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Intro
When you don’t get a joke.
When you don’t get a joke because it’s an inside joke.
Personal alienation
Friends
Family
Coworkers
In the church
The Jews were an odd people in the ancient world
Sabbath observance
Circumcision
Food restrictions (pork)
Worship of a single deity
Following of Torah (law)
Torah as a mark of Jewish national pride that separated them from the gentile nations
ILL: Jonah—the Jewish people really did not like the other nations and the feeling was mutual.
Pious Jews in Jesus’ day considered Gentiles to be unclean—can’t touch them or eat with them.
The Text
You were (11-13a) (Keyword: Remember)
Gentiles (not Israel) [out of the kingdom] 11a
Uncircumcised [out of the covenant] 11b
Without Christ (YHWH) [out of the family] 12a
Foreigners 12b
Far away [way out…]
To be a Gentile made you far away from God because
1) They lacked the blessing of the knowledge of God
2) They lacked a community context that centered on God
Implications
Kingdom: Having a desire for spirituality.
(Spiritually Dead)
Circumcision: Desire for deep/covenant or relationships.
(Enmity with God)
Without Christ: Desire for family.
(Estranged from God)
Foreigners: It’s just too hard (Far From God)
(Maybe you’re here today and you feel like a foreigner—there’s just too much to change to become a Christian…)
If you believe you’re close to God, you’re actually the furthest away.
Application
No loss of love between groups
Hatfields and McCoys
Christians and protestants
Muslims and Coptics
The Jews considered the Gentiles little better than animals.
Gentiles resented the Jews for their smug religious superiority.
But here in Ephesians, Paul told the Gentile Christians to remember what it felt like to be treated that way, to be seen as unworthy outsiders.
He told them not to return the favor.
He called on them to remember where (and what) they were when God found them—separated from Christ, excluded from his promises, without hope and without God.
A bleak picture, but God changed all that by his mercy.
Therefore, we should extend that grace to others.
Grace for those of other religions
Grace for those who have sexual and gender preferences that we disagree with
Grace for those who have committed…
sexual sins
had abortions
been drug or alcohol abusers
Grace for those who hate Christians, Jesus, and Christianity
Atheists, Agnostics, and so on
We have to remember that God loved us when we were so, when we were in rebellion and we are called to love others no matter how bad we think they are.
Block party October 26th
What are you going to do when the community comes in?
What are you going to do when two men show up as a couple?
What are you going to do with someone who shows up and has been drinking or is on drugs?
What are you going to do with the poor and the homeless who may just be there for a meal?
What are you going to do with those from our community who are spiritually destitute and can only look in from the outside?
Will you remember where you came from?
Will you love them with Christ’s love?
I pray you will.
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