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Ephesians 1:11
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will;
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will;
Verse 11. _IN WHOM_] Christ Jesus; _also we_-believing _Jews have_ _obtained an inheritance_-what was promised to Abraham and his spiritual seed, viz. the _adoption of sons_, and the _kingdom of_ _he...
IN WHOM ALSO WE HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE - We who are Christians. Most commentators suppose that by the word “we” the Jews particularly are intended, and that it stands in contradistinction from “...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE MASTERWORK OF GOD (1-3) 1. The Godhead at Work CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The introduction (Ephesians 1:1)_ 2. The great doxology (Ephesians 1:3) 3. The work of the Father ...
A PARAGRAPH OF PRAISE. God, who is also the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is thanked for the blessings embracing every form of spiritual riches bestowed through their mystical relationship to Chris...
This is a letter from Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, to God's consecrated people who live in Ephesus and who are faithful in Jesus Christ. Grace be to you and peace from Go...
THE PURPOSE OF GOD (Ephesians 1:1-14)...
It was in Christ, in whom our portion in this scheme was also assigned to us, that it was determined, by the decision of him who controls everything according to the purpose of his good will, that we,...
HAVE. Omit. OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE. Greek. _kleroomai._ Only here. BEING. having been. PURPOSE. Greek. _prothesis._ See Romans 8:28. WORKETH. Greek. _energeo._ See 1 Corinthians 12:6. AFTER. Gre...
_In whom also we_ "We" is not emphatic. The emphasis ("also" or "even") is on the actual attainment, not on the persons attaining. Not only was the "mystery made known to us," but we came _in fact_to...
Ascription of Praise, in view of the Election and Redemption of the Saints 3. _Blessed_be _the God_, &c. The same Benediction occurs (verbatim in the Greek, nearly so in A. V.), 2 Corinthians 1:3; 1 P...
11–14. The outline of the whole plan is now before us. The details so far as they affect Christians are filled in (Ephesians 1:11-14), first as regards Jewish Christians (Ephesians 1:11-12), then as r...
ἘΚΛΗΡΏΘΗΜΕΝ (אBKLP); ἐκλήθημεν (ADG). Ephesians 1:1-2. THE SALUTATION 11. ἘΝ ὯΙ ΚΑῚ ἘΚΛΗΡΏΘΗΜΕΝ, ‘in whom also we were made God’s portion.’ κλῆρος has lost all sense of the method of distribution and...
Ephesians 1:3-14. AN ASCRIPTION OF BLESSING TO GOD The Epistle opens with an act of adoration in view of the eternal purpose of God now made known to men. The stages in the revelation of that purpose...
1–14. The title in its earliest form is simplest: πρὸς Ἐφεσίους (אABK); with ἄρχεται prefixed (DEFG). The fuller title (τοῦ ἁγίου� L) Παύλου ἐπιστολὴ πρὸς Ἐφεσίους occurs in LP....
ΈΚΛΗΡΏΘΗΜΕΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΚΛΗΡΌΩ (G2820) избирать по жребию; _pass._ быть избранным по жребию, быть предназначенным. Акцент ставится либо на идее преемственности, либо, что более вероятно, избр...
DISCOURSE: 2092 THANKS TO GOD FOR HIS SOVEREIGN GRACE AND MERCY Ephesians 1:3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly plac...
WE HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE,— Mr. Locke would render u949?κληρωθημεν _are become his inheritance;_ alluding to Deuteronomy 32:9 and interprets it as referring to the admission of the Gentiles into...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 1:1-14) Greeting; Ephesians 1:1-2. 1. By Paul. Ephesians 1:1. 2. To the saints at Ephesus. 3. To the faithful in Christ Jesus....
Scriptural predestination...
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: IN WHOM - in union to whom. OBTAINED AN...
1 The title "Christ Jesus" is the token of His exaltation; "Jesus Christ" refers us to His humiliation. "Christ Jesus" is used by Paul, especially in his later ministries. The words "in Ephesus" seem...
THANKSGIVING FOR BLESSINGS AND PRAYER FOR WISDOM 1, 2. The salutation. I. In the Salutations to the Colossians and to Philemon, written at the same time, 'Timothy the brother' is coupled with St. Paul...
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ ABOUT THIS LETTER The *apostle Paul wrote this letter when he was in a prison in Rome. He wrote it to people i...
