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with beautifully colored paper, such as is used to line envelopes. Near the middle of each vase, cut a heart shape in the paper,, allowing the clear glass to show. Fill one- vase with water colored with black ink,, one colored green with water colors, and: one filled with clear water.) Lesson: These Vase Triplets are so much, like people that I have given them names- They are Vera, Vecy, and Velma. (Keep- the hearts turned away from the audience- at the beginning of the lesson.) Like real people, each one of these vases has a mouth and a heart. In the sight of people these vases are alike, but in the sight of God, Velma is different. She is a Christian and is covered by the blood of Christ. (Place the cello phane over her.) We will now turn them around and look at their hearts. Vera’s heart is black, Vecy’s green, and Velma’s clear. Velma’s heart is clear, because she represents one whose heart has been cleansed by accepting Christ as a personal Saviour. Like people, these vases give out of their mouths what is in their hearts. (Pour into the tumblers.) Black comes out of Vera’s mouth. Black represents sin. Green comes out of Vecy’s mouth. Green reminds us of envy. Clean water comes out of Vel ma’s mouth.
The Words 1 Say J ames 3 Memory Verse: “My mouth shall speak truth” (Prov. 8:7). Approach: On other Sundays we have talked about how hard it is to keep God’s commandments. We have learned that the only way we can keep God’s command ments is to get our help from the Lord.
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Lesson Story: Some of God’s laws are harder to keep than others. There is one that God tells us over and over again about keeping. It is part o f wha t the Lo r d Jesus meant when He said: “Love thy neighbor as thy sel f. ” Wh e n you
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think about this commandment, perhaps it doesn’t seem a very important one to you. Perhaps ones like “Thou shalt not kill” and “Thou shalt not steal”, seem much more important. But God doesn’t say that any one commandment is more important than another. This commandment that we are going to talk about today is the one which says, in other words, “ Don’t talk about your neighbor.” The Lord Jesus said it in another way: “Thou shalt love thy neigh bor as thyself.” If we love our neighbor as much as we love ourselves, we won’t want to say things which will hurt him. But how hard it is to keep our tongue from saying things which it shouldn’t! In the Bible we read that watching over our tongue is like putting a bit in the horse’s mouth to direct the way he should go. It says again that the tongue is like the rudder that steers the ship; if the rudder isn’t do ing its work well, the whole ship is going in the wrong direction. Have you ever thought how hard it is to make your tongue say the right things? We nped to ask God to put a guard on our lips. Object Lesson T he V ase T riplets Objects: , Three vases, three tumblers, and a piece of red cellophane. (Cover the vases Lesson Text: Tit. 3:1-11. Golden Text: “ For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men” (Tit. 2:11). Outline and Exposition I. D ire ctio n s G iv e n (1,2) I N relation to the state, the Christian is to be subject to all properly constituted authority. The state is instituted by God (cf. Rom. 13) and is His minister for carrying on His business of government upon earth. Whatever the officers may be personally, their position should guarantee to them the reverence and subjection which would be rendered to God. In relation to other citizens, the Christian is to act kindly, remembering that in these individuals also, God Himself is interested. There are no favorites with Him.
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These vases show why the speech of some people is not clean. It is because their hearts are unclean. A person’s words can be clean only as the heart has been changed by accepting Christ as a personal Saviour.
OCTOBER 24, 1937 CHRISTIAN RENEWAL J ohn 10:7-16; T itus 3:1-11
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II. R easons G iven (3-8)
First, the Christian is urged to live in accordance with the directions given in this Epistle, because of the universal need of salvation (v. 3). This need is revealed in what Titus—and all men-—were and are in their unconverted state. “ Sometime” means “ once,” that is, before the new birth. In their former state, those who became believers were “ foolish,” unable to discern what was wrong with them; “ disobedient,” that is, evidencing the natural characteristic of the human heart; “ deceived” by Satan, by their own hearts, and by false teaching. Nowhere is the deception of these uncon verted ones more clearly seen than in the substitutes which are offered for the gos pel. People everywhere are being led to think that they must do something to ob tain God’s salvation. They are “serving
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