Week 23: Introducing Judaism | December 14, 2025 Sunday School

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We'll go ahead and start our lesson here this morning by

asking ourselves these question What is Judaism?

Who is considered a Jew? Is Judaism only religion?

Is it a cultural identity? Is it an ethnic group?

Are the Jews a distinct people or are they a nation?

What do the Jews believe and do they all hold the same beliefs?

You know, it's interesting that we have much in common with the

Jewish people in many ways. In fact, you would go back here

in the United States of America and often times it is said that

our nation was founded on judeo-christian values, meaning

that there is some commonalities between those of Judaism and

between us of Christianity as well.

But be clear about this this morning, that even as we

recognize the so-called Judeo-christian values, that

while we may share a common background with Judaism, we do

not share a common belief. I think that's important for us

to understand. Do we share a common background?

Yes, we do. For instance, the Old Testament,

we share a common background, but we do not share a common

belief. The Judaism of today isn't just

biblical teaching that says, well, they believe everything we

do except about Jesus Christ. Now, by the way, that would

still be wrong. Amen.

You can believe everything that we do from biblical

Christianity, not believe in Jesus Christ and still be

hopelessly lost because if you've missed Jesus Christ,

well, you missed everything. But I would say that Judaism as

we see it today isn't even simply believing the Bible, but

not the New Testament and not Jesus Christ.

That even Judaism today has deviated from that which was

taught in the Old Testament as well.

And so we can't simply look as Judaism as they believe like us,

except Jesus Christ. You know, it is much different

than that. And so I, I would put it this

way, that Judaism is an offshoot of the Old Testament, not Jewish

people following the Old Testament while ignoring the New

Testament. That even as we look at Judaism,

we're not looking at what God had commanded the Jews to do in

the Old Testament. They've even deviated from that.

And of course, that shouldn't surprise us because what Jesus,

or rather what God had commanded the Jews to do in the Old

Testament was pointing them towards who?

Jesus Christ. And so if they've missed Jesus

Christ, well, they've missed the mark of the Old Testament.

And so we're not looking at people who are exactly like us

minus Jesus Christ. And again, that would still make

them lost. But what we look at with Judaism

is far, far different even from that.

So who is a Jew that that might be the question today.

Well, who is a Jew? And you might be surprised to

find that there's even a lot of not controversy, but questions

about that even amongst the Jewish community.

Who is a Jew? According to Rabbinical Judaism,

a Jew is one who had a Jewish mother or has formally converted

to Judaism. That would be the definition

according to many, not all. That would be someone who had a

Jewish mother or someone who has formally converted to Judaism.

Leviticus 24 verse 10 is often used as the proof text of that

Leviticus 24:10

being the Jewish mother, making someone a Jew.

Now this is Leviticus 24, verse 10.

Leviticus 24:10

It says this, and the son of an Israelitish woman whose father

was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel, and the

son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together

in the camp. I wouldn't say that was a very

strong proof text for what they're trying to be able to

convey, but many Jews would point to this verse and say you

either have to have a Jewish mother or you have to have

converted to Judaism. Now, some rabbis will say that

it has nothing nothing to do with what an individual actually

believes. It's not a belief system to

some. These rabbis tell us that

according to the Halakha, the official legal system of

Judaism, a Jew does not need to be a follower of Jewish laws and

customs to be considered Jewish. In fact, a Jew can have no

belief in God whatsoever and still be Jewish based on the

fact of their lineage. So what makes someone a Jew?

Well, again, controversially or, or we would say that there would

be some questioning about this, but it seems to be that one can

be Jew by ethnicity because of the way that they were born.

Some can be Jew because of what they believe.

But someone that is ethnically a Jew may not believe in Judaism

and someone that is Judaism, someone that believes in Judaism

may have converted to it and not ethnically be a Jew.

I don't know if that makes sense to everybody, but the

understanding is this, that where we as Christians, it is

not an ethnicity. It is we have come from all

places and all types and of course we're all one blood under

Jesus Christ, Amen. But the fact of the matter is,

is that we come from all different walks of life, but we

are not ethnically Christians. We wouldn't say that.

