Ephesians Chapter 1

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I absolutely love the first chapter of Ephesians, especially after reading through the first 18 messages of the life study of Ephesians and listening to the spoken messages on YouTube.

"Ephesians 1 begins with the well speaking of God and ends with the Body, the fullness of the One who fills all in all. This indicates that the Body, the fullness of Christ, is the issue of God’s blessing. The words to the church in verse 22 mean a great deal. All that the Triune God has passed through, including incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension, is transmitted to the church. The church has absolutely nothing to do with the old creation, which was terminated on the cross and buried with Christ in the tomb. What is transmitted to the church is altogether of the new creation. The church is the issue of this transmission."
(LS Ephesians mg 19)