GOD’S POWER FOR THE CAUSE OF LIFE
Sanctity Of Human Life – 2023
Ephesians 2.12-19
v. 11 “… you Gentiles in the flesh, called ‘the uncircumcision’ by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands …” (esv)
v. 12 “… you were … separated … alienated … strangers … and without God …” (esv)
v. 13 “But now in Christ Jesus you … have been brought near …” (esv)
OUR PROLIFE ADVOCACY MUST EMBRACE …
GOD’S POWER TO Remove Old Hostility
vv. 2.14 & 16 “… he himself is our peace, who has made us both one … thereby killing the hostility.” (esv)
v. 14 “… has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility …” (esv)
GOD’S POWER TO Create A New Family
v. 18 “For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.” (esv)
v. 16 “He did this so that he might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross …” (csb)
v. 19 “So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God …” (esv)