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LESSON VIILSECOND QUARTER, INTER- , NATIONAL SERIES, MAY 24.

Text of the Lesson. Acts xxvl. 19-39-

‘e_¢\.y ve"¢¢_ 27-20-Golden Terb Acts xxvi, 22-Commentary Pre-

pared by Rev. D. Ill. Stearns.

[(}g||y|-ight, 1903, by American Press Association]

I9. VVhereupon. O King Agflpva- “'35

not disobedient unto the heavenly sision.

Our last lesson gave us Pauls tcstl-

mony before Felix and his wife. After two years Festus succeeded Felix, and Paul was still a prisoner. The hatred

ers was unabated, and they were still longing to kill Paul. Festus told them to come to C-aesarea and give their 198°

tlmony against him, which they did. I

but, as before, could prove nothing. When Festus asked him if he was will- ing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there, he appealed to Caesar. In due time King Agrippa and Bernice come to Cmsarea to visit Festus, and he tells them of Paul the prisoner and how the whole trouble between diim and his ac- cusers seemed to be about “one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul atiirmed to be alive” (xxv, 19). Kin! AKHDD8 3°? airing to hear him, and he, with Ben- nice and all the great ones being as- sembled, Paul is brought before them and is permitted to speak tor himself. He told of his early life, his zeal in the Jews’ religion, the appearance of the Lord Jesus to him on the way to Damascus and His commission to car- ry to the gentiles the knowledge of the forgivenss of sins and inheritance in the kingdom through Jesus Christ.

It 31. That they should repent and turn

is God and do works meet for repentance.

These things he preached as he was

commissioned at Damascus, Jerusa-

lem. throughout J udaea and to the gen- ;; ‘

tiles, and because of this, he said. the Jews wanted to kill_him. Well, they had killed the Lord Jesus and Stephen and James andotherl. and Paul him- self had taken a hand in some of it. so he 'knew just what it meant and why it was. and no one knew better. But his eyes had been opened, and now the risen-Christ was to him the great- est realiw in the universe. '

1 Having -therefore obtained help of

God, I continue unto this day, witnessing

both to dial! and grssbmscsying none oth- ¢ thingo than those h the prophets uid 1los§ did ass nliould some-» * All could see that there werecertail writingufani a certain person _spoken-

ef in writings in which and in whom. ,aul had absolute coniidence. It waseertainly a great privilege thus to be permitted to bear -witness to Christ the Scriptures besoresucl) -a congregation, but it was a very serious matter for the congregation. Better for themnever to have heard the good news than to hear and reject it. Yet we are commissioned to proclaim it to every creature, and God will take care of the results. _

ouid sni!e_r, and that first that should rise should shew light unto e gsntiies. _v ‘_ taught tl\it_._,it be

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er and to rise from day and that repent

on of sins should be

preached m His name among all na- tions (Luke xxiv, 46, 47). The gospel :which Paul preached was that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day, according to the Scriptures, and that through Him is preached the forgive- nessofsins,and by Himall thatbe- lieve are justified from all things (I Cor. xv, 3, 4; Acts xiii, 38, 39).

it-26. And as he thus spake for himself Festul said, with a loud voice: Paul, thou

art beside thyself. Much learning doth make thee mad. ........~...'.

"' Paul said that he was not mad, but had only spoken words of truth and soberness and was persuaded that Agrlppa knew the truth of- the things whereof he had spoken. In Isa. lix, 15, margin, it is written, "Yea, truth faileth, anglhe that departeth from evil is accounted mad.” In Bos. ix, 7, we read, “The prophet is a fool, the spir- itual man is mad.” They said to the Lord Jesus, “Thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil”`(John vii, 20; viii, 48); so we need not wonder when hard things are said of ns or to us for Christe

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2?. King Asrlvnt. believest' thou the prophets? I know that thou believeet.

Paul was persuaded that the king

was not ignorant of the events which

had so recently transpired at Jerusa-

lem or of the predictionsthus in part fulfilled. If the question should be asked of believers now, “Believest thou the prophets?" the answers might be

very varied, but no doubt many would _have to plead ignorance of what the

prophets had written.

38. 89. Then Agrippu said unto Paul, Al-

most thou persuaded me to be s Chris-

tion. .

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