the top. The rancher told me the story. The mother had given birth to triplets. She was not able to take care of all of them and this one was left. The ewe it seems had lost her own lamb, but at first she would not have anything to do with the strange-smelling orphan. The rancher took the skin from her own dead offspring and wrapped it around the living lamb. Now the problem was solved. The bereaved mother smelled the coat of her own babe and took care of the or phan who had the skin on. What better illustration of what Paul meant when he said "And to be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, but that which is through faith in Christ." We can find favor in the eyes of Cod be cause we are clothed in the right eousness of our Saviour. How hopeless would be our condition before God if we had only the merits of our own righteousness to present. God looks at us favor ably because of His Son. How wonderful it is to have this relationship and to know Him. There are three ways we may know a person. We may know someone who does not know us (This is the way we know most famous people in the world.) Unfortunately, this is the way some people know God. It is a long distance relationship. Jesus talked about people who will one day say, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name, and in Thy name cast out devils?" The Lord will have to respond, "De part from me, I never knew you." What a sad and tragic picture. If you only mean that you know who and what God is, this is not Chris tianity at all.
was built as one of their cities. The fourth thing that was his by inher itance was an Hebrew education. He was able to say that he was "an Hebrew of the Hebrews." He had been reared in a home which maintained all of the proper cus toms. There were in Paul's day a few families so utterly orthodox that they adhered to the oldest of Jewish regulations and provisions. Paul's first four distinctions were his by inheritance. Next are the things which were his by choice. As touching the law he was a Pharisee. This was the strictest religious sect of the day. Since they were the most spiritual and orthodox, this is possibly why Christ so often upbraided them. The Bible tells us, "Whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth." Many of the early converts to Christian ity came from among this group. Paul was so zealous that he de lighted in contending for his faith by persecuting the Christians. They constituted a threat to the whole Pharisaical system. According the Jewish standard of righteousness the Apostle was able to say that he was perfect. This was true cer emonially for he had observed all of the ordinances. The contrast is shown in the fact that all of these, being of the flesh, could not be trusted. A number of years ago I visited a sheep ranch in the hills of New Zealand. In the homestead we no ticed a small enclosure where there was one large ewe with a very small lamb. What caught my eye was the fact that the lamb was skipping about the pen wearing an overcoat. Not only did it have its own fine covering of wool, but there was another lambskin over
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