Abraham’s Children.
While ago, on the other Christian site, I had conversation with one guy, and we touched very common among church goers theme of relation of Christians to Jews and Abraham.
Hi Foreversaved. (that is his internet name)
You wrote:
“I am NOT part of the 12 tribes,neither are you...I encourage you to see the difference between Israel and the Body of Christ,Law and Grace,Prophecy and Revelation of the mystery….”
Actually all Gentiles a part of Israel’s tribes and eventually of Abraham, not physically by blood but spiritually through Jesus Christ.
Galatians 3.14.26-29
14.In order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
26.You are all sons of GOD through faith in Christ Jesus.
27.All of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
28.There is neither Jew nor Greek (Genile), there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female (Matthew 22.30) (Mark 12.25) (Luke 20.33-36) (Galatians 3.28), you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29.And if you belong to Christ then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
And if we are spiritual children of Abraham, this means that we are also and his descendants, just like the physical blood-related to Abraham Jews, but in spiritual term through Abraham's faith in GOD and not through the blood.
And like the physical descendants of Abraham received the Law from GOD, the same Law applies and to Christians but without physical rituals of the Law, because Jesus Christ left them behind and introduced to us only Spiritual Statutes of the Law, which is His Gospel to us.
And the Spiritual promises and blessing what GOD promised to Abraham also belong and to us.
GOD promised Abraham to give his descendants the physical land of Canaan.
Jesus Christ promised to us the Kingdom of Heaven. Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is the spiritual promise, not the physical one.
GOD led people of Israel from the land of Egypt to the land of Canaan, but Jesus Christ leads us from this physical Earth into His spiritual Kingdom.
All Gentiles who are truly believing in Jesus Christ and proven as such by their works of faith are the youngest brothers and sisters of the Jews by all means., and spiritually related to Abraham.
The Jews are the first-born of GOD.
Exodus 4.22
22.”Then you shall say to pharaoh, 'This says the Lord: Israel is My son, My first-born.”
This means that Israel is the first born of GOD nation. While other nations had been formed long ago before Israel, they came to be by established by GOD natural process.
But Jews came to the world not by natural process created by GOD but through the miracle created by GOD. Isaac was born when Abraham was 100, and Sarah was 90, is it not the miracle?
Jews always come first before GOD, and Gentiles second as their youngest brothers and sisters, and all related to Abraham, some through blood and some through faith, and some by both.
If someone believe that he or she does not belong Abraham, this would mean that such person does not relate to GOD, to Abraham, and to people of Israel, because Salvation in Jesus Christ came when He was born in Bethlehem, and will come again, but next time from Zion.
Above all, just like Jesus Christ Himself relate to Abraham physically and spiritually, and so the followers of Jesus Christ have the same relation to Abraham. We shall not forget that Jesus Christ is the Jew in flesh.
Isaiah 46.13
13.”I bring near My Deliverance (Christ), it is not far off, and My Salvation (Christ) will not tarry. I will put Salvation (Christ) in Zion for Israel My glory.”
Salvation is from the Jews.
John 4.22.42
Jesus and Samaritan woman at the well.
22.You worship what you do not know, we worship what we know, salvation is from the Jews.
Romans 1.16-17
16.I am not ashamed of the Gospel, it is the power of GOD for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Romans 4.9-13.16.22
9.Is this blessedness then pronounced only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We say, "Faith was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness." (Genesis 15.6)
10.How then was it reckoned to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after but before he was circumcised.
11.He (Abraham) received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith, while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the ancestor of all who believe without being circumcised and who thus have righteousness reckoned to them,
12.and likewise, the ancestor of the circumcised who are not only circumcised but who also follow the example of the faith that our ancestor Abraham had before he was circumcised.
13.For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.
16.For this reason it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants, not only to the adherents of the Law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, he is the father of all of us,
22.Therefore his (Abraham's) faith was reckoned to him as righteousness. (Genesis 15.6)
While ago, on the other Christian site, I had conversation with one guy, and we touched very common among church goers theme of relation of Christians to Jews and Abraham.
Hi Foreversaved. (that is his internet name)
You wrote:
“I am NOT part of the 12 tribes,neither are you...I encourage you to see the difference between Israel and the Body of Christ,Law and Grace,Prophecy and Revelation of the mystery….”
Actually all Gentiles a part of Israel’s tribes and eventually of Abraham, not physically by blood but spiritually through Jesus Christ.
Galatians 3.14.26-29
14.In order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
26.You are all sons of GOD through faith in Christ Jesus.
27.All of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
28.There is neither Jew nor Greek (Genile), there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female (Matthew 22.30) (Mark 12.25) (Luke 20.33-36) (Galatians 3.28), you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29.And if you belong to Christ then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
And if we are spiritual children of Abraham, this means that we are also and his descendants, just like the physical blood-related to Abraham Jews, but in spiritual term through Abraham's faith in GOD and not through the blood.
And like the physical descendants of Abraham received the Law from GOD, the same Law applies and to Christians but without physical rituals of the Law, because Jesus Christ left them behind and introduced to us only Spiritual Statutes of the Law, which is His Gospel to us.
And the Spiritual promises and blessing what GOD promised to Abraham also belong and to us.
GOD promised Abraham to give his descendants the physical land of Canaan.
Jesus Christ promised to us the Kingdom of Heaven. Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is the spiritual promise, not the physical one.
GOD led people of Israel from the land of Egypt to the land of Canaan, but Jesus Christ leads us from this physical Earth into His spiritual Kingdom.
All Gentiles who are truly believing in Jesus Christ and proven as such by their works of faith are the youngest brothers and sisters of the Jews by all means., and spiritually related to Abraham.
The Jews are the first-born of GOD.
Exodus 4.22
22.”Then you shall say to pharaoh, 'This says the Lord: Israel is My son, My first-born.”
This means that Israel is the first born of GOD nation. While other nations had been formed long ago before Israel, they came to be by established by GOD natural process.
But Jews came to the world not by natural process created by GOD but through the miracle created by GOD. Isaac was born when Abraham was 100, and Sarah was 90, is it not the miracle?
Jews always come first before GOD, and Gentiles second as their youngest brothers and sisters, and all related to Abraham, some through blood and some through faith, and some by both.
If someone believe that he or she does not belong Abraham, this would mean that such person does not relate to GOD, to Abraham, and to people of Israel, because Salvation in Jesus Christ came when He was born in Bethlehem, and will come again, but next time from Zion.
Above all, just like Jesus Christ Himself relate to Abraham physically and spiritually, and so the followers of Jesus Christ have the same relation to Abraham. We shall not forget that Jesus Christ is the Jew in flesh.
Isaiah 46.13
13.”I bring near My Deliverance (Christ), it is not far off, and My Salvation (Christ) will not tarry. I will put Salvation (Christ) in Zion for Israel My glory.”
Salvation is from the Jews.
John 4.22.42
Jesus and Samaritan woman at the well.
22.You worship what you do not know, we worship what we know, salvation is from the Jews.
Romans 1.16-17
16.I am not ashamed of the Gospel, it is the power of GOD for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Romans 4.9-13.16.22
9.Is this blessedness then pronounced only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We say, "Faith was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness." (Genesis 15.6)
10.How then was it reckoned to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after but before he was circumcised.
11.He (Abraham) received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith, while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the ancestor of all who believe without being circumcised and who thus have righteousness reckoned to them,
12.and likewise, the ancestor of the circumcised who are not only circumcised but who also follow the example of the faith that our ancestor Abraham had before he was circumcised.
13.For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.
16.For this reason it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants, not only to the adherents of the Law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, he is the father of all of us,
22.Therefore his (Abraham's) faith was reckoned to him as righteousness. (Genesis 15.6)