Would you turn with me to Ephesians 1? Ephesians 1. I think one of the things that you need to keep in mind when you look at the Scriptures is that God used Jewish men to write them, and he did not take them out of their cultural context or background; they wrote from that perspective and when you deal with the doctrine of sovereign election which the...

All of God’s people said, amen. Ephesians 1. Let’s go back there. Ephesians 1. “Election Pure and Simple.” I know I’m not going to be able to answer all of your questions because that would be impossible. Maybe when we get in heaven we’ll understand these things more thoroughly, but as we begin looking at this, we were looking basically at Ephesians 1:4 using it as a foundation...

Thank you, Brother Wes. Let’s go back to Ephesians this evening, Ephesians 1, and I want us to look at actually one verse very closely but I want to read verses 1 through 14. Greek scholars tell us this is one sentence in the original language and it’s an exceedingly cumbersome sentence. Grammarians just wrestle and wrestle and wrestle with how to diagram it which I think is...

Let’s go back to the book of Ephesians on this Sunday night. I don’t know how long I’m going to preach out of Ephesians, I just keep going back there and it keeps grabbing me and there are so many wonderful things. When we went through the book of Ephesians many years ago, it was a time of reformation and transition in our church and really the book...

Let’s go back to Ephesians, Ephesians 1, and let’s talk about “The Riches of Grace.” We’ll probably do this in two installments as we continue to look at Ephesians 1 and dig out some of the glory that God has placed there in the truth of our salvation. Ephesians 1, beginning in verse 7. Let’s go down through verse 12. Paul, continuing in his flow of elaborating on...