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In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul elaborates on, in a most wonderful way, the God-given, Christ-secured, Holy Spirit-applied privileges of the Christian life. Here, perhaps more than anywhere else in the New Testament, we are brought face to face with the “unsearchable riches of Christ” (3:8). Step by adoring step, Paul introduces us to the spiritual blessings that are the predestined,...

Christ but evidence in their lives the Savior’s transforming grace. A bare profession of faith that is not married to a gospel lifestyle of obedience and love is “faith without works” and is dead (James 2:14–26). Covenant privileges do not unite anyone to Christ—only self-abandoning faith does. There is a manifest concern in Paul’s teaching about the Christian family. His concern is not simply that Christian families live harmonious, happy, and God-honoring lives. He understands that the Christian
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