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Why did they reject Him as their Mes siah ? Rom. 1:21; 10:3. , Did He give ample proof to them that He was the Messiah? Matt. 11:2-6; Acts 1:3. What did He say concerning their atti tude? Matt. 23:13-16. What touching word did He utter con cerning their rejection of Him? Luke 13:34, 35. Is the Eternal Word rejected by the world today? John 3:19, 20. Is every Unitarian, Spiritualist, Theoso- phjst, New Thoughtist, Russellite, Chris tian Scientist, rejecting Him as the Eternal Word? What woe does He pronounce upon these? Matt. 18:7; 26:24; Acts 7:51, 52. ( 3 ) The Reception of th e E ternal Word, vs. 12-14. What is it to receive him? To believe, Acts 16:31. To come,to Him, John 6:37. To pat, John 6:50. To drink, John 7 :37. How do men become the, children of God? Gal. 3:26. , What is the result of receiving the Eternal Word? John 3:36; 6:47.
Did the Eternal Word' partake of flesh and blood? Heb. 2:14. Was He made in the likeness of men? Rom. 8 :3. Did-He descend from David? Acts 2:30. Was He born of a woman? Gal. 4:4; Phil. 2:8. . When did. they behold His glory? Luke 9:27-31. PRACTICAL POINTS (1) Everything had a beginning but God; He is without beginning. (2) The Eternal Word is the expression of God’s thought concerning man. (3) The Word and His work are beauti fully blended. (4) Light is penetrating. It dispels the darkness. It is purifying and pervad ing and fruit producing. (5) God was born of a woman that we might be born of God. ( 6 ) Great is the mystery of godliness— God manifest in the flesh. (7) Those who received Him became sons of God. Those who rejected Him remained sons of the devil. ( 8 ) Men who believe in Christ as Saviour and Lord become twice born men.
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JANUARY 14, 1917. LESSON II. John 1:19, 23-34. (Read 1:19-34. Memorize vs. 32, 33). G olden T ext : “Behold, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world.”— John 1;29. ' 1 EXPOSITION AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
makes no mention of John the Baptist preaching repentance, as do Matthew, Mark and Luke, for John was not concerned with a full report of the Baptist’s ministry, but only the report of his testimony to the Lord Jesus as the herald of the coming Christ. However, John the Baptist’s preaching of the repentance is implied in verse 23. So great was the excitement over John the Baptist’s ministry, that people were in great, expectation. All classes of men were reasoning as to who this strange
v. 19. “And this is the record (witness) of John, when the Jews sent Priests and Levites from Jerusalem (sent unto him from Jerusalem Priests and Levites,) to ask him, Who art thou?” Up t 6 this point we have had an introduction to the whole gospel. Here John begins, his story of the life of the Lord Jesus, and he, begins that story at the same point that Mark begins his, with the ministry and testimony of John;the Baptist (see Mark 1:1-8; cf. Acts 1:22; 10:37; .1.3:24). John, however,
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