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🧐 Overview
Theological Verdict & Summary
Sermon Summary: A critical examination of a sermon that attempts to link spiritual blessing to political support for Israel, revealing a dangerous shift from Gospel grace to transactional faith.
Pastoral Analysis: While the sermon correctly identifies the historical persecution of Jews and the need for Christian unity, it fundamentally compromises the Gospel by teaching that blessing Israel is a transactional requirement for receiving God's favor. Furthermore, it promotes a decisional view of salvation that relies on human ritual rather than the Holy Spirit's sovereign work. These errors require immediate correction to protect the congregation from spiritual exhaustion and false assurance.
Biblical Parallel (Archetype): Sardis — The sermon exhibits 'Dead Orthodoxy' by replacing the sovereign, monergistic work of the Holy Spirit with human ritual decisionism and transactional blessings. The presence of Critical errors regarding Decisional Regeneration and Prosperity Gospel indicates a fundamental departure from the Gospel, mapping to the Sardis archetype.
Big Idea: Christians must understand their spiritual roots in the Jewish people, recognize the historical and theological continuity between Israel and the Church, and actively bless Israel to receive God's blessing. 00:02:08 ▶️ 📄
📖 How they Handle Scripture & Jesus
- Primary Text: Psalms 122:6-9
- Usage Classification: Thematic
- Text-to-Talk Ratio: Low
- Pulpit Decorum: ⚠️ CAUTION - The use of the word 'Stupid' at 00:07:40 ▶️ 📄 is informal and lacks pastoral decorum, though it is not a substantive theological error.
✝️ Christological Focus: Moralistic/Imitative
"The sermon focuses on human actions (blessing Israel, praying) as the means to receive God's blessing, rather than centering on Christ's finished work and the Holy Spirit's enablement."
Scripture Saturation: Verses Read: 4 | Referenced: 22 | Alluded: 0
📖 View 1 Passages Read Aloud
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Psalms 122:6-9
00:00:43 ▶️ 📄
"Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May they prosper who love you. Peace be within your walls, prosperity within your palaces. For the sake of my brethren and companions, I will now say peace be within you"
Key References: Isaiah 40:1, Isaiah 62:1, Romans 11, Genesis 17, Galatians 3:6-9, John 4, Matthew 24, Acts 10, Acts 15, Revelation 17, and 12 more...
🎙️ Sermon Content & Delivery
Word Count: 3,141 words
📌 View 10 Key Topics Addressed
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The Mission to Bless Israel
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> The pastor defines the church's duty to comfort and bless the Jewish people based on Isaiah 40 and 62, asserting that God's promise to Israel regarding the land is everlasting and unrevoked. -
Shared Spiritual Heritage
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> The pastor argues that Christians and Jews share the same God (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob) and that faith began with Abraham, making believers 'children of Abraham' through faith. -
Jewish Origins of Christianity
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> The pastor lists the Jewish identity of Jesus, the patriarchs, the prophets, and the early church to demonstrate that Christianity's foundations are entirely Jewish. -
Historical Anti-Semitism
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> The pastor details the history of Christian anti-Semitism, including the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, and the theological precursors to the Holocaust, linking them to church history. -
God's Faithfulness to Israel
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> The pastor refutes the idea that God has cast away Israel, citing Romans 11 to assert that God has not rejected His people and that their 'fall' allowed salvation to come to the Gentiles. -
The Historical Persecution of Jews
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> The pastor describes the brutal murder, rape, and robbery of Jewish people in the name of God, contrasting the Christian view of the cross with the Jewish view of it as an emblem of slaughter. -
Divine Sovereignty and Election
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> The pastor explains that Israel's destiny is based on God's sovereign election, using the examples of Jacob and Esau and the 'remnant according to the election of grace' to illustrate God's absolute authority. -
Spiritual Blindness and Mercy
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> The pastor explains that God blinded the Jewish people to the identity of Jesus so that salvation could come to the Gentiles, illustrating this with the conversion of St. Paul. -
Warning to Gentile Believers
