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God "unto us" shall not go unheeded, and shall not be dimmed nor dulled by wrong blending with any word spoken
at other times to other people.
We, Gentiles by nature, have had a message sent especially "unto us" by one equipped and commissioned to
bear the name of the Lord "before the Gentiles".
"Unto us, Gentiles".
Paul said:
"I am the apostle of the GENTILES" (Rom. 11:13).
"For He that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me
toward the GENTILES" (Gal. 2:8).
"I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you GENTILES, if ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God
which is given me to you-ward" (Eph. 3:1,2).
"I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the GENTILES" (2 Tim. 1:11).
"Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach unto the GENTILES the
unsearchable riches of Christ; and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which from all
ages hath been hid in God Who created all things" (Eph. 3:8,9 R.V.).
Here is a messenger and a message, a special "time" and "manner", and a special people - "you Gentiles". This
surely concerns you! This pamphlet has been written in the hope that God will direct its distribution so that many
may be led to see the glorious calling revealed "unto us" now, at this present time.
Closely linked with the ministry of the apostle Paul is the witness of yet one more passage in Hebrews that deals
with the fact that God hath spoken. We have seen that God hath spoken by prophets and by angels in times past, and
that in these last days He has spoken by His Son. The apostle when comparing the word "spoken by angels" with
that which was "spoken by the Lord" says, "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?" (Heb. 2:3).
Toward the end of the epistle he carries this idea forward another step, again instituting a comparison, and again
warning against the impossibility of "escape":
"See that ye refuse not Him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused Him that spake on earth, much
more shall not we escape, if we turn away from Him that speaketh from heaven" (Heb. 12:25).
In the Gospels we have the words of Him that spoke "on earth". In the Epistles we have the words of Him that
speaketh "from heaven". Throughout the whole of Paul"s ministry he made it plain that he was but the mouthpiece
of the risen and ascended Christ. He is called "a chosen vessel", "an earthen vessel", one "sent to preach", whose
words were "not the words of men, but of God" (1 Thess. 2:13). Further, he goes so far as to say:
"Though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we Him no more" (2 Cor. 5:16).
The ascended Christ has spoken "from heaven" (Eph. 4:8-12); Paul as "His prisoner" has passed on the message
(2 Tim. 1:8). What is YOUR attitude to it in view of Hebrews 12:25?