Ephesians Bible Study #2 1:15-2:10

                  Ephesians 1:15-2:10 (New King James Version) Prayer for Spiritual Wisdom

15 Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, 16 do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.

22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

EPHESIANS 2   1 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

VERSE 15 – What is commendable in the SAINTS ______________.

                     What is FAITH? “Believing what God tells us is the truth.”Tony Evans

Verses 17-18 What do the SAINTS receive? W_____, R__________. 

                        Your eyes will be  E_______, H___of His C ___, We inherit R_____ of His G___.

Verse 19 We can know His P______.  Verse 20 which raised Christ from the dead.

Verse 21 He is above every P____________ and P ______.

Verse 22-23 He has everything under His F___. He is the head of the Church which is our B___.

Verse 1-2 You are now A S____.  You were once under P___ of the P____ of the A__.

Verse 3 You were slaves to L___. You were children of WRATH.

Verse 4 God is rich in MERCY because of His great L___.

Verse 5 We were dead in T______. Now you are a____ in GRACE.

Verse 6 Where do we now sit? (IT’s UNBELEVABLY GREAT)

              PART OF US IS SEATED IN HEAVEN –ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN! (Lord’s Prayer)

Verse 7  he will show us what riches? G____, K_______. What is GRACE?

MEMORY VERSE HOMEWORK   EPHESIANS 2:9-10  

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.