People of God part four

Concept: Those who call upon the Lord do not need to become Jewish to receive Jesus or the Good News.

Acts 15:14, Simeon [Peter] has rehearsed how God first visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people [to bear and honor] His name. AMP

One of the mysteries of the Gospel is that God has a plan for all who will come to Him. Before there was an Israel there was an Abraham whose family worshiped the Gods of that country, but knew that Abraham had a heart of faith and would believe Him and thus the Jewish people were born. Even outside of Israel people were looking for Messiah they just had not known where to look.

God in His wisdom and mercy had a savior for all mankind, but He also had a chosen people from whom Messiah would come. While we honor the feast and other spiritual shadows in the Old Testament which teach us much about God, we need only Jesus to be saved.

God chose you, it does not matter if you are male or female, Jew, or Gentile all must come to the father through Jesus the Son of God.John 14:6; Jesus said to him, I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me. AMP 1 Cor 1:20-25, Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since in the wisdom of God made the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. 22 For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness, 24 but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. NASU