Masterpiece | Part 5

Ephesians 2:11-22 ESV

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-- 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. 13 But

now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been

brought near by the blood of Christ. 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 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, 16

and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross,

thereby killing the hostility. 17 And he came and preached peace

to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. 18 For

through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow

citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20

built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus

himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure,

being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In

him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God

by the Spirit.

1) God is pursuing every ethnicity, every status, and

every class by faith through Christ.

2) The purpose of remembering is to magnify the

grace, the joy, and the gladness that we have been

brought near.

3) We were brought near and made one by the blood of

Christ and the abolishing of the law.

4) The building/temple is all of us together, every

ethnicity, every tribe, every tongue, and every

nation.