Ephesians

Ephesians: Chapters -1- -2- -3- -4- -5- -6-

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1:1 Paul, an apostle sent of Christ Jesus through the desire of God, to the devoted ones living in Ephesus, faithful inside of Christ Jesus. 2 Grace to you and peace out from God our Father and the Lord, Jesus Christ.

• 3 We bless and speak well of the God and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the One who has blessed and spoken well concerning us with every spiritual speaking of goodness and blessing in the heavenly realms inside of Christ. • 4 In exactly the same way that He selected us inside of Jesus separate from the founding and structure of the cosmos, so we are devoted, pure, and blameless inside the seeing and presence of Jesus, inside all the sphere of love. • 5 He also pro-determined us as being placed and set forth as sons through Jesus Christ and into Himself [Father God], down to the finest details of the good pleasure of His desire, • 6 into the purpose of the praise of the glory, the inherent and intrinsic value, of His grace, with which God has freely graced us inside of the Beloved One.

• 7 Inside of that Beloved One, we possess redemption and full deliverance [from our old selves] through His blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, the elimination of all consciousness of any falling away, by all the details of His abundant and wealthy grace • 8 which He [Father God] actively abounds into us inside of all wisdom and practical gut-level heart thinking. • 9 He has already made known to us the mystery, the hidden secret of His desire, according to His good pleasure which He purposed and set forth inside of Jesus, • 10 for the stewardship over and management of this full and complete season of opportunity; this secret of bringing and gathering together ALL into Christ, all upon the heavens and all upon the earth inside of Him. • 11 Inside this same Jesus, we also were lot-cast, given place by divine choice, having already been pro-determined according to God’s Pro-Thesis [a], His set-forth purpose, Christ, Who is energeoing all down to the finest details of the counsel and deliberate wisdom arising out from God’s desire; • 12 which desire is that we who actively hope and expect inside of Christ [as firstfruits] might enter into the praise and the full outward expression of His glory, His great and intrinsic value.

• 13 Inside of Jesus, you also, having heard the words of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and having actively believed, you were sealed inside of Him also, that is, owned by and owning the Devoted Spirit of Promise; • 14 who is the down-payment, the first instalment of our inheritance, proceeding into the full release of the complete and abundant possession or ownership, into being the praise, the full outward expression of His glory, His great and intrinsic value.

15 Because of this, I also, having heard of the faith among you inside the Lord Jesus and of your love into all the devoted ones, 16 do not cease speaking good grace and giving thanks for your sake, remembering you in my prayers. • 17 I pray that the God of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the Father of all glory and value, might give you the Spirit of wisdom and unveiling, that is, the Spirit that takes off the cover that hides [what is] inside of you as you acknowledge Him. • 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart be enlightened so that you may perceive what is the hope of His calling and summons, and what are the riches of His glory and value regarding His inheritance found inside the devoted ones, • 19 and what is the surpassing and beyond-all greatness of His power into us. For we are actively believing out from the Energeia [b) of His mighty and absolute strength • 20 which He energeoed [b) inside of Christ, having awakened and raised Him out from the dead, and having seated Him inside of His right hand inside the heavenly realms 21 high above every other source or influence, authority, power or domination and over every name being named, not only inside this age, but also inside the age about to come.

• 22 And God put all under the feet of Jesus and gave Him to be head, as the One who unites, for the sake of all the Church, of all her gathering together. • 23 For the Church is His body, the fullness and full meaning of Christ [c] who fills full all inside of all, Jesus filling with Himself everything in everyone.

