God: Is Israel still special to you today? Jer. 31:10
1. If you pick up a Bible or a newspaper on any given day, and read it long enough, you can rest assured that you will read something about the Nation of Israel. Contrary to what politicians and pundits may say, Israel, not the United States, not Russia, but Israel, is the most important nation on earth. Jerusalem, not Washington, not Moscow, not Peking, not Paris, not London, is the most important city on earth. Why?
2. You cannot understand the future, you cannot understand Bible prophecy, you cannot even understand the ways and the workings of God, if you don't understand Israel. The Jew is God's yardstick; God's measuring rod; God's blueprint; God's outline; God's plan for the future.
3. The Jew is going according to the Word, and the world is going according to the Jew. Israel is to the nations what the sun is to the planets. Just as surely as the planets revolve around the sun, the nations of this world revolve around Israel.
4. Israel is the geographical center of the world. Ezek. 5:5 tells us, ''Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.”' *** The ancient rabbi' used to refer to Israel as ''the navel of the earth.'' In the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, there in Jerusalem, there is an inscription which reads, ''This is the center of the earth.'' It is here at this tiny nation that three great continents - Europe, Asia, and Africa, meet together.
5. It is the spiritual center of the world. It is here that Jesus was born; Jesus lived; Jesus died; Jesus was raised; Jesus ascended; and one day Jesus will return to rule and reign over this earth. The three major religions of this world - Islam, Judaism, and Christianity (though Christianity technically is not a religion) claim Jerusalem as a spiritual capitol.
6. It is the prophetical center of the world. If you want to know what time it is on God's clock, look at Israel. If you want to know what day it is on God's calendar, look at Israel. If you want to know what degree it is on God's thermometer, look at Israel. You can summarize biblical prophecy in three words: Jews, Jerusalem, and Jesus. All are inextricably interwoven.
7. It is the political center of the world. It is here that Armageddon, the last battle of the last war, will be fought. David exhorted in Ps. 122:6, ''Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.'' Now why did he not say pray for peace on earth? Because there will be no peace on earth until there is peace in Jerusalem. There will be no peace in Jerusalem until the Prince of Peace returns.
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*** Paige Patterson, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, recounts the story of meeting with Yasser Arafat, former head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, in the guesthouse of one of Saddam Hussein's palaces in Baghdad. They were discussing the possibilities of peace in the Middle East. Dr. Patterson proposed the one solution found in Scripture and read Arafat these words: Isa 19:23-25, “In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.”
Patterson then said: "Mr.Arafat, there is coming a day when there will be peace in the Middle East, and in those days, God will say 'Assyria, My people; Egypt, My people; and Israel, My inheritance.' That peace can only come in the land and in the heart of an individual when Jesus is made the King."
8. Patterson was right. There will be no lasting peace in the world until there is peace in the Middle East. There will be no peace in the Middle East until there is peace in Jerusalem. There will be no peace in Jerusalem until Jesus returns. The key to political peace remains in possession of the fate of Israel. Don’t you wish our President and Secretary of State understood that?
*** Frederick the Great of Prussia, was a staunch Lutheran in the old Prussian tradition, a very religious man. But he began to read after Voltaire, the French writer and skeptic, and he began to have doubts about his faith.
1. He was being tormented by doubt, and he called in one of his court chaplains, and he said, ''Forget your philosophy and forget your theology, give me some firm proof that there is a God, and that the Bible is the Word of God.'' That court chaplain simply replied, ''The Jew, Sire, the Jew.''
2. Every Jew on the face of this earth is a literal miracle. If you ever begin to doubt that God is alive and well and still on the throne, just look at Israel. No other nation, and no other people is as relevant to the child of God today, as is the Nation Israel, and the people called the Jews.
9. Israel as a nation is the crown jewel amongst all the countries and peoples God created. She holds a special place in God's heart and has since her founding. But why does she? How did she achieve this unique status?
I. Israel's Majestic History Jer. 31:1-3
1. ''At the same time,'' says the Lord, 'I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people.' ''Thus says the Lord: 'The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness--Israel, when I went to give him rest.' ''The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying: 'Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.''' (vv.1-3) It was God Himself who loved this nation and called this nation and blessed this nation from all the peoples of the earth.
2. Do you realize that the Jewish nation is the only nation whose origin can be traced with total accuracy. No one knows who the first Englishman was, or the first Swede was, or the first German was, or the first Chinese was. But the entire world knows that Abraham was the first Hebrew.
3. The history of Israel begins with a literal miracle. Israel is here today as the result of a miraculous birth. The story unfolds with a nomadic couple named Abraham and Sarah. They were both so old that sexual intimacy for them consisted of holding hands and sighing wistfully. But then Dr. I Can Do Any thing made a historic house call and said in Gen. 18:9-14: ''And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him. Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old? Is any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.”
4. God had promised Abraham that He would make of him a great and a mighty nation. He promised him a son. Now at the time God promised Abraham this, he was the president of H.A.R.P. - the Hebrew Association of Retired People. Abraham was 100 years old. He had been drawing Social Security for 40 years. His wife, Sarah, was no spring chicken. She was 90 years of age. To put it simply and bluntly, their get-up-and-go had got-up-and-went. Sarah had gotten to the age where she would read The Total Woman just to help her go to sleep. All of their reproductive powers were dead, and God asked a fair question that called for a simple answer. ''Is there anything too hard for the Lord?'' The answer to that is no.
5. Let’s face it-you just don't find bestsellers titled "Sex and the Very Senior Adult."
*** I am reminded of the ninety-five-year-old man who married a twenty-five-year old woman. When they got home from the wedding, theyoungbride looked at her old husband and tantalizingly said, "Would you like to go upstairs and spend some time with me?" He looked at her and said, "I can't do both."
6. All the reproductive powers of Abraham and Sarah were dead. But Abraham believed God as the Apostle Paul reminded us in Rom. 4:18-20, “Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;”
7. God honored his word and Abraham's faith, and gave him a son, and the rest, as they say, is history, a majestic history. A nation was born!
8. May I just add that just as every Jew owes his origin to a miracle birth, every Christian owes his origin to a miracle birth, the virgin birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. For as the prophet Isaiah said, ''Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.'' (Isa. 7:14)
9. So today there are 18 million Jews, Hebrews, Israelites who inhabit the earth all because of the miraculous birth of a baby boy to a 100 year old father and a 90 year old mother who dared to believe God.
II. Israel's Majestic Heritage
1. For almost four millennia Israel has had a marvelous heritage. No nation in history has had such fascinating story which continues right up to this moment
A. A Heritage Of Defection Rom. 9:4; Deut. 28:15, 5, 37, 63-64
1. Paul points out in Rom 9:4-5, “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. Amen.” God gave to the Israelites ''the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises.'' In summary, God gave Israel several things. God gave Israel a LAND. He gave them a promised land, the land of Canaan, a land flowing with milk and honey.
2. God gave them a LAW. He gave them the Ten Commandments, which have become the basis of law in most of the civilized nations in this world, and has also become the foundation of the Judeao Christian ethic which form the basis of our moral system here in America since our founding.
3. God also gave to Israel a LANGUAGE, the Hebrew language, the language in which over one-half of the Bible was written, the language in which the first thirty-nine books of the Bible were written, the language of the Old Testament.
4. God also gave to Israel a LORD. From the time that He chose them and founded them, God Himself was their God, and even gave to them his own blessed Son, the promised Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. Now all of this is found in vv. 4-5. The ''covenants'' refers to the giving of the land. The law is seen in the phrase ''the giving of the law.'' The language is seen in the phrase ''the service of God.'' The Lord is seen in v.5 as we are reminded that Christ Himself came from the Jews.
6. But Israel defiled the land, Israel defied the law, Israel denied the Lord, Israel deserted the language. She has faced trial, trouble, and tribulation ever since, and will until the Lord returns.
7. Because of their rebellion against God, God allowed them to be taken from the land He promised them as a discipline and as a chastisement. The Lord even predicted that this would happen. Deut 28:15, “But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:”
Deut 28:25, “The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deut 28:37, “And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.”
Deut 28:63-64, “And it shall come to pass, that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.”
(Deut. 28:15, 5, 37, 63-64)
8. What God predicted is exactly what happened. Israel rebelled, they rejected God, and they were overwhelmed by pagan nations and deported from the land. The final time this happened Jesus predicted in Luke 21:24, ''And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.”' For two thousand years the Jews have been dispersed, dispelled, displaced, and despised by the nations. Jerusalem has been trampled by the Gentiles. But does this mean that God was through with the Jew?
B. A Heritage of Correction Ps. 89:28-37; Jer.31:10; Ezek. 11:17; 36:8-11
1. God punishes his children, God chastises his children, but God never completely rejects his children. Listen to what the Lord said concerning Israel in Ps 89:28-37, “My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.”
2. Now if you listened carefully, you heard a great principle there. Discipline is not denial, and discipline is not desertion.
3. Let me tell you three rock-ribbed truths about God that you should never forget.
A. God's people cannot be destroyed.
B. God's promise cannot be denied.
C. God's purpose cannot be defeated.
4. God made a promise to the Nation of Israel. Jer 31:10, “Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.” That promise was repeated again in Ezek. 11:17
Ezek 11:17, “Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.”
Ezek 36:8-11, “But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come. For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown: And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded: And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.”
