PART 3 CHIEF APOSTLE PAUL BOOK OF EPHESIANS BIBLE STUDY

EPHESIANS 1:3-5 today

Via the Eyes of All Relationships..how they really ACTED, REACTED in the area  RELATIONSHIPS…. overall emphasis http://www.relationshiptheology.org

The Bible Study Ephesians progress? Admitting: ever so slowly, but steadily..

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Prior to resuming the EPHESIANS STUDY.. 

We mention PAULINE LEADER IDENTITY “We need to know who labored among all of the First Church… prior to These Times”

 Apostle Paul’s letter (epistle) later named Book of Ephesians,( which circulated around all of the fledgling pioneering apostolic, completely new completely multicultural Churches,  PRIOR to being “Born Again” being  widely heard of.) So perhaps, back in the day, His apostolic letters were not as widely known as they are right now. Meaning that the entire First New church was each and every one The New Breed…meaning of  “a rising new ministry, pastor, prophet, evangelist, apostle, teacher.

And without anyone having a prior generation of ministry leaders to mentor, give sage seasoned wise advice, it was left to each one of the First Church elders to continually “pray very hard and selflessly fast” until they each heard from the Lord!

Apostle Paul’s apostolic “to one day be in the Bible” teaching was non-conventional, according to the Legalistic Law (from which he had been well trained). Also it was  “spirit of wisdom and revelation” which was  downloaded” to Paul in his abiding, ongoing, yielded RELATIONSHIP with  God’s Holy Spirit Ephesians 1:17: That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:”

  Today many view Chief Apostle Paul as “Famous” nearly a “Born Again Celebrity”..yet while apostle Paul did have “renown” he himself openly rebuked the Corinthian Church elders for playing FAVORITES and being apparent “devoted Fan Followers” of Apollos, Paul and Jesus.

• I CORINTHIANS 1:10-13 (see beneath)  Penned by himself, Paul

• NOTE: What effect does picking Pet Favorite Preachers have on RELATIONSHIPS within the Ye Must Be Born Again big community, area, fellowships, private? (divisive)

• There is such a thing as having “renown” in the Bible. So being widely known, held in very high esteem is not the exact same type of thing as Celebrity. Yet, in the modern present all out TV Media ongoing Days, it’s difficult to discern, not over lap. Hence core ministry TRAINING.

^{I CORINTHIANS 1:10-13
10}Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

¹¹ For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

¹² Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

¹³ Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?:

 

• I CORINTHIANS 3:4-8

^4. For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

⁵ Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

⁶ I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

⁷ So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

⁸ Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.”

NOW ON to EPHESIANS 1:3-5

Submitted as Selah:(We place the verses below in this expository description)

IN VERSES 1:3-6 below….

• God reveals his regard, deep for every single human being, ever created in the following Purpose and Game Plan. (**aka God- Every single Unique Human Being with GOD Relationships are big to the Creator Father)

 

• Apostle Paul points out a mental spiritual POSITION, which allows each Believer in Messiah, the Christ, to depart from the natural, every day, often times dreary earthly perspective and assist them with a hopeful, supernatural, empowering God perspective. (While we understand that Paul’s letter was passed around, meaning that there were no printed Bibles for the First Church to study, to mediated upon, as in “renewing their own minds”…this IDEA basically assisted each Believer in gaining positive, empowering sustaining …deep PERSPECTIVE.

V. 3″Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us** with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: (we addressed this in the note above)

 

VERSE 4 BEGINS A POTENTIALLY HUGE THEOLOGICAL DOCTRINAL PERSPECTIVE.

Many will read what follows and may or may not believe similarly. As we are spiritually mature, we submit this as a abiding James 3:17 “easily entreated” non self righteous selah, rather than Autocratic Dogma.

