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my people which was not my people, and
her beloved which was not beloved. On
the other hand your own prophets tell you
Israel may be rejected. Esaias tells you
so. Except the Lord of Sabbaoth had left
US a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and
been made like unto Gomorrah. What shall
then we say? Say this: II the gentle opens
his heart to receive the law OF God he will
have life, and if the Israelite shuts his
heart against the Christ of God that brings
him life, he will not have life; for God has
q right to give it to gentle as well as to
Israel, and is as ready 10 give it to gentle
as to Israel. Do / not, then, care for Is
and duplication to God is for them that
they NAV be saved. But how shall they be
saved except by taking the free gift that that
so. The word is nigh thee, even in thy
mouth and in thy heart; that is, the word
of faith which we preach. Tie word is nigh
thee, has wrought itself in the life that
God imparts to thee. Your prophets tell
you so. There is no difference. Greek and
than the pagans? Because Israel is the
missionary nation of the world. Israel IS
the the one Is appointed to be the almoners T Of
Israel it is given, as the bread was given
by Christ to the disciples at Galilee; So
they are to break it. they are to distribute
it. How are the pagans to know unless
some one tell them, and how shall some
one tell them unless they be sent? All!
tains who bear from Israel glad tidings to
the gentiles Am / then saying that GOD
has cast off Israel because preach n in nth the
gogues to preach to the gentiles, am | say
ing God has rejected Israel? God forbid;
no. God gives His life freely to all. The
Israelite who opens his heart to receive the
light lives, and the gentle who opens his
heart to receive the light lives, and the
Israelite who shuts his heart against the
life dies, and the gentle who shuts his
heart against the life dies, and there is no
difference. Gentiles, do not boast your
selves then. Do not you think that you are
the chosen and Israel OutcaSt.
GENTLE DEBT TO ISRAEL.
Here is a part of these chapters that I
think is not archaic. You gentiles,' says
Paul, you owe your life to Israel We,
gentle congregation, with perhaps not even
one single Jew among us, we owe our life to
Israel. 1t is Israel that has brought us the
message of the one God. 1t is Israel that
has brought us the message that God is
q just and righteous God; not mere force,
not mere abstraction, not mere thought,
but the justice, righteousness, love. 1t is
Israel that has brought us the message that
he Is our Father; 1t Is israel that' IN IA
foundation of liberty. 1t is Israel which
had the first free institutions the world
ever saw. 1t is Israel who has brought US
our Bible our prophets, our apostles. 1t is
Israel who brought us our Christ, and Jesus
Christ himself was Jew. When some
times our own unchristian prejudices flame
out against q Jewish people let us remem-
Der that all that we have and all that we
are we owe, under God, to what Judaism
has given u.s.
80 there is a sovereignty, but it is not a
necessary fate; there is a destiny, but 1T is
not pursuing merely the unrighteous with
whipSand scourges. There is a sovereignty,
but it is not arbitrary, choosing some and
casting others out without a reason. The
sovereignty is this: God hath shut up all
unto disobedience that He might have mer-
cy upon ALL Oh, the depth of the riches of
the wisdom and the knowledgeIof God. OF
Him. through Him, unto Him are all things.
To Him be the glory forever and ever.
Last fall in this church DIR. George A.
Gordon presented the new Calvinism.
Sovereignty--he presented that sovereignty
with a splendor of eioquence that capti-
waited our hearts who heard him; the
sovereignty rot of irresponsible decree, not
justice pursuing for punishment-the
sovereignty of a love that seeks all and
offers itself to all. What Dr.. Gordon said
in this pulpit last October Paul said, II
read the Epistle to the Romans Alright,
eighteen centuries ago in these enigmaticai
chapters. The end of sovereignty is uni
versal mercy. The great ship in which we
are embarked that comes we know not
whence, sails we know not whittier and is
under commands that are not interpreted
to us, is sailing to the harbor of a universal
love. Love is the sovereign, love Is the
destiny"