Robert Murray M'Cheyne: Our Duty To Israel

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[00:00:35] Today we're listening to a sermon that was preached in the year 1839 in Scotland

[00:00:40] by Robert Murray, McChain, Troy.

[00:00:44] Every time I see the name McChain, it's got an E on the end.

[00:00:48] I don't know why, but I always call him Chaney.

[00:00:52] Like, I'm thinking like Dick Chaney, like Vice President of George Bush.

[00:00:56] Me and you were alive in that era.

[00:00:58] We probably have listeners that have no idea what we're talking about.

[00:01:01] But it was a Vice President.

[00:01:03] I never thought of that. That weirds me out. But yeah, you're right.

[00:01:06] Yeah, yeah. In the early 2000s, that was Dick Chaney.

[00:01:11] He was on a hunting trip and he accidentally shot some...

[00:01:15] That wasn't with him. It didn't kill him, but...

[00:01:18] Oh my goodness, that would have been bad.

[00:01:20] Right? Do you remember that?

[00:01:22] I do. I remember that. I remember listening to that on the school bus

[00:01:26] as I was getting ready for school and they were talking about it on the radio.

[00:01:28] And all of the kids in the high school were just like chatting about this, that and the other.

[00:01:32] And I was like, am I the only one listening that the Vice President just shot somebody?

[00:01:35] Like, is I the only one who finds that kind of interesting?

[00:01:38] Yes, I was.

[00:01:39] But yeah, I remember that. That's funny.

[00:01:42] My brain does not go there at all with McChain.

[00:01:44] No? That's just a me thing?

[00:01:47] You know what? Write in. When you hear McChain, you think of Vice President Dick Chaney.

[00:01:54] It's more when I see the name spelled out because it looks like Chaney.

[00:01:58] And then I think of like...

[00:01:59] Because that's how I just imagine Bush going Chaney, Chaney, like looking over, calling up Dick Chaney.

[00:02:07] I don't know.

[00:02:08] Okay, I really hope that this becomes a problem for people.

[00:02:12] I don't think it'll be a problem for me, but nothing would make me laugh harder than if the world...

[00:02:16] Like from now on, a bunch of people see that name and they can only think about Dick Chaney now because of you, Joel.

[00:02:21] That would be really hilarious to me.

[00:02:23] I'm surprised you were...

[00:02:24] Or maybe it is a common problem.

[00:02:25] I'm surprised you were...

[00:02:26] Like I felt like I for sure would have shared your sentiment or you would have shared mine in this example, but I guess I'm alone.

[00:02:32] Joel says that because I was quite a politics guy.

[00:02:35] Was, is, I know, okay.

[00:02:36] I enjoyed politics.

[00:02:42] Yeah, fair enough.

[00:02:43] But no, Robert Murray McChane in my brain never, never got paired up quite in that way with Dick Chaney, the former vice president.

[00:02:50] But yeah.

[00:02:51] Every time I...

[00:02:52] Maybe that's because...

[00:02:52] Every time I see his name in history, I'm just reminded, you know, like hunting accidents are serious business.

[00:02:59] So practice hunter safety.

[00:03:02] It's an important thing.

[00:03:03] I'm sure that's what...

[00:03:04] I can honestly say I've never had a hunting accident.

[00:03:07] Uh, that may also be because I've never been hunting.

[00:03:11] Yeah, I was about to say there is probably a correlation there with your...

[00:03:13] The, the, those charts don't have a whole lot of overlap.

[00:03:16] I've also never had a major sports injury because I've never played any major sports.

[00:03:21] So, you know, I'm not gonna brag, but I'm just saying I seem to be ahead of the A game on some of this stuff.

[00:03:26] Um, I, okay, so I will just give my opinion on hunting that you didn't ask for, listener.

[00:03:31] But I'm sure it's super awesome to kill the deer and eat it.

[00:03:35] And like whenever someone goes hunting and they have extra meat, I'm super happy.

[00:03:38] Uh, my issue though is purely sitting in a bush.

[00:03:42] Hmm.

[00:03:43] Yeah.

[00:03:44] Without being or moving hardly, like just being stuck there.

[00:03:47] Yeah.

[00:03:48] Hoping that an animal will come by.

[00:03:51] Yeah, my understanding is that...

[00:03:51] Sounds like the worst way to spend my day.

[00:03:53] That's a good chunk of what hunting is.

[00:03:56] Yeah, that's my understanding.

[00:03:56] Yeah, the entire thing of it is the problem I have.

[00:03:59] Like I just, I just have to sit there and hope that an animal comes by.

[00:04:03] I might waste my entire day or I might finally get an animal in my sights and then I miss.

[00:04:07] I mean, that's just, that would drive me crazy.

[00:04:10] They like have certain baits and stuff that they use to kind of draw them out.

[00:04:13] It's not, it's not pure chance.

[00:04:15] My main issue is that like they're most active during your dawn, twilight hours.

[00:04:22] True.

[00:04:22] True.

[00:04:23] And so you have to like be set up and, and posted hours beforehand as to not, you know,

[00:04:30] like you, cause you want things to settle down and everyone to forget you're there.

[00:04:33] Yeah.

[00:04:34] And that's a hunting schedule of getting up at three or four o'clock in the morning is

[00:04:40] not conducive with my life.

[00:04:42] So that's, that's all of that barrier of entry.

[00:04:45] I respect the people who do it.

[00:04:47] You guys are awesome.

[00:04:48] And I, I get very appreciative when your friend has extra, you know, jerky or something.

[00:04:52] That's really cool.

[00:04:53] I just, I know it's not for me.

[00:04:55] I could not, I could not be that guy.

[00:04:57] And that's when you clicked provide thoughts.

[00:04:58] Oh, Robert Murray McChain.

[00:05:00] You were expecting this conversation on hunting and why I don't hunt.

[00:05:04] And now, now, you know, I'm glad we got that out of the way for you.

[00:05:07] I bet you, I bet you Robert Murray McChain hunted once or, once or twice in his life.

[00:05:13] 1700s.

[00:05:13] I feel like everyone hunts, right?

[00:05:15] Okay.

[00:05:15] Sorry.

[00:05:15] He's the 1800s.

[00:05:17] But secondly, in Ireland, I don't know how much he would have been hunting Ireland.

[00:05:22] Sorry, Scotland, Scotland.

[00:05:23] They're not the same.

[00:05:24] We just did an episode in Ireland.

[00:05:25] Anyway.

[00:05:27] Yeah, I don't know.

[00:05:27] I don't know about that.

[00:05:28] All right.

[00:05:28] Well, anyway.

[00:05:30] What is the wild game in Ireland?

[00:05:32] I'm good.

[00:05:33] He's in Scotland again.

[00:05:34] So that was my fault, but I don't know.

[00:05:36] Stop doing this to me, Charlie.

[00:05:37] I'm like, Scotland hunting game animals.

[00:05:45] Animals.

[00:05:46] Animals.

[00:05:49] Red deer.

[00:05:51] They got deer.

[00:05:52] They got doe.

[00:05:53] They got, it looks like grouse.

[00:05:56] Okay.

