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Is Israel and the Church the same?
When the Nation of Israel rejected the Lord Jesus Christ as their King and had him crucified, they stumbled at that stumbling stone the cross.
Romans 9:32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it
were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
Matthew 27:22 Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus
which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.
The National of Israel blasphemed the Holy Ghost and they fell and were blinded.
Acts 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do
always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Romans 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that
blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the
Gentiles be come in.
Because of their fall Salvation is come to the Gentile.
Romans 11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the
Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
The Gentiles were outside of God covenants made to Israel.
Ephesians 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens
from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of
promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Under Grace the gentile have been made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Under Grace there is neither Jew nor Gentile we are all one in Christ.
Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond
nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
The Church is the Body of Christ.
Ephesians 1:22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to
be the head over all things to the church,
Ephesians 1:23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all
in all.
The mystery is the fact that the gentile is part of the body of Christ.
Ephesians 3:6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
How does anyone get into the body of Christ? By believing the gospel:
1 Corinthians 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I
also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the
scriptures;
1 Corinthians 15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the
third day according to the scriptures:
After we believe and trust in what the Lord Jesus Christ did on the
cross for us we are:
1) Baptized into the body by the Spirit.1 Corinthians 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
2) Sealed with the Holy Spirit.Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
Ephesians 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God,
whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
3) Circumcised with the circumcision made without hands.Colossians 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
4) Made the Temple of God.1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
5) Become a new creature.2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in
Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all
things are become new.
