Ephesians 1.1-14 - Paul, the Motor-Mouth

Ephesians 1.1-14 - Paul, the Motor-Mouth

Dipping into today’s text is like drinking from a gushing fire hose. It could knock you down! Paul is hyper-pumped into a 203 word verbal torrent of wonder over God’s marvelous salvation. One long sentence without coming up for air! Paul’s Spirit-empowered vista stretches way beyond his Roman cell – from before the earth’s foundation to its final culmination in Christ. He breathlessly invents new words, and crashes words into each other, straining to describe the gift of saving grace! Why would the Almighty, Holy, Omnipotent, Triune, Creator God transform us rebels into beloved daughters and sons? Paul can’t answer the why question, maybe we never will. But his WOW of praise and glory undergirds the whole section. In this ‘magnificant’ Paul taps into the ceaseless eternal praise that now fills the courts of heaven. Not a bad way to tough-out a prison cell…or get through this life.