What does Ephesians take us into?
This letter takes the reader into the higher atmosphere of Christian doctrine, or the deeper waters, and into the Body of Christ territory. Paul wrote it from prison in Rome, and it is higher ground with no reference to the Old Testament or the Jew.
Les explains that Ephesians is one of the little letters Paul wrote from prison in Rome. It takes the reader into the higher atmosphere of Christian doctrine, or into the deeper waters. In this letter there is no more reference to the Old Testament and no more reference to the Jew; rather, it is higher ground and the Body of Christ territory. Les then reads Ephesians 1:10, where Paul speaks of the dispensation of the fullness of time, that God might gather together in one all things in Christ, both in heaven and on earth, everything consummated in him. In whom also we, as Gentile believers especially, have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. Les also indicates he will come back to Acts chapter 2 to tie all this together.