For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek: for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich unto all that call upon him:
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we've walked through this passage before just a reminder if you take the verbs from starting in the back of verse 15 and work up to verse 13 you see God's plan for getting the gospel to all peoples it starts by him sending his children and what his children do verse 15 says they preach when we preach people hear into verse 14 so we're working our way backwards When they hear, they believe. Obviously not everybody who hears will believe, but many who hear will believe. When they believe, they'll call, beginning of verse 14. In verse 13, everyone who calls in the name of the Lord will be saved. So God sends his children, his children preach. When we preach, people hear. When they hear, they believe. When they believe, they call. When they call, they're saved. It all starts with God sending his children. so just think about this why do we give God a blank check because God the God of the universe the God who brought the sun up this morning and it's holding its place in the universe right now the God who will bring it down tonight in darkness over the land the God who's in control of all of that is the same God who sends you right where you're sitting it's a breathtaking thought isn't it like we're not just passerby sitting in a seat on a Sunday morning we are men and women who have been sent by God himself to make his glory known …
20. And as this doctrine manifestly and directly tends to overthrow the whole Christian Revelation, so it does the same thing, by plain consequence, in making that Revelation contradict itself. For it is grounded on such an interpretation of some texts (more or fewer it matters not) as flatly contradicts all the other texts, and indeed the whole scope and tenor of Scripture. For instance: The assertors of this doctrine interpret that text of Scripture, “Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated,” as implying that God in a literal sense hated Esau, and all the reprobated, from eternity. Now, what can possibly be a more flat contradiction than this, not only to the whole scope and tenor of Scripture, but also to all those particular texts which expressly declare, “God is love?” Again: They infer from that text, “I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy,” (Romans 4:15) that God is love only to some men, viz., the elect, and that he hath mercy for those only; flatly contrary to which is the whole tenor of Scripture, as is that express declaration in particular, “The Lord is loving unto every man; and his mercy is over all his works.” (Psalm 145:9.) Again: They infer from that and the like texts, “It is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy,: that he showeth mercy only to those to whom he had respect from all eternity. Nay, but who replieth against God now? You now contradict the whole oracles of God, which declare throughout, “God is no respecter of persons:’ (Acts 10:34) “There is no respect of persons with him.” (Rom. 2:11.) Again: from that text, “The children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth; it was said unto her,” unto Rebecca, “The elder shall serve the younger;“you infer, that our being predestinated, or elect, no way depends on the foreknowledge of God. Flatly contrary to this are all the scriptures; and those in particular, “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God;” (1 Peter 1:2; ) “Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate.” (Rom. 8:29.) …
I have done when I have enquired how far we are conformed to the pattern which God has set before us. I know we are like Paul as to our sin, for if we have neither blasphemed nor persecuted, yet have we sinned as far as we have had opportunity. We are also conformed to Paul's pattern in the great long-suffering of God which we have experienced. And I am not sure that we cannot carry the parallel farther—we have had much the same Revelation that Paul received on the way to Damascus, for we, too, have learned that Jesus is the Christ! If any of us sin against Christ, it will not be because we do not know Him to be the Son of God, for we all believe in His Deity because our Bibles tell us so. The pattern goes so far—I would that the Grace of God would operate upon you, unconverted Friend, and complete the picture by giving you like faith with Paul. Then will you be saved as Paul was! Then, also, will you love Christ above all things, as Paul did, and you will say, "But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yes, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord." He rested upon what Christ had done in His death and Resurrection, and he found pardon and eternal life at once and became, therefore, a devoted Christian! What do you say, dear Friend? Are you moved to follow Paul's example? Does the Spirit of God prompt you to trust Paul's Savior and give up every other ground of trust and rely upon Him? Then do so and live! Does there seem to be a hand holding you back and do you hear an evil whisper saying, "You are too great a sinner"? Turn round and bid the fiend depart, for the text gives him the lie. "In me, first, has Jesus Christ showed forth all long-suffering for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on His name." God has saved Paul. Back, then, O devil! The Lord can save any man, woman or child and He can save me! Jesus Christ of Nazareth is mighty to save and I will rely on Him. If any poor heart shall reason thus, its logic will be sound and unanswerable. Mercy to one is an argument for mercy to another, for there is no difference, but the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him! …