by Hugh DeLong<\/p>\n
Really? All<\/strong>? Even those from the country of ……..? Yes. All<\/strong>.<\/p>\n This goes back to the very beginning – the mother of all living<\/strong>\u00a0and the promise that her seed<\/strong> would bruise the head of the serpent, the devil. What followed was a list of all her offspring – some good (Enoch, Noah) and many not! Then Abraham was chosen, and the promise was that through HIS offspring all nations would be blessed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n We then see the telling of this story dealing mainly with his offspring – through Isaac, Jacob, and thus the 12 tribes of Israel. Along the way, there are other<\/strong>\u00a0people that were mentioned that were not <\/b>these ‘chosen’ descendants, but they are usually the enemies of God’s people. Yet, the promise looked forward to all nations<\/strong> being blessed through an offspring – and the New Testament reveals that the promised offspring is Jesus<\/strong>. Yet the promise of ‘all nations’ was not forgotten; it was repeated many times in the Old Testament.<\/p>\n Jesus came and primarily dealt with the Jewish offspring from Abraham.\u00a0Now<\/strong>, after his crucifixion and resurrection, He\u00a0again mentions that the good news of God’s promise is for all nations\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0– Jews and\u00a0all the Gentiles<\/strong> (non-Jewish) people! Many Jewish people objected, but that was Jesus’ commission. With the salvation of Cornelius and his family, Peter learned that now through Jesus … “that God is not one to show partiality, but in every nation the man who fears Him and does what is right is welcome to Him. The word which He sent to the sons of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ (He is Lord of all)<\/em>” (Acts 10:34-36).<\/p>\n Our<\/strong> prejudices and national allegiances make accepting\u00a0others<\/strong> difficult.\u00a0But, difficult or not, we are to accept all of those whom Jesus accepts! I am to learn to love them as brethren. I am to care for them. Do not <\/b>reject those whom Jesus accepts.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Hugh DeLong Really? All? Even those from the country of ……..? Yes. All. This goes back to the very beginning – the mother of all living\u00a0and the promise that her seed would bruise the head of the serpent, the devil. What followed was a list of all her offspring – some good (Enoch, Noah)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[536,451],"class_list":["post-97502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-preaching","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":93677,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/the-mystery-of-christ\/","url_meta":{"origin":97502,"position":0},"title":"The Mystery of Christ","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 4, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"by Hugh DeLong Text: Ephesians 3 The mystery of Christ, as mentioned in Ephesians, is that \"to be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel\" (Ephesians 3:6). 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