THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS CHAPTER 1:15-23 THE SPIRIT OF REVELATION AND WISDOM

Mike teaches today 04-17-21.

THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS CHAPTER 1:15-23
THE SPIRIT OF REVELATION AND WISDOM

VERSES: Galatians 3:8; Philippians 2:6-11; John 17:1

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(Read the verses) We began the study of this Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians written in 62AD, from imprisonment in Rome under the reign of Nero, with Paul’s opening statement/fuller disclosure which expounded on God’s Salvation Plan. This plan goes beyond just redemption, and also includes the restoration of all things (referring to restoring what what been ruined by satan such as the ruined earth seen in Genesis 1:2 as well as restoring the heavenlies which had been defiled by his rebellion), through the Atonement of His Son, designed in the Wisdom of God before the foundation of this World. It is to be comprehended in the understanding of the Mystery of the Kingdom of heavens introduced in the preaching of *John the baptizer and Jesus the incarnate Son of God.

* Christ said that the dispensation of the Law of Moses was until John. This can be seen in that John, who proclaimed that the kingdom of heaven was at hand, preached a baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins which was a different means of attaining righteousness than that demanded by the Law of Moses. The Law of Moses was a parenthetical dispensation temporarily inserted in the Abrahamic Covenant. Its interim purpose was in the furtherance of the Abrahamic Covenant, on its two levels. The intent of the Abrahamic Covenant being:
1) the blessing of all families of the Earth (Genesis 12:1-3)
2) the special called out ones (from among both Jews and Gentiles) to be transferred to the heavenly region at the Coming of the Lord. (Hebrews 11:9-10, 13-16; 3:1) Note that in the Abrahamic Covenant, Abraham’s seed was to inherit the heavenly sphere as well. (Genesis 26:4, Jeremiah 33:22)

The entire Covenant with Abraham was dependent upon Jesus Christ, the Seed of Abraham. The Law of Moses was to teach that ‘righteousness’ that is acceptable before God may not be gotten or sustained by their ‘keeping’ of its commands. (Romans 5:20… “Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound…” Galatians 3:8… “And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.”) Israel, called from Egypt, stumbled from the beginning in their moral behavior----thereby their being impossible to be blessed by their Holy God. He gave them the Law through Moses; that by the means of defined commands, that they should then discover their ‘exceedingly sinfulness’ in their inability to keep them (Romans 7:13) and be schooled in dependence upon God in faith, and to learn of their need for total dependence upon the grace of God through the promised Messiah that help in righteousness could only be gained (Galatians 3:19… “Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.”)… and not by any religious self-effort. (Galatians 3:23-24… “But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.”)

As we have discovered in Acts 28; Israel under Covenant with Abraham, as his seed, was finally set aside (Lo ammi, meaning ‘not my people’) for a period of time, which is still ongoing. And the extension of God’s Salvation Plan in its fullness was offered to the Gentiles, in the calling out of another people for His Name, which then coincides with Israel as a Nation refusing to be justified on the principle of faith in God’s Grace provided by the Messiah, and were determined to continue in their vain attempt to establish their righteousness on the basis of their own works done under the system of the Law of Moses.

The Law prepares the heart for Grace. The Age of observance of the Law of Moses unto righteousness was first set aside by John and its God-ordained purpose as it relates to righteousness attained by its keeping, which was fulfilled in Jesus Christ (although on a personal/individual basis the Law of Moses bears upon any conscience in conviction of sin, and when it has accomplished its purpose and brought the humbled soul before the Cross of Grace, that he might receive the grace of God in the gift of justification/redemption. Or that he might receive afterward, the additional conviction of conscience in repentance whereby he should draw further upon the provision of Grace in the Atonement of.....

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