And now the past few years comes a new thing.  This surprising Jew is surprising us anew.  From all corners of the earth they are gathering as not since the scattering to the Assyrian plains, gathering to discuss and plan for the getting into shape as a nation again on the old home soil.  Jews of every sort, utterly diverse in every other imaginable way, except this of being Jews, men who hate each other intensely because of divergent beliefs in other matters, yet brushing elbows in annual gatherings to plan with all their old time intensity a new Jewish nation.  Along the highways of earth, made and controlled by Christian peoples, they come.  What does it mean?  They continue to be, as they have been, the puzzle of history.

This tragic break of the kingdom and the persistency of the King’s plan regardless of the break hold the key to the puzzle.  The Jew has been preserved, divinely preserved, against every attempt at his destruction.  For he is the keystone in the arch of the King’s plan for a coming world-wide dominion.

Jesus is God’s spirit-magnet for the Jew and for all men.  Around Him they will yet gather, with the new Jewish nation in the lead, the church closest to the person of the king, and all men drawn.  Jesus is God’s organizer of the social fabric of the world.  In response to His presence and touch, each in his own place will swing into line and make up a perfect social fabric.

With the new zeal for pure, holy living now in the church, the clearer vision coming to her of the Lord’s purpose of evangelizing the world, the evidence in all parts of the world of men turning their thought anew to God, this remarkable Jewish movement toward national life, it is a time for earnest men to get off alone on bent knees, and with new, quietly deep fervor, to pray “Thy kingdom come.”  “Even so come, Lord Jesus.”

II.  The Person of Jesus

  1.  The Human Jesus.
  2.  The Divine Jesus.
  3.  The Winsome Jesus.

The Human Jesus

God’s Meaning of “Human."

Jesus is God becoming man’s fellow.  He comes down by his side and says, “Let’s pull up together.”  Jesus was a man.  He was as truly human as though only human.  We are apt to go at a thing from the outside.  God always reaches within, and fastens His hook there.  He finds the solution of every problem within itself.  When He would lead man back the Eden road to the old trysting place under the tree of life He sent a man.  Jesus takes His place as a man and refuses to be budged from the human level with His brothers.