Today: [Ephesians 2:] Raised Up and Seated Together: In chapter 2 Paul declares that Jesus in His person is the basis of your reconciliation to God and to one another in the body of Christ. Through the work of the Cross Jesus abolished by virtue of the New Birth all sense of hostility between the believer and the throne of God thus constituting us in our persons as the temple of God and building of God corporately expressed by our connection to and membership in the body of Christ.