Pastors Jim and Marie Watt
“EPHESIANS 1:1-14”
SUMMARY: THE GLORIOUS MYSTERY OF THE GOSPEL CHURCH
1:1-2 PAUL’S APOSTOLIC GREETING
PAUlos, aPOsto-los [652] ChrisTOU IeSOU di-A theLEma-tos [2307] TheOU,
Paul, apostle of Christ Jesus through God’s will,
tois haGIois [40] tois OUsin en E-PHEso kai pisTOIS en ChrisTO IeSOU:
to the saints that are at Ephesus and faithful in Christ Jesus:
CHAris [5485] huMIN kai eiREne [1515] aPO TheOU paTROS heMON kai KuRIou IeSOU ChrisTOU.
2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
B. 1:3-14 NINE BLESSINGS IN CHRIST
Eu-lo-geTOS [2128] ho TheOS kai paTER tou KuRIou heMON IeSOU ChrisTOU,
3 Blessed the God and Father of our :Lord Jesus Christ,
ho eu-loGEsas heMAS en PAse eu-loGIa pneu-ma-tiKE [4152] en tois e-pou-raNIois [2132] en ChrisTO:
who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ:
kaTHOS e-xeLExa-to [1586] heMAS en auTO pro ka-ta-boLES [2602] KOSmou,
4 even as he chose us in him before the world’s foundation,
EInai heMAS haGIous kai aMOmous [299] ka-teNOpi-on auTOU en aGApe
that we be holy and without blemish before him in love
pro-oRIsas [4309] heMAS eis huio-theSIan [5206] diA IeSOU ChrisTOU eis auTON,
5 having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself,
kaTA ten eu-doKIan [2107] tou theLEma-tos auTOU,
according to the good pleasure of his :will,
eis Epai-non [1868] DOxes tes CHAri-tos auTOU,
6 to the praise of the glory of his :grace,
hes e-chaRIto-sen [5487] heMAS en to e-ga-peMEno:
which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved:
en ho Echo-men ten a-poLUtro-sin [629] diA tou HAIma-tos [129] auTOU,
7 in whom we have the redemption through his :blood,
ten Aphe-sin [859] ton pa-rap-toMAton [3900], kaTA to PLOUtos [4149] tes CHAri-tos auTOU,
the forgiveness of :trespasses, according to the riches of his :grace,
hes e-peRISseu-sen [4052] eis heMAS en PAse soPHIa [4678] kai phroNEsei [5428],
8 which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
gnoRIsas heMIN to musTEri-on [3466] tou theLEma-tos auTOU,
9 having made known to us the mystery of his :will,
kaTA ten eu-doKIan auTOU hen proEthe-to [4388] en auTO
according to his :good pleasure which he purposed in him
eis oi-ko-noMIan [3622] tou pleROma-tos [4138] ton kaiRON [2540],
10 unto a dispensation of the fulness of the seasons,
a-na-ke-pha-laiOsas-thai [346] to PANta en to ChrisTO,
to sum up :all things in the Christ,
ta ePI tois ou-raNOIS, kai ta ePI tes ges;
those upon the heavens, and those upon the earth;
en auTO en ho kai e-kleROthe-men [2820],
11 in him in whom also we were made a heritage,
pro-o-risTHENtes [4309] kaTA PROthe-sin [4286] tou
foreordained according to the purpose of him
ta PANta en-erGOUNtos [1754] kaTA ten bouLEN [1012] tou theLEma-tos auTOU;
who works :all things after the counsel of his :will;
eis to EInai heMAS eis Epai-non DOxes auTOU,
12 that we be unto praise of his glory,
tous pro-el-piKOtas [4276] en to ChrisTO:
we who had before hoped in the Christ:
en ho kai huMEIS, aKOUsan-tes ton LOgon [3056] tes a-leTHEIas,
13 in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth,
to eu-agGEli-on [2098] tes so-teRIas [4991] huMON, -- en ho, kai pisTEUsan-tes,
the gospel of your :salvation, -- in whom, having also believed,
es-phraGISthe-te [4972] to PNEUma-ti tes e-pag-geLIas [1860] to HaGIo,
you were sealed with the Holy :Spirit of the promise,
ho es-tin ar-raBON [728] tes kle-ro-noMIas [2817] heMON,
14 which is an earnest of our :inheritance,
eis a-poLUtro-sin [629] tes pe-ri-poiEse-os [4047], eis Epai-non tes DOxes auTOU.
unto redemption of the possession, unto praise of his :glory.
NOTE: This letter by Paul is counted by many to be the high water mark of his writings. In it are 7 pictures of the church. In it Paul lays out the “One New Man” truth, of Jew and Gentile together making up the Church, the Body of Christ.
Chapter 1:3 is almost like a key verse or text for this letter. My professor of Church History at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary of Chicago loved this verse. He was a Norwegian Lutheran in his background. One day in Chapel he told 400 of us theologues – that when this verse opened up to him, he didn’t run – he FLEW!!
See if you can pick out the nine blessings in Christ in this passage. It is a passage so rich in what Christ has made available to us, and what we ARE in Christ, that perhaps only in eternity will we truly begin to appreciate the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
This letter was a high point in revelation for George Hawtin of the 1948 Visitation in Northern Canada. The restoration of the 5-fold Ministries of Ephesians 4:11-12 gripped him mightily.
The armor of God for the Corporate Soldier of Christ in Ephesians 6 has been a challenge to many.
And remember – both our texts, Greek and Hebrew, have been established by God’s Numeric Phenomenon. Perhaps God sees Numerics as his fool-proof signature that prevents all false copying and counterfeiting.
I love this book, and the God of this book. In 1946 it was the first book that I outlined according to the paragraphing and sentence structure established by Bible Numerics and laid out in the Introduction of the Greek Numeric New Testament by Panin. It was what initially captivated me in 1945, and has led me to put in at least 40,000 hours of research on this challenging discovery by Ivan Panin.