“Ephesians 1:7-10”

Tuesday, August 07, 2018

“In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth.”

--- End of Scripture verses---

I love the proclamation of God lavishing his riches and grace upon us through Jesus Christ (verses 6-8). There is really no better expression of His love that He could offer humanity than the sacrificial gift of His Only Begotten Son. Think of all the wonderful gifts and blessings that God has loaned to you in your earthly life. None compare to the gifts of “redemption” and “forgiveness” that provide for your eternal security through the Savior. You can really sense Paul’s grasp of this as his heart gushed forth with appreciation in this first chapter.

The “mystery” that God made known to us is that, “the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel” (Ephesians 3:3-6). All of us non-Jewish people should continually praise the Lord that His “kind intention,” from the foundation of the world, was to include all of humanity in His covenant promises, even though this did not become fully evident until He sent Jesus into the world in “the fullness of the times” (verse 10).

“The summing up of all things in Christ” includes the uniting of both Jews and Gentiles into one body, which is His church (verses 22-23). Paul wrote in Colossians 1:20 that God reconciled “all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.” Every good plan that God had purposed for the world He created was coalesced and accomplished in the giving of His Son. All that remains is the final culmination when Christ returns to Judge the world and deliver up His beloved brethren to the Father in heaven.

Please read Ephesians 1:11-14 for tomorrow.

Have a blessed day!

-Louie Taylor

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