Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets…(Ephesians 2:20) We’re so silly. We, as a society, have this tendency to … Continue reading
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household…(Ephesians 2:19) You belong. No longer alone No longer an outsider You are family. Now, listen, families aren’t always perfect. They squabble. … Continue reading
He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near (Ephesians 2:17). Pace Domnului When I was in Romania many many many years ago, this was a common greeting between the brothers … Continue reading
His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility … Continue reading
For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations (Ephesians 2:15). Now wait a minute, … Continue reading
For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility…(Ephesians 2:14) Jew and Gentile Insider and Outsider Us and Them Paul is specifically talking about the separation between … Continue reading
For he himself is our peace…(Ephesians 2:14) It isn’t so much that he brings peace or makes peace or counsels peace or helps you find peace or teaches peace…though he does all those things. He is peace. Now, that’s a … Continue reading
But now in Christ Jesus you who were once far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ (Ephesians 2:13). What can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus What can make me whole again? … Continue reading
Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (that done in the body by the hands of men)–remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded … Continue reading
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do (Ephesians 2:10). The steps are laid out. All you have to do is walk. If you follow God’s … Continue reading