We must reach all who are heading for hell for not accepting Jesus before it is too late.
We must have the same urgency to reach them as Paul did. He stated that if he could he would give up his own salvation for his people, those who are lost (see Romans 9:3 further below).
Paul told us to not get caught up in endless genealogies for a reason (1 Timothy 1:4). With the watering down of genetic lines these days through much interracial mixing who is a Jew today if the blood of Abraham is to be the defining factor?
Paul also said that "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. Galatians 3:28-29
In other words Paul gave us the guidelines as to what is required today to be called the seed of Abraham. I am well familiar with Romans 11 and this keeps in line with the rest of Paul's letters when you take it in the proper context.
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. Romans 9:3-8
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