Emile, true Jews, Christians, spiritual people like our Father, right on.
Not fleshly descendents from Abraham, but members of the new race with Jesus as the first fruits.
(1 Pet 2:9 NRSV) "But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light."
(1 Pet 2:10 NRSV) "Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy."
(John 8:42 NASB) "Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love Me; for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me."
(John 8:43 NASB) ""Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word."
(John 8:44 NASB) ""You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature; for he is a liar, and the father of lies."
(John 8:45 NASB) ""But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me."
God bless,
David |