[00:05:56] It looks like pretty much, yeah, what people hunt around.

[00:06:00] Same.

[00:06:01] Yeah.

[00:06:01] Pretty much what everybody always hunts.

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[00:07:00] Okay.

[00:07:01] You ready to talk about McChaney?

[00:07:04] McChain.

[00:07:04] Yes, I ready.

[00:07:07] McChain.

[00:07:07] We've talked about McChain before.

[00:07:09] We have a McChain sermon on our archive, but it is three years old.

[00:07:12] It's been a hot second since McChain has been on our radar, on our rotation.

[00:07:17] McChain.

[00:07:17] Born in Edinburgh in 1813, he definitely gets our Prodigy stamp, in my mind, imagining

[00:07:25] like stamping a Prodigy in big red letters.

[00:07:28] We need to have...

[00:07:29] Yeah, maybe we can commission some type of voice announcement too for Prodigy.

[00:07:34] Yes.

[00:07:34] Just so it's just Prodigy, Prodigy, Prodigy.

[00:07:37] Yeah, he's your classic Church of Street Prodigy.

[00:07:40] He's your...

[00:07:40] Right.

[00:07:42] Put the...

[00:07:43] Joel, get the guys in sound engineering to work on that for us, can you?

[00:07:46] Yeah.

[00:07:46] Yeah, we need to brand people because we do have these people occasionally that come on

[00:07:51] the show.

[00:07:52] They typically fall into one of two camps.

[00:07:54] You're either a dumb kid that doesn't like school and drops out and still manages to be

[00:07:59] a mega pastor somehow, or you're the Prodigy that is just excelled in everything you do

[00:08:05] and everything comes supernatural.

[00:08:08] McChain falls into the second category.

[00:08:10] It's true.

[00:08:11] These almost fall into like your classic narrative slash like, you know, movie or comic book strip

[00:08:17] two categories.

[00:08:18] I don't...

[00:08:19] If we were to take everyone out of our show who was a Prodigy, Prodigy, Prodigy, or a,

[00:08:23] you know, your bum, basically, we would be left with like four episodes because I

[00:08:28] do think that's almost always the way it goes.

[00:08:30] Yeah.

[00:08:31] At the age of four, he was reading and not only reading English, but also he could pick

[00:08:38] up on a little bit of Greek here and there.

[00:08:40] You know, like most four year olds, you know, that's not too impressive.

[00:08:43] But at the age of eight...

[00:08:45] If your child isn't learning Greek by four, you know, you might be time to see a specialist.

[00:08:52] There might be some...

[00:08:52] Right.

[00:08:53] Yeah.

[00:08:53] Talk to somebody.

[00:08:54] There's programs.

[00:08:56] Eight years old.

[00:08:58] He entered high school.

[00:09:00] High school was a little bit different back then.

[00:09:02] But again, this is not one of those situations where it's...

[00:09:07] He's like, it just has to do with the educational system.

[00:09:10] He is genuinely very smart.

[00:09:11] Graduated high school at the age of 14 and went to college and graduated college by the

[00:09:15] age of 19.

[00:09:16] So in an age where most people are in their freshman year of college, he is already graduating

[00:09:22] and excelled with awards and poetry.

[00:09:26] But, you know, academics wasn't his only passion.

[00:09:30] He's well known for just having a heart of evangelism.

[00:09:33] He wanted to get out there on the streets, talk to people, meet the needs of the poor, share

[00:09:41] food and Bible studies with anyone and everyone that he came in contact with.

[00:09:45] So his reputation preceded him in those areas.

[00:09:48] And by the age of 22, he was ordained and became the pastor of a parish of 1,100 people.

[00:09:57] So at the age of 22, he is further along in life than I am at 31.

[00:10:06] But, you know, praise the Lord.

[00:10:10] Yeah, he's doing great.

[00:10:11] He's definitely, again, prodigy.

[00:10:13] And McChain here, he never had good health, which also, maybe we should, man, the amount

[00:10:17] of audio and things we should be making because if I, we should definitely have a, he has bad

[00:10:22] health audio.

[00:10:23] And I want it to sound just like that.

[00:10:24] He has bad health.

[00:10:26] And he was one of those classic geniuses who has bad health.

[00:10:29] He threw himself into his work and cared a lot for his congregation.

[00:10:34] He poured out his love for them deeply.

[00:10:36] He was a good pastor to these people.

[00:10:38] Even though he was young, he was given it all he had.

[00:10:41] But in 1838, he became too ill to continue working.

[00:10:45] So his doctors gave him the well-known remedy of a vacation.

[00:10:51] That's right.

[00:10:51] Back in the 1800s, again, another audio thing we should have.

[00:10:55] When you were sick, you got sent to a vacation, which I got to be honest, guys, you're making

[00:11:00] my sickness sound pretty good.

[00:11:01] But then again, they all die like before they hit 40.

[00:11:04] Not really, but well, in this case.

[00:11:05] But anyway, so maybe it is okay that we don't have vacation prescriptions anymore.

[00:11:10] But it does sound nice.

[00:11:12] And at the age of 25, he was told, you need to take a break.

[00:11:15] We want to get you out of Scotland and see if your health improves somewhere else.

[00:11:18] So then you can come back to Scotland where your health wasn't good and get back to work.

[00:11:23] He wasn't.

[00:11:23] He was invited to go to Israel and minister to the Jewish population in Israel with some

[00:11:29] friends.

[00:11:29] A group of people were kind of going over there.

[00:11:31] And I got to wonder how this conversation even got started because there's four of them

[00:11:35] that are kind of like all pastors, and two of them will become very famous pastors.

[00:11:40] Again, McChain being one of them.

[00:11:41] And the other is his old college friend, Andrew Benar, who is alongside his brother, Horatius

[00:11:46] Benar.

[00:11:47] These are very extremely influential.

[00:11:49] We've covered their sermons.

[00:11:50] Big name people in history.

[00:11:52] And I just wonder how these four people all came to the conclusion, we need to go to Israel.

[00:11:57] And then I'm also curious, how did they go, hey, McChain, we're going to Israel.

[00:12:02] You should come with us.

[00:12:03] Oh, that's great.

[00:12:04] My doctor just prescribed me a vacation, so I need to go out of here anyway.

[00:12:08] I just wonder how that whole process started.

[00:12:11] It does sound like the opening few minutes to a road trip movie to where you've got to

[00:12:16] get the gang of guys together.

[00:12:19] Yes, that's exactly.

[00:12:20] Thank you.

[00:12:21] I think you just explained it all.

[00:12:22] I think it was just a classic 1800s road trip movie for these pastors.

[00:12:28] Yeah, I've read about this trip to Israel a few different times, just anecdotally through

[00:12:35] our coverage here on Revive Thoughts.

[00:12:38] And I always think it's fascinating to read about from their point of view because, again,

[00:12:43] this is 1800s.

[00:12:45] This is a time where global travel like this was not something that the average person

[00:12:53] would ever do in their life.

[00:12:54] The vast majority, 99% of people would never leave their country.

[00:12:59] And so to span a good chunk of the globe to go to Israel is a huge thing.

