 6:3). 4. Who sees how and what we give?. (Mat. 6:4). 5. What should we do when we pray? (Mat. 6:6). 6. What did Jesus give as an ex- ample of true prayer? (Mat. 6:9-13). X. "THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 1. The text: "Not by might, nor by power, saith the Lord of Hosts." Zee. 4:6. 2. When was the Holy Spirit given? Ac. 2 :1. 3. What appeared on the heads of the disciples? (Ac. 2:3). 4. What did this symbolize? (Isa. 50:4). 5. What was the result of the gift of the Spirit? (Ac. 4:13). 6. What can we accomplish with- out Him? (Lk. 24:49). 7. In reference to the Spirit what does Paul say we should be? (Eph. 5:18). XI. "CHRIST'S WITNESS TO JOHN THE BAPTIST." Mat. 11: 2-9. , 1 . The text: "Among them that are born of woman there is none greater than John; yet he that is but little in the Kingdom of God is greater than he." Lk. 7:28. 2. What circumstance led Jesus to say this? (Mat. 11:2, 3). 3. What sort of a man was John? (Mat. 11:7, 8). 4. What, office did he fill? (Mat. 3:3). 5. What then is the greatest work man can do? (2 Cor. 5:21). 6. What death did Jesus' great man die?' (Mrk. 6:27). XII. "THE PENITENT WOMAN." Luke 7:36-50. 1. The text: "This is a faithful say- ing, and worthy of all acception, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." I Tim. 1:15. 2. In what circumstances did Jesus meet the penitent woman? (Lk. 7:27).
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