ADDRESSES ON ROMANS in Germany, mine were giving the law to the world." When~ ever I see a Jew, I think of the fact that he can go back four thousand years to the father of his nation. If you were to take a Jew here in Los Angeles and set him alongside a Jew of four thousand years ago, you could not tell one from the other. We can not go back that far in our pedigree. And if we could, we should not care to acknowledge our forefathers. Israel is the only nation that can boast of her ancestry. 8. "OF WHOM AS CONCERNING THE FLESH, CHRIST CAME." What a distinction! What an honor! These words take us back to Rom. 1:3, where we read that God's Son, "Jesus Christ our Lord ... was made of the seed of David according to the flesh." They take us back to all the Old Testament prophecies of His coming-from the nation of Israel, from the tribe of Judah, from the house of David, to be born in Bethlehem. These and scores of other promises were all fulfilled when our Lord was born in Bethlehem of Judea and lived and suffered and died for the sins of the world. And "according to the flesh," our Saviour was a Jew! ยท The tragedy of it is that, in spite of all these privileges, Israel as a nation, has for centuries been lost, because the people have not known Christ as Saviour. They turned their backs on Him. They rejected their Messiah. That is why Paul was in heaviness of heart. It is possible that I am addressing someone who has been reared in a cultured home and blessed in a temporal way, someone who has education, wealth, position, all that the world can offer. My friend, whatever your distinction may be, multiplied by ten, it can not save you and bring you into the right relationship with God. Apart from Him, education, wealth, and culture are nothing. All of Israel's privileges did not save her. Do you not see what a commentary this is on that statement made by the Lord in John 3:3, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God"? As we have already observed, the faithful Jews who put their trust in these promises to God's chosen people could not Page 178)
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