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We long to belong. We crave unity. We want to be loved and accepted by others. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians is about uniting all things in Christ. Here we learn how to break down what separates us from God, one ethnic group from another, husband from wife, parent from child, employer from employee. These studies provide a vision of the new society God has planned in his church.

4. How have you seen these forces at work? We cannot shift all the blame for our slavery to sin on to “the world, the flesh and the devil” and accept no responsibility for it. On the contrary, it is significant that in these verses “you” and “we” are not identified with these forces but distinguished from them, although enslaved by them. We are called “God’s rebel subjects” (v. 2 NEB). We had rebelled, knowingly and voluntarily, against the loving authority of God and so had fallen under the dominion
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