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1It wasn't so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin.

2You let the world, which doesn't know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience.

3We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It's a wonder God didn't lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us.

4Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love,

5he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us!

6Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.

7Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus.

8Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It's God's gift from start to finish!

9We don't play the major role. If we did, we'd probably go around bragging that we'd done the whole thing!

10No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.

11But don't take any of this for granted. It was only yesterday that you outsiders to God's ways

12had no idea of any of this, didn't know the first thing about the way God works, hadn't the faintest idea of Christ. You knew nothing of that rich history of God's covenants and promises in Israel, hadn't a clue about what God was doing in the world at large.

13Now because of Christ--dying that death, shedding that blood--you who were once out of it altogether are in on everything.

14The Messiah has made things up between us so that we're now together on this, both non-Jewish outsiders and Jewish insiders. He tore down the wall we used to keep each other at a distance.

15He repealed the law code that had become so clogged with fine print and footnotes that it hindered more than it helped. Then he started over. Instead of continuing with two groups of people separated by centuries of animosity and suspicion, he created a new kind of human being, a fresh start for everybody.

16Christ brought us together through his death on the Cross. The Cross got us to embrace, and that was the end of the hostility.

17Christ came and preached peace to you outsiders and peace to us insiders.

18He treated us as equals, and so made us equals. Through him we both share the same Spirit and have equal access to the Father.

19That's plain enough, isn't it? You're no longer wandering exiles. This kingdom of faith is now your home country. You're no longer strangers or outsiders. You [belong] here, with as much right to the name Christian as anyone. God is building a home. He's using us all--irrespective of how we got here--in what he is building.

20He used the apostles and prophets for the foundation. Now he's using you, fitting you in brick by brick, stone by stone, with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone

21that holds all the parts together. We see it taking shape day after day--a holy temple built by God,

22all of us built into it, a temple in which God is quite at home.



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