Thanks for listening to Gospel and life. Today, Tim Keller is taking us through a series on the book of Ephesians, a book that is all about what it means to be Christian and what it means to live in

unity with other believers. After you listen we invite you to go online to

gospel in life.com and sign up for email updates. Now here's today's teaching from Dr. Keller. Tonight's no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's

household built on the foundation of the Apostles and Profits with Christ Jesus himself as the

chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined

together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord and in him you too are being

built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his spirit.

This is the word of the Lord.

So we continue to look at the Book of Ephesians and we've said that the Book of Ephesians ultimately is about the church.

And starting last week or starting in the middle of Ephesians 2, starting verse 11, all the way

through the rest of the chapter, all the way into chapter 3, all the way into early, most of

chapter 4.

Paul very directly is talking about what is the church, who is the church.

Some of the most powerful passages on that subject you're ever going to find anywhere.

Now the one we're looking at here, it's short because it's so packed and in here we're being

told what we were then what we are and last of all how we can become what we are. You see there's a problem

we aren't what we are. What we were, what we are, and how we can really

become what we are.

And first of all, Paul tells us what we were.

Consequently, you were no longer, see we were, foreigners and aliens.

Now a foreigner and alien is a cultural linguistic outsider or put it another way.

If you happen to find yourself in a land where you don't know the language, you don't know the culture, you don't know anyone, you don't know anyone you can't communicate with them and you can't

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