Welcome!

By registering with us, you'll be able to discuss, share and private message with other members of our community.

SignUp Now!
  • Welcome to Talk Jesus Christian Forums

    Celebrating 20 Years!

    A bible based, Jesus Christ centered community.

    Register Log In

Heirs According to The Promise

Sue J Love

Loyal
Joined
Mar 27, 2015
Messages
4,149
“Even so Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith who are sons of Abraham. The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, ‘All the nations will be blessed in you.’ So then those who are of faith are blessed with Abraham, the believer.”

“Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, ‘And to seeds,’ as referring to many, but rather to one, ‘And to your seed,’ that is, Christ.”

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.” (Galatians 3:6-9,16,28-29 NASB1995)


Faith in Jesus Christ

So, what does it mean to be of faith in Jesus Christ? Jesus said it this way:

“If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it. For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits himself? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory, and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.” (Luke 9:23-26 NASB1995)

And the Apostle Paul stated it this way:

“..and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. But you did not learn Christ in this way, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.” (see Ephesians 4:17-24)

Faith in Jesus Christ, if it is of God, and not of human flesh, will result in us denying self, dying with Christ to sin daily, and us walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands in holy living, in practice. For if sin is what we practice, and not obedience, we will not inherit eternal life with God.

Gospel:[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

All One in Christ Jesus

And this is critical that we get this next part. If we are of genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ, we are sons of Abraham, blessed with Abraham, and we are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to the promise. Jew and Gentile, by faith in Jesus Christ, are one person, one people, the one and only chosen people of God via faith in Jesus Christ. We are no longer divided, Jew and Gentile, but Jesus made us one people by faith in Jesus Christ.

So, when people call themselves “Messianic Jews,” that is not biblical, for that still separates them from all other Christians who are not of Jewish descent. But by Jesus’ death on that cross, and via his bodily resurrection, not only are we able to now die to sin and live to God in obedience to his commands, but he made us one people by faith in Jesus Christ. So the division is no longer Jew and Gentile, but those who believe in Jesus Christ and those who are not of biblical faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

So please understand that not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring. It is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. The Jewish nation called “Israel” is not of God, for as a nation they have denied Jesus Christ, which then makes them antichrist, as a nation, but not all Jews.

And Paul taught the Christians that they were not beholding to the Jews to follow after Jewish customs, traditions, and laws, for the Jews who did not believe in Christ were of Hagar, the slave woman, and not of Sarah, the free woman. And the city of Jerusalem, representing the Jewish nation, was still in slavery with her children. And she is not of the free woman, Sarah. But the (spiritual) Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. In other words, all Jews who do not believe in Christ are not God’s people.

And so the slave woman’s (Hagar’s) son (the Jewish nation, not of faith in Christ), will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son, i.e. believers in Christ. And so physical Jerusalem is no longer “the holy city.” The church, the body of Christ, is his holy city. And all Jews who do not believe in Christ will not inherit the promises given to Abraham and to his seed, and they will not have eternal life with God. “Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.”

[Genesis 17:7-9; Genesis 18:19; John 8:18-19,38-47; Romans 2:28-29; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 9:4-8,25-28; Romans 11:1-36; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 3:16,26-29; Galatians 4:22-31; Ephesians 2:11-22; Ephesians 3:6; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 8:6-13;1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 2:22; Jude 1:5; Revelation 2:9; Revelation 3:9]

So, do not give your support, loyalty, devotion, worship, and adoration to a godless nation who does not believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they do not believe in Jesus Christ, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (same God). For all who deny Jesus as the Christ are the antichrist – denying the Father and the Son (1 John 2:22). They are not of God, and they are not God’s chosen people. Only those who believe in Jesus Christ are God’s chosen people, his holy ones.

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Recording Via Gerry Peters, music producer and arranger


Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.


Caution: This link may contain ads

Heirs According to The Promise
An Original Work / August 29, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
 
Back
Top