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or covet what he has. If we love him we will not dp these things, either. Then there vis another way to hurt our neighbor. The thing I mean is this. If we are not living honest and good lives ourselves, we may be hurting our neighbor. We may not be stealing or killing or covet ing what he has, but if we are doing wrong things, he watches us. Perhaps he begins to do these wrong things, too. Perhaps he sees us and says, “That person says he is a follower of Christ. Look at the way he lives. If a follower of Jesus Christ lives that way, I don’t want to be a Christian.” Do you see how carefully one must live so as to work “no ill to his neighbor” ? Only by getting our help from the Lord day by day can we live in that way. Objects: Two pieces of coil spring from an old window-shade roller—one about four inches long and the other about seven inches long, a red bolt about eight inches long, a flask-shaped bottle filled with vine gar, an imitation playing card, an imita tion cigarette, an imitation theater ticket, and an imitation dance program. (In a piece of wood make two holes deep enough tc hold the springs upright. In the center of the hole that is to hold the shorter spring, countersink another hole deep enough to hold the bolt.) Lesson: Ned and Ted Spring are broth ers. Ted, the little brother, went to Sunday- school and church, and learned about Jesus. We will let this red rod remind us of Christ. It is red because Christ gave His blood on the cross to save us from sin. (Drop the rod down through the spring into the hole inYbe board.) Object Lesson T he S pring B rothers Ned, being the big brother, thought that he was too big to go to church and accept Christ. Not having accepted Christ as his Saviour, Ned was weak when the tempta tions of the world came along. Even this little cardboard show ticket can push him any way it desires. Having gone to the show, Ned finds it an easy thing to be moved by this dance program. Having said “Yes” to these two worldly things, he cannot say “ No” to this cigarette, and he is easily controlled by it. When this bottle of vinegar, representing whiskey, comes along, he is easily overcome by it. Let us see what happens to Ted when the temptations of the world come to him. He does not bend at all because the red rod, representing Christ, keeps him steady. It is good for you boys and girls to be here learning about Christ, but if you are to stand against the temptations of the world, you must do more than learn about Him—you must accept Him as a personal Saviour. He will then make you strong and will help you to overcome temptations.
of Israel had light in all their dwellings while the Egyptians were in darkness. 2. “Let us walk honestly, as in the day" (v. 13). Instead of “ honestly,” the word should be rendered “ becomingly." The latter terra is broader, and of course in cludes honesty. But the point of the pas sage is that we who are “children of the day” should walk even now in the night of this evil age just as if the Day had already arrived. Some professing Chris tians, it is to be feared, feel that they cannot live as Christians ought to live until they get to heaven, or until Christ comes back to establish the millennium. 3. “Nor covetous” (Cor. 6:10). In all the Scriptures there is probably no list of sins so generally terrible as the list re corded in verses 9 and 10. They are the worst in the category of human action. Yet we should notice, with heart-searching on our own part, that “covetousness” is a sin which God puts in the same category. Golden Text Illustration G alatians 5:16 Mark Guy Pearse used this illustration: “ I stood on the east coast of England and looked out over a stretch of oozy slime and ill-smelling mud. There were the barges high and dry, lying on their sides— no matter what cargo they carried or how skillful the captain, they were on the mud. . . . And I thought, What is the remedy? Were it any use for the corpora tion to pass a by-law that every citizen should bring kettles filled with water and pour it out upon the stretch of mud? But as I watched I saw the remedy. God turned the tide. In swept the waters of the sea and buried the mud, and . . . instantly all was activity. Then “heave ho” with the anchor, then hoist the sails, then forth upon some errand of good. So it is that we stand looking out upon many a dread ful evil that fills us with dismay—drunk enness, gambling, impurity. Is there any remedy? And the churches, so very re spectable, but alas! high and dry on the mud—for these, too, what is the remedy? We want the flood tide—the gracious out pouring of the Spirit.”—J uniata R ohrback . My Neighbors R omans 13:10-14; G alatians 5:16-24 Memory Verse: “ Love worketh no ill to his neighbor” (Rom. 13:10). Approach: We talked last week about how the Good Shepherd, the Lord Jesus, cares for us. He has done so many things for us that we should do in return the
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thing which He asks of us. This thing that He asks of us is that we love one another. Lesson Story: Paul, one of Jesus’ follow ers, said it in this way: “Love worketh no ill to his neigh bor.” There are many ways by which we may work ill to our
neighbor. Do you remember one way that we talked about not so long ago? Yes, by talking about them. If we love our neigh bor, we will guard our tongue and be careful what we say about him. Of course we hurt our neighbor if we steal or kill « / V i s t o *
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