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Advent: The Coming of Peace!

December 4, 2016 Series: The Good News of Christmas

Topic: Advent Passage: Ephesians 2:11–22

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Advent: The Coming of Peace!
Ephesians 2:11-22

Here’s why peace matters:


                              Our world is fueled by f________ and anxiety.

But when peace arrives, we are challenged to:

1. Keep on Remembering v 11-12
Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called ‘the uncircumcision’ by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

We are to keep on remembering:
i) We were “G__________________.”

ii) We were u________________.

iii) We were “S______________.”

iv) We were “a_____________________ from the commonwealth.”

v) We were s______________________________.

vi) We were without h___________ and without God.

 

2. Keep on Celebrating v 13-16
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
We are to keep on celebrating:
i) Strangers have been brought nearby his b_________ (v. 13).

ii) Walls have been broken down by his f________ (vv.14-15).

iii) Hostility was slaughtered on the c_________ (v. 16).

 

3. Keep on Being Built Up v 17-22
And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
We are being built up all t__________________ (vv. 21-22)
We are being built up to be a H_______________ Temple. (v. 19-20)
The prophets and apostles are our f_________________. (v. 21 a)
As the cornerstone, Jesus ___________________________________________________________.
Application:
This Advent Season, what one thing will I do each week in order to represent the Prince of Peace who arrives?

 

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