Daniel week 13

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PUTTING THE NEW HUMANITY ON DISPLAY

Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

My interest is in POSTURE, not politics

EPHESIANS 2:11-22 p. 1079

REMEMBER THE

BAD NEWS EPHESIANS 2:11-12

fuel for the fires of hell

If we are going to deal with the social, we must first deal with the spiritual.

SEPARATED ALIENATED STRANGERS NO HOPE WITHOUT GOD

REMEMBER THE

GOOD NEWS EPHESIANS 2:13-16

But now…

If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have sent us a comedian or an artist. If God had perceived that our greatest need was political stability, he would have sent us a politician.

If he had perceived that our greatest need was health, he would have sent us a doctor. But he perceived that our greatest need involved our sin, our alienation from him, our profound rebellion, our death; and he sent us a Savior - D.A. Carson

BROUGT NEAR HE IS OUR PEACE ONENESS WALL BROKEN DOWN NEW MAN (3rd race)

MAKING PEACE RECONCILE US KILLING THE HOSTILITY

Are we living out our new identity?

REMEMBER OUR

CALLING EPHESIANS 2:17-22

fellow citizens family members

Will you advance in love or retreat?

what advancing in love is NOT

Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you. - Tim Keller

the problem with retreating

Are you constructing walls of hostility or a holy temple?

Galatians 5:14-15 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

PRAYER

PUTTING THE NEW HUMANITY ON DISPLAY