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:

⁵ Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

As in V. 4 “he has chosen us (key words) IN HIM before the foundation of the world

As in V 5 “having PREDESTINATED US “

No. I am not into “predestination” and will share the WHY’S. (again as Selah)

In light of “PREDESTINATED/PREDESTINED..”Please GOOGLE SEARCH the “Lamb’s Book of Life”

WHEN we examine. “the Lamb’s Book of Life” topic..it implies that EVERYONE ever born has their amazing goodly name already inscribed in Creator Father God’s Lamb’s Book of Life…and that while He really wants their Name to remain in there (guaranteeing Salvation) that as a Loving Fair God, He does not want to dominate, force or control them (akin to seeing all human beings as His Puppets) hence, God gives them FREE WILL TO CHOOSE..

 

Implied?…to CHOOSE to ask Jesus Christ into their hearts or not. (free will, but also MYSTERY as nobody can understand God’s Behind the Scenes Designer, Planner, Supernatural Endless Mind) Thus I am only pointing out Bible religious Submitted Food for Non Dogmatic Thought Selahs

 

Implied?..Father God loves each individual regardless of race,gender, nation, tribe, status, appearance, etc. and has already planned to spend Eternity in Heaven with them. (Again assessing that Father God holds all relationships very dear!)

 

NEED TO NOTE: NOBODY really knows about the theological Big Usual Questions: WHAT if nobody every HEARS about God or Jesus? WHAT if people are brain damaged, etc I submit also  the “age of accountability” which may vary between human persons. As only God truly wisely (One Unique Valued, Respected, Treasured Human Individual ….relationship by relationship)only,  fully knows.

All I will say is that GOD IS always GOOD and HIS MERCY ENDURES.(Psalm 118 fine example) ( Plus He has GREAT GRACE) and He understands each of our own Unique Situations. So we can Trust Him to always be FAIR.

My Personal Kernel Thoughts:

• Good Creator Father does not pick Favorites. He genuinely loves everyone, every people group.. equally.
• God is abidingly “fair“…and not into “fatalism” (fatalism: creating some people and assigning them to heaven or dark hell without even giving each one a chance to make a choice…)

• I perceive that God does not pick ” just a few humans to attain Eternal Salvation” and then doom all of the others to burning Eternal Hell ..forever. I submit that God loves every person, but really wants them to choose to follow, to love, respect Him. His Unique understanding is PERFECT and mine, yours, all of ours is NOT.
• Implied: great happy eternal Game Plans to bless those who choose to follow and submit to Him. Hence they are given their own Big Choice.

IF you get upset by any of this, I respectfully assess that YOU really should turn Noble Berean and get online and research, Bible study and PRAY and really deeply seek the Living Lord about all of this!

 

Our Father God is a Living Loving, EVERYONE Relationship Respecter**: **however, the human persons who may represent Him are not always just like that, be they utmost sincere or otherwise

..Plus, if they are Pharisee Sin Spy-ers, accusing Bible Thumpers, Dogmatic Beat Down artists…then they may portray an accusative, warped and inauthentic God the Father Portrait, and even use accuser Old Testament Law amidst these NON LEGALISTIC New Testament Intended True, Untrue Times.

(Note. Hence all of the MANY “assess rather than accuse” articles, comments, which are directed solely to Christian leaders!)

 

• Throughout both the Old and New Testament God says “choose Life”Deuteronomy 30:⁹ I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:”
  

 

• and Jesus says in John 10:10, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.“

 

WELL, that concludes the PART 3 BOOK OF EPHESIANS BIBLE STUDY. A lot more to follow.

But let me add a FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Q. WHAT CHALLENGES, CIRCUMSTANCES evidently must have occurred…. from the time of Apostle Paul’s epistle to the Apostolic First Church BOOK OF EPHESIANS (chapters 1-6)…

…..and the Holy Spirit REBUKE of the Overseer pastor (Lampstand) Letter to the Church in Ephesus in Revelation 2:1-11??

To Read: CLICK link underneath to REV 2:1-11.. in which the Lord God of Hosts assesses that they are now in a sorry depleted ministry state and almost ready for Him to kill them off?

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+2%3A1-11&version=KJV

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