While doing some research last night for another thread "has the church replaced israel"https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&order=1&topic_id=2915&forum=35&post_id=&refresh=Goi came across a early Gentile church heresy that today is known as "Replacement Theology", which in essence believes that - Israel (the Jewish people and the land) has been replaced by the Christian Church in the purposes of God, or, more precisely, the Church is the historic continuation of Israel to the exclusion of the former - which if anyone truly understands blood covenant, which God has with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, this would be an impossibility ... But this is not the reason for this thread as much as WHY would these early gentile saints come to such a conclusion ... The Holy Spirit's answer to me was "self righteous judgmentalism", an error that God's Church, particularly the remnant, has to be on watch to not secumb to ...It's that hired early in the day laborer type of judgmentalism that says to the Master of the harvest, "What do you mean you're gonna pay the folk that You hire at the tail end of the day the same wage You paid me at it's beginning - Don't I deserve more"?It's that elder brother of the prodigal son type jugmentalism that deters us from sincerely joining in the joy and celebration of our heavenly Father's party for our newly restored sibling, who squandered his inheritance in a backslidden condition, while we stayed home and toed the line ... And we say to ourselves and God, "Why are you throwing him a party ... don't I deserve even more"?It's that Jonah type judgmentalism that excuses us from preaching God's message of repentance, grace and redemption to any whom we've judged as heathen, apostate and/or unworthy, particularly the unsaved worldly, and in some cases even today folk of Jewish descent ... At which point we say, "Lord, their actions prove they don't deserve anything, and I certainly don't deserve this job of having to go out and warn them".Christ Church is not here to judge the unsaved, or apostate Israel ... We're here to preach the gift of grace, and the consequence of the rejecting of that gift ... IN HIS LOVE ...Christ remnant in His Church is not here to judge the unsaved, apostate Israel, or the apostate Church ... We're here to preach the gift of grace, and the consequence of the rejecting of that gift ... IN HIS LOVE ... Even a prophetic calling, with a sobering message of impending chastisements for unrepentant sins, is not an open invitation for us to impose our own personal judgments on the unsaved, apostate Israel, or the apostate Church, but to understand that such a calling, and message, are in fact a clear indication that God, thru us, is still operating towards His rejectors ... IN HIS LOVE ... GOD IS LOVE ...So what do you think? ... Do others see/feel/hear/sense God's love via us?Or ...ARE WE CHRISTIANS TO JUDGMENTAL?
