Synopsis
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON III. FOLKS THAT WON! BE SOMEBODY. TEXT.—" And ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people."—1 Peter ii, 9. In beginning a sermon from these words, it is reasonable for us to ask, What people, what race, or what nation is Peter speaking of in our text ? I am very, glad that he has given us the answer himself in the first verse of the Epistle. He there states that it is to certain scattered strangers, " Eldektois parepide- mois diasporas," which means " Elect sojourners who are dispersed." We may ask, again, where they were dispersed to, and agreeable to our desire, the answer is- given by tins same writer, in the first chapter, that they were scattered throughout Pontos, Galacia, Cappa- docia, Asia and Bithynia. These two points, then, are settled by the Apostle himself. The Apostle James, you will remember, dedicates his epistle to the twelve tribes that are scattered abroad. Nine of these twelve tribes had been scattered for some eight hundred years at the time of our Saviour. Only three of these tribes remained in Palestine; they were Judah, Levi, and Benjamin. Of course there, doubtless, would be individuals of all the tribes living there. But speaking of the people in a tribal form, this statement is absolutely true, that nine tribes were absent, and three only remaine,d in the Land of Palestine. So you will find an easy interpretation to the words of our Saviour when He gave the first commission to the twelve Disciples, commanding them, " Go ye not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not, but go rather to the lost sheep of the House of Israel." This passage would be a hard passage to interpret for some of my spiritualizing friends, who do not believe in a literal Israel, and in the...
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