Who are God’s chosen people today? To whom pertain the promises of God under the new covenant? Who are the rightful inheritors of the blessings of God in our day? Does God have more than one people?
These are all pertinent questions in the light of the loud, repeated and unbiblical claims from Dispensationalists over this past 195 years.
They need to know: under the new covenant, all the promises of God, find their confirmation and fulfillment in Jesus Christ. Romans 15:8 states: “Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers.”
All of the Old Testament promises and covenants find their realization in the person of Jesus Christ. He is the fulfillment of every single old covenant type.
2 Corinthians 1:19–20 tells us: “For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea. For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.”
Those who are found “in Christ” are the only recipients of the blessing of God and the promises of God since the cross. Only they are the true spiritual children of Abraham – by faith. God only has one people. Salvation can only be found in man’s only Savior – Jesus Christ. Favor with God and divine election only apply to those who have personally embraced Christ Jesus. We should also remind ourselves: the new covenant is eternal. It will never be parallelled by any other covenant in some imaginary future age. It will never be superseded. It will never be erased. It is God’s final and unending covenant with man.
Galatians 3:13-14, 16-17 states: “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith … Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds (plural), as of many; but as of one (single), And to thy seed, which is Christ … For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.”
Who do the promises apply to today?
To the seed of Christ - the fulfiller of the Abrahamic promises. According to this, there is only one favored seed of Abraham today, and they are a spiritual seed. They include all those who belong to Christ. There is no other seed. There are not 2 seeds, as Dipsies would claim. It is this blessed seed which the largely Gentile New Testament Church has entered into “in Christ.” He is man’s only way of access into that blessed spiritual heritage.
When the unbelieving Jews boasted to Jesus, “Abraham is our father” (John 8:39) He rebuked them: “Ye are of your father the devil.” Paul did the same in Romans 9:6-8: “For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, they which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.”
This could not be clearer. Paul confirmed: race means nothing today. Jews and Gentiles that accept Christ are of their Heavenly Father. Any other gospel is a false gospel. It is another gospel.
Paul makes a clear contrast between those who are “the children of the flesh” (referring specifically to Christ rejecting Israel) and those who are “the children of promise.” He shows us that these are two different diverse peoples. In doing this he is attempting to illustrate the impotence of the natural and the potency of the spiritual.
The reality is: God is no respecter of persons (Acts 10:34-35, Romans 2:11, Galatians 2:6, Ephesians 6:9, Colossians 3:25, 1 Peter 1:17). God shows no favoritism in regard to a person’s nationality, color, social status, education, knowledge, family heritage, race, or gender. Basically, your birthplace, birthday or passport carries no merit with God. The exclusive nationalistic favor of one nation has been eternally removed in Christ to embrace both Jew and Gentile equally by faith. This will never be overturned. The sinner (of all nationalities) enters exclusively into communion with God through faith in Christ on an equal basis.
Jesus reinforced that throughout His teaching. We that in Matthew 21:42-46: “Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them. But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.”
Those who insist on maintaining Israel’s covenantal role and yet separating them from the New Testament congregation are absolutely dependent upon maintaining the old covenant arrangement. The only problem is: it has been long-abolished. It will never be resurrected. It is redundant. What is more, the New Testament structure allows no distinction whatsoever between Jews and Gentiles, something that marks the old arrangement. Those who promote that today advance spiritual apartheid to separate Israel from the remainder of God’s people. Those who do this have no understanding of the teaching of Christ, the new covenant guidelines and the repeated teaching of the sacred New Testament text.
It is time for our Dispie brethren to abandon the old covenant and enter into the new covenant – with its new enhanced and broader structure and better promises.
Galatians 3:29: “if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.”
Hello! Here you have it! This is strong, unmistakable, irrefutable, unshakeable, rock-solid, evidence, that man’s only hope of partaking in the covenant promises of Abraham, belong exclusively to those who belong to Jesus and His redeemed Church.
Paul tells the largely Gentile Church at Galatia in Galatians 4:28-29: “Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.”
The whole wider discourse here focuses in on identifying what is of God and what is not, especially in regard to Abraham’s descendants. The dividing factor comes down to: men are either “born after the flesh” and are “in bondage” or “born after the Spirit” and are “free.” This has always been the case from the beginning. Race or physical birthright was never the determining feature when it came to blessing. It was instead spiritual vitality. After all, both of these boys were biological children of Abraham. But the difference between them was that Isaac was a child of promise and Ishmael was not.
Paul assures the mainly Roman church in Romans 8:16-17: “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.”
The Greek word for “heir” is kleronomos meaning ‘getting by apportionment’, it can be interpreted ‘an inheritor or a possessor’. This is what happens upon salvation, we were adopted into the family of God and became one with Christ, whereupon, through Christ, we assumed a heavenly inheritance.
Hebrews 8:6: “now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he (Jesus) is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.”
There are no promises for those who are not in Christ!
These are all pertinent questions in the light of the loud, repeated and unbiblical claims from Dispensationalists over this past 195 years.
