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the Villagechurch.net. Good morning, TVC. My name is Ravi Abraham, and my wife, Sanu and I serve in our premarital ministry.

Today's passage will be from Ephesians 2 11 through 22.

Therefore, remember that at one time, you Gentiles in the flesh,

call the uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision,

which is made in the flesh by hands.

Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ alienated from the commonwealth of

Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise having no hope and without God in the world

but now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down in his flesh

the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances,

that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two,

so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross,

thereby killing the hostility. And he came and preached peace to you who are far off,

and peace to those who were near. for through him, we both have access

in one spirit to the Father. So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow

citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the

apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,

in whom the whole structure being joined together grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

In him, you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

This is the word of the Lord.

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