Sunday, October 11 | Pastor Jason Browning
Ephesians 2:11-14
11 Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)—12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility,
Dividing wall of
In their world, this wall separated the good from the bad, the clean from the unclean, the safe from the unsafe.
What kind of walls do you put up?
Educational walls
Money walls
Political Walls
Family Walls
Racial Walls
Christ came to tear down those walls.
Ephesians 2:14-16
14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15 by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, 16 and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.
When we come to Christ He removes anything that we think makes us feel
Our
Metropolitan Church should be known for its diversity.