First works Baptist Church, if you could go and please stand with me. Turn to song number 65, just over in the glory land.
Song number 65, song number 65, just over in the glory land.
65, on that first verse.
Oh, over in the glory land.
Let's open the service of the word of prayer.
Father, thank you for this wonderful and beautiful morning that you've given us.
It truly is an honor, privilege to be able to come into your house, to be able to hear your word preach.
I just pray for your spirit upon the preacher.
And may we learn from your word and grow as Christians, Lord.
And of course, if there's anybody here that's not saved, that they'll be saved as well.
May our singing glorify you. We love you in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated.
Song number 14, "Kneel at the Cross."
Song number 14, on that first verse.
"Kneel at the Cross." Christ will meet you there. Come while He waits for you.
Boy, within your care.
Great singing. Welcome to First Works Baptist Church. Just a few announcements here.
Before we sing our next song, which will be "415 Victory Through Grace."
415, if you did not get a bulletin, go ahead and raise your hand.
One of the ushers can get one for you. Some important information on there.
Of course, we welcome you to come back to our Sunday evening service tonight at 5 p.m.
And we are still going through our family nights. And so we have something special for tonight.
I'll get into that in just a bit. We are a family integrated church.
And so infants and children stay with their parents in the service for your convenience.
There is a mother baby room located. There are mother baby rooms located throughout the building.
If you want to know the location of those, just talk to one of our ushers and they will lead you to one of those rooms.
And changing tables, speakers and screens are available there as well.
So you can still tune into the preaching.
You see the soul winning times and teams, the list of expecting mothers if you can keep them in prayer.
And then you have the stats there for salvations and baptisms for the month of May.
On the right hand side, excuse me, we have the upcoming church events as I mentioned.
Tonight we're continuing with our family nights and so tonight is the jumpers and hot dogs.
And that will be after the PM service.
And so just want to give you a little bit of instruction in that regard.
The company that's going to come drop off the jumpers, they're going to come around once.
So if you could do us a favor and not park from where my office is right here to where the new unit is.
We want to keep this entire place clear for the jumpers.
And so I'm sure you guys remember what that was like from last year.
So just keep that in mind. Please make sure you don't park there.
And there's plenty of other parking in the parking lot here or on the street.
And so that will be for tonight.
And then we have the 4th of July picnic coming up this Friday.
You have the address there.
Sign up at the guest center if you want to bring something or if you have any questions.
You can talk to Brother Ulysses Hernandez.
It's typically pretty casual.
So, you know, everyone shows up around 1030, 11 o'clock.
And kind of leave at whatever time you want.
There's not real set time. It's just between those hours there or so.
So we're looking forward to seeing everyone at the 4th of July picnic.
And then we have a board game Sunday.
Next Sunday night as well.
We are going to have some snacks there for everyone who comes.
And I believe, I'm just going to say right now, Brother Marcos, right?
Next Sunday, did you say next Sunday?
He's going to be, he's the barista.
And so he's going to be making some coffee for us.
And so that will be next Sunday night.
That way everyone stays awake during the preaching.
And then we have the watermelon Sunday coming up on Saturday, July 13th.
After the PM service.
And so we're looking forward to that as well.
I do have some good news and I have some bad news.
This is always very uncomfortable for a pastor to do, but.
It's regarding the Youth Comp.
Great singing.
If you guys just come forward for the offering, please turn your Bibles to Titus, chapter 1.
Titus, chapter 1.
Titus, chapter number 1.
Titus, chapter 1, the Bible reads, "Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ,
according to the faith of God's elect and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness,
in hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began,
but hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Savior.
To Titus, my known son after the common faith, grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting,
and ordain elders in every city as I had appointed thee.
Fain to be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot or unruly.
For a bishop must be blameless as the steward of God, not self-willed, not soon angry, not given a wine,
no striker, not given a filthy lucre, but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate.
Holding fast the faithful word as yet been taught, they may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
But there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of this circumcision,
whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucre's sake.
One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, "The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies."
This witness is true, wherefore rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith,
not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men that turn from the truth.
Under the pure all things are pure, but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure,
but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
They profess that they know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient,
and unto every good work reprobate.
Dear Lord God, thank you again for everything you blessed us with. I just ask that you would fill the past from here and now with your Holy Spirit,
as He preaches your word unto us, and in Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
Amen. Okay, we're in Titus chapter 1 this morning,
and the title of my sermon this morning is "Jewish Fables About Israel."
Jewish fables about Israel.
Of course, with everything going on in the news and politics and all the war that's going on in the Middle East,
unfortunately, Christians often take a bad position on this particular topic.
And it's because of the fact that dispensationalism has infiltrated churches.
It has taught people the wrong doctrines regarding the Jews and Israel.
And so I want to dispel some of those fables this morning.
Titus chapter 1 verse 12 says, "One of themselves, even a prophet of their own,
said, 'The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.'
This witness is true; wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men that turn from the truth.'"
Make no mistake about it, Christianity is filled with Jewish fables,
meaning just outright lies that pastors and preachers and churches are constantly propagating
regarding the nation of Israel.
I'm going to give you four major fables that are promoted by dispensationalists,
that are promoted by Zionists, that are promoted by Christians regarding the Jews and Israel.
And of course, one of the reasons that people do this is because of the fact
that they're essentially promoting the political ideologies of Zionism.
Oh, the reason that Israel's justified in bombing Iran and just kind of misbehaving
and doing all these wicked things and atrocities are their God-chosen people.
You know, no one should mess with them because they're God-chosen people.
Oh, you know, yeah, they murdered thousands of people, innocent individuals.
It's okay because they're God's chosen people.
And people just turn a blind eye to all these, you know, criminal acts
and wicked things that they're doing in light of the fact that they believe
that they're God's select, they're God's elect, they're God's chosen people.
But this is a fable. It's not true.
And we need to completely destroy Zionism within churches
and not allow it to get a foothold in churches.
And at the end of the day, it's really based upon, are you a Bible-believing Christian or not?
Because why? Because if the Bible is our final authority,
we don't need Fox News to tell us that the Jews are God's chosen people.
We don't need Ted Cruz to misquote Genesis chapter 12 and say
"My Sunday school teacher told me that those who bless Israel will be blessed"
when that's not even a verse of the Bible. We don't need anybody to mold our minds
and give us the biblical perspective regarding Israel because we have the Bible.
You know, at the end of the day, we need to prove all things, hold fast to that which is good,
and who cares what the majority of mainstream Christians believe about a subject?
What does the Bible say about it? And you know, if as the remnant, we believe contrary to them,
it doesn't matter, we're right, they're wrong, because we have the Bible to back it up.
And look, folks, I have experience with talking to people who are Zionists
and those who believe the Jews are God's chosen people, and let me just say this,
every single time I bring up these verses, it's just, they have no answer whatsoever.
They just can't answer it. Why? Because the Bible says you can do nothing against the truth,
but for the truth. You can't really fight against the truth when it's being presented to you.
And at the end of the day, most of the time, when I present these verses to Zionists
and those who've been influenced by dispensationalism, more often than not,
they'll concede and say, "Okay, yeah, that is what the Bible says,
but all Israel shall be saved, brother, because they're still God's chosen people."
It's just like, did everything just go in one ear out the other?
Like, listen to what's being stated here, but it shows you that Zionism and dispensationalism
has a stronghold on Christianity today, and we need to make sure that as God's people,
as God's chosen people, amen, that we destroy these fallacies.
