Transforming in Christ
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Remember Your Former State
Remember Your Former State
Eph 2:11-
So then, remember that at one time you Gentiles by birth, called “the uncircumcision” by those who are called “the circumcision”—a physical circumcision made in the flesh by human hands— remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Paul is writing to a Gentile church in Asia minor
Founded on one of his missionary journeys
Spent three years in Ephesus
Reminds them of their former state of separation from God
No relationship
No hope in the covenant
Lacking any identity
This is for us
We are part of this Gentile community
Isolated from God
This is our former state outside of the covenant
This state is what makes the Gospel message so strong
Remember Your Transformation
Remember Your Transformation
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us. He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it. So he came and proclaimed peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near; for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father.
Eph 2:13-
Reminder of the transormation
By the state of our birth, we had no knowledge of God
Only through Christ do we receive knowledge of God
Christ bridges the gap
Removes the division of birth and separation from knowledge of God
Christ brings peace
Not the absence of war or conflict
True holistic peace
The state of unity as one people
Removal of the dividing wall of hostility
This becomes a major stumbling block for us
Are we hostile to our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ because we care more about being right than about loving them?
Verse 17
The Gospel to both the Jew and Gentile
Both needed to understand who God is
The Church needs to preach the Gospel to itself
We need the reminder of Christ’s peace
Verse 18
Only through Christ do we have access to the Father
Trinitarian language
The heart of the Gospel
Remember Your New Status
Remember Your New Status
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling place for God.
built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling place for God.
Movement from being strangers and aliens to being citizens of the kingdom
Becoming the building of God
A building requires unity
Cannot be divided
The purpose of the building
The dwelling place of God
True communal relationship with God
Cannot be forgoten
The New Temple
Together as one body