Who is the Israel of God today?

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Paul described himself as a Hebrew of Hebrews (both parents were Hebrews), of the tribe of Benjamin and one who had been circumcised at eight days of age. But all these things he “counted loss for Christ” (Phil. 3:4-6). He told the Romans that circumcision in the flesh was not important, for “a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart” (Rom. 2:28,29). To the Colossians, he said the true circumcision is “made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh” when one is “buried with Him in baptism” (Col. 2:11-13). He told the Galatians that those who are of faith are Abraham’s seed, because they have been baptized into Christ, and “there is neither Jew nor Greek” in Christ (Gal. 3:26-29). The true Israel inherits spiritual blessings, not land.