But there are ethnic Jews who also believe in Judaism and then

vice versa. There is that type of overlap.

Now, what do they believe now? Or rather, where do they get

their beliefs? It may be a a way of putting it

well, we would see that they would find get their beliefs

from the Old Testament primarily or first of all rather, which is

called the Torah. We would call the Old Testament,

well the Old Testament, but they would use the term Torah for the

Old Testament. In the Old Testament are 613

commandments found, 613 commandments that the Jews were

to be able to keep, and they covered all aspects of the

Jewish life. And we look at some of those

when we go through the Old Testament, don't we?

And they cover civil law, they cover the ceremonial law, they

cover issues with the temple and sacrifices, all of these

different things, 613 in total. And then those could be in some

ways distilled to the 10 commandments as it's found in

Exodus chapter #20 and Deuteronomy chapter 5.

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Just a brief synopsis, if you will, of the law.

But you might remember that Jesus Christ even took those 10

commandments and narrowed it down even further, didn't he?

Not that he eliminated the commandments, but that basically

he said really it all comes down to too doesn't it?

Says you love God and you love others because upon these hang

all the law and the prophets. He wasn't saying that the others

were irrelevant. He was just saying this if you

love God as you ought and you love others as you ought, you'll

be fine because everything that is in the commandments really

comes down to this. Love others and love God.

In fact, the 1st 4 commandments deal with our relationship

between us to God. The other six which deal with

our relationship from us to man, but even that can be broadened

out to the 613 that these are, are found in the Torah.

However, the Jews also believe in a different sacred book as

well, which is the Talmud. They have called the Talmud also

to be their scriptures. Now the Talmud is defined by the

World Book Encyclopedia as the following, a collection of legal

and ethical writings as well as Jewish history and folklore.

It serves primarily as a guide to the civil and religious laws

of Judaism. Orthodox Jews believe the laws

in the Talmud were given to Moses by God and passed down

orally from generation to generation.

About AD 200, scholars wrote down these oral laws in a work

called the Mishnah. Later, scholars explain,

interpreted the Mishnah. Their comments were recorded in

the Gamera, which was written between 200 and 500 AD.

The Mishnah and the Gamera together make up the Talmud.

So it's not just simply that they believe the Old Testament,

and this is where I would say that again, there's a deviation

from the Old Testament. They also hold up the Talmud as

well as the interpretation of the Torah, and they say you

really need to understand the Talmud to understand the Torah.

You say now where would all of that come from?

Did you catch that word talked about the Oral Law for Moses

being passed from generation to generation and then finally

being written down around 200 AD?

Who are the custodians of that Oral Law starting around 100 BC

or so and into the time of Christ?

That would be the Pharisees. And the Pharisees were the ones

that were constantly saying, well sure, the Bible may say

this, but we have said this and they were constantly taking

their words. Now they would say it was Moses

words, but they weren't Moses words.

They were their own creations. They were their own

interpretations. In fact, they added to them

overtime. They would take these and they

would take them and put them above Scripture, putting them

above Jesus Christ, which was constantly the clash that took

place between the Pharisees of Jesus Christ.

And again, that clash continues today between Judaism and

biblical Christianity. Because we would say that

everything that we need to understand comes to us in these

66 books. Everything that pertains to life

and godliness is right here. And they are told, the Jews are

told that they have to not just understand the Torah, but also

the Talmud, which was passed from generation to generation

and generation to generation. So what do they believe?

Now, I will say, because there's so many different groups that

are in Judaism, it's very hard to be able to just say, well,

this is what Judaism believes in.

However, in my study I found that it can be distilled no

matter pretty much what group you find these basic beliefs of

Judaism, at least religious Judaism, not ethnic Judaism, can

be put in these categories #1 God alone exists and is creator

#2 God is 1 and unique #3 God is incorporeal, meaning without a

body and incomparable. 4. God is eternal both first and

last Five. We are to pray to God alone and

to no other. Six.

