Partakers of His Promise in Christ (Ephesians 3:6)
2023-11-04
That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel: (Ephesians 3:6)
This is a great mystery revealed in our current age: Non-Jews and Gentiles are fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of the promises of God in Christ. This is one of the issues I have with dispensationalism, while I feel it get some things right, it considers Jews of ancient times a separate entity from Gentile believers. I believe that we non-Jews have been grafted into God’s people by His grace. We have those promises that our spiritual forebears have. We have an inheritance with them. We are not a separate entity out there somewhere. As we saw yesterday, we were made nigh by His blood. Everything hinges on whether you belong to Christ or not.
Now since we are in Christ, by grace we have been made His people. As a result, we receive all the benefits in Christ that the Israelites throughout the ages have received by faith.