That is why the Jew cannot be assimilated or eliminated. Where are the Babylonians, the Hittites, the Amalekites, the Philistines, the Assyrians? They are no more, but the Jew still stands.
5. We call America the melting pot of the world, and so we are. We have assimilated and absorbed Africans, Europeans, Asians, Scandinavians, but we have not assimilated and absorbed the Jew.
6. The world and the devil have tried, but I am sure to the amazement of both, the most important date in the Twentieth Century, May 14, 1948, finally came to pass, and the most important event of the Twentieth Century finally took place, a nation was born in a day. A nation that was dormant and dead for 2,000 years was raised to life. How do you explain that?
C. A Heritage of Protection
1. When this nation was born and recognized by the United Nations, there were approximately 650,000 Jews living in the land. Just enough people to inhabit a large metropolitan city in America.
2. Do you know what they were surrounded with? They were surrounded by forty million Arabs. Forty million people who vowed and declared the moment they came into existence that they would be driven into the sea and destroyed.
3. This tiny nation was outnumbered in soldiers, out-equipped in arms, outclassed in vehicles. They were outnumbered forty to one in troops, one hundred to one in population, one thousand to one in military equipment.
4. Consider also that just twenty-four hours before they became a nation, a Jew could be arrested for even carrying a gun. Now he had to defend himself against six Arab states. The entire world thought to themselves, ''Israel's birthday would be short lived.''
5. But the Jews went to work. They began to pass guns around. They bought ammunition wherever they could. They took boiler plates and welded to the side of school buses to make tanks and you can still see today some of those old broken down homemade tanks.
6. They took hoe handles, broomsticks, anything that looked like a rifle barrel, and pretended it was a gun, so they could at least frighten the enemy, even if they could not shoot them. They used firecrackers instead of bullets to make it sound like the battle was even stronger and more fierce than it was.
7. When that Arab legion attacked, they came from every direction; from Iraq, from Lebanon, from Syria, from Egypt. They attacked with all the fierceness and might they could muster.
8. Time will not permit to tell you the miracles of some of those battles that the Jews fought and won against such heavy odds. In just one battle 20,000 Arabs were captured by 400 Israelis. Now you think about that. By the time the United Nations stepped in and called for an armistice, that little nation that was supposed to be exterminated within just a few hours, was 150 miles into Egyptian territory, and taking more ground every moment. You say, how do you explain that? I tell you how I explain it, the fight was fixed.
*** In 1967, in that famous war now called The Sixth Day War, Israel, this time outnumbered eighty to one in just six days, defeated Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, and when the war was finished they had amassed three times the land mass of their original territory. Today Israel, with a population of only four million people, is the third strongest military power in the world, and the only middle eastern nation that produces its own tanks, planes, and weapons.
9. What has happened since the people have been restored to their nation?
First of all, the land has been revived.
1. God promised this would happen when they returned. Amos 9:14-15, “And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God. “
***You would not know it now, but Israel of forty-plus years ago was a land filled with rocks and dirt. Sixty percent of the land was barren desert. Yet you go there today, and you can see rocks turned into diamonds; dry desert turned into fertile farmland.
2. In Israel it only rains in the winter. There is a scarcity of water. Yet because of the most effective irrigation system in the world, the land now blossoms like a rose. Israel today is only one of six nations that produces enough food to feed itself and to feed others.
3. Just forty years ago, the beautiful valley of Armageddon that many of you have seen, was a mosquito infested swamp, but is now a fertile valley that yields up to four different crops a year.
4. In the last twenty-five years, over one hundred million trees have been planted on barren hills and desert soil, trees that give much needed oxygen and nutrients to the soil.
The Law has been Re-instituted
1. Another thing has happened. The law has been re-instituted. Even though God-fearing orthodox Jews only make up 5% of the population of Israel, the foundation and cornerstone of their law, the Sabbath, has been established. It is now the law of the land, and from sunup to sundown on the Sabbath, restaurants are closed, buses do not run, there is no television. Even hospitals shut down except for the most dire emergencies.
The Language has been resurrected!
1. But what has even been more amazing is the language has been resurrected. The entire Old Testament, thirty-nine books of the Bible, was written in Hebrew. When the Lord Jesus spoke to the Apostle Paul, Paul testified that He spoke to him in Hebrew. Acts 26:14, “And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.” Yet, Hebrew was a dead language even in the time of Christ.
2. But a man by the name of Eliezer Ben Yehuda had a vision to revive that Hebrew tongue. He took a vow never to speak any other language, and reared his children in Hebrew, and fought until on September 23, 1922, the League of Nations officially recognized Hebrew as a spoken language of the world. It is the only dead language that has been restored to life in the history of mankind.