The words of the prophets are true. 7 Moses was the chief

prophet, and Moses prophecies are true #8 the Torah, the first

five books of the Bible specifically, and the Oral

Torah, the Talmud were given to Moses and divinely preserved. 9

There will be no other Torah, since it cannot be changed. 10

God knows all things, including the thoughts and deeds of men.

11 God will reward the righteous and punish the wicked. 12 The

Messiah will come. 13 The dead will be resurrected.

Now, if you consider the 13 points that I've just read and

that you're looking at on your screen right now, we would say

in our studies so far of the Muslims and of Jehovah Witnesses

and of the Mormons, we would probably agree with more of

those 13 points than we would with any of those three other

groups, yes, including the Colts, Jehovah Witness, and

Mormons. However, again, we do not agree

with all thirteen of those points.

There are some very key different differences we

disagree numbers with #8 of the Talmud being of divine origin.

We would say the New Testament would be of divine origin.

The Torah sometimes called the first five books, sometimes

called the entire balance of the Old Testament.

What do we find that we would believe in Old Testament and New

Testament? They say that they would believe

in the Torah and the Talmud. We would look at #12 where they

say the Messiah will come, and boy, this is a big one.

We'll say this. He has come.

He has come. They are looking for him to come

and we are looking for him to come again.

That's the difference, isn't it? We are looking for him to come

again. They are still looking for him

to come. And again, one of the saddest

parts of any type of Passover feast that your Jewish friends

will hold in the usually around April time of year, one of the

things that they will do is at the very end, they will all

stand at the door and they will wait for Elijah to come.

They will, they will say Elijah come.

Now, why will that be? Well, because we'll see in the

book of Malachi that Elijah was to be the forerunner of Jesus

Christ. Well, who was that?

Elijah? That was John the Baptist.

We'll look at all of that this morning.

I'm kind of getting ahead of myself of over going to be at

11:00. But the fact of the matter is

they look for him to come. And it's so sad that they would

stand there at the door and wait ceremonially, of course, for him

to come. It's just part of the feast that

they have. But we would look at them and

say you're waiting for someone who's come. 2000 years ago.

So we would disagree on #12 on #11 we would agree God will

reward the righteous and punish the wicked.

Here's the difference. The Bible says that, well, all

of sinned and falling short of the glory of God, you will find

that Judaism basically teaches that mankind is inherently good

and starts from that point where we would say the word of God

teaches well that mankind is inherently sinful and needs

redemption. A huge difference.

And so we can see that out of 13, we probably agree with ten

of those points, but boy, those three, yeah, we need to be able

to be in agreement in all 13 and we cannot agree with all 13.

Those are some very, very large differences, including the very

difference between salvation and being lost, the fact that you

don't know who the Messiah is. That's what salvation is all

about, knowing who Jesus Christ is.

Now, the modern groups within Judaism are primarily born out

of the Pharisaical teaching that held the Old Testament and the

Talmud as the supreme authority. But even in modern Judaism,

Judaism, and I would say particularly modern American

Judaism, it seems that there are three religious groups.

The first would be Orthodox Judaism.

Orthodox Judaism is a movement holding traditional beliefs and

practices such as kosher diets, Sabbath rest, distinctive dress

codes. Now, if you are in our area and

you're driving around on a Saturday, Saturday would be the

Sabbath day. And if you were driving around,

as I was just a few weeks ago going through Sharon, for

instance, Sharon has a large Orthodox Jewish community.

As I was driving through town, I saw that there were families

that were walking to go on Sabbath, to be able to go to the

temple. They were dressed in a very

particular way, both women and men.

They were walking because they could not drive because they

that would be considered work on the Sabbath day.

The kids had their scooters and they were out there on the

scooters and mom and dad were walking.

I'll be honest, he's very impressive in some ways to see

them going and doing what they are doing it.

And in some ways you admire the fact that they are so very

dedicated to that which they believe.

But I would say this, they are dedicated to that which is not

the gospel. And so we look at those, but

those would be what are considered Orthodox Jews.

We could also look at Reform Judaism.

This is a modern movement begun in the 1800s, takes many liberal

viewpoints and does away with conservative values and

practices that are inherent to Orthodox Judaism.

