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-s- 7 sunday school lesson i lesson for december 16 golden text for unto us a child is born- unto us a son is given mdgnsulerl but it is a great rightful king and eventually all nations will own him as their 5f the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called wonderful counsellor the mighty cod the everlasting father the prince of peace isa 96 the iiesson as a whole christ is exalted only ai he is recognized as lord and his word is obeyed it therefore becomes all mistake to suppose that this will ever come to pass during- the present age not until he returns in accordance with his own word to sit- upon the throne of his glory matt 25 31 will he take his great power and reign rev 11 17 to speak of christ as king of the nations now is to misinterpret phase bring back those empties i the busy holiday season i almost here bringing with it additional demand cartons and bottles are scarce they will be urgently needed to enable us to maintain a steady flow of supplies to the consumer please return empties now if you cant bring them in phone or write your nearest brewers retail store thank you the brewing industry ontario who profess faith in him to givethe scriptures entirely asto the him- by complete surrender to his great doctrine of the kingdom of will- the glory- due tohls name s and his christ this present thus he will be honored and his evil world or age gall4 is to authority confessed heis earths continue in rebellion against the lord until it is closed in judgment then when jesus is revealed from heaven in flaming fire with- his mighty angels visiting condign judgment on all adversaries of the truth 2 thess u710j he will reign as king of kings and lord of lbrds rev 1916 until that glorious day it is only those who have been bornagain among the nations who will recog nize him as the true king against whom the world as such is in rebellion christians are responsible so to behave themselves in the nation to which they belong by natural birth or naturalization that men will see in them the character istics now of christs kingdom and so many of them will be won to obedience to jesus christ as lord but the great majority will ever be opposed to his rule over their lives or over the nation as such until when his judgments are in the world the inhabitants of the earth shall learn righteousness isa 26 9 verse by verse isa 9 2 the people that walked in darkness have seen a great light this is a prophetic foreview of the coming into the world of jesus the light of the world who was des tined to bring salvation and bless ing to untold millions of earths inhabitants though rejected by his own nation and also by thenations of the gentiles as such verse 3 thou hast multiplied the nation and not increased the joy the nation here is israel and should not be understood as referr ing to any other people it is ques tionable whether the negative not should be retained or removed the consenus of opinion among spirit uallyminded scholars is that it should be omitted as the passage looks forward to the future blessing of the favored nation verse 6 unto us a child is born unto us a son is given the two fold nature of our lord is here set forth as to his humanity he is the child born of mary as to his deity he is the son given of the father tobe our redeemer ljohn 49 10 in gods duetime he is to take over the governorship of the nations this refers however not to his first but to his second advent the names given him all indicate the dignity of his person he is wonderful the mighty god manifested in flesh the father of the ages which is the meaning of the next expression and the prince of peace under whose beneficent and righteous rule all nations will be brought into the enjoyment ofpeace verse 7 the throne of david this is not the fathers throne oh so now well have a banker in the family well bob has finally decided when hes finished school he wants to go to work in a bank and i m glad for a lot of reasons hell get a thorough training and can even receive university instruction in banking and economics while he is working banking isnt learned in a day but hell get lots of help and every opportunity to move up as he proves himself thcroad to the top is wide open and offers jir a it ft which he now sits it is the throne of authority over the world which he will occupy when he comes again the two thrones are dis tinguished for us very clearly in revelation 3 21 up to the present hour the lord jesus has never occupied the throne of david he will fulfill this promise when he takes the kingdom and then he will establish it with judgment and with justice to go on forever no effort of man or of satan can thwart this purpose for the zeal of the lord of hosts will perform this luke 1 20 the angel gabriel was sent from god the time had come to begin the fulfillment of the divine program gabriel is one of the two holy angels mentioned by name in holy scripture the only other is michael gabriel had in formed daniel of events connected with messiahs coming dan 921- 27 now he was sent by god to inform mary that she was to be the mother of this glorious one who was to redeem israel and bring sal vation to the world verse 27 a virgin of the house of david mary mary was the one spoken of by israel more than 700 years before isa 714 who though a virgin was to be the mother of a son joseph to whom she was espoused but not married and she were both of the lineage of david verse 28 blessed art thou among women no other woman has ever been or ever will be so signally honored as mary it was given to her to bring the saviour into the world and to nourish him in his infancy and care forhim in his childhood and youth in this sense we need not be afraid to speak of the blessed virgin mary but the idea that she was always virgin and did not become a normal wife after the birth of her firstborn son is a figment of the imagination matt 1 24 25 verse 29 she was troubled at his saying to this simplehearted modest and humble young woman the angels salutation was almost incomprehensible she could not imagine why she was so addressed verse 30 fear not mary for thou hast found favour with- god gabriel proceeded to reassure her by giving her to know that god had dealt with her graciously thus pre paring her for the startling an nouncement that was to follow verse 31 thou shalt bring forth a son and shalt call his name jesus it was an amazing declara tion to make to a virgin but it told maryshe was the destined mother of the promised messiah the name given to the child before his conception means jehovah the saviour it indicated his mysteri ous divinehuman personality verse 32 he shallbe called the son of the highest he was to have no human father but was to be in a uniqucsense though a man born on earth the son of- god v 35 the angel went on to de clare that the lord god shall give unto him the throne of his father- david- as- to his humanityjhe was the son of davidand theprqp hecies concerning the throne of davutand its universality of sway were to be fulfilled in himathis promise- as we have seen awaits his second advent for its fulfill ment- verse 33 he shall feign over the house of jacob for ever this will be literally true of him when lie takes the kingdom and his earthly people own hirrias messiah in the coming day than the nations of the world will become subject to him for of his kingdom there shall be no end- to attempt to spiritualize these promises and to attempt to make them apply to the present age is to wrest scripture and to deny that all things which are written of him will be fulfilled luke 2444 the heart of the lesson the prophets of old told of the saviour who was coming into the world as the- son of a virgin he is the one who is to sit upon the throne of david and who is to be govenor among the nations ruling israel and the world in righteous ness in his reign that era of uni versal peace for which men have longed will be broueht about dur ing the present- age 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