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Wednesday Oct 23, 2013
EPHESIANS 1:18B – 23 WHAT IS THE EXCEEDING GREATNESS OF HIS POWER TOWARD US WHO BELIEVE
Wednesday Oct 23, 2013
Wednesday Oct 23, 2013
Eph 1:18 the
eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the
hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the
saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who
believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in
Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the
heavenly places, 21 far above all principality and power and might and
dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that
which is to come. 22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be
head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him
who fills all in all.
After
demonstrating that believers have all spiritual blessings (1:3–14), Paul prayed
that believers would come to know God intimately (v. 17) in order that they
might know three facts: (1) the past call of salvation that produced the hope of
heaven (v. 18), (2) the future inheritance that God has in His saints (v. 18),
and (3) the present power of God that is available to believers, which (a) was
manifested in the past in Christ’s resurrection and Ascension, (b) will be
manifested in the future in Christ’s headship over Creation, and (c) is
presently manifested in Christ’s headship over the church.