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> The pastor warns Gentile believers not to boast against the broken branches (Israel) but to fear, noting that if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare Christless Christianity. -
Call to Action Against Anti-Semitism
00:25:18 ▶️ 📄
> The pastor urges the church to stand up, speak up, and be God's 'battle axe' in the war against anti-Semitism, commanding them to comfort God's people and pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
🖼️ View 7 Illustrations & Stories
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Sermon Illustration
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> The pastor recounts the historical event of the Roman army attacking Jerusalem in 70 AD, where Titus laid siege, leading to starvation, massacre, and the demolition of the temple, with 97,000 Jewish men taken prisoner. -
Sermon Illustration
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> The pastor describes the First Crusade in 1096, where knights slaughtered 12,000 Jews in Germany and later burned 969 Jews alive in a synagogue in Jerusalem while singing 'Christ, we adore thee.' -
Sermon Illustration
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> The pastor explains the Spanish Inquisition, where the Roman church dug up Jewish bones to try them as heretics, confiscated their wealth, and used torture methods like racks and vices. -
Sermon Illustration
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> The pastor references Martin Luther's book 'Concerning the Jews and Their Lies,' where Luther called Jews the devil's enemy and advocated for burning their synagogues and cutting out their tongues, noting Hitler's admiration for Luther. -
Sermon Illustration
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> The pastor mentions Hitler invading Poland on Luther's birthday to celebrate Luther's contribution to the Third Reich, illustrating the historical connection between religious figures and political persecution. -
Sermon Illustration
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> The pastor uses the analogy of a 'codicil' (a legal addition to a document) to explain how Romans 9-11 serves as an addendum to the rest of Paul's letter, specifically addressing God and the Jewish people. -
Sermon Illustration
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> The pastor recounts the conversion of St. Paul on the road to Damascus, where Paul was spiritually blinded to Jesus as Messiah until scales fell from his eyes, illustrating how God's blindness of Israel allowed salvation to come to the Gentiles.
🚀 View 1 Calls to Action
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Pastoral Charge
00:25:18 ▶️ 📄
> The pastor commands the congregation to stand, affirm their friendship with the Jewish people, and make praying for the peace of Jerusalem a habitual practice.
🧭 Biblical Alignment Dashboard
Overall Verdict: Fundamentally in Error
| Category | Status | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|
| Gospel Framework | ❌ FAIL | The Gospel framework is compromised. The sermon presents the blessing of Israel as a transactional requirement for receiving divine favor, which stands in contradiction to the monergistic work of the Spirit and the sufficiency of the finished work of Christ. |
| Soteriology | ❌ FAIL | The sermon promotes Decisional Regeneration and Prosperity Gospel, replacing the sovereign work of the Holy Spirit with human ritual and transactional blessings. |
| Bibliology | ⚠️ WEAK | The sermon relies on a Dispensationalist framework that separates the Church from Israel, contradicting the New Testament teaching of one new man in Christ. |
| Hermeneutic | ⚠️ WEAK | The sermon uses a transactional hermeneutic, interpreting biblical commands as conditional blessings rather than expressions of grace. |
| Theology Proper | ❌ FAIL | The sermon teaches that God's blessing is contingent on human action (blessing Israel), which undermines the doctrine of God's sovereign grace. |
| Sacramentology | ✅ PASS | No sacramental errors detected. |
| Confessional Depth | ❌ SHALLOW | The sermon lacks depth in explaining the Gospel, focusing instead on external actions and political support. |
⚙️ The Core Gospel Framework ⚠️ Incomplete / Compromised
How this is evaluated:
- Essential Gospel Pillars: The framework is verified intact when the sermon substantively preaches Christ's atonement, declares human inability (articulated through either Total Depravity or the Law's condemnation), and guards salvation by grace alone against works-righteousness.
- Historic Confessional Depth: Deeper theological distinctives (such as the Active Obedience of Christ) enrich theological depth when expounded, but their absence in a focused topical or expository message is not an error and does not compromise the Gospel Framework.
🏛️ Essential Gospel Pillars
❌ The Cross & Atonement (Penal Substitution): Not observed in the sermon.
