The Entire Story

"To be Jesus."

A WOMAN teaches history of the Word and leaves out Israel. Students at a Bible college are floored by what she knows. Why don’t they know it? Why does she? No mention of the Spirit is mentioned. Just notes and history markers.

Salvation IS Israel. All over the Bible, this is said. In both Old Covenant and New. Jesus even, for a time, excluded the Gentiles (Matthew 10:6; Matthew 15:24). Yet, Jews believe He’s Catholic.

He’s depicted as Catholic. Gentile. Blue-eyed. No, friends, He is Jew. And I say it that way on purpose. He is the Word, which was in the beginning, John 1. He is God, who made Covenant with Abraham, and his son, Isaac, and grandson, Jacob. He wrote the Law for Moses. He’s blessed the Torah forever.

The whole thing, the entire story, is Jew.

You will not miss this in my teaching, and I say that only to make a point. This teaching is not mine at all. It is His, and He is who you will see in words. In Presence. There is no making the story “Christian” and exiling Jews. It is theirs, and if you’d see them, if you’d listen and set down your prejudices, you’d know how blessed they are. How sure of it.

“For I tell you plainly, Christ promised the patriarchs that he would bring the Remedy to heal humanity, and he came with the truth to the Jews as a humble servant and procured the Remedy, thus keeping his promise. And this same Remedy, brought by Christ to the Jews, has been made available to all humanity, and thus the Gentiles may glorify God for his mercy, as it is written: ‘Therefore I will reveal the truth about you among the Gentiles; I will sing the beauty of your character.’” (Romans 15:8-9, Remedy)

We are fools. Just today, I read the above translation of Scripture and saw, again, what many have overlooked, in this regard. And coordinating passages in Mark 10 and 2 Corinthians 10 that properly describe “ministry.” Jesus was clear on it being service to others. But we in the “Christian” church have made it authority we hold over others. It is anything but that. Jesus washed their feet. We’re polishing ours. This comes from the Spirit not me. If you are called into church offices, to use a secular term, then you are there to help. To be Jesus.

And He is Jew who died for Jews first and Gentiles also. He is Hashem, their YHVH. He is Savior, our King and Lord. We are His body, joined to Him as the Root of one tree, bearing fruit together. There is no uprooting the Old Covenant. It is established. It is fulfilled (Matthew 5:17). There is no putting the Spirit back in a box either. He was confined for years to the ark of testimony, hidden behind the temple veil, which ripped from top to bottom when Jesus died. We are one. Yet we are called, as the apostle Paul said, to love that doesn’t see differences. What we eat, what we wear, what days we worship are not division but points of unity. That we can do as Jesus and love anyway.

NOT using ministry as criticism. Saying what we know that they do not. But that we don’t notice differences. We support the weak, without signage that they are weak. We love Jews, without shoving the name of Jesus in their face. We display the Holy Spirit in our services and not our likes and dislikes, our mental reasonings. We prefer others as better than ourself (Philippians 2:3).

“But Jesus asked the disciples to come. Jesus said, ‘You know the things that rulers do. They think that they rule over countries. So they do the things that masters do. And important people use their authority over people. But you should not be like that. The person who wants to be great among you must be your servant. Anyone who wants to be the most important person must work for you all. Even the Son of Man came to earth to be a servant. He did not come here to have servants who must work for him. He came to die so that many people can be free.’” (Mark 10:42-45, EasyEnglish)

“For though I might take pride in our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for your destruction), it will not be a cause of shame to me:” (2 Corinthians 10:8 BBE)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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