Paul tells his gentile, Christian readers to stop living the way they once did, to be renewed in the spirit of their mind, and to become their God-like new self. […]
After explaining in the first three chapters, the tremendous blessings which all Christians have, Paul now begins to explain how we are called to live. In the first 16 verses […]
Paul had been sent to proclaim the gospel to gentiles especially, and because of that, he was writing to them from jail. After reminding them of this, Paul again prays […]
In this class we complete Ephesians, Chapter 2, where we read that Jews and Gentiles are united in Christ and, joined together, become the dwelling place for God.
We continue our verse-by-verse study of the Bible. Having spent the past month in the first chapter of Ephesians, we now read on into Chapter 2, where, in Verses 8 […]
In the first 14 verses of Ephesians Chapter 1, Paul praises God that his readers have been given every spiritual blessing in heavenly places. Then, starting in verse 15 and […]
Having spoken of our election in Christ before the foundation of the world (1:4-6) and of the redemption we have in Christ (1:7-10), Paul now speaks (1:11-14) of the inheritance […]
As for the perfect blessing we have in Christ (1:3) Paul continues to elaborate: First he speaks of our election before the foundation of the world (1:4-6) which we covered […]
In verse 3 we were told that God has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing, now in vv 4-6, we begin to understand what this entails, starting before […]
This is our third class in this series on Ephesians. In it we finish with the prescript (i.e. vv 1-2)and begin the first major section (vv 3 -14) of this […]
In our previous class, we began our study of the New Testament book of Ephesians, with a General Introduction. This time we get into the text itself, covering the first […]
This concludes our long study of the Old Testament Book of Leviticus. Please have a look, and stay tuned for the next study, of the New Testament Book of Ephesians, […]
In this chapter, God through Moses describes the blessings and curses that flow from obedience and disobedience to the rules for worship and behavior pronounced at Sinai. He speaks also of […]
Neither the Old Testament prophets nor Christ nor his Apostles refer explicitly to the “Year of Jubilee” which is established here in Leviticus, Chapter 25 and referred to elsewhere in the Bible […]
