We will see his heart for the church as he explains what he calls the mystery of Christ.

This is what Jesus in us should look like.

1: To be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man. (Eph.3:16)

2: That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. (Eph. 3:17)

3: That you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height. (Eph. 3:18)

4: To know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (Eph. 319)

What do we see when we look in the mirror, or what do others see in us?

As we always see, God’s timing is perfect and as the gallows are being built, God is moving on the king.

We are going to see the reconciliation of all men through the blood of Jesus Christ. Both Jews and Gentiles are brought to God through faith, no longer through the works of the law.

Paul now gives this foundational truth and clear picture of who we were before Jesus and what He did for us.

In this study we will see how God begins to set a trap for Haman. Up to this point, he is riding high as he thinks his evil plot is working out just as he had planned, but soon everything he plans to do will be brought right back upon himself.

Paul continues his thought on spiritual blessings and also the full authority over all things including being the head of the body which is the church.

We will start a study in Ephesians. We have studied this book before all the way back in 2013, but as we saw in our study in Corinthians, there are many parallels with the church today. The letter to the Ephesians is sometimes called one of the four prison epistles. It along with Philippians, Colossians and Philemon were all written around 62 A.D. while Paul was in prison in Rome while awaiting a hearing before Nero. This epistle speaks of the church as Christ’s body with Jesus being the head. In this study we will see both the heavenly calling of the church as well as the earthly conduct. There is no doubt that Ephesians is a powerful book that the church today really needs to examine and then get back to the foundational truths that Paul wrote to the early church that are still truths and absolutes for us today. So let’s see what God has for us as we begin.

Knowing the king was prideful, he manipulated him into signing a decree that would kill all the Jews throughout the land and at this point, he is riding high on his evil plot. His plan would be implemented 11 months from the time these letters were dispersed throughout the land. This week we will see Mordecai’s reaction to this announcement and his and Esther’s response to it.