Welcome to A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here,

we are hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only

present throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it.

Hey friends, welcome back to Year in the Bible. My name is Alexa and I'm here with my co-hosts

for the week, Emma. Hi, everyone. Today we're going to be making the Christ connection between the two passages

that we studied this week as for 3, 10 through 11 and Ephesians 2, 11 through 22. So, Emma,

do you want to start off our discussion? I would love to. So these two passages are so beautiful

because they share so much about Christ and what he is

currently doing in us. A little bit of what we talked about yesterday. And to show where these

two are connected, we probably need some refreshers to get us into that mental space. So back in the

Old Testament, anyone that was not Jewish was separated from God. These are the Gentiles that are referred

to a lot in the Old and even in the New Testament as well. These are foreigners that are away from God

because of sin and because they were not in the covenantal family from Abraham's lineage. And so you may be

saying to yourself that it isn't fair that these people

were separated from God, but don't worry, God had an intentional plan for all of redemption

with every single person. And God sent Jesus to be the bridge between all people from all

tribes that we can now be connected to the Lord. So where do temples play into this? Well, the people in

Israel were sent to rebuild the temple in Ezra because of its destruction, which was due to sin.

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