00:14:34.560Number two, they had God's law and the rest of the world didn't.
00:14:38.300And number three, they were circumcised where they had the mark of the old covenant.
00:14:42.860So they had a lot of redemptive hope in those things.
00:14:46.620It's why you see in scripture of saying, you know, you don't have to be born not of blood.
00:14:53.720In John chapter one, verses, I believe it's 10 through 12, he talks about you need to
00:14:59.560be born not of blood, not of the blood of Abraham.
00:15:02.840You need to be born of the spirit of God.
00:15:04.420We hear also the idea of, I can raise up children of Abraham from these stones.
00:15:14.160There's, again, this kind of onward trend throughout the New Testament of the Jews really finding hope in who they were as an ethnic individual country or nation rather than finding their identity in Christ the Messiah.0.92
00:15:30.020And so they rested in these external conditions, but didn't understand the need for an internal0.73