Family Identity
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. Ephesians 3:14-15 (NIV) The Greek word for family is patria
Free Access
In Whom, because of our faith in Him, we dare to have the boldness (courage and confidence) of free access (an unreserved approach to God with freedom and without fear).
The same offer is available to all.
The mystery is that people who have never heard of God and those who have heard of him all their lives (what I’ve been calling outsiders and insiders) stand on
The Secret revealed
In past times human beings were not told this secret, but God has revealed it now by the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets. The secret is that by
A home for God
all of us built into it, a temple in which God is quite at home.All of us who have accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior are God’s temple.
Christ the Chief Cornerstone
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with
No Longer Strangers
Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, Ephesians 2:19 (NKJV) When Adam went against God’s
We have Access to the Father.
and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. And He came and preached peace to you who
One New Man
For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, [that is,] the
The wall of separation was broken.
For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation. Ephesians 2:14 (NKJV) The serpent introduced separation in the garden.