[00:13:05] And it was a sensational thing for their community back home at Scotland.

[00:13:10] So they would write these letters back home, updating them on what they're seeing.

[00:13:15] Like, here's what we're doing this week.

[00:13:16] Here's what we're up to.

[00:13:17] Here's what we got to see this week.

[00:13:18] And back home in Scotland, these are being published in the newspapers.

[00:13:21] Like, the country is following along what Mishain and his gang are up to on their quest to go

[00:13:29] to Israel and see these things.

[00:13:31] So imagine having your home country, like, eagerly waiting your next update to follow your adventure

[00:13:39] of what's going on in the Holy Land.

[00:13:41] They got to Israel.

[00:13:42] And, you know, everyone says it was an amazing experience.

[00:13:46] Again, we're kind of spoiled in today's day and age where we, if you haven't been to Israel,

[00:13:50] you've definitely seen pictures and models and you see it on TV.

[00:13:54] And like, all of our Bible curriculum material has plenty of information showing, you know,

[00:14:02] what the temple ruins and all of this stuff is like.

[00:14:04] Back then, they didn't have this stuff.

[00:14:06] It was just like, you know, like you'd get bits and pieces through word of mouth.

[00:14:10] But to actually go and see where Christ had walked was incredibly exciting for them and

[00:14:18] for them to be able to then describe it to their readers back home and update them on what's

[00:14:22] going on.

[00:14:22] It was also a hard trip for them because they were very saddened to see the state of the

[00:14:29] Israeli people that were living there.

[00:14:31] The city was not in a great shape, especially back then.

[00:14:35] And lots of homelessness, lots of trash, literally just mountains of trash all over the place.

[00:14:40] And there's this story of a pastor by a witness that was in the area at the time.

[00:14:48] And he's recalling seeing the Machain gang coming through their city.

[00:14:53] And there was this tavern that they were in.

[00:14:56] And someone was up on the, speaking at the tavern, preaching this fiery sermon about Jesus

[00:15:02] Christ, about the Holy Land, about, you know, this place that they were at there now that

[00:15:06] none of them really thought about in that way.

[00:15:08] And how this sermon had everyone's ears, they were just spellbound.

[00:15:13] They were captivated by everything that they were being taught there.

[00:15:16] And it wasn't McShane preaching the sermon.

[00:15:18] It was his friend, Andrew Benar.

[00:15:20] But that was the effect that this group was having on the people there.

[00:15:25] These people didn't think about Israel in the way that the rest of the world was thinking

[00:15:31] about it.

[00:15:32] And it made an impact on their excursion.

[00:15:39] Yeah, I love that story because that pastor buyer kind of wrote that down somewhere long

[00:15:45] before these guys were quite as famous as they are.

[00:15:47] So it's kind of just a testimony of an eyewitness story.

[00:15:51] You're getting, you know, somebody who's writing this down about people before they're

[00:15:56] famous.

[00:15:56] You don't, we don't, it's hard to usually get that.

[00:15:58] This is, this is, this is who they were when no one was looking.

[00:16:02] When the world didn't know their names yet, this is the kind of attention and love of Jesus

[00:16:06] they had, especially when they were in Jerusalem.

[00:16:09] But the reason McShane is not there is because McShane is on death's bed.

[00:16:13] He got a fever and said he felt as if he was dying.

[00:16:16] He basically prayed his final thoughts and was truly expecting to pass away from this

[00:16:21] fever.

[00:16:22] But he wanted to die passionately praying for his church in Scotland.

[00:16:25] So he was really, as he's going through the pain and struggling and the fever and

[00:16:28] everything else, he was really trying to make his final prayer moments, his final thoughts

[00:16:32] be prayers and his final prayers before his church in Scotland so that he could be an honorable

[00:16:38] and dutiful, you know, pastor all the way to the end, loving on his church and just

[00:16:42] praying the best for them.

[00:16:44] And, you know, look, this guy is a guy who's traveling to Israel because he gets sick all

[00:16:49] the time and he's getting a fever expecting to die.

[00:16:52] So let's tell you how painful the fever is when this guy is always sick is telling you,

[00:16:56] I don't think I'm surviving this one.

[00:16:57] But he actually did not die.

[00:16:59] And when he came back from the fever, he felt like a God had given him a second life and

[00:17:03] chance to honor him and his ministry.

[00:17:04] And he was thrilled that he had not died because he just still had so much ministry he wanted

[00:17:09] to do.

[00:17:10] When he returned, they get back to Scotland.

[00:17:12] He found that the preacher that had watched over his church, William Chalmers Burns, know

[00:17:17] that name because we have a sermon coming from him very, very soon, I hope, from when this

[00:17:21] episode comes out.

[00:17:23] And when you see it, click it.

[00:17:24] You're going to go, I don't know who that guy is, but trust me, he's a great guy and

[00:17:26] you're going to want to know who he is.

[00:17:28] He had started a revival actually at the church.

[00:17:30] The Lord had swept in through the congregation while McChain was gone.

[00:17:34] Many people had come to Christ and many of the people who had already were Christians

[00:17:39] were suddenly, you know, giving their lives over the service of ministry and passionately

[00:17:42] rededicating themselves to God.

[00:17:44] And they found out all of it started the same day that McChain was praying for that fever

[00:17:50] and trying to make his final thoughts and final moments being about God.

[00:17:55] And it was just amazing that, you know, all the way the Lord answered that prayer by sweeping

[00:17:59] his church with revival.

[00:18:09] Yeah.

[00:18:10] So some people, you know, might've been, might've been jealous that that happened while they

[00:18:14] were gone, but McChain was just thrilled that the Lord was moving, you know, and I

[00:18:18] think that speaks a lot to his, his character.

[00:18:20] Praise the Lord.

[00:18:23] His journey to Israel led in the creation of several outreach programs to the Jewish people

[00:18:29] all over Europe and Israel.

[00:18:30] He really championed this and got a lot of things going.

[00:18:33] People wanted to see the once chosen people of God come to Christ again.

[00:18:38] And so McChain helped spearhead much of the evangelical outreach that existed in the late

[00:18:44] 1800s there.

[00:18:45] But sadly, he wouldn't last much longer.

[00:18:48] Before he turned 30, he had passed away due to his frequent illnesses.

[00:18:54] What was the soundbite, Troy?

[00:18:56] His health was not well.

[00:18:58] Yeah.

[00:18:58] His health was not well.

[00:18:59] Again, we gotta get this audio.

[00:19:02] Yeah.

[00:19:03] Yeah.

[00:19:03] We'll plug it into the soundboard and we'll call it up.

[00:19:06] So in a few weeks, Troy kind of teased this William Chalmers Burns character that was a part

[00:19:12] of his life.

[00:19:13] It's William Chalmers Burns that would preach the funeral sermon of McChain here.

[00:19:19] And we're excited to be getting that together for you to listen to, hopefully in the near

[00:19:24] future.

[00:19:25] But for now, we're going to listen to a sermon that McChain preached titled, Our Duty to Israel.

[00:19:31] Most people are ashamed of the gospel of Christ.

[00:19:40] The wise are ashamed of it because it calls men to believe and not to argue.

