2:16
How did Christ achieve this peace? He reconciled both of them to God. So see that the focus was not reconciling them to each other, but to God. Then they can have peace with each other. All of us have sinned against God, even if you are a victim of oppression your biggest problem is that you have sinned against God. Jesus ended this problem on the cross, and put to death “their hostility”.
2:17
“He came and preached ...” Now of course Jesus had not been to Ephesus during His earthly mission, but the gospel is the gospel of Jesus. So the same message was preached both to the Gentiles and to the Jews. There was no difference. The same message is preached to male and female, to black and white, to rich and poor. Peter says that when we preach we should do so as if we are preaching the very words of God, and our task is to present the message of Christ, not any invention of men.
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