Who Are the Real Jews?
By Pastor Steven L Anderson
May 25, 2014
Now in Galatians chapter 3 we have this passage that talks alot
about salvation being only by faith, it's not of works, we're not
justified by the works of the law and so forth. And also in this
passage He talks alot about Abraham and how Abraham is the father
of faith, and he is the father of those that believe. Let me
point out a few specific things about this passage. It says in
verse 16, Galatians 3:16. "Now to Abraham and his seed were the
promises made. He saith not and to seeds as of many, but as of
one, and to thy seed which is Christ." Okay. So here when the
Bible talks about God making promises unto Abraham in the Old
Testament, it says that those promises were made to Abraham, and
to his seed. Now it doesn't say seeds as of many, it says
singular "seed", and it says that that "seed" of Abraham is Jesus
Christ, okay? So basically what the Bible is saying is that the
promises were not made to Abraham and to his physical
descendents. But rather that the promises were made unto abraham
and his seed Christ. Now jump down to the bottom of the chapter,
verse 28 says "There is neither Jew nor greek, there is neither
bond nor free, there is neither male nor female, for ye are all
one in Christ Jesus. And if you be Christ's, then are ye
Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise." So this
chapter is really clear that the seed of Abraham is Jesus Christ,
and if we are in Christ, then that makes us the seed of Abraham.
If you are NOT in Christ, you're not of the seed of Abraham. And
if you're not in Christ, even if you're a physical descendent of
Abraham, those promises do not apply unto you, according to
Galatians chapter 3.
Now let me prove this further to you from
scripture. Go back to John chapter 8. Let's look at John chapter
8. And I'm going to explain to you why this is so important in a
little bit, but... John chapter 8, we find a passage that also
makes this very clear. And by the way, this is a clear teaching
of the New Testament, all the way form Mathew to Revelation. This
is hammered in almost every single book between Mathew and
Revelation. This doctrine is brought up over and over and over
and over again. Yet let me tell you this, 90 something percent of
baptists don't believe the doctrine that I am preaching this
morning. 90 something percent of evangelical christians don't
believe the doctrine that I am teaching this morning. Virtually
almost any church you go to, that's a christian church, that's a
Baptist church, is WRONG about this doctrine that I am preaching
to you this morning. Even though it's something that the Bible
talks about literally over and over again in virtually every book
from Mathew to Revelation. In fact it's a major theme of the New
Testament. I mean it's nothing less than a major theme. You say
"how can that be Pastor Anderson? How can it be that all these
people are wrong then?" Because when you hear something over and
over again, sometimes you get ingrained with a false teaching,
and you get ingrained with a pre-concieved idea and it's hard to
let go of that idea. And I know that when I was a child, and when
I was a young man growing up, I was wrong about this doctrine.
Because you hear so much of the wrong teaching on it. You hear so
much of it wrong in church that it's hard to break free of that.
But let me just ask you this morning to do me a favour and to
just put aside all your pre-concieved ideas of what you think you
know about this subject. We're going to look at alot of scripture
this morning. I want you to just see what the Bible says and just
believe it. And not be held back by preconcieved ideas.
Look at
John chapter 8. And let me show you what Jesus Christ says in
John 8, beginning in verse 32. It says "And ye shall know the
truth and the truth shall make you free. They answered him, we be
Abraham's seed and were never in bondage to any man, how sayest
thou, ye shall be made free? Jesus answered them, verily, verily
I say unto you, whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
And the servant abideth not in the house forever, but the son
abideth forever. If the son therefore shall make you free, ye
shall free indeed. I know that ye are Abraham's seed, but ye seek
to kill me, because my word hath no place in you. I speak that
which I have seen with my Father, and ye do that which ye have
seen with your father. They answered and said unto him, Abraham
is our father. Jesus saith unto them, if ye were Abraham's
children, ye would do the works of Abraham." Now let me ask you
this, just look in there at verse 39. Does Jesus believe that
they are the children of Abraham? No because he says "IF you WERE
the children of Abraham, you would do the works of Abraham". He
just finished telling them that they don't! So he is saying
"you're not the children of Abraham". He said in verse 40, "But
now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which
I have heard of God, this did not Abraham. Ye do the deeds of
your father. Then said they to him we be not born of fornication,
we have one father even God. Jesus said unto them, if God were
your Father, ye would love me, for I proceeded forth and came
from God. Neither came I of myself, but He sent me." Look so far
he has said "you're not the children of Abraham, and you're not
the children of God". Now he gets a little more explicit because
they're not catching his drift. So in verse 43 he says "why do
you not understand my speech? Even because you cannot hear my
word. Ye are of your father the devil." And the lusts of your
father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode
not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he
speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own, for he is a liar and the
father of it."
Now right there Jesus Christ is confronted with
people who are jews. Now these are unbelieving jews, they did not
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, okay? These are the Pharisees
etc that are saying to him "ABRAHAM IS OUR FATHER, WE ARE THE
CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM!" And he says "well I know you're Abraham's
seed" meaning "I know that physically you are descended from
Abraham". But he says "if you were Abraham's children, you would
do the works of Abraham. If you were God's children, you would
love me". He said "you are of your father the devil." Now when I
talked about this spanning from Mathew to Revelation, even in the
very first pages of the book of Mathew, when you get to the first
preaching of the book of Mathew... The first preaching of the
book of Mathew is about this subject. Go to Mathew chapter 3.
John the Baptist comes on the scene preaching. Chapters 1 and 2
of Mathew, this is right at the beginning of the New Testament,
chapters one and 2 of Mathew give a narrative about the events
surrounding the birth of Christ. They give a narrative
surrounding the wise men coming to visit Jesus Christ and
presenting gifts unto him- Gold, Frankincence and Myrrh. They
give the story about the shepherds that are, you know, keeping
watch over their flocks by night. Okay, we get that where Jesus
fled into Egypt to escape Herod who was going to slay all the
children, so that story is covered in chapters one and two. But
when we get into chapter 3 the preaching begins. It says in verse
1 "in those days came John the Baptist preaching in the
wilderness of Judaea, and saying repent ye for the kingdom of
heaven is at hand." Now let's jump down to verse 7 and see what
he said to the Pharisees and the Saducees. Now let me ask you
this. What nationality are the Pharisees and the Saducees in the
Bible? These are the Jews. Look what he says to them in verse 7.
