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J Sundav School Lesson (Continued from Page 2) road, and there was always some demand he had forgotten or failed to meet. If salvation depends upon fully and perfect ly doing the will of God, we are of all men most miserable. The love of God is not earn ed but given. God wants not slaves but sons. Not slavish obedience but faithful trust is what he asks from us. Paul used Abraham as an ex ample. Abraham took God at his word and believed his promises and was blessed for his faith. Therefore, Paul de clared, the men who, like Abra ham, live by faith are God's heirs. The Galatians by their faith had already experiencec God's grace. 3. Since God's favor was not dependent upon observing the law, it followed that it was not limited to the Jews. God re fa ? ds a 1 -jf-i .see tares, and he shows no partiality to persons or any language, nation, or race. This truth is hard to accept. It seems to be a part of sinful human nature for each group to regard itself as superior. Jews regarded gentiles as be ing "unclean." Greeks consid ered all other people "barba rians." Romans felt they were obviously superior because they ruled the world. Rudyard Kip ling could write of "lesser | breeds without the law," and still today we like to claim, "We're number one." However, in his missionary labors, Paul had observed that "all sorts and conditions of men" ? and women too, which was a revolutionary idea in that day ? had received the grace of God. God's gift of new life in Christ was not reserved for one chosen nation. It was available to all. The Christian faith was good news for everyone. 1. Christianity is not a moral system but a life with God. To be sure, Christian faith issues in responsible moral living, but the moral living is the result, not the cause, of God's accept ance. 2. Faith is not gullibility but trust. Often faith is understood in strictly intellectual terms. Faith s thought of as giving as sent to a catalogue of verbal propositions. Faith, of course, involves the mind; but it is a commitment of' the whole per son. 3. Before God there is no room for arrogance about one'i race or station. 4. As God's agent, the church must be at the task of remov ing barriers. As we have seen, the early church did not easily learn the lesson of God's in clusive love. But through con troversy and debate it did at last raise up a new people of God from Jews and gentiles, slaves and free men. The end is near. Bo get going to your favorite electric appliance dealer or Duke Power. It's your big chance to get a cleaner cooking electric range, maybe even one that cleans its own oven. Or an electric dryer that ends weather wor ries, the kind of dryer bought by 96 out of every 100 Carolinians. Or a frost-free refrigerator freezer, that ends the messy chore of defrosting. Or a freezer, that lets you buy your favorite foods when they're on special and then freeze and serve all year-round. Catch the sale now. Because in a few days, it'll be all over. Duke Power
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