Hello Grace Church hope you are well! Last week in Ephesians 2 Paul showed us—in strong terminology—how Christ has brought us from death to life, from lies to truth, and from darkness to light. In short, Christ has healed our hostility with God vertically. We were dead, but God. So good. You could think of last week as Gospel Presentation and this week as Gospel Implication. Paul goes directly from telling them what God has done vertically to what that means for us now horizontally. We’ve been reconciled with God and because of this, we are now reconciled with each other. Jew and Gentile had centuries of hostility, fueled by social separation, mutual contempt, political tension, and cultural practices. But something happened in Christ that turned enemies into one body, and reconciled both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.
