Shalom, shalom beloved! Chag Pesach Sameach! Happy Passover to my Jewish friends and family and to all who believe in our Jewish Messiah. You don’t have to be Jewish to celebrate this beautiful feast. It is for all who calls on the name of the Lord because it’s in the Passover where our salvation was foreshadowed in Yeshua our Passover Lamb. This excites me because there was a time the Gentiles were not included in this. Only the stranger/Gentile (Exodus 12:44) that took part in circumcision was allowed to partake of the Passover. This too was part of the foreshadowing of the reconciliation and fellowship that was birthed through His body on the cross during Passover.
This is where we left off in my last post. We also read Jesus’ High Priestly prayer that included His Body operating as one. Yet we haven’t walked in the fullness of that. We discussed the first reason in part one of this message. If you missed part one, click here! Today, we’ll dive in a little deeper with the second reason. Let me preface this by saying first, what I’m going to share is not for the purpose of condemnation but for reconciliation. God wants us all reconciled to His truth, and to each other. Second, in this particular area we’re about to dive into, the enemy wants us unaware and in the dark so we don’t see or perceive correctly. He has made it a high priority to the kingdom of darkness to divide us so we don’t walk in who we are and the assignment that has been given to us. But he doesn’t have the last word on it, God does! With that said, I’d like to look at our passage from last week within its biblical context. In order to do that we need t!o go back towards the beginning of Jesus’ High Priestly prayer in John 17 beginning at verse 6-19;
“I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You. For I have given to them the words which You have given Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent Me. “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. 10 And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. 11 Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
20 “I do not pray for THESE alone, but also for THOSE who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.”
Now, let’s examine the context beginning in the first sentence where Jesus said, ” I have manifested Your Name to the MEN you have given me…” Who was He referring to? His disciples, correct? Now, I highlighted in red; they, those, etc. (might have missed a few) for the continued purpose of identification and context throughout His prayer. Now by the time you got to the end of verse 19, who do you think were the ones that were highlighted in red? Still His disciples? If that’s what you thought, you are correct. Now that we have established it was His disciples He prayed for, what was their ethnic identity? Were they Norwegian? Italian? Korean? (Nations/Gentiles) or Jewish?
You guessed it, they were Jewish! Now, moving on to verse 23, let’s establish the context/identity of who THESE and THOSE are. THESE are still His disciples, THOSE are the ones who will believe in Jesus through their word. Jesus did not say those are other Jews, although they can be. He left it open for anybody! That includes Gentiles. This was the plan from the get go! We see this plan in God’s promise to Abram in Genesis 12:3 and in Genesis 17 when God changed Abram’ identity by changing his name to Abraham, the Father of many nations. Hallelujah! Now, let’s look at another passage that shows the reconciliation through His body on the cross that made the two nations of people (Jews and Gentiles), one!
“For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself ONE NEW MAN from the two, thus making peace, 16 and that He might RECONCILE them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.” It was through His body that the wall of separation was abolished on the CROSS!!!! This is RECONCILIATION in its highest form! How precious the flow of Jesus that not only paid for our sins as the Passover Lamb, but reconciled us to the Father and culminated both Jew and Gentile into what Paul coined, the One New Man! So, what does this really mean for Gentile believers that have been grafted into the Jewish root (Romans 11:16-18)?
The Gentiles that were once without God, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the promises and covenants were made near by the blood of Yeshua. They became fellow citizens with the saints and the household of God. It was through the Blood and His Body on the cross, that we were reconciled both to God and each other (Ephesians 2:13, 16, 19).
HALLELUJAH!!! Two peoples/nations, Jewish and Gentile believers made one! One Family, One New Man! And this beautiful relationship between Jewish and Gentile believers that was birthed on the cross makes satan very afraid because he knows that our assignment will influence worldwide revival and usher in Yeshua’s return. He has gone to great lengths in deceiving the church since the 2nd century by seducing our church fathers to influence acts of anti-Semitism which included erroneous theologies and indoctrination that furthered his agenda. These included teachings and decrees that dehumanized and diminished Jewish identity within the church.
God wants us aware of our church history to awaken us, to reconcile us so that we can put a stop to rebuilding the wall that was abolished in His flesh and start walking in our assignment. He demands full reconciliation because of the Blood! Let’s help Him do that by walking in our corporate anointing that contains so much power, so much anointing, it will draw in the multitudes just like in the book of Acts. May His glory and the knowledge of Him permeate this earth, through us, His One New Man!
Within the next few posts, we’ll discuss the assignment of the ONM, some of the hindrances and erroneous theologies that have created the schism between the two since the 2nd century. As we become aware and implement, the enemy loses his hold and we are free to fulfill our calling together!
Until next time beloved, may the Lord bless and keep you and make His face shine upon you and give you complete Shalom! Chag Sameach, Happy Passover!
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In His Love,
Ellen (Brucha) Collins
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