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Are You Linked-in? (Part 1)
Ephesians 2:11-18 | 04/13/2025

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WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?

There is

between groups of people that are not alike.
(Exodus 19:6, Deuteronomy 14:2, Luke 18:11)

WHAT’S THE SOLUTION?

God’s purpose, in the church, is to create one new

. (Acts 10:34-35)

Those who are in Christ, those in the church, now have a completely restructured way of developing an

.

Both those “far” and “near” are

from God and need the gospel of

Reveal Answer

.

What the gospel of Jesus Christ does to you:
a) The gospel

you out of that kind of pride.

b) The gospel

the layers in your “identity deck.” (Galatians 2:14)

HOW DOES GOD BRING IT ABOUT?

God

the hostility. (2 Cor. 5:21, Hebrews 2:11)

God is recreating the human race, as it ought to be, inside the church, amongst those who are in Christ.

PASSAGE

Ephesians 2:11-18

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, 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. 17 He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.