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WI .BIBlF- STUDIES.
.BIBsF STUDIES.
TO THE JEW FIRST.
Mark vii, 24-3o: Matthew viii, 5-13.
Oct. 20.


Him that e0meth unto Me | will
in no wise cast ut.''-John vi, 81.
There is general confusion prevalent
amongst Gods people respecting the
relationship between the Gospel of
Christ and the Jewish nation and be-
tween the Jewish nation and all other
nations. The Bible tells that until the
coming of christ-yea, until three and
q half years after Jesus died. arose
from the dead and assembled on high.
the Divine dealings We're confined TO
10 the Hebrew race-to Abraham and
his natural posterity. The whole
world is involved in the penalty that
came upon Father Adam because of
his disobedience-the whole world is
under Divine sentence as being un-
worthy of everlasting life or of rela-
tionship with God-the whole world,
therefore, as st. Paul describes. ARE
b. nature children of wrath, and all
were strangers. foreigners and aliens
from God.
Tie jews were no better than ti1e
remainder of the race. so far as the
Scriptures TELL hut God, having from
the first, determined to provide Re-
uttiiltI Iol lustilAiilAi. llilOdSit NilbSG
Kingdom all the world should ulti-
mateiy be blessed and have the priv
ilege of return Ia Divine favor, made
a selection of Abraham's posterity.
because Abraham was a noble char
acter whose faith ana obedience to
God were thus rewarded. 1t was not,
therefore. ANYTHING of which the Jews
might boast that their nation and not
another nation came into relationship
With God through the Law Covenant
L was of Divine grace.
The Gospel to Cornelius.
AS soon as the limit Of time esph,e5
God manifested HIS fagor toward the
Gentiles by sending tie Gospel Mes
sage 30 Cornelius, a reverentisil. holy
and generous Gentle. Since then
Gods favors are as open to the Cen
tile as to the Jew-'the middle wall OF
partition has been "broken down."
The Gentiles and Jews are now re-
ceived on tie same terms. VIZ. faith Il
Jesus and conservation to walk in His
steps.
Ii is from this standpoint that we
should read the Apostles statement
that the Gospel of Christ lis preached
to every creature under heaven" He
did not mean nor would it have been
true that the Gospel had been preach
ed to every creature in the sense of
being proclaimed TO all. For now,
eighteen centuries later, it has not yet
been proclaimed to all mankind. What
the Apostle did mean is that the Cos
pei is now unrestricted, free to be
Tor
heaven, no matter what his rationale
ty-that it is no longer confined to
Jews as at first. Now. whoever has
IAN ear to hear, let him hear the
good Message of the Kingdom Now.
whoever hears and has a heart to ac-
cept Gods gracious Message, let him
present his body a living sacrifice.
holy and acceptable unto God through.
Christ. (Romans xii, IL
The Syro -Phenican Woman's Faith.
The narrative of todaN's study fully
confirms what we have sad bout II,
namely. that at the time Of or lords
ministry. and for three ans . half
wears after His death. all Gods favors
still belonged to the Jews only. This
Syro- Phenician woman OF our studs
was a Greek-not a Iewess, Hell
daughter was possessed of an evil
spirit" obsessed.9 She heard that
Jesus was near the border of Judea
and she sought Him out implorine
that He would cast out the demon.
But Jesus said to the woman, Let
the children first be filled. for it is not
proper to take the clildrens bread
and cast it to the dogs She under