What is the Gospel? Is it just Jesus died for your sins and was resurrected on the third day? Have you ever wondered why He had to die?
Abraham was chosen by Yehovah (God) because he believed what Yehovah said and acted upon it. (Romans 4). His faith and willingness to act on it laid the foundation for what was to come next. Everyone who believed what Yehovah said, and acted upon it, was declared righteous by faith. This is why 1.John 3:7, James 2:14-26 says righteousness comes when we obey the law of Moses.
In the years that went by, the chosen people of Yehovah (the Jews) lost faith in what Yehovah had said. The result was that they stopped obeying His law and lost their righteousness. Yehovah tried several times to get them to repent and come back to Him, but in the end, He had no choice but to divorce Himself from them. (Jeremiah 3:8)
Yehovah divorced Himself from the Jewish people, but He promised He would regather them again in the future when they decided to turn back to His ways in obedience to the law of Moses. (Deut 30:1-5)
In Yehovahs own law it says that it is in an abomination for a husband to remarry a wife that has been unfaithful to him. (Numbers 5). But if they are both dead, that law has no hold on them anymore.
1.John 5:3, 5:18, Deut 30:4 tells us it is easy to obey the law of Moses. 1.John 3:7 says obedience to the law is the way to righteousness. So why then is it impossible for us to earn salvation? Is it not possible for us just to begin obeying again?
We can not earn salvation because of Numbers 5 that forbids Yehovah to take us back. We have all broken the law of Moses (Rom 3:10) at one time in our lives. And when that happened, Yehovah divorced us (Jeremiah 3:8)
The only way back to Yehovah is through faith in what happened at the cross. John 1, 8:58, Rom 10:9,13 all tell us that Yeshua (Jesus Christ) is Yehovah. He is the God of the Old and the New Testament.
When He died on the cross, the law of jealousy in Numbers five was fulfilled. So if we believe He died for our sins, our unfaithfulness will be atoned for, and we will be forgiven. But not only forgiven, by faith, but we will also die with Him on the cross. And when we die with Him on the cross, Romans 7 says we are released and freed from the law of jealousy in Numbers 5. If we are released from that law, Yehovah is free to take us back as His beloved chosen people. This is what happens when we believe He died for us, was buried and resurrected on the third day. Then we die with Him, and we rise again to a new life. The old life has passed away, and we are free to serve Him again in obedience to the His law, the law of Moses. (John 1:29, 3:16, 1.John 2:6, 3:7, 5:18)
He had to die so that we could come back into the covenant and marriage that was established between Abraham and Yehovah. Yehovah divorced us because we had broken the law of Moses.
If we accept the cross for our sins, we have no choice but to repent and start obeying the law again as an evidence of our faith in the cross.
That is how Abraham became righteous. He believed what Yehovah said and acted upon it. That is how we became righteous and saved, by believing and acting upon it. So if you believe Jesus died for your sins, you have to show your faith in obedience to the law of Moses which makes you righteous. (1. John 3:7)
I know most of you believe the law of Moses was done away with at the cross. You believe it was only for the Jews. But that is not what the Bible teaches.
And if you accept this, you might ask yourself where you fit into this if you do not have any Jewish ancestry or DNA.
Isaiah 56:3 says it has always been the desire of Yehovah for everyone on this earth to become His people. Romans 2:29 says a Jew is not a person born in Israel with Jewish DNA. A Jew is a person who obeys the law of Moses. Romans 3:10 says we have all broken the law, Numbers 5, John 3:16 says the only way to be forgiven is by faith in the cross of Yeshua (Jesus Christ) that proves itself in obedience to the law of Moses. (1.John 2:6, 3:7, 5:18)
So it does not matter if you have Jewish DNA or not. What matters is your faith and your willingness to obey your faith. That is why Romans 11 says those born in Israel with Jewish DNA have been broken off the tree. But if they choose to believe Yeshua died for them, they will be grafted back in.
This is the Gospel according to the Bible. That everyone gets to become a Jew if they believe Yeshua died for their sins, and they act on their belief by obeying the law of Moses.
