Hear, O Israel:
The Lord our God is one Lord.
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thine heart.
Judaism is the faith and life of the Jewish people after the exile, gathered around the law, the temple, and then the synagogue. The Shema is its heart. Hear, O Israel. The Lord our God is one Lord. In the Gospels the Judaism of the day meets Jesus. The Pharisees, the Sadducees, the scribes, and the priests are its parties. He came to His own. His own received Him not. The promises are theirs. The Messiah is theirs. Judaism is not the enemy of the book. It is the people of the book, and the people to whom the book pointed.
- The faith of the Jewish people after the exile.
- Law, temple, synagogue, and the Shema.
- Jesus came to His own.
Hear, O Israel.
The Lord is one.
He came to His own.
- Judaism is the faith of the Jewish people.
- It is gathered around the law and the Shema.
- The parties of the Gospels are inside it.
- Jesus came to His own.
- The promises and the Messiah are theirs.
- It is the people of the book.
- The People – The Jews.
- The Heart – The Shema.
- The Places – Temple and synagogue.
- The Parties – Pharisees, Sadducees, scribes.
- The Coming – To His own.
- The Book – Theirs.
- Deuteronomy 6:4-5 – “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart.”
- John 1:11 – “He came unto his own, and his own received him not.”
- Matthew 5:17 – “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.”
- Romans 9:4-5 – “Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants… and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came.”
- Romans 11:1 – “Hath God cast away his people? God forbid.”
- Acts 13:46 – “It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you.”
- Luke 4:16 – “And he came to Nazareth… and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day.”
- Matthew 23:2-3 – “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat: all therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do.”
- Galatians 3:24 – “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ.”
- Hebrews 8:13 – “In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old.”
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
Hath God cast away his people? God forbid.
Judaism is the faith of the Jewish people. Jesus came to His own. The promises are theirs. God has not cast them away.
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