Ephesians 2:11-16

Thursday, October 03, 2013                Ephesians 2:11-16

From Paul’s Jewish background, he saw all of the world’s people divided into two groups: Jews, the people of God, and Gentiles, everybody else. In today’s passage Paul affirms that by uniting all believers to Christ, God has created a new people, Christianoi, the people of Christ. Paul is emphatic that this was made possible through Jesus’ shed blood on the cross. I believe it is very important that we never lose sight of the high cost God paid to unite us with Jesus.

When you look at all that God has created in nature and humankind, the diversity is staggering. There are over 27,000 species of fish. There are over 7,500 known varieties of apples. There are 196 countries in the world and each country contains countless subcultures or groups of people. There are more than 4,200 religions in the world and at least 41,000 Christian denominations. Diversity is good and only becomes bad when we make it an end in itself. It is a good thing that there are 41,000 groups proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ. It is a very bad thing, and clearly inconsistent with scripture when one of those 41,000 thinks they are the only true church.

“For Christ himself has brought peace to us” (Ephesians 2:14a). Anything man does to break the peace of Christ is an abomination.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

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