And in He Jeremiah 31 and in Hebrews chapter 8, he said, I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. Gentiles need to get this clear.
He did not make a new covenant, as Jeremiah 31 and Hebrews 8. He did not make a new covenant with Gentiles, people like me. He made a new covenant with Israel. It’s their new covenant. And then Hebrews chapter 2, Ephesians. Watch me here. I’m starting to say the wrong words.
Hm. Ephesians two eleven to the end of the chapter.
Paul speaks to the Gentiles and says, You were Gentiles, you were without God, you didn’t have a covenant with them, you were outsiders and all of that kind of thing. But then he goes on to say, in and through Jesus Christ, you were brought to God and you were made part of the commonwealth of Israel. You know what has happened? God has kept
faith with faithful physical Jews. And they kept this new covenant story and embodied this new covenant story and kept it alive. And we Gentiles got the privilege of entering into their covenant and being counted as covenant members.
Remember you hear this repeatedly to the Jew first and also to the Gentiles. Romans one sixteen. Not ashamed of the gospel, or the gospel of Christ, depending on your version. Not ashamed of the gospel because it is God’s power unto salvation to everyone that believes to the Jew.
from first. The Old Testament’s filled with this.
Zechariah what eight thirteen? No, it may be eight twenty three. He says they’ll come from different nations, people from seven different nations will grab the hold, this is in the text, grabbing the hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew and says, We will come with you. For we have heard that God is with you. That is a great
Momentarily it makes me think, I wish I was a Jew. Because we have depended on them. In Isaiah 2 and Micah 4, we’re told the day is coming when Zion will be building the top of the hills. This is a new Zion, a new Jerusalem, you see. Be building the top of the hills. And all the nations will flow under it.
And will say, Teach us the way of the Lord, and we will walk in it. Tell us about God, the God of Jacob.
All of that. All of that God has worked through the Jew Jesus Jesus to the woman at the well chapter four You don’t know, my dear tonally, tonally. My dear, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Salvation is of the Jew. We know what we worship. Salvation is of the Jew. And then in Luke 24, he says, I’m telling you about the prophets, and I’m telling you how it’s all to be fulfilled. That the gospel and remission of sins in my name, the gospel and remission of sins would go to all the world, beginning.
At Jerusalem. And then in Matthew 28:18 Jesus said, All authority in heaven and earth has been given unto me. Isn’t that great news right there? It’s all been given to me. Go ye therefore and discipelize the nations, Ta etne.
There is not Jews, it’s us Gentiles.