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· Despite our faults, He still loves us · 4 reasons why antisemitism is anti-Christian - part 1 · Wondering away from God
Charisma New – May 31, 2026 -- For many of us who love the Word of God, one of our favorite Biblical characters is the King of Israel, David. One of the reasons that many of us are drawn to him is because we can relate to his vulnerability. He is a human being — just like us. He had both strengths and weaknesses.
There were some real challenges in David’s life that make us realize he is imperfect. For example the sins that David committed with Bathsheba, even putting her husband in the front lines on the battlefield to be killed in order to take his wife. He fell at times in his walk with the LORD, just like we sometimes do — but we also see Dovid HaMelech’s (David the King’s) greatness.
I really think that seeing David’s faults and yet his divine role, gives us all confidence and hope. We, including David himself, all fall short. If we were perfect, there would not have been a need for Jesus to give His life for us. The truth is – Father gave His Son while we were still sinners.
“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
One of the things that David said to the LORD that really impacts me and deeply touches my heart is: “Your gentleness makes me great” (Psalm 18:35).
I know this resonates with some of you as well.
David knew it was not his own righteousness that made him great. He realized his value, significance, identity, and victory came from the LORD’s love, mercy, and gentleness upon him. He knew that he was a simple boy in a field tending sheep when God dramatically changed his life. Beloved, like David, no matter what we were before we met Jesus, we are now royalty.
“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light” (1Peter 2:9).
And consider this tender reality, even when David fell, Father God never forsook him. But as any loving Father would, He did discipline and correct him at times. David ended up suffering for his sin, but God’s lovingkindness towards him was constant. Remember, Father only brings discipline because He is a good Father and loves each one of us.
“For whom the LORD loves He disciplines, and He punishes every son whom He accepts” (Hebrews 12:6).
Beloved One. it was God’s gentleness, compassion, and lovingkindness upon David that made him and caused him to become so special. David, through the good, bad, and ugly times of life, knew who his source was for guidance, strength, and protection. And get this, David was aware of God’s favor upon him and in response to it said this:
“I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth” (Psalm 34:1).
Notice the word LORD in the above verse is in all caps. Whenever we see LORD (in all capital letters) in the Tanakh (Old Testament), the English translators are substituting it in place of the original Hebrew letters: Yud Hei Vav Hei, which is God’s personal name, Yahweh.
You should note that, traditional Jews will not say Yahweh, because they believe it is so Holy, it should not be spoken. However, God’s personal name Yahweh is used approximately 7,000 times in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament).
For example, in the book of Exodus, called in Hebrew Shemot, God said to Moses:
“I am the LORD (Yahweh); and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name, LORD (Yahweh), I did not make Myself known to them” (Exodus 6: 2, 3).
Moses, David, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Hosea, Joel, and the other Old Testament writers all use God’s personal name. For example, in Psalm 34:1 when David was calling upon Yahweh (LORD) using His personal name. He does not just address God with an impersonal LORD, but he actually calls God by His name. “I will bless Yahweh.” Yahweh is a person.
And let us consider that he did not say, “I will bless Yahweh when I feel like it.” No, David said, “I will bless Yahweh at all times” and “His praise shall continually be in my mouth.” It is a choice. It is a matter of the will.
Beloved friends, In the same way, we must make a daily decision to bless and praise the LORD, not only or because we feel like it, but because it is the right thing to do—He is God! Our destiny is to be united with Him. We have to transcend living by our feelings and become solid by practicing praising Him in the mountains and in the valleys. Let’s be like David and bless the LORD continually! Let’s exalt and honor Him by praising Him in all seasons and circumstances just like David.
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4 REASONS WHY ANTISEMITISM IS ANTI-CHRISTIAN - Part 1 of 2
The Christian Post May 31, 2026 -- A disturbing exception to our culture’s insistence on universal toleration is the hatred reserved for ethnic Jews. The October 7 attack by terror groups against the nation of Israel provoked a worldwide outpouring, not of support, but of bitter hatred.
This conflagration has leapt swiftly across inter-party windbreaks. The symptoms now affect not only the hardened Left, where antisemitism has long lurked, but even an increasing proportion of American conservatism, especially among younger generations. Most shockingly of all, antisemitic ideas are now even infiltrating the Church. But antisemitic ideas are not biblical. In fact, antisemitism is anti-Christian to the extent that it denies God’s purposes working in history and excepts the Jewish people from the Christian duty to love all people and bring the Gospel to all nations. (Before the skeptical
reader dismisses these claims as an overstatement of the dispensational position, I should clarify that I am not dispensationalist.)
Below are four reasons why antisemitism is anti-Christian, largely based on Paul’s extended discussion on the fate of the Jewish people in Romans 9-11.
1. God chose to work through Israel in history
As every Bible reader is aware, the revelation of God’s plan largely focuses on the Jewish people, specifically the ancient nation of Israel. Although mostly insignificant to human eyes, the storyline of Scripture almost exclusively focuses on this one people from Genesis 12 until at least Acts 10.
Why? What was special about Israel that deserved so much attention? Nothing, according to their own Scriptures, except that God had chosen them. “It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples,” Moses told the nation on the verge of the conquest, “but it is because the Lord loves you” (Deuteronomy 7:7).
Did Israel have anything that recommended them to God’s love? Nothing again, according to their own Scriptures. Abraham was a pagan idolater living “beyond the Euphrates” when God first called him (Joshua 24:2). Jacob was “a wandering Aramean” whose descendants were enslaved (Deuteronomy 26:5-6). Israel’s subsequent history is a sad cycle of rebellion, stubbornness, and unfaithfulness to their covenant Lord.
No, nothing but God’s own sovereign purpose made Him set His love on Israel. God established, bore with, and preserved Israel simply because of His own free promises that He made to them. If anything, God chose Israel merely to set for Himself the most difficult challenges.
