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WALKING ON JHE SEA.
THIRD LESSON OF THE INTERNA
TIONAL S. S. S£R1£% JAN. 15, 1888.
*
Comments by Rev. William Newton, D.
D.—Text of the Lesson, Matthew xlv,
32-36—Golden Text, Matthew xlv, 3-7.
Memorise Verses 27-31.
[From Lesson Helper Quarterly, by perm lesion
of H. 8. Hoffman. Philadelphia, publisher.]
Notes.—Constrained, urged with great
I force, or induced by most weighty reasons,
‘Ship, L e., a fishing boat Other side, i. e.,
of the sea, or lake. Evening, the second
evening or night Fourth watch, or about
3 o’clock, the darkest portion of the night
A spirit, the Revised Version says “ap ap¬
parition.” The meaning is clear; they
thought it was a disembodied spirit, and so
were afraid. Saw the wind, or the effects of
the wind in the boisterous state of the sea,
[Doubt, or thiolc I would let shaped thee perish? plain
Gennesaret, a small, crescent
on the northwest of the sea. It is mentioned
jpnly twice in the New Testament, Matt,
xiv, 34 and Mark vi, 53.
V. 22. The effect of this feeding the 5,000
was so great that the people determined to
take him by force and make him their king.
;Copld not he r who could do such mighty
woHcs, break off the Roman yoke and restore
the power and splendor of David’s throne?
Ayl the disciples probably shared the people’s
[enthusiasm and entered into their design. It
kvould be a great thing for them—for would
■they not be high in office when be was king?
i Jesus perceived all this, and at once his action
Iwas determined on. Not from their hands
.would he accept his kingdom. Not under
present a surroundings would he reign. “He His
’‘kingdom was not of this world.” con¬
strained them” to depart as he said—i. e., to
go to the other side of the lake “before him”
L —Ailing along the coast, or in order to take
■Lire up, after he had sent the multitude
Kway. This done, he went up into a moun¬
tain alone to pray.
Jesus alone on the mountain top in prayer.
—What a sight to awe the spirit, and to
the heart And wherefore be
there? Were there not two reasons? Did he
not yearn, amid the noise and tumult of the
I worldly minded multitude, for the calmness
[and Ifc^oothis quiet ot communion with the father?
humanity like our own, in all
things, “yet without sin?” Did he not move
in the presence of what might be danger,
calm, and steady, and true, because he met it
in perfect accord with the father’s will?
And only in that is there safety always, be¬
cause only in that is there perfect truth. He
would have us do as he did—flee from the
danger, and strengthen ourselves by com¬
munion with God.
V. 23-24. What a striking contrast do these
verses present. Jesus alone on the mountain
in prayer; the disciples in midnight darkness
and storm. Manifestly, the storm had burst
upon them suddenly, and driven thsm out of
their course, for they were now “in the midst
0 f the sea”—instead of sailing quietly along
the coast. And yet they were exactly in the
position which Unintended them to occupy.
He saw it all before they sailed. This sudden
outburst of supposed danger—real enough
but for his knowledge and intention about
it—this darkness, this howling wind, these
boisterous waves, and his own bodily absence
from them, all entered into his plan, and even
meant to point the lesson he intended them
to learn.
V. 25. This verse tells us Jesus had not for¬
gotten his disciples. The midnight darkness
had not shut them from his sight. “He saw
them toiling ... . rowing, . „ an** , his . . heart . .
m
yearned toward then. i»their utter helple»
net*. And just when then- danger seemed
greatest, and the darkness deepest, “to the
fourth watch of the night," he moved to
then-behalf. But h. Is on Urn mountain and
they in the midst of the sea. How shall he
reach them! There is no difficulty here Is
it not written, that “all things serve thee!”
And so toe sea bows down its waves before
him and spreads them for a path for him to
walk on. And so he came to them “walking
on the sea”—teaching them and us that no
creature of his hand can come in between
him and his peopte’s need. It is in vain for
ns to speculate orrhow this was done. We do
not know the how of any process by which
God works in nature.
V. 26-27. How intensely human the poor
disciples were. How exactly like ourselves.
For with all our boasted attainments in
science and philosophy, we should have been
as frightened as they. We may call it supersti¬
tion w whatever else we choose. No one
thinks of accounting for something that is by
referring it to an agency which he believes is
not. At once Jesus soothes their fears. He
bids them be of good cheer, and speaks toe
good words which have rung through toe
agee in ervery storm and brought the sweet
of peace, wherever faith has heard them:
“It is I. not afraid.'_.
V. 32. No attestation could have been
more fitting than this: * “Thou art the Bon of
God.” None so perfectly justified by all the
facts of the case. The feeding of the
5,000, the walking on the sea, the ceasing
' of the wind as be entered into the ship, and
immediate arrival of the vessel at land,
John vi, 21. What else could these things
mean to those who saw them?
V. 33-36. This land of Gennesaret was on
the western side of the lake. And the inci¬
dent here related is one of great simplicity
and beauty, and brings, very distinctly, three
lines of thought-—i. e.:
1. The men of the place came to learn who
Jesus was.
2. Learning this they went out and brought
to him all the sick in the country round
about; and
3. Ail who touched him were made per¬
fectly whole. What volumes of truth are
condensed in these lines!
GENERAL LESSONS.
1. The meaning and Hie power of faith. If
we ask what is faith? the answer will be, it
is belief. And while this is certainly true, it
i is not all the truth. Does not the present
lesson show this? Does not the eleventh
! chapter of Hebrew show it? Faith connects
j w ith God, and so becomes a factor in
^ kj ^ dom of ^ „ a U th*. case* «how.
^ we Mm Janl , on the ,„ th
bvxm , toe through which Us
Mvi power flows into our souls. It is all
„ of through falt h." And to all the
„f the Christian life, through which this
£tt r itaelf faith j, the
, mediu lroagb which it act*. It holds np
every sinking Peter, and makes us victors in
the “good fight,” and winners in the heavenly
race.
2. Our most subtle ffempations may often¬
times be found in seeming seal for the cause
of Christ, just ss those people seemed to be
zealous for Jesus when the? sought to make
him King. He saw it was a snare, and fled
from it. Is there a certain test and guide
for us? Yes. Under all circumstances the
revealed will of God will guide us in the only
way we can safely tread.
3. Jesus, in bodily presence, distress walking simply on the
sea to go to his disciples in is
an object lesson of “this same Jesus” present
by his spirit wherever they are in need.
Present everywhere, in all the tenderness of
his love, in aU/the might of them: his power. “It is
Therefore he could well tar iway.” to
expedient for you that I go For bis
Spirit makes his presence universal.
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