Hello, welcome back to Scripture Central. I'm Lynn Hilton Wilson, part of the Scripture Central team

on Come Follow Me. And I love the book of Ephesians. Today, we're in the New Testament and the

epistles. This is one of the epistles attributed to Paul, although that's debatable. We'll talk

a little bit about that. And it appears that it is a general circulatory letter that went to many different churches.

It's filled with hymns and praise. But the whole theme is to come unto Christ. It's just beautifully

written and executed. Paul says he's in bonds during this letter. So we have put it with the letters

of the time period when Paul's in prison.

Do you remember from the book of Acts after his third apostolic mission, he is taken prisoner

in Caesarea for two years and then to Rome? We assume this is consistent with the Roman letters

because of the way that he shares similar information to the other letters that were written at this time.

But if you want to read more about it, go to Acts, chapters 21 to 27 or 28, and you can see some of those things there.

I want to talk next about the title and the audience.

We refer to it as Ephesians, so that's how I'm going to refer to it.

But it probably wasn't written only to the Ephesians.

Because remember, Paul served in Ephesus for three years. He was there the longest of any other

place than he had ever been in all of the time that he served as an apostle. And yet, in this letter,

he gives no personal greetings. The audience does not know him, and he doesn't know them.

We have lots of examples in the scriptures.

I hope you can see them as you're reading through.

And I hope the spirit can guide you too.

I don't want to dissuade you away,

but I think that it's helpful to say,

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