Now, obviously, our church in general is anti-Zionist.
When I say in general, I mean that, you know, most people in here
hold the biblical view and the biblical position regarding Israel,
but of course, we're going to have new people come to our church, and so it's always good to talk about this,
and it's always good to reinforce it in the minds of those who already have the right position,
so that when someone comes to you and says, "Hey, what about, you know, Ezekiel chapter 36, though?"
Or, "What about Romans 11, 26?" You have an answer to give them.
You know how to respond to these things and how to essentially destroy their arguments.
So let's talk about these four Jewish fables about Israel. We're going to dispel these today.
And let's start off with the first one, which is the most obvious fable that we've all heard, and I've already mentioned it.
And that is, "The Jews are God's chosen people." That's the number one fable that's being promoted today.
And that is that the Jews are God's chosen people.
Now let me start off by saying this regarding the term "chosen." What does it mean to be chosen? It means to be elected, right?
Selected for a specific task. And often, when you talk to people about the chosen people of God,
when you talk about the Jews being God's chosen people, ask them this. Chosen for what?
Chosen to bomb other nations? Chosen to just exercise superiority over everyone else?
Chosen to just be better than every nation? What are they chosen for?
And I'm going to tell you right now that they can't answer the question, because they've never asked themselves that same question.
It's just that, you know, when you tell a lie loud enough and long enough, the people will believe it.
They're just simply parroting what other pastors say, but they can't really give you a clear, concise answer as to why is it that they're God's chosen people.
Now, let me start off by saying that the Jews were God's chosen people in the Old Testament, meaning that the physical nation of Israel made up of not just Jews, but all the 12 tribes,
which, by the way, that's another Jewish fable, and that is that Israel is made up of 12 tribes, right, of the Old Testament.
Jews didn't start off in the book of Genesis, okay?
I know that's an astounding thought to think about, but, you know, Jews wasn't mentioned until 2 Kings, Chapter 16,
when Rezin, King of Syria, was driving out the Jews from Elath,
and the reason he classified them as being Jews is because of the fact that they're of the Southern Kingdom of Judah.
So, you know, after the split of the United Kingdom, you have 10 tribes going to the north,
2 tribes going to the south, those 2 tribes were collectively made up of those of Judah and Benjamin, okay?
And after a while, they're just collectively referred to as Jews because of the fact that they're of Judah.
Now, by the time we get into the New Testament, that term or that classification of being a Jew,
based upon their ethnicity, evolved into the religion of the Jews.
So therefore, you have the classification of being an ethnic Jew, but now you just have Jews who are,
who call themselves Jews only because of the fact that they're adherence to Judaism,
which is why you have Jews all around, you know, these Greek countries in the New Testament, right?
You have them in Corinth, you have them in Greece, you have them in Asia Minor,
even though they're not ethnically Jewish, they're proselytes of the Jews,
therefore they refer to themselves as Jews, not because they're ethnically Jewish, but because they're religiously Jewish.
But by the time we get to the New Testament, Jesus Christ dies on the cross, that's not even a thing anymore,
which is why Jesus specifically says they would say they are Jews and are not, but are of the synagogue of Satan.
Because at that point, you have Jews who essentially adhere to the religion of Judaism and are spearheading the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
They're in direct opposition to Christianity, which is why Jesus Christ refers to them as a gathering, a synagogue of Satan.
And the New Testament tells us clearly in Romans chapter 2, 28-29, "For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly,"
What does that refer to? "The ethnic Jew, which is made outward in the flesh, but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart and of the spirit and not of the letter, whose praise is not a man but of God."
Now notice that he's writing to the what? Romans, right?
These are not people who are ethnically Jewish, nor are they proselytes of Jews.
And so he's specifically telling them, in God's eyes, the true Jews are those who are circumcised in heart, which is another way of saying that they're saved.
They believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, now they're Jews.
And so now we're here in 2025, there is no legitimate Jews in God's eyes today.
Just those who are in opposition to Jesus Christ, opposition to Christianity.
And you know, Romans 2, 28-29 should be enough.
Revelation 2, 9 and Revelation 3, 9 should be sufficient.
The Lord hath spoken.
Once Jesus Christ dropped that line from Revelation 2, 9, it's just like case closed.
Once he repeated it in Revelation 3, 9, it's just like say no more, say less.
We get it.
But yet you have Christians today that say, yeah, but still they're God's chosen.
How can they be God's chosen people if Jesus Christ refers to them as being the synagogue of Satan?
That's a contradiction.
OK, but this is not to take away from the fact that they were God's chosen people.
OK, and no one is saying that they weren't.
They were indeed God's chosen people in the Old Testament.
They were a nation who had that privilege of being identified, classified as being his chosen people.
Now, chosen for what?
Well, first and foremost, they were the nation from which Christ would come from.
So God selected the nation of Israel so that the Word of God could be made flesh and dwell among them.
And specifically, he chose the tribe of what?
Judah.
Now, again, let's just do a little history real quick regarding the nation of Israel
so that we understand what we're talking about.
When we talk about Israel, if you really want to get to the nitty and gritty of Israel,
the Israelites of that northern kingdom are ten tribes.
They make up the vast majority of Israel.
Ten tribes went to the north, two tribes went to the south,
and those ten tribes ended up going into what's known as the Assyrian captivity approximately around 722 BC.
The Assyrians came, took them over, and why?
Because they're wicked.
Because they're evil.
And God's like, "You guys don't worship me. You worship false gods.
And so I'm going to fulfill the promises that I made in Deuteronomy, Chapter 4,
and allow you to go into captivity."
Now, Judah, the southern kingdom, also went into captivity by the hand of who?
The Babylonians.
Now, what's the difference between the Babylonian captivity and the Assyrian captivity?
Here's the major difference.
God told those of Judah, "You guys are going to come back after 70 years."
Why? Because after 70 years, a new generation would arise that would worship the Lord.
And in general, that southern kingdom of Judah did worship God.
They believed in the God of the Bible. They believed in the covenant.
There was a remnant there that actually worshiped God, right?
Whereas the northern kingdom is just like nobody there. They're just all pagans.
They call themselves Israelites, but they're worshiping false gods.
They're worshiping Remfan. They're worshiping Moloch.
That's not Jesus. That's not the Lord. That's not Jehovah.
So he allows the southern kingdom to go into captivity.
They come back after 70 years.
Israel, the northern kingdom, goes into captivity in 1722 by the Assyrians.
They don't come back. So remember that.
They never come back. And this is historically accurate.
This is why history refers to the 10 tribes as what?
The 10 lost tribes.
Because when they were taken into captivity, what happened?
They ended up losing their records of their tribes.
And they were just kind of scattered into the nations, never to be recovered again.
And by the time we get to the time of Christ, those 10 tribes that were lost and intermingled with the heathen are simply referred to as the Samaritans.
And everyone during the time of Christ is referred to as Jews because they're all part of Judea, Judah, right?
And look, there are some people from the 10 tribes that came back to the north, or to the south, excuse me.
You know, there were some, but in general, they're just collectively referred to as Jews, regardless if they're of Levi, Benjamin, or Judah.
Does that make sense? And so to say, like, "Oh, Israel's God's chosen nation," well, let's get accurate here.
Israel doesn't even exist, if you really want to, like, be specific about it. They were scattered. They don't exist.
So the red-haired people over there in Israel, those Caucasians, they're not what the Old Testament Israelites were, okay?