You will find that many Jewish temples today, the large

majority of Jewish temples would fall under Reformed Judaism that

they have basic Jewish beliefs, but they are very liberal in

every way that are so contrary to the word of God.

Not just in their beliefs but also in how they handle

themselves as opposed to Orthodox Judaism.

We have a Jewish temple in town. It is a Reformed Judas, Reformed

Judaism temple where they hold certain beliefs but in many ways

are unrecognizable to Orthodox Jews.

But there's also part of Judaism which is a little bit of a

misnomer because it's a group that tries to balance between

Orthodox and Reformed. However, they have a lot of the

liberal tendencies of the Reform Judaism while still trying to

hold to the Torah and understand that it is the Scriptures where

Orthodox Reform Judaism would not say that the that the Torah

is absolute scripture. And so there are again, some

different flavors between them, but this is the three Orthodox

Reform and Conservative tries to be right in the middle, but

again falls more to the liberal side towards Reform than it does

for Orthodox. And there's one more group that

it also is prominent but is not a religious group, and that is

this. It is secular Judaism, secular

Judaism, those who still identify as Jews mostly by

heritage, but are actually secular humanists, the popular

religion of today. In many ways, they have taken

one more step beyond Reform Judaism, and they are purely

secular in their religious outlook.

They retain the name for the sake of their ancestry.

They may even celebrate some of the feasts like the Passover,

just because it's part of their national heritage, But they are

not celebrating it for a religious reason.

You say, well, why would somebody do that?

I don't know. Why does all the United States

celebrate Christmas but have nothing to do with Jesus?

So it should not surprise us that there would be some that

would do the same thing as a way to be in touch with their roots,

but really have no connection with God whatsoever, probably

don't even believe in God, and would certainly not hold to

those 13 points that we just put up a few moments ago.

So those 13 points would really in many ways encompass the top

three. And then secular Jews, those who

want to connect with their ethnic roots but yet do not

believe in God, would fall under the secular Judaism category.

And I will say in my interactions with many people

here in Easton and the surrounding area over the years,

I have met several in each of these categories.

I have met several of them. And one of the things that I've

loved for us to be able to do in the past is to be able to have

one of our missionaries, Sam Wilson, come.

Some of you remember him and he was a missionary in Israel for a

short time, then had to come back to the States and now

ministers to Jews here in the United States, has been here

before a couple different times and taught us.

How to better relate to our Jewish neighbors and friends and

really showed us some really, really interesting things.

Not to start a Jewish ministry within your church, but to just

equip the people within the church to be able to reach Jews

for Christ. And so I think it's a very

important thing and it's important for us to be able to

brush up and understand more about these things for

ourselves. So here's the question that we

must ask ourselves today. It's why we're in Romans chapter

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10. And I think we've already asked

it and answered it in some ways. But I want us to look at what

the Bible says about this. Are the Jews saved?

Are the Jews saved? Now, here's the answer to that

question. I know I just asked the

question. I said we're gonna look at the

Bible. But the answer to that question

is this is that people are not saved by what ethnicity they

are. People are not saved by what

people group they belong to. People are saved one way and one

way only, the Bible way. And so we cannot say that the

Jews as a group are saved or unsaved, other than we recognize

that there will be a time that at the end of the Tribulation

period where they as a group will accept Jesus as their

Savior. But in the meantime, we look at

them and say this by and large the Jewish people have rejected

Jesus Christ. There is there's no denying for

us to be able to say this morning that by and large the

Jewish people have denied Jesus Christ.

Now listen carefully to what I'm about to say.

The Jewish people and I think of the nation of Israel in

particular loves to be able to have evangelical Christians to

come and to go into their nation and to be able to take tours and

do those types of things are very welcoming to evangelical

Christians doing so. Why?

Because of the Christian heritage that we have there that

we share in our roots with them. And so they.

Love to have us to be OK. I've never been to Israel.

I'd love to visit Israel someday.

