Category Archives: Ephesians

I apologize for it taking so long to post this. This blog is going to be fairly academic in nature, and I was trying to find a way to communicate the appropriate emotion behind it so that it wouldn’t seem so matter-of-fact as it’s such an important text. Then over time, I just forgot about it. Over the past few weeks, though, through the course of conversations with some people, I really became pressed with how much we love our sin. This realization drove me back to this text, and I decided that I needed to go ahead and post this as is, and hope that the heart behind it comes across.

If you’re new to the blog, or just need a refresher, it may help to review what we’ve already covered in the Ephesians series (scroll to the bottom of the page to get to the first post).

Alright, we left off in the previous blog stating that Paul, at a high level, compares our salvation to Christ’s resurrection to communicate the drastic change that took effect at our salvation. GOD MADE US ALIVE! We were spiritually dead because of sin and God breathed life into our very soul. He resurrected us from our spiritually dead state and made us alive in Christ Jesus. So not only will we be resurrected physically as Jesus was, but we have already been resurrected spiritually.

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Ephesians 1:15-23 ESV

^[15] For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, ^[16] I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, ^[17] that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, ^[18] having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, ^[19] and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might ^[20] that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, ^[21] far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. ^[22] And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, ^[23] which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

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Ok, verses 7-14, we’ll pick it up at the end of verse 6.

^[6] to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

In the previous blog, we ended saying that God blessed us so that we would praise Him and His grace. Paul continues in verse 6 to say that it is in God’s grace that we have been blessed in the Beloved (Jesus). Paul then moves forward to identify how God’s grace has blessed us, or some of the specific things we, as Christians, can directly attribute to God’s grace. Continue reading →

Ok, as the title of the blog says, we’ll be in Ephesians 1:3-6 today.

Ephesians 1:3-6 ESV

^[3]Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, ^[4] even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love ^[5] he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, ^[6] to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

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