January 31, 2010 | David Crosby
Passage: Ephesians 2:11-22
The extent to which God cares is best illustrated in all that he has done through his One and Only Son, Jesus.
God sent his Son to live among us and die for our sins. Jesus paid our sin debt. This is how God can lavish his grace upon us while maintaining his holiness. He reckons us righteous through the application of the righteousness of Christ.
God brings us near to himself and near to one another through the death of his Son. God’s gracious purpose is not exhausted in the gift of eternal salvation. He intends to give us a new relationship with one another patterned after his own loving heart.
God chose to accomplish a great reconciliation between Jew and Gentile by becoming human, thereby to “create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace” (Eph. 2:15). As the church of Jesus Christ we are to live in a unity that is inaccessible to the world but that is “normal” for the community of faith. This unity authenticates our connection to Christ.