Well, good morning, or good evening, wherever you are reading this from. Let's open our hearts to the Word of God tonight, because there's something stirring in my spirit about this whole business with Israel.

Folks, as we pause on this International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, marking the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945, our hearts turn to one of the darkest chapters in human history. The Shoah, the Holocaust, saw six million Jewish people, God's chosen nation, systematically murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators between 1941 and 1945. Two-thirds of Europe's Jews were wiped out in gas chambers, mass shootings, starvation, and forced labour. It was evil unleashed, hatred against the people through whom the Messiah came (Romans 9:4-5).

Hi folks, in your Bibles, in the book of Romans, chapter 9. Paul, that great apostle, a Jew through and through, says something that always touches my heart.

Out on the long, lonely trails of Scotland, when the legs are screaming and the mist is thick, one verse keeps me moving: