Hello and welcome to the Scriptures or Real Podcast.

This is the podcast where we talk about things that have become real to us in the Scriptures

because that allows us to apply it to our lives more and that allows us to draw more power

out of it and we certainly need more power from God in our lives today.

In fact, that's one of the things we'll talk about today.

I'm your host, Kerry Mealstein, and this is a shortcast where we are doing an overview of a book.

Sometimes when I interview a guest, we do a pretty good overview, and sometimes I feel like

my goal has been to typically do an overview for every one of the books.

Just sometimes we talk so much in one of the interviews that would be too redundant,

but I'm trying to do an overview of most of these books.

So today we're doing an overview of Ephesians.

So let me talk just a little bit about the epistle itself and about Ephesus. The epistle itself is one of the

epistles that Paul writes while he's in Rome. So let's give just a little bit of a background.

You remember that after his three journeys, he's taken captive in the temple because the

Jews are upset because he says that Gentiles can become part of the covenant and he's taken to

Caesarea and he appeals to Caesar and then he's sent off to Rome. And while he's in prison there

for years, he writes different letters. This is one of those letters.

We're actually not 100% sure that Paul is the author of this letter.

It's certainly inspired writing, whether it's from Paul or not.

But I think it's fairly good chance it's from Paul.

The question is, is it relate to the Saints in Ephesus?

In the earliest manuscripts, it doesn't mention Ephesus. That only comes later. And so there's

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