[00:19:45] The great are ashamed of it because it brings all into one body.

[00:19:49] The rich are ashamed of it because it is to be had without money and without price.

[00:19:55] The happy are ashamed of it because they fear it will destroy all their fun.

[00:20:00] And so the good news of the glorious Son of God, having come into the world a salvation

[00:20:05] for lost sinners, is despised and cared for.

[00:20:10] Men are ashamed of it.

[00:20:12] Who are not ashamed of it?

[00:20:15] A little company, those whose hearts the Spirit of God has touched.

[00:20:20] They were once like the world and of it, but he awakened them to see their sin and misery

[00:20:26] and that Christ alone was a refuge.

[00:20:30] And now they cry, None but Christ.

[00:20:33] None but Christ.

[00:20:37] God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of Christ.

[00:20:42] He is precious to their heart.

[00:20:44] He lives there.

[00:20:46] He is often upon their lips.

[00:20:49] He is praised in their family.

[00:20:52] They would proclaim him to all the world.

[00:20:56] They have felt in their own experience that the gospel is the power of God to salvation

[00:21:01] to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

[00:21:07] Dear friends, is this your experience?

[00:21:10] Have you received the gospel not in word only, but in power?

[00:21:15] Has the power of God been put forth upon your soul along with the word?

[00:21:21] Then this word is yours.

[00:21:23] I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.

[00:21:28] One strange aspect in this statement I wish for you to notice.

[00:21:32] He glories in the gospel as the power of God to salvation to the Jew first, from which I draw this doctrine,

[00:21:42] that the gospel should be preached first to the Jews.

[00:21:47] First, because judgment will begin with them indignation and wrath to the Jew first.

[00:21:54] Romans chapter 2, verses 6 through 10.

[00:21:57] It is an awful thought that the Jew will be the first to stand forward at the bar of God to be judged.

[00:22:06] When the great white throne is set, and he sits down upon it, from whose face the heavens and earth flee away.

[00:22:13] When the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books are opened, and the dead are judged,

[00:22:19] out of these things that are written in the books, is it not a striking thought that Israel, poor blinded Israel,

[00:22:29] will be the first to stand in judgment before God?

[00:22:34] When the Son of Man will come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him,

[00:22:40] when he will sit upon the throne of his glory, and before him will be gathered all nations,

[00:22:45] and he will separate them from one another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.

[00:22:52] When the awful sentence comes forth from his lips, depart, you accursed.

[00:22:58] And when the guilty many will move away from him into everlasting punishment,

[00:23:03] is it not enough to make the most careless among you pause and consider

[00:23:08] that the indignation and wrath will first come upon the Jew?

[00:23:14] That their faces will gather deeper paleness, their knees knock more against one another,

[00:23:20] and their hearts die within them more than others.

[00:23:24] Why is this?

[00:23:26] Because they have had more light than any other people.

[00:23:30] God chose them out of the world to be his witness.

[00:23:34] Every prophet was sent first to them.

[00:23:37] Every evangelist and apostle had a message for them.

[00:23:41] Messiah came to them.

[00:23:43] He said,

[00:23:44] I am not sent, but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

[00:23:49] The word of God is still addressed to them.

[00:23:52] They have it pure and unadulterated in their hand.

[00:23:58] Yet they have sinned against all his light,

[00:24:03] against all this love.

[00:24:06] O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone them, which are sent to you.

[00:24:12] How often I would have gathered your children together,

[00:24:16] as a hen gathers its chickens under its wings.

[00:24:20] And you would not.

[00:24:23] Their cup of wrath is fuller than that of other men.

[00:24:27] Their sea of wrath is deeper.

[00:24:29] On their very faces you may read in every time period that the curse of God is over them.

[00:24:38] Is not this a reason, then, why the gospel should first be preached to the Jew?

[00:24:45] They are ready to perish.

[00:24:46] To perish more dreadfully than other men.

[00:24:49] The cloud of indignation and wrath that is even now gathering above the lost will break first upon the head of the guilty,

[00:24:58] unhappy, unbelieving Israel.

[00:25:01] And have you none of the heart of Christ in you,

[00:25:04] that you will not run first to them that are in such a sad case?

[00:25:11] In a hospital, the kind physician runs first to the bed where the sick man lies who is nearest to die.

[00:25:18] When a ship is sinking and the gallant sailors have left the shore to save the sinking crew,

[00:25:23] do they not stretch out the arm of help first to those that are readiest to perish beneath the waves?

[00:25:31] And will we not do the same for Israel?

[00:25:36] The billows of God's anger are ready to dash first over them.

[00:25:41] Will we not seek to bring them first to the rock that is higher than them?

[00:25:46] Their case is more desperate than that of other men.

[00:25:50] Will we not bring the good physician to them?

[00:25:53] Who alone can bring health and a cure?

[00:25:57] For the gospel is the power of God to salvation,

[00:26:01] to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

[00:26:04] I cannot leave this topic without speaking a word to those of you

[00:26:09] who are in a situation very similar to that of Israel.

[00:26:12] To you who have the word of God in your hands,

[00:26:15] and yet are unbelieving and unsaved.

[00:26:18] In many respects, Scotland may be called God's second Israel.

[00:26:23] No other land has its Sabbath as Scotland has.

[00:26:26] No other land has the Bible as Scotland has.

[00:26:29] No other land has the gospel preached, free as the air we breathe,

[00:26:34] fresh as a stream from the everlasting hills.

[00:26:37] Then think for a moment,

[00:26:39] you who sit under the shade of faithful ministers,

[00:26:43] and yet remain unconcerned and unconverted,

[00:26:47] and are not brought to sit under the shade of Christ.

[00:26:52] Think how similar your wrath will be to that of the unbelieving Jew.

[00:26:56] And again, think of the marvelous grace of Christ,

[00:27:01] that the gospel is first to you.

[00:27:04] The more that your sins are like scarlet and like crimson,

[00:27:08] the more the blood free to you that washes white as snow.

[00:27:12] For this is still his word to all his ministers.

[00:27:17] Begin at Jerusalem.

[00:27:22] Second, it is like God to care first for the Jews.

[00:27:26] It is the chief glory and joy of a soul to be like God.

[00:27:30] You remember this was the glory of that condition in which Adam was recreated.

[00:27:37] Let us make man in our image after our likeness.

[00:27:41] His understanding was without a cloud.

[00:27:44] He saw in some measure as God sees.

[00:27:48] His will flowed in the same channel with God's will.

[00:27:51] His affections fastened on the same objects which God also loved.

[00:27:57] When man fell, we lost all this,

[00:28:00] and became children of the devil,

[00:28:02] and not children of God.

[00:28:04] But when a lost soul is brought to Christ,

[00:28:07] and receives the Holy Ghost,

[00:28:08] He puts off the old man,

[00:28:11] and He puts on the new man,

[00:28:13] which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

[00:28:17] It is our true joy in this world to be like God.

[00:28:22] Too many rest in the joy of being forgiven,

[00:28:26] but our truest joy is to be like Him.

[00:28:29] Oh, do not rest, beloved,

[00:28:32] till you are renewed after His image,

[00:28:34] till you partake of the divine nature.

