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The Community That Is Not a New Israel
In the Hebrew Bible, it tells a story of God at the stage of the story has committed himself to an actual like an ethnos and a people group. In another place in the letter where he finds out that a guy who says he follows Jesus is sleeping with his dad's second wife or his mother-in-law, he says, yeah, that guy needs to be excluded from the community. So this is actually very important because throughout church history, very often when followers of Jesus or Jesus communities get enmeshed with institutions of state or national power.