OUR FATHER WHOSE WORD NEVER FAILS

In the book of Romans chapter 9 verse 6 - 9, the Apostle Paul makes clear that membership in the family of God by citizenship under the godly nation of Israel is not guaranteed by genetic descendancy from Abraham and he uses Abraham's son Ishmael's exclusion from the promise God made to Abraham and his offspring as an Illustration of this. 

6 It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. 7 Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” 8 In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring. 9 For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”

Amen.

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