The Resurrection: 
 The Key to Understanding the Gospel (part 3 of 5)
ISRAEL OF GOD

Just as hieroglyphics were pictures with a meaning, in like manner, God used pictorial representation to explain what He intended. One of God's pictorial preliminaries was the nation of Israel.  As a physical people and nation, they represented the spiritual peoples who would receive the Resurrection-life of Jesus Christ; people who had striven with God, and surrendered to God, and
in whom God now rules (Gen. 32:28; 35:10). Thus, it is that Christians are now the "Israel of God" (Gal. 6:16), though not descended from physical Israel (Rom. 9:6). Christ rules as risen Lord in the lives of the holy nation (1 Peter 2:9) of Christian Israel; that is, all Christians who have received His Resurrection-life by faith and are living by faith. 
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Dr. Jim Fowler   
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CHRIST AT WORK IN YOU
By Dr. Jim Fowler
 
Many who call themselves "Christians" seem to be oblivious to and unconcerned about the fact that the character of their behavior is selfishly misrepresentation of Jesus Christ, and fails to manifest the "fruit of the Spirit."
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