Do you enjoy yourself, when you have a quarrel with any person? When you envy any one, because he has something that you have not, can you be happy? How then are the wicked like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt? What does God say about the wicked? v. 21. Against whom are the wicked striving? Job 15: 25. Ps. 10: 13. What do you think of such a strife? Is. 45: 9. Can any one be neither the friend nor the enemy of God? Lu. 11: 23. How does God look on the pretended worship of the wicked? Pr. 15: 8. What are their thoughts, in his sight? Pr. 15: 26. Why are the wicked kept alive? 2 Pe. 3: 9, 1. c. Job 21: 30. What is the natural consequence of a wicked course of life? Pr. 11: 5, 1. c. What sort of life do the wicked lead? Pr. 4: 19. What is upon them continually? Pr. 3: 33, f. c. Jn. 3: 36, 1. c. Why are the wicked sometimes prospered in this world? Ps. 37: 35, 36. 73: 3, 17-20. What is the state of their minds? Pr. 28: 1, f. c. Vhat have the wicked to expect beyond this life? Pr. 11: 7. fow do the wicked leave this world? Job 18: 18. Pr. 14: 32, f. c. What will be the final portion of the wicked? Ps. 11: 6. How can sinners have any peace in their sins, when their situation is so desperate? What is the only hope of the wicked? Is. 55: 7. Of what are they in danger, who put off turning to the Lord? He. 3: 15, 19. When has God promised to be merciful to those who return to him? 2 Co. 6: 2. LESSON XXVI. Sinners may find peace in Christ. 1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." 3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also; knowing tha 5 And hope maketh not ashamed: because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. FROM the last lesson, what should you think sinners would be anxious to do? Through whom may they have peace with God? v. 1. Is there any condemnation for them that believe in Who is meant by whom, v. 2? What have we, by him? Into what have we access? What is the grace wherein Christians stand? 1 Pe. 1: 5. What is the glory of God, which Christians hope for? 1 Pe. 1: 4. May little children have this joy? Mar. 10: 14. When Christ was in the world, he suffered little children to come to him: will be forbid them to come now? How do Christians feel, when they are in trouble? v. 3. Do sinners glory, or feel joyful, when they are in trouble? What does tribulation work? What does patience work? What does experience work! Is it good for young persons to have trouble? La. 3: 27. Would God send trouble upon us, it were not for the best? La. 3: 33. What does hope not make? v. 5 Why does not hope raake ashamed? By whom is the love of God shed abroad in our hearts? Have you any friend that loves you well enough to die for you? How has God shown his love to us? v.8. What must be the state of our hearts, if we are the ene mies of One that loves us so much? How ought we to feel towards him? What ought you to seek first of all things? 2 Co. 5: 20 LESSON XXVII. Ilow people feel when God shows them their sins. 1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. 4 For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. 8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. Jn. 16: 7, 8. WHO shows people their sins? Who was speaking, in the Psalm from which this lesson is taken? (See title.) What did he pray the Lord not to do to him? v. 1. Who are in danger from the wrath of God? Ps. 7: 11 Jn. 3: 36. What did David say stuck fast in him? What are the arrows of God? Ep. 6: 17, 1. c. Ie. 4: 12. How did the prophet Habakkuk feel, when he saw the anger of God against sin? Ha. 3: 16. If a holy man felt so, when he had a sight of the anger of the Lord, how ought impenitent sinners to feel? How do you think your sins would appear to you, if you could see them as God does? Is. 1: 2-6. What did David say there was not in his bones? v. 3. Why was there no rest in his bones? If you saw all your sins, and had no sense of pardon, could you rest? Is. 48: 22. Over what had his iniquities gone? v. 4. What did they seem like, to him? Did he think he could bear such a heavy load? How many years have you lived? How many of these years have you lived in sin? How often have you sinned, all this time? How long would it take you to count the number of times that you have sinned against God? If you could see these sins as God sees them, how would they appear to you? v. 4. What did David say of his wounds? Because of what? What did he mean by his foolishness? v. 3, 1. c. How did he feel? v. 6. How ought you to feel, on account of your sin? What did he do, all the day? What ought you to do, all the day, if your sins are not pardoned? With what did he say his loins were filled? What was this loathsome disease? v. 3, 1. c. What more loathsome disease can there be than sın? What will it bring upon you, if you are not cured? Ro. 6: 23, f. c. What did he say there was in his flesh? What had he done, because of the disquietude of his heart? v. 8. What do you suppose you would do, if you had such a sight of your sins as he had? Ac. 2: 37. Do you think he had any more reason to feel so than you have? Are your sins any less because you do not see them? Who sees them all? He. 4: 13. Is your condition any more safe than it would be if you saw your sins, as David did? Why do you not see your sins? Jn. 3: 20, 21 LESSON XXVIII. Ilow the burdened sinner may find rest. MAT. XI. 28-30. 28 Come unto me, all ye that | lowly in heart; and ye shall find labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me: for I am meek and rest unto your souls. WHAT does Christ tell them that are weary and heavy laden to do? With what are sinners heavy laden? Ps. 38: 4. If they saw the heavy load of sins which they bear, how would they feel? Ps. 38: 3. How should you think they would feel, if they could learn how to get relieved of their burden? What is it to come to Christ? If you saw him in this room, stretching out his hands, and calling you to him, could you go to him? Can you not believe his word, when he calls you to him, as well as if you saw him? What did he require of those that came to him then Mat. 16: 24. Lu. 14: 33. What does he require now? He. 13: 8. Is there any more difficulty in denying yourself, in imi tating his example, in loving him above all things, trusting in him and obeying him, than there would be if he were now bodily present? Is he not here in spirit? Mat. 18: 20. What does Christ say he will give to those that come him? |