Israel Moments | Uncircumcised Jews in the OT Were NOT Gods People

Israel Moment #34 - Uncircumcised Jews in the OT Were NOT Gods People
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Hello this is Pastor Steven Anderson from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona. Today I want to talk about Genesis 17 verse 14, where the Bible reads "And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people, he hath broken my covenant." Now a lot of people today would have you to believe that in order to be one of God's chosen people you just have to be a certain ethnicity, and they'll say that the "Jews", quote unquote, today, because they descend from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are God's chosen people just by virtue of their ethnicity, just by virtue of their physical descent. But what this shows is that even in the Old Covenant, you had to do more than just be born into a certain family in order to be one of God's chosen people. You had to also be circumcised, even under the Old Testament, circumcision was necessary, AND if a person were not circumcised, then that person were cut off from his people, therefore they are no longer considered one of God's chosen people, because they've broken that covenant.
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Now in the New Testament we do not observe physical circumcision. Galatians chapter 2, Galatians 5 and 6 make that very clear. Under the new covenant there's the circumcision of the heart and of the spirit. But what I'm illustrating is that being a certain ethnicity has NEVER made you automatically one of God's chosen people. Under the Old Covenant, you had to be circumcised, among other things in order to remain one of God's chosen people. So again this just goes to show that this idea that just a race or an ethnicity is "automatically God's chosen people"... and you try to point out the fact that, hey, they reject the Lord Jesus Christ, they're worshiping another God.... People say "that doesn't matter, it has nothing to do with it, it's just the fact that they are descended from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that makes them chosen or elect." Now some might say "well, you know, they ARE physically circumcised though, so under the Old Covenant, they're good!" Well guess what? The Old Covenant is no longer in effect. Hebrews 8 says "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." In the New Covenant, if they don't believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, they are NOT the chosen people.
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Main Scripture/s Genesis 17:14, Galatians 2, 5, 6
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