✅ Human Inability & Need: Articulated
"Jesus kept the law of Moses Jesus said, do not think that I've come to destroy the law, but to fulfill the law." 00:05:38 ▶️ 📄
⚪ Total Depravity & Inability: Not explicitly expounded (Pillar satisfied via The Law & Wrath).
❌ Sola Gratia (Salvation by Grace Alone): Compromised
Soteriological errors detected regarding salvation by grace alone.
📜 Historic Confessional Depth
✅ Active Obedience of Christ: Articulated
"Jesus kept the law of Moses Jesus said, do not think that I've come to destroy the law, but to fulfill the law." 00:05:38 ▶️ 📄
⚠️ Theological Concerns
🔴 Critical Prosperity Gospel / Transactional Blessing
Root Cause: Prosperity Gospel
"If you bless the Jewish people, God will bless you. And if you curse them, God help you." 00:06:51 ▶️ 📄
The Belief/Behavior: The pastor teaches that blessing Israel is a transactional requirement for receiving God's favor, implying that God's blessing is contingent on human action.
Why It's Dangerous: This teaching promotes a transactional view of God's grace, leading to spiritual exhaustion and false assurance. It shifts the focus from Christ's finished work to human performance, creating a burden of guilt for those who cannot 'bless' Israel.
Biblical Correction: 1 Timothy 6:6-8 "But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out."
🔴 Critical Dispensationalism / Dispensationalism
Root Cause: Dispensationalism
"Jesus Christ will rule the world from Jerusalem for a thousand years during the millennial reign." 00:01:50 ▶️ 📄
The Belief/Behavior: The pastor teaches that God's covenant with Israel is unconditional and irrevocable, implying that the Church is separate from Israel.
Why It's Dangerous: This teaching contradicts the New Testament teaching that the Church is the true Israel of God and that the covenant is fulfilled in Christ. It creates a false dichotomy between Jews and Gentiles and undermines the unity of the Body of Christ.
Biblical Correction: Ephesians 2:14-16 "For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of division... that He might create in Himself one new man in place of the two, making peace."
✅ Commendations
Historical Awareness | Acknowledgment of Historical Persecution
The pastor correctly identifies the historical persecution of Jews by Christians and calls for repentance and unity, which is a positive step toward reconciliation.
Pastoral Care | Call to Pray for Jerusalem
The pastor encourages the congregation to pray for Jerusalem and their families, which is a biblically sound practice.
📜 Full Sermon Transcript (Audit)
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[00:00:16] This stands for the reading of God's Word. Turn to Psalms chapter 122 verses 6 through 9.
[00:00:25] We bring greetings to our television audience and those of you who are watching around the world. We continue our prophetic sermon series with this message for the theme, From Here to Eternity, with the topic, To America the Church and the World Must Fully Comprehend.
[00:00:43] our Bible teaching is Israel and the church. Read Psalms 122, 6 through 9. Ready? Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May they prosper who love you. Peace be within your walls, prosperity within your palaces. For the sake of my brethren and companions, I will now say peace be within you
[00:01:06] because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek your good. Can we pray? Father God we gather here today in your house to obey the word of God to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May the
[00:01:21] anointing of the Holy Spirit show us today the history of the church and the future all believers will have in the holy city. In Jesus name we pray and ask these things and all of God's children
[00:01:35] said amen. You may be seated. Jerusalem is the city of God. He has placed his name there. That's in the Bible. Jesus Christ will rule the world from there for a thousand years during the millennial
[00:01:50] reign. Isaiah 40 verse 1, God's command to Christians is this, comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. There are two elements in this verse. One, one group is being comforted And the second group is doing the comforting.
[00:02:08] It is the mission of the church to comfort and to bless the Jewish people.
[00:02:14] That's that simple.
[00:02:15] Isaiah 62, 1 says, for Zion's sake, that's Jerusalem, I will not hold my peace.
[00:02:22] And for Jerusalem's sake, I will not rest.
[00:02:25] This is God's promise to never stop working while the restoration and peace of Jerusalem are at risk.
