Romans 9:3. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
He had just that self-sacrificing spirit of Moses, that he would lose anything and everything if they might but be saved. And this is the spirit which ought to actuate every Church of Christ. The Church that is always caring for her own maintenance is no church. The Church that would be willing to be destroyed if it could save the sons of men - which feels as if, whatever her shame or sorrow, it would be nothing if she could but save sinners - that Church is like the Lord, of whom we read, "He saved others: himself he could not save." Oh! blessed heart-break over sinful men, which makes men willing to lose everything if they might, but bless and win men to Christ! "My kinsmen," says he, "according to the flesh."
Romans 9:3. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
He had just that self-sacrificing spirit of Moses, that he would lose anything and everything if they might but be saved. And this is the spirit which ought to actuate every Church of Christ. The Church that is always caring for her own maintenance is no church. The Church that would be willing to be destroyed if it could save the sons of men - which feels as if, whatever her shame or sorrow, it would be nothing if she could but save sinners - that Church is like the Lord, of whom we read, "He saved others: himself he could not save." Oh! blessed heart-break over sinful men, which makes men willing to lose everything if they might, but bless and win men to Christ! "My kinsmen," says he, "according to the flesh."