He so Loved the World
Apr 29, 2025 by Addison Crissone
A couple of weeks ago, I was asked by a family member why Jews were so 'special'.
I tried my best to answer, but it ultimately failed to convey what I had truly wanted to say. So I thought about it for a while.
Why are the Jewish people different than Gentiles? Why were they chosen out of all the earth to be God's special possession?
And does God love the Jews more than any other race on earth?
So, I sat down and went to the scriptures. I began to type up some thoughts.
And this was my best attempt at answering.
When Adam and Eve sinned in the garden of Eden, God saw that his creation could no longer rightfully continue in perfect union with Him. So, because God so loved the world, He began to orchestrate a rescue plan for His sinful creation- a plan that would need a nation worthy to be a surrogate of God's grace.
He began looking for the faithful few (such as Noah, Abraham, Moses, etc) in his created world- and he came to the Jewish nation.
This nation was not perfect, mind you. They were still flawed and complicated. But they were faithful.
About a thousand years later, Jesus was born through the Jewish people. And when He began his ministry thirty years later, He preached the gospel of Grace and repentance to the Jews first. But when they began to reject His witness out of disbelief, he preached to the Gentiles also. This is why the Bible says, "For salvation comes from the Jews" (John 4:22).
This does not mean that salvation is for the Jews alone, but that the Salvation of the world has come from the Jewish people in the person of Jesus Christ.
When Jesus died on the cross, he fulfilled God's original rescue plan by dying for all humanity, Jews and Gentiles alike. There is no true difference between Jew and Gentle, but only between those who believe and those who do not.
God does not love the Jewish people more than any other people group. Rather, he simply chose them to be his special possession as we read in Deuteronomy 7:6-9-
I tried my best to answer, but it ultimately failed to convey what I had truly wanted to say. So I thought about it for a while.
Why are the Jewish people different than Gentiles? Why were they chosen out of all the earth to be God's special possession?
And does God love the Jews more than any other race on earth?
So, I sat down and went to the scriptures. I began to type up some thoughts.
And this was my best attempt at answering.
When Adam and Eve sinned in the garden of Eden, God saw that his creation could no longer rightfully continue in perfect union with Him. So, because God so loved the world, He began to orchestrate a rescue plan for His sinful creation- a plan that would need a nation worthy to be a surrogate of God's grace.
He began looking for the faithful few (such as Noah, Abraham, Moses, etc) in his created world- and he came to the Jewish nation.
This nation was not perfect, mind you. They were still flawed and complicated. But they were faithful.
About a thousand years later, Jesus was born through the Jewish people. And when He began his ministry thirty years later, He preached the gospel of Grace and repentance to the Jews first. But when they began to reject His witness out of disbelief, he preached to the Gentiles also. This is why the Bible says, "For salvation comes from the Jews" (John 4:22).
This does not mean that salvation is for the Jews alone, but that the Salvation of the world has come from the Jewish people in the person of Jesus Christ.
When Jesus died on the cross, he fulfilled God's original rescue plan by dying for all humanity, Jews and Gentiles alike. There is no true difference between Jew and Gentle, but only between those who believe and those who do not.
God does not love the Jewish people more than any other people group. Rather, he simply chose them to be his special possession as we read in Deuteronomy 7:6-9-
"For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a
people for his treasured possession, out of all the people who are on the face of the earth.
It was not because you were more in number than any other people
that the Lord set his love on you and chose, for you were the fewest of all peoples,
but it is because the Lord loves you..."
people for his treasured possession, out of all the people who are on the face of the earth.
It was not because you were more in number than any other people
that the Lord set his love on you and chose, for you were the fewest of all peoples,
but it is because the Lord loves you..."
And He chose them- the fewest of all people, in order to bring about the Salvation of the entire world.
Why?
Because He so loved the world (John 3:16).
Why?
Because He so loved the world (John 3:16).
