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Notes for later use:
all my packages go through Portland.
Tennessee or Utah, it all comes through PDX.
Package or letter, it goes through PDX.
Jew or Gentile, Black or White, Bred Christian or New to the Party…All goes through Jesus.
What is being shipped in but parts for a construction project, Jesus the cornerstone, the OT, apostles and prophets the foundation and infrastructure work.
Now God is building with materials from all over.
(Chicago wall…Tribune Tower, 150 historically significant items
Why is the bazaar ok, when Jesus drove moneylenders out of the temple?
Because we are the temple.
We are the church building.
We are the worship center.
Jab 1
Tribune tower...
Jab 2
The saga of the chairs…and the fabric…and FedEx.
I noticed…everything comes through Portland.
Letters, UPS, FedEx, friends from out of town, everything gets to Clark County through Portland.
Jab 3 (transition)
What Paul will emphasize in our text today is the reality that like all packages go through Portland to get to Clark County, every man, woman, and child who would come to the kingdom of God will come through Jesus.
And this common route creates a diverse and unique community which in the process becomes something more than the sum of its parts.
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Ephesians 2:
Pray
Teaching
Long Distance Shipment
Ephesians 2:1
The role of the Gentile in the biblical narrative.
The law as the defining mark of the nation of Israel.
Good things with following.
An example to the world.
Leviticus 26:3-
Leviticus 26:14
Bad things if ignored.
An example to the world.
Exodus
psalm 1:1
The promises as the greater defining mark of the nation of Israel.
Matthew 5:17-
Anger, lust, revenge, love of neighbor amplified, not diminished.
Just because I love my kids, doesn’t mean I have looser rules for them than for the stranger in my house!
No, I hold them to a higher call.
Not to earn my love, but because they are loved!
Routed with the Local Mail
In Christ the long distance shipments get delivered.
Eph 2:13-
I was a middle distance shipment...
How many grew up in homes with Christian parents?
Age?
The local shipments go through the same channel.
The hostility explained.
If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.
I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
The Jewish people through out their history had struggled with this combo.
They were far too likely to become of the world (Solomon, Egypt, on and on…) and then as a reaction, after the revivals of Ezra and Nehemiah, more struggles, and more time, by the 1st century, simply tried to escape it.
Jesus fulfilling the law and becoming the new promise.
back to .
Jesus became the new law.
And a new promise.
One body.
One truckload for delivery.
This was a struggle for Jewish believers…and for us who are near.
Matthew 20:1-
Far and Near
Eph 2:17-
Very different…but not our usual dividing lines.
But very representative of our lines.
Racial.
There seem to be two camps about this.
Those who see racism behind every corner (John/Chang) and those who think it doesn’t exist at all.
We don’t have to go to one side or the other.
We can believe racism still exists, and then give people the benefit of the doubt.
We can treat others as if there is no distinction because of race, while still recognizing and respecting the histories which have brought them to where they are.
Love.
Political.
You have more in common with a follower of Jesus who votes differently than you do, than with a pagan, moralist, or person of another faith who is in agreement.
Personal moral preference.
I am not a relativist.
I believe in absolute truth.
I believe that is the only kind.
What I mean by this, is when we place some moral values in a higher position than others, and then judge those and divide from fellowship those who do not do likewise.
(connect to political)
It is fine for one to abstain from alcohol out of fear of becoming an alcoholic.
It is fine to choose to only take in media from Christian sources.
I could give a thousand examples of moral lines we draw, the second we lay that burden upon someone else, we have taken the mantle of the pharisee and find ourselves at the wrong end of Jesus’ anger.
Matthew 23:1-
Matthew 23:1-
Matthew 23:13-
Matthew 23:23-
Sin is real.
Sin is absolute.
Truth is not flexible.
But how did Jesus address the sinner?
Love.
Relationship.
Invitation.
But, you might say, they are taking over the world!
It is now that we must remember that love and grace, kindness to say the words, “Father forgive them, they know not what they do” was spoken in regards to the pagans who mocked him and drove nails through his body.
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