And so that's important to note. But Jesus Christ, though, came from Judah, though, okay?
Now let me read to you from Isaiah 11 verse 1 and 2. It says, "And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.
And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and a fear of the Lord."
This is referring to prophetically Jesus Christ, who shall come from Jesse, who is the father of David, right?
And so this is prophetically addressing the fact that Jesus Christ's salvation, the Word of God incarnate, would come from that tribe known as Judah.
Why was Israel in general selected by God, chosen of God? Because he was going to bring forth the Messiah from Judah.
Now, that gives no value to any other tribe. Let me just tell you that.
Like, you know, the 10 tribes or the 12 tribes, there's nothing special about them just because Jesus Christ came from them.
He said, well, I mean, God selected them. Yeah, he selected them not because there's anything special about them, but just because he selected them.
OK, and here's the thing, folks, is that, you know, if you really want to make the argument, well, that's what makes them special, because that's where Jesus came from.
OK, then why do they crucify them? You know, if you want to make that argument, yeah, that's where Jesus came from.
And we'll say, yeah, that's where Jesus was crucified, too. You know, they killed the Lord Jesus Christ and took credit for it.
So they were specifically selected in the Old Testament because the prophecies stated that Jesus Christ would come from the tribe of Judah.
Not only that, they were also chosen in the Old Testament to proclaim the word of the Lord, right?
Their job was to proclaim God's word to be a light unto the Gentiles.
The Bible says in Romans chapter three, verse one, "What advantage then hath the Jew, or what profit is there of the circumcision,
much every way chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God."
So they were selected by God to pen down the scriptures, to be inspired by God to write down the scriptures, and to proclaim the word of the Lord.
And lastly, they were selected, they were chosen to bring forth fruit unto God.
Now don't miss this. That's not important. It's important to Jesus though.
They were specifically selected and chosen to make converts so that people would believe on the Lord through their efforts and through their light.
Now again, if you study the Bible, you would see that they utterly failed in that area.
Because of the fact that they ended up evolving into what we would consider today to be Rabbinic Judaism.
And the progenitors of Rabbinic Judaism is the religion of the Pharisees.
And the Pharisees were staunchly against Jesus Christ. They persecuted him, they spearheaded the crucifixion, they persecuted Christians even in the book of Acts.
And so this is why Jesus Christ tells them in Matthew 21 verse 42 that the Kingdom of God shall be taken from you, referring to the Jews, and given to a nation, bringing forth, listen to this, the fruits thereof.
So another way of saying that is this, you're fired, you called in sick too much, you don't come to work, you don't fulfill your hours, you're not producing, and so I'm going to take your supervisor label there and I'm going to give it to someone else who's actually doing the job.
That's a normal thing that happens, right?
God fired Israel as being the chosen nation of God and gave it to another nation that would bring forth the fruits thereof.
Now, the difference is this, is that it wasn't a physical nation that he gave it to.
Because we think of the nation of Israel, it was a legitimate physical nation that he gave that title to.
But in the New Testament, the nation is just made up of all believers of all various nations.
So you don't have to be a part of the nation of Israel.
You don't have to be a part of the house of Levi, the tribe of Levi or of the house of Aaron to be part of God's chosen people.
You just got to be saved according to the Bible.
And, you know, he gives an illustration of this in the Gospels where he comes to a fig tree seeking fruit, right?
And he doesn't find any fruit.
And, you know, someone comes to him and says, hey, let's dung it and let's see if it produces fruit in the next three years.
He comes back. He doesn't find any fruit. And what does he do to the tree?
He curses the tree and he says, let no fruit grow on thee from henceforth.
Listen to this forever. He's like, you're done.
And you know, and so it withers away as Hebrews chapter eight states of the old covenant that it's ready to what?
Vanish away. You understand?
So he gives it to this nation made up of all believers in order for the job to get done.
And make no mistake about it. Listen to me closely.
Believers, Christians, Gentile converts have done more to spread the gospel than all of Israel throughout history.
That's a fact. And in fact, that's biblical.
Literally the Old Testament prophesied of that.
Okay, it literally said that, you know, we're going to strengthen our stakes. You're going to spread the tents, enlarge the place of light tents.
We're going to break forth on the right hand and on the left.
We're going to reach all types of people.
And here's the thing. This is not saying that we're better than Israel because there's Israelites who were saved in the Old Testament.
And even during that transitional period between Old and New Testament, there were saved people.
How about Peter? How about John? How about Paul?
There was a ton of saved Jews and Israelites, and they're the ones who are preaching this.
So we're just repeating what they say, okay?
And they didn't call themselves Masianic Jews, by the way.
That's not even a concept in the Bible.
The only Masianic Jew is Jesus, right?
Because he's the Messiah.
So here's this Jewish fable is that the Jews are God's chosen people.
Correction. They were God's chosen people.
They were selected for a task. They failed at completing the task.
Therefore, the job is taken from them and given to someone else.
This is what we would commonly refer to as, you know, listen, replacement theology.
Oh, you know, that's so anti-Semitic. It just means that they're being replaced.
They got fired and they were replaced with someone else.
Plain and simple. Okay?
So, let's read a couple of scriptures here just to kind of double down on this.
Go with it, if you would, to Deuteronomy chapter 7.
Deuteronomy chapter 7, then we're going to go to Exodus chapter 19.
Now, while you're turning there, let me just point out some of the most obvious scriptures that they use
in order to make this point here.
You know, they'll often talk about Genesis chapter 12, right?
And Genesis 12 is like their excuse for them being God's chosen people, their excuse for bombing people,
their excuse for owning the land, their excuse for wearing funny hats.
It's just like anything that they do is just like Genesis chapter 12. Genesis chapter 12, okay?
But let me just tell you that Genesis 12 makes no mention of Israel. Did you know that?
Regardless of what Ted Cruz and his Sunday school teacher said.
There's no mention of Israel in Genesis chapter 12.
And in fact, spoiler alert, Israel didn't even exist at this time.
They didn't exist until long after Abraham.
You have Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Jacob became the man, Israel.
Israel bore 12 sons, they became the 12 tribes.
And eventually they became known as the nation and the kingdom of Israel.
But during Abraham's time, that was non-existent.
So when he's giving them this promise in Genesis chapter 12,
you know, this is why it's important for you to use a King James Bible.
Because he's saying, "I will bless thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."
Why is it important to have a King James?
Because of the "the."
The "the" is singular, meaning that God is specifically referring to Abraham.
And that is the interpretation we need to take unless the New Testament sheds more light upon that passage.
So if all we had was Genesis 12 to go for, to read from, then we would say the promise is made specifically to Abraham and no one else.
But here's the thing, we do have the New Testament.
And the New Testament specifically says in Galatians 3.16,
now to Abraham and his seed where the promise is made, addressing Genesis 12, he sayeth not into seeds as of many, but as of one, and to thy seed the Jews, and to thy seed Israel.
No, to thy seed which is Christ, right?
And then verse 29 says, here's the kicker, and if ye be Christ, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Now who's the ye?
He's referring to the Galatian believers, which are Gentile believers.
So he's saying, you know, the promises pertain to Jesus Christ and anybody who believes on him.
Now that actually makes more sense if you read Genesis chapter 12.
Do you know why?
Because he says, "And these shall all families of the earth be blessed."
And what nation has blessed the entire world more than anyone else?
It's the believing nation through the gospel of Jesus Christ, right?
Christianity improves every nation, every society.
