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What is his intent, then? According to the author, should we or should we not evangelize the Jews? He leaves the question hang.


13 posted on 11/16/2006 10:23:38 AM PST by jboot (Faith is not a work)
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From the article:

As director of Light, Life, & Peace Ministry and a Christian Jew, ask you to help me turn around the unfair characterization that all Jews are evil and antichrist. This can be very hard since other Mainstream Jews (orthodox, conservative, reform) dislike Christian Jews because of their religious choice to believe in Jesus as the Messiah.



Being Christian means being a living image of God's grace, mercy & work in our personal lives. Rom 11:30-31 “For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief. Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.”

Being Christian means opening channels of prayer for the Jewish people and all other religions Paul expresses his great sorrow for the unbelief and obstinacy of the Jews in Rom 9:1-6 “I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel” - Though the apostle knew that the Jews were now in a state of rejection, yet he knew also that they were in this state through their own obstinacy, and that God was still waiting to be gracious, and consequently, that they might still repent and turn to him. Of his concern for their salvation he had already given ample proof, when he was willing to become a sacrifice for their welfare Rom 10:1 “Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved”.
Being Christian means sharing God's love through our new circumcised heart Mar 12:30 “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment”.

Therefore we apply this same love to all people Mat 5:44 “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you” Joh 13:35 “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another


14 posted on 11/16/2006 10:28:06 AM PST by Blogger
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