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The Daily Word of Righteousness
An Examination of Current Teaching, #10
By abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, (Ephesians 2:15)
There is such a thing as a Gentile Church that is to be brought to Heaven by grace.
The concept of a "Gentile Church" is both unscriptural and illogical.
You will search the New Testament in vain to find a Gentile Church.
None of us knows but what he might have a drop or two of Jewish blood. So who is a Jew and who is a Gentile? What about someone who is half-Jewish and half-Gentile? Would he be part of a Gentile Church? What about Paul the Apostle? Would he be part of a Gentile Church in Heaven?
So we see the concept of a Gentile Church is unrealistic.
Paul declares plainly that in Christ there is neither Jew nor Gentile.
The notion of a Gentile Church in Heaven creates an image in the mind, but the image falls apart when tested by the Scripture and by reason.
Jews and Gentiles who are in Christ form one new man. There is no such thing as a Gentile Church, only the one Olive Tree who is Christ. We are part of Him, being the one Seed of Abraham.
If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, (Romans 11:17)
The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. (I Corinthians 12:12)
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. (Galatians 3:28,29)
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household, (Ephesians 2:19)
There is one body and one Spirit just as you were called to one hope when you were called One Lord, one faith, one baptism; One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. (Ephesians 4:4-6)
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. (I Peter 2:10)
To be continued.