The Wonder of Redemption in Christ (Ephesians 1:7–10)

“Ephesians chapter 1 is the textual content that we’re taking a look at. By means of the years, clearly, over fifty years, there have been a few instances when this church went by means of the ebook of Ephesians. However it’s a ebook that must be introduced to each new era of Grace Church people; and thus, we’re taking a look at this ebook once more in 2021. It’s a foundational ebook. It’s foundational within the sense that we noticed final time, that it begins with sovereign election. It’s foundational in that it lays out the gospel in no unsure phrases totally. It’s foundational as effectively, that it defines how we dwell: sanctification. It provides the construction for the church. It informs us about all human relationships: marriage, household, even employment. It tells us how one can battle in opposition to the religious powers of hell. It does all of that in only a very, very transient few chapters.

In order we undergo the ebook of Ephesians, the fact is that this ebook, verse by verse, turns into a launching level for explaining lots of different issues. In actual fact, you couldn’t learn the assertion “He selected us” with out that forcing you to reply the instant questions, “What does that imply?” You possibly can’t learn the phrase predestined or the phrase adoption with out desirous to know what which means. And you’ll’t, within the textual content for this morning, beginning in verse 7, see the phrase redemption with out asking, “What does that imply?” And so it’s as if the ebook of Ephesians is the doorway into sound theology, sound fact, that shapes our lives, reworking us…” from the Transcript