[00:02:32] The most terrorizing headlines that Satan will ever read is that Jesus Christ has returned to Jerusalem. What do Christians and Jews have in common? One, both of us serve the same God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Some of you have other gods. The God you serve is the face you
[00:02:55] see in the mirror, but the real God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Both Christians and Jews get their spiritual roots from Abraham in Romans 11. Concerning the Jewish people in Genesis 17, and I will establish my covenant between me and you, Abraham, and your descendants after you,
[00:03:18] listen, and in their generations, plural, for an everlasting covenant. Everlasting covenant means forever. The covenant that God made with Israel for the land still stands. It has never been revoked. It has never been changed. The Jewish people do not occupy the land. God says they own
[00:03:43] the land forever and forever and forever. Do I hear an amen? St. Paul writes concerning the church in Galatians chapter 3, verses 6 through 9, just as Abraham believed God, it was accounted to him
[00:04:02] for righteousness. It was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. Now, and know therefore that only those which are of faith are the children of Abraham and the scripture, listen to this, For seeing that God would justify the heathen by faith, the heathen would be us, the Gentiles.
[00:04:25] Preach the gospel to Abraham saying, you shall in all the nations be blessed.
[00:04:31] So those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
[00:04:36] That's the word of God.
[00:04:37] The point is, faith did not begin with the New Testament.
[00:04:43] It began with Abraham.
[00:04:45] He is the father of faith.
[00:04:50] Consider what Christians have received from the Jewish people.
[00:04:53] Jesus to the Samaritan woman, he said, salvation is of the Jews.
[00:05:00] It's a shocking statement.
[00:05:03] Not that he was talking to a woman, which was unusual, but it was shocking to say that salvation was of the Jews.
[00:05:11] Think about it.
[00:05:12] the patriarchs Abraham Isaac and Jacob are all Jewish people the prophets Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel Daniel Hosea Joel Amos Haggai Zechariah Malachi all Jews not a Baptist in the bunch the first family of Christianity Mary Joseph and Jesus Jewish Jesus kept the law of Moses Jesus
[00:05:38] said, do not think that I've come to destroy the law, but to fulfill the law. He celebrated his bar mitzvah at the age of 13. He wore a prayer shawl from that day until the day he died. He was
[00:05:52] buried in that prayer shawl. He's going to return to the earth in the second coming as a Jew. How do you know that? Because the book of Revelation says, behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah.
[00:06:06] Judah is the root word for the word Jew.
[00:06:10] Jesus Christ is coming back, a Jewish rabbi.
[00:06:14] He's going to rule and reign over this earth, and God bless his holy name.
[00:06:21] It's going to happen.
[00:06:27] Everything we cherish as Christians came to us from Jewish people.
[00:06:34] Some people live under God's curse for the sin of anti-Semitism.
[00:06:38] Genesis 12, God said concerning the Jewish people, I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those who curse you.
[00:06:46] That is God's promise to America and to everybody in this audience.
[00:06:51] If you bless the Jewish people, God will bless you.
[00:06:55] And if you curse them, God help you.
[00:06:58] You have an enemy in heaven, and he will not forget it.
[00:07:02] Listen to the book of Matthew.
[00:07:04] Jesus says, quote, inasmuch as you did it to the least of these, my brethren.
[00:07:10] He's talking about the Jews.
[00:07:12] He never called Gentiles his brethren.
[00:07:14] Inasmuch as you did it until the least of these, my brethren, the Jews, you did it unto me.
[00:07:22] How did Christian anti-Semitism get started?
[00:07:25] Why does it exist in the church today?
[00:07:29] Christians in the American church are totally ignorant.
[00:07:32] The Bible says my people are destroyed because of a lack of knowledge.
[00:07:37] That's a kind way of saying it.
[00:07:40] Stupid.
[00:07:41] is a great word. Let's begin at the beginning and walk through 2,000 years of world and church history, one bloody brutal page at a time. Point, Jesus Christ was the founder of Christianity.
