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the tribune stouffvule ont thursday january 21 1954 this weeks sunday school lesson jksls and the samjjrl tans olden text we have heard hiui ourselves and know iliat thi is indeed ihe christ tlie saviour of the world john 442 the lesson as a whole approach to the lesson while we are going through the gospel of st john chapter by chapter it will be well to have a comprehensive view of the whole the number of time- that john refers to our lord as ihe light in chapter one vs 4 5 7 s 9 and the fact that our lord calls him self the light of the world in s12 and 95 would justify us in regarding christ the light as the theme of thus gospel with thls in mind we may outline the progress of the i look as follows 1 the light breaks upon the darkness 1151 2 the light in conflict with the darkness 21 to 12 50 the light dispelling the darkness 131 to 1720 1 the light triumphant over the darkness 181 to 2125 the first of these divisions opens with the prologue 11- 1s where the light is intro duced as 1 eternal 2 in carnate following the pro logue we see the light intro duced by several witnesses the second division traces the struggle of our lord with the blindness of the jewish leaders a struggle which in creases in intensity ruing mighty crescendo as the of the coss approaches chance verse 28 the woman then left her waterpot and to a went her way while lea- dav i ving her waterpot was an act of excited forgetiulness it was in the third division we see our lord in the company of his apostles dispelling the gloom of their souls in the in cidents and converse of the upper room culminating in the wonderful high riestly prayer of chapter 1 the fourth division se s our lord plunged into the dark ness of calvary but coming for th in resurrection power and giving many infallible proofs to his disciples the gospel ends with an epilogue chap 21 in which peter is restored to apostleship by the risen lord and the evangelist declares that his account is li true but 2 fractional 2121 25 todays lesson is in division two but here the lord has a brief respite from controver sy as he passes through sam aria and there has gracious dealings first with the sinful woman of sychar and then with the townspeople it was a happy interlude and one suspects that the samaritan awakening recorded in acts s was not unrelated to this vis it verse by verse john 127 his disciples marvelled that he talked with the woman read with the asv they marvelled that he was speaking with a woman for what rabbi would stoop to converse with a woman thus met by till a symbolic act whoso has the spring of living water within him needs no water- pot verse 29 come see a man which told me all things that ever 1 did in the one statement of verse 18 jesus had laid bare the whole sor did story it was a case of he brews 413 verse 30 then they came unto him the womans testimony brought her fellow townspeople flocking some unconvinced perhaps but with open questioning minds verse 31 his disciples prayed him master eat to the disciples who had re turned from the village with provisions eating was the one business of the hour verse 32 i have meat to eat that ye know not of man is more than body and as there are deeper hungers so there are deeper satisfac tions if the thought of christ receiving meat from the wo man editored their minds they would not express it any man v 33 was all they dared to say verse 31 my meat is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work here is the expression of complete consecration notice his meat was not preaching teaching or even soulwinning as such but the will of god whatever that might be vc erse 35 lift up your eyes and look on the fields for they are white already to har vest the first reference is of course to the harvest of grain since harvest was in april and may this event would be in january but je sus points out the greater har vest now ripe men ready for the word of the gosuel did he see the samaritans ap proaching v 40 verse 30 both he that soweth and he that reap- eth may rejoice together westcotl suggests the trans fer of already from verse 35 to the beginning of verse 30 there is present reward for the soulwinner and an en during one the sowing seems to refer to the prophets of uie old testamu the reaping to the witnesses of the new tes tament verse 37 an herein is that saying true one soweth and another reapeth we in deed reap the harvest of the toil of lhose who have gone before verse 3s other men laboured and ye are entered into their labours again the reference seems to be to the preparatory work of the old testament prophets upon which the work of the gospel was built verse 39 many of the samaritans believed on him for the saying of the wo man some were led to faith through the personal testimo ny of the woman the power of a faithful witness is indeed great verse 10 they besought xrr- -s- v i g vuxmjacckurn couul ttunujltt 3 ual kuf tvenk cut cho6 a vh ci uwiked kcuid alniqkt imdmdma uilrt but d mioitd it cwaucm 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they did not want to appear too credulous especial ly on the word of such a char acter as this woman at any rate they sought a firsthand faith jesus was just as hungry as the disciples when they left him sitting on jacobs well while they went into the vil lage of sychar to buy provis ion for a meal but when they returned he had little appet ite for food instead of receiv ing them and their provision eagerly he seemed to be look ing off into the far distances and when they tried to recall him to the matter which was urgent to them he replied i have meat to eat that ye know not of another occupation had dissipated his desire for food this is not an unusual situ ation gontran de poncins and lewis galantiere in their book kabloona declare that they have seen half a dozen eskimos devour fifty pounds of meat at one meal they love to eat yet these same men have been known to stand almost motionless bent over a seal hole for many hours even into days forget ful of hunger in their intense eagerness to spear a great seal it was a different sort of oc cupation which banished nat ural appetite from our lord that day my meat he de clared is to do the will of him that sent me and to fin ish his work perhaps you have heard it said of some preachers that they would ra ther preach than eat but no tice that it was not preaching or teaching or even soulwin ning in itself that was jesus higher meat it was the will of god which of course included all these and we must remem ber that that allabsorbing will op god meant for our lord gethsemane and calvary there is tragedy in that statement i have meat to eat that ye know not of the lord jesus stood alone in this absorbing and eonsumin zeal for the will of god does he still stand alone in this or are there some of us who in some measure at least have joined him in this holy pas sion is the will ol god to us more than our necessary food in line with this difference between our lord and his disciples is this other they had eyes or a material harv est four months away while the saviour had eyes for a spiritual harvest even now waiting for reapers and still many who call him lord are all occupied with the returns from their investments this year next year ten years from now while harvests- of souls white now in their rea diness threaten to be black ened for lack of reaping jap an india africa call loudly now tomoroow may be too late business directory stouffvule monument works orders promptly executed p tarr proprietor telephone ssj marie jack hairdressing lloyd avenue stouffvllle permanent waving machine machineless cold wave hairstyling and shaping phone 170vl betty beauty salon victoria street machineless machine cold wave hair styling shaping phone stouffvule 287 r badgero auctioneers sellers atkinson ph agin 201w2 ph sto 363 licensed auctioneers and sale managers over 30 years experience sales conducted anywhere spe cializing in farm stock furni ture and property sales ah sales personally listed and ad vertised 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