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Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed' (Gal.
3:8).
`Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He
saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy
seed, which is Christ' (Gal. 3:16).
`For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
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'
(Gal. 3:27-29).
It is evident from the testimony of James, and of Paul, that the
inclusion of the Gentile in the blessings of the gospel and the
Abrahamic promise, was no mystery (secret) but the consistent
witness of Moses and the prophets.
Both these authorities are quoted in Romans 10 with regard to
the inclusion of the Gentile:
`... First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no
people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you. But Esaias is very bold,
and saith, I was found of them that sought Me not; I was made manifest
unto them that asked not after Me' (Rom. 10:19,20).
With reference to the gospel, the Jew and the Gentile stand
level. Both are sinners, and `there is no difference', either in the
matter of guilt or salvation (Rom. 3:22,23; 10:12). When we
come to dispensational privileges, however, we find, during the
early ministry of the apostle, that the Jew is `first'. In Romans
11 after showing that the believing Gentiles, equally with the
believing Jews, are Abraham's seed and heirs, the apostle writes: