Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians | Ephesians 2:11-13 | J. Allen Mashburn

Paul is writing to the Ephesians, and to us, to let the church know that, in Jesus, the walls are all taken down. In Jesus, there is no master or slave. There is no male or female. There is no rich or poor. There is no Greek or Barbarian. And, there is no Jew or Gentile. In Jesus Christ, we are all made one! That is the whole point of these verses.

 

1. In verse 11, Paul reminded us of The Divisions Of The Past. He reminds us of the wall between the Jews and us.

 

1. In verse 12, Paul reminds us of The Devastation Of The Past. He reminds us of just how bad the situation was on our side of the wall. In that verse, Paul reminds us that we had five huge problems.
2. We were “without Christ”
3. We were “aliens from the commonwealth of Israel”
4. We were “strangers from the covenants of promise”
5. We were without “hope”
6. We were “without God”

 

In our lost condition, we were separated from God. We were hopelessly lost and headed to Hell without Jesus Christ. We were in a desperate condition from which we could not save ourselves. In the verse we will look at today, Paul tells us how the wall was broken down between the Jews and the Gentiles. He tells us how we who were on the wrong side of the fence, were brought “near.”