They need to know: under the new covenant, all the promises of God, find their confirmation and fulfillment in Jesus Christ. Romans 15:8 states: “Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers.”
All of the Old Testament promises and covenants find their realization in the person of Jesus Christ. He is the fulfillment of every single old covenant type.
2 Corinthians 1:19–20 tells us: “For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea. For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.”
Those who are found “in Christ” are the only recipients of the blessing of God and the promises of God since the cross. Only they are the true spiritual children of Abraham – by faith. God only has one people. Salvation can only be found in man’s only Savior – Jesus Christ. Favor with God and divine election only apply to those who have personally embraced Christ Jesus. We should also remind ourselves: the new covenant is eternal. It will never be parallelled by any other covenant in some imaginary future age. It will never be superseded. It will never be erased. It is God’s final and unending covenant with man.
Galatians 3:13-14, 16-17 states: “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith … Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds (plural), as of many; but as of one (single), And to thy seed, which is Christ … For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.”
Who do the promises apply to today?
To the seed of Christ - the fulfiller of the Abrahamic promises. According to this, there is only one favored seed of Abraham today, and they are a spiritual seed. They include all those who belong to Christ. There is no other seed. There are not 2 seeds, as Dipsies would claim. It is this blessed seed which the largely Gentile New Testament Church has entered into “in Christ.” He is man’s only way of access into that blessed spiritual heritage.
When the unbelieving Jews boasted to Jesus, “Abraham is our father” (John 8:39) He rebuked them: “Ye are of your father the devil.” Paul did the same in Romans 9:6-8: “For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, they which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.”
This could not be clearer. Paul confirmed: race means nothing today. Jews and Gentiles that accept Christ are of their Heavenly Father. Any other gospel is a false gospel. It is another gospel.
- Christ-rejecting Israel is of their father the devil (John 8:44).
- They are off the synagogue of Satan (Revelation 2:9, 3:9).
- They are enemies of God (Romans 11:28).
- They are of antichrist (I John 2:22-23 ) and are under the wrath of God (John 3:36).
Paul makes a clear contrast between those who are “the children of the flesh” (referring specifically to Christ rejecting Israel) and those who are “the children of promise.” He shows us that these are two different diverse peoples. In doing this he is attempting to illustrate the impotence of the natural and the potency of the spiritual.
The reality is: God is no respecter of persons (Acts 10:34-35, Romans 2:11, Galatians 2:6, Ephesians 6:9, Colossians 3:25, 1 Peter 1:17). God shows no favoritism in regard to a person’s nationality, color, social status, education, knowledge, family heritage, race, or gender. Basically, your birthplace, birthday or passport carries no merit with God. The exclusive nationalistic favor of one nation has been eternally removed in Christ to embrace both Jew and Gentile equally by faith. This will never be overturned. The sinner (of all nationalities) enters exclusively into communion with God through faith in Christ on an equal basis.
Jesus reinforced that throughout His teaching. We that in Matthew 21:42-46: “Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them. But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.”
Those who insist on maintaining Israel’s covenantal role and yet separating them from the New Testament congregation are absolutely dependent upon maintaining the old covenant arrangement. The only problem is: it has been long-abolished. It will never be resurrected. It is redundant. What is more, the New Testament structure allows no distinction whatsoever between Jews and Gentiles, something that marks the old arrangement. Those who promote that today advance spiritual apartheid to separate Israel from the remainder of God’s people. Those who do this have no understanding of the teaching of Christ, the new covenant guidelines and the repeated teaching of the sacred New Testament text.
It is time for our Dispie brethren to abandon the old covenant and enter into the new covenant – with its new enhanced and broader structure and better promises.
Galatians 3:29: “if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.”
Hello! Here you have it! This is strong, unmistakable, irrefutable, unshakeable, rock-solid, evidence, that man’s only hope of partaking in the covenant promises of Abraham, belong exclusively to those who belong to Jesus and His redeemed Church.
Paul tells the largely Gentile Church at Galatia in Galatians 4:28-29: “Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.”
The whole wider discourse here focuses in on identifying what is of God and what is not, especially in regard to Abraham’s descendants. The dividing factor comes down to: men are either “born after the flesh” and are “in bondage” or “born after the Spirit” and are “free.” This has always been the case from the beginning. Race or physical birthright was never the determining feature when it came to blessing. It was instead spiritual vitality. After all, both of these boys were biological children of Abraham. But the difference between them was that Isaac was a child of promise and Ishmael was not.
Paul assures the mainly Roman church in Romans 8:16-17: “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.”
The Greek word for “heir” is kleronomos meaning ‘getting by apportionment’, it can be interpreted ‘an inheritor or a possessor’. This is what happens upon salvation, we were adopted into the family of God and became one with Christ, whereupon, through Christ, we assumed a heavenly inheritance.
Hebrews 8:6: “now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he (Jesus) is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.”
There are no promises for those who are not in Christ!
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