Household of God are Jews and Gentiles:
Any church denomination claiming to be the
remnant of Israel, the natural branches of all the tribes of Israel - God’s
chosen people (Jeremiah 31:1) must be reminded that God sent his only begotten
Son, Jesus to this earth for “a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of
thy people Israel” (Luke 2:32).
Let us never forget what Jesus communicated
with the Samaritan woman by the well, saying: “Ye worship ye know not what: we
know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews” (John 4:22-24).
Furthermore, the Apostle Paul said: “I say
then, hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of
the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the
scripture saith of Elias? How he maketh intercession to God against Israel,
saying, ‘Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and
I am left alone, and they seek my life.’ But what saith the answer of God unto
him? ‘I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee
to the image of Baal.’ Even so then at this present time also there is a
remnant according to the election of grace” (Romans 11:1-5).
“Boast not against the branches. But if thou
boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Thou wilt say then, ‘The
branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.’ Well, because of
unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded,
but fear: for if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also
spare not thee” (Romans 11:18-21).
Paul elaborated said: “The Gentiles should be
fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by
the gospel” (Ephesians 3:6)
Paul explained that the Gentiles should
be co-inheritors with the Jews, said:
“That at that time ye were without Christ,
being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants
of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. But now in Christ
Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For
he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall
of partition between us; [HAVING ABOLISHED IN HIS FLESH THE ENMITY, EVEN THE
LAW OF COMMANDMENTS CONTAINED IN ORDINANCES]; for to make in himself of twain
one new man, so making peace; and that he might reconcile both unto God in one
body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: and came and preached peace
to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through him we both
have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more
strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the
Household of God” (Ephesians 2:12–19).
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