GENTILE(S)
(See HEATHEN, NATIONS)
God's provision for:
their spiritual opportunity
♦ to be blessed (especially through the Abrahamic Covenant and the New Covenant)
• Genesis 12:3; Psalms 22:27; 65:2, 5; Isaiah 42:6; Jeremiah 3:17; Daniel 7:13-14; Hosea 2:23; Joel 2:28-32; Amos 9:11-2; Haggai 2:7; Zechariah 2:10; Malachi 1:11; Matthew 28:19-20; John 10:16; 1 Timothy 3:16; Revelation 7:9-10
♦ to repent and believe
♦ to receive God's forbearance in times past
• Acts 14:16; 17:30
♦ to be called His people
♦ to have salvation available
♦ to have Him as their God also
♦ to glorify God for His mercy
• Romans 15:9, 11
♦ to share in spiritual things
their varied response
♦ trust in Christ
♦ reception of God's word
♦ salvation through faith
♦ conversion to Christianity
♦ consideration of preaching Christ's cross as foolishness
believing Gentiles:
♦ primary examples of:
• Genesis 14:18-20; 2 Kings 5:1-14; Job; Matthew 8:5-13; 15:22-28; Acts 10:1-11:18; 16:14-15, 27-34; Colossians 4:14
♦ relationship to the Jewish law:
♦ conduct expected of:
♦ sinful condition and conduct of
• Genesis 15:16; Psalms 14:1-4; Ecclesiastes 7:20; Jeremiah 10:2-3; Romans 1:18-32; 3:9-18; 1 Corinthians 12:2; Galatians 2:15; Ephesians 2:11-12; 4:17-19; I Thessalonians 4:5; 1 Peter 4:3-4
characteristics of:
♦ their greetings of fellow Gentiles:
♦ their repetitious prayers:
♦ their desire for physical things:
♦ their oppressive rule over others:
♦ their opposition to God's Son and God's plan:
relationships of Gentiles:
to Christ
♦ His initial ministry not to Gentiles
• Matthew 10:5 (cf. 15:24)
♦ Gentiles will hope in His name
♦ He will be delivered to the Gentiles
♦ He will be a light of revelation to the Gentiles
♦ He will rule over the Gentiles
♦ to the Spirit
♦ to Jews
• Matthew 15:26-27; Acts 10:1-11:18; 15:1-29; 17:17; 26:17, 23; Romans 1:16-3:9; 4:1-25; 9:1-11:32; Galatians 2:12-15 (cf. Galatians 3:28); Ephesians 3:6
to Paul
♦ focus of his ministry on the Gentiles
• Acts 9:15; 13:46; 17:22-34; 18:6; 22:21; 26:17; Romans 11:13; 15:16; Galatians 1:16; 2:8; Ephesians 3:1, 7-8; 1 Timothy 2:7
♦ persecution by the Gentiles
♦ success of his ministry to the Gentiles
other names for:
♦ "dogs":
♦ "uncircumcision":
♦ moral responsibility of
various other uses:
♦ law to the Gentiles:
♦ blasphemy of God among the Gentiles:
♦ fulness of the Gentiles:
♦ churches of the Gentiles:
♦ a sin nonexistent among Gentiles:
♦ Gentile sacrifices to demons:
♦ the divine mystery among the Gentiles:
♦ divine wrath upon the Gentiles:
♦ Christian behavior among the Gentiles:
♦ sinful desire of the Gentiles:
♦ refusing support from the Gentiles:
This topic is from the Lockman Foundation.