Sermon Central
Kehillah in Ephesus 2
1And you being dead in your peysha'im and chatta'im,
2In which you amol (formerly) fier zich (comported oneself), according to the course of the Olam Hazeh, according to the Sar of the authority of the air [the Samekh Mem, Hasatan, teivel, the devil], the ruach now working in the bnei haMeri (sons of Rebellion).
3Among them we too all formerly conducted ourselves in the ta'avot of our basar, following the lusts of the flesh and of the machshavot (thoughts), and we were by nature Bnei Rogez (Sons of Wrath) of Hashem, as also the rest.
4But Hashem, being rich in rachamim (mercy), because of His ahavah harabba (great love) with which He loved us,
5Even when we were dead in our peysha'im, He made us alive together with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach (by the unmerited Chen v'Chesed Hashem you have been delivered in your personal Geulah and the Yeshu'at Eloheinu), [TEHILLIM 103:12]
6And raised us up with Moshiach and seated us with Him in Shomayim in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua/Yeshua [Zech 6:11-12; Ezra 3:8],
7In order that, in the Olam HaBah, He might display the surpassing osher of the Chen v'Chesed Hashem of Him in chesed toward us in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua/Yeshua [Zech 6:11-12; Ezra 3:8].
8For by unmerited Chen v'Chesed Hashem you have been delivered from Hashem's Din (Judgment) and granted a share in the Geulah (Redemption), through emunah; and this is not [an ainfal (intuitive idea)] of yourselves, it is a matnat Hashem (gift of G-d);
9Not the result [of the zokheh (merit)] of doing Gezetz ma'asim [law works, Ac 15:1; Ga 5:3-4], so that before Hashem no man should be a ravrevan (boaster, braggart). [DEVARIM 9:5]
10For we are His masterpiece, having been created in Moshiach Yehoshua/Yeshua [Zech 6:11-12; Ezra 3:8] for ma'asim tovim, which Hashem prepared beforehand, that we should walk our derech in them.[YESHAYAH 29:23; 42:7; 60:21;]
11Therefore, have zikaron (remembrance) that formerly you, the Goyim in the flesh, who are called " arelim" (uncircumcised ones) by the ones being called " nimolim" (circumcised ones) which is a Bris Milah performed in the flesh by human hands
12Have zikaron (remembrance) that you were at that time bazunder (unrelated and separate) from Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having been alienated from the torat haEzrakhut (the citizenship) in the Am Brit, from Yisroel, being zarim (strangers) to the Beritot HaHavtacha, farfoiren (lost) and having no tikvah (hope) and without G-d in the Olam Hazeh. [YESHAYAH 14:1; 65:1]
13But now in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua/Yeshua [Zech 6:11-12; Ezra 3:8], you, who formerly were in the outermost courts, have been brought near by the kapporah of the dahm of Moshiach.
14For Moshiach himself is our shalom, who made the Shnaym into Echad, having broken down in the basar of Moshiach the barrier of the Mechitzah (the dividing partition), the Soreg (barrier of the holy precinct in the Beis HaMikdash between Jews and non-Jews), the Eyvah (Enmity),
15By annulling the chok (decree, law) of mishpatim in ordinances that the Shnaym He might create in Himself into Adam Chadash Echad (One New Humanity), arbitrating shalom,
16And that Moshiach might bring the ritztzuy (reconciliation, cessation of enmity), reconciling to Hashem the Shnaym into one guf (body) [BERESHIS 47:18; TEHILLIM 16:9-10; IYOV 19:25-27; YESHAYAH 53:11] through the Moshiach's Etz, having put to death the Eyvah by it.
17And having come, Moshiach preached shalom to you, the ones in the outermost courts, and shalom to the ones near; [TEHILLIM 148:14; YESHAYAH 57:19]
18Because through Moshiach we both have HaSha'ar laHashem (gate to approach G-d's presence, access of the tzaddikim TEHILLIM 118:20) by one Ruach Hakodesh to Elohim HaAv.
19Therefore, then, no longer are you zarim and aliens, but you are fellow citizens of the Kadoshim and bnei bayit members of the household of G-d,
20Having been built upon the yesod (foundation) of the Shlichim and Nevi'im, Moshiach Yehoshua/Yeshua [Zech 6:11-12; Ezra 3:8] himself being the ROSH PINAH (TEHILLIM 118:22),
21In whom all the binyan (edifice), being fitly joined together, grows into a Heikhal Kadosh b'Hashem;
22In whom also you are being built together into a Mishkan of Hashem in the Ruach Hakodesh.