O Lord, there is none like Thee, neither is there any God beside Thee, according to all
that we have heard with our ears.
And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to
be his own people, to make Thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out
nations from before thy people, whom now is redeemed out of Egypt?
For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people forever, and thou, Lord, becameest
their God.
Therefore now, Lord, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning
his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said.
Now here David says, your people are Israel.
You made Israel your people forever.
Now the Zionists will jump on this, but guess what?
They're not all Israel, which are of Israel.
Of course Israel will always be the people of God, except for the fact that that fake
nation over in the Middle East is not Israel.
Like what if we just changed the name of Tempe to Israel?
Would that make it Israel?
Say, "Well, but it's that land.
It's all about the land."
Really?
Is this all about dirt and rocks and trees and plants?
No, it's the people.
Israel was a person.
That's a person's name.
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob's name was changed to Israel.
That's a person's name.
The children of Israel, okay, is who we're talking about.
Well, who are the children of Israel?
Who are the children of Israel?
I mean, today, in 2018, who are the children of Israel?
You know who the children of Israel are?
You know who the children of Abraham are?
It's the people who have the faith of Abraham.
These people have the faith of Israel.
It's not a physical descendant.
That's why the Bible said, "Avoid genealogies."
I mean, look, if being a physical descendant of Israel made you the people of God, then
let's bust out the genealogies and figure it out.
Let's trace it back.
He said, "Avoid it.
Stay away from it.
The last genealogy we need is the genealogy of Jesus."
That's the last genealogy you'll find in the Bible, the genealogy of Jesus, because you
know what?
Here's how my genealogy goes.
It's the genealogy of Jesus, and then Jesus begat Stephen Anderson.
That's the only genealogy I need, so I'm in the line.
I'm descended from all the right people, Abraham, David, everybody, because Christ had all those
wonderful genealogies in Matthew chapter one and Luke chapter three, and I'm tapped into
that by being begotten of him.
I'm his son, so therefore I share that same genealogy.
No, no, you know, you got to be, what, these bunch of white people?
It's funny how they left Israel brown and came back white.
These white Europeans, these freckled, red-haired, blonde-haired, blue-eyed people from Poland
and Germany and Hungary, oh, they're the chosen.
No, Jesus didn't recognize them in John 8.
He said, "Abraham's not your father.
We be Abraham's seed."
He said, "You're of your father the devil.
You're not Abraham's children."
He said, "If you were the children of Abraham, you would do the works of Abraham."
You know what, the real son, I mean, think about this, God forbid that I would ever have
a son that would grow up and just do everything wrong and wicked and not believe in Christ.
You know, God forbid, that'd be the worst thing as a parent, you know, to have a child
like that that would go out and do all those horrible things, right?
But you know what, if some child went out and just hated Christ, I wouldn't recognize
that as my son.
I'd say, "You know what?
That's not my son."
If I was a Christ hater, somebody who hates the Lord Jesus, I would say, "That's not
my son."
You know what?
I would look at someone who loves Christ and say, "That's my son."
You know what I mean?
Somebody that had one to Christ, that loves Christ, that serves Christ, and say, "That's
my son."
Isn't that what Jesus said?
Jesus said, "Who's my mother?
Who are my brethren?
Whoever does the will of God, the same as my mother and sister and brother."
So they sit there and say, "Oh, these are the sons of Abraham."
Really?
That's funny because they hate Jesus Christ.
They hate the one who Abraham prayed to.
They hate the one that Isaac and Jacob worship.
They hate the one who Israel worshiped.
How can they be his sons?
They're not his sons.
You know whose sons they are?
They're the devil's children.
The Pharisees were the sons of the devil, and today's Judaism is the religion of the
Pharisees.
A Christ-killing, Christ-rejecting religion is what it is.
Call it what it is.
It's what Judaism is.
It's a false religion that has been hating and rejecting Christ now for 2,000 years,
bidding on the ground when they hear His name, literal disgust for our Lord and Savior, Jesus
Christ.
"Oh, they're the chosen people!"
We ran into one of the chosen ones out soul-winning today.
It's funny how she didn't even want to hear Romans 3.23.
She wouldn't even listen to one verse.
She was just quick to get us out of there, just no interest.
And 99% of the time, if you knock on the door of a Jew, that's their reaction when you try
to give them the Gospel.
Now I've won a couple to the Lord in the last 20 years of soul-winning, but it's very rare
that they will get saved.
So when he says, "Israel is going to be my people forever," Amen, Amen.
And guess what?
I'm Israel.
You're Israel.
Because the Bible says we're the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit and rejoice
in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh.
The Bible says, "If you're in Christ, then you're Abraham's seed and heirs according
to the promise."
He said, "They're not all Israel which are of Israel, they which are the children of
the flesh, these are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted
for the seed."
And he compares it to Isaac and Ishmael and he says, "We to the Gentiles that are saved
and in Christ."
He says, "We as Isaac was are the children of promise."
That's what he told the Romans in the epistle to the Romans.
He said, "We as Isaac was are the children of promise."
He said, "You know the Jews are, they're Ishmael and Hagar, cast them out.
They're the bond woman and her son.
Cast them out."
So, of course, the Judaizers, dispensationalists, and Zionists love to pull an Old Testament
verse like this out of context and try to pin it on the Zionist state over in Israel,
but you know what?
That is misapplying scripture and failing to rightly divide because they'll never find
anything in the New Testament, they'll never find anything in the New Testament that people
who reject Jesus are God's people.
That doctrine is completely foreign to the New Testament.
It's completely stupid in light of the New Testament when every page is telling you,
"Hey, it's all about Jesus."
If you got Jesus, you got everything.
If you don't have Jesus, you have nothing.
If you're in Christ, you're in.
You have Jesus, you got the Father also.
You don't have Jesus, you don't have the Father.
You're damned, you're doomed, you're anathema, you're separated from God, you're an enemy
of Christ, you're an enemy of God the Father, you're an enmity with God.
You're a child of disobedience, you're a child of wrath, you're under the power of the prince
of darkness.
I mean, the Bible just tells you over and over again, if you don't have Jesus, you're
nobody.
And if you have Jesus, you're a joint heir, you're a son of God, you have all these blessings.
I mean, how can you read the New Testament and not see it?
But the Jews are like Esau, "Isn't there a little blessing left for us also, my Father?"
No, I've already blessed the Christians with all the blessings.
The Christians have already come and taken away all your blessings.
There's nothing left for you!
Well Esau still had a little blessing left of at least serving Jacob, you know, or right?
Playing second fiddle for Jacob.
The Jews don't even have that.
Of course the Jews are too prideful and arrogant to ever play second fiddle for anyone since
they think that they're God and they think that they're their own Messiah is what they
actually believe in their teachings.
They don't accept Jesus as the Messiah.
Well, they're still waiting for the Messiah.
They think they are the Messiah.
I came and count how many times I've seen them say, "We collectively are going to be
our own Messiah," they said.
That's why they're going to have a little trouble with the Antichrist, because eventually
they're going to be like, "All right, thanks.
We'll take over from here," and he's going to be like, "No, I'm going to kill all you
guys now."
And, you know, God's going to be like, "Yeah, this is all part of my plan to punish these
wicked people."
I mean, God's got some wrath coming in the book of Revelation.
That's a whole nother sermon.
That's a whole series of sermons.