THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS CHAPTER 2:1-10 CREATED TO DO GOOD WORKS

Mike teaches today 04/24/21.

THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS CHAPTER 2:1-10
CREATED TO DO GOOD WORKS

VERSES: Hebrews 1:1-3; Matthew 23:10-12; Romans 8:17; 1st Samuel 23:17-18

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Read verses 1-10… The first chapter holds forth primarily what the Father’s designed will was before the foundation of the World for His Son. He is called the “Head” over all things to the Church, and the second chapter is more about the Father’s intent for defining His “Body”.

Ephesians 1:22-23 “And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church. Which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all.”

The following is a summary of what is being declared by Paul, and understood and confirmed by other Scripture. We have had Paul’s revealing of God’s desired will and design for Salvation and Restoration of all ruined things from before the foundation of this World in which we live. This was accomplished through His Eternal Son, manifest as the Son of man, resurrected from among the dead in a exceedingly great display of power and set far above all other beings, both in this Age and in that which is come. Christ is declared to be the ‘Head’ over the Church/called out ones, for that further work of His grace; that of the up-calling of the Father in the obtaining of many holy brethren worthy to co-rule with His Son; the Son of man, as kings and priest in the riches of His heavenly inheritance. All this is revealed in the first chapter.

The Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, is resurrected the First-Born from among the dead, and was from eternity, the eternal Witness to all the counsels of God. (John 1) He is restored to the place and position at the right hand of the Father that He always had, even before the Creation. As it is written; in that through Him the Father had made all things. And when Adam sinned and brought ruin into His creation, He was the only One capable for the work of man’s redemption and God’s further restoration intent for man; that is the high calling unto the heavens. It is in this understanding the reason for His ascension back into Heaven after resurrection is adduced, as opposed to remaining on the Earth as Lord and Messiah of Israel. It would have been far short of the Father’s Salvation plan, and far short of the glory from where He ruled at the right hand of the Father before His incarnation. It was in the return to this high office that He had prayed for and was promised upon the completion of His work as the Son of man that He would fulfill the Father’s will to the praise of His glory. “These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” [John 17:1-5]

And now victorious over satan, He was raised up out of Hades (Acts 2), and from this world back to that place that He had vacated at the right hand of the Father. He is the Father’s greatest Prophet and Atoning High Priest, Who, now fully reveals and fills with meaning the counsels of the Father’s mysterious pre-creation will. He now shines forth in the radiance of the Glory of the Father in all Creation. (See Hebrews 1:1-3…“God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high…”)
That through the Lord Jesus Christ we may be sealed by the Holy Spirit, and the Father might attain ‘sons’ by ‘adoption;’ with inheritance in heavenly places, joint heirs with Christ over all, to the glory and grace of the manifold Wisdom and Power of God. “For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto.....

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