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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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…of God as His people. As He is redeeming the church for Himself, we should trust in the sovereign goodness of our God. Turn with me to the book ofEphesians, chapter 2. You can leave Nehemiah behind. You don't have to mark it with your hand. The very greatest expression to us of God's sovereign goodness is the…
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…lonely, it becomes uncertain. There's this tragic disconnect from God. Damage is done. And this is damage that Adam himself is unable to change.Ephesians chapter 2describes our state without God. It says we're powerless. We are dead in our trespasses and sins. We cannot atone for our own sin. It uses the…
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…when you look through the scriptures, you recognize that gospel and compassion are inseparably linked. Turn over in your Bible, if you would, toEphesians chapter 2. Ephesians chapter 2. And mark what Paul has to say in relationship to the matter of salvation. In Ephesians chapter 2, verse 8, it says this. It…
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…with the gospel of peace, ready with the gospel of peace. We are to be a people who proclaim peace. A people, again, in imitation of Jesus.Ephesians chapter 2. Jesus himself is the one who brings us peace. Peace with God, peace with men. Ephesians 2.17, Christ came and preached peace. Peace to you who are…
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…of reference for the implications of that kind of peace, how can you really grasp the magnitude of what Jesus came to accomplish? The Bible says inEphesians chapter 2, about verse 14, it is our peace that is broken down every wall. And that's a reference to a literal wall in the temple between the court of the…
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…Him telling us and the answer is, not at all. It's a mystery that He's given to us. A second part of the mystery that we find particularly here inEphesians chapter 2is the mystery of His inclusion of Gentiles as His people. Prior to the New Testament, the way for a Gentile to become a part of the family of God…
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…blood. It's one of those things we do to minister to people around us, and it's our blessing to do that. Turn in your Bibles, if you would, toEphesians chapter 2. I'm sorry, Ephesians chapter 3. Some of you are thinking there was a return to something previous. Chapter 3, verse 1 through 5, let me read it to…
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…your eyes, so I'll be catching you afterwards. Good. Okay. Great blessing. I want you to open your Bibles, if you would, and we're going to look atEphesians chapter 2, beginning there in verse 19. Let me read it to you, and then we'll come to the Lord this morning in prayer. So then you are no longer strangers…
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…with the Lord of glory, and we will rejoice in his presence forevermore. It will get better than this. Amen. I want you to look with me atEphesians chapter 2. My sugar is kicking in, so we're good. Let me read it to you just a little bit. Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ,…
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…of what they made. So God can be tracked back by virtue of what he has made. And what this verse announces there at the beginning, going back toEphesians chapter 2, it makes it clear that only God gets credit for my salvation, my faith, and my response. Now, let me add this part and I want you to track it with…
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I would like you to turn your Bible this morning, not toEphesians chapter 2, where we are ! going to end up eventually, but I would like you to turn, if you would, over to Romans chapter 12, 1 and 2. We're going to take…
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…pen marks in them. They've got torn pages. One of them's about to come out from the spine. This particular one is missing about three words fromEphesians chapter 2, which is really important that I know off by heart when I get to Ephesians chapter 2. So, basically, I was thinking about it because the way I…
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…Oh, no, Pastor, that's not true. I believe that God made it available, and then I had to choose Christ, not the gospel. Not the gospel. You and I,Ephesians chapter 2, don't turn there. Ephesians chapter 2, verse 1 says that we were dead in our trespasses and sins in which we used to live when we followed the…
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…powerless and helpless, no ability to trade out of this situation at all. And it is again the picture of our situation before God as we saw back inEphesians chapter 2where it describes us there as being dead in our transgressions and sins. Dead people don't cut deals. They don't pay back loans. They are…
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…See, the blessing of God, the intention of God is not, is not not halted because of your circumstance. You go into the New Testament and he says inEphesians chapter 2, he says, Hey, we were by nature objects of wrath, and we we all lived a certain way that we're ashamed of. And then he gets to verse 5 and says,…
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…the right treatment. And that is the same as we approach this doctor to grace. So let's deal with the negative, the right diagnosis. First of all,Ephesians chapter 2, if you'd like to turn to there. This is the human condition. You don't need to look anywhere further than yourself. So don't think, ah, yes, I…
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…labor, we have toilsome work that doesn't produce what we would hope for and long for. In the place of hope, Hope, we have no hope. In fact, inEphesians chapter 2, in a slightly different context, but the application is to us when Paul is talking about the difference, the separation between the Jews as God's…
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…us free. Twelve chapters of Romans is summarised by three verses in Ephesians so if you want to learn Romans chapter 1 to 12 off by heart go toEphesians chapter 28 to 10 for it is by grace you have been saved through faith and this not from yourselves it is the gift of God not by works so that no one can…
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…It defines it not in terms of I'm trying harder or this is what I need to do. It defines it, listen to this, in terms of what only God can do.Ephesians chapter 2. I'll start reading in verse 1 so you get the context. He says, And you were dead in your trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following…
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…His glory. We no longer can do any of that because of the ripple effect of sin and the choice of Adam and Eve. We now are worshipers of ourselves.Ephesians chapter 2We go to Ephesians chapter 2 quite often and Ephesians chapter 2 tells us some of us it reminds us of who we are who we were before Jesus Christ…
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