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Gospel Comments	Notes
• Ruling Verse 1: God alone set His hand upon us; God alone saves us and makes us pure and devoted to Himself. We come, every moment, out from the speaking of God inside Himself towards us through Jesus. • Speak Christ: Even as God speaks all goodness in the heavenly realms into us right now, so we speak the same in return, giving ourselves to the Father with thanksgiving. • Life and Definition: The Good Pleasure of God’s Desire is the Source and meaning of all that is Life. It describes the whole purpose of everything – What God WANTS. We are sons inside of God. To be “graced” is to be clothed with the Glory of Christ as the image of what God is, for God gives. • Ruling Verse 1: The God who chose us for Himself and set the boundaries of our lives, has already clothed us with His own Glory, so that, as one body together, we might be His image in creation, the expression of the Giving that is God. • Ruling Verse 6: Jesus alone carries us inside Himself, and inside His redeeming actions, not only into no consciousness of sins or any separation from God, but even more, into the full meaning of knowing a God who is Grace. • Speak Christ: Verse 8 takes the good speaking of God, “every spiritual speaking of goodness and blessing in the heavenly realms,” and makes it God’s own words becoming our story of self. This is the meaning of the gift of God to us, that is, Grace, that our human souls are shaped by God’s own thoughts. We speak Christ that we might know our Father. • Covenant & Kingdom: The Covenant is the purpose of God set forth, written inside of Jesus inside of us, and the Kingdom is the fulfilment of that purpose in bringing all into Christ, into the knowledge of God. • The Form for God through Jesus: The “season of opportunity” is for God, that God would have a Home in which to dwell inside of creation. God has made us to be as stewards over His opportunity to be known by all. • Ruling Verse 1: Verses 11-12 are clearly an expression of Romans 8:28-30. God’s Desire is that we share the same form with Jesus, that is, symmorphy. Yet Paul is adding into that equation the assertion that Jesus actively energeoes all; Jesus actively makes us to be just like Himself. • Ruling Verse 1: Verse 12 then shows us the working of image and glory, the visibility of God we share with Jesus, which God also calls His “Praise” (see Isaiah 62:7). • The Form for God through Jesus: The fulfillment of God’s Pro-Thesis is the Church, Ephesians 1:23 & 2:22, “Being built together as a dwelling place of God.” • Ruling Verse 10: Jesus said, “Know that you are inside of Me and I inside of you.” This knowing is the seal of God upon us, that we belong utterly to Him. • Ruling Verse 3: It is the Spirit of Devotion that causes us to know Jesus Sent into us that we might know the Father. It is also the Spirit that gives life to our dying bodies in the full release of Rivers of Spirit flowing out from us. • The Form for God through Jesus: Paul is moving directly towards the dwelling place of God, the Church. “That Jerusalem might be a praise in all the earth” (Isaiah 62:7). • Covenant: The hope of our calling is that Jesus makes us to be just like Himself (see 1 John 3:2-3 & 2 Corinthians 3:18). • Kingdom: The Apocalypse is that moment when the cover is removed from our eyes, and we see that Jesus is already True inside of us and inside His Church. We pray for that unveiling, even now. We know it by acknowledging Jesus. • The Form for God through Jesus: Jesus makes us like Himself for Father’s sake, that God might have a Form in which to dwell inside of creation. The Church is God’s inheritance. • Ruling Verse 2: God wants us to KNOW the surpassing greatness of His power into us, that is, “filled with all the fulness of God.” The faith by which we receive the Energeia of His mighty strength, His power in our weakness (see 2 Corinthians 12:9), comes out from that same Energeia. In short, Christ lives inside of our hearts through faith. • Definition: Jesus defines us; we are made only by His pattern. The Faith of the Son of God given to us is a greater Energeia than all the power of every kind found in the entire spiritual-physical universe. Faith sees Jesus alone, encompassing all. • Covenant: Jesus as the one who unites (the meaning of “the Head”) is the Covenant. As the Covenant, Jesus FILLS All things in each individual member and in every gathering together. To be connected with God is to be connected with one another. To know Jesus is to know one another. • The Form for God through Jesus: The Church, by definition, is the Fulness of Christ, in every local gathering as well as the Church universal. The Church is Jesus’ body, His True form to all heaven-earth. Jesus walks the earth today in all that He is, that God might fill His House	a. The Greek word Paul used is prothesis. It is a common practice to bring Greek words straight into English. Yes, prothesis means purpose, but in a far larger meaning than the English word. By bringing the Greek word straight into English, we are able to know God’s meaning fresh and new. b. This the Greek word energeia, which I have also brought straight into English. You can see that “energeia” carries a far larger meaning, in harmony with God’s being, than the word, “work” or “working,” although those thoughts are included. Even the present English word “energy” cannot convey the full meaning of God-Energeia, the living Flow that is God. c. This is a statement of fact, to be believed as True.

Gospel Comments

Notes

• Ruling Verse 1: God alone set His hand upon us; God alone saves us and makes us pure and devoted to Himself. We come, every moment, out from the speaking of God inside Himself towards us through Jesus.

• Speak Christ: Even as God speaks all goodness in the heavenly realms into us right now, so we speak the same in return, giving ourselves to the Father with thanksgiving.

