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Recap - we have been going through Ephesians one verse at a time, walking through to really break down each passages.
Recap - we have been going through Ephesians one verse at a time, walking through to really break down the passages.
It is important to have background so you can understand the text.
with anything context is everything.
Funny story of me missing the context of a conversation -
I was at my brother and sister in laws house this past few days and they have two children.
My nephew who is three was trying to explain something to me.
He was obviously frustrated at this.
However, all I could understand at the time was “ I exercise and James exercise, and I exercise and it went on like that for about a minute.
The only word i could make out was exercise and he said it about 12 times.
It wasn’t until the next day that I saw James climb onto these bars from a child seat attached to the countertop, and realized what my nephew had been trying explain to me.
In that moment the entire conversation suddenly made sense.
“ Becky Imo - I was playing on that by pulling myself, and then James came over and was doing it also.
I was upset because I was doing it first and he should have asked for a turn instead of just taking a turn.”
CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING!!!!
So let us being with a quick recap.
Last week we talked about
Pastor spoke last week on verses 11-16
Remember you were once far from God, separated from him.
his blood makes us whole and bring peace to the jews and gentiles with the new law.
two nations become 1.
no more need for fleshly circumcision, but by the heart.
He brought PEACE.
So continuing this conversation lets read verse 17-22
Lets read it in another version.
I let the way he breaks it down and makes it so clear in the Message
Christ brought us together through his death on the cross.
The Cross got us to embrace, and that was the end of the hostility.
Christ came and preached peace to you outsiders and peace to us insiders.
He treated us as equals, and so made us equals.
Through him we both share the same Spirit and have equal access to the Father.
19–22 That’s plain enough, isn’t it?
You’re no longer wandering exiles.
This kingdom of faith is now your home country.
You’re no longer strangers or outsiders.
You belong here, with as much right to the name Christian as anyone.
God is building a home.
He’s using us all—irrespective of how we got here—in what he is building.
He used the apostles and prophets for the foundation.
Now he’s using you, fitting you in brick by brick, stone by stone, with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone that holds all the parts together.
We see it taking shape day after day—a holy temple built by God, all of us built into it, a temple in which God is quite at home.
Lets pray!
It is important to have background so you can understand the text.
with anything context is everything.
Funny story of me missing the context of a conversation - ?
So let us being with a quick recap.
Last week we talked about
First lets define who HE is- He being Jesus
Preached Peace -No more discord between the Jews and gentiles, but PEACE.
He came so that we could be in unity with one another.
and not have ought amongst us.
Those who were far = the Gentiles .
they had not yet had the opportunity to know God until Jesus came.
Those who are near = were the Jews.
They were close to God, they had built a relationship with him.
they were at that time “Gods chosen people”
He came that we would ALL be able to know him and hae relationship with him.
What does this mean for us?
It means that No one is unreachable, He came that all would know him and have peace with him.
those who were far and near.
No one is unreachable, He came that all would know him.
your co-worker - yep he died for them
those who were far and near.
No one is unreachable, He came that all would know him.
your brother, sister, aunt, family member - yep he died for them
The person at the drive in window, the snooty person who cuts you off in traffic, the person who out right says they hate you and goes out of their way to tell you and show you that its true.
- yep he died for them too.
Tell my story about Margie and the baby shower.
Through JESUS we… whose we?
As previously discussed last week by Pastor Dustin - Jews and Gentiles alike.
we both have access IN one spirit - THE Holy spirt - to the Father.
When we ask Jesus to come into our heart and lives, to be our King we have access to him through the working of the holy spirit in our lives.
The holy spirit convicts our hearts, and he brings us to the father.
We have relationship with Jesus in what the Holy spirit has done in us to bring us to a point of reconciliation.
Only in the spirit do we have that opportunity.
We are no long strangers or aliens, we are citizens.
What is a Citizen?
Lets define- a native or naturalized member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to its government and is entitled to its protection.
Owes allegiance - or Loyalty to the household of God.
The opposite of loyalty is treason and treachery.
What side are you on?
Allegiance or Treachery?
If we have excepted the call on our heart to have Jesus come in then we are in allegiance and we agree to the culture of the kingdom of heaven.
WE CANNOT EXPECT THOSE WHO DO NOT YET KNOW THE CULTURE TO ACT AS IF THEY DO. someone who has yet to be introduced to Jesus cannot be expected to act as if they have a relationship with him.
However, If you have been introduced, and have accepted a relationship with him then, because of verse 18 you are no longer strangers - but members of the household of God
because of verse 18 are no longer strangers - but members of the household of God
Entitled to the protection - by God using the word citizen here it means he intends to be our protection.
he will fight for you, he will guard you.
Jews and Gentiles alike are now equal - we both, through the death and resurrection of christ have the same inheritance.
This dramatically changes the cultural ideas of the day.
The Jews for thousands of years before Christ have been “Gods chosen people” with this new declarative both Jews and gentile are Gods people!
I find it interesting that in verse 14 he says
eph 2:
the household of God built on the foundations of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together,
I find it interesting that in verse 14 he says
in whom the whole structure, being joined together,
He first had to break down the old wall of hostility before he could build the new wall of peace where he is the cornerstone.
Let me expand on this - If you are going to build house on a piece of land that already has a building on it, what do you have to do first in order to build your house?
You must first tear down the old before you build the new.
Once you tear down the old, then there is much work to do in order for you to begin to build.
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