Jesus as the True Vine Means He is the True Israel
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- Why would Jesus call himself a vine? And not just a vine but a true vine? How does this self-designation echo Jeremiah 2, and why does it mean that the Messiah is the true Israel? What Greek wordplay, unseeable in most English translations, is used to connect “pruning” with “cleansing”-a connection that takes us back to Jesus washing the disciples’ feet? Chad Bird covers all these questions in this week’s video on John 15:1-8, in the series “Reading the Gospels Through Hebrew Eyes.”
Thank you from Kerala, India.
Chad, thanks so much. I watch every week and really did miss you last week. You are an invaluable resource to my sermon prep. You are an excellent teacher. I appreciate your diligence in preparation.
Thank you, Allen! I’m glad to know they are helpful. I enjoy the weekly discipline. The Lord bless your proclamation.
This was so extremely helpful. Preaching on it tomorrow - thanks be to God! (And, of course, to Chad 😜 )
I am so thankful to be woven into the tree of life, just a little space for me and my family! Bessing everyone as we wait patiently for the Lord to come....
This is my first time listening to you, Very good, praise the Lord Jesus Christ Amen 🙏🏻
Thank you so much for your sound exegesis of the scriptures.
Jesus is the true vine, we are the branches ❤
Thank you -This is beautiful and needs to taught and understood much more.
Joh 1:49 Nathanael answered and said to Him, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!"
The most important genealogy in the Bible is found in Matthew 1:1, as confirmed by Paul in Galatians 3:8, and Galatians 3:16.
Christ is the seed of Abraham, and the seed of David.
Who is really teaching “Replacement Theology” ?
(Did God fulfill His promises to the Jewish people at Calvary? Matthew 26:28, John 19:30)
The advocates of modern Dispensational Theology often accuse others of promoting “Replacement Theology”, or some may even say “Antisemitism”. What does the Bible say about their accusations?
1. Who is replacing Christ as the seed of Abraham through which all the families of the Earth would be blessed in Genesis 12:3, with Abraham’s modern descendants? (See Galatians 3:8)
2. Who is replacing the one people of God in John 10:16, with two peoples of God ?
3. Who is replacing the one seed (Christ) in Galatians 3:16, with the many seeds?
4. Who is replacing the children of the promise in Romans 9:8, with the children of the flesh?
5. Who is replacing the faithful “remnant” of Israelites in Romans 11:1-5, with the Baal worshipers?
6. Who is replacing the word "so" in Romans 11:26, with the word "then"?
7. Who is attempting to replace the Church made up of all races of people, with one made up only of Gentiles? Why did Peter address the crowd as “all the house of Israel” in Acts 2:36, when about 3,000 Israelites accepted Christ on the Day of Pentecost?
8. Based on Hebrews 9:15, the New Covenant cannot be separated from the Messiah’s death. Is the covenant in Daniel 9:27 connected to the Messiah’s death in Daniel 9:26. Is the covenant with the “many” in Daniel 9:27 the same covenant with the “many” in Matthew 26:28? If it is, some have replaced the New Covenant in Daniel 9:27 with a future covenant made by an antichrist not found in Daniel chapter 9. (See the 1599 Geneva Bible used by the Pilgrims.)
9. Those promoting the Two Peoples of God doctrine of Dispensational Theology often accuse others of teaching “Replacement Theology”, but are they the masters of it? Are they promoting a form of Dual Covenant Theology based on race? (See “genealogies” in Titus 3:9) Is the most important genealogy in the Bible found in Matthew 1:1? Is God's Son the ultimate fulfillment of Israel? Why has the modern Church done a pitiful job of sharing the Gospel with modern Orthodox Jews? Why would someone tell them they are God's chosen people and then fail to share the Gospel with them? Who is the seed of the woman promised in Genesis 3:15? Who is the "son" in Psalm 2? Who is the "suffering servant" of Isaiah 53? Who would fulfill the New Covenant promised in Jeremiah 31:31-34? Who would fulfill the timeline of Daniel chapter 9 before the second temple was destroyed? Why have we not heard this simple Old Testament Gospel preached on Christian television in the United States on a regular basis?
10. Watch the CZcams video “Genesis of Dispensational Theology” to see the origin of this man-made doctrine, which is less than 200 years old. It was brought to the United States about the time of the Civil War by John Nelson Darby. The doctrine was later incorporated into the notes of the Scofield Reference Bible, and then spread through much of the modern Church.
Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas Texas was created in part to promote John Darby’s Two Peoples of God doctrine of Dispensational Theology.
