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🗓️ 16 December 2020
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:13.1 | For our New Testament readers we just finished our 15th book and for our full Bible readers |
0:17.6 | we finished book 54. |
0:20.2 | Ephesus is in modern day Turkey. |
0:22.2 | However some scholars believe this book in particular may have been intended as some |
0:25.8 | sort of mass email to lots of churches in the area. |
0:28.8 | Which could be one reason why it doesn't address any specific problems or offer |
0:32.2 | abuse and instead seems to serve as more of a general encouragement and vision casting |
0:36.8 | letter. |
0:37.8 | Chapter 1 is Dense. |
0:39.6 | If you were half awake when you read it, check it out again. |
0:42.1 | It is rich with theology and encouragement and the kindness of God. |
0:46.2 | Paul opens by reminding them that they were chosen by God in Christ before the world |
0:50.1 | was made. |
0:51.4 | Reconciliation has always been God's plan, even before things fell apart. |
0:55.8 | And he's working out all things according to his will. |
0:58.6 | One of his glorious purposes in all of this is to give his kids an inheritance with Christ. |
1:03.4 | He did and the spirit signed the paperwork. |
1:06.2 | Paul also reminds them that the father raised the son from the dead and that the same power |
1:10.5 | God used in that action is the same power that resides in his kids via his spirit. |
1:16.1 | Chapter 2 is an overview of the past, present and future of every believer. |
1:20.5 | We were dead in our sins. |
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