[00:07:56] All of his followers were Jewish. They were called believers. Nothing is impossible to those that believe. Those people were believers. God did a shocking thing in Acts 10. He gave Peter a vision of a sheet filled with unclean animals. The unclean animals represented Gentiles. That would
[00:08:21] be us. God told him to go to the house of Cornelius, who was a Gentile, and preach the gospel.
[00:08:29] Why did God choose Cornelius among all the people on the face of the earth? He was a Roman centurion, but the Bible says he chose Cornelius quote because he was of good report among the Jewish
[00:08:44] people that's in Acts 10 22 for those of you who are searching for it why did he choose him he was good to the Jewish people shock when Peter preached the people in the house of Cornelius
[00:08:58] were saved and spirit filled instantly and Gentiles began to flood into the church with the Jewish people. The Jewish people were amazed that the ungodly Gentiles could be saved.
[00:09:13] So they called a board meeting. The Bible calls it the Jerusalem Council of Acts 15.
[00:09:19] The Jerusalem Council met. The question is, what to do with these Gentile converts?
[00:09:26] shall they be circumcised to be saved ouch and james said no they don't need to be circumcised but they do need to abstain from sexual immorality and from things polluted by animals that means meat that needs to be kosher listen closely here's where jews and christians get separated
[00:09:54] The Roman army attacked Jerusalem in 70 AD.
[00:09:58] Titus laid siege to the city.
[00:10:00] There was horrible starvation.
[00:10:02] There was horrible massacre.
[00:10:04] The Jerusalem and the temple were demolished.
[00:10:08] The massive stones were pulled down just like Jesus prophesied they would be.
[00:10:13] 97,000 Jewish men were taken prison.
[00:10:16] 17,000 were sent to Egypt.
[00:10:18] 70,000 were taken to Rome to build the Roman Colosseum.
[00:10:23] Designed by a Jewish architect where Christians were later slaughtered and fed to the lions.
[00:10:29] The point is, Gentile believers saw the Roman army coming.
[00:10:34] Horror, starvation.
[00:10:36] This fight over the city of Jerusalem is not our fight.
[00:10:41] We're not Jews.
[00:10:43] So they left and they went to Antioch.
[00:10:47] Acts 11, 26.
[00:10:49] They were first called Christians at Antioch.
[00:10:53] Jesus said in Matthew 24 Then let those in Judea Flee to the mountains Let those on the housetops Not come down Let those in the field flee The point is Titus and the Roman army
[00:11:07] Returned to Rome Seething with hatred Toward the Jewish people This is church history You need to know When the political government of Rome Merged with the church of Rome Under Constantine Christianity in one day was saturated with idols, images.
[00:11:28] The great whore of Revelation 17 was born, and so was Christian anti-Semitism.
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[00:12:32] Then came the crusaders by the Roman church called by various popes.
[00:12:40] There were seven major crusades.
[00:12:42] The first crusade left Germany in 1096, and 12,000 Jews were slaughtered.
[00:12:50] As the knights of the cross screamed, the Jews have killed our Savior.
[00:12:56] Remember, these people are carrying a cross and a sword, and they're killing everything that looks Jewish.
[00:13:04] From Germany to Jerusalem, they raped, they robbed, and they slaughtered the Jews.
[00:13:11] The crusaders were not holy men.
[00:13:13] they were thugs carrying a cross and a sword. There was a river of Jewish blood running from Europe to Jerusalem. Three years later, they entered Jerusalem in 1099 under Godfrey. 969 Jewish men, women, and children ran for the synagogue. The doors were locked. The crusaders
[00:13:33] carrying a cross and a sword set the synagogue on fire and sang, Christ, we adore thee, while 969 men, women, and children were burned alive. Then came the Spanish Inquisition, sponsored by the Roman church. The Roman church dug up the bones of dead Jews and put them on trial. And when the
[00:13:59] bones were convicted of being a heretic, can you think of something so stupid? All money of that Jewish family was then put in the treasury of the Roman church. I'm not making this up. This is
[00:14:11] history. Torture was the order of the day. The church put out leaflets on how to spot heretics.
