that He has provided our right eousness by His substitution for us at the cross. Yet many are still go ing about trying to establish their own righteousness. What a sad state to be in. Israel has a glorious future (11:25). This "times of the Gen tiles" refers to the period when God has set aside the Jews. His clock is not moving as it relates to His chosen people until He returns and the completion of Daniel's 70th week is experienced in the Tribulation upon the earth. God will again deal directly with the Jews. We see signs today that in dicate this time may not be far away. Verse 26 states that "all Is rael shall be saved." The nation is going to be delivered during this time of national restoration. This has not happened yet spiritually. God does not change His mind. When He set out to have Israel, the ones who were chosen, adopted as His special objects of affection, He will still bring to pass the prom ises made in the long ago. What is His plan for today? The Lord is looking for people who have a heart for Him. He wants a response of love from man. Paul was willing to substitute his own salvation to see his brethren in the flesh come to know Christ. That ought to be the same intensive zeal we show, not only for Israel, but also for others in this world who do not know our Saviour. God's plan has not been set aside. It is going to come to pass. This is the reason why He can make His ap peal for us to fit into His plan so that we would give our hearts com pletely to Him. PRESENT YOUR BODIES Based on all that God has done
that they, as well as we, might come to Him. At the trial for a gross crime, the mother was asked, “Do you love your daughter?" With tears in her eyes the parent quickly responded, "I loved my daughter, I do love my daughter, and I always will love my daughter." Such is a slight picture of God's attitude toward man, es pecially in the Old Testament as it relates to the Jews. In the history of Israel we can see how the Lord sought a willing response of love from them. Before the cross He stretched forth His hands primarily to Israel (Romans 9:4-5). The Lord chose them in a special way. Think of the law and the covenants. What high privileges were theirs. This culminated in the fact that it was through their race that Christ Himself came. Yet, they themselves stumbled at the cross. They thought He was going to be a reigning Messiah. Instead He came to suffer and to die. How Christ yearned over them when He was here (Luke 13:34; 19:41). Today the Lord stretches forth His hands to all men everywhere, Jew and Gentile alike (10:12). The basis of salvation is very simply (words which are familiar to most), "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt belive in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation" (10:9-10). This is the truth the Jews stumbled over. Many others do the same to day. Verses five and six of Chapter 11 give us the encouragement of the "remnant according to the election of grace." God has made it so clear
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