Together in Christ #7

As we said when we were looking here in Ephesians 1, we have a tendency to forget, so Paul says in chapter 2, verse:

11 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— 12 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. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 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, 16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near.

Paul says Remember that you were separated from everything pointing to spiritual life: Christ, the people of God, the covenants of God, the hope of God. But now... you have been brought together with God's people, in Christ, under God's peace, into one body.  You were separated; now you are together. This is only possible because Christ fulfilled the law of God for all who trust in Him; His blood was sufficient for both Jew and Gentile alike; He has torn down the wall between man and God and man and man. We have built the wall; Christ has torn it down. We separated ourselves from God and others; He had brought us together. Never forget that, because that is exactly what our enemy wants us to do.