{"id":1105,"date":"2026-09-28T20:40:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2026-09-28T20:41:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:41:40","slug":"the-cross-reconciles-ephesians-211-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/?p=1105","title":{"rendered":"The Cross Reconciles @ Ephesians 2:11-22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GMT20260927 060316 Recording 1920x1080\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m5NBP7jJ28k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>11&nbsp;<\/sup>Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called \u201cuncircumcised\u201d by those who call themselves \u201cthe circumcision\u201d (which is done in the body by human hands)\u2014 <sup>12&nbsp;<\/sup>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. <sup>13&nbsp;<\/sup>But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11&nbsp;Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called \u201cuncircumcised\u201d by those who call themselves \u201cthe circumcision\u201d (which is done in the body by human hands)\u2014 12&nbsp;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","category-feature","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhopechurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}