Christianity brings salvation, right?
The knowledge of Jesus Christ to every nation.
It improves its laws, it improves its morality, it brings salvation.
It's what blesses the world, not Israel.
Israel has been excommunicated from 109 countries.
That's not a fulfillment of Genesis 12.
How is that a fulfillment of Genesis 12 if they've been excommunicated?
They have been literally removed from 109 countries.
I'm going to tell you why. It's because of the fact that the fig tree has been cursed.
That's why.
And them being removed from 109 countries is a fulfillment of Deuteronomy chapter 4
where God specifically says, "I'm going to scatter you among the nations and ye shall be left few in number."
That's what he told them.
God threatened Israel multiple times.
Like legitimately threatened them and said, "If you don't keep my covenant, I'm just going to scatter you.
I'm going to remove you from the land and you will be a curse unto all nations."
That's what he said.
And we see that happening.
Okay, and so it's important for us to understand this, that being God's chosen people doesn't
mean you're of a specific ethnic, you know, you have a specific ethnic background or something.
Oh, I'm better than everyone else because I'm white.
I'm better than everyone else because I'm a Jew.
I'm better than everyone else because of my color of skin.
No, actually, we're just better off if we're saved.
How about that?
Now, what do I have you turn?
Deuteronomy 7, look at Deuteronomy 7 verse 6, addressing the nation of Israel.
He says, "For thou art and holy people unto the Lord thy God, the Lord thy God hath chosen
thee to be a special people unto himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
The Lord did not set his love upon you nor choose you because you were more in number
than any people, for you were the fewest of all people.
But because the Lord loved you and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn
into your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out
of the house of bondmen from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant
and mercy with them, that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations.
There you go!
See?
They're God's chosen people.
He's going to keep that oath.
Pastor, you're proving our point.
See?
He's going to keep that.
He's going to be faithful.
Therefore, they're still God's chosen people.
Verse 10.
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments and the statutes and the judgments, which
I command thee this day to do them, wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these
judgments and keep and do them, that the Lord thy God, listen to this, shall keep unto thee
the covenant and the mercy which ye swear unto thy fathers.
Does that sound like an unconditional promise?
No.
He's saying, if you do the judgments, if you obey me, if you don't go and worship false
gods, then I'll keep my end of the bargain and I'll keep my covenant with you.
And if you don't keep the covenant, then I'm going to repay you to your face.
Now that's pretty, that's pretty bold right there, right?
He says, verse 10 says, I'll repay them that hate me to their face to destroy them.
He will not be slack to him that hated him.
He will repay him to his face.
It doesn't sound unconditional to me.
Sounds like the Lord said, here's the deal, serve me.
I'll keep blessing you.
You can stay in this beautiful land and you can just enjoy the fruits of your labor.
My hand will be for you.
But if you turn against me, I'll turn against you.
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, they're always God's chosen people no matter what they do.
Not according to the Bible.
Look at chapter 14 if you would, I'm sorry, go to Exodus 19, Exodus 19, Exodus chapter
19.
The Jewish fable, number one, the Jews are God's chosen people in the New Testament.
No, they're not God's chosen people in the New Testament.
They were God's chosen chosen people in the Old Testament.
In the new, there's been a major transition because they have violated that covenant.
Look at Exodus 19 verse five.
Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant, then you shall be a
peculiar treasure unto me above all people for all the earth is mine and you shall be
unto me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.
These are the words which thou shall speak unto the children of Israel conditional.
If you keep my commandments, if you keep my covenant, you could remain the chosen people
of God.
That's what he's saying there.
It's pretty evident.
But yeah, you know, Zionists want us to turn a blind eye to these passages of scripture
that clearly show us that the covenant that God made with the nation of Israel is conditional.
And in fact, no longer exists in the new covenant because we have a new covenant.
We have a new testament.
We have a new contract that they have to abide by.
Okay.
And so we see that there.
Let me read to you from first Peter chapter two verse five says he also as lively stones
are built up a spiritual house and holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable
to God by Jesus Christ.
It goes on to say in verse nine, but ye referring to Cappadocia, Bithynia, Pontius, Galatia,
Gentile believers, but ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood and a holy nation, a peculiar
people that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness
into his marvelous light.
Let me just address something here.
There is no two people of God.
That's a dispensational fable.
Oh, there's just two people of God.
No, where?
Where is that?
He told them back in Exodus, you're not going to be my people if you violate my covenant.
And then he tells believers in first Peter two, five, you are my people because you're
saved.
Plain and simple.
The promise was conditional.
They are no longer God's chosen people.
They have been replaced.
And you know, people, you know, they take offense to that phrase, you know, the replacement
theology.
Well, it's more like we're engrafted in, you know, we're just grafted into Israel.
And the answer is no, we're not.
We're grafted into the Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 11 teaches we're grafted into Israel.
No one does not say that, you know, stop with your fables.
Romans 11 says that we're grafted into the root, which is Jesus Christ.
And according to Romans 11, Israel is the branch that's actually broken off.
Okay.
And, you know, brother Cody made a good point about this on the podcast.
He said, you know, a lot of times people, what Zionism does is it tries to cause people
to worship Israel in place of Jesus Christ.
So all these passages that are actually addressing the Lord Jesus Christ, Zionism comes.
The anti-Christ religion, which anti, what does anti mean?
It means to take the place of, and they try to replace Jesus Christ with Israel.
They're mad at us for teaching replacement theology, they're teaching replacement theology
too.
The difference is they're trying to replace Jesus with Israel.
Wicked.
Folks, be loyal to the Lord Jesus Christ, and look, don't be superstitious about this
whole thing.
God's not going to strike you dead if you say that the Jews are not God's chosen people.
It's not going to happen.
I've been saying it for years and God's only blessed me for it.
It's true, because I'm telling the truth.
I'm not joking, people become very superstitious about this stuff.
I don't know brother, if you say something like that, I'd be careful.
I'm not careful to answer thee in this matter.
If it's what the Bible says, it's what the Bible says.
But it's just superstitious Christians, "You shouldn't do that man, Romans 11, God has
not cast away His people, Genesis 12, I'd be careful by doing that, I'd be careful with
mixing up, you know, passages that address Jesus Christ and putting Israel on that."
And this is what I often do with people when they talk to me about this particular subject,
you know, because they'll always quote all these Old Testament scriptures, dealing with
the covenant that the Jews are God's chosen people.
And then I'll often say, "Yeah, that's right, you know, the Bible does say that in the Old
Testament."
So what does Jesus say about it?
So does Jesus talk about the Jews at all?
Does He say anything about Israel?
You know any verses?
And it's just like the worst question you could ask them, because it's not like Jesus
was just like silent on the issue.
In fact, He was the most explicit and dare I say the most disrespectful, right?
I mean, how about John 8 44?
"Ye are of your father the devil," you know.
And you know Revelation 2 9 that they're the synagogue of Satan.
I mean, he basically does everything in the book, and he's not the only one other prophets
do.
But I always ask him, so what does Jesus say about them?
And they're just like, "No, the Bible says," no, what does the Bible, which is Jesus say
about the Jews?
And they can't answer that.
Or should I say they don't want to answer that?
All right, Jewish fable number two.
So Jewish fable number one, the Jews are God's chosen people.
They were God's chosen people.
They are no longer His chosen people.
We are the chosen people of God based upon the words of Jesus Christ that said that they
were replaced.
And let me just say this.
