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| Inductive
Studies in Ephesians with Chris Lang |
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Summer 2000
Paragraph Study
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Ephesians |
Author |
Audience |
3rd Party |
| 1:1 | Paul, apostle of Christ | believers at Ephesus | |
| :15 | love the saints | ||
| :16 | thankful and prayerful | ||
| :17 | for wisdom, revelation, enlighten | ||
| 3:1 | Prisoner of Christ for Gentiles (implied ID of Ephesians) | ||
| :2 | received stewardship | ||
| :3 | received revelation, wrote prior letter | ||
| :7 | minister of gospel | ||
| :13 | distraught over Paul's suffering | ||
| 4:17 | futile Gentiles | ||
| :18 | blind, ignorant hardened | ||
| :19 | callous, impure | ||
| 5:6 | empty deceivers | ||
| :11 | practice darkness | ||
| 6:19 | in need of boldness for gospel | ||
| :20 | ambassador for gospel | ||
| :21 | Tychicus: brother, servant | ||
| :22 | sent Tychicus | for your comfort |
Paragraph Studies
1:1-2 Paul
an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God
to the saints who are at Ephesus
faithful in Christ Jesus
Grace and peace from God our Father and Lord JC
1:3-14
:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord JC
Blessed us with every spiritual blessing in Christ
:4 Just as He chose us in Him before the fndtn of world
To be holy and blameless before Him
:5 He predestined us to adoption as sons thru JC to Himself
According to kind intention
:6 To the praise of the glory of His grace
Freely bestowed on us in Christ
:7 In Him we have Redemption thru His blood
The forgiveness of our trespasses
According to riches of His grace
: 8 Lavished upon us
In wisdom and insight
:9 He made know to us the mystery of his will
According to His kind intention
Purposed in Him
:10 With a view to an admin suitable to fullness of times
That is, summing up of all things in Christ
Things in heaven and on earth
In Him
:11 We Obtained an inheritance
Having been predestined according to His purpose
Who works all things after the counsel of His will
:12 To the end that we (who were the first to hope in Christ) should be
to praise of His glory
:13 In Him
You also,
after listening to the message of truth, the gospel
having also believed
you were sealed in Him with the HS of promise
14: who is given as a pledge of our inheritance
with a view to the redemption of God's possession
to the praise of His glory.
1:15-23
:15 For this reason I
having heard of the faith in the Lord among you
and your love of the saints
:16 do not cease giving thanks for you
making mention of you in my prayers
:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, Father of glory
may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in knowing Him
