Are you Jewish by blood?
Is your family of Jewish
bloodline?
If not, you’re what the Bible calls a Gentile.
For thousands of years, God divided humanity into two main categories—Jew and Gentile.
Why is this important?
Because the law was never given to the Gentile.
It was never our privilege.
No, the law was what distinguished Israel from the rest of the planet.
Everyone else was “excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world” (Eph.
2:12).
For a Jewish person to abandon the old way of the law
and adopt God’s new way was a challenge.
We see evidence of that struggle in The Book of Hebrews, for example:
In The Book of Hebrews it contains thousands of words urging the Jews to drop the old and hang on tightly to the new.
But for most of us, that’s not our situation.
We’re Gentiles.
We were never offered the law.
Today, we Gentiles are offered ONE COVENANT – THE NEW.
Breaking free from the old shouldn’t really be necessary,
since the old was never really ours to begin with!
Have you ever thought about that?
You, your heritage and your family line—none of it had anything to do with the law if you’re a Gentile.
And it was the same for the Greeks back then.
They had no relationship with the Jewish law.
So did Paul march into Galatia or Corinth with THE LAW OF MOSES under his arm to fix them up?
Of course not!
If he had, many would have reacted with “MOSES WHO?”
Bringing the law into the picture was the very thing that made the Apostle Paul angry.
The JUDAIZERS were following on Paul’s heels with a message of
“IT’S JESUS PLUS THE LAW.”
THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT – WE ARE STILL HEARING TODAY!
“IT’S JESUS FOR SALVATION & THE LAW FOR DAILY LIVING.”
But THE TRUTH IS that Gentiles (that’s most of us!)
were NEVER even OFFERED THE LAW.
FOR US, IT’S THE NEW COVENANT OR NOTHING AT ALL.
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