Never have been the Bible. I've heard people say that it's

like going to Israel's, like seeing the Bible in color after

seeing it in black and white before, because you get to see

the very places that you read about in the Gospels and other

places. I can't imagine what that would

be like. I hope someday to be able to do

so. But I will say the Jewish

government is very welcoming for those tourism dollars to flow

into Israel to allow people like us to be able to come.

But there's also something they would like us to do as well.

Leave. And I'm not trying.

To be unkind about this, I'm not trying to be snide or smart

aleck about this whatsoever. What I'm saying is this is as

welcoming as they are to evangelical Christians to be

able to come and visit, they are also very closed as a country to

the gospel. Meaning this that if someone was

to come as a missionary and to try to start a church, very

quickly they would be asked to leave Israel.

And that's a story over and over again that it is a closed

country to the gospel, as closed as many of the common countries

we would think of as being closed to the gospel.

But we don't think of that because they are so welcoming to

us to be able to come and visit. They just don't want you to go

into proselytize and they do not want anyone to go and to start a

church. And I say that for no other

reason, just to say that that is what the fact of the matter is,

that by and large that they have rejected Jesus Christ.

That does not mean that all Jews have.

You may have heard of Messianic Jews.

These are those who are Jewish, of ethnic origin, and they have

come to understand that Jesus is their Messiah, not that he will

come, but that he has come and he will come again.

And they are out there. I have met them before.

They are some lovely people. Many of them will hold the

feasts during the year, not because they have to.

We're not required to hold the feasts anymore.

It's Old Testament, they pointed Jesus Christ, but they use them

as very vivid ways within their communities to be able to show

Jesus Christ through their own heritage.

And I think that's a wonderful thing for them to be able to do.

I encourage them to do that. We're not biblically told to do

that. We're cold told to take the

Lord's Supper. We don't have to take the

Passover. Remember, we just saw in First

Corinthians chapter #5 that Christ is our Passover, That we

understand that He was the sacrifice, the Lamb of God to

take away the sin of the world. But yet we understand there are

some Messianic Jews out there. So what does?

What do we see about this? Well, I will tell you who had a

great burden to reach the Jews for Christ, and that was Paul.

Paul had a great, great burden to see the Jews reached for

Christ. But why?

We think of him as the missionary to the Gentiles.

And he was. But I will say this, in every

city he went to, he always went to the Jews first.

In every city he went to, he always went to the synagogue and

was always trying to present Jesus Christ to those in the

synagogue. Sometimes people believe and

there were places where people would believe.

Ephesus is one of those places that comes to mind.

However, many times he was expelled from the synagogue,

sometimes was beaten by those who ran the synagogue, and

sometimes was run out of town before he even got to talk to

the Gentiles. But many times he would give the

gospel to the Jews. He would shake the dust off his

feet after they were rejected and then would go and give the

gospel to the Gentiles. This was what he did.

What was his heart? Well, chapter 10, verse one says

this, brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for

Israel is that they might be saved.

For I bear them record that they have a zeal for God, but listen

not according to knowledge. When I think of Orthodox

Judaism, when I think of those, particularly of that group of

which Paul would have been very acquainted as a Pharisee

himself, when I think of that group, they have great zeal.

Often times they have greater zeal than we do as Christians,

that they are strict in their diet.

They are strict in their timing of their of, of their

scheduling, of their week. They are strict in what they

wear. They are strict in every single

way. They've got a zeal.

But here's what Paul says, but not according to knowledge.

They are zealous, but they know not what they are zealous for.

For their being ignorant, verse 3 of God's righteousness and

going to establish their own righteousness have not submitted

themselves unto the righteousness of God.

Saying this because they don't truly understand who God is.

They have tried to make themselves righteous.

But what do we find in chapter 3, verse 20 of Romans?

There is none righteous. No, not one.

They are trying to, through their works, to be able to

purify themselves unto righteousness.

And this, this is folly. Verse 4 For Christ is the end of

the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth.

For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the

law, that the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

If you were to save yourself by the law, then you must hold

yourself to the law your entire life.

You can be saved by the law. In theory, we could put it this

way. You could be saved by the law.

You'd have to keep it your whole life.

So here's the thing. You can't be saved by the law

because we know that we cannot keep it our entire life.

