12/07/2023
|||WORD MEAL|||
Rev. Simon Abu
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||Wednesday | Day 193||
12th July 2023
||TRUE DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM||
John 8:37 NIV
I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are looking for a way to kill me because you have no room for my word.
||Our Study Lessons||
The Jewish people, by natural descent, were descendants of Abraham. However, with so many biblical truths, there was much more to the Abrahamic covenant than what a casual glance would reveal. In truth, some Jews were not the spiritual children of Abraham. This is a picture of the true children of God and those who claim so yet they are not God's children.
The apostle Paul by revelation in Galatians 3:16 and 29 said that God’s covenant was to Abraham and his “seed” or one descendant, which was Jesus. No one ever became an heir of God’s promises through their natural birth but by spiritual birth.
Before Jesus gave Himself as an offering for our sins, the Old Testament saints were justified by faith in God’s promises concerning the Messiah who was yet to come. After Jesus’ death and resurrection, New Testament saints are justified by faith in what Jesus has already accomplished. No one has ever been saved because of who their parents were. You are saved only by grace through faith in Christ Jesus.
Those who have been born again through faith in Jesus have been circumcised in their hearts (Col. 2:11,12) and are the true Jews. They aren’t Jews in nationality or religion, but they are the true people of God. Gentiles who are united with Christ in the new birth are now God’s people. Anyone who is saved through faith in Jesus is now Abraham’s seed and an heir according to the promise. (Gal. 3:16, 22, 26-29.)
This leaves no doubt that today, the church is now God’s chosen people on earth so that through the church, the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the world just as God intended to do with the nation of Israel. This does not mean God has forsaken the biological descendants of Abraham. There are still prophecies that apply to the nation of Israel that will be fulfilled. However, the New Testament church, composed of Jews and Gentiles, is now God’s kingdom on earth. We are all His.
||Let's Pray||
Father, I thank you for the privilege of sonship. I pray that this reality becomes more and more real in my life in Jesus' mighty name. Amen!
||Our Faith Confession||
I am born again, born into a Royal Family, therefore, I reign in life!
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