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    Chapter 34 - Israel a Missionary People

    When God sent Moses to lead Israel from Egypt, His message to Pharoah was, “Israel is My son, even My firstborn; and I say unto thee, Let My son go, that he may serve Me,” 1Exodus 4:22, 23. and He brought them forth, and gave them the lands of the heathen, “that they might observe His statutes and keep His laws.” 2Psalm 105:44, 45.EVCO 388.1

    The great advantage of the Jews over other people was that “unto them were committed the oracles of God.” 3Romans 3:1, 2. To be sure they did not receive those lively oracles” in all their living power, and thus make their advantage infinitely greater; but that was not the fault of God, and we are not now considering what Israel actually had and were, but what they might have possessed, and what they ought to have been.EVCO 388.2

    Two things have always been true namely, that “no man liveth unto himself,” and that “God is no respecter of persons;” and these two truths combined form a third, which is, that whenever God bestows any gift or advantage upon any person, it is in order that he may use it for the benefit of others. God does not bestow blessings upon one person or people, that He does not wish all to have. When He promised a blessing to Abraham, it was in order that he might be a blessing—that in him all the people of the earth might be blessed. It was in the line of the promise to Abraham that God delivered Israel. Therefore, in giving them the advantage of possessing His law, it was that they might make known to other people that inestimable advantage, so that the other people also might share it.EVCO 388.3

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