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Ephesians 1:5
having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
Verse Ephesians 1:5. _HAVING PREDESTINATED US_] προορισας. As the doctrine of eternal _predestination_ has produced much controversy in the Christian world, it may be necessary to examine the meaning...
HAVING PREDESTINATED US - On the meaning of the word here used, see the notes at Romans 1:4; Romans 8:29, note. The word used πρωρίζω prōrizō means properly “to set bounds before;” and then to “pre...
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)...
He determined in his love before time began to adopt us to himself through Jesus Christ, in the good purpose of his will, so that all might praise the glory of the generous gift which he freely gave u...
PREDESTINATED. foreordained. Greek. _proorizo._ See Acts 4:28; Romans 8:29. UNTO, TO. Greek. _eis_. App-104. ADOPTION OF CHILDREN. Greek. _huiothesia._ See Romans 8:15. Compare App-108. according
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...
_Having predestinated us_ Again an aorist, not a perfect, in the Greek; referring to a definite past act. For the same word, in the Greek, cp. Ephesians 1:11; Acts 4:28 (E. V. "determined"); Romans 8:...
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....
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...
ΠΡΟΟΡΊΣΑΣ. Cf. Romans 8:29; 1 Corinthians 2:7; Acts 4:28; ‘designating’ or ‘appointing’ beforehand, a further definition of Election. The word is not found in LXX., but see Enoch xxxix. 9. εἰς υἱοθεσί...
ΠΡΟΟΡΊΣΑΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΠΡΟΟPI ΖΩ (G4309) заранее намечать границу, предназначать, предполагать (TDNT; L. С. Allen, "The Old Testament Background of (ΠΡΟ) ΟΡΊΖΩ in the New Testament" NTS 17 [19...
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...
HAVING PREDESTINATED US— It was not by the observances of the law, but by faith alone in Jesus Christ, that God _pre-determined_ to take the Gentiles into the state of sonship, or adoption. This was a...
_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....
The Omniscience and Omnipresence of GodOmniscience Hebrews 4:12 To wrap ones mind around the fact of "all-knowing" is to accept that all events have occurred, all days have come to an end, all life a...
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, PREDESTINATED - having respect to the end and means. We are "chosen" or...
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...
1:5 beforehand (d-5) The word translated 'marked out beforehand' involves purpose. It is not 'counsel,' though it is ' _ according to_ the good pleasure of his will,' and, in ver. 11, ' _ according t...
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...
All are God's children by creation; but He adopted first the Jews (Romans 9:4), and then believers (Romans 8:15; Galatians 4:5), into a special sonship. St. Paul is the only NT. writer who uses this m...
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...
HAVING PREDESTINATED US UNTO THE ADOPTION OF CHILDREN BY JESUS CHRIST TO HIMSELF. — The idea of Election depends on the union of the sense of actual difference between men, as to privilege and spiritu...
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...
DOXOLOGY, OR ASCRIPTION OF PRAISE TO GOD FOR THE BLESSINGS OF HIS LOVE AND GRACE. This extends over six verses, in one magnificent sentence intricately yet skilfully constructed, throbbing in each cla...
προορίσας ἡμᾶς : _having foreordained us_. Better, _in that He foreordained us_. Wycl. gives “hath bifore ordeyned us”; Tynd. and Cranmer, “ordeyned us”; and so the RV, “foreordained”. But the Genevan...
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...
God's Sons By Adoption Under Roman law, a Roman citizen could take one not his child by birth and make him his child through a legal act properly attested to and witnessed. The child would thereby gai...
(8) Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ (h) to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, (8) Another plainer exposition of the efficient cause, and also of...
As by his eternal decree, according to the _purpose of his good will and pleasure, he hath made choice of us to be his adoptive sons, and predestinated us to be saved and glorified by the merits and g...
(3) В¶ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: (4) According as he hath chosen us in him before the found...
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...
5._Who hath predestinated us. _What follows is intended still further to heighten the commendation of divine grace. The reason why Paul inculcated so earnestly on the Ephesians the doctrines of free a...
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,...
HAVING PREDESTINATED US,.... Predestination, taken in a large sense, includes both election and reprobation, and even reaches to all affairs and occurrences in the world; to the persons, lives, and ci...
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, Ver. 5. _Having predestinated us_] Interpreters have observed that this w...
_Blessed be God, who hath blessed us_ God's blessing us is his bestowing spiritual and heavenly blessings upon us. Our blessing God is the paying him our solemn and grateful acknowledgments, both on a...
TO HIMSELF; to be connected immediately with "the adoption of children," and meaning children which he has adopted to himself-taken by adoption into his own family....
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...
“HAVING FOREORDAINED US UNTO ADOPTION AS SONS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST UNTO HIMSELF, ACCORDING TO THE GOOD PLEASURE OF HIS WILL” “Foreordained”: To predetermine. God determined in advance that all those w...
3-8 Spiritual and heavenly blessings are the best blessings; with which we cannot be miserable, and without which we cannot but be so. This was from the choice of them in Christ, before the foundatio...
HAVING PREDESTINATED US UNTO THE ADOPTION OF CHILDREN; having appointed us unto a state of sonship and right to glory. This seems to be more than the former, a greater thing to be the sons of God, and...
Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna " For we believe that, together with the Son, who was made man for oar sakes, according to the good pleasure of His will,[17]...
Ephesians 1:5 predestined G4309 (G5660) us G2248 to G1519 sons G5206 by G1223 Jesus G2424 Christ G5547 to...
‘Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love, having foreordained us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, to himse...
‘Having foreordained us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will.' He has not only chosen us but ‘decided on us beforehand', ‘marked us out befor...
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 1:5. IN LOVE HAVING PREDESTINATED US. The tense here used does not imply that the predestination preceded the election; the two may be regarded as synchronous. There is no grammatical object...
HAVING FOREORDAINED US (Προορισας ημας). First aorist active participle of προοριζω, late and rare compound to define or decide beforehand. Already in Acts 4:28; 1 Corinthians 2:7; Romans 8:29. See...
PREDESTINATED Predestination is that effective exercise of the will of God by which things before determined by Him are brought to pass. See Election, (_ See Scofield) - (1 Peter 1:2). _ Foreknowl...
Ephesians 1:5 Regeneration and Sonship in Christ. We have now to consider that original and central Divine purpose which explains and includes all that the infinite love of God has done for our race...
Ephesians 1:5 The Final Restoration of all Things. There are several passages in the New Testament and this is one of them which make it clear that the Divine mercy is ultimately to achieve a complet...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
GOD HAD ALREADY DECIDED. "God had already decided that we, the church of Christ, should be adopted as his children!" _Johnson_ says: "The whole line of argument is general instead of particular. God f...
_Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will._ THE PREDESTINATION OF BELIEVERS I. The benefit itself. “Having predest...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 1:5 PREDESTINED. Previously ordained or appointed. ADOPTION AS SONS. See v. Ephesians 1:11;...
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 Corinthians 1:1; 1 Corinthians 1:21; 1 John 3:1; 2 Corinthians 6:18;...
Having predestinated [π ρ ο ο ρ ι σ α ς]. Rev. foreordained. From pro before, oJrizw to define, the latter word being from opov a boundary. Hence to define or determine beforehand. Adoption [υ ι ο θ ε...
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,...
Having predestinated us to the adoption of sons — Having foreordained that all who afterwards believed should enjoy the dignity of being sons of God, and joint — heirs with Christ. According to the go...
That is, "having predestinated us Gentiles, who in the esteem of the Jews were accounted dogs, to be his adopted sons and daughters, in and by Jesus Christ, in whom he hath made us accepted, to the ab...