Dale Partridge - June 21, 2025


Are the Jews God's Chosen People？


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God is a covenant-keeping God. God has not forgotten about Israel or his plans for their nation. Is the Jewish people not God's chosen people? Is the Gentile race not included in the covenant? What does the Bible say about the relationship between the Jewish and Gentile nations?

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00:00:00.460 Yesterday, I shared a few scriptures online demonstrating how the Jews are not God's chosen people.
00:00:08.860 A woman messaged me saying,
00:00:12.300 God is a covenant-keeping God.
00:00:15.840 He is faithful even when we are faithless.
00:00:17.980 He has not forgotten about Israel or his plans for their nation, end quote.
00:00:22.900 Now, this woman is referring to the Abrahamic covenant.
00:00:25.580 now I've preached on this topic many times over the years
00:00:30.540 you might be wondering why I'm preaching on it again
00:00:34.100 here's why
00:00:35.760 how you interpret the Abrahamic covenant
00:00:41.660 Genesis 12, Genesis 17
00:00:44.420 is the central point
00:00:48.660 of disagreement between covenant theology and dispensationalism
00:00:53.620 Now, the church from basically Jesus until about 1870 held covenant theology.
00:01:05.100 Not just Reformed, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, everybody.
00:01:10.300 Every denomination on earth held that position, covenant theology.
00:01:14.760 It wasn't until the mid to late 1800s, and especially the early 1900s,
00:01:21.900 that you start to see dispensational theology enter into the church
00:01:26.200 and change the entire framework of the landscape of covenantal interpretation.
00:01:33.420 Now, your interpretation on this matter is upstream.
00:01:36.580 It's an upstream issue.
00:01:37.800 And why is it important?
00:01:38.760 Because how you interpret the Abrahamic covenant will flow and affect everything downstream.
00:01:48.660 So here's the thing. 0.95
00:01:51.380 I agree with this woman's statement.
00:01:56.520 I agree with much of what she said.
00:01:59.240 Yes, God is a covenant-keeping God.
00:02:02.520 Yes, God remains faithful when we are faithless.
00:02:08.760 And yes, God has not forgiven or has not forgotten about his holy nation, Israel.
00:02:15.820 I agree with all of those things.
00:02:17.960 You might go, well, where's the contention?
00:02:20.640 So there's four questions that we need to really answer.
00:02:25.240 One, who is Israel?
00:02:29.400 Number two, who are God's covenant people?
00:02:32.900 Number three, does God keep covenant with those who hate his son?
00:02:40.620 Number four, what nation does God promise to preserve?
00:02:46.180 These are very important questions that a lot of Christians don't understand.
00:02:52.360 So, before we can look at unity between Jew and Gentile, these need to be clarified.
00:03:02.540 Again, identity precedes unity.
00:03:07.640 Let me begin with Deuteronomy, chapter 7, verses 6 through 9.
00:03:14.220 This is a reiteration of the Abrahamic covenant given by Moses as they are getting ready to enter into the promised land.
00:03:21.640 It says,
00:03:23.220 For you are a people holy to the Lord your God.
00:03:28.660 The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his own treasured possession.
00:03:36.100 Out of all the peoples who were on the face of the earth,
00:03:39.000 it was not because you were more in number than any other people
00:03:43.140 that the Lord set his love on you and chose you. 0.96
00:03:47.640 For you were the fewest of all the peoples.
00:03:51.300 But it is because the Lord loves you
00:03:53.660 and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers.
00:03:58.840 Speaking of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
00:04:02.820 That the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand
00:04:06.380 and redeemed you from the house of slavery,
00:04:10.300 from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
00:04:14.320 Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is God,
00:04:18.160 the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love
00:04:22.780 with those who love him
00:04:25.440 and keep his commandments
00:04:27.260 to a thousand generations.
00:04:30.840 Beautiful passage of scripture.
00:04:33.220 Now, if you're a dispensationalist Christian,
00:04:36.080 that scripture doesn't mean anything to you
00:04:38.300 because it's about the Jews.
