Ephesians 2:15
15 Having abolished [katargeo] in [en] his [autos] flesh [sarx] the enmity, [echthra] even the law [nomos] of
commandments [entole] contained in [en] ordinances; [dogma] for to [hina] make [ktizo] in [en] himself [heautou] of twain [duo] one [eis] [heis] new [kainos] man, [anthropos] so making [poieo] peace; [eirene]
KJV-Interlinear
15 by
abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained
in ordinances, that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus
establishing peace, NASB
Abolished in His flesh,
is a reference to the work of Christ in His physical body, during those
thirty-three and a half years that He spent in this world as a man. Jesus
Christ lived a perfect life. No man in
history has been able to do that, or will ever be able to do that.
Jesus came into this
world a man. Jesus Christ is
simultaneously God. He is the unique
person of the universe, and there is no one to compare with Him.
Adam and Eve lived in the
Garden but failed, despite the fact that the Garden was a perfect environment,
without pressures of any kind. Jesus
lived in a world full of pressures and temptations, and did not fail. Jesus lived at the very least, as long as
Adam did in the Garden and perhaps longer, otherwise we would have a recorded complaint
from Satan that this trial of life for Jesus was not adequate or comparable.
Jesus by living the perfect
life, abolished the Mosaic Law, by keeping it with perfect precision. The Mosaic Law was written by Moses about
1500 years earlier and was subsequently diluted with volumes of regulations
that evolved into the Judaism law of works.
The Mosaic Law
demonstrated that man cannot live the perfect life, but reveals that man is
weak and sinful. The Mosaic Law
demonstrates that man cannot think perfect thoughts, cannot intend prefect
intentions, cannot function within the boundaries of a perfect pattern of
life. The Mosaic Law proves that man is
a total failure and therefore cannot rise to perfection by means of his own thoughts
or efforts.
The two is a reference to
the man of flesh and the man of the spirit.
Jesus brought both of these together by means of His life of perfection
and by means of His spiritual work on the Cross.
No person in history can
accomplish this result, other than Christ.
But this ‘new’ man means
more than a transformed person, but is a reference to a new creation, a new
species.
This is a new spiritual
species that God created in us, through Christ.
This therefore will lead to the abolishment of Jew and Gentile, of male
and female, of the many classifications of people that this world has
categorized us all into. This eliminates
prejudice, bias, favoritism and all tendencies to tilt the table in favor of
some and not for others.
The playing field of life
is leveled in the spiritual life and everyone has an equal chance for salvation,
for spiritual growth, for spiritual reward beyond the imagination.
The world loads the dice
against everyone sooner or later, and most never get a break. But the spiritual life favors no one and
gives all a fair, a more than fair, opportunity for phenomenal success. Only the individual can ruin his own chances
by ignoring the opportunities God offers.
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