We now begin an important part of our journey through the book of Ephesians. In the first two chapters the apostle Paul sowed the seeds of a glorious and expansive vision of what Christians are called to be. For the rest of the epistle he lays out a practical plan for how this is achieved. We...

Our text for this week is Ephesians 2:21-22: In whom the whole building, being fitted together is growing into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit. By this Scripture we can understand that we do not automatically become the...

Our text for this week is Ephesians 2:20: Having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone. Paul is not saying that the apostles and prophets are the foundation. As he wrote in I Corinthians 3:11, Jesus Christ is the only foundation for...

Our text for this week is Ephesians 2:17-19: And He came and preached peace to you who were far away, and peace to those who were near; or through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints,...

This week we continue our study of our purpose in Christ with the crucial statement made in Ephesians 2:15-16: by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace, and might...

This week we continue to study our purpose in Christ with Ephesians 2:11-13: Therefore remember, that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "Uncircumcision" by the so-called "Circumcision," which is performed in the flesh by human hands remember that you were at that time separate...

This week we continue our study with Ephesians 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. The first point in this text is that we are God’s workmanship, not our own. In the world, "self-made" men and women are...

This week we continue the study of our calling with Ephesians 2:8-9: For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast. Why would Paul revert back to talking about something so basic after explaining...

Our text for this week is Ephesians 2:1-7: And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, In which you formerly walked according to the course of the world, according to the prince of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the...

Last week we discussed, "...the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might" (Ephesians 1:19). It should be the ultimate goal of every Christian to live by the strength of His might and not just our own strength. The...