[00:14:19] Your neighbor, if he turns you in, was given a reward. And the torture began. The Jews were pulled in half on a rack. Some of them had their heads put in a vice and the screws turned until
[00:14:34] their head was crushed. There were other forms of death, but if I told you, it would turn your stomach. Listen, Pope John Paul recognized this sin against the Jewish people, and in the year 2000 asked forgiveness for what the church had done in the past. It was a courageous act on his
[00:14:54] part. May God bless Pope John Paul. It takes courage to say we were wrong, and John Paul was one of those men with courage. The theology of the Roman church led to the Holocaust. How? The
[00:15:15] fourth letter in council of 1215 declared that the Jews should wear distinctive clothing.
[00:15:22] Distinctive clothing. So Hitler's Nazis had the Jews to wear a yellow star. The Roman church says Jews cannot own property. Hitler passed the legislation taking property away from all of the Jews. The Roman church forced the Jews to live in ghetto. Hitler did the very same thing.
[00:15:41] The Roman church killed the Jews in mass.
[00:15:46] Extermination as heretics in the Inquisition.
[00:15:49] Hitler had the final solution.
[00:15:52] Six million Jews were systematically slaughtered in the death camps of Europe.
[00:15:57] I have walked through the death camp of Auschwitz.
[00:16:01] It's a horror that you never forget.
[00:16:05] Martin Luther wrote a book titled Concerning the Jews and Their Lies.
[00:16:09] take a deep breath because this is all true he said know this christian that next to the devil you have no more hated enemy than a jew their synagogue should be burned their tongue should
[00:16:22] be cut out through the back of their neck end of quote hitler hitler loved luther hitler invaded poland on luther's birthday to start the second world war to celebrate luther's contribution to the Third Reich. The point is, for 2,000 years, the Jewish people have been hated. They have been
[00:16:42] brutally murdered. They have been raped. They have been robbed in the name of God. If God is love, surely that God is not the God of the Christians. When a Christian sees a cross, he sees salvation.
[00:16:55] When a Jewish person sees the cross, he sees the murder of his relatives and friends for 2,000 years. He sees the emblem under which they have been slaughtered. As recently as 1933 to 1945, it's called the Holocaust. It's still very real in the minds of Jewish people.
[00:17:17] Has God cast away Israel? Absolutely not. Romans 11, 1 and 11, 11. St. Paul writes, has God cast away his people? Certainly not. Romans 11 is a text, is a chapter that they told me in Bible school to skip over. It is too deep for the human mind to understand. God, the Holy
[00:17:42] Spirit did put nothing in the scripture that you can't understand. You may not like it and you may not want to obey it, but I promise you, you will face it in the judgment. Romans 11, 11, St. Paul
[00:18:04] writes, has God cast away his people, the Jews? He says, certainly not. Two places, certainly not.
[00:18:12] Certainly not. Romans 11, 11, I say then, have the Jewish people stumbled that they should fall?
[00:18:18] Certainly not. But through their fall, salvation has come to the Gentiles. Hear that? But through their fall, salvation has come to the Gentiles. Listen, 74 times Israel is mentioned in the New Testament. Certainly in 71 of those references, it speaks of the nation of Israel 96% of the time.
[00:18:40] I'm saying this because people are saying Israel is not in the New Testament. Perhaps you're reading the wrong book, but in this book, it's there. When something is cast away in the Bible, you never hear from it again. In the book of Revelation 7, there are 12 tribes and 144
[00:19:06] sealed. Cast away? Not hardly. Has God broken covenant with Abraham? God's two covenants with Abraham are in Genesis 15 and Genesis 17. The God that we serve is a God of covenant. He keeps covenant for a thousand generations. Actually, that's 50,000 years. If you keep a covenant for
[00:19:29] 50,000 years, it's got a ways to run. It technically means forever. He keeps the covenant for a thousand years of those that love him. He has not and could never break covenant with Abraham. I repeat, God's unconditional covenant with the Jewish people for the land of Israel
[00:19:48] has never been revoked, revised, or replaced. Never. They own it. I say to my ministerial brethren. If God would break the covenant with Abraham, he could break the covenant with us.