[1. Introduction to the Epistle (Ephesians 1:1). (1) SALUTATION (Ephesians 1:1). (2) THANKSGIVING TO GOD FOR — (_a_) _The election of the whole Church before the world began, by the predestinating...
EVEN IN HIM: IN WHOM ALSO WE HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE. — We have here (in the repetition, “even in Him”) an emphatic transition to the truth most closely concerning the Apostle and his readers. Th...
(2 c.) Ephesians 1:11 form the third part of the Introduction, applying the general truth of election by God’s predestination in Christ, first to the original believers (the Jews), and then to the sub...
CHAPTER 2 THE ETERNAL PURPOSE Ephesians 1:3 WE enter this epistle through magnificent gateway. The introductory Act of Praise, extending from verse 3 to 14, Ephesians 1:3 is one of the most sublime...
CHAPTER 3 THE BESTOWMENT OF GRACE Ephesians 1:6 THE blessedness of men in Christ is not matter of purpose only, but of reality and experience. With the word grace in the middle of the sixth verse th...
ἐν ᾧ καὶ : _in whom also we_. The ͅκαί does not qualify the _subjects_ (for there is no emphatic ἡμεῖς, nor is there any such contrast between ἡμεῖς and ὑμεῖς here as appears in Ephesians 1:12-13), bu...
OUR RICHES IN CHRIST Ephesians 1:1 This has been called the “Epistle of _In-ness,_ ”because it is so full of the preposition _in. Saints_ are flesh and blood like ourselves, and _we_ may be saints. T...
The theme of this letter is pre-eminently of the Church as the medium for the accomplishment of the divine purpose. Those addressed are described as "saints," and as "the faithful in Christ Jesus." Th...
A Divine Inheritance Paul went on to show the gathering together of the previous verses includes the Jews who had been God's chosen ones under Moses' law, thus he uses "we." The word "works" means God...
(15) In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh (o) all things after the counsel of his own will: (15) He applies respectively the be...
In Christ we also are called by lot; i.e. to this happy lot, this share and state of eternal happiness, (he seems to speak with an allusion to the manner by which the lands of a temporal inheritance w...
(11) In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: (12) That we should be to the praise of...
In this epistle we have the unfolding of the grace of God in all its fulness, not merely the application of His righteousness to man's need on His part, but God from out of Himself, and for Himself, a...
The Chosen I. INTRODUCTION A. A Little History! 1. Written approx. 61 AD by the Apostle Paul during his Roman imprisonment. 2. There are several indications that this was a "circular" letter writt...
11._Through whom also we have obtained an inheritance. _Hitherto he has spoken generally of all the elect; he now begins to take notice of separate classes. When he says, _WE have obtained, _he speaks...
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places in Christ, having chosen us in Him. Chapter 1 unfolds (Ephesians 1:4-7) these blessings,...
IN WHOM ALSO WE HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE,.... Or a part and lot; that is, have obtained one in Christ, in his person, and in his fulness of grace, in the blessings and promises which are in him; o...
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: Ver. 11. _We have obtained inheritance_] Or...
_In whom also we_ Believing Jews; _have obtained an inheritance_ Namely, that of the promises made to the children of Abraham and of God, even the blessings of grace and of glory, the privileges belon...
WE; Jewish believers. AN INHERITANCE; heirship with Christ to the blessedness of heaven....
SALUTATION (vs.1-2) As an apostle of Jesus Christ, Paul writes this epistle as an authoritative communication from God. Indeed, his apostleship is "by the will of God." Nothing of his own or of any...
CHAPTER 1 The author of this letter is ___________. He is an apostle. The word apostle means ____________________. He states that he is not an apostle by his own choice. He is an apostle by the will o...
“in whom also we were made. heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His will” “IN WHOM”: In Christ. “WE WERE MADE. HERITAGE”: “Th...
9-14 Blessings were made known to believers, by the Lord's showing to them the mystery of his sovereign will, and the method of redemption and salvation. But these must have been for ever hidden from...
IN WHOM WE; we apostles and others elect of the Jewish nation, we _who first trusted in Christ,_ EPHESIANS 1:12. HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE; are called, or brought into the participation of an inher...
Ephesians 1:11 In G1722 Him G3739 also G2532 inheritance G2820 (G5681) predestined G4309 (G5685) to G2596 purpos
‘In him, I say, in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will, to the end that we should be to t...
