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We don’t go to church because we are suposed to, but rather to Worship God

The Church is not a building it is the people the word church means called out ones

In this Passage Paul is writting to the gentiles who for centuries had been excluded from the relationship between God and Isrel. When God creatad man no person, natinality or reace was supirior to any other. Even when God chose Isreiel to be His people it was his plan that through them he would bless all the nations of the earth.

Unfortenetly the Jews through time viewed themselves as exclusive and created division betweeen themselves and the gentiles. Jews felt theat they were both morally and ratially more pure than the gentiles.

In Paul’s day, a wall forms a barrier to keep Gentiles out of the inner Jewish courtyards of the temple. There are notices warning that trespassers will be executed. Paul calls this ‘the dividing wall of hostility’

Now that Christ has

Paul is declaring that an outbreak of Peace must occur. the division between the Jew and Gentiles must end. The emphisis is that this Peace is not by circumsision, special diet, or keeping clean. This peace takes place through Christ;s Death on the cross for both Jews and Gentiles.

Ephesians 2:14 ESV

14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility

Eph 2:

Ephesians 2:19–22 CSB

19 So then you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building, being put together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him you are also being built together for God’s dwelling in the Spirit.

I. 19

Ephesians 2:19 ESV

19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

Eph 19

who might live alongside them in the same country, but owning no land and with only the most superficial rights of citizenship.

This was there position, but it is no longer for now Paul says they are fellow citizans with the saints He was conecting all the people of God to one place.

Citizenship of the people of God was one expressive way of telling the truth concerning the position in God’s kingdom that Jews and Gentiles now equally share. But this description had to give way to one that connoted a further truth, and could speak of the greater intimacy that Christians have with God, and indeed with one another. Jews and Gentiles, people of whatever race or colour or class, are together

of the people of God was one expressive way of telling the truth concerning the position in God’s kingdom that Jews and Gentiles now equally share. But this description had to give way to one that connoted a further truth, and could speak of the greater intimacy that Christians have with God, and indeed with one another. Jews and Gentiles, people of whatever race or colour or class, are together

Fellow Citizans- Although Gentiles used to be outsiders they now belong to God’s family. God has adopted Jew and Jentile alike through His son Jesues Christ.

forigners and alians is a person who has been givin certin priviliges but posess no citizan rights it is this lack of status that paul is addressing here.

It is importent to note that the Church and Iserial are distict.

Houshold of God= Members of God’s family

Ephesians 1:5 ESV

5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,

II. 20-21

Ephesians 2:20–21 ESV

20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

Eph 2:20

This is yet another proof that the Church was build on Christ Himself and not Peter-”Christ Jesues Himself being the cornerstone”

Thee key is Christ is the rock, the cornerstone This idea comes from Psam 118:22

Psalm 118:22 CSB

22 The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

Which is reiderated in

Mark 12:10 ESV

10 Have you not read this Scripture: “ ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;

The final idea is Jesues laid the foundation and the apposles and prophets built on that in the early Church

(insert upon this rock I will build my Chrch

Then the aposles and the prophets were the what it was built on after Christ.

We think about Christ as the cornerstone, in which the entire building deprnds upon. then the apposles and prophets form the fondation, and all other believers find a place as stones in the building

Prophets are refering to THe Christian Church, not old testement Prophets

The Holy Temple of The Lord:

is Joined together

Ephesians 2:21 ESV

21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

Eph

This verse draws the pont clear that the entire structure of the Church conects to Christ the cornerstone.

III. 22