[00:28:38] Long for the day when Christ will appear,

[00:28:41] and we will be fully like Him,

[00:28:43] for we will see Him as He is.

[00:28:47] Now, what I wish to insist upon at present

[00:28:51] is that we should be like God,

[00:28:54] even in those things which are strange to us.

[00:28:57] We should be like Him in understanding,

[00:29:00] in will,

[00:29:01] in holiness,

[00:29:02] and also in His peculiar affections.

[00:29:07] Love is of God,

[00:29:09] and everyone that loves is born of God,

[00:29:12] and knows God.

[00:29:14] He that loves not,

[00:29:16] knows not God,

[00:29:18] for God is love.

[00:29:20] But the whole Bible shows that God has a peculiar affection for Israel.

[00:29:26] You remember,

[00:29:27] when the Jews were in Egypt,

[00:29:29] sorely oppressed by their taskmasters,

[00:29:32] God heard their cry,

[00:29:33] and appeared to Moses.

[00:29:35] I have seen,

[00:29:36] I have seen the affliction of my people,

[00:29:40] and I have heard their cry,

[00:29:42] for I know their sorrows.

[00:29:46] And again,

[00:29:46] when God brought them through the wilderness,

[00:29:50] Moses tells them why He did it.

[00:29:51] The Lord did not set His love upon you,

[00:29:55] nor choose you,

[00:29:56] because you were more in number than any people,

[00:29:59] for you were the fewest of all people.

[00:30:02] But because the Lord loved you.

[00:30:05] Deuteronomy 7, verse 7.

[00:30:09] Strange, sovereign, most peculiar love.

[00:30:15] He loved them because He loved them.

[00:30:19] Should we not be like God in this peculiar attachment?

[00:30:23] But you say God has sent them into captivity.

[00:30:27] Now, it is true,

[00:30:29] God has scattered them into every land.

[00:30:31] The precious sons of Zion,

[00:30:34] comparable to fine gold,

[00:30:37] how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers.

[00:30:39] Lamentations, chapter 4, verse 2.

[00:30:42] But what does God say?

[00:30:44] I have left my house.

[00:30:47] I have forsaken mine heritage.

[00:30:50] I have given the dearly beloved of my soul

[00:30:52] into the hand of her enemies.

[00:30:56] Jeremiah, chapter 12, verse 7.

[00:31:00] It is true that Israel is given,

[00:31:01] for a little moment,

[00:31:03] into the hand of her enemies.

[00:31:05] But it is as true

[00:31:08] that they are still the dearly beloved of His soul.

[00:31:12] Should we not give them the same place in our heart

[00:31:16] which God gives them in His heart?

[00:31:19] Will we be ashamed to cherish the same affection

[00:31:23] from which our Heavenly Father cherishes?

[00:31:26] Will we be ashamed to be unlike the world

[00:31:29] and like God and His peculiar love for captive Israel?

[00:31:35] But you say God has cast them off.

[00:31:38] Has God cast away His people which He foreknew?

[00:31:41] God forbid.

[00:31:42] The whole Bible contradicts such an idea.

[00:31:45] Is Ephraim my dear son?

[00:31:48] Is he a pleasant child?

[00:31:50] For since I spoke against him,

[00:31:52] I do earnestly remember him still.

[00:31:55] Therefore my bowels are troubled for him.

[00:31:58] I will surely have mercy upon him,

[00:32:00] saith the Lord.

[00:32:01] Jeremiah, chapter 31, verse 20.

[00:32:05] I will plant them again in their own land assuredly,

[00:32:09] with my whole heart and with my whole soul.

[00:32:13] Zion says,

[00:32:14] The Lord has forsaken me,

[00:32:16] and my Lord has forgotten me.

[00:32:18] Can a woman forget her sucking child,

[00:32:21] that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?

[00:32:24] Yes, they may forget,

[00:32:27] yet will I not forget you?

[00:32:29] Isaiah, chapter 49, verse 14.

[00:32:32] And so all Israel will be saved,

[00:32:34] as it is written,

[00:32:36] There will come out of Zion the Deliverer,

[00:32:38] and will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

[00:32:42] Now the simple question for each of you is,

[00:32:45] and for our beloved church,

[00:32:47] should we not share with God

[00:32:49] and his peculiar affection for Israel?

[00:32:51] If we are filled with the Spirit of God,

[00:32:54] should we not love as he loves?

[00:32:56] Should we not engrave Israel

[00:33:00] upon the palms of our hands,

[00:33:02] and resolve that through our mercy

[00:33:05] they also may obtain mercy?

[00:33:09] Third, because there is peculiar access to the Jews

[00:33:13] in almost all the countries we have visited,

[00:33:16] this fact is quite remarkable.

[00:33:18] Indeed, it seems in many places

[00:33:20] as if the only door left open

[00:33:22] to the Christian missionary

[00:33:24] is the door of preaching to the Jews.

[00:33:28] We spent some time in Tuscany,

[00:33:30] the freest state in the whole of Italy.

[00:33:33] There, you dare not preach the gospel

[00:33:36] to the Roman Catholic population.

[00:33:38] The moment you give a tract or a Bible,

[00:33:40] it is carried to the priest

[00:33:41] and by the priest to the government.

[00:33:43] An immediate banishment is this certain result.

[00:33:47] But the door is open to the Jews.

[00:33:49] No man cares for their souls,

[00:33:51] so therefore you may carry the gospel to them freely.

[00:33:55] The same is the case in Egypt and in Palestine.

[00:33:58] You dare not preach the gospel

[00:34:00] to the deluded followers of Muhammad,

[00:34:02] but you may stand in the open marketplace

[00:34:04] and preach the gospel to the Jews.

[00:34:07] No man will stop you.

[00:34:09] We visited every town in the Holy Land

[00:34:11] where the Jews are found.

[00:34:13] In Jerusalem and in Hebron,

[00:34:15] we spoke to them all the words of his life.

[00:34:19] In Sychar, we reasoned with them

[00:34:21] in the synagogue and in the open bazaar.

[00:34:25] In Hefah, at the foot of Carmel,

[00:34:27] we met with them in the synagogue.

[00:34:30] In Zidon, we also discoursed freely

[00:34:33] to them of Jesus.

[00:34:34] In Tyre, we first visited them in the synagogue

[00:34:37] and at the house of Rabbi,

[00:34:39] and then they returned our visit.

[00:34:43] For when we had lain down in the Khan

[00:34:45] for the heat of midday,

[00:34:47] they came to us in crowds.

[00:34:50] The Hebrew Bible was produced,

[00:34:53] and the passage after passage was explained,

[00:34:56] none making us afraid.

[00:34:58] In Saphit, Tiberius, and Acre,

[00:35:01] we had the same freedom.

[00:35:03] There is perfect liberty in the Holy Land

[00:35:05] to carry the gospel to the Jew.

[00:35:07] In Constantinople,

[00:35:09] if you were to preach to the Turks,

[00:35:10] as some have tried,

[00:35:12] banishment is the consequence,

[00:35:14] but to the Jew,

[00:35:15] you may carry the message.

