Welcome back to today's podcast from Down Under, the country of Australia. We're going to spend a few

episodes right here, Down Under, looking at what's in the Word of God and discovering some great

truths that we can live by. Welcome to Everyday Truth with Kurt Skelly. We believe the Bible is true

and relevant to everyone, everywhere, every day.

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Hey friends, welcome to our episode of Everyday Truth. I'm not in my studio today, obviously. I'm in

Australia. I'm in Charmhaven Australia. Look it up on a map. It's a little bit north of Sydney,

Australia. I'm at my daughter's house and my granddaughter's house and my son Nathaniel and his wife and

children are here from the States and we've just got a whole big family thing going on. So it's a

blessing. But I'll be here for a while and I thought I would go ahead and record the episodes

while I'm here so that we don't lose any time.

So we're in Ephesians chapter number one, if you have a copy of the Word of God with you.

And last episode, we began talking about the prayer that the Apostle Paul prayed for these new believers. Remember, he's writing to the people

of Ephesus, the church at Ephesus. And in that church, there are some people that are Jewish

believers and a good number of Gentile believers. And remember that those groups typically did not get along. So the fact

that they are now one in Christ, what Jesus has done to bring them together, what that means,

some of the tensions that they're still having because of some of those prejudices that they've brought into

their salvation, all of that's a big deal. In fact, the Jewish Gentile controversy covers so

much of the New Testament. Think about the Jerusalem Council in Acts chapter 15, and then

all of the teaching that the Apostle Paul did on, hey, get along, whether that be Romans,

chapters 14 and 15, which we covered during our Romans series, or 1st Corinthians, chapters 8, 9, and 10, or passages like these.

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