Brethren, My heart's desire and prayer for Israel is, THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED..(the children of Israel-THE CHOSEN PEOPLE- had become lost like the rest of the world. They had fallen away from the movements of God, His Word of Prophecy fulfillment's, and grace. The Lord as He foretold them suddenly was in Israel visiting His people as the Christ, in their temple as a man, and they rejected Him as Isaiah foretold they would, and then crucified him in their unbelief-Isaiah 53:1-6).......
2) For I bear them record, (I can say this about them), that they HAVE A ZEAL for God (passionate about God), but not according to knowledge,(not according to Gods proper understanding). (So what was their problem? Where had they missed God? It was all in the area of knowledge & proper understanding concerning Christ)......
vs3) For they (Israel) being ignorant of(blind to), of God's righteousness, and going about (in their religion of exalting THE LAW OF MOSES) to establish their own righteousness (Self righteousness, reward by their doings of the LAW instead of by faith in the doings of the Cross of Christ and His sufferings, and his bloods redeeming effects given us as a FREE GIFT). They going about to establish their own righteousness, HAVE NOT SUBMITTED THEMSELVES (that was the problem, they on this matter had not submitted their understanding to Gods understanding concerning Christ and the free gifts God gave us all thru him, thru the rewards of HIS SUFFERINGS), THEY HAD NOT SUBMITTED THEMSELVES unto the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD.
(What was this righteousness of God that Israel failed to SUBMIT themselves to?) Here it is in vs 4)... For Christ is THE END of righteousness by the keeping of the Law to EVERYONE THAT BELIEVES....Believes What? Go and Read Romans 10: vs 5-13) ......believes basically that God had become a man and was dwelling amongst them in Christ. And that as a man He died for the punishment of their sins and rose again from the dead for their new real hope by grace. This VISITATION Israel DID NOT BELIEVE and their unbelief caused them to be severed from and separated from God. From that point on for Israel, to God it did not matter how intense or devoted they were about their keeping the commandments of the Mosaic Law or their physical circumcision. God had Himself visited HIS PEOPLE IN CHRIST and they rejected this truth in unbelief. So they going about to establish their own righteousness by the Law of commandments when they had rejected and crucified the LAW GIVER that had become flesh and dwelt amongst them as Christ, in their unbelief all those rules and laws they kept did not profit them anything from that rejection point on. Faith in Christ blood power, his deaths power and purpose, his resurrection power and purpose was the NEW RIGHTEOUSNESS ORDERED BY GOD to ALL NATIONS starting first in Israel then to the Gentile Nations.....deno......share freely.
It is by faith that it would be by grace so that the promise would be sure to all THE SEED, them that believe like Abraham....Abraham believed what God promised him and his faith God called his righteousness....When we accept Christ by faith, believing in our heart that Jesus came down from heaven, Became a man in the virgin Mary. In the proper time Jesus laid down his life for us. He died for our sins and rose again for our justification by grace thru faith WE SHALL BE JUSTIFIED and our faith God Himself accounts as OUR ETERNAL RIGHTEOUSNESS. Christ becomes our all in all, even our every acceptable and good thing as written in 1st Corinthians 1:29-31....Amen.....This Is Salvation..
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