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This sermon was preached by Tim Simmonds at the Fallowfield site of Christ Church Manchester on Sunday 12th October 2014.

SERIES

This message was the fourth part of the Ephesians series, preached at Christ Church Manchester’s church in Fallowfield in late 2014. The full series included the following sermons:

• Saved For the Big Picture (by Tim Simmonds) – Ephesians 1:3-14
• The Head & The Body (by Vicki Simmonds) – Ephesians 1:15-23
• Second Chance Sunday (by Tim Simmonds) – Ephesians 2:1-10
• One New Man (by Tim Simmonds) – Ephesians 2:11-22
• The Wisdom of God, or Ten Reasons Why the Church Is Incredible (by Tom O’Toole) – Ephesians 3:1-13
• God Gives Gifts (by Tim Simmonds) – Ephesians 4:7-16
• Brand New You (by Lianna Roast) – Ephesians 4:17-5:2
• Sex & Alcohol (by Tim Simmonds) – Ephesians 5:3-20
• Wives & Husbands (by Tim Simmonds) – Ephesians 5:21-24 & 6:1-4

BIBLE VERSES

This sermon was based on Ephesians 2:11-22.

One In Christ

11Therefore 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— 12remember 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. 13But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15by 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, 16and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 17And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. 18For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit. 

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