It's hard not to get distracted by the word games and misdirection practiced by "many" who call Jesus Lord, Lord.
But I like the "1 thing at a time" practice.
In Ephesians 2, Paul is
rebuking the Circumcision "made with hands", who called Faithful Gentiles "The uncircumcision" and mentioned Commandments and Ordinances that relegated Faithful Gentiles as "
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", that Jesus exposed and destroyed on the Cross.
Similar to this?
Mt 3:9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Lu 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Eph 2: speaks of Jew and gentiles both in times past children of wrath...John's baptism preached to jew's the way of escape. Repentance...
Joh 8:39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
Mt 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
11 And I say unto you, That
many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
12 But
the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Gentiles (ye, the uncircumcision)
2 Wherein
in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Jews (we)
3 Among whom
also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and
were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
God's love and mercy in his promises to Abraham...
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved
{by … : or, by whose grace }
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Deut 7:6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
7 The LORD did not
set his love upon you, nor
choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because
the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which
keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
Covenant circumcision a covenant of love and mercy to them........
10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
Jesus fulfilled this
for them........they died in Christ, and were raised up with him
12 ¶ Wherefore
it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
Eph 2:4 ¶ But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even
when we were dead in sins, hath
quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved
{by … : or, by whose grace }
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
8 Fo
r by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Gentiles were not party to the promises of the covenant of Circumcision.....
11 ¶ Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
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:
You however seem to be making this about the Sinai covenant??
I see it by the Abrahamic covenant...Both covenats are a covenant of circumcision
De 30:6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Ephesians goes on to speak of jew and gentiles with regard to priesthood. Which under Moses law non levites were "strangers" from.
Ex 30:33 Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger <02114>, shall even be cut off from his people.
Le 22:10 There shall no stranger <02114> eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
Le 22:12 If the priest’s daughter also be married unto a stranger <02114>, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things. {a stranger: Heb. a man a stranger }
Le 22:13 But if the priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s meat: but there shall no stranger <02114> eat thereof.
Nu 3:10 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest’s office: and the stranger <02114> that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Nu 3:38 But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger <02114> that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Both Jew and Gentiles
Eph 2:16 And that he might reconcile
both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: {thereby: or, in himself }
17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
18 For through him
we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
19 Now therefore ye are
no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
I posted
God's/Christ's Commandments concerning Faithful Gentiles.
Lev. 19:
33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. 34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou "shalt love him as thyself"; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
And I also posted the Word spoken by the Spirit of Christ on Isaiah;
6 Also the sons of the stranger, (Non-Jew) that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; 7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer "for all people".
So clearly God isn't the "circumcision made with hands", and clearly GOD's commandments, as you can see if you read them, didn't relegate Faithful Non-Jews as "
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".
But in this world's religious system, there are "many" who "come in Christ's Name", who call Jesus Lord, Lord, that teach it was
God's Commandments and ordinances that relegated Faithful Gentiles as "
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".
Truly this is one of the Deceptions Jesus warned about in Matt. 24:4-5 promoted by the "Many" who come in Christ's Name, claiming HE is truly the Christ.
It is important to expose these deceptions so others do not become snared by them.