[00:35:17] In Wallachia and Moldavia,

[00:35:19] the smallest attempt to convert a Greek

[00:35:21] would draw down the instant vengeance

[00:35:23] of the Holy Synod and of the government.

[00:35:25] But in every town,

[00:35:27] we went freely to the Jews,

[00:35:28] in Bucharest,

[00:35:29] in Foxony,

[00:35:30] in Jassy,

[00:35:31] and in many a remote Wallachian hamlet.

[00:35:35] We spoke without hindrance

[00:35:37] the message to Israel.

[00:35:39] The door is wide open.

[00:35:43] In Austria,

[00:35:44] where no missionary of any kind is allowed,

[00:35:47] still we find the Jews willing to hear.

[00:35:50] In their synagogues,

[00:35:51] we always found the sanctuary open to us.

[00:35:54] In fact,

[00:35:55] when they knew they could have exposed us,

[00:35:58] they concealed that we had been there.

[00:36:00] In Prussian Poland,

[00:36:02] the door is wide open

[00:36:04] to nearly 100,000 Jews.

[00:36:06] You dare not preach

[00:36:07] to the poorest rationalist Protestants.

[00:36:11] Even in Protestant Prussia,

[00:36:12] this would not be allowed.

[00:36:14] But you may preach the gospel to the Jews.

[00:36:17] By the law of the land,

[00:36:19] every church is open

[00:36:20] to an ordained minister.

[00:36:22] And one of the missionaries assured me

[00:36:24] that he often preached

[00:36:25] to 400 or 500 Jews and Jewesses

[00:36:28] at one time.

[00:36:31] Schools for Jewish children

[00:36:32] are also allowed.

[00:36:34] We visited three of them

[00:36:35] and heard the children taught

[00:36:37] the way of salvation by a Redeemer.

[00:36:39] Twelve years ago,

[00:36:40] the Jews would not have come

[00:36:42] near a church.

[00:36:43] If these things be true,

[00:36:45] and I appeal to all of you

[00:36:47] who know these countries,

[00:36:48] if it is not,

[00:36:50] the door in one direction is shut

[00:36:52] and the door to Israel

[00:36:54] so widely open.

[00:36:56] Do you not think

[00:36:58] that God is saying

[00:36:59] by his providence

[00:37:00] as well as by his word,

[00:37:02] go rather to the lost sheep

[00:37:05] of the house of Israel?

[00:37:08] Do you not think

[00:37:09] that our church,

[00:37:10] knowing these things,

[00:37:12] will be guiltless

[00:37:12] if we do not obey the call?

[00:37:16] For the gospel

[00:37:18] is the power of God to salvation

[00:37:20] to the Jew first

[00:37:22] and also to the Greek.

[00:37:25] Fourth,

[00:37:26] because they will give life

[00:37:28] to a dead world,

[00:37:29] I have often thought

[00:37:31] that a reflective traveler

[00:37:33] passing through

[00:37:34] the countries of this world

[00:37:35] and observing the race

[00:37:36] of Israel

[00:37:37] and every land

[00:37:38] might be led to guess

[00:37:40] merely from the light

[00:37:41] of his natural reason

[00:37:42] that a singular people

[00:37:44] are preserved

[00:37:45] for some great purpose

[00:37:46] in this world.

[00:37:48] There is a singular fitness

[00:37:49] in the Jew

[00:37:50] to be a missionary

[00:37:51] of the world.

[00:37:51] They have not

[00:37:52] that particular attachment

[00:37:54] to home and country

[00:37:55] which we have.

[00:37:56] They feel that

[00:37:58] they are outcasts

[00:37:59] in every land.

[00:38:00] They are also accustomed

[00:38:01] to every climate.

[00:38:03] They are to be found

[00:38:04] amid the snows of Russia

[00:38:06] and beneath

[00:38:06] the burning sun of India.

[00:38:08] They are also

[00:38:10] in some measure

[00:38:10] acquainted with all

[00:38:11] the languages of the world

[00:38:12] and yet have

[00:38:13] one common language,

[00:38:15] the holy tongue,

[00:38:16] in which to communicate

[00:38:18] with one another.

[00:38:20] All these things

[00:38:21] must,

[00:38:22] I should think,

[00:38:23] suggest themselves

[00:38:24] to every intelligent traveler

[00:38:27] as he passes

[00:38:28] through other lands.

[00:38:30] But what says

[00:38:31] the word of God?

[00:38:33] It will come to pass

[00:38:35] that as you

[00:38:36] were a curse

[00:38:37] among the heathen,

[00:38:39] O house of Judah

[00:38:40] and house of Israel,

[00:38:41] so I will save you

[00:38:43] and you will be

[00:38:44] a blessing.

[00:38:45] Zechariah 8, verse 13.

[00:38:48] To this day

[00:38:49] they are a curse

[00:38:50] among the nations

[00:38:51] by their unbelief,

[00:38:52] by their covetousness,

[00:38:54] but the time

[00:38:56] is coming

[00:38:56] when they will be

[00:38:59] as great a blessing

[00:39:00] as they have been

[00:39:01] a curse.

[00:39:04] And the remnant

[00:39:04] of Jacob

[00:39:05] will be

[00:39:06] in the midst

[00:39:07] of many people

[00:39:08] as a dew

[00:39:09] from the Lord,

[00:39:10] as showers

[00:39:11] upon the grass

[00:39:12] that tarries not

[00:39:13] for man,

[00:39:15] nor waits

[00:39:16] for the sons

[00:39:16] of men.

[00:39:17] Micah 5, verse 7.

[00:39:20] Just as we have

[00:39:22] found among

[00:39:23] the parched hills

[00:39:24] of Judah

[00:39:25] that the evening dew

[00:39:26] coming silently down

[00:39:28] gave life

[00:39:29] to every plant,

[00:39:30] making the grass

[00:39:31] to spring

[00:39:32] and the flowers

[00:39:33] to put their

[00:39:34] sweetest fragrance,

[00:39:35] so will converted

[00:39:36] Israel be

[00:39:37] when they come

[00:39:38] as dew upon

[00:39:38] a dead dry world.

[00:39:41] In those days

[00:39:42] it will come

[00:39:43] to pass

[00:39:44] that ten men

[00:39:45] will take hold

[00:39:45] of all languages

[00:39:47] of the nations,

[00:39:48] even will take hold

[00:39:50] of the skirt

[00:39:51] of him

[00:39:52] that is a Jew,

[00:39:54] saying,

[00:39:55] We will go

[00:39:56] with you,

[00:39:57] for we have heard

[00:39:58] that God is with you.

[00:40:00] Zechariah 8,

[00:40:01] verse 23.

[00:40:03] This has never

[00:40:04] been fulfilled,

[00:40:05] but as the word

[00:40:06] of God is true,

[00:40:07] this is true.

[00:40:09] Perhaps

[00:40:10] someone

[00:40:10] may say,

[00:40:12] if the Jews

[00:40:12] are to be

[00:40:13] the great missionaries

[00:40:14] of the world,

[00:40:15] let us send

[00:40:16] missions to them

[00:40:17] only.

