Up to Ch 3 Paul is describing how the Gentiles are fellow heirs with the Jews, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
After painstaking detailing that the church of Jesus Christ does not distinguish between Jewish and Gentile believers Paul urges unity. Paul urges the Gentile believers to maintain a unity of Spirit in the bond of peace. This is not something we need to create through shear will power. This unity that already exists within the nature of the church we are called simply to maintain. This unity exists in the church because there is only one body in the church. Not a body here for the Jews and one over there for the Gentiles. Because there is only one Spirit, the Holy Spirit who indwells the church. Because the is only one hope and that is in Jesus for salvation. Because there is only one Lord, Jesus Christ to whom we are all to submit and obey. Because there is only one faith by which we can be saved. Because there is only one baptism into Christ as an external identification of the internal regenerating work of the Holy Spirit. Because there is only one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. This is the unity we are called to maintain...
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