Occasionally, we discover another meaning to a word we use commonly. Perhaps it will happen to you this week on CrossHope with these two words we use often, peace and hostility. They are the two operative words in our text today in Ephesians. The Apostle Paul reminds new Christians who were Gentiles or non-Jewish believers of what they were before coming to Christ. Before becoming Christians, they were “without hope and without God in the world.” But now, they have been “bought near to God through the very blood of Jesus Christ!”