Knowledge and Understanding

Happy is the man who finds wisdom; and the man who gains understanding. Get wisdom; and get understanding. In reading and studying the Word; we get to know and understand the Father's GRACE. Our Lord desires for us to know Him and He wants to know us.

Thus says the Lord:
That I am the Lord, exercising loving kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth.
For in these I delight,” says the Lord.

Monday, 28 August 2017

No longer a mystery (Ephesians 3)

After reading this chapter you cant help but be even more grateful to the Lord. All of mankind is included. 

Ephesians 3 : 1 - 13

Paul first declares that he has been appointed to the Gentiles by the Father, and he has the message of the mystery that has been revealed in his age. That Christ death includes all mankind not just the Jews. We are also reminded that the purposes of the Father have been fulfilled in our Lord, that in Him the Father's plan to bring salvation to all mankind from the beginning. In Genesis Abram became Abraham the father of all nations and it is him that is recorded through scripture as the father of faith.
Then the Gentiles are reminded that they too can have confidence in the faith, being new to the faith and not Jewish. 

Ephesians 3 : 14 - 20

In chapter 1 the apostle prays for spiritual wisdom, in this chapter again he has a prayer for us. He prays for spiritual wisdom. He prays that we would have faith in our Lord, trust Him and know that we now belong to Him. He prays that we may be filled with our Lord to the full. That we may realise just how much we are loved and valued as the children of the Father.

The chapter ends with an incredible salutation, to the Father.

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

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