"But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Saducees come to his
baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath you
warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore
fruits meet for repentence. And think not to say within
yourselves, we have Abraham to our father." I mean right away,
right out of the gate, you open the New Testament, and you say
let's open the New testament- and by the way the book of Mathew,
people will tell you "hey that's the book that's most geared
toward the jews. Because it quotes so much of the Old Testament."
Won't they tell you that? And in this book that is "geared toward
the jews", it says in chapter 3, "Think not to say within
yourselves, we have Abraham to our father. For I say unto you
that God is able of these STONES to raise up children unto
Abraham. And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the tree.
Therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn
down and cast into the fire."
Look it's so clear and if we follow
this through the book of Mathew, we are going to see the same
thing over and over again. Go to chapter 21 quickly and let me
just show you one more thing in chapter 21. Where basically
you'll find a similar story, really the whole chapter keeps
touching on this subject throughout chapter 21. For example he
talks about a fig tree in verses 17 through 23. It says... Let's
just look there first before we get to where I was actually going
to. Look at verse 18, and it says "Now in the morning as he
returned into the city he hungered. And when he saw a fig tree in
the way he came to it and found nothing thereon but leaves only.
And said unto it, let no fruit grow on thee henceforward and
forever. And presently the fig tree withered away. And when the
disciples saw it they marvelled saying how soon is the fig tree
withered away. So again, the concept of you know, if they don't
bring forth good fruit they're hewn down and cast into the fire.
That same concept is here with the fig tree. where it withers up,
it's gone. Then he goes to another parable where he talks about
it in verses 28 and onward, about, you know, the two sons, the
one that obeyed and the one that didn't obey. And there's a
symbolic meaning there about Israel and the gentiles, okay?
Israel payed lip service to obeying but did not. The gentiles did
eventually obey. But let me show you the main portion that I
wanted to show you.
In Mathew 21, look at verse number 33. It
says "hear another parable. There was a certain householder which
planted a vineyard and hedged it round about and digged a
winepress in it and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen
and went into a far country. And when the time of the fruit drew
near, he sent his servants to the husbandman that they might
recieve the fruits of it. And the husbandmen took his servants
and beat one and killed another and stoned another. Again he sent
other servants, more than the first and they did unto them
likewise. But last of all he sent unto them his son saying they
will reverence my son. But when the husbandmen saw the son, they
said among themselves, this is the heir. Come let us kill him and
let us seize on his inheritence. And they caught him and cast him
out of the vineyard and slew him." It's interesting because here
Jesus is prophesying his own death. Jesus hasn't died yet but he
is talking about how they're going to kill the son! Look what it
says in verse 40. "when the Lord therefore of the vineyard
cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? They say unto him,
he will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his
vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits
in their seasons. Jesus saith unto them, did ye never read in the
scriptures? The stone which the builders rejected, the same is
become the head of the corner. This is the Lord's doing and it is
marvellous in our eyes." Watch verse 43. "Therefore say I unto
you, the kingdom of God shall be TAKEN from you and GIVEN to a
nation bringing forth the fruits thereof." He said "Look, EVERY
TREE that BRINGS NOT FORTH GOOD FRUIT, is going to be HEWN DOWN
and cast INTO THE FIRE!" And he said it doesn't matter whether
you say "oh Abraham is our father". MEANINGLESS! CUT DOWN!
WITHERED AWAY! No fruit, you're gone. And he says here that the
kingdom of God will be taken away from them and given to a nation
bringing forth the fruits thereof. He is saying "I am taking it
from one nation, and giving it to another". Does he say here,
"but then later I'm going to come back and give it back to that
nation"? He said "no fruit on thee from henceforward forever", is
what he actually said earlier in the passage about the fig tree.
There is so much scripture on this. We are going to look at so
much scripture on this.
But if you would go to Genesis chapter
12, Genesis chapter 12. How does this apply unto us today? You
know, why even preach about this? Well first of all we need to
preach about it because it is a major theme of the new testament
and so if something is a major theme of the new testament that is
talked about over and over again, about how the jews rejected the
Lord Jesus Christ and therefore the kingdom of God is taken from
them and given to a nation bringing for the fruit thereof. if the
promises of God went from being to Abraham's physical descendents
the nation of Israel where he says, No, it's now Christ that is
the seed and if you are in Christ you are going to Inherit the
promises. That matters today for alot of reasons. Because alot of
people today are stuck in a timewarp, they think that they are
living in the old testament today. And the Bible says study to
show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be
ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth. Now let me ask you
this. Is there a major division in the Bible? Where is the
biggest most major division in your Bible? There is a big
division between the old testament and the new testament isn't
there? And Jesus Christ said that where a testament is, there
must of necessity be the death of the testator. Okay, he says a
testament is of force after men are dead, otherwise it is of no
strenght of all while the testator liveth. So when did the New
Testament come into force? When did the new covenant become in
action? at the death of the Lord Jesus CHrist. At his death,
burial and resurrection we went from old testament to new
testament, okay? Now here is the thing. in the old testament, God
chose Abraham and he told abraham "i will make you a father of
many nations. I will bless them that bless you, I will curse them
that curse you."
Let's look at the famous passage in genesis 12,
in verses 1 through 3. It says "Now the Lord had said unto Abram,
get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred and from my
fathers house unto a land that I will show thee. And I will make
of thee a great nation. And I will bless thee, and make thy name
great and thou shalt be a blessing." Now, what are the words
"thee" "thou" and "thine" all have in common? They're all
singular. This is the great thing about the king James Bible.
"Thee" "Thou" "thy" "thine" are singular words, whereas "ye"
"you" "your" are plural. So if you are reading one of these
modern Bible versions, you never really know whether it is
singular or plural. But when you read the King James you always
know, because "thee" and "thou" are singular, "ye" "you" "your"
are plural. So he is saying this all to Abraham- singular. "I
will make of THEE (Verse 2) a great nation and I will bless THEE.
And I will make THY name great. and THOU shalt be a blessing. And
I will bless them that bless THEE, and curse him that curseth
THEE, and in THEE shall all families of the earth be blessed."
