God has given us one book that can change the entire direction of our lives, the Bible.

And in this study, journeying through scriptures, we will take a brief big-picture look at every book of the Bible,

tracing God's unfolding story from Genesis to Revelation.

Our prayer is that this journey will stir your heart to open God's word daily.

Let's join Scott Pauli for today's study.

For my grace, are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. Those are the profound words of Ephesians chapter 2,

verses 8 and 9.

We've come today in our journey through Scripture to this amazing book called the Book of Ephesians.

Now it has six chapters. It has been called by some people the most impersonal of Paul's letters.

In other words, it doesn't deal with lots of personal things about his own life

or even very personal things about the church there. It is full of doctrine. It is full of great

truth. It's been called the Grand Canyon of Scripture, broader and deeper, and in some ways

most beautiful. And so because of that, I believe it's very easily applied to all

believers, and indeed it should be. It wasn't written just to the people in Ephesus. Oh, it was

written to them, but it was written for us. Now, one amazing revelation is that the book of

Ephesians is a prison epistle. Some people believe it was the first of the prison

epistles. And so think about this. The Apostle Paul writes one of the most doctrinal, beautiful,

profound letters he ever wrote sitting in a prison cell. One author even called it, Paul's

greatest prison masterpiece.

Well, I don't know if he was sitting in a Roman prison.

I don't know if he was under house arrest.

I don't know all the circumstances, but I know this.

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