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As in heaven (Ephesians 2:11-22)
Diane Tidball, 7 January 2018
Part of the Standalone Sermon series, Sunday Morning service
We are overfamiliar with the words of the Lord’s Prayer – May your Kingdom come your will be done on earth as in heaven. Today we will reflect on what we are praying when we say “As in heaven”. We remind ourselves that this is not a comfortable, safe prayer – in praying these words we are seeking the holy, powerful, loving Kingdom of God to overturn all injustice, darkness and bring light and life and for us to be part of that transformation.
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Ephesians 2:11–22 (Listen)
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. 18 For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
(ESV)