• Life and Definition: The Good Pleasure of God’s Desire is the Source and meaning of all that is Life. It describes the whole purpose of everything – What God WANTS. We are sons inside of God. To be “graced” is to be clothed with the Glory of Christ as the image of what God is, for God gives.

• Ruling Verse 1: The God who chose us for Himself and set the boundaries of our lives, has already clothed us with His own Glory, so that, as one body together, we might be His image in creation, the expression of the Giving that is God.

• Ruling Verse 6: Jesus alone carries us inside Himself, and inside His redeeming actions, not only into no consciousness of sins or any separation from God, but even more, into the full meaning of knowing a God who is Grace.

• Speak Christ: Verse 8 takes the good speaking of God, “every spiritual speaking of goodness and blessing in the heavenly realms,” and makes it God’s own words becoming our story of self. This is the meaning of the gift of God to us, that is, Grace, that our human souls are shaped by God’s own thoughts. We speak Christ that we might know our Father.

• Covenant & Kingdom: The Covenant is the purpose of God set forth, written inside of Jesus inside of us, and the Kingdom is the fulfilment of that purpose in bringing all into Christ, into the knowledge of God.

• The Form for God through Jesus: The “season of opportunity” is for God, that God would have a Home in which to dwell inside of creation. God has made us to be as stewards over His opportunity to be known by all.

• Ruling Verse 1: Verses 11-12 are clearly an expression of Romans 8:28-30. God’s Desire is that we share the same form with Jesus, that is, symmorphy. Yet Paul is adding into that equation the assertion that Jesus actively energeoes all; Jesus actively makes us to be just like Himself.

• Ruling Verse 1: Verse 12 then shows us the working of image and glory, the visibility of God we share with Jesus, which God also calls His “Praise” (see Isaiah 62:7).

• The Form for God through Jesus: The fulfillment of God’s Pro-Thesis is the Church, Ephesians 1:23 & 2:22, “Being built together as a dwelling place of God.”

• Ruling Verse 10: Jesus said, “Know that you are inside of Me and I inside of you.” This knowing is the seal of God upon us, that we belong utterly to Him.

• Ruling Verse 3: It is the Spirit of Devotion that causes us to know Jesus Sent into us that we might know the Father. It is also the Spirit that gives life to our dying bodies in the full release of Rivers of Spirit flowing out from us.

• The Form for God through Jesus: Paul is moving directly towards the dwelling place of God, the Church. “That Jerusalem might be a praise in all the earth” (Isaiah 62:7).

• Covenant: The hope of our calling is that Jesus makes us to be just like Himself (see 1 John 3:2-3 & 2 Corinthians 3:18).

• Kingdom: The Apocalypse is that moment when the cover is removed from our eyes, and we see that Jesus is already True inside of us and inside His Church. We pray for that unveiling, even now. We know it by acknowledging Jesus.

• The Form for God through Jesus: Jesus makes us like Himself for Father’s sake, that God might have a Form in which to dwell inside of creation. The Church is God’s inheritance.

• Ruling Verse 2: God wants us to KNOW the surpassing greatness of His power into us, that is, “filled with all the fulness of God.” The faith by which we receive the Energeia of His mighty strength, His power in our weakness (see 2 Corinthians 12:9), comes out from that same Energeia. In short, Christ lives inside of our hearts through faith.

• Definition: Jesus defines us; we are made only by His pattern. The Faith of the Son of God given to us is a greater Energeia than all the power of every kind found in the entire spiritual-physical universe. Faith sees Jesus alone, encompassing all.

• Covenant: Jesus as the one who unites (the meaning of “the Head”) is the Covenant. As the Covenant, Jesus FILLS All things in each individual member and in every gathering together. To be connected with God is to be connected with one another. To know Jesus is to know one another.

• The Form for God through Jesus: The Church, by definition, is the Fulness of Christ, in every local gathering as well as the Church universal. The Church is Jesus’ body, His True form to all heaven-earth. Jesus walks the earth today in all that He is, that God might fill His House

a. The Greek word Paul used is prothesis. It is a common practice to bring Greek words straight into English. Yes, prothesis means purpose, but in a far larger meaning than the English word. By bringing the Greek word straight into English, we are able to know God’s meaning fresh and new.

b. This the Greek word energeia, which I have also brought straight into English. You can see that “energeia” carries a far larger meaning, in harmony with God’s being, than the word, “work” or “working,” although those thoughts are included. Even the present English word “energy” cannot convey the full meaning of God-Energeia, the living Flow that is God.

c. This is a statement of fact, to be believed as True.

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