Now is he saying there, "I'm going to bless every single one of
your descendents, no matter how blasphemous they are, no matter
how wicked they are, no matter whether they believe on me or not,
no matter whether they believe on the Lord Jesus Christ or not,
they are just blessed until doomsday, because they are your
physical descendent abraham."? Is there anything like that in
this passage? Is there anything in this passage that says "I'm
going to bless a nation called Israel that will be founded in
1948, everybody who lives there is going to be blessed and they
are going to be my chosen people."? No. But yet that's what
ninety-something percent of evangelical christians and baptists
will get out of these verses. But hold on a second.Look at the
last words of verse 3. It says "and in THEE shall all families of
the earth be blessed." Now that's a pretty important statement
isnt it? "in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."
Turn to Galatians chapter 3. In galatians chapter 3, that is
quoted. And I want to show you how that is quoted and how that it
is applied in the new testament when that is quoted. While you
are turning there I am going to read for you a passage from
Genesis 22 okay? Here is another passage where God reiterates
that blessing he gave him in chapter 12. In genesis 22 he says
this. That "in blessing I will bless thee"- He's talking to
Abraham- "and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the
stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore,
and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies, and in thy
seed shall all nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast
obeyed my voice." now, who is the seed according to Galatians 3?
Jesus Christ and everyone who is in Christ, okay? Now in this
passage, in Genesis 12, 1 through 3, the most famous passage
about abraham in the entire Bible, it said "in THEE shall ALL
FAMILIES of the earth be blessed." and in Chapter 22, He
reiterated that same promise, and said "in shall ALL NATIONS OF
THE EARTH be blessed" okay? Let's look at galatians 3, verse
number 8, to find a biblical interpretation.
Now I know that
there are all kinds of commentaries that could tell you what
genesis 12 and genesis 22 mean. And you could get your scofield
reference bible and all the different study bibles that can tell
you what it means. But you know, those are all written by man. We
don't know whether that stuff is true or not. I don't read ANY
commentaries EVER for whatever reason. No study bibles, no
commentaries. Why? Because the Holy Spirit should teach us the
word of God. And God has in due times manifest his word through
preaching. Not theological books. PREACHING. (Sarcastically)
"what's the difference?". Okay, preaching is preaching. Books...
are books. any questions? Okay, let's just do a little test here.
is this preaching? What is this? A book. THis is a book, right?
Is what I am doing right now a book? What is it? (preaching).
Okay, does everybody umderstand? (sarcastically) "yeah but what's
the difference between commentary and preaching?" Well, one of
them is sound. One of them is a verb. One of them is an object.
(sarcastically) "what's the difference between reading a book and
listening to preaching?" Uh, one of them, you are coming to a
church and listening to a spirit filled man of God expound the
Word of God verbally. Another one, you are reading a book written
by a man that usually wasn't even baptist, and you don't even
know where he came from, you don't know who he is. And you just
treat it as an authority because it is right there in black and
white, it's written on the page, it's right there. Whereas when
you come and listen to preaching, you are supposed to be
listening and judging. And by the way, here is what is wrong with
study bibles. You should read the Bible by yourself to have some
alone time with the Lord. Now when you come to church, you are
hearing God's Word, but you are also interacting with the
preacher. That's a third party. Now, the Bible is real clear that
we should come to the church and listen to the preaching, but we
also need to have some alone time with the Lord. Get Scofield out
of your private time with the Lord. Get Mathew Henry out of your
private time with the Lord. Look, I have a relationship with my
wife, and when my children are around, we can still build our
relationship with the children around can't we? We can still have
a good time together and grow in our love for one another, we can
go out to eat and bring the children. We can go to the park and
bring the chilkdren. But wait a minute, what if my wife and I, we
just, the only time we interacted was around the children? That's
not going to be a very good relationship. we also need some alone
time with each other don't we? We need some alone time, and then
there's also some times when we interact in a group, with our 8
children which is quite a group, okay? So that's the way it is
with God. If we are going to have the right relationship with God
we need to spend some time alone with God. We need to enter into
the closet, shut the door and pray to our father in secret. We
need to just sit down with the Word of God, and the Holy Spirit,
and NO INTERLOPER, no third party. "what's the difference? What's
the difference?" Because you're never alone with the Lord. You've
always got some commentary, you've always got some study Bible,
it doesn't make any sense. But why don't let the Bible be it's
own commentary? Why don't we compare spiritual things with
spiritual? And if we do that we can allow Galatians chapter 3 to
be a commentary on Genesis 12 and Genesis 22. And let me tell you
something. It is going to say something DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT
than what the commentaries are saying.
Look at Galatians 3 verse
8. "And the scripture forseeing that God would justify the
heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham,
saying in thee shall nations be blessed. Now look, the statement
"In thee shall all nations be blessed". Is God leaving us to
wonder what He meant by that? Hmmm, I wonder what He meant by
that, "in thee shall nations be blessed." I wonder what he meant
by that. We don't have to wonder. What he meant by that is that
all nations would have people who would get saved through putting
their faith in Jesus Christ who came from Abraham. "Forseeing
that God would justify the heathen through FAITH, the gospel was
preached unto Abraham saying, in thee shall all nations be
blessed." But you know how I have heard this verse frequently
interpreted? Here's what they say. "well "in thee shall all
nations be blessed", that means any nation that blesses Israel,
will be blessed by God." So that means if America is the ally of
Israel, God is going to bless us. Who has heard that? If America
is Israel's ally, God will bless us, because he said to Israel,
"I'll bless them that bless you and curse them that curse you".
Did He say that to Israel? Who did He say that to? (Abraham) And
his... (seed) Who is the seed? (Jesus Christ) Who else is in
Christ? (Us, Christians) Okay. So it is so clear. It is so
crystal clear, but it is not what people are teaching today
because there is an agenda going on. There is a political agenda.
There is a religious agenda. There is a teaching out there, and
it is a newer teaching, it is from the 1800's and forward. This
teaching that says "hey, the Jews are STILL God's chosen people,
they're STILL the seed of Abraham, they are STILL under God's
blessing. If we bless them, God will bless us, if we curse them
God will curse us. If our nation is going to be blessed, our
nation is going to be blessed by doing good unto Israel. WRONG!!!
Our nation is going to be BLESSED when we are justified by FAITH!
I mean if our nation is going to be blessed today, it is going to
be because we believe on Jesus Christ. And that is what the Bible
says in Galatians chapter 3. He says in verse 16, "To Abraham and
to his seed were the promises made, He saith not and to seeds as
of many, but as of one, and to thy seed which is Christ." I have
always noticed how many important verses are 3:16.
