THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS CHAPTER 2:11-22 THE ONE NEW MAN OF JEW AND GENTILE

Mike teaches today. 05/01/21

THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS CHAPTER 2:11-22
THE ONE NEW MAN OF JEW AND GENTILE

VERSES: Genesis 2:22; Colossians 1:19-29; Luke 22:31-32

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Let us begin by summarizing where we have been taken so far in our understanding of the mystery of Paul’s gospel revealed in the letter to the Ephesians. In the 1st Chapter, God revealed that His designed intention was conceived before the foundation of the World. He would glorify His Son incarnate, Him being the victorious Son of Man which was validated in God’s resurrecting Him from among the dead, and would seat Him at His right hand above all things; heavenly and earthly. And that being in accordance to the furtherance of His salvation plan and restoration of all things having previously been ruined (both on the Earth and in the third heavens by satan). What is in view is that which had its manifest beginning in the Garden of Eden. “And God said, Let us (the Father, Son and Holy Spirit) make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” [Genesis 1:26] God’s intent before the foundation of the world was to have a being formed in His image, who would be appointed an inheritance in the heavenly realm. This New Creation was the mystery hidden in God.

God made or molded Adam out of the earth and breathed into him life. He then became a living soul. God then brought forth the 2nd Adam, Jesus Christ, Who, being resurrected by God’s power from among the dead, in the express image of God (He being the New Creature), is now a life-giving spirit. (1st Corinthians 15:45-49) This answers to God’s full intent of that Passage… “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…” which was the full collaboration of the Trinity, not in Adam so much as by the Father's sacrificial design through Christ Jesus His son in the power of the Holy Spirit. The Father “…hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all.” So it can be understood that in the 2nd Chapter the mystical “Body” of Christ; (Christ being the “Head” ) are those answering to being knitted/builded in Him. They are those having eternal life and His divine nature by God’s gift of grace through faith, who are then extended the heavenly calling of reward for good works the Father had prepared for them to walk in. That which was hid in God (Ephesians 3:9) and foreordained begins to open up to us in the “mystery of the heavens” foretold by Jesus in parables (Matthew 13) and Words left unexplained (Matthew 16:18). It is that great mystery which was later fully entrusted to Paul; this being the mystery of the kingdom of the heavens.

Now it is further written in Genesis 2:18, 22… “And the Lord God said, it is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him… “And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made (builded) he a woman, and brought her unto the man.” On the basis of these ancient declarations of God, we see that from before the re-creation of the Earth, God intended to “create” a man in ‘Their’ image, not a living soul, but a glorified soul, as this New Testament Epistle now openly declares… “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus…” (Ephesians 2:10) to be a new creature of a spiritual type as opposed to the making/forming of Adam and Eve out of material earth and being flesh.

For it is in resurrected and glorified Jesus Christ (the life-giving spirit) the fulfilling of the designed purpose of God is now to be realized. This being men ‘created’ in Their (the Father, Son and Holy Spirit’s) image. It is the only begotten Son being manifest as the 2nd Adam and His Bride as the New Creature being builded in Jesus Christ; that we find the design of God in replicating Himself in His complete image (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) is now filled with meaning. Christ not only brings us to God, but much nearer than Angels, in that He unites us to Him through Him. The Head and His Body “raised up together in heavenly places” are then to have a future promised dominion. This dominion being not only over the earth as in the 1st Adam and his bride, placed then in their proper place to rule in the Eden of the Earth, but then the 2nd Adam and His Bride together, having been granted dominion over the Earth and the heavens, are then placed in Their proper sphere to rule from in the new Eden of the heavens. (The progression of God’s intent can be beautifully seen here.) It has been seen that un-fallen.....

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