The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-02-27
|SERMON'.BY,..
PASTOR'SnA

4 iect OF a sermon preached b. Rev.
John Shape in Delaware Avenue
Baptist Church, February "a, 1901.
The texs was: but not as though
the word Of God has Jailed. For
not all they are Israel who are OF
\ Israel. Romans go.
The question Paul now faces ia
y fundamental and broad. 1t sweeps
the whole horizon OF revealed truth
and lays hold OF the basal prlnci.
s pies OF the gospel. 1t involves the
4 question Of the Jews, OF the church,
che secood coming of Christ the
millenium, the iullness OF the Gen
tiles, the first resurrection. the re-
Z ward tor works doLe in the body.
/ the faithiulness OF Jehovah's PROM
jses, the Interpretation OF the Old
8 Testament, the meaning OF the
new, the relation OF Judaism TO this
f present age. etc, etc. And while
{. 1t does uot come within the scope OF
z our discussion TO consider any OF
these questions tonight, they must
all be borne in mind. We are
I mainly TO discuss two things, VIZ:
ga seven-iold pre-eminenIs and
Z fearful failure.
a. L Let us consider first-thc
seyen fold pre- -cmlnenCe OF Israel.
~ The adoption. No other nation
( could claim this. Israel WAS Gods
adopted son. Over and over the
( Scriptures affirmed this relation
: TEX. 4 ;21; Deut. n Il; Isaiah ! ,;
Jer. $40. God S favor accompa-
MED God 8 people. With tlocks and
herds he blessed them ana in their
battles fought Tor them. II he must
raise up Moses to lead them. CT
rain mama from heaven TO Iced
4 them; or part the rushing waters
Of the sea that they escape pur-
" Suing Egyptians; or stay the sun
in his daily course until they tri-
i umph over enemies; or dcmoish a
city S walls 10 give them victory.
he does it all because lsrae! is his
Aon--his adopted.
~ And the glory. This was the
SheGinah which as guiding cloud
by day, or flaming fire by night led
1srael in all the wilderness wander
Ings, Never did God SO love and
lead another people. 1t was this
glory that went before them when
they went up ont OF Egypti above
ior seven days upon Mount Sinai
before Moses assembled It; covered
the tent OF the congieg alton aud
al IA liar n MI n m
rested upon the mercy seat OF the
ark as the visible sign OF Jehovah 5
presence. This glory was pre-
eminently Israel's and was another
link in the seven-toId golden chala
that bound the chosen people to the
heart Of God.
I (S) And the covenants. A COW
'euant is an agreement betWec II TWO
or more persons concerning SPECIFIC
actioHs. 1t carried with it, in this
case, on both sides, the most loving
yelatlons, and the greatest respou :
4bii!ty. The plural 10 used--cov-
eaaCts to bring out the idea re-
peasccl covenant. God coyenanted
with Israel not once, but many
tunes, With Abraham Gen IS Is:
L. ~ with Isaac tGen. 70 :24;) with
Jacob (Geu. $3.50 with the whole
people (Ex. 24:7. 81 Yes, the
eoYcnanis belonged to Israel, too.
a. And the giving OF the law
Not 80 much the possession Of it but
the giving Of It. Israel might have
received the law from another ma.
tinn heather nation And
eycu then it's possession would be
an houorlklgh, but the Jews had
m"!c than this, they had the giving
OF the law. God had delivered il to
them without the weakening intlu.
encc Of any Intermediary. The
giving of the law was the central
advantage IN this seScn-io!d pre-.
eniiaeuGc.
o. Add the service. The ser.
sscc referred to was The service OF
the sanctuary, the religious cXer,
Gtse. al" avs performed in the taber'
mace and 10 The temple. low Israel
prized that wonderful temple and
how minutely and sempclously he
rendered ali Its service. The Jew
said that IN Jerusalem Is the place
where men ought 10 worship anG
he found JOY IN both place and ser
vice.
90, Aud the promises. Rich i,
Israel III the promise o, God. Over
and over again God promised israeI
prominence and success and vic
tory The promises referred to
here doubtless are the Nesslaull
prCmH.cs which relate TO Christ unC
bis Kingdom Nom. Is 81 And sc
sciemnly deciar" that Tor Israel anG
Tor al the world, not ono oil those
promises has or can tan 1t shat
yet lie sccu by all The World tina,
'tlc IS faithful that promise i.
tDAnd the fathers, these also
wer: the Jew : Possession. Abra
ham i.aaC and Jacob are ours, il
is truc bat not IN the same sense
that they arc Israel s. To tremu
linz Moses al the living bush TO,
called himself. The God Of youl
Fathers ' lItX. ); 49, when lmOc.
liev,ns Jews Hooked to John }ap
tism the only requirement tnnl
thought they needed or the ri,
was the iact thai they bad Abrd
ham as their father =; ~hen Ink
Samaritan woman wanted 10 Under
stand Jesus IN that my Sierious III
terh0Ec about the living water sh(
eKC!almS, Whence then boast thot
thv living waterf art thou greateI
than our father jacob, when tn,
3cw "ou!d borrow figure Illus
:ratiSc OF the highest felicity o. TN
future state, he speaks o. rcc!in +;