Opening words
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📚Paul, an apostle✭ of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints✭ who are in Ephesus✭ and faithful✭ in Christ Jesus: 2 📚Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.The believer’s position in Christ
3 📚Blessed be the God and Father✭ of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us✭ with all spiritual blessings✭ in the heavenly places in Christ,
They are God’s chosen ones
4 📚even as he has chosen✭ us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 📚he predestined✭ us to the adoption as children to himself, by Jesus Christ, in accordance with the good pleasure of his will, 6 📚to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he has made us accepted✭ in the Beloved.
They have forgiveness of sins
7 📚In him we have redemption✭ through his blood, the forgiveness✭ of sins, according to the riches of his grace
They have God’s revelation
8 📚✭which he has lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. 9 📚He has made known to us the mystery✭ of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself, 10 📚that in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might bring everything together in Christ, both things in heaven and on earth, in him.
11 📚In Him also we have obtained an inheritance✭, being predestinated✭ according to the purpose✭ of him who works all things according to the counsel of his own will, 12 📚so that we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
They have God’s Holy Spirit
13 📚You also✭ trusted in him, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and upon believing you received a seal✭ in him, the Holy Spirit of promise✭, 14 📚✭who is the pledge guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of his glory✭.
Paul prays that believers will better understand their position in Christ
15 📚Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith✭ in the Lord Jesus and love for all the saints, 16 📚do not cease to give thanks✭ for you, mentioning you in my prayers✭. 17 📚I ask✭ that the God✭ of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit✭ of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, 18 📚✭the eyes✭ of your understanding being enlightened, so that you may know what is the hope✭ of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance✭ in the saints, 19 📚and what is the exceeding greatness of his power✭ toward us who believe, in accordance with the working of his mighty power 20 📚✭which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21 📚far above all sovereignty, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come,
They have Christ as their Head and they are Christ’s body