And this is the spirit which ought to actuate every Church of Christ. He had just that self-sacrificing spirit of Moses, that he would lose anything and everything if they might but be saved. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: He had great heaviness and continual sorrow in his heart. How far is this from the spirit of those who look upon the ungodly without tears - settle it down as a matter that cannot be altered, and take it as a question of hard fate, but are never troubled about it. He never thought about his unbelieving brethren, without the deepest imaginable regret. I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. We are all condemned criminals, and if pardoned, it must be as the result of pure mercy, absolute mercy, for desert there is none in any one of us.
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There can be no right to that which is free favor. No man has any right to the grace of God. This chapter battles the question of right. Were they not the children of Abraham? Surely they had some right to it. The Jews thought that God must certainly save them. This exposition consisted of readings from Romans 9:1-5 and Romans 10. My subject leads me to read again at the 10 th chapter. If there is anything taught in the Word of God, it is assuredly that Paul comforts himself in a measure by the doctrine of election, which is fully spoken to in this chapter. Amen.” How any believers in Scripture ever get to be disbelievers in the Deity of Christ is altogether astounding. Though it did not seem to be called for by the immediate subject in hand yet he must put in a doxology to the name of Jesus. The apostle never omits an opportunity of magnifying his Master. Who are Israelites to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises: Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. The apostle is evidently about to make an extraordinary statement - a statement which would probably not be believed, and therefore, he gives as a preface the most solemn asseverations that are permitted to Christian men declaring that he is speaking the truth, and also that the Holy Ghost is bearing witness with his conscience that it is so - that he so loves the souls of his fellow-countrymen that, though the thing could never be, yet in a sort of ecstasy of love he could devote himself to anything so long as his countrymen might but be saved.
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