What is your attitude toward the Jewish people?

What is your attitude toward the Jewish People?

18do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. ¹⁹ You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” ²⁰ Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. ²¹ For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. Romans 11:18-21

What should our attitude be toward the Jewish people be in this present age?  Paul spends the entire chapter of Romans 11 discussing this subject.  He is writing to a Gentile audience.  In summary, the Jews are God’s anointed people who rejected Jesus as the Messiah; their blindness and hardness of heart made a pathway for gentiles to become God’s children…children of Israel.  There is still a path for Jews to be saved through grace and for Gentiles to be saved through grace.

The attitude of arrogance or haughtiness toward another reflects the lack of understanding of the grace that is offered.  Christians should never think that we are better than the Jewish people because we have received Jesus as our Savior and they did not.  Neither should we be afraid to share now that ALL come to the Father through Jesus Christ; both Jew and Gentile.

Knowing that all of foundation is in the root of Jesus Christ from the stump of Jesse, we have no room for arrogance.  Yet it is true that we owe our lives to him for loving us.  Paul says that we should tremble before God that He has chosen us.

What is going to happen in the end?  God said that He is God.  IF he spared not the Jews who were favored, he also could harden the gentile heart.  For He is God.  Personally, I believe that both Jew and Gentile come to the Father through Jesus Christ.  There will not be another separation of time in which a person comes to the Lord in faith.  The Holy Spirit is here now operating and opening hearts to the knowledge of God through our words of testimony.  We must tell as many as we can that God loves them and He has a plan to remove the wall of separation that we might become his children.  That plan is Jesus who died in our place for the penalty of sin so that we could have eternal life with him. If you think God is going to save the Jews in another way, it takes away the burden for seeing them saved now.  Pray for those ministries that are sharing the gospel among the Jews and the Arab nations to see many salvations. Some are dying today.

Father, break our hearts over those who are lost, both Jew and Gentile.  Let us look Jesus did over the crowd and was moved to compassion.  Father, help us to pray to the Lord of the Harvest to send workers into the ripe field.  Help us today to pray for boldness of the Holy Spirit to be witnesses.  Forgive us when we miss the opportunity. In Jesus Name, Amen.