The chosen people of God is collectively made of Jews and Gentiles because the being grafted
in is the fact that of twain one new man is made according to Ephesians chapter two.
So once the transition from Old Testament to New Testament was complete the Old Testament
Israelites Jews Benjamites whatever they just became they retain the chosen people of God
title through their belief in Jesus Christ.
So if they were saved in the Old Testament someone came to them in the new and said you
know the name is Jesus you have to believe on and they're like amen is like all right
your grandfathered into the New Testament and that you still retain the chosen people
of God.
That's why the Apostle Paul says God has not cast away his people and he talks about the
fact that he's of Israel he's a benjamite right and what is he saying he's saying that
God didn't cast him away why because he's a believer so he didn't cast him away in
spite of the fact that he was of Israel in spite of the fact that he was a benjamin because
of the fact of this one little minor detail that's not minor at all he's a believer in
Jesus Christ therefore he's grafted in okay pretty simple all right Jewish fable number
two the Jews have an everlasting covenant and this is why it's important to study the
Bible and not just believe everything that you hear right because look you can type in
everlasting covenant and you'll find it mentioned multiple times in the Old Testament but people
don't really understand how covenants work because what is it what is what does it mean
to have an everlasting covenant everlasting means it just never ends there's no there's
no finality to the covenant but based upon the Bible that old covenant had a final there
was finality to that covenant I mean the Bible literally says in the New Testament that the
Old Testament is ready to vanish away that it's null and void that the law that's it's
done away with so can you call that old covenant which was used to describe Israel as being
God's chosen people as an everlasting covenant if it already finished no when the Bible in
the Old Testament talks about the everlasting covenant it's foretelling it's talking about
it's prophesying of the new covenant that's gonna come which is the only covenant that's
everlasting because it has an everlasting mediator known as Jesus Christ okay now let me read
to you a couple of verses here and in fact why don't you turn with me for what to Jeremiah
chapter 31 go to Jeremiah chapter 31 I'm gonna read to you a couple of verses here
Isaiah 55 verse 3 says incline your ear and come unto me here and your soul shall live
and I will make an everlasting covenant with you even the sure mercies of David the Bible
also says in Ezekiel 37 verse 26 moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them
it shall be an everlasting covenant with them and I will place them and multiply them and
I will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore my tabernacle also shall be with
them yeah I will be their God and they shall be my people now I want you to notice something
every time he mentions the everlasting covenant what does he preface it with I will make one
right future tense it's gonna come in the future I'm going to make one he's not saying
I've already made one with you he's saying I'm going to make one for you because of the
fact that he's obviously prophesying of the future testament known as the new covenant
look at Jeremiah 31 verse 31 behold the days come meaning that they have not yet come say
it the Lord that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house
of Judah and here's the kicker not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt which
my covenant they break although I was a husband unto them saith the Lord so it's specifically
saying that this new covenant that he's gonna make with Israel is distinctly different from
the old covenant that he established with Moses which essentially prescribed them as
being the chosen people of God he's literally saying I'm gonna make a new one not according
to that old covenant which by the way you broke you just kind of throwing that in there
right you broke it I'm gonna make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house
of Judah now dispensations will try to get you to believe well this is a separate covenant
from the new covenant that we have today there's no three covenants what are you talking about
that doesn't exist and let me just explain something to you covenants require a mediator
the mediator of the old covenant was considered to be Moses the mediator of the new covenant
is Jesus Christ so who's the mediator of the third covenant it's not real it's a fable
this is this is nonsense this is for children you know it's not a real thing you need to
concede that the new covenant that he's referring to here in Jeremiah 31 which is still in the
old covenant is referring to the new covenant that will be established through the death
of Jesus Christ on the cross why is he saying this then he's telling the house of Judah
in the house of Israel basically you guys have just gone too far I'm having to like
take you into captivity you're sinning against me you're worshiping false gods but don't
worry one day in the future I'm gonna make a new covenant with the house of Judah with
the house of Israel that includes the Gentiles by the way he says with the house of Judah
with the house of Israel and you know because you're breaking this covenant and at that
point listen to this he says I will be your God and ye shall be my people now the reason
I'm not reading this from Hebrews chapter 8 is because I'm showing you that even in
the Old Testament it said this so as much as they were the chosen people of God in the
Old Testament there were instances where God was not their God and he or they were not
his people and why because they break the covenant showing us conclusively that in
the Old Testament even though they're the chosen people of God if they break the covenant
God didn't he didn't claim them anymore he's like you're not my people I'm not your God
why because they broke the covenant they broke that contract there's no everlasting covenant
in the Old Testament my friends and so that's important to know okay let's read on here
it says in verse 33 but this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel after those days saith the Lord I will put my law into their inward parts and write
it in their hearts and will be their God and they shall be my people and they shall teach
no more every man his neighbor and every man his brother saying know the Lord for they
shall all know me from the least of them until the greatest of them say the Lord for I will
forgive their iniquity and I will remember their sin no more now let me ask you this
does the current nation of Israel know the Lord no they don't does the current nation
of Israel you know are they teaching from the least of them to the greatest of them
are they teaching each other about Jesus Christ are they the powerhouse of evangelism of the
world no so this hasn't taken place plain and simple okay in their day it has not taken
place and in fact it still hasn't taken place today because of the fact that Israel over
there is a Christ rejected nation but once you get into the New Testament you have Jews
actually doing this you have the disciples you have different Jews in Israel that are
preaching the word of God where this prophecy is being fulfilled now this brings me into
my third fable okay Jewish fable number three regarding Israel is the land of Israel belongs
to the Jews okay this is why they're allowed to just bomb anybody who potentially might
have weapons of mass destruction this is why the Palestinians should not live in Israel
this is why it's okay to just kill them why it's okay to just kill the children you know
oppress the Palestinians and you know whoever's against Israel they're allowed to just defend
themselves as much as possible because just the land belongs to them okay this is why
they returned back in 1948 because the land belongs to them okay but I'm gonna tell you
right now that the land the physical land of Israel in the Middle East does not belong
to Israel at all they are squatters yeah you heard right the Jews are squatters why because
they're not paying rent they haven't believed on the Lord now go to Hebrews chapter 3 if
you wouldn't now if you have any inkling of Zionism in you you you might you're probably
like you know pray but just hear the word of the Lord this morning we have gathered
today together today to hear the word of the Lord and you know what all of God's
people said amen okay that's what the Bible says and you know
dispensationalism has taught Christians to think oh 1948 fulfillment of Bible
prophecy because God promised that land to Abraham he promised and let me just
say this Abraham according to Abraham didn't even care about the land because
in Hebrews chapter 12 he's like I I'm seeking out a better country and heavenly
you know he didn't really even care about the land the land was there
obviously so a nation could begin that essentially shines forth the statutes of
God a functioning government to carry out the word of the Lord to be a powerhouse
of evangelism to get people saved you know it's like this you know this
building that we're meeting in church today but this building is just a
building you know and there's no intricate spiritual value to this
particular building what takes place in the building right so if we like leave
this building and it becomes like a dispensary we can't be like well you
know put off that shoes from off thy feet from the place where the standard is
holy ground it just becomes unholy and so and Israel the land of Israel there's
nothing intrinsically valuable about the land of Israel okay it's become
defiled and the Bible refers to it as spiritual Sodom in Egypt but the
