“To me, the least significant of all the saints, this grace was given to declare to the nations the incomprehensible riches of Christ and to give light for all of the plan of the mystery hidden from the ages in God who created all things, in order that the manifold wisdom of God through the… Read More
Category: Expositions
Hidden from the Eons
“To me, the least significant of all the saints, this grace was given to declare to the nations the incomprehensible riches of Christ and to give light for all of the plan of the mystery hidden from the ages in God who created all things, in order that the manifold wisdom of God through the… Read More
Handling God’s Revelation
“To me, the least significant of all the saints, this grace was given to declare to the nations the incomprehensible riches of Christ and to give light for all of the plan of the mystery hidden from the ages in God who created all things, in order that the manifold wisdom of God through the… Read More
Incomprehensible Riches of Christ
“To me, the least significant of all the saints, this grace was given to declare to the nations the incomprehensible riches of Christ and to give light for all of the plan of the mystery hidden from the ages in God who created all things, in order that the manifold wisdom of God through the… Read More
Least Significant of the Saints
“To me, the least significant of all the saints, this grace was given to declare to the nations the incomprehensible riches of Christ and to give light for all of the plan of the mystery hidden from the ages in God who created all things, in order that the manifold wisdom of God through the… Read More
The Mystery taking Effect
“For you are able to read this to recognize my understanding in the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to those of other generations of the sons of men as now it is revealed to his holy Apostles and Prophets in the Spirit, that the gentiles are co-heirs and part of the same… Read More
A Prisoner of Jesus Christ
“For the sake of this, I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you gentiles, if indeed you heard of the stewardship of the grace of God that was given to me for you, that according to revelation the mystery was made known to me, just as I wrote formerly in brief.” (Ephesians 3:1-3) There… Read More
A Holy Temple
“in whom the whole building, being joined together, increases into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also have been built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.” (Ephesians 2:21-22) The “in whom” found in each of these verses, of course, speaks of Christ of whom the previous verse spoke.… Read More
The Church’s One Foundation
“having been built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, having as the cornerstone, Christ Jesus,” (Ephesians 2:20) The language of the church being like a great building and temple goes all of the way back to the prophesies of Haggai, Isaiah, and Ezekiel. They are also picked up by both Peter and Paul… Read More
Aliens and Outsiders
“Thus, we are no longer aliens and outsiders but we are fellow citizens with the saints and the family of God,” (Ephesians 2:19) Anyone who has traveled abroad and finds themselves alone in a country or land where the culture and customs are very different from his own understands how disconcerting it can be. My… Read More
The Gospel of Peace
“Also, having come, he preached the Gospel of peace to you who are far off and peace to you who are near, for through him we have access, both of us in one Spirit, to the Father.” (Ephesians 2:17-18) It strikes me as odd that people do not seem to notice that as America moves… Read More
One New Man
“For he is our peace, the one who has made both one and breaching the dividing wall which divided — the hatred in his flesh, the law in commandments nullified — in order that the two might be created in him into one new man making peace and reconciling both in one body to God… Read More
He is Our Peace
“For he is our peace, the one who has made both one and breaching the dividing wall which divided — the hatred in his flesh, the law in commandments nullified — in order that the two might be created in him into one new man making peace and reconciling both in one body to God… Read More
Drawn Near to God
“Yet, now in Christ Jesus, you who were at one time far away have come near in the blood of Christ.” (Ephesians 2:13) “There is no one who comprehends; no one who seeks after God.” (Romans 3:11) “No one is able to come to me if the Father who sent me has not dragged him;… Read More
The True Church and being Citizens of Israel
“Remember that you were formerly gentiles in the flesh — called the uncircumcision by those called the circumcision in the flesh by hands — that you were at that time without Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and a stranger to the covenant and the promise, being without hope and an atheist in the… Read More
Hopeless and an Atheist
“Remember that you were formerly gentiles in the flesh — called the uncircumcision by those called the circumcision in the flesh by hands — that you were at that time without Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and a stranger to the covenant and the promise, being without hope and an atheist in the… Read More
Covenant Signs
“Remember that you were formerly gentiles in the flesh — called the uncircumcision by those called the circumcision in the flesh by hands — that you were at that time without Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and a stranger to the covenant and the promise, being without hope and an atheist in the… Read More
Walk the Walk
“For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand in order that we might walk in them.” (Ephesians 2:10) As believers, God has created us to walk in good works. Certainly, the notion of walking in the Bible is often used to describe the way someone lives. When… Read More
Good Works
“For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand in order that we might walk in them.” (Ephesians 2:10) To clarify, then, the believer is a redeemed creation of God — God’s handiwork — and is thus at God’s disposal in terms of what he or she will… Read More
God’s Handiwork
“For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand in order that we might walk in them.” (Ephesians 2:10) The word ποίημα (poiema) refers to that which has been made by another, more typically, a creation made by the hands of another. This is a theme that is… Read More
Don’t Boast
“It is not by works in order that no one should boast.” (Ephesians 2:9) Why would someone boast about something they did not earn or merit? I believe that it is safe to say that if we truly understood the notion of salvation by grace, boasting would never even begin to be a part of… Read More
By Grace You Have Been Saved Through Faith
“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not from you, it is a gift of God.” (Ephesians 2:8) Here, in as concise a form as one is ever going to find it, we are given the heart of the matter about salvation. Salvation is worked by the grace of God… Read More
Kindness
“and he raised us up together and seated us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus in order that he might demonstrate in ages that are coming, the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness to us in Christ Jesus.” (Ephesians 2:6-7) One of the distinctly Christian ideas that Paul mentions here is the… Read More
Raised Us Up and Seated Us in Christ
“and he raised us up together and seated us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus in order that he might demonstrate in ages that are coming, the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness to us in Christ Jesus.” (Ephesians 2:6-7) Here we have one of those instances where the Biblical authors speak… Read More
By Grace You Have Been Saved
“even as we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ — by grace you have been saved —“ (Ephesians 2:5) Paul will go on to further explain the final phrase in this verse…”by grace you have been saved. What ought to be said here is that this is one of the… Read More
