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# Connecting Statement:
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Paul emphasizes that those who are born in the family of Israel can really only be a true part of Israel through faith.
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# But it is not as though the promises of God have failed
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"But God has not failed to keep his promises" or "God has kept his promises"
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# For it is not everyone in Israel who truly belongs to Israel
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God did not make his promises to all the physical descendants of Israel (or Jacob), but to his spiritual descendants, that is, those who trust in Jesus.
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# Neither are all Abraham's descendants truly his children
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"Nor are they all children of God just because they are Abraham's descendants" |