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Humble Hero
For more than a thousand years the Jewish nation had rejected
God’s warnings and killed His prophets. When the people of Christ’s
day followed the same course, they made themselves responsible for
these sins. They were fastening on themselves the chains that the
nations had been forging for centuries.
There comes a time when mercy makes her last appeal. Then the
sweet, winning voice of the Spirit no longer pleads with the sinner.
That day had come to Jerusalem. Jesus wept in anguish over
the doomed city, but He could not deliver her. He had exhausted
every resource. In rejecting the warnings of God’s Spirit, Israel had
rejected her only means of help.
The Jewish nation was a symbol of the people of all ages
who scorn the pleadings of Infinite Love. When Christ wept over
Jerusalem, His tears were for the sins of all time.
In this generation many are walking the same path as the unbe-
lieving Jews. The Holy Spirit has spoken to their hearts, but they are
not willing to confess their errors. They reject God’s message and
His messenger.
Today Bible truth, the religion of Christ, struggles against a
strong tide of moral impurity. Prejudice is stronger now than in
Christ’s day. The truth of God’s Word does not harmonize with
natural human preferences, and thousands reject its light and choose
their independent judgment. But they do so at the peril of their
eternal life.
Those who tried to pick flaws with the words of Christ found
everincreasing cause for doing so, until they turned from the Truth
and the Life. God does not propose to remove every objection that
the carnal heart may bring against His truth. To those who refuse
light that would illuminate the darkness, the mysteries of God’s
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Word remain mysteries forever. The truth is hidden from them.
Christ’s words apply to everyone who treats the pleadings of
divine mercy lightly. Christ is shedding bitter tears for you who have
no tears to shed for yourself. And every evidence of the grace of
God, every ray of divine light, is either melting and subduing the
heart or confirming it in hopeless rebellion.
Christ foresaw that Jerusalem would remain unrepentant, yet all
the guilt lay at her own door. It will be this way with everyone who