Ephesians 2:18

‘For through Him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.’

For the one Holy Spirit gives both of them access as one in Him to the Father. This emphasises their oneness. Thus both believing Jews and Gentiles now have access to the Father through the activity of the indwelling Holy Spirit. And as the Spirit is one, so they approach God as one.

‘Access.’ The word is prosagoge meaning ‘approach, access’.

The whole emphasis from Ephesians 2:11-18 is thus on the fact that believing Jews and Gentiles are made one. They are made one, ‘in Christ Jesus -- in the blood of Christ’ (Ephesians 2:13), through Him Who is ‘our peace’ (Ephesians 2:14), through the creation of one new man from two (Ephesians 2:15), through being reconciled as one body (Ephesians 2:16), through the believing Gentiles being brought near as the believing Jews are near (Ephesians 2:17), and through both having access to the Father through the one Spirit (Ephesians 2:18). This is in order to demonstrate that the believing Gentiles may now enjoy equally the privileges already enjoyed by the believing Jews. They have become ‘the Israel of God’ (Galatians 6:16). They are all one in the new Israel.