Equally of the Household of God

Minister:
Date: PM
Text: Ephesians 2:19-22
Psalters: 85, 67, 238, 133
  1. The meaning.
    1. In our text Paul is inspired to use a variety of figures of speech to show unity with diversity.
    2. These figures describe the unity of the body of Jesus Christ.
      1. This means that all other human considerations do not matter: nationality, wealthy, skin color, etc.
      2. Though they were still Gentiles according to the flesh, they have been brought into the body by the blood of the Lamb.
  2. That which unites and makes all believers in God’s only begotten Son to be one is the “foundation” and the “cornerstone.”
    1. The “foundation” consists of the “apostles and prophets.”
      1. This foundation is made up of the New Testament truths as taught by the apostles and the New Testament prophets.
      2. The heart of their teaching was that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
    2. The household of God is being built on that foundation.
      1. The Ephesian believers were being gathered and thus united with the Jewish believers.
      2. The on-going building is “through the Spirit” (22).
  3. What makes the household of God, the church and a spiritual temple is God’s indwelling.
    1. In the various figures of speech God spiritually dwells with His people together as in a house.
    2. This makes the church “an holy temple.”
      1. The “temple” is the physical structure which represented God dwelling in the midst of and with His people.
      2. The growth of this household of God is not natural, but is “in the Lord” (21b).
    3. The growing holy temple is the “habitation of God.”
    4. Application.