“For He, Himself is our peace (with God)… And Himself having put to death the enmity (between us and God.” – Ephesians 2:14a; 16b.
After the Fall, Adam and Eve hid from God. God did not hide from them. As a matter of fact, God came in pursuit of them in their hiding, crying out, “Where are you.” It is not that God did not know where they were geographically. He was longing for them relationally for they were created to, in intimate affection, contain, experience, and reveal all that God was and all that God had. God did not separate, or alienate Himself from them. They separated and alienated themselves from God. The word “enmity” literally means “hostility, alienation.” Colossians 1:21 says, “and although you were formally alienated and hostile in mind, and and evil deeds, yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body.” We were the ones who were hostile toward God, not God towards us.
Ephesians 2:16 says that in Christ, the enmity was slain and put to death. In Christ, we have been positioned to once again experience intimacy with God. It is nothing that we did, but by pure grace, that He reconciled us to Himself. Christ’s intimacy with God is our intimacy with God, and nothing can ever be done that would create our separation from God ever again. Christ’s security in God’s love is our security. Enmity has been slain and put to death, and when something is dead, it is gone forever. Colossians 2:13 declares from the cross (when all our sins were future” that all of our sins were forgiven. “And when you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions.” There is nothing you will ever do that He hasn’t already forgiven; therefore, nothing can threaten the nearness between you and God again. God closed, by His grace, all the doors that might lead to enmity.