Ephesians: Lecture 52

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Speaker Notes

The Collect

Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.  Amen.

Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians 6:17

17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy 3:16

16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,

Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians 3:13-18

13 We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from seeing the end of what was passing away. 14 But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away. 15 Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. 16 But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

Mark Twain quote:

“It ain’t those parts of the Bible that
I can’t understand that bother me,
it is the parts that I do understand.”

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain, edited by Alex Ayres, 1989, pg. 24

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