To: TheDivineWatermark and Inquisitor
Galatians 6:16 "Peace and mercy to all who walk by this rule, even to the Israel of God."
Believing Jews are part of the "Israel of God" since the Gospel "is to the Jew first"
The
same Gospel "
is also to the Gentile"
When a Jew comes to Messiah and forsakes the Old Covenant that he/she may be under the NEW Covenant they become a NEW Creature in Messiah.
When a Gentile comes to Christ and forsakes idols, then that Gentile becomes a NEW Creature under the same NEW Covenant.
Now the Jew and the Gentile become members of the One True Body of Messiah/Christ which is the "Israel of God" Born thru the Spirit of God.
Truth Validation #1
Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you,
does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?— just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
7Therefore know that
only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand,
saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.”
So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
Truth Validation #2
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed
is everyone who hangs on a tree”),
that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that
we (Jew & Gentile) might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Truth Validation #3
For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Truth Validation #4
For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law (for not the hearers of the law
are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified;
for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves
their thoughts accusing or else excusing
them) in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.
Truth Validation #5
For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor
is circumcision that which
is outward in the flesh; but
he is a Jew who
is one inwardly; and
circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise
is not from men but from God.
Truth Validation #6
But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect.
For they are not all Israel who are of Israel, nor
are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, “In Isaac your seed shall be called.”
That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God;
but the children of the promise are counted as the seed.
For this
is the word of promise: “At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son.”
Truth Validation #7
that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,
even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
As He says also in Hosea:
“I will call them My people, who were not My people,
And her beloved, who was not beloved.”
and it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them,
‘You are not My people,’
There they shall be called sons of the living God.”
Truth Validation #8
For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in
His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.
And
they(Jews of the flesh) also,
if they do not continue in unbelief,
will be grafted in,
for God is able to graft them in again.
For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who
are natural
branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion,
that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
Truth Validation Conclusion =
"For they are not all Israel who are of Israel,"