I’m going to Ephesians chap 2 verse 13-22 and I’m probably going to take you somewhere different than you’re used to going on a on a Sunday morning I’m probably going to to swim upstream against the current of the culture because the culture as a whole is very narcissistic and I hate to use that word because it’s probably overused in our society today but but it’s it’s all about what’s in it for me but if you will indulge me I think you’re going to understand what’s in it for you Ephesians 213 through 22 when
you have it say amen amen but now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made n by the blood of Christ oh gosh made not by the blood of Christ for he is our peace who have made both one talking about Jews and Gentiles if you read read the old chapter he’s made both one he’s Blended them together in a very unique fashion and have broken down the middle wall of petition between us gosh having abolished in his flesh the enmity even the law of Commandments contained in ordinances he took he took the thing that separated us and he
abolished it in his flesh even the law of Commandments contained in ordinances for to make in himself of Twain to one new man so making peace and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross having slain the enmity thereby he vanquished what we were fighting about he ended what was contrary to our Unity he moved the Obstacle of our religiosity out of the way that is not to say that the law was wrong because the law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul but it put a wall between the Jew and the Gentile and
Jesus brought it down having abolished it in his flesh he completed did it he fulfilled it so that the Gentile who was lawless had just as many rights to come before God as the Jew because he took all of that out of the way and came and preached peace to you which were a far off and you don’t have to be uh living 2,000 years ago to have been a far off he came and preached peace to you which were a far off and to them that were nigh for through him we both have access oh is’t that beautiful see there are some people in this church who have
been raised in church all their life they don’t know what cigarette smoke smells tastes like they they’ve never smoked a joint in their life theyve never tasted alcohol in their life their mama was in Holiness that they are in the Hol they were pure they’ve never done anything never been on a dance floor don’t know how to do anything don’t know how to shuffle don’t know how to slide don’t gamble don’t cheat don’t know how to do anything they there are I’m there really are some people in the church who have been in the church all
their life I mean really in the church and then there’s the rest of us [Applause] we we kind of you know we took the long way in we did some window shopping and we stopped by the store and and we peaked in the club and we dropped it like it was hot and picked it up like it was cold and and imagine now we’re all in here together for through him we both ain’t no need of you looking down your nose at me through him we both have access by one
