Ephesians

EPHESIANS

The CALL of GOD

The book of Ephesians was not really written specifically to the church at Ephesus. There is no name in the orginal manuscript. It was more of a general “form” letter that was to be widely circulated to all the churches. It is supposedly written at Paul's direction by Tychius, mentioned in the 21st verse of chapter six.

Ephesians might be considered as a PS to the book of Romans. It clearly outlines the call of God, and that it is His choice alone. To this it adds the doctrine of Prevenient Grace and, in chapter four, God’s structuring of the Church from Christ to the gift ministers, to the saints. And, as always, Paul defines faithing and the indwelling of God’s Spirit.

Some scholars have called Ephesians a crossroads of Scripture.

We'll be using the same method to understand Ephesians as we used for the other three books in this section. I start by zeroing in on the key words in each verse, looking them up in Strong's and noting the frequency of their usage. Some words are used exclusively (x), some uniquely(q), some regularly(r) or uncommonly(u). I've only attached these letters to those words where it seemed better for understanding.

Then the process turns to "trans-substituion", where I substitute the Strong's word or phrase for the KJV word. Some of the verses get pretty long in this step of the process.

Then comes the reduction of the passages, chapters and finally the whole book. this is a homespun method of getting behind the meaning of the KJV. I'm certainly no biblical scholar with access to a myriad of reference material. and yet, this process has given me a handle on what's behind our English versions.

Although the KJV might not be the best translation, at least it has two major factors in its favor. One, the original words and their definitions can be found for the English words. Two, the Global Elite didn't have their fingers in the pie when the KJV was put together. So at least, all we have to deal with was satan's machinations. The KJV translators believed in a real God and Heaven and Salvation. Thirty percent of the RSV translators were Truth distorting globalists, who did things like changing Mary's virginal status to that of "a young girl." You might want to take a minute of read my Translations page.

So, on to Ephesians.

CHAPTER 1

Key words for chapter one:

v4-chosen: 1586-select(middle voice); foundation:2602r-a deposition, founding conception; world: 2889-cosmos arrangement.
v8-abounded: 4052r-be in excess.
v9-mystery: 3466-shut the mouth, silence.
v14-earnest: 728r-a pledge
v14-redemption: 629x-to ransom
v18-calling: invitation;
v19-power: 1411-force; power: 2904u-great vigor; working: 1753r-efficiency.
v21-principality: 746-rulers; power: 1849-priviledge magistrate; dominion: 2963u-mastery; world: 165u-an age, eon.
v23-body: 4983x-a sound whole body; fullness: 4138-completion; filleth; 4137-make replete, satisfy, finish.
Trans-substitution:

v1-2 Greeting and grace to believers from God's messenger Paul.
v3-6 Blessed is God, who blesses us in heaven through Christ. His plan, conceived (for His own pleasure) before the creation of the universe, included our selection. He determined, through Christ, to adopt us and honor us in Love(Christ).
v7-12 God's grace allows us redemption/forgiveness through Chist, His kept-silent plan to put the earth under Christ. To enhance His glory, God, by Christ, pre-determined to give us an allotment in the kingdom.
v13-14 You heard the gospel truth, acted on it, were marked as genuine, and got God's promised(announced) Spirit. The Spirit is God's pledge that He'll redeem us.
v15-17 I like your faith and love, and I pray for your enlightenment about God.
v18-23 I want your channel of thought to include the meaning(knowledge) of God's call and worth of your inheritance. And force beyond magnitude by the efficiency of His great vigor. God's force was put in Jesus body; raised him from the dead. Jesus is over rulers, magistrates, force, and lords, and anything with a name, in any age. Jesus is the head of a sound whole church, the completeness of the finishing satisfier.
Passage reduction:
God's plan for(of) our salvation, through Christ, was made before the universe.
Our redemption, forgiveness and inheritance, through Christ, are for God's enhancement.
God's given Spirit is His pledge for our full redemption.
I want your deep awareness to include the sure knowledge of God's call, His Force that raised Christ and put him above earth, and what Jesus body, trusters, get out of that.

Chapter reduction:
Know that before universal creation God, for His own glory, planned our invitation and redemption through Christ; by the life Force of His Spirit.

CHAPTER 2

Key words for chapter two:

v1-trespsses: 3900-side-slip; sins: 66x-faling short.
v2 course: 165-age, perpetuity; prince: 758x-first; power: 1849-force, mastery; air: 109-the air; disobedience: 543-unpersuaded.
v3-conversation: 390-behavior; lusts: 1939x-heart-longing; desires: 2307-determination; mind: 1271-deep thought; wrath: 3709r-violent passion.
v5-quickened: 4806r-co-jointly re-animated;
v10-workmanship: 4161-product; created: 2936-owner-fabricated; ordained: 4282q-fit up in advance.
v12 without: 5565-at a space; aliens: 526-to estrange away; strangers; 3581u-foreign.
v14-peace: 1515x-to join.
v15-abolished: 2673x-made useless; ordinances: 1378u-a law (dogma);
v21-framed: 4883-organize compactly; groweth: 837q-prolonged enlargement.
Passage trans-substitution:

1-You were dead in side-slipping and falling short.

