3. Don’t let your conscience
be your guide.
Let the context
be your guide!

4. Ephesians
What the House of God is.
How we are to live in
the House of God.

5. Between Jew and Gentile
Alienation
Between Jew and Gentile
This alienation is resolved in only one place, by One Man who produced an indivisible House.

6. “But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.”
Ephesians 2:13

7. “But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.”
Ephesians 2:13

8. The context is our guide.
“in Christ Jesus”
The context is our guide.
Ephesians 1:22-23.

9. “But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.”
Ephesians 2:13

10. How did this change occur?
A change has come to be
from what was to what is,
from then to now.
How did this change occur?

11. “But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.”
Ephesians 2:13

12. “For he is our peace…, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us.”
Ephesians 2:14

13. Peace is the result of joining. The one who joins is The Joiner.
“peace” – from a verb
meaning “to join.”
Peace is the result of joining.
The one who joins is The Joiner.

14. Three statements defining
“…he is our peace…”
“He is The Joiner of us”
Three statements defining
The Joiner moving from
general to specific.

15. “For he is our peace, who hath made both one…, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us.”
Ephesians 2:14

16. The Joiner produces one without even the slightest separation.
The Joiner produces not two who are now close, in good fellowship with little separation.
The Joiner produces one without even the slightest separation.

17. “For he is our peace, who hath made both one and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us.”
Ephesians 2:14

18. Gentile
Jew
Separate
Alienated
Divided

19. Jesus
The Joiner
Makes both one

20. “Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances...”
Ephesians 2:15

21. The middle wall of partition pictured in the Temple is actually “the law of commandments contained
in ordinances.”

22. The House of God is the one place on earth where
everything presented in Ephesians takes place.

23. living in His House that’s made one complete house
The complete plan of the Heavenly Father is for you to be one of His children who is
living in His House that’s
made one complete house
by The Joiner, Jesus Christ.