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HORIZONTAL ATONEMENT: THE CROSS AND THE CHURCH | Sabbath School Lesson 5 | 3Q 2023

Sabbath School Lesson Review (Tagalog) By Pastor Elexiz Mercado In Ephesians 2:1–10, Paul paints an incredibly beautiful and uplifting picture of how God operates in the salvation of an individual person. Being saved means being called by the Messiah, being resurrected with the Messiah, ascending with the Messiah, and being exalted with the Messiah. But this description was usually applied to the Jews who were eagerly waiting for their Messiah-Savior. In the Jewish interpretation, when the Messiah would come He was expected to save and exalt the Jews and destroy and humiliate the Gentiles. However, Paul takes the exalting language used for describing the salvation of the Jews and applies it . . . to the Gentiles, too! At the same time, we do need to carefully note that Paul does not proclaim that now the Gentiles are saved because they are Gentiles or that the Jews are saved because they are Jews. The Jews, who were “nigh” to God (Eph. 2:13), could live the same type of life “without God in the world” (Eph. 2:12) as the Gentiles (Eph. 2:1–10, Rom. 2:17–26). The Gentiles, for their part, must not forget what manner of life they lived before encountering and accepting Christ. Thus, both groups were equally saved by the grace of God, manifested in Christ Jesus on the cross. It is only when both the Jews and the Gentiles are in Christ that they are saved. On the other hand, Paul does emphasize that salvation comes from the Jews (Eph. 2:12; see also Rom. 9:4, 5; John 4:22). After all, “God had chosen the Hebrew people to be His representatives on earth, . . . entrusted to them the divine oracles, and . . . the Messiah was . . . a Jew (Rom. 9:4, 5).”—The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 5, p. 940.