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				<description><![CDATA[This final week of Advent, we will read about, and hopefully receive, the PEACE that surpasses all understanding as we acknowledge God’s presence among us.. You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, announcing the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all. Acts 10:36 Remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God [&#8230;]]]></description>
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You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, announcing the good news of <strong>peace</strong> through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all. Acts 10:36</p>
<p>Remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our <strong>peace</strong>, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making <strong>peace</strong>, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached <strong>peace</strong> to you who were far away and <strong>peace</strong> to those who were near. For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit. Ephesians 2:12-22</p>
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