00:04:41.140 But if you're a covenant theological theologian
00:04:44.540 holding that position,
00:04:45.920 you get to go,
00:04:46.940 oh, that passage is talking about us,
00:04:49.500 the church.
00:04:50.060 this passage highlights that israel's election was never based on merit it was never based on
00:04:58.760 size or ethnicity it was based on god's sovereign love and his covenant faithfulness
00:05:06.140 so here's the catch here's the catch if we confuse covenant identity
00:05:13.320 with ethnic identity,
00:05:17.200 we will misread the entire arc of redemptive history. 0.66
00:05:21.780 If we confuse covenant identity
00:05:25.640 with ethnic identity,
00:05:28.500 we will confuse the arc of redemption. 0.84
00:05:32.800 God's covenant people are not grounded
00:05:35.560 in ancestry, but in faith in Christ.
00:05:40.080 Every person,
00:05:42.100 You know how Moses was saved?
00:05:44.240 By grace, through faith, in Christ.
00:05:48.020 You know Abraham was saved?
00:05:49.880 By grace, through faith, in Christ.
00:05:52.960 You know Joshua was saved?
00:05:54.940 By grace, through faith, in Christ.
00:05:58.460 It was the Christ to come.
00:06:00.820 We have faith in the Christ who came.
00:06:03.760 They were looking forward, we were looking backward.
00:06:05.900 Both require faith.
00:06:11.240 God's covenant people are not defined by birthright, but by rebirth.
00:06:18.880 The beneficiaries of the covenant promises are not physical, but spiritual.
00:06:26.580 Well, I'm going to say not merely physical.
00:06:30.220 Once that is clear, we can begin to see how Gentiles are covenantally included in Israel.
00:06:35.800 How are the Gentiles included in Israel? 0.59
00:06:38.800 Well, if it's not based on ancestry, but faith in Christ, that makes sense.
00:06:44.240 Well, if it's not based on birthright, but rebirth, that makes sense.
00:06:49.800 If it's not based in just the physical, but also the spiritual, that makes sense.
00:06:59.860 It's not through Jewish bloodlines, but through the blood of Christ. 0.90
00:07:03.960 not understanding this is exactly the error of the pharisees the pharisees didn't get this
00:07:14.440 they misunderstood that the promises given to the nation were only okay i'm going to say this again
00:07:21.560 because this is so important they misunderstood that the promises given to the nation
00:07:29.940 were only effectual for the remnant within Israel.
00:07:35.760 Okay, follow along with me.
00:07:37.560 To those who were the true children of Abraham,
00:07:41.040 who shared Abraham's faith, not merely his bloodline.
00:07:46.500 That is the mistake of the Pharisee.
00:07:49.080 And I'm going to totally back this up with a bunch of passages of Scripture right now.
00:07:53.420 The Pharisees confused physical descent with covenant descent.
00:07:59.940 Assuming that being Abraham's offspring by the flesh guaranteed them the beneficiaries of the covenant promises of God.
00:08:14.280 But Jesus corrects this misunderstanding several times, and I'm going to give you a couple passages.
00:08:21.060 Matthew 3, 9, Jesus says,
00:08:24.900 And do not presume to say to yourselves,
00:08:27.480 We have Abraham as our father.
00:08:29.940 For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children of Abraham.
00:08:37.420 What he's saying there is, do not presume that just because you're ethnically Jewish,
00:08:42.420 that the covenant promises apply to you.
00:08:47.540 How do we know that?
00:08:50.160 Well, Romans 4, why don't you turn there?
00:08:52.500 Romans 4, 13 through 17.
00:08:55.980 Turn there with me.
00:08:59.940 Romans 4, 13 through 17.
00:09:14.780 It says,
00:09:15.660 For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be the heir of the world
00:09:22.120 did not come through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
00:09:27.900 for if it is the adherence of the law
00:09:32.640 speaking of the Christ rejecting Jews
00:09:35.360 who are to be the heirs
00:09:38.760 faith is then nullified
00:09:40.740 and the promise is void
00:09:42.320 verse 15
00:09:43.760 for the law brings wrath
00:09:47.100 I'm going to skip to 16
00:09:49.100 that is why it depends on faith
00:09:52.120 in order that the promise may rest on grace
00:09:54.220 and be guaranteed to all his offspring. 0.99
00:10:00.100 Not only to the adherent of the law, which is the Jews,
00:10:03.740 but also, pay attention here,
00:10:06.880 to the one who shares the faith of Abraham. 0.98
00:10:10.660 Those are believing Gentiles.
