HAVE SAID OVER AND OVER,
O.T. Saints are only those who BELIEVE GOD would send a MESSIAH.
N.T. Saints are only those who BELIEVE GOD did send a MESSIAH, Jesus Christ.
Ok one looked ahead to a suffering savoir beforehand and the other looked back.
In either case it has "nothing" to do with flesh and blood of any man, Christ said of his own flesh it profits for
nothing. God puts no difference between a Jew and a Gentile He purifies the hearts of all men by a
work of His faith or a
labor of His love called the “seed” (spiritual) .and not in respect to Abraham as “seeds”, not spiritual . What he previously called His bride Israel he has given her a new name that he promised he would name her by Himself, Christian. A word that denotes residence of the city of Christ the new Jerusalem She will come down on the last day as His bride
Then the idea or Jew and Gentile, male and female will not enter the Kingdom of God, it will not be remembered or ever come to mind. God is not a man as us He is not Jewish , as if eternal Spirit was a man
THAT IS THE SAME FAITH, THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM.
Faith of Abraham ? What faith as a work of Abraham. Faith without works is dead? Was Abraham crucified for the sin of the world?
We are not to have the faith of Christ, the faith of God in respect to Abraham or any flesh. That kind of idea of attributing the work of God to sinful man is called blasphemy
THAT DOES NOT MAKE A GENTILE A SPIRITUAL ISRAELITE, ABRAHAM WAS NOT AN ISRAELITE, HE WAS A CHALDEAN. ABRAHAM WAS NOT THE FATHER OF ONE NATION, HE WAS THE FATHER OF MANY NATIONS.
Is he the father of the gentile nations?
Those who areborn again (new creatures), it has nothing to do with their outward flesh. The bride of Christ can be known as Jew or a Christian. The flesh profits for nothing, zip, nada
The one qualifier is whether or not a person has a new spirit that will never die but wil be raised on the last day . If any man has not the Spirit of Christ (not the temporal spirit of Abraham) than neither do the belong to Him
READ IT AGAIN, it is ONLY TALKING ABOUT JEWS, that ARGUMENT PAUL WAS SETTLING was some thought all JEWS WERE CHILDREN OF GOD, JUST BECAUSE OF THEIR BLOODLINE. YOU HAD TO HAVE THE RIGHT BLOODLINE AND HAVE THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM, TO BE CONSIDERED AS PART OF WHAT GOD MEANT BY ISRAEL. YES WE TOO ARE ADOPTED CHILDREN OF GOD, BUT WE DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT BLOODLINE, SO WE HAVE NO CLAIM TO THE TITLE "ISRAELITE".
The blood is used as a metaphor to represent the unseen Spirit .The promises where he would come and pour out His eternal
Spirit (not seen) not blood, the temporal (seen) The seed (spiritual) of Christ has nothing to do with the blood line of Abraham .Blood without spirit life has nothing to offer it returns to the dust from where it was formed of. So it is not a matter of having the right "blood line" but the right "spirit line" the unseen eternal .
We are not to have our faith that comes from hearing God towards men Again its not the faith of Abraham that saves anyone it could not even save Abrahams’ own self We are not to have the faith of Christ in respect to men again it shows someone is blaspheming the holy name by which all men are called toward our God. Not toward Abraham .
Jam 2:1 My brethren,
have not the
faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord
of glory, with respect of
persons. ....(Abraham)
Jam 2:7 Do not they
blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?