Quiet Time Notes

Notes from my daily Quiet Times with God

One Another - Reconciling with One Another (part 1)

February 21st, 2010
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Bible is clear - Jesus came to break down divisions - Ephesians 2:14

Worldly divisions

• Race
• Money
• Gender
• Culture
• Distance
• Too busy

Common barriers in the church:

• Past hurts
• Bitterness
• Sin - yours, mine or others

Jesus broke down walls through the cross - Ephesians 2:16
Can ONLY be done at the foot of the cross

Only way a holy and righteous God can be reunited with his unrighteous enemy (us) - Romans 5:6-11

Reconcile = to become friends again
Not to politely tolerate one another or a ceasefire

The goal of Jesus is to be one - John 17:20-21
Only way Jews and non-Jews could form the church of God

What Paul had is mind when writing - Ephesians 3:20
"...him who by the power that is working within us is able to do far beyond all that we ask or think"
Key Phrase: The only way for relationships (either with God and man or man and man) to be reconciled is through the cross