commandment still stands that they don't belong there though because God just said
that he just said you don't belong there you're being excommunicated you're being
thrown out now this is not something that just took place in the New Testament
this is something that's foretold even in the Old Testament but I'm going to
the New Testament because it's very explicit in the new regarding this look
at Hebrews 3 verse 16 for some when they had heard did provoke how be it not all
that came out of Egypt by Moses but with whom was he grieved forty years was it
not with them that had sin whose carcasses fell in the wilderness and to
whom swear he that they should not enter into his rest but to them that
believe not so we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief now we
are all familiar with this what he's talking about he's a he's referencing
the children of Israel in the wilderness going into the promised land and there
was a lot of people that didn't make it in he did not allow them to inherit the
promised land why because they didn't believe on the Lord they stayed in the
wilderness their carcasses as it says there fell in the wilderness of sin
because they did not believe on the Lord and this is a pattern that we see
throughout the Old Testament where if they refuse to believe on God God's like
you can't be in the lamb plain and simple go to Leviticus 26 Leviticus 26
we're gonna go back and forth from Old and New Testament go to Leviticus 26
Jewish fable number three that the land belongs to the physical land belongs to
Israel that's a Jewish fable that's not true it does not belong to them and look
some people hear this they're like oh you must be pro-Palestinian then because
you know people try to get all radical but oh yeah you know I can't stand
Muslim you're for Muslims or something let me just say this I'm not for
Muslims but I'm for anyone occupying Israel other than Israel itself and like
I said before you can have Indians from India living there I'd be okay with it
you can have move all the Mormons from Utah and have them go live over there I
don't care who lives there I'm okay with the Palestinians taking it over
absolutely under the principle that Israel does not belong there at all look
in Leviticus 26 verse 27 and if you will not for all this hearken unto me
but walk contrary unto me then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury and
I even I will chastise you seven times for your sins and ye shall eat the
flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat and I will
destroy your high places and cut down your images and cast your carcasses upon
the carcasses of your idols and my soul shall abhor you what does abhor means
hate you you know Ted Cruz didn't get this in his Sunday school class lessons
I mean God's like if you are contrary to it I'm gonna hate you that's what he's
saying there everyone see that everyone see that right he says I will my soul
like the the deaths of his soul he's like I'm gonna hate you and why is he
saying this because he wants the children to be like okay you know we
need to make sure we stay right with God verse 31 and I will make you cities
what make your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries into desolation and I
will not smell the Savior of your sweet odors and I will bring the land into
desolation and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it and I
will scatter you among the heathen and will draw the sword after you and your
land shall be desolate and your cities waste so aside from the fact that he's
saying you're gonna get booted out of the land you're gonna die wherever you
go that's what he's saying because he's like I'm gonna be an enemy unto you I'm
gonna chase you verse 34 then shall the land enjoy her Sabbaths as long as it
lies desolate and ye be in your enemy's land even then shall the land rest and
enjoy her Sabbath skip down to verse 40 so we see there he's telling them if you
disobey me I'm gonna scatter you what does it mean to scatter them it means
I'm throwing you out of the land okay and of course we can conclude that he's
throwing them out because of the fact that they're worshiping at the groves
at the altars they're worshiping false gods okay now verse 40 if they shall
confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers with their trespasses
which they have trespassed against me and that also they have walked contrary
unto me and that I also have walked contrary unto them and I brought them
into the land of their enemies if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled
and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity then will I remember
my covenant with Jacob and also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant
with Abraham will I remember and I will remember the land so he says this if you
confess your sins you get right with God you put away your false gods then the
covenant is on again pretty simple now look folks the God of the New Testament
is clearly named as what Jesus Christ right and obviously he's the God of the
Old Testament but his name is revealed in the New Testament as being Jesus so
you can say that the Jews in Israel worship God but they don't worship God
who is a liar but he that denied that Jesus is the Christ he is anti-Christ
that denied the Father and Son so they can say they worship God the Father they
just don't worship the Son but that's according to the Bible a lie because of
the fact that according to the Bible Jesus is God so the standard by which
they have to get right with in the New Testament has been raised in that they
have to believe on Jesus Christ they have to not reject Jesus Christ and and
by the way they have to put away all of their false religion this is why we don't
accept Judeo-Christianity in our church no one's allowed to come in with a
shofar with a little cap skull whatever no no no prayer shawl and no Star of
David also known as the Star of Remfan why because that's paganism entering
into God's house these are symbols and instruments that are in opposition to
Christianity okay and no we don't say shalom to each other speak English okay
you know we say praise God praise Jesus we exalt the Lord Jesus Christ here and
here's the thing folks we don't refer and look there's there's Jews that have
gone saved in our church and not a single time when we say like oh yeah he's
a Mazianic Jew he's Mazianic don't you can't you see the aura he's got he's
just a Mazianic Jew doesn't exist for in Christ Jesus there is neither Jew nor
Gentile okay and so let me ask you this do the Jews in Israel have they confessed
their iniquity no have they confessed the iniquity of their fathers no have
they you know conceded to the fact that they walked contrary to Jesus Christ no
have they you know humbled themselves and accepted the punishment of their
iniquity are you kidding me everywhere they go they say they're victims you
know they're like oh we've been persecuted in 109 countries persecuted
okay I agree with you if you're willing to concede that God's the one doing the
persecuting because God is the one who's persecuted them that's a fact and you
know what you cannot prove to me otherwise using the Bible it's not
there and look you know I don't encourage you to go too far down the
rabbit hole but you can follow Alice a little bit you know just go a little you
know and just research that it's historically accurate that they were
removed from 109 countries because of the predatory landing practices and
their blasphemy of Jesus Christ just plain and simple and it is historically
recorded that once these nations got rid of them they actually ended up
prospering that's a fact the golden era of Spain just look that up as soon as
they were removed just like everyone was happy again economically they
prospered I mean they just became very successful because of the fact that you
know when you removed 11 when you take away the dross from the silver there
shall come forth the vessel for the finer so the Bible tells us take the
wicked from before the king and there shall be a best one to honor at the end
of the day when they are removed a nation is blessed because of it why
because according to the Bible the nation of Israel is a nation who hates
God that's a fact and you know what you cannot aid support help people who are
haters of God God and in fact literally the Old Testament I know I've told the
story many times but it's just worth telling again you know this whole
Israel versus Iran thing and you know they're bombing them because they have
weapons of mass destruction blah blah blah they're defending themselves this
that and the other you know even in the Old Testament God actually prohibited
anybody from helping Israel in their war against anybody else if they were not
right with God so even in the Old Testament when they were God's chosen
people God prohibited anybody from helping them if they were not right with
God helping them in their wars against someone else and we have an example of
that King Jehoshaphat who is the king of the southern kingdom of Judah was
buddy buddies with who? Ahab who is the wicked king of the northern kingdom of
Israel you know you know Jehoshaphat is kind of like America and he's like he's
buddy buddies with what's the guy's name Netanyahu whatever and Netanyahu
aka Ahab is just like your people are like my people you know oy vey and you
know Jehoshaphat is just like you know they're our greatest ally we're gonna
help Ahab we're definitely gonna help Ahab Syria doesn't stand a chance
because you know Ahab wanted to destroy Syria they want to take them over Syria
needs to back down you know they don't stand a chance and so they end up going
to war and they had a prophet okay they had a prophet that told them like if you
do you guys are gonna die you guys are gonna lose so they go to war Ahab dies
in the war thankfully because God did not like Ahab at all but he liked
