August 1924
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sick, or if we bruise, burn and hurt ourselves in any way. Now the Bible, the Word of God, is- to our souls what medicine is to our bodies. When our ELEMENTARY souls are hurt by sin, the Bible shows Mabel L. Merrill us a cure. Come unto Christ and be healed. He is the soul’s physician. The Bible shows us the way to Christ,'and when we reach Him, our weary, sin-sick souls shall be made whole. He is the Great Physician, (Primary Teacher). , Lesson Story.-=fRuth, you were, absent last Sunday,, and we missed you, and you ihissed a most wonderful story.; Who will tell Ruth this ,story which we pictured on the sand table? Portia, you tell us. My! You boys and girls are doing so well telling these stories, I am going to play little girl some Sunday, and have you tell me the story. In our story today Jesus is back in the town of Cana, and you remember. He was at a wedding in that place, where He turned the water into nice , rich grape juice. There was a nobleman living in another city, whose son was very sick and the doctors could not cure him. When the noble man heard that Jesus was in Cana, he came to Him and asked Jesus to come quickly before his child died, for he was . so sick. Jesus listened to what the: nobleman said, and then He told him to go back to his home, that his sick son was made well. Now how do you think this man felt, when he knew Jesus was not going to see his son at all? He believed what Jesus said, and left Him to go to his home, which was quite a long way from the place where Jesus was. The nobleman was a rich man with a fine home and servants; before he reached home, his servants came to meet him, and what do you think they said to him as soon as they saw him coming? “Thy son is well!” O, how happy this father was to come home and find his son well and strong again. He asked the servants at what time he began to get better. They answered, “ Yesterday, at the seventh hour the fever left him.” Then the father knew that it was at the same hour when Jesus said to him, “ Thy son is made well.” Now we see’ it took two days to make the journey from the nobleman’s home to where Jesus was in Cana, and Jesus did not go to the home at all, and yet the sick boy was made well just as soon as Jesus spoke the words to the father^ What a wonderful Saviour and Lord, Jesus is to all who have faith and believe in Him. Many people know this wonderful truth and yet they do not believe and trust Him. Do. you think they, had a happy time in this home when the father got back and found a well boy?. Yes, indeed and I’ll tell you there was something else that made them extremely happy, even better than having a sick body made well. This man and all his family believed that Jesus was the Son of God. What kind of life did they all nave now that they believed in Jesus? Yes, they had everlasting life, which means that even though this body should die, we are going to live with Jesus, this wonderful Saviour, forever up in heaven, in the beautiful home He is getting ready for every one who believes in Him, and you know we can never be sick any more up in heaven. This father loved his boy dearly, but he could not help him and make him well, but he went to Jesus who could not only heal the body, but give to them all everlasting life when they believed. The father was the first one to believe in Jesus, and he led his whole ,family to believe in Him. Is there some one in your home who does not yet belong to Jesus? If so they are lost? Will you go home and tell them of Jesus Prayer.
Jesus’ power to the extent that he thought it likely that if Jesus came down He might be able to heal his son; in v. 50 we see him believing in Jesus’ Word; and in v. 53 we see him believing in Jésus Himself. The belief in v. 50 is simply belief in a specific promise; the belief in v. 53 is belief in a Person. It was substantially belief in Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God, (seeCh . 20 :31 } though it is doubtful if the courtier himself would have phrased it in that way at that time. But not only did the man himself believe, “ his whole house believed.”— Torrey. The man’s faith was rewarded in the healing of his son. It was rewarded ?in his own salvation. It was rewarded in a most welcome manner in the salvation of his entire household. Pract. Com. Let us think first o f ‘the desperate need. Picture the home at Capernaum— thè, distracted mother, the anxious father, ' the sobbing sisters, gathered DEVOTIONAL around thè bed of the son and brother who COMMENT lay at the very point of death. No doubt J. A. Hubbard everything that love, could prompt, money buy, and medical skill effect had been done. Humanly speaking there was no hope. The need was desperate. Next think of the One who was perfectly able, and oh, so willing to meet the need! He was about twenty-five miles away— at Cana, ■where, in the working qf His first miracle, He had supplied the need of a company on the glad occasion of a wedding. What was necessary was a “ Connecting link” between the need in the sad home and Him who was abietto supply the need. . That link was faith. The father of the sick boy, hearing that Jesus had returned to Cana from Judea;-made the journey to sup plicate Him because be believed that Jesus was able to save the lad. When Jesus said to him; “Go thy way; thy son liveth,” “ the man believed the word that Jesus spake unto him” and started back home resting on “ the bare wòrd” of the Lord. Of course his faith was honored and the son was healed in that very hour. Faith always has been, and always will be, the connecting link between our need and Him who can meet it. “Abra ham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for right eousness.” Moses believed God, and the, Red Sea opened for Israel. Joshua believed God, and the walls of Jericho fell. Gideon believed God, and the hosts of Midian were put to flight. For the removal of the thorn in his flesh Paul besought the Lord thrice; but when'He said, “My grace is sufficient for thee,” Paul believed that fact, and the thorn proved to be a great blessing. Thus our need for justification, for deliverance in great difficulties, for victory over sin and all enemies, for grace to joyfully bear weak nesses, persecutions, distresses for His sake, is fully met when we believe the word which He has given us. The world says, “ Seeing is believing.” Many a person has proved, as did the nobleman in this lesson, that “believ ing is seeing.” Jesus Heals A Sick Boy John 4:46:54. Memory Verse,— “ Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way, thy son liyeth.” Jno. 4:50. Approach.— Show a bottle of medicine and a Bible. What is medicine good for? To heal or cure the body if we are A lesson covering only nine versesfe-but how full of prac tical helpful truths ttiéy are!
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