[00:40:18] We have

[00:40:19] God a new light,

[00:40:20] let us call back

[00:40:21] our missionaries

[00:40:21] from India.

[00:40:22] They are wasting

[00:40:23] their precious lives

[00:40:25] therein doing

[00:40:25] what the Jews

[00:40:26] are to accomplish.

[00:40:28] I grieve

[00:40:29] to think

[00:40:29] that any lover

[00:40:30] of Israel

[00:40:31] should so far

[00:40:33] pervert the truth

[00:40:34] as to argue

[00:40:35] this way.

[00:40:36] The Bible

[00:40:37] does not say

[00:40:38] that we are to

[00:40:39] preach only to the Jew,

[00:40:40] but to the Jew

[00:40:41] first.

[00:40:42] Go and preach

[00:40:43] the gospel

[00:40:44] to all nations,

[00:40:45] said the Savior.

[00:40:48] Let us

[00:40:48] obey his word

[00:40:49] like little children.

[00:40:51] The Lord

[00:40:51] spat our beloved

[00:40:52] missionaries

[00:40:53] in that scorching

[00:40:54] land of India.

[00:40:55] The Lord

[00:40:56] gives them

[00:40:57] good success,

[00:40:58] and never

[00:40:58] let one

[00:40:59] withering doubt

[00:41:00] cross their

[00:41:00] pure minds

[00:41:01] as to their

[00:41:02] glorious field

[00:41:03] of labor.

[00:41:04] All that we

[00:41:05] plead for

[00:41:06] is that

[00:41:07] in sending

[00:41:08] out missionaries

[00:41:08] to the heathen,

[00:41:09] we may not

[00:41:11] forget to begin

[00:41:12] at Jerusalem.

[00:41:13] If Paul

[00:41:14] is sent

[00:41:15] to the Gentile,

[00:41:16] let Peter

[00:41:16] be sent

[00:41:17] to the

[00:41:17] twelve tribes

[00:41:18] that are

[00:41:19] scattered abroad,

[00:41:20] and let

[00:41:21] not the

[00:41:22] leftovers

[00:41:22] in your heart

[00:41:23] be given

[00:41:24] to this cause.

[00:41:25] Let it

[00:41:26] not be

[00:41:27] an appendix

[00:41:28] to the

[00:41:29] other

[00:41:30] doings of

[00:41:30] our church,

[00:41:31] but rather

[00:41:32] let there

[00:41:32] be written

[00:41:33] on the

[00:41:34] forefront

[00:41:34] of your

[00:41:34] hearts

[00:41:35] and on

[00:41:35] the banner

[00:41:36] of our

[00:41:36] beloved

[00:41:36] church,

[00:41:37] to the

[00:41:38] Jew

[00:41:38] first

[00:41:39] and beginning

[00:41:40] at Jerusalem.

[00:41:42] Lastly,

[00:41:43] because there

[00:41:44] is great

[00:41:45] reward,

[00:41:46] blessed

[00:41:47] is he

[00:41:47] that blesses

[00:41:48] you,

[00:41:49] cursed

[00:41:49] is he

[00:41:49] that curses

[00:41:50] you.

[00:41:51] Pray for

[00:41:51] the peace

[00:41:52] of Jerusalem.

[00:41:52] They will

[00:41:53] prosper

[00:41:54] that love

[00:41:54] her.

[00:41:55] We have

[00:41:56] felt this

[00:41:57] in our

[00:41:57] own souls.

[00:41:58] In going

[00:41:58] from country

[00:41:59] to country,

[00:42:00] we felt

[00:42:01] that there

[00:42:02] was one

[00:42:02] before us

[00:42:03] preparing

[00:42:04] our way.

[00:42:05] Though

[00:42:06] we have

[00:42:07] had perils

[00:42:07] in the waters

[00:42:08] and perils

[00:42:09] in the wilderness,

[00:42:10] perils

[00:42:10] from sickness

[00:42:11] and perils

[00:42:12] from the

[00:42:12] heathen,

[00:42:13] still from

[00:42:14] all the

[00:42:15] Lord has

[00:42:16] delivered us.

[00:42:17] And if

[00:42:18] it will

[00:42:18] please God

[00:42:19] to restore

[00:42:20] our revered

[00:42:21] companions

[00:42:21] in this

[00:42:22] mission

[00:42:22] and peace

[00:42:23] and safety

[00:42:24] to their

[00:42:25] anxious

[00:42:25] families,

[00:42:25] we will

[00:42:27] then have

[00:42:27] good reason

[00:42:28] to say

[00:42:28] that in

[00:42:29] keeping

[00:42:29] his

[00:42:30] commandments

[00:42:30] there is

[00:42:31] great reward.

[00:42:33] But your

[00:42:34] souls will

[00:42:35] be enriched

[00:42:35] also,

[00:42:36] and our

[00:42:37] church too,

[00:42:37] if this

[00:42:39] cause finds

[00:42:39] its right

[00:42:40] place in

[00:42:40] your

[00:42:40] affections.

[00:42:41] It is

[00:42:42] well said

[00:42:43] by one

[00:42:43] who has

[00:42:44] a deep

[00:42:44] place in

[00:42:45] your

[00:42:45] affections,

[00:42:46] and who

[00:42:47] is now

[00:42:47] in India,

[00:42:48] that our

[00:42:49] church must

[00:42:50] not only

[00:42:50] be evangelical

[00:42:51] but evangelistic

[00:42:53] also,

[00:42:54] if she would

[00:42:55] expect the

[00:42:55] blessings

[00:42:56] of God.

[00:42:57] She must

[00:42:58] not only

[00:42:59] have the

[00:42:59] light but

[00:43:00] dispense it

[00:43:00] also,

[00:43:03] if she

[00:43:04] is to

[00:43:04] be continued

[00:43:05] as a

[00:43:06] steward

[00:43:06] of God.

[00:43:07] may I

[00:43:08] not take

[00:43:09] the liberty

[00:43:10] of adding

[00:43:10] to the

[00:43:11] striking

[00:43:11] declaration

[00:43:12] that we

[00:43:13] must not

[00:43:14] only be

[00:43:15] evangelistic

[00:43:15] but evangelistic

[00:43:17] as God

[00:43:18] would have

[00:43:18] us be.

[00:43:19] Not only

[00:43:20] dispense the

[00:43:21] light on

[00:43:22] every hand,

[00:43:23] but dispense

[00:43:23] it first

[00:43:24] to the

[00:43:24] Jew.

[00:43:26] Then

[00:43:26] will God

[00:43:28] revive his

[00:43:28] work in

[00:43:29] the midst

[00:43:29] of the

[00:43:30] years.

[00:43:30] Our

[00:43:31] whole land

[00:43:32] will be

[00:43:32] refreshed

[00:43:32] as others

[00:43:33] have been.

[00:43:34] The cobwebs

[00:43:35] of controversy

[00:43:36] will be

[00:43:36] swept out

[00:43:37] of our

[00:43:37] sanctuaries

[00:43:38] and the

[00:43:39] jarrings

[00:43:40] and the

[00:43:40] jealousies

[00:43:41] of our

[00:43:41] church

[00:43:42] be turned

[00:43:42] into the

[00:43:43] harmony

[00:43:44] of praise

[00:43:45] and our

[00:43:45] own

[00:43:46] souls

[00:43:46] become

[00:43:47] like a

[00:43:47] well-watered

[00:43:48] garden.