00:10:12.760 Who is the father of us all, both Jew and Gentile.
00:10:17.460 As it is written, I have made you the father of many nations, 0.92
00:10:21.400 Not just, essentially what he's saying, not just one nation.
00:10:24.600 So Paul is telling us that God's covenant people are not made up of the physical descendants of Abraham,
00:10:35.340 but of the spiritual descendants of Abraham.
00:10:39.020 Does that make sense?
00:10:40.780 That's exactly what that passage is teaching.
00:10:43.520 Paul is telling that God's covenant people are not made up of the physical descendants of Abraham,
00:10:49.540 But the true Israel, the true beneficiaries of the promise, are the spiritual children of Abraham.
00:10:59.200 Therefore, God's covenant was never ultimately about a physical nation.
00:11:04.500 It was about a spiritual nation that began within a physical nation.
00:11:11.380 So important. So important.
00:11:15.900 We're going to read more scripture.
00:11:19.540 This is why Paul says in Romans 9, 6 through 8,
00:11:24.400 For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel.
00:11:31.100 And not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring.
00:11:38.780 He goes on to say, he says,
00:11:40.760 It is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God.
00:11:46.400 like there it is
00:11:48.980 right there
00:11:49.540 there's your text
00:11:50.300 it is not
00:11:51.880 the children of the flesh
00:11:53.040 who are the children of God 0.97
00:11:54.500 but the children
00:11:55.980 of the promise
00:11:57.240 those are the ones of faith
00:11:59.460 that we just read about
00:12:00.960 in Romans 4
00:12:01.500 are accounted as the offspring
00:12:03.320 again
00:12:05.180 not all who are descended
00:12:07.520 from Israel
00:12:07.940 belong to Israel
00:12:08.540 there is a group
00:12:09.080 inside of a group
00:12:09.720 that's what's being taught
00:12:12.680 there is a group
00:12:13.580 inside
00:12:15.960 of the group.
00:12:18.740 There is a remnant in the whole.
00:12:23.380 There is a pure group
00:12:26.760 within the larger group.
00:12:29.980 There are wheat and there are chaff.
00:12:37.720 In Galatians 3, 7-9, Paul literally says this.
00:12:43.360 Galatians 3, 7-9, he says,
00:12:45.280 Quote, know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham.
00:12:54.540 There it is.
00:12:57.860 It is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham.
00:13:02.460 He goes on in verse 8, he says,
00:13:03.940 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith,
00:13:08.880 preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying,
00:13:11.100 In you shall the nations be blessed.
00:13:15.280 Now why is this so important?
00:13:19.420 Because many Americans like Glenn Beck look to faithless ethnic Jews
00:13:26.720 and believe they are God's chosen people and heirs of the covenant.
00:13:32.520 It's exactly how a Pharisee would see it.
00:13:36.600 We are God's covenant people because we are born of Abraham.
00:13:41.940 No, sir.
00:13:45.280 Unless you have the faith of Abraham, you are not an heir of the covenant.
00:13:52.860 Now to be clear, the promises God made to the nation of Israel were real.
00:14:01.600 And they were binding.
00:14:03.960 But their substance was never limited to the physical or ethnic state.
00:14:09.080 It's not just like, it's only to them.
00:14:12.100 No, it's to the group inside of the group.
00:14:15.280 That is about to, through Christ, expand from national to international.
00:14:23.880 They were spiritual promises delivered within a physical and ethnic framework.
00:14:30.740 It started with national Israel.
00:14:37.020 But to think that it ends with national Israel is to miss the entire reality.
00:14:42.540 go therefore and make disciples of all nations
00:14:45.820 because I'm taking over the world
00:14:48.000 that's what Christ is doing
00:14:50.660 the nation of Israel was the cradle
00:14:55.300 but not the boundary