that part in col2 gets REAL good at 20 right on through to col3'1-3. the whole point is that once we are clean, don't look at the cleanliness. we are to look at the cleaner. that can be hard for us as believers. i don't actually think anyone deserves respect, but i'm grateful you took the time out to swap with me. did you know there's a scripture where Yahh states directly in a Law that he will never be angry with us?
it sounds like you understand that everyone is now a gentile no matter if they came from Abraham’s loins by the flesh or not . Everyone alike is in the same boat
“What then?
are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
Romans 3:9-12 KJV
I think it’s important for us to know that the Jews weren’t the chosen people from the beginning but all mankind was , and then all became wicked . But Noah was chosen and his three sons.
from one of those sons , came Abraham , from Abraham came Isaac and Jacob , then David and eventually Christ.
but when Moses was sent to the children of Israel in Egypt all the world had become wicked , and he then chose from all those wicked a people for himself .
then they too were proven to be sinners like the rest by the law
“Now we know that what things soever the law saith,
it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.”
Romans 3:19
the Jews aren’t less than anyone , or more than anyone . The flesh identity died with Christ
“Wherefore henceforth know
we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. Therefore
if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
2 Corinthians 5:16-17
so new and gentile is another way of saying “ sinners in the same boat now that the covenant is broken “ all People need Jesus regardless of thier heritage of the flesh
he came first to israel because it was they who received the promise of mercy through repentance and the messiah and then after his crucifixion the same offer was sent to all people the same offer made to Israel not in the law but in the promises of faith in the law and prophets so that like the beginning flesh doesn’t count but character and faith is what the chosen receive whether Israelite , Greek male female dark skinned or light English speaking , Hebrew speaking or Vietnamese speaking nationality is a thing of the flesh but the gospel is birth of the spirit
I’m glad you believe in the messiah nothing else actually matters we need to forget who we were and look into e new throng he’s done and find unity because we’re all on a sinking ship and have the same offer he’s the messiah from prophecy
“This is
the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is
become the head of the corner.
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
Acts 4:11-12 KJV
not even Moses name can save us , I don’t think it matters who we were born into in the flesh any longer , but if we are born to God accepting the gospel
“He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:”
John 1:10-12
it’s only because israel was written to reject the messiah that we Gentiles can receive him and e early church was all Jewish believers like yourself but three Paul explained the mystery and they became one in him by the preaching of the gospel first to jew and then gentile making one flock of Twain
“How that
by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
That the
Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should
preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
To the intent that
now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places
might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:”
Ephesians 3:3, 5-6, 8-11 KJV
the faith of Abraham binds us all
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