So what does the words say? Who is a Jew?

It's time for The Line of Fire with your host, activist, author, international speaker, and theologian, Dr. Michael Brown, your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution.

Michael Brown is the director of the Coalition of Conscience and President of Fire School of Ministry.

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Here again is Dr. Michael Brown.

Hey friends, this is Michael Brown. As you hear my voice, as you watch this broadcast, I am still

ministering in India. The day of ministry after this, then heading home. So thank you for your prayers,

for grace on the trip, and for grace on travel. And on today's broadcast, we're going to dig

deep into the scriptures together. It is thoroughly Jewish Thursday, so we're going to get in depth in the Bible, all right? This is not going to be one of these kind of jump and shout, inspirational wow shows. It's going to be opening up the scriptures, point for point for point, I want to take the time to dispel some

serious errors, some serious misunderstandings, quoting one verse here and one verse there without

looking at many, many, many, many, many other verses that would radically change our understanding of the one verse that's quoted

here or there. But in short, we want to examine this. In the Bible, who is a Jew? Is it right to say

that a Jewish person who is not born again and circumcised in heart and a follower of Yeshua,

that that person is not really a Jew in God's sight, and that a Gentile who is born again,

circumcised in heart, and a follower of Yeshua is a true Jew in God's sight, that the church

is the Israel of God, that Israel is not really Israel, it is only

the believers who are Israel. So the church that is Israel, what does the Bible say? All right?

Let's start in Romans chapter 2. Romans chapter 2 verses 28 and 29 say this. And I'll read, oh, let's say, I'll read

from the ESV for all the verses I cite. For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly,

nor is circumcision outward and physical. But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the

heart by the spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man, but from God. So people

use those verses, and they say, look, in context, Paul was combating Jewish pride there. He was

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