4 For they are Israelites, and to them belong God's adoption [as a nation] and the glorious Presence (Shekinah). With them were the special covenants made, to them was the Law given. To them [the temple] worship was revealed and [God's own] promises announced.
5 To them belong the patriarchs, and as far as His natural descent was concerned, from them is the Christ, Who is exalted and supreme over all, God, blessed forever! Amen (so let it be).
6 However, it is not as though God's Word had failed [coming to nothing]. For it is not everybody who is a descendant of Jacob (Israel) who belongs to [the true] Israel.
Jesus was the King of the Jews, Matthew 2:2 & Matthew 27:11. Yet Jesus clearly told the people that His Kingdom was not of this world, John 18:36. So if Jesus is the King of Israel, and His Kingdom isn’t on this earth, the Nation of Israel is not the favored kingdom that so many people believe that it is. I hear all of the time from the pulpit that the children of Israel are God’s people and that they have a relationship with our Father that no one else has. How can this be true, when Jesus said that those who He is the King of are not of this world, John 15:19?
It is not the Nation of Israel that has the special relationship with God, but those of us who have been called and chosen to go into all of the world and preach the Gospel of our Kingdom. We are the true Jews. A true Jew is a person who has been born again, not of this worlds corruptible seed, but of our Father’s Incorruptible Seed, 1 Peter 1:23.
But he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and [true] circumcision is of the heart, a spiritual and not a literal [matter]. His praise is not from men but from God. Romans 2:29
Through Christ we have been born again and we are now sealed with our Father’s Holy Spirit. We are the Bride of Christ and we are now one with our Father through Christ. Our Father’s covenant has always been based on faith, Romans 4:13, and He has given us the faith to be one with Him. We are the ones that He uses to serve the world. We are the ones who are used to bless those who curse us and pray for those who despitefully use us. A true Jew is not one who is physically born a Jew, but one who has been born again of Christ. The Kingdoms of this earth mean very little to our Father, they will pass away. But the people of those earthly kingdoms mean everything to Him.
The reason that this is so important to know is because many believe that the world centers around the Nation of Israel and it doesn’t. The world centers around our Lord’s Kingdom and His people. True Jews confess Jesus as Lord and are one with Him. This Truth changes so many things when we stop looking at the worldly Nation of Israel and start looking at the true children of God. Our Father loves all men, but He has only called and chosen a few of us to serve all men. We are the ones who are hated. We are the ones who will be attacked. It is our Kingdom, not the worldly Nation of Israel, that has the favor of God. And amen, one day all men will be naturalized into our Kingdom, the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, Who is the King of Kings, and the Lord of Lord’s!
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