love, is not willing that any should perish. What a challenge to us to get on with the job so that this glorious transforming message can be delivered. There are great pock ets of humanity today that have nev er heard once that Christ died for them. Someone rationalizes, “Let them hear by radio.” But there are untold millions who have no radios, as well as millions more who, if they have receivers, can’t hear anyone speak ing in their own language. It’s not enough just to broadcast in the pop ular world languages. There are so many for whom such sounds mean absolutely nothing. In Esther’s day nine months, less ten days, every city and village had heard the message. For us, 2,000 years have passed and we still have many languages without any portion of the message of grace available to them. The unfinished task, even where missionaries have gone, and the unfinished task even where the Biola Broadcaster is an official publi cation of Biola College and Talbot Theological Seminary, and is available as a complimentary gift to those Chris tian friends who regularly share in the ministry of the school by personal mor al support, prayer support, and finan cial assistance. These Christian friends comprise “The Biola Fellowship.” For information on how you can become a partner in Biola’s great ministry simply write: The Biola Fellowship, 13800 Biola Avenue, La Mirada, California 90638.
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haste. There was a real urgency in volved. The original edict had to be replaced so that the innocent weren’t put to death. The tuning was crucial! Have you ever stopped to think that millenniums ago another Ruler, the Almighty God, King of the uni verse, wrote a decree for all men everywhere, “The soul that sinneth it shall die.” Just as the law of the Medo-Persia monarch, this edict can not be revoked. It’s still on the book. Death is still a fact the world over. But there’s a higher declaration an nulling the effect of the first. The reason is Jesus Christ, God’s Son, has come and died in our stead. He bore our punishment, the just for the unjust. Now the messengers have been commanded to go into all the world and preach this glorious Gos pel to every creature. The reason is man need not die! There is life through the Saviour. But if the mes senger doesn’t come with the second edict, overcoming the first pronounce ment, there will be many who die before they hear. God, in His great
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