Ephesians Bible Studies – Sinclair Ferguson

The following are links to Bible studies from the book of Ephesians taught by Sinclair Ferguson at Park Cities Presbyterian Church, in Dallas Texas:

Ephesians 101 (Ephesians 1:1-2)

The Wonders of His Grace (Ephesians 1:3-14)

The Riches of Our Inheritance (Ephesians 1:15-23)

The Dead Brought to Life (Ephesians 2:1-10)

Aliens Become Citizens (Ephesians 2:11-22)

A Great Mystery Revealed: Accepting God’s Wonderful Wisdom (Ephesians 3:1-13)

A Good Reason for Kneeling: Realizing the Dimensions of God’s Glory (Ephesians 3:14-21)

E Pluribus Unum: Growing As Many Members in One Body (Ephesians 4:1-16)

A Radical Transformation: Living As a New Person in Christ (Ephesians 4:17-32)

Imitators of God: Learning to Walk As His Children (Ephesians 5:1-21)

Christians in Marriage: Respecting Each Other As Husbands and Wives (Ephesians 5:22-33)

Christians in the Family: Becoming Wise Parents, Rearing Your Children for Christ (Ephesians 5:22-33)

Christians in the Workplace: Knowing How to Be Faithful to Christ, Whether Servants or Masters (Ephesians 6:5-9)

Christians in Spiritual Battle: Engaging in Spiritual Warfare and Wearing God’s Armor (Ephesians 6:10-24)

Grace: The Message of Ephesians, by Mark Dever

Book CoverTHIS LINK will take you to the audio for a sermon on Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians preached my Mark Dever at Capital Hill Baptist Church while leading his church through a survey of the New Testament.  These sermons were recapitulated in his book The Message of the New Testament:Promises Kept.  I think well of the book and used it in a New Testament survey class that I taught to college freshmen.

Predestined For Adoption to the Praise of His Glory, Ephesians 1:1-6

Reflections of John Piper on Being Adopted by God and Adopting Children

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Ephesians 1:1-6

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithfulin Christ Jesus: 2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5he predestined usfor adoption through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

Adoption is one of the most profound realities in the universe. I say “universe” and not [Read more...]

Matthew Henry’s Commentary on Ephesians 1:15-23

We have come to the last part of this chapter, which consists of Paul’s earnest prayer to God in behalf of these Ephesians. We should pray for the persons for whom we give thanks. Our apostle blesses God for what he had done for them, and then he prays that he would do more for them. He gives thanks for spiritual blessings, and prays for further supplies of them; for God will for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them. He has laid up these spiritual blessings for us in the hands of his Son, the Lord Jesus; but then he has appointed us to draw them out, and [Read more...]

Matthew Henry’s Commentary On Ephesians 1:1-2

In this chapter we have, I. The introduction to the whole epistle, which is much the same as in others (v. 1, 2). II. The apostle’s thanksgivings and praises to God for his inestimable blessings bestowed on the believing Ephesians (v. 3-14). III. His earnest prayers to God in their behalf (v. 15-23). This great apostle was wont to abound in prayers and in thanksgivings to almighty God, which he generally so disposes and orders that at the same time they carry with them and convey the great and important doctrines of the Christian religion, and the most weighty instructions to all those who seriously peruse them.

Verses 1-2

Here is, 1. The title St. Paul takes to himself, as belonging to him—Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, etc. He [Read more...]

Matthew Henry’s Commentary On Ephesians 1:3-14

He begins with thanksgivings and praise, and enlarges with a great deal of fluency and copiousness of affection upon the exceedingly great and precious benefits which we enjoy by Jesus Christ. For the great privileges of our religion are very aptly recounted and enlarged upon in our praises to God.

I. In general he blesses God for spiritual blessings, v. 3, where he styles him the God and Father of our Lord [Read more...]

The Library of Celsus

Theater in Ephesus

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