Ephesians 2:11-22 Sermon notes
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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
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How has his blood brought us near?
By making Christ our peace
• Peace is shalom = well being in widest sense
• Zachariah 9:9-10, “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 10I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim And the horse from Jerusalem; And the bow of war will be cut off. And He will speak peace to the nations; And His dominion will be from sea to sea, And from the River to the ends of the earth.”
He has made peace by two negative and two positive actions
• 2.1. He is our peace (negative) o 2.1.1 He made us both one (v14)
Not made us part of the Jewish commonwealth but a new one
This new one transcends to the privileges of Israel o 2.1.2 He broke down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility (v14)
By abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances