He further recognizes according to those same scriptures cannot change himself nor do anything that can satisfy the ultimate justice of God. With all his heart, he loves God as he is revealed to him through the Messiah, knowing that to see the Son is to know his Father, and that to love the Son is to love the Father. But most of this is true of non-Jewish Christians as well. For Jews, Jesus is the conclusion. For gentiles, Jesus is the starting point.
Gentiles embrace the faith of Israel and become co-partakers of the promises.
But Israel is addressed by the Gospel as a nation, not merely individualistically, in a sense that is never true of any other nation. For that reason, Jewish Christians maintain their national identity, much as men and women maintain theirs, although there is no difference between them and gentile in all matters that pertain to salvation, spirituality and privilege. To some extent, the difference is merely semantic - but only to some extent. Nevertheless, in spite of the fact that both would see themselves as described in the reply to the first question, there is a real and important difference between most of the adherents to the Messianic Movement and most Jewish Christians. Messianic Jews tend to create their own distinct congregations, thereby raising questions concerning the unity of the body of Christ.