3. When the Roman Empire ruled the world, Latin was the universal language. Yet who speaks Latin today.
***I heard about a high school student who was taking Latin one time, and he wrote this on a bathroom wall.
Latin is a dead language
As dead as dead can be;
It killed the Roman Empire
And now it's killing me.
4. Nobody speaks Latin today. Nobody speaks Babylonia today. But today there is a nation where Hebrew is the native and the mother tongue, and Israel may be the only nation in the world where the children are teaching the parents to speak the language.
10. I tell you there is an invisible hand on these people, and it is the hand of God. You see, the Jew not only survives, the Jew succeeds. If you study history, you are going to find out that the indestructible Jew has left his indelible mark upon history.
*** The Jews are not a great people in number. Only one-fourth of one percent of the world's population is Jewish. Yet they have won twelve percent or more of all of the honors in medicine, health, music, public life, and science. Think of this: Though making up only one-fourth of one percent of the world's population in the last twenty-five years, 25% to 1/3 of the Nobel Prize winners have been Jews.
*** But just think about what a mark they have made here in America. Did you know that it was a Jew that financed Christopher Columbus' overseas voyage to the West when he discovered the Americas? Did you know that it was a Jew that first set foot on this soil when the ships finally landed at the Americas?
***Did you know that it was a Jew, Hiram Solomon, that financed General George Washington in the Revolutionary War? You may not know it, but practically every day you are affected in some way or another by a Jew.
*** Have you ever taken an aspirin for a headache? Bayer, who developed the aspirin, was a Jew. Have you been vaccinated for polio? Jonas Salk was a Jew. Have you ever had a heart condition? The doctor that prescribed digitalis was a Jew. Have you ever gone to the dentist and had him deaden your gums before he started to drill away? Well, Sticher, who developed novocaine, was a Jew. Maybe you have gotten sick and had the doctor prescribe for you streptomycin. Waksman, who developed that, was a Jew.
*** If you have ever been to a psychiatrist and had psychoanalyst, you know that Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was a Jew.
***Have you ever taken vitamins? Funk, the man who developed and discovered vitamins, was a Jew.
*** Have you ever given money to the Salvation Army, or been helped by the Salvation Army? William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army had a Jewish mother, which according to Jewish law, made William Booth a Jew.
*** Are you a student of philosophy? Spinoza, the great father of philosophy, was a Jew. Karl Marx, the founder of Communism, was a Jew.
***If you've ever been married, you had to take a test for venereal disease. It's called the Wasserman Test. Wasserman was a Jew. The greatest scientist who ever lived, Albert Einstein, who discovered the theory of relativity, was a Jew.
11. Now you may think all of this is pure coincidence. I think it is sheer providence. I tell you, Israel is the nation that will not go away. She is an indestructible people. Do you know what it would take to destroy Israel? Jer 31:35-36, “Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.” If the sun quits rising and the moon quits shining, and the waves of the sea roll no more, then Israel will cease to exist.
12. But Israel still has one problem: the Lord is still rejected, which leads me to my last point.
III. Israel's Matchless Hope Jer. 31:31-14
1. Jer 31:31-34, “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” Now you go to Israel and you know that this has not happened. But if you believe the Word of God you know that it is going to happen. Now the question is, how is it going to happen?
2. Well even as we are seeing now world opinion is going to continuously harden against Israel. What I read in the newspapers I have already read in the Word of God. Zech 12:3, “And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.”
3. All of the nations of the earth are ultimately and eventually going to gather against this nation of Israel to destroy her once and for all. It will look as if the final curtain has been drawn on this act that steadfastly refused to die.
4. But at that moment, when it appears that all is lost, and that the devil's superman, the anti-christ and the nations of this world will finally do to Israel what heretofore was not able to be done, the Lord Jesus is going to come to the rescue. Zech 14:2-3, “For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.” Just like the Calvary in the old cowboy movies, the Lord Jesus is going to come at the last minute and deliver Israel from certain destruction. When that happens, notice carefully Israel's response: Zech 12:10, “And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.” Now literally translated, the phrase ''look on Me'' should read, ''look unto Me.'' Scales of blindness will finally fall from Israel's eyes. Her heart will be softened toward the Lord Jesus Christ, and in an instant, an entire nation will not only be saved physically, but will be saved spiritually. Paul tells us in Rom 11:26, “And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:”
5. I love the Holy Land. I love these people. But I tell you the only hope for Israel is not in a land, it's in a Lord. It's not in missiles, might, money, or manpower, it's in a Master. Her only hope is not in a politician, it's in a Person, and his name is Jesus.
6. You say, well what does all of that have to do with me? Just this - if the Jew, God's chosen people, needs Jesus, so do you. Whether it be Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female, Jesus is not our best hope, He is our only hope. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