Lewis Sperry Chafer, the first president of Dallas Theological, had the following to say about the difference between Israel and the Church:
“The dispensationalist believes that throughout the ages God is pursuing two distinct purposes: one related to the earth with earthly people and earthly objectives involved which is Judaism; while the other is related to heaven with heavenly people and heavenly objectives involved, which is Christianity.”
Lewis Sperry Chafer, Dispensationalism (Dallas, Seminary Press, 1936), p. 107.
Chafer states that, ‘Israel is an eternal nation, heir to an eternal land, with an eternal kingdom, on which David rules from an eternal throne,’ that is, on earth and distinct from the church who will be in heaven.”
Lewis Sperry Chafer. Systematic Theology. 1975. Vol. IV. pp. 315-323.
John Walvoord, another prominent voice of Dallas Theological stated…
"...it is an article of normative dispensational belief that the boundaries of the land promised to Abraham and his descendants from the Nile to the Euphrates will be literally instituted and that Jesus Christ will return to a literal and theocratic Jewish kingdom centred on a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem. In such a scheme the Church on earth is relegated to the status of a parenthesis.”
John F. Walvoord, The Rapture Question.1979, p. 25
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Are there two peoples of God in John 10:16? (See also 1 John 2:22-23, 2 John 1:7-11.)
What is the land promise to the Old Testament Saints in Hebrews 11:15-16?
Based on 2 Peter 3:10-13, is this earth “eternal”? Will it be replaced by a new earth?
Based on Acts 2:36, and Romans 9:6-8, and Romans 11:1-5, and Hebrews 12:22-24, and James 1:1-3, can faithful Israel and the Church be separated into two different groups?
Who is the New Covenant promised to in Jeremiah 31:31-34, and Hebrews 8:6-13?
Will modern Orthodox Jews ever be saved outside of the New Covenant Church?
Very well said!
A very powerful teaching.
What a wonderful message!
Gil's Music here: Very good--!
Great stuff! One request can you increase your volume output? I can’t get it loud enough to hear clearly in my air buds. Thanks!
Thanks, Shawn! I appreciate the feedback. Check out my more recent videos on this Playlist and I think the volume issue was resolved. If not, let me know!
@@chadbird1517 You got it, thank you!!
I really appreciated this video thank you. When you say from a Hebrew mindset, you mean from Isaiah Jeremiah etc, correct?
Hi Chad,
Can you kindly please explain and expand on John 15:2? I have done a bit of research and have read through some commentaries about this verse but I'm not completely sure about this statement if its translated properly in english and what is the implications of these verse about the followers/children of God
Thank you in advance
Amen, Yeshua Hamashiach is the true vine.
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This explains the Apostle Paul in Romans 11, where he compares believers from the nations being grafted into the tree/ vine called Israel. The church does not know its correct identity
what is the fruit? many say it is preaching the gospel and bringing people to become Christians? is that it or is there more?
The audio to this is very very weak..I can barely hear your presentation?
Isaiah 49 also tells us that Jesus, "The Servant," is true Israel. And HE will bring back "Jacob" (earthly/natural Israel) as well as the Gentiles, into His Church!
He will bring those who are of faith alone, not by ethnic descent..Romans 9:6-8
@@garethifan1034
I have been teaching this for years .
Yes, the prophecy is that Jesus will bring in a remnant of earthly national Israel. These are the “Remnant that I have kept”
These are the elect spoken of by Paul in Romans 11, the elect of earthly Israel who DID obtain what they sought after.
Jesus will also bring in the gentiles.
Both of these occurred. See Acts 1 and 10.
So...are we supposed to abide???? 😏
If you are a true believer you are abiding. It's not something that you do. The Father has placed you in the Beloved and there you abide.
If Jesus is the true Israel what is with ethnic Israel and the prophecy to to them?
Could you cite a specific Scripture?
They, like all the rest of the world, can only be saved through Christ. Whoever is in Christ is Israel. Christ is the Only Jew who kept the Law perfectly, and the rest - their circumcism was made uncircumcism because of sin, and only through Christ can they be saved. There is no Jew saved without Christ, all under sin, remember, He has concluded all under sin. That means all must come through Christ and Him Crucified in order to be called true Israel.
@@charleneriddle5995 Romans 4:16-25 to Romans 5:1-11 [NKJV]
16*Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be [d]sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all* 17(as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed-God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; 18who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.” 19And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. 20He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, 21and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. 22And therefore “it was accounted to him for righteousness.” 23*Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, 24but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, 25who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.* 1*Therefore, having been justified by faith, [a]we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.* 3And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces [b]perseverance; 4and perseverance, [c]character; and character, hope. 5Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. 6For when we were still without strength, [d]in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8*But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.*
All answered in Romans 9:6-8..
