TENSIONS IN FAITH
SERMON AT ONEHUNGA PAUL’S LESSON “No one can believe in God, unless in a conventional or traditional sense, without feeling a measure of tension in the presence of difficulties that cannot be separated from his belief.” Thus prefacing his remarks in an exposition of the impotency of the human mind to grasp the mysteries of God’s providence, the Rev. D. D. Scott, in the Onehunga Presbyterian Church last evening, proceeded to show that Paul himself was baffled by a similar difficulty. Writing to the Romans, he says in chapter xi., 33: “Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past tracing out.” Paul was troubled concerning the rejection of the Gospel by the Jews, which excluded them from all the blessings of the covenant. It was a cause of poignant sorrow to the apostle’s heart that God’s voice was unheard by his own people, but he never lost sight of God’s controlling wisdom and sovereign might.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 847, 16 December 1929, Page 14
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