Or worse, they tell me they have decided to keep the Law of Moses, some even trying to keep kosher. Quite a few Gentile Christians tell me they now believe they are Jewish because they have accepted Jesus, who was a Jew. I am finding another growing problem in the Christian community. If you must ask these questions, is it possible you are confused about your identity in Christ? After all, I have never asked another Jew, “Hey Shmuley, do you think I’m a second-class Jew?” Of course not. My brethren, no, you are not second-class citizens, and yes, you are equal with the Jews. Some have asked, “Are we second class citizens in the Kingdom?” Others have asked me, “Are we not equal with the Jews?” If so, why does the entire bible seemingly talk only about Israel as the chosen ones and God’s special possession? If the New Covenant is explicitly called out in scripture for Israel, and Yeshua was only sent to gather the lost sheep of Israel, then wherein do we find that God has entered any covenant with the Gentiles?ĭuring my time serving the Lord as a Christian Jew, I have frequently been asked questions about Gentile identity in Christ. “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” (Acts 1:6).Īnd to the Gentiles belonged how much of these promises? Paul said, “At that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world” (Ephesians 2:12).

Yes, according to this verse, to Israel belong all the promises, and I mean 100-percent of everything that is of God’s Kingdom. The Apostle Paul made this supportive declaration regarding the New Covenant for Israel when he said, “For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh, who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God” (Romans 9:3-5).

All twelve of these men were Jews, affirming Yeshua’s statement when He said, “ I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 15:24). On the night of the Last Supper, considered to be a Passover Seder, Yeshua officiated this New Covenant with His disciples, saying: “For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins” (Matthew 26:28). For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more” (Jeremiah 31:31-34, NKJV). No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah-not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. The Lord declared His future promise to Israel that He would one day make a New Covenant with them as it is written: So, if the Gentiles have nothing that legally binds them to the Old Covenant, why do they make such a big deal about not being under it? The answer might surprise you.

You were never under the Mosaic Law, to begin with. I often hear Christians say, “we are no longer under the Law.” True, I reply.

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