The Sword of the Spirit (71)

The sword of the Spirit is the word of God.  And today, these powerful passages of scripture touched my heart of hearts.

The Apostle Paul was a Jew, born in Tarsus, but brought up in Jerusalem, where he was educated under a Pharisee named Gamaliel.

Paul said, "I am speaking to you who are Gentiles.  Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow-countrymen and save some of them.

"And if the root be holy, the branches are too.  But some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree.

"However, if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more shall these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree.

"For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of the mystery, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles has come in."

Because we are anti rabbinical Judaism does not mean we are antisemitic.  Rabbinical Judaism teaches Jews that they don't need a saviour.  Instead they will be saved by mitzvahs.  That is, good deeds.

However, there are many Messianic Jews.  These Jews are Christians who have embraced Jesus as their Messiah, their Lord, and their Saviour.  They are "the natural branches grafted into their own olive tree".