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Sooner or later Jehovah would stir up His strength, and the arm of heathenism would be broken. This was the creed of the conservative Jew, and his attitude towards rampant Gentilism was a sullen endurance of insult and injustice and a stubborn abhorrence of Gentile novelties and innovations. He reg
What Is a Jew? (1) Most people do not know what a Jew is. Unbelievers do not know; many professing Christians do not know. Many who call themselves Jews are not Jews and some who do not call themselves Jews are Jews. Some will respond, “Surely those who believe the Jewish religion, Judaism, are Je
So we had better pray the prayer, “Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips” (Ps. 141:3). For spiritually every Christian is a true Jew. Rom. 2:28, 29. Are we as Christians living testimonies to God’s praise? That’s the way it should be, for only true Christians are true Jews.
As Jews they were the citizens of that kingdom, surely as Pharisees with their strict adherence to the letter of the law. Having heard Jesus on this important subject, Nicodemus needs more light. To Jesus he goes. He is interested. This is what we like of this famous ruler. The other 69 members are
Jesus made him well. But they are still blind, and in their blindness now have what theyve been looking for, evidence. And they seek to slay Him, so great the hatred and opposition is already at this time. Questions: Did these Jews really believe the law? The Old Testament? Are there people today, t
He became a Jew through the rite of circumcision. He was incorporated into the Israelitish nation. He adopted the culture of the Jews and he was a part of the nation that went to Jerusalem to worship God in the temple. He was, to all intents and purposes, no longer a Hittite, or a Jebusite, or a Gib
He was a living member of the covenant people by the Spirit’s work of circumcising his heart. Today’s Jabez is the young man or young woman who became a member of a true church by baptism, because he or she was sanctified in Christ and was already at baptism a member of the church by eternal electio
John the Baptist, Christ and the apostles, who themselves were Israelites “concerning the flesh’’ (Rom. 9:5; Phil. 3:5), repeatedly pointed this out to the unbelievers in Palestine in their day, and they were certainly not anti-Semitic (Matt. 3:9; John 8:39; Acts 7:51; Rom. 9:7). In Christ there is
They believe that if a man performs good deeds, tries to live a good life with his neighbor, lives in accord with the Old Testament laws, he will fare well in the hereafter. The Jews do not speak of conversion, because there is nothing to be converted from, nor anyone who needs to be converted. They
And in the terms “Jews” and “Gentiles” you have the two classifications of humanity upon whom this impact is made. The preaching of Christ crucified is the stumbling block for the Jews. A stumbling block is something thrown in the way over which the Jews will fall and break their neck. Our word “s