God's Dwelling Place - Dr. Wierwille

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Father] ye Ephesians 2:14: Jesus Christ abolish the enmity and the or- are no more [no longer] strangers and For he [Jesus Christ] is our peace, who hath dinances? This was all done in order that foreigners [sojourners], but fellow citizens made both [Jew and Gentile] one, and hath God might create-and the word "create" with the saints, and of the household of God. broken down [destroyed] the middle wall of is absolutely accurate. And that creation is The word "foreigners" is paroikos. We partition between us [between Jew and Gen- the spirit. WhatJesus Christ brought about are no longer strangers and paroikos, tile]. was the new creation of God in Christ in sojourners, outside the household, moving Jesus Christ brought peace in tearing every believer, regardless of their previous around like bedouins having no certain liv- down the partition separating Jew from label as Jew or Gentile. T