The gospel isn't just saving people from judgement. It's also saving the world from the blight of sin and the destruction that sin brings upon human culture. In particular, with relevance to this text, we learn that Jesus came to destroy the dividing wall of hostility that existed between Jew and Gentile in his body upon the cross. But it isn't just that hostility that Jesus destroyed. It's also the walls of separation that exist in our own culture today that he comes to knock down. Hostilities between races, culture, the sexes, and politics, they're all knocked down because of what Jesus has come to do.

In this teaching Pastor Josh is joined by Andre Grey.

“Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands—remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostilityby abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.”

Ephesians 2:11–16 ESV