Thorns in Your Sides Part 4
Sermon notes of Pastor Don Elmore
August 2, 2015
Scripture Reading: Ephesians 2:11-16
It's Not Jews and Gentiles
Ephesians 2 is a chapter that seems to be a great mystery to almost every preacher in the country. They constantly miss that the two entities talked about in this chapter are not “Jews and Gentiles” but the House of Judah and the House of Israel respectfully. That is the “US.”
The Old Testament informs us that the House of Israel, after separating from the House of Judah, became a people who got farther and farther away from keeping God’s laws that they became outright Baal worshippers. Elijah was sent to the House of Israel to demonstrate to them who their God really was; it wasn’t Baal. Elijah had a contest between the two to show them that their God was the God who brought them out of Egypt.
God won; the priests of Baal were murdered; but the House of Israel kept on worshipping the false god. Finally, God had to obey His own law that said that the House of Israel would be taken into captivity and would be a nation no more.