Thursday, July 22, 1937
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
S
UNDAY
CHOOL
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U esson
B y R E V H A R O L D L . L U N D Q U IS T .
D e a n o f th e M o o d y B ib le I n s titu te
o f C h ic a g o .
© W e s te r n N e w s p a p e r U n ion .
Lesson for July 25
—
L E S S O N T E X T — E x o d u s 12:21-28.
G O L D E N T E X T — T h e L o r d th y G od h a th
c h o s e n t h e e to b e a s p e c ia l p e o p le u n to
h im s e lf .— D e u t e r o n o m y 7:6.
P R I M A R Y T O P IC — R e a d y fo r th e J o u r
n ey.
J U N I O R T O P IC — R e a d y to S ta r t H o m e .
I N T E R M E D I A T E A N D S E N IO R T O P IC —
H o w G od P r e p a r e s a P e o p le .
Y O U N G P E O P L E A N D A D U L T T O P IC —
E q u ip p e d f o r a N e w E r a .
“ Let m y people go” —such was
the word of the Lord to P haraoh
through Moses and Aaron. “ Who is
the Lord, th a t I should obey his
voice to let Israel go? I know not
th e Lord, neither will I let Israel
go” — thus hardened P haraoh his
heart. The issue was so draw n for
one of the g re a t struggles of history.
On one side was a bold and mighty
m onarch with all the resources of
the em pire of Egypt, and on the
other an unorganized m ultitude of
slaves. No, wait, on the other side
w as Almighty God! The outcome
w as never in doubt and through the
unspeakable horror of the plagues
we come to consider the last of the
ten, the death of the first-born, with
which is joined the establishm ent
of the Passover.
The P assover is of sufficient im
portance to justify careful study
sim ply as the perpetual feast of
Jew s, but to the C hristian it is also
a m ost blessed and instructive type
of Christ who is, according to Paul,
“ our passover” (I Cor. 5:7). Let no
one who studies or teaches this les
son fail to point to “ the Lam b of
God which taketh aw ay the sin of
the world” (John 1:29).
I. A Lam b Slain (v. 21).
The sacrifice appears, a gentle,
subm issive lam b, a m ale without
blem ish, which is separated for the
giving of its life th a t‘the first-born
in Israel m ight be saved.
N o t i c e th a t God’s instructions
w ere explicit, and w ere to be obeyed
if there w as to be redem ption. T here
a re those in our day who would
substitute any and every other m eth
od of salvation for God’s revealed
plan.’ They talk about c h aracter de
velopm ent, the redem ption of t h e
social order, peace and politics, and
forget the Lam b of God.
II. A Blood Salvation (vv. 22, 23).
The a c t of faith in m arking the
lintel and the doorposts with the
blood, brought salvation to the fam
ilies of Israel. Had they w aited until
they could reason out the philosophy
of their prom ised redem ption, or
had they shrunk from the blood as
th eir covering, their first-born would
have been slain. It w as when the
destroying angel saw the blood th at
he passed over them .
Many there are in our tim e who
speak disparagingly of the blood of
Jesu s Christ, but it is still the only
way of redem ption. “ Without shed
ding of blood there is no rem ission.”
It ill befits an age th at is so blase
and sophisticated as ours to attem pt
to cover its dislike for God’s way
of redem ption by suddenly becom
ing too cultured and sensitive to
h ear of the blood of the Lam b of
God shed on C alvary’s tree for our
cleansing from sin.
III. A P erpetual M emorial (vv.
24-28).
God w ants his people to rem em
ber. We, like Israel, are to rem em
ber the bondage from which we
w ere delivered. Down through the
ages the Jew s have kept the Pass-
over. Our H ebrew neighbors do it
today. Let us honor them for their
obedience to God’s com m and and
at the sam e tim e seek to point them
to the One who is the tru e Pass-
over, Jesu s Christ.
IV. Christ Our P assover (I Cor.
5:7).
Let us add to the assigned lesson
text this New T estam ent passage
which speaks of our Lord Jesu s
Christ as “ our passover . . . sacri
ficed for u s.”
The bondage in Egypt was te r
rible in its afflictions and sorrows,
but fa r m ore serious is the bondage
in which m en find them selves under
sin and the rule of Satan. Surely
there is need of divine redem ption,
and there is none to bring it to us
but the Lam b of God. He was the
One who without spot or blemish
(I Pet. 1:19) was able to offer him
self in our behalf th at in him we
m ight find “ redem ption through his
blood’’ (Eph. 1:7, Col. 1:14).
“ Is the blood upon the house of
my life? Is the blood upon the door
post of my dwelling place? Have I
put up against the divine judgm ent
some hand of self-protection? Ver
ily, it will be swallowed up in the
g reat visitation. In th at tim e noth
ing will stand but the blood which
God him self has chosen as a token
and a m em orial. ‘The blood of Jesus
Christ, his Son, cleanseth us from
all sin’ ” (Joseph P a rk e r).
L abor and P atience
T ruth is to be costly to you—of
labor and patience; and you are
never to sell it, but to guard and
to give.—Ruskin.
Judging A nother's Sorrow
One can never be the judge of
another’s grief. T hat which is a sor
row to one, to another is joy.
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Never sw erve in your conduct
from your honest convictions.—
H orace Bushnell.
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