2-3 You walked rooted in the age, rooted in the first master of the earth's air, whose spirit is efficiently active in the unpersuaded. We all lived determining our actions by our mental and physical yearnings.

4-7 God re-animated us co-jointly with(just like) Christ, and placed us with Christ sitting above the sky to exhibit His grace to all coming ages.

8-10 For our trusting acts, we're protected and made whole as an unmerited favor by God, so no man can say he earned that wholeness. God fit us up in advance as His owner-fabricated product for good toil.(the fight of faith).

11-13 You were at a space from Christ, estranged away from citizenship in Israel, foreigners to the promise and Godless. Christ's blood removed the space.

14-18 Christ broke down the wall and made useless the hostility between gentiles and Jews and the injunction of dogma. He joined the two factions into his one body. Christ's Spirit gives us access to God.

19-22 You all are of God's house, built on the apostles and prophets. Jesus is the cornerstone; a house compactly organized for prolonged enlargement to become God's permanent dwelling.
Chapter reduction:
We lived in Satan's grip. God saved us to show the ages. Trusting results in saving. Jesus Spirit accesses God. All are joined in Christ.

I'm sure that by now you are familiar enough with the keyword process to work on it by yourself. For the rest of the chapters I will dispense with the key words. I will, however, try to remember to underline keywords or their definitions.

CHAPTER 3

Trans-substitution:

v1-2 I am a captive administrator to you non-Jews of God's Graciousness for your salvation.

v3-5 This particular grace was kept silent until now, but God revealed it to the Apostles and me, to give to you.

v6-7 Some of the rest of humanity are to be co-heirs of God with the Jews. My job is to tell the non-Jews.
v8-12 I'm assigned to declare to non-Jews this news that God had taken aside from the world's beginning. To show the chiefs and authorities above the sky the much varigated wisdom of God. This is in the plan God did through Christ. So we can confidently gain admission to God because of Jesus' trusting action.
v13-19 Don't worry about my pressures experienced for you. I gladly make myself empty to God who named the heavenly hosts so your inner man will be empowered with God's dynamite, and Christ's Spirit housed permanently in your hearts because of your faith-action, and you take eagerly Christ's surpassing love and be made replete.
v20-21 Glory to God forever. His power in us can work beyond our imaginations.
Passage reduction:
I am a captive to tell the non-Jews of the secret of God's plan; that non-Jews are also to be saved. No one knew this until now. God is showing the heavenly authorities His varigated wisdom. I work so you may faithe and Christ's Spirit will dwell in you and strengthen you with His power, which can accomplish more than we dream. Praise God.

Chapter reduction:
God sends me with His hidden plan to save non-Jews by putting Christ's Spirit in their bodies when the faithe. Praise God!

CHAPTER 4

Trans-substitution:

v1-3 As a chained captive of Christ, I exhort you to walk appropriate to the leading of your invitation; with humility, gentleness, with tollerance supporting one another in agape, trying to keep the oneness of the Spirit in the joining tie or peace.
v4-6 There is one sound whole, one Spirit, one hope of your calling, one Supreme, one saving action, one fully wetting symbolic death and resurrection. There is one Supreme Spirit that permeates all the physical reality.
v7-8 We can all have God's Favor, given by Christ's generosity. Psalm 68 says Christ ascended leading prisoners captive and gave ministers to mankind.
v(9-10) If he ascended, he must have descended first. One person did this and now makes replete the universe with his presence.
v11-16 The ministers he gave the Chruch body are sent ones, ESP gifted, Preachers of the Gospel, and teaching leaders to help in completely furnishing ones dedicated to God for perpetuating the Gospel and structuring the Church extant, until we grow to a complete, mature, repletion of Christ, to cope with the ambushes of the world, and grow in Christ who helps the body grow and strengthen in love.
v17-19 Don't act in vanity, with obscured understanding, alienated from God due to a stupid mind-set, like those who apathetically do bad.
v20-24 Christ teaches us to put off the old world-bound-behavior man, driven by deluding desires, and put on the new righteous, holy, Owner-created man.
v25-32 Live with goodness, honesty and forgiveness, like God.
Passage reduction:
Honor your calling with appropriate, loving action. God's Oneness permeates all reality. God favored us with ministers of many talents to help us grow to Christ's maturity. A stupid, vain, worldly mind-set will separate you from God. Christ says put off the world view, put on God's view. Be good, honest and forgiving; like God.

Chapter reduction:
Honor your calling. God is Oneness. God gave special ministers to help faithers grow "to" Christ. Christ says put on God's view, not the world's. Love like God.

