ADDRESSES ON ROMANS
I also am an Israelite," "a pattern" to them which shall "here- after believe." I should like to tarry here long enough to say, in this connection, that it seems as though the day were rapidly drawing nigh when Christ shall reveal Himself to Israel as a nation. The time seems near at hand when the Son of God will come from heaven in all His glory, and Israel will look up. These are days that should put the fear of God into the hearts of the unsaved. The Jews are flocking back to Palestine, and God is getting them ready for that time when they shall look up and see "the Deliverer . .. out of Sion." And they will know Him "by the print of the nails in His hands." My unsaved friend, will you let Him into your heart, that He may save you by His grace? ISRAEL'S APOSTASY IS NEVER COMPLETE 11 :2-6, 25 In verses 2-6 Paul reminds us that God has always had a faithful remnant in Israel. "according to the election of grace." And in verse 25 he says again that "blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in." Later on in this study we shall consider further the significance of verse 25, but we need to note just here that it bears out what the Holy Spirit wants us to see, that Israel's apostasy is never complete. God has ever seen to it, and He always will see to it, that there is "a remnant according to the election of grace" among His chosen people. Even in the darkest hours of Israel's apostasy there has always been a remnant true to God. To prove this point Paul . cites a familiar story from Hebrew history. Turn to the eighteenth and nineteenth chap- ters of I Kings. and read the account of how the people were worshipping Baal, a heathen god. Read the story of Elijah's bold testimony for .the true and living God, and of how Je- hovah performed a great miracle that day, in order to bring His apostate people back to Himself. [Page 207
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