How to Find Peace
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INTRODUCTION: My vs Beth vacation. No peace with kids. Pictures of beach. beach chair?
11 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands—
Therefore - builds off of what was mentioned last time.
remember - We normally talk about forgetting our past. Yet this is different.
you gentiles - This is who he was talking to. You and me.
in the flesh - The difference was not spritiaul but phyiscal.
called circumcision - uncircumcision was dirty wor
Circumcition card story? shows you are pretty commited.
which is made in the flesh be hands -
Remember where you came from.
Remember where you came from.
12 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
remember: command.
Contrast vs Phillipians. purpose was to lift up Christ.
seperated from Christ. - Messiah.
alienated from teh commwealth of Isreal. - ironic since they probobly hated Israel. - ILLUSTRATION PERU? Nervous in claims check. Women stuff in bag.
Strangers to the covenant - xenos.
SET UP TABLE WALL IN FRONT OF CROSS!
Its impossible to be prideful when we condiser what God has done for us.
Its impossible to be prideful when we condiser what God has done for us.
What unites us spiritually is stronger than what divides us physically.
What unites us spiritually is stronger than what divides us physically.
Masks, vaccines, voting, don’t care!
more likely to leave over politics vs heresy.
Remember that God has brought you near.
Remember that God has brought you near.
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Far off illustration - get someone in back to front. Back row baptist jokes? - PUT THEM BEHIND WALL.
brought near -
blood of Christ - everyone looks the same when they are covered by the blood.
Peace must start with peace with God.
Peace must start with peace with God.
If people can you give you peace, then people can take peace away.
Remember God’s peace allows us to live at peace with others.
Remember God’s peace allows us to live at peace with others.
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
Jesus is our peace - Peace - Not that he will help us find peace. But he is peace!!!
Peaece is more than absest of problems. Marriage can be horrible but they never fight.
one - something new altogether.
broken down his flesh - He did it when he came.
divindg wall of hostility. - wall in the temple.
15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,
ordinances - dogma -
one new man , in replace of two - We have no choice but to be united. We are one.
stop hitting yourself.
16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
Reconcile us both - bring us together, not to each other but to God.
Get closer to God, while still looking at the other person.
Killing hostility - Jesus doesn’t kill often. but he does here.
CONCLUSION: Marriage illustration - sitting on two sides of the wall
There is no room for divisions at the foot of the cross.
There is no room for divisions at the foot of the cross.