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Thursday, November 7, 2013

Ephesians 2:11-22 Jew and Gentile Reconciled Through Christ

Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)— remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit. The word "emnity" in the Bible speaks of a natural disunity between to peoples. On the one hand you have the elect in the Jews who God called to be the race from which the Savior would be born and you have the billions are on non-Jewish origin. For God so loves the world that he gave his son, the Bible teaches. How can God stop the emnity between the Jews and the rest of the world. In the person of Jesus Christ. He tought that the seed of Abraham is not his natural descendants, but instead those who share the faith of Abraham. And it is by faith and grace that our sins are forgiven and the emnity between the human race and God was tumbled so that we can reconcile to the Father and to one another forming a new elect - the child of God.

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