A studious boy was studying for his final Year 12 exam, there is three more months before the exam. All his life as far as he remembered since Kindergarten, he has been studying hard; both school work and extra tutoring. One day, another boy in the same class, who likes to play and party most of his life, came and told him that he has the answers to the final exam. The studious boy cannot believe it, but he has also heard of other cases where people are selling fake answers to exams. So the studious boy asked how much does the answer cost. The party boy said it was completely free. He was given the answers at a party, by the long-haired, party-going son of the exam-writer. So the party boy was fully convinced the answers are real.
What should the studious boy do?
- Ask more proof for the answers?
- Enquire about the exam-writer's son?
- The answers cannot be true, so keep sutdying?
- Believe and accept the answers?
This story is designed to give an analogy of what the Chosen People (Israelites) may feel, and why it may not be easy to accept the Gospel straightaway. The free answers is the Gospel. The son of the exam-writer is Yshua, who has all the answers. The party going friend, who brought the news, is the Gentile who is willing to share this good news of the free answers, though he has not studied most of his life.
Romans 9
For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my [a]countrymen according to the flesh, 4 who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises; 5 of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen.
The analogy is not perfect, but it attempts to highlight the point that we Gentiles should not take too lightly on the difficulty that the Israelites have in believing in Y'shua Ha Massiach. There may be a cry of 'foul' or 'not fair' why they who worked so hard, prepared for so long, will in the end have access to the same benefits that those who had no idea about the subject (ie God and Salvation) at all.
What should the studious boy do?
- Ask more proof for the answers?
- Enquire about the exam-writer's son?
- The answers cannot be true, so keep sutdying?
- Believe and accept the answers?
This story is designed to give an analogy of what the Chosen People (Israelites) may feel, and why it may not be easy to accept the Gospel straightaway. The free answers is the Gospel. The son of the exam-writer is Yshua, who has all the answers. The party going friend, who brought the news, is the Gentile who is willing to share this good news of the free answers, though he has not studied most of his life.
Romans 9
For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my [a]countrymen according to the flesh, 4 who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises; 5 of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen.
The analogy is not perfect, but it attempts to highlight the point that we Gentiles should not take too lightly on the difficulty that the Israelites have in believing in Y'shua Ha Massiach. There may be a cry of 'foul' or 'not fair' why they who worked so hard, prepared for so long, will in the end have access to the same benefits that those who had no idea about the subject (ie God and Salvation) at all.
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