I always laugh when I talk to people.

Not laugh in their face, but I laugh when I talk to people and

I'm witnessing them and I ask them if they're a Sinner and

they have to think about it. It's like how far back you got

to go in that Rolodex of your mind to figure out.

Most people I talk to will say, Oh yeah, they know they're a

Sinner. I don't have to convince them

that they're a Sinner because we understand that if we've broken

one of the 10 commandments in our life that we're a Sinner.

You're done. That's it.

He said, well, do I get a do over?

Do I get a Gimme? Do I get a Mulligan?

No, that's it, you get nothing. And so we can't be saved by the

law. Christ is our righteousness.

Christ was the one who lived the life that we could not live, who

shed his precious blood so that we could be saved.

And so it says that the man which doeth those things shall

live by them. And we would not be something

that we could do. But yet there are many in those

groups that believe that this is what they must do to be able to

be saved. Now we're kind of go backwards

through the book of Romans. I know this kind of the

backwards way of doing it, but look at chapter #9 verse #1 it

says this. I say the truth in Christ.

I line up my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy

Ghost. So Paul is saying, I kind of put

it this way. He says what I'm about to say.

You're not going to believe, but I'm telling you the truth and

I'm telling you that I'm telling you the truth through the Holy

Ghost and we understand that because he's speaking in

Scripture and scriptures are inspired by the Holy Ghost.

But to those he's writing to, he's saying this I'm going to

say something you're probably not going to believe, but but

I'm serious about this. Well, what could he possibly

say? Well, verse 2 that I have great

heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart for I wish that

myself were cursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsman

according to the the flesh. He says that saying what I think

it's saying it absolutely is saying what you think he's

saying. Paul said this if I could cash

in my salvation. To be able to cover my brethren,

the people of Israel, I'd do it, he says, if that meant that I

had to go to hell so that everyone else would be saved.

He said I would do this. He said I don't believe it.

Well, he didn't think he'd believe it.

That's why he said verse one. That's why he had to make clear

what he says there. But you know, he's not the only

one who felt this way. I think of Moses in Exodus

chapter #32 you know, Exodus chapter 32 goes up in the

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mountain, comes down the mountain.

Joshua says, hey, there's a noise of war.

And he goes, that's not war. He's that's the sound of people

playing. What kind of playing were they

doing? Well, it wasn't courtyard

playing. Let me tell you this.

There wasn't playground playing. It was people that were in

their, in their very state of undress, who were engaging in

paganism around a golden calf 40 days before.

They had heard the voice of God and now they have gone to this

debauchery. And so all of this takes place.

We understand what Moses does that he he he breaks the

tablets, he grinds them into powder, he puts it in the water

supply. He's like, this is going to be

bitter and you need to drink it. You need to understand how

bitter you have made your life by what you have done.

But then he goes back to the Lord and he actually becomes a

an advocate for the people of Israel to the Lord is as the

Lord says, says, you know, move out of the way.

They're gone. I'm starting over with you,

Moses. And basically Moses says the

same thing. He says I would be accursed.

He says for you to save them. And of course the Lord doesn't

do that, that the Lord's not interested in making deals with

humanity. Let's make that quite clear.

But the idea was the heart of Moses was this.

He says it, the service that I provide to these people is

greater than myself. He knew that what he was doing

was greater than self. Here's Paul.

He says this, and what I'm doing is greater than myself.

If the Jews could be saved and that meant I had to go to hell,

I'm willing for that to happen. And again, humanly speaking, I

don't understand it other than I know it's true because the Bible

says it's true. Verse four Who?

Are Israelites to whom pertain the adoption and the glory and

the covenants and the giving of the law and the service of God

and the promises. He's saying this.

The Jews have a rich history. He's looking back at the rich

history that they have, the adoption meaning that they were

God's chosen people. By the way, that doesn't mean

Israel's better than everyone else.

Let's make that clear. It just means it's that God had

chosen them for a particular task.

I have four children. If I've chosen one of them to go

take out the trash, that doesn't mean that they're the best.

In fact, they might think they're the worst.

