but my point is that according to Paul is there such a thing as Israel after
the flesh there is an Israel after the flesh is composed of Israelites who are
who are natural they're of the flesh they don't see things from a spiritual
perspective like Nicodemus now if Nicodemus was born again then he began
to see things I spiritually and I'm going to prove to you in our next text
let's go to Romans chapter 9 i'm going to prove to you that there are really
two israel's in the New Testament let's go to Romans chapter 9 there's not just
one Israel this is a shocking revelation to a lot of people and it really hit me
like a bolt when I began to discover the Bible to learn this good book to learn
about Jesus to read the New Testament Romans chapter 9 let's take a look we'll
start with verse 6 and then we'll back up a little bit Romans 9 verse 6 Paul
wrote he said it is not as though the Word of God has taken none effect for
they are not all and what's that next word Israel which are of what Israel
they are not all Israel which are of Israel now how many times is the word
Israel used in this test how many times once or twice it's used two times do all
your Bibles have the word Israel twice there okay good how many eyes do you
have in your head to how many ears do you have to all right how many hands to
have any feet too how many mouths just one yeah somebody said the Lord that
gave us two ears because he wants us to listen more than he wants us to talk
that's why he only gave us one mouth and we need to listen to the Word of God and
not talk so much and when we listen we discover from this verse that there is
not just one Israel but there is two this is extremely important in fact I
have written a whole chapter in endtime delusions this book has a whole Israel
section and there's a chapter called the shocking principle of to Israel's it's
extremely important now if you back up to the first verse chapter 9 verse 1
Paul gives a little clarification hero time I tell the truth that is in Christ
I am not lying my conscience also is bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit
Paul was telling the truth he wasn't lying the Holy Spirit was working
through him and then he said that I have grave sorrow and continual grief in my
heart for I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my
brethren my countrymen according to the flesh who are what Israelites right my
countrymen according to the flesh who r is realized so here Paul is clarifying
what does it mean to be part of Israel of the flesh it means to be Jewish to
have a bloodline that you can trace back to Abraham but but it means to be
someone that has not come to understand the the reality of the fact that the
Messiah has come for Israel and the Messiah is Jesus Christ and as Paul was
looking at his Jewish countrymen he had a big burden for them he had a passion
for them and he said I hehe loved them so much that he said I even wish that I
myself were cursed from Christ because of them because I would want them to be
saved even more than me I mean he had such a such a love that just puts puts
most of us to shame but I can definitely relate to Paul's burden for his
countrymen like I said because I've got people in my own family my mother I mean
I it is really hard for me my mother is she has congestive heart failure she has
a pacemaker she's got a defibrillator she's got a mechanical valve she's got
fibromyalgia she's 71 years old she just went through another heart surgery
thank the Lord she's still alive but I'm just pray i pray a lot police Lord
opened my mother's eyes so she will see that Jesus is her Messiah there's just
so much it's gone on I don't want to tell you all of it but don't of time but
anyway my mother is a classic example of an Israelite according to the flesh that
has not had her eyes opened to discern to discover who the real Messiah is and
Paul had that burden and I've got that burden so if you'd like to pray for my
mom sometime her name is sandy sandy Wahlberg I just hope and pray that she
will see Christ before she dies when I used to pray for her and when I pray I
would say in the name of the Messiah because she didn't want me to say Jesus
name but now I've just caution that's been thrown to the wind and now when I
pray for her just like I did a couple days ago and she just before she went
into surgery I prayed in the name of Jesus and she said thank you for praying
for me so I don't know anyway and Paul clarifies Israel after his countrymen
after the flesh who are our Israelites and then if you go back to verse 6 he
says they are not all Israel which are of Israel now i'm going to show you in
just a little bit that the to israel's are there's the israel after the flesh
and then there's another Israel that is what Paul calls and I'll show you this
in a little while the Israel of God that is in Jesus Christ the Israel of God
that has received him has been born again has experienced the power of the
Holy Spirit and is now seeing through spiritual eyes that's extremely
important now if you go if you go down or let me just clarify this a little bit
when Paul said in verse 6 they are not all Israel which are of Israel let me
clarify that he's talking about the to Israel's and what he's basically saying
is they are not all part of the Israel of God that are of
Israel that are of the Jewish nation that are natural Israel of the flesh in
other words you can be part of the Israel of the flesh and not be part of
the Israel of God so he's saying they're not all Israel they're not all God's
Israel just because they're of Israel makes sense they're not all God's Israel
just because they're of Israel it's extremely important it's like a light
most people have never even never even heard of the fact that there's to
Israel's in the New Testament and once you see that it's like a light shines in
and your mind starts seeing a lot of things that maybe you never you never
saw before now if you keep going go down to verse 8 first aid is a very powerful
passage Paul said it not me in verse 8 Romans 9 8 Paul said that is he's
clarifying those who are the children of the flesh these are not the children of
God those that are the children of the flesh these are not the children of God
so a person can be Jewish of the flesh they can trace their lineage back to
Abraham but that doesn't mean that they're a child of God see to be a child
of God means to have God in your life to be born of God to have the Spirit of God
and those that are just flesh God loves them God loves the children of the flesh
but they're not children of God until they have a spiritual experience with
him now the second part of that verse verse 8 says but the children of the
promise they are counted as the seed this is very important Paul can get kind
of technical sometimes but if you really look at it carefully it'll make sense
the children of the promise they are counted as the sea now don't forget that
we're going to talk about this what does it mean to be counted as the seed and
it's talking about the seed of Abraham which is Israel and then what does it
mean to be a child of the promise what is the promise those who are just the
children of the flesh there God's children but those that are the
children of the promise they are counted as the seed what is the promise turn to
Galatians that it will answer will find the answer Galatians chapter three turn
the Galatians right before Ephesians chapter three and look at verse 14
Galatians 3 14 and there's so much involved in this and I'm just I'm just
kind of boiling things down in a very distilled form but there's a lot more
inside endtime delusions Galatians 3 verse 14 Paul is here writing to
Gentiles most of Galatians actually was written to a Gentile Church in Galatia
that was dealing with many issues and in verse 14 Paul right road to the Gentiles
that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus that
we referring to Jews and Gentiles might receive the promise there's the word
promise of the Spirit through faith