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Ephesians 2:17 · BSB
2:17 He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.
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…Unbelievers do not have hope. Unbelievers do not have hope. This is what's going on out in the world today. They have no hope. The Bible says inEphesians chapter 2and verse number 12 that uh when we were without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, without hope in this world. That's what he said.…
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…leave this place without being sure of that. Don't put your head on the pillow tonight without being sure of that. Philippians 2 is a uh excuse me,Ephesians chapter 2is a great picture of this. How we receive the gospel. It's a little bit long, but just listen. It's so good. Ephesians chapter 2, verse 1 through…
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…but when it comes to unsafe people they're often referred to as children of disobedience children of wrath the Bible says right we see this inEphesians chapter 2you have the quicken who were dead in trespasses and sin wherein in time past he walked according to the course of this world according to the…
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…up to them and say no I have a different place to show you would you not want to do that I want to finish with praying back the words of Paul inEphesians chapter 2because they are so beautifully summarizing from God and in the voice of God to us please would you bow your heads with me and let's pray this…
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…they are living proof of how God moves people from death to life. Paul does the same thing. He writes similarly to the Gentile church in Ephesus.Ephesians chapter 2, kind of skipping through it, says, As for you, you non-Jewish believers, you Gentile believers, you were dead in your transgressions and sin. But…
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…a moment and get some perspective. God has mobilized his people. Every one of us through his gifts. Last month, Pastor Rustin was preaching throughEphesians chapter 2, and he came to verse 10. Which says that in Christ, you are his, you know this, you are his workmanship. Created in Christ Jesus. which God…
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…as believers. And thank God, because all of us were at one point in time lost. All of us were at one point in time objects of the wrath of God, asEphesians chapter 2says. And yet God loved us so much to have somebody come, and even though they hated our sin, they still loved us to share the gospel with us. And…
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…do. Verse three, eager to maintain the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. Notice Paul does not say create unity. Jesus already did that. InEphesians chapter 2, Jesus broke down the wall, destroyed the wall of hostility, and created unity. So our responsibility is not to create unity, our responsibility is…
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…sisters who are scattered throughout the entire world. They're all going around the same table that we are going to, and we're brought together.Ephesians chapter 2says that Jesus has brought down every dividing wall of hostility that stood between us by his finished work on the cross. This is what he has…
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…at it when we go through our Acts study, where there's this bewildered wonder that a Gentile could believe. Paul goes into that discussion here inEphesians chapter 2and verse 14. And there he says, For he is he is our peace who has made both groups one and tore down the dividing wall of hostility in his flesh,…
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…to pray in the Spirit. All true and effective prayer is prayer that is offered up in the Spirit of God. In Ephesians chapter 1, We read this inEphesians chapter 2. I apologize. We read this in verse 18. After Paul has just elaborated on Jews and Gentiles being brought together in Christ and they're being made…
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…what Paul does with this. This is the grounds upon which gracious living is to be enacted. And he starts by exposing where we were. Very much likeEphesians chapter 2. You were dead in trespasses and sins in which you walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the…
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…Except here it is a building. Metaphorically we are a building. So, when someone says church notability, actually, it is a building, according toEphesians chapter 2. It's not a building the way you think it's a building. The stones are not bricks. The stones are the people. We are the dwelling place of his…
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…we we put dividing walls in between us. But the truth of the gospel is that Jesus is our life and he is also our peace. That's what Paul says inEphesians chapter 2, when he says that Jesus himself is our peace and he's torn down every wall that we could possibly try to put between us. Like we are united by his…
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…good creation. If you're like me, your 1st response is probably to start thinking about all the vandals in the world that you know. When we look atEphesians chapter 2today, though, Paul starts, and he says, before we look out at all the vandals, we know that are destroying the world that are trying to deface it,…
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…part. It kills the arrogance of the Jews. Kills the arrogance of the Gentiles. None of us have anything to be prideful about. Now let's go toEphesians chapter 2and we're almost done. As you're turning to Ephesians 2, I want to show you this little graphic. Kind of a picture of what we've been talking…
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…about God, what to. But how does that change you? How does that transform you? How do you go from what the Bible says before is an enemy of God?Ephesians chapter 2says, before that we came to the mercy of God, we were sinners and we were lost and we were broken. And it even says that we were dead in our sins.…
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…metaphors to get us to understand. So I'm going to make three major statements right here. We are, well, first of all, reviewing a little bit ofEphesians chapter 2. We're fellow citizens with the saints. We are in God's household. We are living stones built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets,…
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…an outsider. I'm adopted in. And I'm so glad I'm adopted in. I bet you you would identify with being an outsider. And can I just encourage you fromEphesians chapter 2? Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise,…
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…person and you were a Gentile person. No, the same gospel and the same Savior that saved them saved you. And because of that, you are together. InEphesians chapter 2, we don't have time to go into that, but it says, listen, Jesus made both those things one. For by grace are you saved through faith. It's not of…
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