# 16. 2018 Dev. Eph.2:19-20. Reconciliation! Read verses 11-22. The purpose of these devotionals is to draw closer to God and grow spiritually by applying His Word to our daily living. All passages are taken from the NIV.
Ephesians 2:19-20 “19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone”.
Historically there has been a radical separation between Jews and all other peoples, extremely so at the time of Jesus. The Apostles struggled with it and disagreed over fellowship with those called Gentiles. But from the beginning God called and blessed Abraham to be a blessing to all families of the earth. That is God’s intention to bring all things under the authority of Christ; simply put, redemption of God’s creation.
It is by God’s grace that we are brought near to God by the blood of Christ. The work of Christ reaches into the past to the beginning of time and into the future to the end of time. In God’s reality, He is in the eternal present so all His decrees are already accomplished. “It is finished”! We who are in time and space are limited to our current experiences, but by faith we know that the purposes of God will be and are already established.
The result of God’s purpose to bring all things under the authority of Christ is that all those who acknowledge Christ as their Lord and Savior are brothers and sisters, regardless of ethnicity, tribe, color, culture, or area of origin, one family; “built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord.” We are the very diverse body of Christ, indwelt and empowered with the Spirit of God to be His hands and feet in a troubled world. God is accomplishing in us what he promised to Abraham; to be a blessing to all families of the earth. Praise be to God!
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