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What Jesus said about “the Gentiles”

I count five distinct times that Jesus mentioned the gentiles as he taught his disciples and others. When Jesus mentioned “the gentiles” he was essentially talking about humanity outside Gods covenant family.

Jesus said the following about “the gentiles”:

  1. They only love those who love them back, they do not love their enemies. (Matthew 5:47)
  2. They use meaningless repetition in their prayers thinking God will hear them by their much words. (Matthew 6:47) (notice how religious they often are)
  3. They eagerly seek for food and clothing and the things that money can buy. (money is their center)  (Matthew 6:32)
  4. They “lord it” over one another and their “great-men” exercise authority over them (notice all the hierarchy and authoritarianism). (Matthew 20:25 & Mark 10:42 & Luke 22:25)
  5. They were predicted to be used by God to execute judgment on Jesus himself, and on Jerusalem (in 70AD) (Matthew 10:18,  Matthew 20:19, Mark 10:33)

By these comparisons, Jesus contrasted “the gentiles” to his disciples and the kingdom that he was bringing to earth within himself.

It is vitally important to notice that these traits do not belong anywhere in the the ecclesia…the church. As Jesus is given his proper place among his people theses gentile traits will be pushed away from among God’s people entirely and eventually this will expand into all of creation.

Gentiles otherwise known as humanity outside of Jesus Christ has no real future. They were crucified with Jesus on the cross and are going away. There is a new humanity in the earth which is vitally connected with Jesus Christ.

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Daily Preparing The Way for Jesus

If we summarize the Matthew 5 beatitudes into a list, we can see the list as a preparation or a daily path for Jesus.
Blessed are:

•the poor in spirit

•those who mourn

•the gentle

•those who hunger & thirst for righteousness

•the merciful

•the pure in heart

•the peacemakers

•those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness

•are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me

The beatitudes are like an ongoing path to God, they are a detailed list of what “I die daily” looks like.

It is a daily preparation for the way of the Lord in our lives.

It’s what we need to do which enables Jesus to live through us. Lay your life down and it will look like the list, we will be able to do that list without a problem.

We come to faith by repenting and receiving Christ but for the rest of our lives we let Jesus live through us by daily dying, by letting go of self, by not dominating, by not being right and one upping others.

It’s an easy and light way of living.

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Announcement – merging my blogs

 

I like to write about two different topics, these topics are essentially Jesus Christ and human creativity,  I used to post and podcast about Jesus at theagestocome.com and creativity here at adamcollier.com.  Going forward this site will host all my blog posts on all topics.  The primary reason for this is that I see these topic merging in my writings.

All posts on the topic of Jesus Christ, church life, creativity, science and innovation will be published here and anything else I feel I need to write about.  This site will also be the host of the Ages To Come Podcast under the category of ATCPodcast, as a cost savings I let theagestocome.com go.

 

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