Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Ephesians 2:15, “Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;”
After we see how the mystery of the one Body of Christ was conceived in eternity past, then we need to see how it was produced.
In the first part of Ephesians 1, we see its conception.
In the last part of chapter 1 and in chapter 2, we see how this mystery was actually produced.
Ephesians 2:13-16 says, “But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:”.
According to these verses, the mystery was produced by God through the death of Christ on the cross.
When the Lord Jesus was on the cross, not only were our sins laid upon Him, but also our divisions.
The division of humanity was abolished.
Not only do I have the enjoyment of being freed and pardoned from all sin, but I am also freed from all the ordinances that divided us.
The factors that have separated us and kept us in such individualistic ways were abolished on Calvary.
When He died, He terminated not only sin, sins, the flesh, and the old man, but also our race, our national distinctions, our background, the old creation, and everything that separates man.
He recreated us all in Himself, producing the new man, where He now is all and in all.
That is what He did on Calvary!
Division is over.
It is gone forever.
Calvary says so.
This one Body was produced by the process of Christ’s all-inclusive death and resurrection.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
MONDAY’S PRAYER REQUESTS
Amy Garner
Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad
Ashely Burn’s Sisters
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Charlene Palmer
Coly/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Dan Haines
Darlene Thaxton
David Burnette
David Harrison
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George & Linda Alexander
James Burnette
James Garner’s Friend
Jillian Gray
Jim Mabe
Jodi Bateman
John Austin
John McClain
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Karen Slane
Kim McClain’s Mother
Lamar Knight
Larry Barker
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Linda Alexander
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
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Lonzo Christin
Lorraine Elliott
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Maureen Brown
Michael Stanley
Pastor & Mrs. Driskell
Ricky Gipson – Ashley’s Brother
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Rose Fuller
Roseleigh Osborn
Sandra Graham
Scott Lanier
Terrell Loyd
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