In this chapter Paul tells us how we have been rescued out of the imprisonment of desperate and self serving attitudes and values of this world that are energized by the power of the prince of darkness, who still holds sway over people who don’t believe and who don’t know any better. He tells us that God supernaturally activated the life of his son Jesus into our beings while we were still stuck in our self absorption and not even looking in his direction. He tells us that it was God’s goodness that planned and implemented our salvation, and that God gave humanity a place in heaven and a shared life with Jesus which is available for anyone to experience.


He then brings the role of the Jewish Nation into the equation and tells us that once we were lumped in with the rest of the non Jewish world and considered religiously unfit by their tradition and religion, but that was before humanity was joined to the life of Jesus in that inseparable bond that has been forged in heaven. Now the rest of humanity who always considered themselves at a great distance from God have been brought intimately close to him. That is what Jesus gave up his life for. So that means that there are no more insiders and outsiders, but we who share this belief with each other are one big family living in God’s household, and this is also the special place on earth where God wants to live.

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1. God’s own life force has now been activated in you,lifting you out of the deathly void of self absorption and self gratification.

2. Which you once shared with the rest of humanity. We were driven by the desperate self serving attitudes and values of this world that are energized by the power of the prince of darkness, who still holds sway over people who don’t believe and who don’t know any better.

3. Once we were all trapped in that way of life, compelled to do whatever our mental and emotional and physical wants and needs demanded of us. Our entire disposition was one of being herded along with everybody else in a torrent of intense feelings that focused us in on ourselves.

4. But God, whose entire disposition is one of overflowing goodness and kindness and love toward us

5. Supernaturally activated the life of his son Jesus into our beings while we were still stuck in our self absorption and not even looking in his direction. (God’s goodness planned and implemented your salvation)

6. He gave us a place in heaven and a shared life with Jesus which is available for anyone to experience.

7. And in this coming age it will be fully disclosed for all to see the extravagance of his loving goodness and kindness to us that transcends all else through what Jesus did in becoming one of us

8. It is only God’s goodness that has planned and implemented your salvation, which becomes a reality to you when you have faith in it. And that faith is not something you have to work up either because God gives even that to you.

9. If we could have done that for ourselves we would never stop bragging about it.

10. But we are the product of his design which has welded humanity into the life of Jesus with an inseparable bond. This causes our lives to be a gracious outworking of Jesus’ life in our day to day lives, to do things that God had planned for us before we were born.

11. So it’s good to bear in mind that once you were lumped in with the rest of the non Jewish world and considered religiously unfit by their tradition and religion.

12. That was before humanity was joined to the life of Jesus in that inseparable bond. Nobody outside God’s chosen community of that era knew about any promises from God to mankind, and nobody had any hope of ever receiving anything from God

13. But now this inseparable life bond with Jesus has been forged in heaven. And you who always considered yourselves at a great distance from God have now been brought intimately close to him. That is what Jesus gave up his life for.

14. Jesus has unified all of mankind by becoming one with all of us, and so there now exist no barriers from God’s point of view.

15. In becoming the meeting point between all of humanity and all of God, Jesus has done away with any reason for hostility to exist. No more special claim to some ethnic or religious identity. Even the role of Judaism as the special keepers and proclaimers of the Commandments has been swallowed up in the new God-man relationship he has established.

16. Jesus has brought all of mankind to God as one entirely new order of humanity because of his death and resurrection. In other words, he killed off the old order by his death and he brought in the new order by his resurrection.

17. The message of a shared life with Jesus has been proclaimed not only to the Jews, whose lives were bound up with that promise, but also to you who were considered as distant from God.

18. It is Jesus who brings everyone into the Father’s presence through The Holy Spirit.

19. So that means that there are no more insiders and outsiders, but we who share this belief with each other are one big family living in God’s household, all of us special in God’s sight.

20. And the fundamental order and atmosphere of that household is drafted and demonstrated by Apostles and Prophets. Jesus of course is the principal foundation, core and center of the whole house.

21. Together in him we find ourselves fitting in with one another and growing together as a unique household in the Lord.

22. This loving household that you are being built together in is also the special place on earth where God wants to live.       

   
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