now what was the blessing of Abraham remember when Abraham was an old man he
walked outside and looked up and God said can you count all those stars and
he said that's how many your seed is gonna be and Abraham looked up and he he
was he was old was getting up there at least older than us most of us they
lived a little bit longer back then but he he looked up and how did Abraham
respond to that he believed it says in Genesis 15 that abraham believed God's
promise and he counted it to him as righteousness God gave him the gift of
righteousness because he believed the Word of God and this verse says that
that blessing of Abraham can come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ that we
might receive the promise of the what the promise of the Spirit through faith
in other words just like Abraham looked up saw the stars and believed God's
promise if we look up by faith and believe in the Sun in God's Sun that
Jesus is the fulfillment of the promises that he's God's Messiah and we believe
in him then God will give us the blessing of Abraham which is the
righteousness of Christ and he will give us the promise of the Holy Spirit that
will come into our lives by faith so if you are willing as a Gentile to get on
your on your knees sometime to get down on your knees and pray a prayer and say
dear God in the in the name of Jesus I trust trust in you I trust in Jesus as
my savior I trust in his righteousness not mine I repent of all my sins God
says he he'll give you the righteousness of Christ and he'll give you the promise
of the Spirit through faith now you might not feel some electric you know
jolt go through your body but the promise is that he will give you the
Holy Spirit the promise of the Spirit and we can trust that God says it I will
give you Paul says right there the promise of the Spirit through faith so
there's the promise when we read in in Romans that the children of the prom
are counted as the seed okay now keep going go back to Galatians and go down
to verse 28 verse 28 Paul says there is neither Jew nor Greek there is neither
slave nor free there is neither male nor female for you are all one in Christ
right in Christ Jesus and then in verse 29 this is a very very powerful passage
and Paul says to Gentiles if you be Christ's if you are Christ then you are
what what are you he said you are Abraham's
seed now what do you who is Abraham see this verse in Galatians 3:29 there it is
right on the screen that Paul wrote to Gentiles he said if you belong to Jesus
Christ then who are you you are Abraham's seed and in I say a41 verse
aid Abraham's seed is Israel so if you are Abraham's seed and if Abraham's seed
is Israel then folks who are you if you believe in Jesus Christ if you've
received the promise of the Holy Spirit in your life then who are you that's
right you are Israel you are the seed of
Abraham according to the Bible and then it says at the end of the verse you are
an heir according to the promise now an heir is someone that inherits promises
or inherits something I don't know if we have any heirs out there there's any
heirs out there that have inherited a lot of money and you've got some money
to spare you know we've got a little ministry over there and pass the robles
that could I use some some assistance so anyway
ears our people that are in that are entitled to inherit something now there
are promises in the Old Testament all kinds of promises God made to Israel in
the Old Testament right lots of promises but now the question is who is the heir
to those promises who is entitled it to those promises
Paul tells you in Galatians 3:29 it's those who belong to Jesus Christ they
are then incorporated into the seed of Abraham they become part of Israel and
they become the heirs of those promises and so we've read in Romans that it's
not the children of the flesh that are the children of God but it's those that
are of the promise that are counted as the seed and then we read in Galatians
that those who receive the promise of the Holy Spirit
who have faith in Jesus Christ they are counted and they become part of the seed
of Abraham in other words a Jew like me who believes in Jesus Christ and a
Gentile like you if you believe in Jesus Christ then together the Lord combines
us into one we are together the seed of Abraham believers in Jesus heirs
according to the promise makes sense all right now go to
Galatians chapter 6 now go to go to Galatians 6 Lord wants to break down
these barriers not raise them up
Galatians chapter 6 and look at verse 14 6:14 so powerful the last part of this
book Paul wrote but God forbid that I should boast or I should glory save in
the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom the world is crucified to me and I
to the world Paul's really getting down to the bottom line here and he's
revealing a truth so spiritual so powerful so life-changing he said god
forbid that I should glory now he used to glory used to boast in being a Jew he
said I was of the seed of Abraham I was of the tribe of Benjamin I was a
Pharisee I kept the law I was blameless I did all
these things and he boasted in his pedigree he boasted in his connection to
Abraham in his bloodline and in all of this but finally one day his eyes were
opened and he realized god forbid that I should glory in any of this he said my
glory is in the cross of Jesus Christ that Christ
is my savior that Christ fulfilled the prophecies that he died for me that he
took all my sin all my pride all my selfishness all my naturalness all my
wickedness everything I've ever done and he paid the full price experienced my
death for me on the cross and when Paul saw that it's stripped him of all of his
pride and all of his selfishness and he got him his knees and he said Lord
you're it you're everything you're everything to me hear everything
verse 15 says in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails
anything it doesn't make a difference if you're circumcised or if you're
uncircumcised it's not if you're a Jew it's not if you're a Gentile this is not
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Paul said as many as walk according to this rule this doctrine this teaching he
said peace and mercy be upon them and upon Paul said the Israel the Israel of
God now we have seen clearly that there are two Israel's 1st Corinthians 10 18
Paul said there's an Israel of the flesh the natural bloodline and now we've seen
in this verse that there's an Israel of God and ultimately all of us have to
through our decisions and our faith and the choices that we make in our lives we
have to decide whether we're going to be of the flesh or whether we're going to
be of God you're not born when you're born into a Christian family or into a
certain church you're not born of God you're born of the flesh we're all born
after the flesh every Jew is born after the flesh and we all have to transition
from the flesh to God right and that's what Paul's talking about here in this
in this passage part of the Israel of God and the Israel