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Just Who Are The Chosen People Of God?

For some fifteen hundred years, the children of Israel were blessed as being "God's chosen people." The Messiah was to descend through these people and set up His Kingdom for them, which He did, but they would not accept Him. Jesus told the Jews: "Therefore I say unto you, the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth fruit thereof." (Matt. 21:43)

Paul, writing to some of the Jews who had accepted Christ and were Christians, said: "For ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men" (I Thess. 2:14, 15). And Peter leveled this against the Jews: "But ye denied the Holy One and Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; and killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses" [Acts 3:14, 15).

So the Jews, in rejecting Christ, were "cut off" (Rom. 11:20). Through their fall, salvation came to the Gentiles (Rom. 11:11). Everyone today, Jew and Gentile, all who accepts Christ and are baptized into Him, becomes members of God's family, they are all ONE in Christ Jesus (Gal. 3: 26-29). Peter, saying to those who had heard the gospel, believed it, had repented of their sins, had confessed Christ as the Son of God, and then had been baptized into Christ, "…ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people…" (I Peter 2:9).

God's people are in His church, for He adds those who are saved to His CHURCH (Acts 2:47). The church being His family, the body of Christ. Therefore, "Christians are God's chosen people" today.