I mean if you
want to read some of the coolest verses in the Bible, just read
all of the 3:16's. I mean I'm not saying all of them are going to
jump out at you, but honestly there are alot of important... John
3:16 right? Best verse in the whole Bible. Greatest verse, most
famous verse. You know genesis 3:16. How about 1st timothy 3:16.
2nd Timothy 3:16. I mean these are major bible verses. DOctrinal,
pivotal Bible verses. Galatians 3:16 is right up there with them.
Okay? Genesis 3:16 is a great verse. There's so many important
scriptures that are 3:16. Makes it easy to find. Okay. But
anyway, look down at verse 28. "there is neither Jew nor
Greek"... (sarcastically) "Welllll the jew this..." But what are
you talking about? (sarcastically) "Oh but you don't understand
Pastor Anderson, it's the JEWS, it's talking about the JEWS!" No.
You're living in the past. There is no Jew. There is neither Jew
nor Greek. To sit there and say that this person is blessed by
God or that we need to be allied with this person or we need to
do good unto this person or give them preferential treatment
because they are a jew... There is no Jew, or greek. "There is
neither bond nor free. There is neither nor female for ye are all
one in Christ Jesus. And if you be Christ's, then are ye
abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. So when it
comes to the promises made to Abraham, is there either Jew or
Greek? (No.) When it comes to the promises made to Abraham is
there male or female? No, it doesn't matter whether you are male
or female, whether you are bond or free. Whether you are Jew or
greek, red and yellow, black and white, if you are in Christ, you
are Abraham's seed and you inherit these promises. Let me tell
you something. YOU HAVE BEEN RIPPED OFF FOR YEARS, by
christianity that has been ripping you off, and gipping you out
of your promises. All these great promises that God made to you!
I mean how would you like to have a promise that God will bless
those that bless you and curse those that curse you? Who would
like that promise? Oh yeah God will bless everyone and bless you
and bless me. You know what, preachers have been telling you for
years, "that's not about you, that's about the Jews." Have they
been telling you that or not. "oh yeah that's the Jews, that's
the Jews, that's the nation of Israel"... They're ripping you
off! I mean it was a good day when I finally after years and
years of being wrong, as you know, growing up with this false
doctrine, just one day when it dawned on me... that promise is
mine??? I was praising God! I was like, Hallelujah! God will
bless those that bless me, He will curse those that curse me! I
AM ONE OF GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE TODAY! GREAT! Now, (sarcastically)
"But are you jewish?". Well when it comes to the promises made to
Abraham there is no Jew or gentile, okay? Now flip back to Romans
chapter 2. Romans Chapter 2.
It says in Romans Chapter 2 verse
28- and again these scriptures are just so crystal clear, there
is no way around it. We are all over the New Testament. We are in
the four gospels, we are in the epistles of Paul. Let's go to
revelation. Let's go wherever you want in the New Testament. This
teaching is consistent. Look at Romans Chapter 2 verse 28. "For
he is not a jew which is one outwardly". Now I don't understand
what people don't understand about that statement. So when you
see a guy who says "I'm Jewish, I'm a Jew." But when he doesn't
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, I don't understand what people
don't get about the fact that he is not really a jew. Now keep
your finger here, and I want you to put another finger in
Phillipians chapter three because this is so clear, it is taught
throughout the New testament, and it is very consistent. Put your
finger in Phillipians 3 and let's look at Romans 2:28 there. It
says "For he is not a Jew which is one outwardly, neither is that
circumcision which is outward in the flesh, but he is a Jew which
is one inwardly. And circumcision is that of the heart, in the
spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of
God." Now keep your finger there, look at Phillipians 3:3. Now
this is Paul speaking unto the Phillipians. The Phillipians are
from a city called Phillipi which is the chief city of Macedonia.
This is not a Jewish city, this is a city in what would be today
modern Greece, okay? Phillipi in Macedonia and I know that there
is a little country called Macedonia today, and there is a great
big country called Greece. Back then, Macedonia had a bigger
piece of the pie there. But anyway, you understand the general
region, right? Macedonia, northern Greece, that's the area, okay?
Phillipi is a city up in europe basically. Northern Greece,
Macedonia. Watch what he says in verse 3 of chapter 3. "For we
are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit and rejoice
in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence the flesh." Now let me
ask you this. WHat about the guy who doesn't rejoice in Christ
Jesus? Now look at Romans 2:28. "He is not a jew which is one
outwardly, neither is circumcision which is outward in the flesh.
He is saying "Look, if the outside of your flesh is circumcised,
if you're outwardly a jew, you are NOT a jew, unless you are a
jew INWARDLY." And he said "WE ARE THE CIRCUMCISION WHO REJOICE
IN CHRIST JESUS." It's that simple folks. The true jews are the
ones who believe on Christ and rejoice in Christ Jesus. They're
the ones who are God's chosen people.
You say well "who are all
these people wearing funny hats? I thought they were the Jews?"
Who are all these people living in the nation of Israel? Who are
they?" Now, go to... Go if you would to Revelation chapter number
2. Revelation chapter number 2 because... First of all let me say
this, and I want to say several things about the people that are
living over in Israel today, or even people living in the united
states who say that they are Jews, okay... First of all, let me
say this. You know, most jews live in Israel or the United
States. That's pretty much where they live, those are the two
places. I don't have the exact numbers in front of me. But, you
know, there are millions of jews in Israel and there are millions
of jews in the United States. Those are the two primary places
where they reside. But they are also all throughout Europe and
other places. And these people will all say "i'm a jew, I'm
jewish" okay? Now, first of all, in God's eyes, they're not
children of Abraham unless they believe on Jesus Christ. Now,
couldn't these people who are the so called jews today, if they
believe on Jesus Christ, wouldn't that make them one of God's
chosen people if they believe on him? Of course. Okay, what about
the disciples, I mean they were Jewish, right? Except for Simon
the Canaanite. But other than Simon the Canaanite, Jesus'
disciples were of Jewish descent, and yet they believed on
Christ, they were his chosen people. They were saved, they were
part of the Holy Nation. But those who did not believe on Jesus
Christ, he said "you are of your father the devil." You know the
ones who claimed to be Jews, but were actually rejecting of the
Lord Jesus Christ. He said "you are of your father..." Who? The
devil, okay? Now look at revelation chapter 2. And look at verse
number 9 and it says "I know thy works and tribulation and
poverty but thou art rich. And I know the blasphemy which say
they are jews and are not, but are the synagogue of satan." So
according to scripture, are there people out there who say that
they are jews but they're not? But they're actually the synagogue
of satan. Now let me ask you this. Who today fits the bill of
revelation chapter 2? Well first of all, who is saying they are a
jew? Do the jews fit that bill? Yeah, they say they are jews,
okay? Are they jews biblically? No. So the Bible says that they
say that they are jews and are not. Okay, so far fits the bill.
