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Ephesians

Ephesians 
Day 
Day 155

"To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ."

Text: Ephesians 3:8

THE UNSEARCHABLE RICHES OF CHRIST

There was a time when Paul did not know Christ. There was a time when he hated the name of Christ. This name “Christ” was sacred for it meant “Messiah”. Anyone who dared to be so presumptuous as to call himself “Christ” was to be hated and persecuted, so Paul once believed.

His personal encounter with the risen Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, changed everything! Jesus was the Christ! And as time wore on, Paul found that no matter how much he expounded on his knowledge of the Scriptures, there was so much more to discover about the Lord Jesus. There were “unsearchable riches of Christ” to be further fathomed.

A SHORT LIST OF THE UNSEARCHABLE RICHES OF CHRIST

The word “unsearchable” (“anexichniaston”) was well chosen. Paul was suggesting that in Christ lay fathomless and incomprehensible riches of glorious truth! Let us attempt to appreciate the tremendously well-developed Christology that Paul possessed by the time he wrote Ephesians. Twelve outstanding features are presented (by no means exhaustive):-

1. Christ is co-equal with God (Ephesians 1:2, 3)

2. Christ is seated at the right hand of God (Ephesians 1:20)

3. Through Christ we receive “the adoption as sons” (Ephesians 1:5)

4. Through His blood we have full redemption (Ephesians 1:7)

5. In Christ we have a great spiritual inheritance (Ephesians 1:11)

6. Through Christ we have been given the Spirit of God (Ephesians 1:13-14)

7. Christ is made Head of the Church (Ephesians 1:22)

8. Through Christ we are given new life (Ephesians 2:5)

9. Through Christ we are seated with Him in the heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6)

10. We are newly created in Christ as His workmanship Ephesians 2:10)

11. Through Christ there is full reconciliation

a) With God
b) Between Jew and Gentile (Ephesians 2:18-20)

12. We are fitted together as the habitation (temple) of God (Ephesians 2:19-22)