Remember that the Gentiles or the
uncircumcised in the flesh by the circumcision made by human hands were
separated from Christ in the past. The Bible says in this verse 11 of this
Ephesians “what is called circumcision”. It is not the true circumcision which
God wants us to undergo. God wants us to have a circumcision made by His own
hands, which transforms us. But by then we were separated from Christ, and
strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
But now, by the blood of Christ; as He died that death and shed that blood, we
who were once out of it altogether are in on everything. Hallelujah!
Vs 14 “For he himself is our peace,
who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of
hostility”. Jesus Christ is our peace.
He has united us to the Jews, we who were outsiders and the Jews who were
insiders have all become one in Christ Jesus, because in His death he has
broken down the wall of hostility. He has abolished the law of commandments and
established the law of love through his blood. Was it just to have us reconcile
within ourselves? No, so that we may also be reconciled to God the Father
through the cross.
How have you been thinking about
your fellow brother in Christ? How have you been thinking about your fellow
human being; the neighboring tribe, the neighboring village, the other church
fellowship, the other group of people in your country, the whites, the blacks,
the Jews? Do you know that Christ’s death on the cross also reconciled you to
them in His blood? Cultural peace is established between Jews and Gentiles
through Jesus Christ. The church is therefore called to bring all men together
in Christ; because the Old Testament law was nailed to the cross. It’s no
longer an obstacle to the Gentiles. All men are brought together under the law
of Christ. Those reconciled to God are in one body “For by one Spirit we were
all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks….” (1 Cor 12:13) .Christ
repealed the law code that hindered us rather than helped us. He started things
all over; not continuing with two groups of people who were separated by
animosity and suspicion. He created a new kind of human being, a fresh start
for everybody by the cross. The cross got us to embrace, and that was the end
of hostility. Why is there hostility in the world today? They do not know
Christ and what He did on the cross. If we claim that we know what Christ did
on the cross and that we have received Him and we still live hostile lives here
on earth, then we are liars. We do not love God.
Christ treated us as equals and made
us equals. Through Him we both share the same Spirit and have equal access to
the Father. The kingdom of faith is now your home country.
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