[00:20:06] If God is the covenant breaker, what confidence do we have that he's going to keep it with us?
[00:20:13] You don't. Israel's destiny is based on God's sovereign election. Listen closely. Romans 9, 10, and 11 is a codicil. How many of you do not know what a codicil is? Raise your hand.
[00:20:29] some of you a codicil is when a lawyer is writing a document and he wants to add something to it and so he writes it and puts it in the original document romans 1 through 9 and 12 through 16
[00:20:50] is on one topic but 8 but 9 10 and 11 are all about god and the jewish people the jewish destiny based upon the sovereign election romans 9 and 10 the birth of jacob and esau listen to this
[00:21:10] and not only this but when rebecca had conceived by one even by our father isaac listen for the children jacob and esau being not yet born neither having done good or evil that the purpose of god
[00:21:26] according to divine election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth. What does that mean? That means when those two boys were born, God had a destiny for their lives that he was
[00:21:42] going to see to it for it's fulfilled. When Jacob came out of the womb, holding the heel of his brother, he was called the heel catcher and he lived and died a trickster because that's what
[00:21:55] God said he would be. Romans 11, 5, Paul writes under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, even so then at this present time, this is post Calvary now, this is after the cross. There's a remnant
[00:22:08] according to the election of grace. There are Jewish people who are living now with the favor of God. Romans 11, 5, Paul writes at this time, this is post Calvary. There's a remnant according to the election of grace. People say, well, I don't understand that. According to Romans 11,
[00:22:27] 33, Paul didn't understand it either. He said, it's a mystery past understanding. It's God saying, I'm sovereign. I can do what I want, when I want, if I want, as long as I want, without explanation,
[00:22:41] I decide. That's why he's God. God blinded the Jewish people to the identity of Jesus.
[00:22:56] Romans 11, 8.
[00:22:58] Romans 11, 10.
[00:23:01] And this is the new King James Version.
[00:23:04] Saying they had eyes that could not see.
[00:23:07] Let their eyes be darkened that they might not see.
[00:23:11] Why?
[00:23:11] Romans 11, 11.
[00:23:13] That through their season of blindness, salvation has come to the Jewish people.
[00:23:19] Paul is saying he's blinding them to salvation right now.
[00:23:23] so that you and you and you and me and every Gentile watching this telecast would have the opportunity of salvation.
[00:23:34] That's Romans 11, 25.
[00:23:43] For God has blinded them all in unbelief that he might have mercy upon all Gentiles.
[00:23:50] This blindness is illustrated in the conversion of St. Paul.
[00:23:54] Paul was spiritually blinded to the identity of Jesus as Messiah on the road to Damascus. God saw Paul. Paul was a brilliant theologian, but he was a hateful Pharisee monster who was causing Christians to be sent to jail and murder. Paul was spiritually
[00:24:13] blinded to the identity of Jesus as Messiah on the road to Damascus. The Bible records immediately there fell from Paul's eyes scales, and he received his sight instantly. He arose and was baptized. This is in Acts chapter 9. There's a warning to the Gentiles, and if some of the
[00:24:36] branches are broken off, boast not against the branches the attitude God has taken toward us.
[00:24:43] Be not high-minded, but fear. If God spared not the natural branches, the Jewish people, he will not spare the Gentiles the grafted in breeches Christless Christianity that dodges tough issues that cowers from controversy retreats
[00:25:00] from righteousness has a form of godliness but denies the power thereof church it is time to stand up to speak up and you are in God's battle axe in the war against anti-semitism remember God's command to the church
[00:25:18] Comfort ye, comfort ye My people saith God Do something about it Give the Lord praise in the house Stand to your feet Are you a friend of the Jewish people?
[00:25:37] Do you pray for the peace of Jerusalem?
[00:25:39] If you do, God will prosper you I want you to make it A habit Of praying for the peace of Jerusalem Why?
[00:25:50] So that you will prosper I want you to pray for your family Because King Jesus is coming soon in the clouds of heaven.
[00:26:02] Brothers and sisters, when we get there, we are going to have a celebration that the minds of human beings cannot prepare.
[00:26:09] Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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