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Hey friends, Ephesians chapter 3 today.

In fact, we're going to finish the chapter. Glad you joined us. We talked a bit last

episode about the middle wall of partition, how that through the death of Jesus and what

he accomplished upon the cross,

and ultimately, obviously, in his resurrection and ascension,

Jesus provided a oneness, a togetherness,

a new unit of believers that are both Jew and Gentile. These two disparate groups that didn't like

each other, that judged each other, that had nothing in common with each other, have been

brought together through Christ. And that's the point. And I want to talk a bit more about

that because, excuse me, that's what the chapter does. And yesterday we finished in verse number 14,

where we learned that Jesus is not only the provider of peace, but he is our peace. I like the verse

in Romans chapter 5, where it says, therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God

through our Lord Jesus Christ. I've pointed this out before, I think, and that is that when Jesus

provides peace, this is not just the absence of enmity, not just the absence of God's judgment

upon sin, but the presence of God's favor, the presence of relationship and acceptance and all the things that come along with peace.

In other words, Jesus doesn't provide a truce with God.

He provides peace with God.

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