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Taking Christ to be one’s Saviour implies four things: 1. The assent o f the mind which believes in God. 2. The act o f the will which receives Christ. 3. The attitude o f the heart which trusts and rests in Christ. ' . 4. The accent of the life which obeys God. Observe these six things about Lydia: She went to the place o f Prayer; she heard the W ord ; God opened her heart; she gave heed to the W ord; she confessed Christ publicly; she brought her household with her to Christ. Salvation is the most important of all questions, because one’s happiness, char acter, usefulness and eternal destiny hinge upon it. No matter what else one may make o f life—name, money, fame— these are o f no value if one has not first found Christ. W e have only to receive. All is God’s gift (Rom. 6:23). Baptist, but I am not going to ask you to try to remember his name, only you will know when I mention his name that he was the one God asked to go among the people and tell them who Jesus was and get the people ready to hear Jesus. John the Baptist told the people that Jesus was God’s Son, and how He could take away their sins and help them to do the right things. This man also told the people that Jesus was the Lamb o f God. One day John the Baptist was standing near the river Jordan with two o f the men who had been listening to all he said about Jesus. Their names were John and Andrew. While they were standing there a man passed by, and John the Baptist told John and Andrew that the man was Jesus, the Lamb o f God, he had been telling them about. As soon as John and AndreWNieard it was Jesus they left John the Baptist, and followed Jesus. When Jesus turned around
us through Christ’s righteousness (2 Cor. 5:21). 2. W e become God’s children. “T o as many as receive Him to them gave Lie the right to become children o f God” (John 1 :12, 13). Christ is God’s only rightful son. W e are adopted children. Illustrate adop tion by imagining a millionaire adopting a little street waif. The child takes his nrme. So we fake Christ’s. Every privilege and pleasure o f that home the child enjoys. The millionaire meets its every need. The child shares the inheritance equally with natural heirs. 3. W e have eternal life. “ He that hath the Son hath everlasting life” (John 6:36). Not because o f any feeling that we may have, but because God says so. W e must either believe God or we make Him out a liar. “I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish” (John 3:36; 10:28). W e may fall down on deck, but we can never fall overboard. M EMORY VERSE. “W e love Him, because He first loved us.”—1 John 4:19. Approach. —Now children, this morning I want you to do sdmething for me. Bring the little table over and put it in this cor ner, and place your little chairs around it, and I will be there in a few minutes. Now you have gotten things ready for me today, and when we come to our lesson story you will see how God asked some one to get things ready for Jesus so he could go among the people and tell them how He loved them. That is why we love Jesus, because He first loved us. Let us thank Jesus for loving us, and ask Him to help us to love Him every day. ¿Lesson Story. —When God was ready to have Jesus go out and tell the people how much He loved them He asked a man to prepare the way, that is to get ready for Jesus. Now this man’s name was John the
BEGINNERS AND PRIMARY By Mabel L. Merrill. Loving and Trusting Jesus.—John 1 : 35 - 5 1 .
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