What is the main point Ephesians keeps driving home about believers?
Ephesians keeps driving home that believers are now positioned in Christ—in Him, in whom—and in His body. Its six chapters use many prepositional phrases to stress this peculiar position. Believers are positioned in the heavenlies, a heavenly people even while still living on earth.
Les explains that Ephesians contains 90 some prepositional phrases in its six chapters, phrases like “in Christ,” “in Him,” “in whom,” “in this or in that.” The whole book constantly drives home that believers now occupy a peculiar position. Unlike Romans, which shows sinners and the gospel remedy, or Corinthians and Galatians, which correct problems and legalism, Ephesians does not deal with those matters. Instead it hammers home that the believer is positioned in Christ and in the body. The roots of that position are seen in verse 3, and the believer is positioned in the heavenlies—not an earthly people but a heavenly people, though still on earth.