Jehoshaphat and so Jehoshaphat escaped unscathed fortunately but then a prophet
goes to Jehoshaphat and tells them shouldest thou help the ungodly and love
them that hate the Lord and who's he talking about? He's talking about Ahab and
Israel and he says therefore wrath is upon thee from before the Lord so God
came to Jehoshaphat and threatened him and said I'm gonna pour wrath upon you
because you aided Israel in their fight against Syria and they hate me Israel
hates me that's what he's saying they don't love me and in fact they actually
hate me and because you're helping them wrath is gonna come upon you now if that
was true in the Old Testament when the Jews were were God's chosen people when
Israel was the chosen people nation how much truer is it today that we should
not aid a nation that hates the Lord pretty simple right you are you learning
something today go to Ezekiel let's see here go to Ezekiel 37 because I'm still
we're still talking about Jewish fables here the land of Israel belongs to the
Jews and one thing you'll notice is that when you talk to these Christian Zionists
they always move the goalposts constantly moving like they're God
chosen people and then you show them not well the land belongs to them and then
you show them that it doesn't well all Israel shall be saved though it's like
you know no they're not all gonna be saved you just prove every single one of
them and did they just keep moving around they just keep moving the
argument right and often when you bring up the the subject of the land not
belonging to them they'll talk about the restoration of Israel because the Bible
consistently and explicitly prophesied in the Old Testament regarding the
restoration of Israel and Judah that's a fact I mean we just finished the book of
Isaiah right 66 chapters and many of those chapters are dedicated to talking
about the restoration of Israel we love the restoration of Israel we love the
restoration of Judah it's a it's a thing but what they are interpreting as is
like now the restoration has already taken place as proof of the fact that
they are now in the land okay but that's not what the Bible is talking about and
they'll often point to passages of scripture such as Ezekiel 37 to prove it
but let's read it look at Ezekiel 37 now in Ezekiel let me give you a preface here
in Ezekiel 37 is a really cool story about you know Ezekiel having this
vision of the valley of dry bones have you guys read that you know the valley
of dry bones and then the Lord comes Ezekiel is like can these bones live and
he's like Lord thou knowest and then he tells Ezekiel start preaching to the
bones and you know then then the wind comes and it goes into the bones and
they stand upright and then like you know sinew and muscle comes upon them
and skin comes upon them and it's just like this vast army that came back to
life because the preaching of God's Word and obviously there's a lot of great
applications to that but let me give you the main interpretation the
interpretation is that Israel one day will be restored Judah one day will be
restored you know one day in 1948 this vast army will arise I'm kidding about
that look at verse 11 then he said unto me son of man these bones are the whole
house of Israel behold they say our bones are dried our hope is lost we are
cut off from our parts therefore prophesy and say unto them thus saith
the Lord God behold all my people listen to this I will open your graves and
cause you to come out of your graves and bring you into the land of Israel now
this is a sunny morning crowd what does that sound like to you someone tell me
the resurrection when is it that God is gonna bring them back into the land
according to Ezekiel 37 at the resurrection because he's saying I'm
gonna open up your graves you're gonna come out just as this vision was and
then I'm gonna bring you back into the land so according to the Bible the
restoration of Israel is the millennial reign when he brings them out and he
puts them into the land and who are the ones that he's bringing out of the grave
everyone from the Old Testament he says in verse 13 and ye shall know that I am
the Lord when I have opened your graves oh my people and brought you up out of
your graves and shall put my spirit in you and ye shall live and I shall place
you in your own land then shall you know that I the Lord have spoken it and
performed it saith the Lord pretty pretty simple there there's like no
argument against that that is literally a resurrection passage right there
telling us explicitly that Israel will inherit the land rightfully at the
resurrection so you know these um these squatters today in Israel they don't
belong there they're not adherence to the Old Covenant even though they claim
to be they don't even adhere to the Old Covenant by the way at all they are
frauds they're fake Jews they're false prophets they're haters of God they're
haters of Christianity that's plain I mean there's just no way around that
whereas the Old Testament Israelites who believed on the Lord they love the Lord
which is why the promises pertained to them why are Zionists so fixated on
applying the principle to people who hate God and not enough to the Israel
of the Bible who died long time ago and they were faithful to God you're doing a
disservice to the Israel of the Old Testament who actually put in the work
kept the Covenant obeyed the Sabbath was under the law of Moses loved the Lord
preached the Word of God and died and then it's just like oh sorry actually
that the land belongs to these Christ rejectors no it belongs to Ahab no it
doesn't the promise is only applied to save the Israelites who have died it
will resurrect in the last days and inherit the land okay we're almost done
here let's see here go go to Romans chapter 11 Romans 11 here's the last
fable regarding Israel and that is that the end times tribulation is for the
Jews because people you know yeah but God still has a plan for them all Israel
shall be saved though and you know what often what I'll say is just like okay
I'll accept your answer as long as you're willing to concede to the previous
points that they're all fables though they're not God's chosen people they
don't own the land okay they don't have an everlasting covenant are you willing
to concede stop moving the goalpost concede to that and then we'll we'll
talk about this last point okay and what they're referring to is that the seven
year period highlighted in the book of Revelation is all tribulation and it's
only for the Jews which is crazy now why is it crazy well because Jews are only
mentioned in the book of Revelation twice you think about that only mentioned
twice right two nine three nine and if they're both really negative mentions
first and foremost Israel's mentioned collectively once in Revelation chapter
seven with 144,000 but according to Revelation 14 compared to Revelation 7
they actually start off in heaven and then they come down so it's not 144,000
virgin Israelites or whatever that gets saved during the tribulation there's no
indication in the Bible that people just say that because they just that's what
they hear and I think it's true and you know people people come to me all the
time like yeah but what about the fact that you know the Antichrist is going to
do this that and the other to Israel and then Israel is gonna be I'm like where's
that verse in the Bible and they're like you know I just googled it and it's
actually yeah you're right it doesn't exist like man where did I get that from
because they were kind of like trying to challenge me and I said where's the
verse and they this is what they responded actually yeah you're right it's
not in the Bible it's weird no it's not weird you just you just never looked you
just believe everything that people tell you Jews are only mentioned twice
Israel collectively is referred to in Revelation chapter 7 and if you want to
describe Jerusalem the apex of Jerusalem you know the major passage
regarding the new Jerusalem is Revelation 21 now look at Romans 11 and
verse 25 it says for I would not brethren that you should be ignorant of
this mystery lest you be you should be wise in your own conceits that blindness
and part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in
and so all Israel shall be saved as it is written there shall come out of Zion
to deliver and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob for this is my
covenant unto them when I shall take away their sins and as concerning the
gospel there are enemies for your sakes but as touching the election they are
beloved for the father's sake so verse 26 is like their last ditch effort to
try to prove that the Jews are God's chosen people and that God has a plan
for it because in the end they shall all be saved but here's the issue folks is
that when you read Revelation chapter excuse me Romans chapter 11 you'll
clearly see that throughout the chapter the Apostle Paul is making a distinction
between saved Israelites and non-saved Israelites and it's very clear and let
me just spout off some some examples in Romans 11 without having to read
throughout the whole thing and in fact at the end of Romans 10 you see this too
so Isaiah, Moses, Elijah, David and the Apostle Paul are all of Israel did you
guys know that right? Every single one of them. Let me say that again
Isaiah, Moses, the Apostle Paul, Elijah and David all of Israel. Yet in this
passage all five of these guys are talking against Israel. Isaiah is
prophesying against Israel. Moses is prophesying against Israel in Romans
chapter 10. Romans 11, the Apostle Paul is speaking against Israel. Elijah says
that he prays against Israel. David prays the most impregnatory prayer against
Israel. He's like let their back bend over all way. Let them not be
written with the righteous. They're all of Israel. So what's the indication here?
