Introduction: The book of Ephesians, which has been called the queen of the Pauline epistles, is the Apostle Paul’s unveiling of the church as the mystery and eternal purpose of God.
Ephesians 1:4 — The Christian’s choice of Christ on the day of salvation is a consequence of Christ’s prior choice of the Christian before the days of creation.
Ephesians 1:6 — How grateful I am that my acceptance with God is based on His beloved Son and not on whether or not my behavior is sinless.
Ephesians 1:6 — We are not accepted by God because of who we are and what we do, but only because of who Jesus is and what He has done for us, which we could have never done for ourselves.
Ephesians 1:10 — It is Jesus Christ who makes the universe a cosmos rather than a chaos, since it is sustained by Him and summed up in Him.
Ephesians 1:18 — Christ’s glorious inheritance will be a glorified church and the saints who comprise it will forever serve as His chosen and cherished possession.
Ephesians 1:23 —The fullness of all things is found in Christ. Apart from Him nothing is fulfilled. Christ, however, reckons His fullness to be found in His body, the church, apart from which He sees Himself, who is the fulness of all in all, inscrutably unfulfilled.
Ephesians 2:6 — Christians who are seated in Christ in heavenly places need never be stressed out over earthly problems!
Ephesians 2:6 — Being positionally seated with Christ in heavenly places, makes it possible for us to live above all earthly problems.
Ephesians 2:8-9 — Salvation has nothing to do with our goodness, but everything to do with God’s grace.
Ephesians 2:8-9 — Salvation is not earned by our good works for God, but graciously given by God to all who believe in the sufficiency of Christ’s atoning work for us.
Ephesians 2:19-22 — Christians are corporately and individually the temple of God in the world today. Corporately, as the church, we are God’s holy habitation, but individually, each of us is a temple of God ourself, within whom God’s Spirit dwells. (1 Corinthians 3:16; 2 Corinthians 6:16)
As God’s temple in Christ’s day ceased to be a building and became the physical body of Christ, so in our day it has ceased to be the physical body of Christ and become the spiritual body of Christ—His church!
Ephesians 3:14-15 — The whole family of God is in Heaven or on earth, none are sleeping in the grave or suffering in Catholicism’s purgatory.
There is no such thing as soul sleep or purgatory, a halfway house to Heaven, which serves as a woodshed between Heaven and Hell where Christ chastens unfit Christians.
Ephesians 3:20 — Too many pray for crutches when they ought to pray for wings.
Ephesians 4:3 — As Christians we are to first and foremost preserve the unity of the Spirit, which is found in the fact that the same Jesus lives in every Christian in the person of the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 4:15 — You speak the truth in love when you are more concerned about people’s souls being saved than their feelings being spared.
If others are offended at the message, that's their fault, but if others are offended at the messenger, that's our fault.
Ephesians 5:5-7 — Don’t be deceived by those who use vain words to validate wrongdoing and to veneer wickedness. All who partake in such deception will, like their deceivers, incite God’s wrath and have no inheritance in God’s kingdom.
Ephesians 5:8-14 — To walk as the children of light, our life should be an affirmation of all that is acceptable to the Lord and a renunciation of all that is appalling to the Lord, in order to manifestly prove to others that we have awakened from spiritual drowsiness and arisen from spiritual death to live everlastingly in the light of Christ.
Ephesians 5:15 — Christians should walk circumspectly—cautiously and carefully—through this fallen world, lest they foolishly step in a snare of Satan and suddenly find themselves dangling by their heels to the giggles and glee of the imps of Hell. (2 Timothy 2:26)
Ephesians 5:15 — To sidestep Satan’s snares the saints must watch their step. We must walk wisely; that is, circumspectly, carefully watching every step we take.
Ephesians 5:15-17 — To walk in wisdom is to walk circumspectly, with utmost care not to walkabout foolishly, waste any time, or wander at all from God’s will.
Ephesians 5:15-17 — In evil days, it is more important than ever not to waste our time with foolish steps, but to walk wisely in the will of the Lord, carefully planting our feet and planning our steps so as to make the most of every fraught and fleeting moment.
Ephesians 5:18 — The Christian is not to be filled (intoxicated) with wine, living under its mortifying influence and control, but filled (inebriated) with the Holy Spirit of God, living under His miraculous influence and control!
Ephesians 5:18 —To stay filled with wine and intoxicated under its influence a drunkard must continuously imbibe. To stay filled with the Spirit and intoxicated under His influence the Christian must continuously abide.
Ephesians 5:20 — An ungrateful child of God is not a peculiarity, but an impossibility.
The more we worship, the less we worry.
Ephesians 5:20 — Christianity calls for more than an annual day of Thanksgiving; it calls for daily "thanks living."
Ephesians 5:22-28 — If husbands loved their wives as Christ loves His church, wives would have no problem submitting to their husbands as the church does to Christ.
Much of what is wrong in today's America can be attributed to America's absentee fathers and decapitated homes!
Ephesians 5:31-32 — That Christ chose marriage, the most intimate of human relationships, to symbolize His relationship with His church, speaks to us of the intimacy Christ desires to have with each and every Christian.
As physical intimacy joins a husband and wife together as one, spiritual intimacy joins Christ and His church, both individually and cooperatively, together as one.
Ephesians 6:1-3 — A child who is insubordinate to parental authority will grow up to be insubordinate to all authority, including God, the ultimate authority.
No society will last long if its children do not heartily respect parents, highly regard government, and humbly revere God!
Ephesians 6:10-13 — It is imperative that we stand our ground under the onslaught of Satan and while awaiting divine orders. To fall back in cowardice or to march forward without command is to assure our spiritual defeat.
Ephesians 6:11 — If we are to obey the Biblical admonition to stand against the wiles of the devil, we must be particularly on guard against his greatest wile, which is “wait awhile.”
Ephesians 6:18 — For you to pray in the Spirit is for the Spirit to pray through you.
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