ephesians-1:9-10

We are going to resume our meditations on union with Christ. Having been occupied with Christ Himself, the meaning of Christ, seeking to set the background, lay the foundation, in some little understanding of His greatness and of His place, we now should be able to follow on with the meaning of our ... Read More

"The mystery of the gospel" (Eph. 6:19). "I shrank not from declaring unto you the whole counsel of God" (Acts 20:27). "...in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will" (Eph. 1:11). We have remarke... Read More

"Having made known unto us the mystery of His will... to sum up all things in Christ... according to the purpose of Him Who worketh all things after the counsel of His will... He put all things in subjection under His (Christ's) feet, and gave Him to be Head over all things to the church, which is H... Read More

To those who have a knowledge of the Bible it is evident that the whole of the Scriptures open up along the four lines that we have indicated; namely that 1. God is a God of order; 2. Satan is the prince of a world under divine judgment, and the nature of that judgment is confusion; 3. Christ, in Pe... Read More

".......making known unto our; the mystery of His will....'' (Eph. 1:9) ''.......how that by revelation was made known unto me the mystery of Christ... to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God." (Eph. 3:3,4,9) ''This mystery is great: but I spea... Read More

"...making known unto us the mystery of his will..." (Eph. 1:9). "...how that by revelation was made known unto me the mystery... my understanding in the mystery of Christ... to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God" (Eph. 3:3,4,9). "This myster... Read More

"...this is he which is ordained of God to be the Judge of the quick and dead" (Acts 10:42). ("...he is the one who has been designated by God as Judge of the living and the dead" N.E.B.) "...he hath appointed a day, in which he will judge the world... in the man whom he hath ordained..." (Acts 17:3... Read More

The consideration upon which we now enter follows immediately upon the former one, or runs parallel to it, namely 'Horizoned by Christ'. When we speak of purpose being the horizon of all things, there is no contradiction of the other. We are not changing Christ for some thing called Purpose, we are ... Read More

Reading: Eph. 1:3,20; 2:6; 3:10; 6:12; 1:6,9-10; 3:11,21. In meditating on the subject of spiritual enlargement as seen in Paul's epistles, when we pass into this letter to the Ephesians we come into an entirely new realm. It is like passing from one world into another. In 'Corinthians' we find ever... Read More

“He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all the heavens that he might fill all things” (Ephesians 4:10). “And he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all” (Eph... Read More