If I'm the one that chose to take out the trash, it just

means that they have a purpose of which I as a father have

chosen them to do. The people of Israel as God's

chosen people are not more beloved by God than you.

God had given them a specific task to bring through the very

oracles of God, the word of God that we have through the Jews.

And I remind you, even in the New Testament, what is the

church primarily made of the Jews, and that we as the

Gentiles are grafted in after that, as we are one church.

But yet we find here that we are blessed by the Jews as the

chosen people, but they are not the best people, these superior

people to anyone else. Listen, we are all, all people

created in the image of God, and we're all people.

Listen, who needs salvation? And so he says this, but you as

Jews, they have the adoption, they have the glory, the

covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God and the

promises. Verse 5, whose are the fathers,

and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over

all God be blessed forever. So not only did the Jews have

all of verse 4 and even in verse 5 it mentions the Father's.

We think of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and others that are so

revered, but he says to them, listen, more important than any

of those things, Christ came in the flesh through the tribe of

Judah as a Jew. So that was the greatest of all.

These people have all of this, but yet they don't understand.

And Paul and his heart was. Burdened.

For them, because they did not get what was right in front of

their nose. Now go back to chapter #3.

All right, Romans chapter 3, you might say, well listen, Jews and

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Gentiles are the same pastor. Then what does even matter if

you're a Jew or a Gentile? Well, Paul covers that as well.

Again, I know we're going backwards is not the normal

direction we would go, but as Paul is building a case, we're

kind of deconstructing the case, going backwards.

Look at what it says. What advantage then hath the Jew

or what profit is there of circumcision?

I just mentioned this a moment ago.

Much every way chiefly because that unto them were committed

the oracles of God. God chose Israel as the people

He would reveal His word to. Verse 3.

For what if some did not believe?

Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without a fact?

And so he even says this. Well, does the fact that many

Jews have rejected the faith meaning Jesus Christ, does that

mean it's not so? Does that mean it's not the

case? And the answer is, well, without

going into the rest of the chapter, the answer is, well,

they may have rejected, but that doesn't make Jesus less God.

That doesn't make him any less the Messiah.

And so they may not believe in him, but he is who He is whether

they believe in Him or not. And so you can see kind of over

and over chapter 10, Chapter 9 and chapter 3, what is Paul

saying over and over again? By and large they are lost.

By and large, they do not believe in Jesus Christ their

Savior. But any single one of them could

be saved by believing the gospel.

The gospel is just as true for them as it's true for us.

And we pray that they come to understand the knowledge of the

truth. Now, some of you may know the

conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, and he is a very famous

Orthodox Jew. And I have a very short video

that I'm going to show here in just a moment.

And in this video, I think it best articulates the differences

between Judaism and Christianity.

It's only about 4045 seconds. But I don't know that I could

have said it any better. You know, the videos that I

choose, I always try to choose people who are speaking from

their own mouth, not someone who agrees with me, who is saying

because if they agreed with me, then I'll just say it.

I don't need someone else to say it, but someone from a different

group saying something that highlights something we're

talking about biblically. I think this will be a help to

you to understand really the very basis of the difference

between biblical Christianity and Judaism.

So if you had that Brother Scott, let's go ahead.

When when you talk with people who are Christian and Jewish and

you have sort of interfaith conversations, the original 1

sentence can see the difference between them is that what you

hear from Jews is Judaism is Acts based and Christianity is

faith-based. Christianity is about the

acceptance of Christ. When you accept Christ, then

you've accepted what you need to accept and everything flows

therefrom. And Judaism says it's not just

about accepting God, it's all these myths vote, right?

There are all these commandments that you have to do.

And these are what perfect you as a human being.

It's the, it's the performance of these commandments accepting

God's sovereignty because he's the one who gave the

commandments. But you actually have to act in

the world. And if you don't act in the

world, then you haven't fulfilled your responsibility in

the world. I think that says it pretty well

right there, doesn't it? The differences.

I also appreciate there's someone on Earth who talks

faster than I do, so that's good.

But you know, that's really what it comes down to.

Is that that one? I have to agree.

