R.C. Sproul

But this mystical union goes far beyond the individual.

If I am in Christ and Christ is in me,

and you are in Christ, and Christ is in you, then our peace, our reconciliation, our union is found in him, so that he is our unity, he is our peace.

He himself, that's the emphatic reference here to Christ, is our peace.

who has made both one, that is Jew and Gentile, and has broken down the middle wall of separation.

We remember that the day of our Lord's death, that when he satisfied the demands of God's holiness and justice, that the veil of the temple was rent vertically.

opening up access from the holy place to the Holy of Holies.

But that wasn't the only separation.

There was the porch of the Gentiles, the area that separated the Gentiles from the Jews.

And that was a place of separation.

And now that wall of separation, not only the curtain between the holy place and the Holy of Holies has been torn asunder, but the

Separation between the Jew and the Gentile has also been broken down.

Having abolished in his flesh the enmity.

Now, we know, I think, what the word abolish means.

We went through a war in this country.

to abolish slavery.

And to abolish means to get rid of, to terminate, to end, particularly with respect to legal requirements.

And so, the enmity that exists between the Jew and the Gentile is not only overcome by the peace of Christ, but by his authority

has been abolished.

It's over.