This is the Baymont podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today we travel to the second largest city in the Roman Empire and hear the words Paul wrote to the Ephesians.

I feel like I want to open with a apology to all of our listeners.

I listened to our podcast on one and a half speed. Good old podcast player. Speed it up, you know. Just like listen to our material. See what's going on?

I slowed it down this week to one speed. I had surgery for a deviated septum. Pretty bad knows what that is. My wife used to tell me, you breathe really hard. You're really loud. Breathe.

Man, I listened to our podcast on one one speed. Man, I am sorry. You guys have to listen to me. I'll try not to do that into the microphone so much. How about that? That's not a good idea.

Can you just give me a little gesture like, hey, you're breathing heavy into the mic. Oh man. Anyway, woo! Let's talk about Ephesians. Brent, you ready? I'm ready. All right. Got some shorter podcasts coming up here. We're going to bounce through some of the letters of Paul. This is one episode at a time.

There's two options. Either you go all the way in, verse by verse, or you just kind of talk about the big ideas. Hopefully we got some shorter conversations coming up. We'll see about that.

Not making any promises. Not yet anyway. The book of Ephesians is going to bring up topics that will run consistently in line with previous discussions we've had about Paul.

This letter is going to open with more references to predestination. We talked about that speaking of long episodes. It was our longest episode today. I'm pretty sure.

The episode where we talked about predestination. I would tell you to go back and listen to that again, but whoo! That was the long one.

But we have. We've talked about predestination. Paul is going to speak in chapter three about his special revelation that he preaches in his gospel. What's the word, Brent?

You on Gileon. You on Gileon. Is there a Hebrew equivalent for that? Well, how beautiful are the feet of those that bring the good news? That's going to be Isaiah. I don't know what the Hebrew expression is in Isaiah.

Should be Isaiah 10, I think. Brent will find it. He's going to super sleuth. I don't know if that's Isaiah 10. How beautiful the feet. How beautiful are the feet? That's Romans 10. Excuse me.

So it's Isaiah 52 in the term is Tove Bazar. Oh, yeah, good. Yeah, Tove. Don't know why I didn't think about that immediately. Bazar. Yeah. Good words. Good word. Good. Open up Bazar. See what it says. Good words. The good word.

I like that. I think Bazar is word. News, tidings. Okay. There you go. Announcements. Announcements. Good. Announcements.

Oh, all right. There you go. So good, good news. Tove Bazar in the Hebrew. You on Gileon in the Greek.

And you might remember the conversation within the book of Galatians where Paul was adamant that he did not receive his gospel from the teachings of men, but received it directly from who Brent from Jesus from Jesus himself.

So let's three years together. That's right. Just like all the other guys. Yep. That's right. So listen to a very similar. Listen. You're going to hear some very similar things here. Any pigeons give us some of these opening verses here. Brent chapter three.

For this reason, I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles, surely you have heard about the administration of God's grace that was given to me for you. That is the mystery made known to me by revelation as I have already written briefly in reading this then you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to people in other generations as it has now been revealed by the spirit to God's holy apostles and prophets.

This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel members together of one body and shares together in the promise in Christ Jesus. Paul says that he has received a mystery made known to him by revelation. Sounds kind of similar to Galatians that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel members together of one body and shares together in the promise in Christ Jesus.

So a whole bunch of consistency with Galatians a that he got this gospel this mystery made known him by revelation and be that this this gospel this revelation is about the Gentiles and their inclusion.

So this not only finds itself to be completely consistent with Paul's message but as we've pointed out before continues to be the main thrust behind so much of the New Testament even outside of Pauline literature like I know he said that and we're like okay Galatians and okay I guess Romans is about this blended family of Jew and Gentile together and but not here it is and Ephesians as well this is going to be such a dominant idea throughout all of your New Testament.

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