What is the One New Man in Ephesians 2:15?

        I'm on a tough passage in Ephesians:  Abolishing in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances, that He might create the two in Himself into one new man, so making peace, Ephesians 2:15.    Yesterday I listened to a Living Stream Ministry's radio broadcast on Ephesians 2:15 (Program #23), and a line stuck in my head about the one new man being the most crucial item in the New Testament.   


     It helped me understand this a bit more when Witness Lee clarified in the Life-Study that the new man is not something different from the church but the highest aspect of the church (Lee, Witness. Life-Study of Ephesians.  Anaheim: Living Stream Ministry, 1978, Print).

   In my Recovery Version of the New Testament, there are 9 footnotes on this one verse.  I would encourage you to get your own free New Testament study Bible.  Here is one of the eye-opening footnotes on this verse: 

The Jews and Gentiles were separated to the uttermost by the separating ordinances. But both were created in Christ with the divine essence into one new entity, which is a corporate man, the church.  

What I've seen from reading this passage in the Epistle to the Ephesians, the Life-Studies, and listening to the radio broadcast messages is that besides dying for our redemption, the Lord also crucified the ordinances that divided the Jews from the Gentiles because His goal was to create one new man composed of believers from every country. It's such a glory to God when all the believers around the world are one with one another! 

If you'd like to hear the audio of these messages, you can do that by listening to Programs 22-24 pertaining to the one new man on The Life Study of the Bible with Witness Lee.

Other blog posts on the Life Study of Ephesians:

What is the Subject of Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians?
What is the Mystery of God's Will Revealed in Ephesians 1:9?
How Does God Head Up All Things in Christ in Ephesians 1:10?
How Does the Spirit Seal us in Ephesians 1:13-14?
What is the Surpassing Greatness of His Power in Ephesians 1:19?
From the Life Study of Ephesians: How Electricity Illustrates God's Purpose to Reach Man
What is the One New Man in Ephesians 2:15?
What is the Stewardship of the Grace of God in Ephesians 3:2?
Do You Know What the Multifarious Wisdom of God is in Ephesians 3:10?
What's God's Calling for in Ephesians 4:1?
What Does It Mean to Learn Christ in Ephesians 4:20?
Seeing the Church as the Bride of Christ in Ephesians 5:32
Seeing the Church as the Warrior in Ephesians 6
How Do We Apply the Armor of God in Ephesians 6?
What are the Seven Aspects of the Church Seen in Ephesians?
Why Did God Abolish the Ordinances in Ephesians 2:15?
Why is the Spirit Mentioned in Every Chapter of Ephesians?