Those who reject Jesus Christ reject God and the promises given to Abraham

Those who reject Jesus Christ reject God and the promises given to Abraham

“I and My Father are one.
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from My Father; for which of those works do ye stone Me? The Jews answered Him, saying, For a good work we stone Thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that Thou, being a man, makest thyself God.” John 10:30-33

“…had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed Me: for he wrote of Me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe My words?” John 5:46-47

“He that receiveth you receiveth Me, and he that receiveth Me receiveth Him that sent Me.” Matthew 10:40

“…I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess Me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: But he that denieth Me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.” Luke 12:8-9

Make no mistake about it. Those who reject Christ reject God and the promises of God to Abraham. The modern unbiblical notion that ethnic Jews are God’s chosen people is nothing other than a deception. The Jews are not God’s chosen people, only those who “…died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth,” (Hebrews 11:13) together with those who are “born of… God” (John 1:13) through believing into Jesus Christ are the people of God. The Apostle Paul refers to these collectively as “the Israel of God.” (Gal 6:16).

“There is of course the difficult unsolved problem,” says O. Palmer Robertson, “concerning the identification of a ‘Jew.’ For as a Jewish commentator on Genesis has noted, the ‘Jewish’ people never have known ‘purity of blood.’ (Jacob 1974, p.233). Since the time that God established His covenant with Abraham, any Gentile could become a fully-fledged Jew by confessing the God of Abraham and, in the case of a male, being circumcised (Gen. 17:12-13). The prevailing definition of a Jew as anyone who has a Jewish mother may have some functional appeal, but since the time of Abraham a ‘Jewish’ mother might not have a single drop of Abrahamic blood running through her veins. The place of Rahab the Canaanitess and Ruth the Moabitess in the honoured line of Davidic kings makes the point rather dramatically) cf. Josh. 6:25; Ruth 4:13; Matt. 1:5).

But if any gentile can become an heir of the promises to Abraham without having any ancestral connection with the Jewish people, then the criterion for inheriting the land cannot be racial. It is not true to the teaching of scripture to say simply that the racial decedents of Abraham are the rightful heirs of the land of Palestine, for the term ‘Jew’ cannot be confined to categories of race.

ANYONE WITHOUT A CHANGED HEART IS AUTOMATICALLY EXCLUDED FROM BEING HEIR OF THE PROMISES OF GOD
This question is also difficult to answer from a Christian perspective. The Apostle Paul, recognized in his day as a ‘Hebrew of the Hebrews’ (Phil. 3:5), declared, ‘He is not a Jew who is one outwardly’ (Rom. 2:28). Only the person with a converted heart may legitimately be called a Jew (Rom. 2:29). The point could hardly be made more emphatically. If inheritance of the land is associated with being Jewish, and true Jewishness requires the renewal of the heart, then anyone who has no changed heart automatically is excluded from being heir of the promises of God. Contrariwise, every converted Gentile has become a fellow citizen, a fellow participant, a fellow heir of the promises of God alongside Jewish believers in Jesus (Eph. 2:19; 3:6). ‘For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.’ (Phil. 3:3).
Whatever the promises of God to Israel might have been, they now belong to all who have the renewed heart, whether they are Jew or gentile in background.”
O. Palmer Robertson. Understanding the Land of the Bible: A Biblical and theological Guide. pp.139-140

The Apostle Peter made it very plain when he declared who the "people of God" are.
"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy." I Peter 2:9-10

To refer to unregenerate ethnic Jews as God's people contradicts the teaching of Jesus Christ and His Apostles. God promises to the Houses of Judah and Israel will only be fulfilled for them if they repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. The Apostle Peter declared this clearly on the day of Pentecost.

"Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. ...Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." Acts 2:22-39

God, by the prophet Jeremiah, declared what the basis of the New Covenant would be with the House of Judah and Isreal, saying,
"Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more." Jeremiah 31:31-34

The Apostle Paul reiterates this great truth in His Epistle to the Hebrew believers.
"For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away." Hebrews 8:8-13

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