time at the outset of the Hebrew na tion, God pulls back the curtain of time and gives an advance preview of the salvation of all men being extended in love and grace. God said, “I’m going to give a preview of that to Abraham, He is going to see this good news and how it is going to cbme in the world in a later day.” In saying that, he in dicated it by, “In thee shall all of the nations of the earth be blessed.” God wouldn’t let Abraham offer up his son, because the Lord Himself spared not His only Son, but delivered Him up for us all and with Him will freely give us all things (Romans 8:32). It was by faith that Abraham had everything assured. If Abraham received all of this by faith, it is the same manner that God will justify all nations through all time by faith in Jesus Christ, His per fect sacrifice. God has one method by which men are saved. Q . San Jose, California -— “A Christian friend of mine always looks for the good points in others and claims that they should do the same w ith him. Why can’t more Christians do this in stead of being so critical?” A. What a good question this is. Be cause we still await for our full re demption there is much “groaning” in this life. “There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it doesn’t behoove any of us to talk about the rest of us.” Have you heard the old spiritual, “You can talk about me just all you please, but I’ll talk about you down on my knees. I ain’t going to grieve my Lord anymore”? What a wonderful motto this would be for our lives. Unfortun ately there are some people who are very critical, but the church is made up of a lot of different kinds of people. It is somewhat like an orchard. There will be peach trees, apple trees, orange trees, but in every well ordered orchard there is usually a lemon tree. Perhaps there are those kinds of people in churches just to keep the rest of us humble. May the Lord keep us from the cancerous disease of criticism and fault-finding. 32
Radio Questions (continued) If a person dies in unbelief here, he will not have the opportunity to be saved in the next world. There are many privileges given to be saved while we are alive down here on earth. The Holy Spirit woos the hearts of unbelievers. He may come again and again, and yet again, in an effort to get the individual to accept Jesus Christ as his own personal Saviour. But after death there is either eternal life or eternal Heath (John 3:16-18). Q . Buckeye, Arizona — “Does Dr. Fein- berg have a written exposition on the Song of Solomon?” A. A series has been done on the Biola Hour some time ago with one message on ‘.‘The Altogether Lovely Christ” from chapter 5:9-16, however, not an exposition of the entire book. Dr. Feinberg is author of a number of volumes especially on material from the Old Testament. He also has an excellent book on “Premillennialism or Amillennialism.” He has a set of five volumes on the minor prophets, with an additional publication on “Is rael in the Spotlight.” He is also editor of a two volume series “Fundamentals for Today.” Dr. Feinberg’s books are extremely interesting, extremely en lightening and are very lucidly written just as we hear him answer the ques tions over the broadcasts. Q . Bakersfield, California — “Please ex plain Galatians 3:8 which reads, ‘And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all na tions be blessed.’ ” A. While the book of Galatians has only six chapters, it is one of the most neglected portions in all the New Testament. It needs preaching on today in a very definite way. It deals with legalism which is so rampant through out all the churches including those which claim to be fundamental. Going back to Genesis, before the giving of the law on Mount Sinai, in Abraham’s
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