“What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common... I perceive that God is no respecter of persons” —Acts 10:15, 34.
WHILE God has given special privileges and opportunities to some nations, which, up to the present time, have been denied to others, He is, nevertheless, concerned about the salvation of all men. Through the cross all are cleansed in the sense that no one is now to be accounted outside the pale of the covenanted blessing of Abraham, through whose Seed all nations are now looked at by God as in a new place of privilege and responsibility. All men are precious in His sight. He is not willing that any should perish, but that all should turn to Him and live (2 Peter 3:9; Ezek. 33:11). How foolish and wicked it is for those who profess faith in Him who died for all (2 Cor. 5:14, 15) to cherish in their hearts contempt for any people, whatever their ignorance or unpleasant characteristics!
“We’ve a message to give to the nations,
That the Lord who reigneth above,
Hath sent us His Son to save us,
And show us that God is love.
We’ve a Saviour to show to the nations.
Who the path of sorrow has trod.
That all of the world’s great people
Might come to the truth of God.”
—Colin Sterne.