[00:44:01] This

[00:44:02] sermon was

[00:44:02] not chosen

[00:44:03] for any

[00:44:04] kind of

[00:44:04] political

[00:44:05] statement

[00:44:05] or anything

[00:44:06] like that

[00:44:06] on the

[00:44:06] situation

[00:44:07] of the

[00:44:07] world.

[00:44:08] I just

[00:44:08] think it's

[00:44:09] a good

[00:44:09] sermon,

[00:44:09] but I

[00:44:10] do think

[00:44:10] it is.

[00:44:11] Shane

[00:44:11] makes a

[00:44:12] point that

[00:44:13] I think

[00:44:13] sometimes is

[00:44:14] missed in

[00:44:14] the world,

[00:44:14] which is

[00:44:15] God loved

[00:44:16] the people

[00:44:16] of Israel

[00:44:17] and he

[00:44:17] wants the

[00:44:18] Jewish people

[00:44:19] to come

[00:44:19] to faith

[00:44:20] and we

[00:44:21] as Christians

[00:44:22] need to

[00:44:23] remember them

[00:44:23] and our

[00:44:24] work of

[00:44:25] spreading the

[00:44:25] gospel

[00:44:26] throughout the

[00:44:26] world.

[00:44:27] It can

[00:44:27] maybe sometimes

[00:44:28] be easy

[00:44:28] to forget

[00:44:29] that there's

[00:44:30] this big

[00:44:30] group of

[00:44:31] people who

[00:44:31] know a

[00:44:32] lot of

[00:44:32] the Bible

[00:44:32] but they're

[00:44:32] missing

[00:44:33] a very

[00:44:33] important

[00:44:34] part of

[00:44:34] it,

[00:44:34] the Messiah,

[00:44:35] and so

[00:44:35] they still

[00:44:35] need that

[00:44:36] to be

[00:44:36] preached

[00:44:37] and taught

[00:44:38] to them.

[00:44:39] I think

[00:44:39] I have

[00:44:40] actually

[00:44:41] interacted

[00:44:42] a couple

[00:44:42] of times

[00:44:42] with people

[00:44:43] who are

[00:44:45] Jewish

[00:44:45] and sharing

[00:44:46] the gospel

[00:44:46] with them

[00:44:47] is kind

[00:44:47] of interesting

[00:44:48] because he's

[00:44:48] right in this

[00:44:49] sermon,

[00:44:49] McChain kind

[00:44:50] of points out

[00:44:50] they know a lot

[00:44:51] and they actually

[00:44:51] do not mind

[00:44:53] talking to you

[00:44:53] about it.

[00:44:54] And that was

[00:44:55] my experience

[00:44:55] too.

[00:44:56] In each case

[00:44:56] where that

[00:44:56] happened,

[00:44:57] I was surprised

[00:44:58] just how easy

[00:44:59] the conversation

[00:45:00] was,

[00:45:00] able to go

[00:45:01] back and

[00:45:01] forth.

[00:45:01] So remember

[00:45:02] them as

[00:45:03] you're out

[00:45:04] there.

[00:45:04] If you're

[00:45:05] not involved

[00:45:05] or have the

[00:45:06] ability to get

[00:45:07] involved with

[00:45:07] stuff like

[00:45:07] that,

[00:45:08] definitely do.

[00:45:08] If you

[00:45:09] don't,

[00:45:09] maybe find

[00:45:10] groups that

[00:45:10] support it,

[00:45:11] but make

[00:45:11] sure you're

[00:45:12] sharing the

[00:45:13] love of

[00:45:13] Christ with

[00:45:14] all of

[00:45:14] the people

[00:45:14] of the

[00:45:15] world as

[00:45:15] much as

[00:45:15] you can.

[00:45:16] And especially

[00:45:16] it can

[00:45:17] sometimes get

[00:45:17] easy to

[00:45:18] forget this

[00:45:18] group of

[00:45:19] people because

[00:45:20] I think

[00:45:20] sometimes as

[00:45:21] Christians,

[00:45:21] they're like,

[00:45:21] well,

[00:45:21] they have

[00:45:21] the Old

[00:45:22] Testament,

[00:45:22] they should

[00:45:23] be able to

[00:45:23] figure it

[00:45:23] out from

[00:45:23] there.

[00:45:24] But without

[00:45:24] Jesus Christ,

[00:45:25] that is not

[00:45:26] going to be

[00:45:26] enough and

[00:45:27] that's not

[00:45:27] going to be

[00:45:27] a help to

[00:45:28] them.

[00:45:28] And so as

[00:45:29] Christians,

[00:45:30] let's make

[00:45:30] sure that

[00:45:30] we're sharing

[00:45:31] that gospel

[00:45:32] with all

[00:45:32] the people

[00:45:32] of the world

[00:45:33] and that

[00:45:33] definitely

[00:45:33] includes the

[00:45:34] people who

[00:45:35] are Jewish

[00:45:37] and that still

[00:45:38] need that

[00:45:38] Messiah.

[00:45:51] Thank you

[00:45:51] for listening

[00:45:52] to today's

[00:45:53] episode of

[00:45:53] Revived

[00:45:54] Thoughts.

[00:45:55] Today's

[00:45:55] sermon was

[00:45:55] narrated by

[00:45:56] Zachary

[00:45:56] Sizemore.

[00:45:57] Big thanks

[00:45:58] to Zachary

[00:45:59] for reading

[00:45:59] today's

[00:46:00] sermon.

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[00:46:11] send it to

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[00:46:12] close to and

[00:46:12] say,

[00:46:12] hey,

[00:46:12] listen to

[00:46:13] the sermon,

[00:46:13] you might

[00:46:13] find it

[00:46:14] interesting,

[00:46:14] what do you

[00:46:14] think about

[00:46:15] it?

[00:46:16] Our show

[00:46:17] is always

[00:46:18] getting new

[00:46:18] listeners and

[00:46:19] we get new

[00:46:19] speakers that

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[00:46:21] because of our

[00:46:22] new listeners

[00:46:22] are coming

[00:46:23] around.

[00:46:23] But I

[00:46:23] gotta say,

[00:46:25] this is

[00:46:27] from people

[00:46:28] like you.

[00:46:29] We do lots

[00:46:29] of things.

[00:46:30] I will do

[00:46:30] interviews and

[00:46:31] we will

[00:46:31] share and

[00:46:32] we'll try

[00:46:32] to run

[00:46:32] social media

[00:46:33] but all of

[00:46:33] those things

[00:46:34] I feel like

[00:46:34] fail in

[00:46:35] comparison to

[00:46:36] you just

[00:46:37] sending our

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[00:46:39] telling your

[00:46:39] friends and

[00:46:40] sharing us

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[00:46:42] that gets us

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[00:46:44] and we appreciate

[00:46:46] it every time you

[00:46:47] do that and let

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