"but are the synagogue of satan". Do they have synagogues, these
people that say they are jews and they are really not? There's
one in Tempe, you know. Do they have a synagogue? Yes. Okay, did
Jesus tell Jews that had a false religion, a false form of
judaism that did not include the Lord Jesus Christ, did he say
that they were of their father the devil?
Okay, now look at the
next verse after chapter 2 verse 9 and it says, "fear none of
those things which thou shalt suffer, verse 10, behold the devil
shall cast some of you into prison that ye may be tried, and ye
shall have tribulation 10 days. Be thou faithful unto death and I
will give thee a crown of light. Let me ask you this. Have the
Jews persecuted christians when we look at the new testament
scripture? Now if you read the book of acts, virtually every
chapter, most chapters of the book of acts, contain the Jews
persecuting the Christians. And Paul mentions this is Galatians,
when he says "Just as ishmael persecuted Isaac, the natural
children of Abraham will persecute the spiritual children of
Abraham." And that is why... And alot of people will say "oh the
romans, the romans threw the christians to the lions. The romans
persecuted christians." Yet if you read the book of acts, it's 28
chapters long, do it this afternoon, and come back to me tonight
and show me where the perscuted the christians in the book of
Acts. I'd like to see it! The acts of the Apostles spans many
decades of early church history. Read it this afternoon and come
back to me tonight and tell me, "Pastor Anderson, I found the
place where the Romans persecuted the christians." It isn't
there! It does not exist in this book. You will not find it. Yet
what do we find in the book of acts almost every chapter? The
"jews" persecuting the christians. The "jews" stirring up the
gentiles against the christians. The "jews" arresting paul,
delivering him to the romans. They delivered him to the romans...
the romans are like "we can't find any fault in this guy!!" You
know, and the Jews are like "you need to KILL HIM! you need to
put him to death!" And here is the thing. There's even an urban
legend that the apostle Paul was beheaded by Nero. NOT
SCRIPTURAL.
In 2nd timothy 4, Paul makes it crystal clear, he
says "I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure
is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my
course, I have kept the faith." So he is talking about his
imminent death. He is talking about the fact that he is about to
die. Yet at the end of the chapter- I'm going to flip there just
so I don't quote it wrong- yet in the same chapter in 2nd Timothy
chapter 4, He says in verse 17, "notwithstanding, the Lord stood
with me and strenghthened me, that by me the preaching might be
fully known, and that all the gentiles might hear, and I was
delivered out of the mouth of the lion. And the Lord shall
deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve unto his
heavenly kingdom. To whom be glory forever and ever amen." Does
that sound like a guiy who is about to be executed by the romans?
"I was delivered from the mouth of the lion, God's going to
deliver me from every evil work, but yet he says "I'm about to
die". Why? Because he is about to die of natural causes. Okay?
Because people get old and die. That's why it says in acts 28, at
the very end of the book of acts, it says that the apostle Paul,
when he is arrested he is brought to Rome. The romans are like
"What in the... Who is this? We don't even care!" But the Jews
are "KILL THIS GUY! KILL THIS GUY KILL THIS GUY!" And the romans
are "We don't even know what to do with this guy." They send him
to Rome and instead of killing him, you know what it says? What
happened when Paul got to Rome? They gave him a little house to
live in, and just put an ankle bracelet and told him... you know,
I'm making it modern, I'm just kidding but... They put an ankle
bracelet on him and said "just stay in this house". And they said
"any of your friends can come visit you, you can pretty much do
whatever you want Paul, just live here." And all his friends came
and he preached to all his friends all the time. And Jews would
come and hear preaching, and unsaved people would come and hear
preaching. And it says he continued there for... let's just look
at it, go there to Acts 28. Look at the last verse. And what I am
saying is that you can't just believe everything you read folks.
Unless you read it in the Bible, then you believe everything you
read. But you can't just believe what people say.
Look at acts
28. It says in verse 30, "and Paul dwelt two whole years in his
own hired house and recieved all that came in unto him, preaching
the kingdom of God and teaching those things which concern the
Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence..." (sarcastically adding
the following) "...even though the romans wouldn't let him and
the romans wanted to KILL him!" (No.) What does it (really) say?
"No man forbidding him." The romans are like "you're in our
custody now, just preach whatever you want, just do whatever you
want, but we're just keeping you here because otherwise the jews
are flipping out. You know so we are just going to keep you here,
you can just preach here..." Two years later, what does the Bible
tell us, what happens after two years? But it would be awfully
misleading of the Bible to give us such a rosy picture in the
last verse, everything is great. "Two years he continued, no man
forbidding him" and then OFF WITH HIS HEAD!! Would that, does
that... I mean does anybody actually believe that? It doesn't
make any sense. It's not what the bible teaches anywhere, okay?
But there is an agenda behind that teaching. That basically is an
agenda to say "hey, you know, the jews are not the ones who
killed jesus, the jews are not the ones who persecuted the
apostles..." But go to 1st Thessalonians chapter 2, and let's see
if that's true. Now you say "why in the world are preachers not
talking about this? Why have I never even seen some of these
scriptures?" I'll tell you why. Because if you preach a sermon
like I am preaching right now you will be accused of being a
racist and an anti-semite. "YOU'RE ANTI-SEMITIC, YOU HATE JEWS!"
