Ephesians

Ephesians 6:12 says, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Paul emphatically instructs his readers concerning spiritual warfare that Christians are involved in and his definition, at least to me, is a chilling reminder that we are engaged in a battle. The Bible contains numerous scriptures and accounts of spiritual warfare, too numerous for us to deny

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. Ephesians 4:29 ​We took my dad home from a three month hospital stay on a cold, snowy winter's morning and made him as comfortable as possible. There was nothing more the doctors could do so we were determined to make his last days as special as he was! On a Wednesday evening at around 4:30 pm he called me and asked me this question, "Judy, would

book of Ephesians was written by the Apostle Paul, to the saints at Ephesus. It is suggested that Paul wrote this letter around 60 AD, while imprisoned in Rome. The biblical author of Acts, Luke, eludes to Paul’s imprisonment in Rome in Acts 28. Paul initially identifies himself as the author of the letter to the Ephesians in his greeting in Ephesians 1:1 and again in 3:1. To further identify himself Paul often makes particular references to himself in the body of the letter to the Ephesians (c.f

Paul, who is the author of Ephesians, is writing to the church in Ephesus and possibly surrounding Asia minor cities. He wrote the book of Ephesians sometime between AD 60-62 when he was imprisoned in Rome (3:1, 4:1, 6:20). The letter was taken to Ephesus by Tychicus (vs 6:21-22). Paul knew that the Christians in Ephesus and the surrounding towns were growing and had heard about their faith so he addresses the Ephesians as a corporate body (Hultgren, 2015). At the time, Ephesus was a thriving

families often sport strikingly different expectations and rules for their children, as red contrasts to blue. Whilst neither convention tolerates sin, jealousy and peer-pressure drive teens to act contrary to their parents’ will. As Paul laid down in Ephesians 6:1, “Children, obey your parents in the Lord”, so must children follow. Another stronger, and darker, source threatens to trickle in, quietly nudging a teen to sin: the voice of his culture. Pressure abounds from the surrounding culture and twisted

Understanding the meaning of Ephesians 2:14 will first require an analysis of genre and literary context. This first part will be more heavily weighted on how the literature around and leading up to Ephesians points towards the meaning of v.2:14. Secondly, historical and cultural awareness fills in the background in light of the location, author and people’s pasts. In short, it will focus on the Jewish historical interaction between its neighbors. This section will be small because of the historical

For you were once murkiness, however now you are light in the Lord. Live as offspring of light (for the product of the light comprises in all decency, nobility and truth) (Ephesians 5: 8-9). "Here Paul develops the difference in the middle of obscurity and light" (Wood, 69). They were not oblivious and after that in the light. They were the dull and afterward they were the light. Obscurity alludes to when they were lost and did not know the Lord. They were the light when they were spared and got

Ephesians After Jesus came about the rules had changed, what used to be a sin is no longer a sin. In Ephesians 2:14 Paul talks about Jesus bring down the walls between Jews and Gentiles and when he died he set aside the commandments and created new ones. Paul explains in the rest of Ephesians some of the rest of the new rules for getting into heaven through Jesus. I believe that all of God’s rules old and new are easy to follow as long as we try to do onto others as we want done onto us. In Ephesians

of the reasons that Paul penned his letters in Ephesians was to bolster areas that were weak in the church. In addition to that, Paul wanted to clarify central beliefs that may not have been well-defined. Probing Paul’s letter with such a supposition, reveals several frailties among the Ephesian that Paul needed to encourage and reinforce. One of these weaknesses are amalgamated with the word riches, which is present throughout the letter in Ephesians. In this portion of the essay I will break a portion

Paul’s epistle to the believers in Ephesus and Asia Minor has a richness and depth that stirs one’s soul. Paul’s deep affection for the Ephesians is evident as he communicates a profoundly transcendent yet highly practical view of living. In this letter, Paul teaches unity in Christ (Eph. 1:10, 2:11-18). This unity, for the Christian, begins with each individual believer, who, through Christ’s indwelling, becomes connected to Christ. This connection, or uniting (as a vine and a branch c.f. John 15:1-17)