I Will Not Stay Silent - Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem

Kids in Ministry International
Day of Prayer for Israel
God's Chosen People
A Biblical Perspective
There are at least five biblical reasons
God has chosen the Jewish people as His special
people. Let’s see if we can learn why they are so
important to God because if they are important to
God then they need to be important to us!
#1. They are the historic chosen people of
God starting with Abraham, the father of faith.
“You only have I chosen among all the families of
the earth,” (Amos 3:2). He invested a lot of time
and energy into finding people who would believe
and trust in Him as their one and only true God.
All the rest of humanity worshiped multiple gods
continuously.
#2. They are guardians of God’s special
revelation, the Old Testament Law as well as the
keepers of the Promises as given through Moses.
The Jews were the only people in the world who
had written down their religious beliefs in a book.
In fact, they were known, and sometimes ridiculed
by the Gentiles, as the “people of the Book.”
“[They] are Israelites to whom belong. . . the
covenants and the giving of the Law. . . and the
promises,” (Romans 9:4).
#3. The Jews are special because the Messiah
himself (Jesus) Who was a Jew came first to
the Jews. “They are the descendants of our great
ancestors, and they are the earthly family into
which Christ was born, who is God over all (Romans
9:5).”
#4. The Bible compares the Jewish people
to an olive tree, and tells us that everyone who
comes into salvation are branches from other
trees that are grafted in to the main root (Romans
11:17-24).
#5. Whenever the disciples and followers
of Christ went into a new city or nation to tell
others about Jesus, they were to preach salvation
to the Jewish people first. Whenever the Apostle
Paul went on a missionary journey he preached
first to the Jews, then Gentiles. It was because the
whole gospel message had come down through
their own Jewish history and they were to have the
first chance to receive the good news about Jesus.
(Have a student read Romans 1:16.) “The gospel
is the power of God unto salvation to everyone
who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.”
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