ADDRESSES ON ROMANS
dark period will be Israelites. They will go up and down the earth, proclaiming the coming of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, preaching the message of salvation, even as John the Baptist preached repentance of sin and the coming of the King. God always has a remnant in Israel which is true to Him, and He always will have, no matter how dark the days, no matter how great the apostasy. Therefore, Paul argues.- "God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew." He will always see to it that there are heirs to His promises. And this leads us on to note the signiflcance of verses 5 and 6-the promises of God are all of grace. Do you see how all this dovetails with the whole message of the epistle to the Romans? If God's election of the faithful remnant in Israel is "by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work" (verse 6). ~ot by the keeping of the law. but by the grace of God alone, has there ever been even a faithful remnant among the people of promise. Let us bear in mind that, throughout the prophetic Word of God, Israel's apostasy is put in contrast with that of Christendom, for the apostasy of Christendom will one day be complete. You will remember that God promised not to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah if there were ten righteous persons to be found there. Neither would He allow the chil... dren of Israel to enter Palestine and mete out judgment upon the Amorites until their "cup of iniquity" was full. But Christendom's cup of iniquity will be full, even to over.. flowing. After the church is translated, there will be a great religious union; then . the apostasy will be complete. That is what Christ meant when He said, "When the Son of man cometh, will he find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:8). Do not be deceived, my brother, by a false sense of security in an empty profession of faith. Only the blood of Calvary's Lamb, ยท Israel's Messiah and the Saviour of the world. can save [Page 209
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