ephesians-1:18

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 1:18-19

‘That you may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what the exceeding greatness of his power towards us who believe.’ The first thing that he longs is that they may have full understanding about ‘the hope of His calling’. God has called them to a glorious future, to be fully revealed and experienced at the second coming of Christ in the glory of the resurrection and what follows in the new Heaven and the new earth, when He is... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 1:15-23

Ephesians 1:15-Isaiah : . A Paragraph of Prayer.— The writer, who has been informed (by letter?) of the Christian faith and love of his correspondents, reciprocates their thanksgiving and prayers ( Ephesians 1:15 f.); he beseeches God, the glorious Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, to bestow on them the Spirit, giver of wisdom, revealer in the knowledge of God ( Ephesians 1:17); that the eyes of their hearts may be opened, so that they may know the hope implied in God’ s calling, the wealth of... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 1:18

The eyes of your understanding being enlightened, viz. by that spirit of revelation: and so this clause explains the former. What the eye is to the body, that the understanding is to the soul. He prays for a further degree of illumination for them. That ye may know what is the hope of his calling; either: 1. The object of hope, the thing hoped for, as Colossians 1:5; Galatians 5:5; and then the meaning is, what it is to the hope of which God hath called you by the gospel. Or: 2. The grace of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ephesians 1:15-18

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESEphesians 1:15-16.—St. Paul is always ready to give a prompt acknowledgment of all that is best in his readers and to pray for something better. Cease not to give thanks.—My thanksgiving knows no end.Ephesians 1:17. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ.—The connection or unity of the Father and the Son is the basis of the plea for those who are in the Son. Christ said, “I ascend unto My Father and your Father, to My God and your God” (John 20:17). The Father of... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ephesians 1:18

Ephesians 1:18 ; Ephesians 2:7 Christ's Resurrection and Glory in Relation to the Hope of the Church. I. The descent of the Son of God from His eternal majesty to the infirmities and sorrows and temptations of this mortal condition is so transcendent a revelation both of the love of God and the possible greatness and blessedness of man that we need not be surprised that to many profound Christian thinkers the Incarnation has seemed to constitute the whole of the Christian Gospel, but even the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ephesians 1:18-19

Ephesians 1:18-19 Spiritual Enlightenment. I. "What is the hope of His calling." This phrase should surely be taken in its simplest sense: "That ye may know the hopefulness of God's calling; what hope there is in it; how full of hope it is." (1) Consider who it is that calls. It is God, and God in the character of the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, the God who gives grace and glory. (2) Consider who are called. All men such as they are. (3) The calling of God is hopeful ( a... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Ephesians 1:15-20

DISCOURSE: 2095THE SPIRIT’S INFLUENCES AS A SPIRIT OF WISDOMEphesians 1:15-20. Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, way give unto you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Ephesians 1:1-23

Exposition of Ephesians 1:1-23 1, 2. 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 the Lord Jesus Christ. 3, 4. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, 4. That we should be holy and... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ephesians 1:1-23

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 then, whatever it is that you are: Jim, a service station attendant by the will of God. John, a foundry worker by the will of God. You see, not all are called to be apostles. Not all are called to be pastors, and not all are called to be preachers. Also, it is a mistake to try to be something that God... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ephesians 1:1-23

Ephesians 1:4-5 . 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 the apostle flows without restraint, while he opens the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ. Having predestinated us to the adoption of sons, the heavenly Father blesses his family with all the treasures of grace and glory. St. John opens his epistle to the seven churches with the... read more