It was never about ethnicity itself, but the faith of Abraham who are true children of Israel. Many of the people in the modern nation state are composed of other nations, in addition to the original "blood line." The current nation state also rejects historical Israeli religion, and what you're seeing has more roots in the Kaballah occultic mystery religion. All who will be saved shall abide in Christ, who we look back towards and whom Abraham looked forward to in faith.
Hebrew eyes? God wants us to hear Paul's gospel now ---it was a MYSTERY not known before. The Lord Jesus Christ gave it to Paul as HIS chosen vessel. THAT is the gospel for this dispensation
Mid-Acts Dispensationalism is false, you have been deceived. The apostle Paul himself said that he preached the same gospel as the other apostles (because there is only one gospel), and also in Acts it is stated that he preached repentance and "the kingdom of God."
Postscript: Also in the same passage that mentions the "MYSTERY," the apostle Paul says that it was not revealed to him alone.
Balaam was not a Jew and would not speak against the Israelites yet he had the authority to speak as a prophet, today there are prophets who have had true theophanies and glorious revelations, who would never deny Israel's right in fact they would endorse Israel and the people in Israel as the *Children of God* Christians are envious of Jewish salvation, thinking that Jews have to convert to Christianity but they don't, Christianity came about because one enlightened man and the generation he grew up in knew they had to expand the ability of God to create *a superhighway for souls* that the Children of God would come to God in the arms of *KINGS who would be their foster fathers, and Queen's who would be their Nursing mothers* as recorded in Isaiah 49, which also records Israel as *You are my servant Israel in whom I shall be Glorified*
The new Testament states that Jesus Christ identified Elijah in John the Baptist and John the Baptist identified Israel redivivus in Jesus (the lamb of God) where he said _John answered them, “I baptize with water; but among you stands one whom you do not know, 27 _*_even he who comes after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.” 28_*_ This took place in Bethany_
John the Baptist therefore states that he recognised Jesus as Israel when he was present in Elijah, even though Israel lived 1200 years before him, as confirmed by Isaiah salvation of the Jews is *The preserved of Jacob are redeemed in Israel*
The Old Testament provides reincarnation as a mean of Redemption.
_Zechariah 13:9
And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will _
The New Testament also states that a person has opportunities to be reborn *but a time comes when they can no longer die anymore, but must become children of God* celestial beings and then be judged.
As Christians they must have the Jewish spiritual blood for transformation which Jesus Christ gives.
Luke 20:36
_36 for they cannot die any more, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection._
The following text of Luke (37) confirms the salvation which the Jews enjoyed from Moses.
The New Testament was written by dedicated Jews who were including the family if Abraham in the lineage of Jesus but they also revered King David as Jesus ancestry and the Christian Church has avoided any belief in reincarnation as a pathway to Resurrection and Ascension because to understand that subject in the light of Scripture brings the believer directly ti the knowledge that Jesus and (Jacob) are Israel.
Judgement for an Israelite and a Christian are the same they must stand before the Divine Word of God and hear his testimony of salvation which is Revelation, jesus does not take part in Judgement nor does Almighty God, because a person could not bear it.
*Jesus Christ does not Judge*
John 8:15
_You judge according to the flesh, I judge no one._
John 8:50
_Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it and he will be the judge._
John 12:47
_If any one hears my sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world._
John 5:221-23
_21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will. 22 _*_The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, 23 that all may honour the Son,_*_ even as they honour the Father. He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him._
It is a great honour to be judged and confirms that we have had multiple opportunities for rebirth but we are now at *the end of the world* in the presence of a personage of overwhelming purity a purity that confirms in us how far removed we are from Him who has to deal with us. Like Job He asks *who are you to stand before me* and *are you great? Only the great can pass me by*
This can happen in this life or after it.
After a length of time in which you are left with the wrath of God on you, you may be allowed to see God the Father but you see him in Jesus Christ You see the glory of God in Him, this is called the *Beatific Vision.* This can cause concern in the soul, because the Christian religion states that Jesus is the Judge this is not true, but he can *pray the spirit for us* the Son who is the Spirit of Truth and Divine Word manifests himself as a *Glittering great two edged Sword* this is not Jesus but Jesus Christ in the Beatific Vision is ALSO Israel.
Judgement is a non-trinitarian event