Now hold on. Does anybody here think I hate jews? You know what I
am teaching, and I want to make this real clear, I want everybody
to listen. If you only get one thing out of this sermon, listen
to this. THE JEWS ARE NOT BETTER THAN THE GENTILES AND THE JEWS
ARE NOT WORSE THAN THE GENTILES, THE JEWS ARE EQUIVALENT TO THE
GENTILES. Everyone get that? Now, is it racism to say that the
jews are the same as everybody else? I mean how is it racism to
say "jews are the same as everybody else"? They don't get special
treatment. They don't get a free pass into heaven. They're not
automatically God's chosen people. They shouldn't be
preferentially treated. You know how we should treat jews? Like
we treat everybody else!
You know who the real racists are?
Christians who teach that the jews are above everyone else, even
if they don't believe in Christ. Because, see, racism would say
"it doesn't what the person or does, here's my opinion of them
just based on their nationality." Isn't that what racism would
be? To say "well I don't care what the guy is like, because he is
white, he must believe this... or because he is black, he must do
this, or because he is hispanic, he is like this." That's what
racism would be. And to sit there and say "the Jews are
automatically blessed by God, God's chosen people, NO MATTER WHAT
they say or do"... THAT IS the racist position. And what I'm
preaching today is actually the legitimate Biblical position that
says "there is neither Jew nor Greek". It says in Romans 3 there
is no difference between the Jew and the Greek, okay? That's what
we teach, that's what we believe. But here's the thing. Alot of
preachers are afraid of their own shadow. And here is the thing.
If you preach what I am preaching this morning, you will be
labelled- even though it makes no sense, even though it is just
crazy- you will be labelled anti-semitic, and you are a racist
and a nazi. But here is the thing. I don't care what people label
me! I don't care. Call me whatever you want. This is what the
Bible says. And I will faithfully preach what the Bible says. And
people can walk out of here and say whatever they want about me,
you know. And if people speak evil of me for, you know...
wrongfully for Christ's sake, then that just increases my rewards
in heaven. If people lie and say Pastor Anderson's racist, Pastor
Anderson is anti-semitic... rewards in heaven piling up. Bring it
on. Call me more names! Send me more hateful messages because it
is just rewards in heaven, okay? Because that is what the Bible
says.
What does 1st Thessalonians chapter 2 say? Verse 14. "for
ye brethren became followers of the churches of God, which in
Judea are in Christ Jesus. For ye also have suffered like things
of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews, who both
killed the Lord Jesus..." So who killed the Lord Jesus? The Jews.
"Killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have
persecuted us and they please not God and are contrary to all
men." Are the Jews pleasing to God? okay look at verse 16.
"forbidding us to speak to the gentiles, that they might be
saved, to fill up their sins alway, for the WRATH is come upon
them to the uttermost." Let me ask you something. Are the jews
under God's blessing? They're under his wrath. Why are they under
his wrath? Because they're Jews? No! Because they don't believe
in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now there are some, a very few a tiny
minority that do believe on Jesus Christ- THEY'RE under God's
blessing. THEY'RE God's people. NOT because they are JEWS, but
because they're in Christ. Okay. But not just by virtue of the
fact that they are a jew. now let me show you a real important
passage on this subject. 1st Peter Chapter 2. Go to 1st Peter
Chapter 2. 1st Peter chapter number 2. Now the reason this
becomes important is because first of all, alot of people are
robbing you of the promises of God. You have all these wonderful
promises in the Bible that are for you. And they're taking them
and stealing them from you and giving them to David Lee Roth. Who
is Jewish. David Lee Roth is Jewish. Captain Kirk, of the
starship enterprise is Jewish. Spock! Was jewish. The three
stooges! Are jewish. So basically steven spielberg, jeff
goldblum, Richard Dreyfuss, okay? Hollywood actors... I'm just
naming people that you know of right? Those are God's chosen
people. So when God gathers the elect in Mathew 24, it is going
to be a reunion of Van Halen. Okay? When God gathers the elect,
because He is going to gather David Lee Roth, right? He is going
to gather all these different jews right? Jews like steven
spielberg... No. Does anybody really think that that is what God
means when he says "the elect"? Now first of all there is a
question of whether the people today who call themselves Jews are
even really jews in the first place. You say "what in the world?
How... Of course they're jews! They're jews right?"
Wait a
minute. How do you really know they're jews? How do you really
know that they're not just complete Europeans, or asians? How do
you know that they're really the descendents of Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob? What would be the one way that we could know for sure
whether or not they are the descendents of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob? A geneology right? Now if they had a geneology that says
"I am the son of, who was the son of, who was the son of..." all
the way back to the Bible times and we could pick up the
geneology in scripture and say "okay, that's where your
geneology..." What does the Bible tell us to avoid in the New
testament? "Avoid geneologies"! So if God thought that it
mattered whether you are a Jew or a gentile, why did he tell you
to avoid geneologies? Now were the people in the Old Testament
told to avoid geneologies? There are alot of geneologies in the
Old Testament. And when people showed up after the seventy year
captivity of the children of judah, when they showed up and
wanted to be priests, and wanted to step into their roles, they
said they had to show their geneology. And if they couldn't show
that Geneology, they couldn't tell which family they were of and
verify it, it said that they were put from the priesthood. "You
can't prove it with the geneology, we don't know if you're even
really a jew, we don't know if you're really a levite, you're put
from the priesthood". Okay. How long were they gone? Seventy
years. So in seventy years, they're saying "hey, if you can't
prove it, we don't know." Okay, how about seven hundred years?
How about seventeen hundred years? How about two thousand years
later? Do you think that we really know exactly who is descended
from who? Let me ask you this. I know that we are supposed to
avoid geneologies, but who has looked up their geneology for fun?
Who has done a little work on your family tree? okay. Keep your
hands up real high. About how many hundred years were you able to
go back, brother Miller? About two hundred years? About a hundred
years? Little over a hundred right?
Okay so I, you know I
actually just for fun, I did some tracing of my geneology. I used
to travel all over the United States for my job. So I had a
little bit of a hobby of, you know, looking up my geneology, and
trying to find clues as I travelled. So for example, I was
driving through the middle of west texas and I knew that a bunch
of my relatives had been from a certain town. So I went to the
cemetary in that town as a little pit stop. And I found the grave
stones of my ancestors from about a hundred and fifty years ago.
