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The Word of Promise

Rom.9:4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises; 9:5 of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen. 9:6 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.
9:7 Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."{Genesis 21:12}
9:8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.
9:9 For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."{Genesis 18:10,14}
9:10 Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.

Christ Jesus had a miraculous birth not of man, Christ became the new covenant for us. No person enter into the new covenant without a miraculous birth, not from man's hands, but from above from God's power!

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Colossians 3:10 and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

John 3:4 Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?" 3:5 Jesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God!

This is Paul connection; Abraham son Isaac, he was not of man's thinking or hands, it was of God from above, and by God's power, this is factually where Israel came from. But the nation of Israel changed into an institution of religion claiming their power came from what? All the appendage of what God created through Moses for law and order and worship this is what the nation put faith in not the power of God's miraculous birth of Christ, requiring real faith to trust in.

Galatians 4:23 However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

Galatians 4:29 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

1 Peter 1:23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

2 Peter 2:12 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

Yes, worship of men, and temples, linage, the law became Israel claim to being God's people. However, the choosing of Israel was based upon faith through a miraculous birth, Isaac's, and not of works of law. Now Christ had a miraculous birth, and a new nation from that birth based upon faith was created, a spiritual nation, where each person is created by God's power through faith. Flesh and its thinking did not enter into a new covenant with God, physical Israel could not enter in based upon it own illustrious history of prophets and kings, nothing Israel could present God within their flesh was accepted in a new birth, into Christ, making them part of a new covenant.

John 1:13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 1:14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

Romans 9:8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

Galatians 2:16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

Israel lack no intellectual knowledge in writings or teachers, but the choosing was not of man, but God's power, his thoughts, and not how mankind sees or judges by his laws, even if those laws are written by God and given to his people Israel. The power of God does not lay in mankind fleshly mind, no matter how powerful its thoughts might be? God is the author of the new creation, as he will be of the new earth yet to come.

Ephesians 1:19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

Ephesians 3:7 of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

Ephesians 3:16 that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;

Salvation for Israel came from a miraculous act of God, from a birth, not of human hands, or from the world below, but from God's own good pleasure and at his time. Those laying claim to God and his kingdom by human wisdom and understanding of the scriptures will find as Israel did, we are saved in God's power, and not in mankind arguments over biblical verses.

1 Peter 1:5 who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

God took a people with no understanding of Israel history and made them son's of God, he educated them, he gave birth to them shaming all the knowledge Israel had gained for thousand's of years and boast in. Yes, stone cried out, the glory of God, the Gentile's were hated pangs were grafted into by a miraculous birth like Isaac, and Christ. The world of Christ time did not know him, they rejected him because he was not listed as one of Israel greats, he had no illustrious position, no material wealth, no special position among the teachers of Israel.

1Cor.1:22 For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,
1:23 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks, 1:24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. 1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Lets us remember, the judgment of sheep and goats, neither knew when they had done a kind act towards Christ Jesus brothers, when we look to man, and/or flesh, thinking God's ways will come by such faulty reasoning, we certainly do not know the story of the bible! It is our faith being tested, not our works, not our ability to argue scriptures, but our belief in God's power, his promises to us, made to us by His Holy Spirit that bears witness to the truth of God's power and love, like Abraham put faith in.

1 John 5:6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

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