Les Feldick Bible Study

Which prison epistles have no dividing between Jew and Gentile?

The prison epistles Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians contain no dividing line between Jew and Gentile. In these letters, God deals with the whole human race on one level, and every saved person enters the Body of Christ equally, whether Jew or Gentile. The old demarcation has ceased for the Church Age.

Les explains that when we get into the prison epistles and higher or deeper church truths, we are no longer concerned with the demarcation between Jew and Gentile, because God is now dealing with the whole human race on one level. Every person who is saved comes into the Body of Christ on the same level, whether Jew or Gentile, and the Jew has lost his identity so far as the Church Age is concerned. This is in God's purposes: the bringing together of Jew and Gentile into one Body, with no difference. Les notes that many Messianic Jews are turning away from this Pauline teaching, but a Jew must be saved today as a sinner, as a fallen son of Adam, just like Gentiles. In the prison epistles of Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians, there is no dividing between Jew and Gentile, and no reference to the Old Testament, all for a purpose.