It's showing us that there's two types of Israel in the Bible. Those who are
saved and then those who are not. Now that should come as no surprise because
Romans 9 says what? They are not all of Israel which are of Israel, right? And
what Romans 11 is saying is that the true Israelites are what the Bible
refers to as the remnant. And look folks, very important. The Bible says this in
Romans 11, "Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for, but the election
hath obtained it and the rest were blinded." So pray tell explain to me how
is it that Israel can be the elect if it's literally saying that Israel did
not obtain that which he sought for but the elect did obtain it. The only
conclusion is that the elect and Israel are two different people. And who are the
elect? Those who are Israelites who are saved. Those who are of Israel
that are not saved according to the Bible later on it says that they're
broken off. So when the Apostle Paul is writing this, please pay close
attention. When the Apostle Paul is writing this, you have both groups in
the land, right? During that time in Jerusalem, in Israel, you have both
saved Israelites and non-saved Israelites in the land of Judah, okay? So
he's saying here that there's gonna come a time where those unsaved Israelites
are gonna be removed. And at that point all Israel shall be saved. Because can
you look at the Israel of the Apostle Paul's day and say that all Israel is
saved? No, because there was unsaved Israelites there. Can we look at the
nation of Israel now and say that they're all saved? Heck no. There's more
saved Israelites in Paul's day than there is now. So this has not yet taken
place. Now when will it happen? When Jesus Christ returns, because he's the
deliverer that comes out of Zion, and he turns away ungodliness from Jacob, which
is referring to Israel. Now if you know your Bible prophecy, you know that when
Jesus Christ comes to rule and reign in Jerusalem at the millennial reign, he
removes all unbelieving Jews from the land. At which point it can be finally
said that all Israel is saved because only saved Israelites inhabit the
millennial reign in Jerusalem. None else, according to the Bible, okay? Now
people get this verse confused in verse 28 because they're like, this is like
their last, last, last ditch effort. Okay, okay, okay, but they're still beloved
though for the Father's sake. And this is what I say, no they're not. You're
misinterpreting the verse. Let's read it. "As concerned in the gospel, they are
enemies for your sakes." Who are enemies? The Israel who are not saved, right? Look
what it says, "but as touching the election." Who are the election? The safe
people. They are beloved for the Father's sake. Because remember earlier in the
chapter, you have Israelites and then you have the election. Israel did not obtain
that which you seek it for, but the election hath obtained it, the
rest were blinded. So verse 28, "The enemies are those who are blinded." And
then the second half of the verse, "The election are those who are saved." So God
is saying like the election, those who are of Israel, Paul, David, Isaiah, Moses,
Elijah, you know, all these, you know, Peter, James, John, they're beloved for
the Father's sake. But as touching the Israel who are enemies, they're the ones
who are fighting against Christianity, they're the ones who are against Israel,
or against Jesus Christ. So this is again making that distinction. What's the point
that I'm making here? The point that I'm making here is that, go to Romans 10 and
we're done. The point that I'm making here is that there's a distinction between the
two. And may I say that the percentage of the election who are of Israel has dwindled
drastically since then. Very few Jews who are saved. I'm not saying that there isn't
any Jews because there are Jews that get saved. But even then sometimes it's kind of questionable.
You know what I mean? You just kind of wonder because they start like bringing in their
Judaism and their prayer shawls and they want to refer to Jesus as rabbi and you know rabbi
Paul and it's just like I don't know what gospel you got going on there. It's kind of like what the apostle Paul said, they're like false brethren crept in unawares.
Now what ultimately should our attitude be towards Jews? Well first and foremost understand this, these are Jewish fables and if you didn't agree with me initially you cannot refute what I just said.
I challenge you. I challenge you to refute what I just said right now. I challenge you to refute the scriptures that I just presented. I challenge you to refute all the claims that I just made according to the Bible. You won't be able to do it.
Because it's so clear cut in the Bible. They are Jewish fables that need to be rejected. They are vain babblings.
But let me say this. Jews do need to be saved. So we don't want to go to the opposite extreme and just become like these Hitler lovers or whatever.
And just hate Jews and stuff like that. And obviously I believe it's biblical to hate those who hate the Lord. But I don't believe every Jew hates the Lord.
And here's a good way to finish off the sermon. Look at Romans 10 verse 1.
That's what we want. So instead of blessing Israel and making sure they get the land, why don't you just pray that some of them get saved?
And it's simple. And I'm not saying that we're going to start a ministry to reach Jews or Israel either.
That is a lost cause in a lot of ways. I'm just saying don't be a respecter of people when you go and knock on a door and you see an Israeli flag.
Go witness to the guy. Flush your system of all the Jew jokes before you get to the door.
Get it all out of your system before you get there and then preach the gospel to them.
We don't want to hate them because some of them are receptive to the gospel. Very few, but they are receptive.
And we're not going to start a ministry to Israel. We're not going to take a missions trip to Israel.
It's just not going to happen. We're not going to send a missionary over there to get spat upon and all this other stuff.
We're just going to keep preaching the gospel, but this stuff needs to be exposed though.
Because the stuff you see on the internet is just absolutely absurd, wild, and crazy, and it's cringe to see Christians.
Boomers with their white lion and the Star of David spray painted on the side, and there's a flag waving.
Or it's just like, you know, it's like you have this little lion and it's Israel, and a bigger lion is just like God watching over Israel or something like that.
It's corny. It's so corny. Nothing biblical about these images.
Stop supporting Israel. Stop supporting all that warmongering that's going on over there.
And get a biblical view of what's going on here.
Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for your word that helps us to dispel these Jewish fables, Lord.
And I pray you help us to renew our minds, Lord.
Obviously, we as God's people here at this church, we believe we have the right position based upon the word of God.
But I'm sure many, it just rubs them the wrong way.
But I just pray that their minds would be renewed, that they would accept the truth and recognize that we just looked at all the verses.
There's no refuting them.
And lean on into your own understanding and all our ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths.
And I pray, Father God, that you bless us, Lord, as we bless Christians, as we bless churches,
as we bless the Lord Jesus Christ.
Help us to continue to be a blessing to the families of all the earth through Jesus, Lord.
We love you.
We thank you.
Pray this thing in Jesus' name.
Amen.
I must tell Jesus, Psalm number 356, Psalm number 356, Psalm that first verse, I must tell Jesus all of my trials. I cannot bear burdens alone in my distress. He kindly will help me. He ever loves and cares for its own.
I must tell Jesus, I must tell Jesus. I cannot bear my burdens alone.
I must tell Jesus, I must tell Jesus. Jesus can help me. Jesus alone, I must tell Jesus all of my troubles. He is a kind, compassionate friend.
If I but ask him, he will deliver, make up my troubles. I must tell Jesus, I must tell Jesus. I cannot bear my burdens alone.
I must tell Jesus, I must tell Jesus. Jesus can help me. Jesus alone, I'm dead and dry, a great sin. I must tell Jesus, I must tell Jesus. He all my cares, tomorrow's a share.
I must tell Jesus, I must tell Jesus. Jesus alone, I must tell Jesus. Jesus can help me.