Ephesians Intro

Sovereign Grace Bible Church, 10/9/2011

Ephesians.  ~Intro~
1.Is the deepest, greatest, matures, and for our time the most relevant.
This epistle tell the Christian of their great riches, inheritances, and fullness in Jesus Christ and in His Church. This book tell you what you possess in Christ and how you can claim and enjoy your possessions.

John MacArthur
“This book is Gods heavenly bank and there is no limitations or restrictions on it. There is NO reason a Christian is to be spiritually deprived, undernourished, or impoverished, In fact, he has no reason not to be completely healthy and immeasurable rich in the things of God.”

Because of the Riches of His Grace (1:7) and the unfathomable riches of Christ (3:8) We are to be filled up to the fullness of Christ (4:13) and filled with the Spirit (5:18) and the all the fullness of God (3:19)

Christ is the guarantee of every spiritual blessing and all spiritual riches.

Those who are in Him have access to all that He is and has.

2. The theme of the book.
The prevailing theme in Ephesians is God’s eternal purpose and the place of Christ and His people in that purpose.


We are told who we are, how we came to be as we are, what we shall be, and what we must do now in the light of the destiny. We are God’s children (1:2), God’s heirs (1:11), Christs body (1:22-23), God’s building (2:19-22), Christ’s bride (5:22-31), and the Church (1:22; 3:10; 21 ect.).

3.There are 2 possible reasons that this letter was written not specifically to Ephesians.

This letter could have been the letter from Laodicea with the Colossians.  (Col 4:16)
This letter was a circular letter intended for all the seven churches of Asia minor.


4.The City of Ephesus.
Was the capitol city in a Roman providence in Asia. It was the political and commercial center of a large and prosperous region.

It had a 25,000 seat open-air theater
There was a stadium for Chariot races and fights with animals.

Ephesus boosted most of all about it temple to Diana or Artemis a false idol.
Ephesus is located in morden Turkey

God was pleased to establish a faithful church in a city where Christian we attempting to live for God in the midst of utter paganism

Paul spent more than 3 years in Ephesus
The letter to the Ephesians was written about 60-62 A.D.
32 years later John wrote a letter to this same Church in the book of Revelation Chapter 2.

A basic out line Chapter 1-3 Gods purpose and everything we have in Christ Chapter 3-6
Application, how we are to walk according to the first 3 chapters.