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A Devotional Thought for December 30, 2024

"The Father’s Gift to the Son"

“Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession”

Psalm 2: 8.

Because then, all the men, yea, all the things in the world, must be saved. “All things,” he said, “are delivered unto me of my Father” (Matthew 11: 27). This, I think, no rational man in the world will conclude. Therefore, the gift intended in the text must be restricted to some, to a gift that is given by way of specialty by the Father to the Son.

It must not be taken for ALL, that in any sense are given by the Father to him. Because the Father hath given some, yea, many to him, to be dashed in pieces by him. “Ask of me,” said the Father to him, “and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.” But what must be done with them? must he save them all? No! “Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel” (Psalm 2). This method he used not with them that he saved by his grace, but with those that himself and saints shall rule over in justice and severity (Revelation 2: 26-27). Yet, as you see, “they are given to him.” Therefore, the gift intended in the text must be restricted to some, to a gift that is given by way of specialty by the Father to the Son.

In Psalm 18 he saith plainly, that some are given to him that he might destroy them. “Thou hast given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me” (verse 40). These, therefore, cannot be of the number of those that are said to be given in the text; for those, even ALL of them, shall come to him, “and he will in no wise cast them out.”