Save The Gentiles?

For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.  John 3:17

Saved: a lot of people in our Lord's time thought that this meant rescue from the Romans, followed by a return to prominence on the world stage. But Jesus did not come to replace one empire with another. He came to save God's world. And the Lord's people were rather shocked to see this meant saving the despised Samaritans, the Roman occupiers, and all manner of Gentile dogs. That does not mean our canines, but the 1st century Judean derogatory term for our Gentile ancestors. To the people of the covenant, it was bizarre, strange and just plain weird that one claiming to be the Son of God would want to save them, people not even of the Law.

But for our part, we are glad and grateful that Jesus came to save all the world!

Bucky