One of them even had a picture on it, you know. Old black and
white that was encased in the tombstone. And you could still see
the picture. And I would learn more about my geneology just from
travelling around the country, and just from going to these
places. So I was actually, you know, I definately ran into some
dead ends on certain avenues. But on one avenue I was able to
trace it back to the sixteen hundreds. So I was going back like
four hundred years into switzerland. The Knuti family that I
descended from, which by the way was an important family, the
Knuti's. So I traced it back. But here's the thing. you can't go
back much further than that. It's going to be tough to go back
further than that. And that was just on one branch. Most
branches, you get to a hundred years, dead end. Hundred and fifty
years, dead end. Two hundred years, dead end okay? It's pretty
hard to go back that far. Now do you think it's possible that
alot of people think that they're one nationality when really
they are another. Oh yeah. I grew up my whole life being taught
"we have some cherokee indian blood in us. We're part cherokee."
Seems like everybody in the world you talk to is part Cherokee.
You know, those Cherokee's, I tell you... But anyway, you know
it's just "little Cherokee, little cherokee". Turns out, not true
at all. Totally false. I grew up my whole life being taught that
John Adams and Samuel Adams of the American revolution were close
relatives. Not true. It was a different guy named Samuel Adams.
And he wasn't the beer guy. The beer guy was the American
Revolution guy. Anyway, you can get alot of false ideas. I grew
up telling people, you know, I told people, "I think I'm about
half Irish, half Swedish." But then when I actually looked at it,
it turned out I was like, you know, seventy percent english, and
maybe you know, a quarter scandinavian, little irish. I don't
know the numbers off the top of my head. But it's different than
what you're told sometimes. And sometimes people make stuff up
about where they're from. And here's where it's really confusing.
"Jewish" is not just a nationality, what else is it? It's a
religion. Because Madonna is a jew! Madonna converted to being a
jew and she is into the Kabbalah and all this other satan
worship. But she, is a jew, right? So here is the thing... If you
have a whole bunch of people who switched to the religion of
being a jew. It's not their nationality, but it's their (new)
religion... Just like you say "I'm a christian, I'm a Christian"
right? But there is no confusion there because there is no
nationality. But they say "oh, we're jewish, our family is
jewish. You know, light a bunch of candles, put on the funny hat,
let's do all this stuff." Okay, but here's the thing.
Don't you
think in the course of 2000 years, alot of people who just
converted to judaism, and are just saying "we're jewish, we're
jewish, we're jewish", teaching their kids to be Jewish. Pretty
soon they're going to start to think that they're Jewish
nationality also. When really they're east Europeans? You know
because alot of, there was a whole nation in fact- and this is a
historical fact- there was a whole nation called the Khazars that
was located in basically what today would be southern Russia near
Ukraine and near Khazakstan. That was located there in central
Asia. There was a whole group of people there, who as a nation,
the leadership of the nation converted to Judaism. The leadership
of the nation. And of course when the leadership converts, you
know, alot of the people, now not all of the people converted,
but a huge number of the people of the nation converted because
the leadership, the nobility, the king- he embraced judaism and
he made it the official religion. And so you have all these, just
tonnes of people switching to Judaism. And when did that occur?
In the seven hundreds. So don't you think there could be alot of
confusion between the seven hundreds and now? Of alot of people
who are jewish? And just alot of mixing and just, you know, I
mean how do we really know for sure if we don't have a geneology
and God said to avoid geneologies because it DOESN'T MATTER?
Because if you are in Christ, you're the elect, you're God's
]chosen people. If you're not in Christ, you're not the elect.
You're not God's chosen people. "Think not to say within
yourselves, we have Abraham to our father". So it is doubtful
that all of the people living in Israel today or even most of the
people today are even really jews, that's doubtful. Maybe they
are. Maybe they're... It doesn't matter. But not only what, what
about all the jews who were scattered abroad all over the world?
And what about all the lost tribes of the northern kingdom,
tribes like Reuben, Gad, Asher, Naphtali... What about them when
they were scattered by the Assyrians? They inter-married with all
other nationalities and so honestly, I would not be surprised if
every single person in this room who is of some kind of European
descent or some kind of central asian descent, probably every
single one of us has some connection back to Abraham physically.
Just because they're scattered all over the world. In fact, I did
my genealogy and 300 hundred years ago there was somebody with a
jewish name. Did you hear that everybody? I am one of the special
chosen ones! What? You're not impressed by that? I mean, I'm one
thousandth Jew up here! I'm 999 parts something else, and I'm
about a thousandth part jew, give or take. Okay, so I want to go
claim my land now, alright, over in the holy land, because I'm
part jew. But see here's the thing though.
We don't know how much
jew they are, or how much they are not. We don't know how much
jew the palestinians are... I mean obviously they have jewish
ancestors too, or at least from the ten tribes. I mean those
people have all been intermingling for thousands of years... "oh
no, they stayed really seperate." "oh, all of them stayed
seperate huh?". You believe that? Yeah, nobody has ever married
anyone of another nationality, right? No german would ever marry
a french person, you know. I mean it just doesn't happen folks.
You know, NO hispanic person would ever marry a native american.
Just doesn't happen. Of course it happens. Of course people are
going to marry and there is going to be mixing and there is going
to be a confusion of where exaectly people come from. That's why
I guarantee you that 99 percent of the people in this room could
probably no tell me what nationality they are. I mean who here
could tell me just exactly, you could give me the percentages,
and tell me exactly what nationality you are. Put up your hand if
you can. (Asks congregation member) what are you? (laughs) I knew
you were going to say that. Yeah, see he's all Korean. right? One
guy. One person is all Korean. Is anybody else just one hundred
percent something? It's okay, you're not ruining my sermon. 100
percent navajo right here. Is she married to a navajo? Ok, there
goes that, you know (laughs). That's been preserved for thousands
of years, it's about to go out the window right? Okay, what about
our pure 100 percent korean over here, is he married to a korean?
There goes that genealogy. So here is what I am saying. In our
whole auditorium, we can only find 2 people that are purely 1
nationality, and then they're mixing right now! So you know, it
is ridiculous to think that for 2000 years, these people have
just stayed 100 percent seperate from everybody else, when
there's all these people converting to judaism, they're getting
scattered all over- WHO KNOWS!! Better question than "who knows?"
is this- "who cares?". You know what I care about? Do you believe
in Jesus Christ? It doesn't matter whether you're black. It
doesn't matter whether you are jewish. And look, why should be
the jews be the chosen people? When just as much, if you are
hispanic today, if you are white today, if you are indian today,
if you are black today... You can say "I'm one of God's chosen
people" because God is not a respecter of persons! And God
doesn't look down and judge you based upon your nationality or
ethnicity. God looks down and judges you on the righteousness of
Jesus Christ, are you in Christ? That's what matters.
