Jesus came to His own and His own did not recognize Him. In Christ there is neither Jew nor Gentile, slave nor free, male nor female. We are all one in Jesus our Savior that through Him the world would be offered salvation. John 3:16-18
Romans 15:8-9 Now I say that Jesus Christ has become a servant to the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers, 9 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written: “For this reason I will confess to You among the Gentiles, And sing to Your name.”
In His birth, death and resurrection Jesus finished the work of the Cross given for mankind’s salvation. Jesus came as a minister to the circumcision. To the Israelites He came as their redeemer King and they failed to recognize Him.
Matthew 10:5-7 These twelve Jesus sent out and commanded them, saying: “Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans. 6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 7 And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’
From the onset Jesus made it clear that He came to the Israelites, God’s chosen people, but in them as adopted children the whole world could be saved.
The Davidic covenant that God made with David will never be broken.
2 Samuel 7:16 And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever.” ’ ”
Forever the house of David will reign in Jesus the Christ.
Psalm 89:18 For our shield belongs to the Lord, And our king to the Holy One of Israel. 19. Then You spoke in a vision to Your holy one, And said: “I have given help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people. 20 I have found My servant David; With My holy oil I have anointed him, 21 With whom My hand shall be established; Also My arm shall strengthen him. 22 The enemy shall not outwit him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him. 23 I will beat down his foes before his face, And plague those who hate him. 24 But My faithfulness and My mercy shall be with him, And in My name his horn shall be exalted. 25 Also I will set his hand over the sea, And his right hand over the rivers. 26 He shall cry to Me, ‘You are my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.’ 27 Also I will make him My firstborn, The highest of the kings of the earth. 28 My mercy I will keep for him forever, And My covenant shall stand firm with him. 29 His seed also I will make to endure forever, And his throne as the days of heaven. 30 “If his sons forsake My law And do not walk in My judgments, 31 If they break My statutes And do not keep My commandments, 32 Then I will punish their transgression with the rod, And their iniquity with stripes. 33 Nevertheless My lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him, Nor allow My faithfulness to fail.
God the Son is the promise of Abraham given to him that in him all the nations of the world would be blessed. His promises to David in the coming of Jesus are sure. His mercy and His faithfulness will never leave His chosen people. He will chastise them in His love for them but He will never leave nor forsake them.
Jeremiah 31:31-34 Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
God will do a new thing in His dealings with Israel. This new covenant will write His Law in their minds and on their souls. They will all know Him and their sins will be no more. Carla
The Greek text here references circumcision; this is a way of referring to Jews.
A quotation from Psalms 18:49. David speaks this psalm as one who represents Christ. Faithlife Study Bible
Jesus Christ became a servant to the Jews for two purposes: (1) to confirm God’s promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and (2) to demonstrate God’s mercy to the Gentiles so that they might glorify Him. Paul cites four passages from the Old Testament to prove that God intended the Gentiles as well as the Jews to glorify Him. Paul quotes from all three divisions of the Old Testament (the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms or Writings), and from three great Jewish leaders (Moses, David, and Isaiah), to demonstrate that God’s purpose was always to bless the Gentiles through Israel. Although the nation of Israel has been set aside for the present both Jews and Gentiles are being brought together in the church. The root of Jesse is a title for the Messiah. Jesse was the father of David, and the Son of David was the promised Messiah.
Psalm 18:49
Therefore I will give thanks to You,
O LORD, among the Gentiles,
And sing praises to Your name.
2 Samuel 22:50
Therefore I will give thanks to You,
O LORD, among the Gentiles,
And sing praises to Your name.
Matthew 15:24 But He answered and said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
2 Corinthians 1:20 For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.
Acts 3:25–26 You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’ To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.”
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