Great Acts of Judgment
Ex 3-6 (MYong)
God Prepares to Redeem His People
Ex 1-2 (CChong)
God Holds True to His Word
The Great Promise (c.f. Gen 12:1-3, 17:1-8)
1. God is at work to keep His people (1:1-22);
2. God is at work to save His people (2:1-22);
3. God knows & remembers His covenant (2:23-25)
c.f. Acts 7:17-30, Heb 11:23-27
Eph 6b (MinLdrs)
Be Strengthened in the Lord
Eph 5b-6a (CChong)
To Love & To Submit
In principle (as believers),
Walk in love (5:2), submitting to one another (5:21)
In specific “ordered” relationships,
1. As wives & as husbands (5:22-33)
2. As children & as fathers (parents) (6:1-4)
3. As slaves & as masters (6:5-9)
Eph 5a (MYong)
Be Like God
Eph 4b (MYong)
A Renewed Community
Eph 4a (MinLdrs)
Eph 3 (CChong)
God’s Amazing Salvation
1. What God has done to save us is the basis of
a. the whole of Paul’s life (3:1-13)
(& hence, their perspective of his affliction)
b. Paul’s prayer for the believers (3:14-19)
2. What God can do to save us is the basis of
our praise & hope (3:20-21)
Eph 2b (DanChua)
Reconciled by Christ
A. What we once were: (2:11-12)
Without God & without hope
B. How God turned it around: (2:13-15a)
He reconciled us by the blood of Christ
C. Outcome of God’s intervention: (2:15b-22)
i. Peace & end of hostility
ii. Birth of the church !
D. Concluding thoughts & applications