CHAPTER 5

Trans-substitution:

v1-2 Be imitators of God, like beloved children and live life loving, like Christ, who surrendered himself for us as a voluntary burnt offering to God for His pleasure.
v3-4 As saints, don't choose obscenity, silly talk, incest, idle jokes as your place to arrive. But give thanks.
v5-10 Don't co-participate with those who would cheat you out of the Kingdom. The unpersuaded are the cause of the coming tribulation. The Spirit doesn't sin: which models what God likes.
v11-14 Don't share in company the not-to-be-mentioned works of darkness, expose them to light; as Isaiah says to the House of Israel, "Awake to the light of Christ."
v15-21 Be exacting in your life, buying up your time. Be wise, understand God's will. Be crammed with the Spirit, not excess. Focus on God and thank Him in Jesus' name. Be submissive to each other, in awful honor of Christ.
v22-24 Wives obey your husbands. He typifies Christ in relation to the Church.
v25-30 Husbands, be like Christ was to the Church. He surrendered his life to save the Chruch, to make it holy. Cherish, train, rear up and love your wives as if they were members of your own body.
v31-33 Thus, Adam reveals that we leave our parents and join with our wives, as Christ with the Church. Husbands in love of wives and wives in awe of husbands, fulfill your respectvie roles.
Passage reduction:
Give yourselves to God, like Christ. Choose righteous goals and give thanks. Co-participating with the unpersuaded will cheat you of the Kingdom. Emulate the Spirit. Expose darkness, awake to the light of Christ. Study God's will, be crammed with the Spirit, focusing on God and being open to each other. Wives, obey your husbands, Husbands, die for your wives. You "are" Christ and the Church. Husbands and wives, fulfull you respective roles.

Chapter reduction:
Surrender to God. Choosing righteous goals, emulate the Spirit. Study God's will and be open to each other. God meant marriage to typify Christ and the Church. Wives, obey your husband, husbands, put your wife first.

CHAPTER 6

Trans-substitution:

v1-4 It is right to hear-under and prize your parents: for which we'll live well, straight and true. Fathers, anger not your children, but train and instruct them regarding God.
v5-9 Slaves, obey your human supreme authorities with fright and trembling in a sincere folding together of your spirit, as to Christ. Not with an outward show as courtiers, but as Christ's slaves doing God's purpose from your heart, kindly slaving as to the Lord, seeing the Lord provides for any bond or free man what He provides for others. Masters, slacken manacing, knowing the Master in heaven shows no thigh.
v10-12 Finally, be empowered with the great vigor of God. Wear the full armor to stand against the inferior imitations of the Slanderer, the leader to disgrace. For we fight to the death against chiefs, forces of mastery, world rulers of obscurity and non-carnal depravity above the sky.
v13-20 Take hold of the full armor of God so you can stand opposed in the period of evil and having worked fully, staunchly abide. Stand gird all around with that which is true, wearing equity and justification on your chest, bound under with the good news of joining God. First take hold of the shield of God-trusting acts to extinguish the fiery thrown darts of the wicked.
v21-24 Receive salvation and the Spirit, which is the logos of God. Praying with a binding petition in the Spirit, being sleepless and persistent in petition for the saints. Pray that I be able to boldly utter the hidden good news, for which I am a Senior in manacles. Tychius shall tell you those things with which I am down. I have sent him to tell you our thighs and to call your hearts near to us. Peace, faithing and grace from God and Christ to all those who give without reservation to our Lord, Jesus the Deliverer.
Passage reduction:
Obey and prize your parents. Teach your children about God. Slaves, treat you masters like Christ, sincerely, as Christ’s slaves. God treats slaves and masters alike. Masters, be nice, like God. Use God’s great vigor against the imitations of the Slanderer. This is a fight to the death against unseen spiritual forces. With God, stand staunchly opposed in the time of evil. Be true, justified and founded in joining with God. Faithing, extinguish wicked darts. Receive salvation and the Spirit, persistently petitioning for the saints. Pray for my preaching. I am a Senior chained to the Good News. I sent Tychius to tell you how I am, to call our spirits near. Peace, faithing and grace to those who give without reservation to our Deliverer.

Chapter reduction:
Obey and prize your parents. Teach your children about God. Slaves, masters, you are both slaves to Christ. This is spiritual warfare. Be true, justified and founded in God. Receive salvation. Pray for the saints and my preaching. Tychius will comfort you with my news. Peace, faithing and grace to those who give without reservation to our deliverer.

BOOK REDUCTION:
Before universal creation, God invited and redeemed us through Christ by the life Force of His Spirit. God saved us from Satan’s grip to show the Ages that trusting results in saving, and Jesus’ spirit accesses God. God’s plan to save non–Jews was to put Christ’s spirit in their bodies when they faithe. Honor God’s invitation. He gave us ministers to help us grow into Christs. Give without reservation. Surrender to God, choose righteous goals, study God’s will and be open to each other. Marriage should typify Christ and the Church. Honor ALL people, as God does. Be true, justified, founded in God and receive salvation. Peace, faithing and grace to those who give without reservation to our Deliverer.

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