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give My life for you, so the one who is great among you should be willing to be the servant o f the others.” Today, God wants us to, have this same unselfish spirit—not trying to be first our selves, or trying always to. get the best things, but to be eager to help others and to forget ourselves. Making other people happy is the way to be really happy. Jesus knew that this is so, and He wanted His disciples to know it, too.
world. Thus our blessed Lord died “on behalf of all," but “ in the stead of” only the "many.” If the Apostle Paul had used anti in connection with “all,” he would have been teaching the doctrine of Universalism. Here we have the Bible’s best and clear est answer to that question which has di vided the theologians of the world ; name ly : Is the atonement of Christ universal, or limited ? Did Christ die for all, or only for the elect? The atonement is both uni versal and limited. On the one hand, the death of our Lord created a value sufficient to pay the debt o f all the world, and that value has been placed “on behalf o f all.” But on the other hand, while available for all, His death is actually efficacious only to the “many” who accept it by faith. It is interesting also to notice that in 1 Timothy 2 :6, the Apostle Paul wishes to include the substitutionary idea without affirming its efficacy in the stead o f “all.” Therefore, while he uses huper before the word “ all,” he also takes the preposition anti and tacks it on the front o f the Greek word for “ransom,” making a compound word, anti-tutron, which might be trans lated “ substitutionary-ransom.” Thus the passage would read: “Who gave himself a substitutionary-ransom on behalf o f all.” By this interesting grammatical expedient, the apostle is able to affirm the substitution ary character of our Lord’s death, and to teach its availability to all the world with out distinction; but at the same time guard his statement against the error of Univer salism. How unsearchable are the wonders of Thy W ord! Golden Text Illustration Years ago, in Pennsylvania, a man named Wilson was to be hanged for mur der. Strange to say, he refused a pardon. The highest legal authority in that state was appealed to and handed down the fol lowing decision: “A pardon is only-a bit of paper until it is accepted; Wilson must die.” Wilson did die, because he refused to live. God’s Word says Jesus gave His life a “ransom” for us. There is free par don, full salvation, but this Word is only a bit o f paper until it is believed. — W a tc h m a n -E x am in ee . How to Become Great M atth ew 20:17-28 Memory Verse: " By love serve one an other” (Gal. 5:13). Approach : Soon after-Jesus had talked to the disciples about being as .humble as little children, and to Peter about forgiv ing seventy times seven times, and to the
Objects: A lump o f molding clay,, a beautiful vase, and an old cup. Lesson : W e learned in our Sunday- school lesson that the one who would be truly great must be willing to serve. Be fore we can serve others to the very best advantage, we must yield our lives to God, just as this molding clay yields itself into my hands to be molded. The prophet Jeremiah once told the children of Israel that they were clay in the hands o f God, the great Potter. It is God’s will that His people be as easily shaped to His will as this clay is shaped in my hands. * I am trying to shape the clay like that beautiful vase. As God is shaping our lives, He has in mind that we should re semble Christ. Suppose this clay could talk and would complain that I am press ing it too hard, or stretching it too far. We are inclined to do that way when God is molding our lives. W e do not like the molding process, for it sometimes hurts. While God is shaping our lives, we often take ourselves out of His hands, so to speak, as this clay might do if it could pull away from my hands and fall to the floor. The clay is now marred. The life which is not yielded to God will sooner or later be marred. It is wonderful to know that even though we have caused ohr lives to be marred, God still will receive us back and make something o f us. The second time, He may make something more humble, such as this cup. What sorrow there must be in the hearts o f people who realize that they have hindered God in molding their lives I W e can never be truly great unless we yield ourselves to be molded by God, and serve others in the place where He wants us. Two Travelers Little Miss Selfish and Lend-a-hand Went journeying home across the land. On Lend-a-hand the sunshine smiled; The wild flowers bloomed for the happy child; Birds greeted her from many a tree; But Selfish said, “No one loves me.” Little Miss Selfish and Lend-a-hand Went journeying home across the land. Miss Selfish met with trouble and loss— The weather was bad, the folks were cross; Lend-a-hand said, when the journey was o’er, “I never had such a good time before.” — P ublisher U n k n o w n .
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young man about be ing willing^ to give up everything f o r His sake, He gath ered His disciples together to tell them that soon He would leave them. L e s s o n S t o r y :
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