THE TRUE ISRAEL OF GOD - Part 6 - By Daniel J. Musokwa

Daniel J. Musokwa

Here is the 6th installment...I would encourage you to click on these links and check out Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5 of this series of teachings, solidly based on the Word of God, titled "The True Israel of God" by my brother and friend Apostle Daniel J. Musokwa of The New Testament Ministries - Tanzania.

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But God is able to graft them back into grace IF they do not persist in unbelief! These things are so open and so clear to be understood. Yet why has the church been so wrong? The Old Testament is why! Every church that still preachers and instructs in the Old Testament for doctrine, instead of illustration, will almost invariably see Israel as God’s chosen people, and not the church!

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Gal 6:14 May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Gal 6:15 Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is a new creation.

Gal 6:16 Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule, even to the Israel of God.

Please notice here what Paul, the Apostle, calls the people “who follow this rule”… people who “boast in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ” – he calls them “the Israel of God!” There is no doubt that the church is now the Israel of God, God’s children and God’s chosen people; the Scriptures prove this beautifully! 

Eph 2:11Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called "uncircumcised" by those who call themselves "the circumcision" (that done in the body by the hands of men)-

Eph 2:12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

The former condition of those of us who are Gentiles by birth was that of “separation from the promised Messiah, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world!” That is such a dire and fatal condition to be in! You must remember that God cut a covenant with His people Israel (Lev 27:34), and not the Gentiles! As far as the Old Testament is concerned the Gentiles are dogs, even a Jewish rabbi named Jesus thought and actually said that (Mat 15:22-28)! The minute a Gentile, whom now because of ‘grace’ is included in citizenship with the true Israel of God, decides to go back to the Old Testament he automatically disappears from the radar-screen of God’s grace.

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Why is this so? Because the Old Testament was not equipped to view Gentiles as heirs together with Israel… it was not designed to give the gentile righteousness by the Law at any level. The Law only prophesies that the gentiles will be saved through the Messiah, but it offers no salvation and no absolution to them within its precepts. Even the slaves or gentiles that used to live in Jewish households, they were circumcised according to the Law – but not for their own relationship with God… they were circumcised for the sake of ceremonial cleanness in a Jewish home. The same way those who keep dogs make sure they’re clean in order to keep flees away from the home.

TO BE CONTINUED >>>