What is a Jew according to the New Testament? 10 Qs with Mike Winger (Ep 71)

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Mike Winger

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Question Time Stamps for Quick Reference:0:00 - Intro1. 0:07 {The Meaning of “Jew”} When the New Testament uses the word “Jew,” who is it referring to?2. 23:41 {Serving When We Don’t Want To} I know I’m supposed to serve, but to be honest, I’m always tired and would rather go home and relax after church. I’m ashamed of that, considering all Jesus did for me, but it's true. Lately I challenged myself to just obey with a good attitude when asked, but even then, I feel so guilty knowing I didn’t want to.3. 27:17 {Celebrating Black History in Church?} Is it appropriate for a church to dedicate a service in celebration of Black History Month? If not, in what ways could it be a cause for concern?4. 30:21 {Believes in Purgatory – Still Saved?} Can a person who trusts Christ for her eventual salvation but thinks she might have to go to purgatory first be saved?5. 37:09 {Bad Tree Bearing Good Fruit?} In Philippians 1:15-18, Paul rejoices when Christ is preached from strife and selfish ambition. How is that not a bad tree bearing good fruit (Matthew 7:18)?6. 44:22 {The Divine Seed Doctrine?} Have you heard of the “Divine Seed” Doctrine that states that Christ was born solely of the seed of God and not from the egg of Mary and that His flesh was a kind of divine flesh?7. 49:01 {About Jesus or About Israel?} As someone who engages with Hebrew Roots folks often, how can Matthew interpret “Out of Egypt I called my son” to mean Jesus, when the Old Testament passage is clearly about Israel?8. 51:52 {Building Materials: Works or Teachings?} I've heard it taught that the building materials in 1 Corinthians 3:10-15 are a person's works, but reading the verses beforehand makes me think it's referring to teaching in the church. Thoughts?9. 55:27 {Can a Christian Attend a Catholic Mass?} My husband’s family is Catholic, and we are traveling to see them for Easter. They want us to go to mass with them, but I feel uneasy about it now that I am an active Protestant believer. Should we go?10. 59:08 {Lectio Divina & Spiritual Formation?} What are your thoughts on the Spiritual Formation movement including practices like Lectio Divina in non-denominational churches? How Matthew uses the word "fulfilled": Click Here Is it biblical to be “woke”?: Click Here Brandon Biggs is a dangerous (and now rich) false prophet. Click Here for my video on him. How believers get judged (it’s not purgatory): Click Here My full “Jesus in the Old Testament” series (27 videos): Click Here https://BibleThinker.org

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0:00.0	What is a Jew? According to the New Testament in particular, I'll talk about the Old Testament briefly,
0:07.0	but what is a Jew according to the New Testament? That's the focus. I know that this enters into a bunch of hot-headed stuff that people are engaging in today.
0:18.0	I'm not actually really trying to weigh in on all that stuff. I really want to answer the question in the New Testament. How is the term used? And I think it's interesting. It's fascinating. It's theologically deep. And we're going to spend a little bit of time on it. And then I'll go to your guys' questions from the live chat. My name's Mike Winger. I am here to hopefully, God willing, with God's help, help you learn how to think
0:38.1	biblically about everything so that you're truly able to process what Scripture says about,
0:43.8	not only theology, but about your life situations, the feelings you're going through, the temptations
0:48.3	you're facing, the sorrow and trauma of your past, like all of the stuff, because Scripture
0:53.3	is an aid in all of those things to
0:56.6	us it is god's inspired absolutely inspired god-breathed gift to us so let's dig in first i want to
1:07.5	show you the old testament okay i know that there's a lot of people who are immediately thinking, I know the answer
1:11.4	this question, Mike.
1:12.6	Jew comes from Judah.
1:14.0	Judah was the tribe of Israel.
1:15.9	And so when you say Jew, you're referring to someone who's of the tribe of Judah, of the
1:21.3	descendants of Israel.
1:23.0	And so that's how it's understood.
1:25.0	That's how often people today will say that's what Jew means.
1:29.0	Actually, even before the New Testament, by the end of the Old Testament, it was not being used
1:34.8	that way. It was, or not exclusively that way. It was also being used to refer to anybody who was
1:40.9	a descendant of Abraham. Let's see, you know, like of the promise, you might say, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, right?
1:47.5	So let me go to Jeremiah 349 and show you this verse.
1:57.4	It says here that, I'm going to all the context here, but it says everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves.
2:06.4	Now, the word Hebrew here is referring to any descendant of Abraham along that line, right?
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