Ephesians 1:11. IN WHOM YE ALSO. Gentile Christians, not the local church over against Christians in general. The construction of the original is peculiar, and has been variously explained. The simple...
I. _Praise for Spiritual Blessings in Christ._ Ephesians 1:3-14 form but one sentence, so heaped up in thought and so involved in construction as to well-nigh baffle all attempts at exact analysis. Th...
I. THE CHURCH CHOSEN IN CHRIST, THE HEAD OF THE BODY. This chapter is made up of two parts: the _first_ (Ephesians 1:3-14), an ascription of praise for spiritual blessings in Christ; the _second_ (Eph...
Ephesians 1:11. IN WHOM. This is to be closely connected with ‘in Him,' and here has the full sense of the Pauline phrase, ‘in Christ;' it is not equivalent to ‘through whom.' WE WERE ALSO. ‘We,' _i....
IN HIM (εν αυτω). Repeats the idea of εν τω Χριστω of verse Ephesians 1:10.WE WERE MADE A HERITAGE (εκληρωθημεν). First aorist passive of κληροω, an old word, to assign by lot (κληρος), to make a...
Ephesians 1:9 Christ the Justification of a Suffering World. Such words as these of St. Paul spring out of that first bewilderment of joy which belongs to the sense of discovery. Christ is still a ne...
Ephesians 1:11 The Holy Spirit the Seal of God's Heritage and the Earnest of our Inheritance. I. In the early Church the access of the Spirit of God to a man was commonly associated with the mysterio...
Ephesians 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,_ He was not made an apostle by man, neither did he take the office upon himself, but he was made an apostle by the will of God. E...
Ephesians 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from...
Ephesians 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from...
Ephesians 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints, which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from...
We frequently read this chapter and the whole of this Epistle because it has been well remarked that the Epistle to the Ephesians is a body of divinity in miniature. Here all the great doctrines of th...
The Epistle to the Ephesians is a complete Body of Divinity. In the first chapter you have the doctrines of the gospel; in the next, you have the experience of the Christians; and before the Epistle i...
In this chapter, we see what Paul, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, has to say about the possessions and privileges of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. Ephesians 1:1. Paul, an apo...
CONTENTS: Believer's position in grace. The prayer for knowledge and power. CHARACTERS: Christ, God, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: The believer is vitally united to Jesus Christ by the indwelling S...
Ephesians 1:4. _According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy, and without blame before him in_ _love._ What words of consolation! The full soul of t...
ACCORDING TO. God rules over history. In the message of the Good News, God's plan and decision, which he had already decided from the beginning of the world, was revealed to the entire world! Christ i...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 1:11 HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE means being assured of eternal life. PREDESTINED. God is firmly in control of history. This is in sharp contrast with the pagan gods of th...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 1:3 In the original Greek, this section is one long, elegant sentence. Paul shows that the triune God began and completed reconciliation and redemption of the world for the...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 1:1 Introduction. Paul greets the believers in Ephesus (vv. Ephesians 1:1) and offers praise to God (vv....
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 1:3. BLESSED BE THE GOD AND FATHER.—The Hebrew form for “hallowing the Name” was, “The Holy One, blessed be He.” The Prayer Book version of Psalm c. gives, “...
EXPOSITION EPHESIANS 1:1, EPHESIANS 1:2 ADDRESS AND SALUTATION. EPHESIANS 1:1...
Let's turn in our Bibles to Ephesians. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God (Ephesians 1:1), Now, if you were writing this epistle, take out the name Paul, and insert your name and the...
1 Peter 1:4; 1 Peter 3:9; Acts 2:23; Acts 20:27; Acts 20:32;...
In Him. Resuming emphatically : in Christ. We have obtained an inheritance [ε κ λ η ρ ω θ η μ ε ν]. Only here in the New Testament. From klhrov a lot. Hence the verb means literally to determine, choo...
CHRIST THE ALL IN ALL Ephesians 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We cannot call Ephesians the Epistle of Paul. It was written by the Holy Ghost through Paul. The Holy Ghost came to take the things of Christ,...
Through whom we — Jews. Also have obtained an inheritance — The glorious inheritance of the heavenly Canaan, to which, when believers, we were predestinated according to the purpose of him that worket...
Our apostle having hitherto spoken of the glorious privileges of the gospel in general, he comes now to make application of this his doctrine, first to the Jews, and next to the Gentiles in particular...