With Him, we have to accept Christ our Savior, or you have

to believe in the Bible. But you got to do a bunch of

stuff, and then you have to. And again, good works are good.

We're not against good works here.

In fact, as believers we ought to be for good works.

But again, the difference is where do good works come from?

They flow from a heart that has already been saved and out of

love for Jesus Christ. That is where that comes from.

Not that we do that to be saved. But once again, what have we

found about Muslims? Works based What have we found

about Jehovah Witness? Works based?

What have we found about the Mormons?

Works. Based.

What are we finding about Judaism?

Work Based. That's why every other religion

in the world says do, but Jesus Christ says done.

That goes all the way back to the very first week that we were

here. The difference between God and

not God for religions that there's really two God and not

God, those are the only two religions in the world.

But every religion in the world says do.

Jesus Christ says done. Now again, that doesn't mean we

don't do after we're saved, but it means that we do it from a

whole different perspective than any other religion that has ever

existed that we do it from this. I know I'm saved and from that

heart that has been changed by Jesus Christ that now I'm going

to do right because of what he's done for me.

Let's turn to Romans Chapter 11 very quickly and we'll be done.

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Romans Chapter 11 popping back forward here in the book of

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Romans. Just read a few verses here and

then we will be done with this lesson this week.

Romans 11. What I say then, Hath God

castaway his people? Is he done with the Jews from

what we've read? Well, God forbid, for I also am

an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of

Benjamin. God had not castaway His people

which He foreknew. What he not what the Scripture

sayeth of Elias, how he maketh intercession to God against

Israel, saying, Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and dig

down thine altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

But what excuse me, what sayeth the answer of God unto him?

I have reserved to myself 7000 men who have not bowed the knee

to the image of Baal. Even so, then at this present

time, all also there is a remnant according to the

election of grace. Now hear that word election.

You might get concerned about Calvinism and those types of

things. But listen, God has not elected

certain people to salvation. That's what Calvinism teaches,

that God has chosen certain people to salvation.

He's also chosen certain people to damnation.

And there's nothing you can do about it.

That's not Bible teaching. The Bible is a book full of

choices that we must to choose to do right and not and choose

not to do wrong. But what it is saying is this is

God has chosen to still extend grace to the people of Israel.

He has chosen to still give grace despite the fact that they

have over and over and over again rejected them.

He still will give them grace. They'll drop down to verse #25

For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this

mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits.

That blindness in part is happening to happen to Israel

until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.

And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written.

There shall come out of Sion the defender, the deliverer rather,

and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away

their sins. So what's going to happen?

There will be a time when they call upon Christ together.

When would that be? Well, that will be at the end of

the Tribulation, The time the Gentiles is over.

What's going to happen? They're going to see their

Messiah and understand how incredibly wrong they were.

And what are they going to do? They will accept Christ.

By the way, there are a lot of people, there will be a lot of

Jews even before that will though, accept Christ because

there's going to be 144,000 Jewish witnesses that will be

presenting the gospel during the Tribulation.

It won't just be at that last moment, it will be during the

Tribulation, but they as a nation will do.

So there will be a restored Jewish Kingdom during the

Millennium with Jesus Christ as the head.

And you see how all this kind of even goes together.

First Corinthians chapter 6, we were talking about the Saints

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who were going to be able to make judgment.

If you can't judge in the church, then how are you going

to be able to judge later on and judge angels?

Well, that all goes together with this during that millennial

reign. Say, pastor, I don't know that I

understand all this. Well, here's what you do need to

understand because I know I'm giving these very quickly, but

here's what you need to understand.

God is not done with the Jewish people.

God is not done with the Jewish people, but the Jewish people

must get saved like the Gentile people, and that's through the

gospel of Jesus Christ. There is no other way.

And in the meantime, there are Jewish friends, they're Jewish

neighbors, There might even be family.

You might even have someone that I believe we're all Gentiles

here this morning, but you might have had someone even marry into

your family as as even I could attest here this morning that

needs Jesus Christ. Well, what do you need to do?

We'll talk about how we can best show him to these people here

over the next few weeks. Thank you for listening to the

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