Reconcilation.

Firstly, i would like to welcome the new authors to this blog! We will all begin to see many other men of God posting! So stay tuned to a blog that is more colourful!

Jew and Gentile Reconciled Through Christ

¹¹ Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)— ¹² remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. ¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Notice that Paul used the word "formerly" which is extraordinary. He meant that these people are no longer their old nature but followers of Christ, Christians. Whatever our old nature was, whether it is losers, politicians, scientists. That old nature was dead. That old identity was dead. But now our new nature is found in Christ. Even Jews, the favoured people of Christ. They are to lay down their identity and adopt the new identity in Christ. Paul further laments that circumcision is just an act. An action without heart is just an action. Especially for gentiles who were cut off from Christ, we should be even more grateful than Jews because now we are able to reach out to God directly and freely, without price or fear because the Lamb had been slain. Only through Jesus that we are able to reach God. Only through Christ. Are we grateful of what He did on the Cross?