Now I'm out
of time, there is so much scripture. SO MUCH SCRIPTURE. If you
say "Pastor Anderson, I'm not convinced." Read Ephesians 2 later.
Don't even have time to read Ephesians 2. That tells us we're all
citizens of Israel. Give me a passport! I want to read for you
from 1st Peter chapter 2. I don't even have time to show you
everything about 1st Peter chapter 2. But this is just the last
thing here. It says in verse number 9, "But ye are a chosen
generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar
people. That ye should show forth the praises of Him who hath
called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. Which in
time past were not a people, but are now the people of God. Which
had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy." Now here's
what is so interesting about that. If you go back to the Old
Testament- we don't have time to do it- but in Exodus and
Deuteronomy, God tells the nation of Israel the physical nation
of Israel, He says "You will be a peculiar treasure unto me, if
you keep my commandments." He says in Deuteronomy "you're my
peculiar people". He says to them "you're a holy nation, you're a
chosen generation". That's what He said to the physical nation of
Israel back then. Today He is saying to all believers, "you are a
chosen..." I mean how many times have you heard a pastor get up
and say "hey the Bible tells us we're a peculiar people! Okay.
How about the rest of the verse? I mean why stop there? "Yeah,
we're a peculiar people, amen!" That's why it's so good to turn
to the scriptures and look at them. Because it doesn't just say
that we're a peculiar people, it also says that we're a holy
nation. In the same verse it says, we're a chosen generation.
Promises that were to given to the nation back then IF THEY WOULD
walk in His commandments- THEY DIDN'T. THEY continued not in His
covenant and God said "I regarded them not". "They didn't
continue in my covenant, I regarded them not, the kingdom of
heaven is taken from them." And everybody says "the promises made
unto the old testament nation of Israel were unconditional!".
"God gave them an unconditional promise to that land it was
unconditio-" no there were tonnes of conditions, read it! IF you
keep my commandments! IF you worship the Lord. IF you turn unto
me.
And that's why whenever they didn't believe on the Lord,
they're taken out of the Land. Look when they got to the promised
land that God promised them, when they didn't believe God, what
did He say? "You're all going to die in the wilderness." You're
going to wander for forty years. You will not come into the
land." Did he not let them in? What did it say in Hebrews 4?
"They could not enter in because of unbelief." Why could the
children of Israel not enter into the land? They could not enter
in because of unbelief. When that generation died, the children
of that generation believed the Lord, they entered right? What
happened when they turned to other gods? They're removed from the
land eventually, right? What happened when they turned back to
the Lord? They're put back in the land, after the times of
Jeremiah, right? After the seventy years of exile. They're
brought back to the land. Okay, then they're back in the land
right? Then Jesus comes and they reject Jesus. What did God do to
them after they rejected Jesus? Out of the land. And then in 1948
they all believed on Jesus, and they all came back to the land,
is that what happened? No. So then why did they come back? Was it
God that brought them back to the land in 1948 then? Why would He
when He [said to them] "you can't enter because of unbelief"? Why
would he when 99.99 percent of them reject and blaspheme the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ? Who brought them back? Satan. Aka "the
United Nations". Okay, that's who created the nation of Israel,
the United Nations, okay? So basically, we have a nation that was
NOT created by God, but rather an antichrist nation that rejects-
look, "who is a liar, but he that denieth that Jesus is the
Christ? He is antichrist that denieth the father and the son." So
much more we could look at, but today I'm going to close my Bible
otherwise I'm just going to be tempted to just turn to like 30
more scriptures. But listen to me. Today people have this really
warped view of the world that we live in. It's a worldview that
says that "we're not God's chosen people, the jews are". Even
though they don't even believe in Christ! Even though believe
that Jesus Christ was a, quote, "bastard". That's what they
teach, because they teach that he was the illegitimate, bastard
son of a german soldier. That's what the jews believe. They call
the virgin mary a, quote, "whore" in the talmud. Okay. These
people blaspheme the Lord Jesus Christ in the most extreme way.
My sister was out soulwinning and had a jewish person tell her
that Jesus Christ was beelzebub. Okay, but yet "oh, God's chosen
people", (impersonates parrot) *squawk* "God's chosen people!"
*Squawk, squawk!* "Support Israel, support Israel!" *Squawk,
squawk!* That star of David, God never told them to have that!
That's not in the Bible! So what I'm saying is, they have this
worldview that says this- "all arabs are from ishmael".
(sarcastically) "The aaarabs are from Ishmael. The Jews are from
Isaac." No. WRONG. Because what about everybody else? What about
Midian? What about Moab? What about Ammon? What about Edom? I
mean there is so many other nations, what about the Assyrians,
who are they? The bottom line is, that none of it matters. And we
need to get off this zionistic, jew worshipping, bizarre doctrine
and just get off this thing of "well are you jew, are you
gentile?". I am neither. I'm a christian. If anything I'm a jew.
That's why when I went through the border patrol checkpoint, they
said "what country are you a citizen of?" I say "Israel". They
say "show me your documentation". I pulled out my Bible and
showed them. I did. I said, "let's turn to Ephesians 2 buddy.
I'll show you where I am a citizen of Israel." Because if
anything I'm a jew, I'm definately not a gentile. But you know
what? I'm in Christ. I'm Abrahams seed. (sings) "father abraham,
had many sons"... who knows that song? "many sons"... Hey, that
song, is Biblically correct. I'm one of them and so are you so
let's just praise the Lord- right arm left arm, right foot, left
foot. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Father we
thank you so much for your word Lord, and thank you for the
promises that you've given us. Lord our promises have been stolen
from us and given to unbelievers! God forbid that you would just
give people a free pass because of their ethnicity Lord. You
chose a canaanite as one your disciples Lord. We know you're not
a respecter of persons Lord. Thankyou for giving us the
opportunity not to be a second class citizen in the kingdom of
God, but to be a first class citizen, whether we are red, yellow,
black, white. We're a first class citizen in your kingdom Lord.
Thankyou for the blessings of Abraham. In Jesus' name we pray,
amen.
