Her New Neighborhood - Part B

Last week we learned about Abraham fathering Isaac, the ‘promised son’. Isaac had Esau and Jacob, later God renaming Jacob Israel. Israel had 12 sons. We listed those sons according to their Mothers and surrogate Mothers.


This week we are going onward to learn how these families became related to us today as Christians. We will learn how we not only became the family of God, but the people of God, related to the Jews in the bible.

God told Abraham He would make him a great nation, that there would be many numbered in his family from then on.

Turn to Matthew 1:17; “So are the generations from Abraham to David are 14 generations;” Here we see King David, ruler over the ISRAEL-ites, is related to Abraham, meaning all the people born between them are Abrahams’ legacy, his family.

Turn to 2 Samuel 7:12. Here God is promising David something; “and when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his Kingdom.” And verse 16 “And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established forever before thee: thy throne shall be established forever.”



God promised David his throne would be established forever, meaning one of his sons would sit on his throne forever. Forever is a long time, isn’t it? How can a human have rule forever when there is eternity to consider?



Turn back to Matthew 1:17 “and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are 14 generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are 14 generations.”



So here we see David is related to Jesus. In Psalm 110:1&4 David fortold these words; verse 1“The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. Verse 4 “The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.” Melchizadek and Jesus were both of the Tribe [or son] of Levi, Leah being his Mother. The Tribe of Levi God set aside as the priests for the Tabernacle we are studying on Wednesday nights with Bro. Doug. When he speaks of the priests, Bro. Doug is talking about Levi’s family. God was saying there would always be a priest on the throne of David forever, eternity.

In Matthew 22:41-46 Jesus repeated those words of David to the priests, trying to explain He is Christ; “While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying, What think ye of Christ? Whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in the spirit call him Lord, saying The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord’ how is he his son?”

The Jews, which were the Pharisees, a branch of the priests [Tribe of Levi] knew they were promised the Messiah to deliver them. He was called Christ which means “anointed One”. So Jesus was saying ‘here I am. I am of the family of King David, which is of the family of Abraham. I am the anointed One’, but very few believed on Him as the Messiah.

Yet, we believe on Him as the Messiah, the anointed One, the Savior of this world and that made us ‘born’ into the family of God. Accepting Jesus as OUR Savior births us into God’s family.

Turn to Romans 8:17 “And IF children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.”

Here God is telling us IF we accept Christ as our Savior, we become an heir, a child of His. Everything Jesus has, we have, because the bible clearly states we are joint-heirs with Christ. Christ has righteousness [right standing with God], we have righteousness [right standing with God] because of Him, we are joint-heirs!

But this is not all we have. Because we are joint-heirs with Jesus, all Jesus had on this earth, we share as His sisters. So, Abraham was Jesus’ great-great-great [multiple times] Grandfather, Abraham is ours too. So, we are daughters of Abraham because we accepted Jesus and became His sister, we related to him. Everyone that has EVER accepted Jesus as their Savior became a son or daughter of Abraham. This is how God brought about the promise to Abraham of becoming a great nation.

So, anytime we read about the children of Israel, the bible is talking about us! This is spiritually how we are the Israelites. We are the chosen people of God. We are God’s people. God promised King David one of his sons would rule on the throne forever. Through Jesus this has become true. Forever, eternity, Jesus rules as King!