The Lost Sheep of Israel | Gospel of the Kingdom
Speaker: Dustin Aguilar
Scripture:
Matthew 10:1-40, 6-8, 5-6
Matthew 3:7, 9-10
Matthew 21:41, 21:43,
Romans 11:1, 2-15, 11:25-26, 11:29, 30-31
Matthew 13:15
Isaiah 59:20
Matthew 23:36
Acts 2:36, 2:38, 2:4
Scripture Reading: Matthew 19-20
Memory Verse: Matthew 7:12-14
What to Believe:
Great commission: where to go: “don’t go to the gentiles or towns of Samaria, go to the lost sheep of Israel” tell God's people, His children that they are at risk of losing their inheritance with God because of their lack of faith in Christ.
Great commission:God’s plan is simple, but there is so much depth. The kingdom is at hand.
John the Baptist's ministry was to national Israel to prepare them for Christ the Messiah’s coming.
Salvation was to be proclaimed and offered to the Jewish people because they were in danger of losing the Kingdom of Heaven, it was meant to be offered to them before the gentiles.
God did not reject His people, Paul acknowledges this in Romans 11. The Kingdom is for those who bend the knee to Jesus and acknowledge His sacrifice, and the inheritance we have through His blood. God is still willing to forgive.
We are not superior to the root that came before us in God, we must respect the roots that God cultivated in the Jewish people, for it is from their roots that we the gentiles would be grafted into the tree which is representative of God's people. God is still willing to forgive them.
Conviction is good
How to Obey:
We must honor God and the history of our faith. We must honor the Jewish people according to their history with God and how He established them.
Because of the Israelites disobedience, we are now able to be grafted in, and now the mercy of the believing gentiles allows mercy to be extended to the believing Jewish people who were previously disobedient.
Let your salvation shine brightly so that it might reach those whose disobedience allowed for your salvation. Remember God's people.God is still willing to forgive them
How to Walk Intimately with God:
God desires reconciliation. He desires your heart. He desires your life. He loves you with an everlasting and unfailing love. He is for you and not against you. He is love itself and there is no fear in His love, for fear has to do with punishment, and God's heart is for newness of life.
Christ's sacrifice grafts us into a holy family and inheritance, ask Him more about the family that is now yours.