038. Is there any difference today in God’s sight between Jews and Gentiles?

Is there any difference today in God’s sight between Jews and Gentiles?

Most assuredly there is. In 1 Corinthians 10:32 the apostle Paul divides men into three classes—the Jews, the Gentiles, and the church of God. God has His plans today for the Jew, His plans for the Gentile, and His plans for the church. In the church there is neither Jew nor Gentile (Galatians 3:28). When one accepts Jesus Christ as his Savior, surrenders to Him as his Lord and Master, and openly confesses Him as such before the world, he becomes part of the body of Christ, that is, a part of the church. The relation of the Jewish Christian to Christ is precisely the same as that of the Gentile Christian. The promises that belong to one belong to the other; the Scriptures that belong to one belong to the other. But outside of the church there is Jew and Gentile, and God’s plans are not precisely the same for both. The present dispensation is preeminently a Gentile dispensation. The Jew for the time being has been set aside, but his day is coming (Romans 11:25-26; Romans 11:30-31; and many other passages). The method of dividing the Word that some have, applying some of the promises to Jewish Christians and others to Gentile Christians, is not warranted by the Word. What belongs to any Christian belongs to all Christians, both Jewish and Gentile.