And this is one reason why Christians should reject antisemitic hatred of the Jewish people. God chose to set His love on them to magnify His own glorious name, and people who claim to love God should also seek what glorifies His name. “As regards the Gospel, they [unbelieving Jews] are enemies for your [Gentiles’] sake,” Paul allowed. “But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable” (Romans 11:28-29).
The moment that God’s gifts and calling can be revoked is the moment Christians should become antisemitic.
Some readers may object that God has not equally loved every physical descendant of Abraham. They might appeal to Romans 9, “not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel … but ‘Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.’ This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring” (Romans 9:6-8).
Now that God’s new covenant promises have come to the Gentiles, the argument goes, the promises to Israel are not for ethnic Israel as such, but they are expanded to God’s chosen people under the new covenant, composed of both Jews and Gentiles.
There is plenty of biblical warrant for this argument; it is not antisemitic because it places Jews on the same footing as everyone else — all must be saved through faith in Christ. At the same time, Paul also seems to retain a special category for Jews, in the same section of his letter, based on the principle that “the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.” To faithfully hold to the whole counsel of God, we must affirm both that the Church is an expansion of “the Israel of God” (Galatians 6:16) and that God has specially chosen the people of Israel.
2. God preserved a remnant of Israel
This leads to a second reason why antisemitism is anti-Christian: God has preserved a Jewish remnant, granting them faith in Jesus Christ for salvation.
After lamenting the unbelief of the majority of Jews in Romans 9-10, Paul adds, “I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew” (Romans 11:1-2).
In these verses, Paul emphatically rejects the idea that God had rejected the Jewish people as a whole. In fact, he presents himself as an example of an ethnic Jew who believed in Jesus Christ for salvation. The descriptors he piles on — “an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin” — leave no doubt that Paul is of ethnic Israel here. Especially the reference to the tribe of Benjamin rules out any possible analogy to Gentile Christians.
Paul continues to explain that “at the present time there is a remnant” of Israel, “chosen by grace” (Romans 11:5). Only this chosen remnant of Israel obtained the fulfillment of the Old Testament promises of a Messiah, while “the rest were hardened” (Romans 11:7).
Paul argues that the idea of a remnant was no innovation on his part. For an Old Testament type, he reaches back to ancient Israel, when God tells Elijah he will preserve 7,000 Israelites who did not worship Baal (Romans 11:2-4; 1 Kings 19:10, 18).
Throughout Israel’s history, God had preserved a faithful few, even when it looked like the nation as a whole had rejected him. Likewise, today, even though many ethnic Jews reject Jesus as their Messiah, a remnant believes. If a remnant of Jews becomes Christian, why would Christians despise God’s people as a whole?
Furthermore, Paul argues that even unbelieving Jews play a crucial role for Gentile Christians. “So, I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather, through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles,” he asserts (Romans 11:11).
Historically speaking, Paul lived out this very principle in Pisidian Antioch during his first missionary journey:
“When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, reviling him. And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, ‘It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles. For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, “I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.”’ And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed” (Acts 13:45-48).
Although unbelieving Jews are no friends of Jesus, Gentile Christians should be grateful to God that their unbelief paved the way for Gentile inclusion. They fall into the same category as trials and persecutions — what seems negative but is really for our spiritual benefit.
WANDERING AWAY FROM GOD
Luke 15:1-7
It would be wonderful if after salvation, our lives progressed in a straight line of uninterrupted obedience to our heavenly Father. But that is never the case, because we all stray now and then. Jesus told a story about a shepherd who went in search of a lost sheep. While this parable is about the salvation of a wayward soul, the lessons in the story can also be applied to those of us who belong to Christ. Even though we are held securely in the Father’s hand and will never lose our salvation, we can drift in our obedience to Him (John 10:28-29). But why would believers wander away from the God who loves them? If a sheep takes its eyes off the shepherd, it can easily meander toward a more appealing patch of grass and end up far afield. In the same way, we might see a path that seems to lead to better opportunities. But as we follow it, we grow further from the Lord. We may not notice the distance between us and our Savior until we find ourselves in trouble. Other Christians willfully choose to pursue their own objectives. They know their choice is wrong, but they rationalize the decision or blame someone else for misleading them. Regardless of how we end up outside God’s will, we are responsible for the action that put us there. Though another opportunity may look good, the only place believers will find true contentment is in a trusting, obedient relationship with Jesus Christ. Therefore, we must keep our eyes on Jesus and guard against pursuing anything except His will. In Touch Ministry
It would be wonderful if after salvation, our lives progressed in a straight line of uninterrupted obedience to our heavenly Father. But that is never the case, because we all stray now and then. Jesus told a story about a shepherd who went in search of a lost sheep. While this parable is about the salvation of a wayward soul, the lessons in the story can also be applied to those of us who belong to Christ. Even though we are held securely in the Father’s hand and will never lose our salvation, we can drift in our obedience to Him (John 10:28-29). But why would believers wander away from the God who loves them? If a sheep takes its eyes off the shepherd, it can easily meander toward a more appealing patch of grass and end up far afield. In the same way, we might see a path that seems to lead to better opportunities. But as we follow it, we grow further from the Lord. We may not notice the distance between us and our Savior until we find ourselves in trouble. Other Christians willfully choose to pursue their own objectives. They know their choice is wrong, but they rationalize the decision or blame someone else for misleading them. Regardless of how we end up outside God’s will, we are responsible for the action that put us there. Though another opportunity may look good, the only place believers will find true contentment is in a trusting, obedient relationship with Jesus Christ. Therefore, we must keep our eyes on Jesus and guard against pursuing anything except His will. In Touch Ministry