Ephesians 1:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

We

Being

Ephesians 1:5

The purpose

Ephesians 1:9

General references

Acts 15:18

Ephesians 3:11

Bible References

We

and this is the pledge of our inheritance, being given for the deliverance of his peculiar people, to the display of his glory.

and now, my brethren, I recommend you to God, and to his gracious dispensation, which is able to improve you, and secure to you the inheritance with those who are sanctify'd.

and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and partake of the inheritance of the saints, by believing on me."

and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; although we now suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

now if the right to the inheritance be from the law, it is no longer founded upon the promise; altho' God made a donation of it to Abraham by promise.

giving thanks to the father, who has qualified you to share in that light he affords to his people:

knowing that as you are the servants of Christ our Lord, you shall receive from him the inheritance for your reward.

that being justified by his favour, we should have the inheritance of eternal life, according to our hopes.

consider, my dear brethren, has not God chose the poor of this world to be rich by faith, and to inherit the kingdom he has promised to those who love him?

in the enjoyment of a state, that can never change or decay, a state reserv'd in heaven for us,

don't return evil for evil, nor calumny for calumny; on the contrary, bestow your benedictions, considering that your vocation obliges you thereto, as a means to obtain the divine blessing.

Being

having predetermin'd to adopt us by Jesus Christ to be his children, according to the good pleasure of his own will,

The purpose

for he has discover'd to us the secret of his will, that out of his meer good pleasure, he had purposed in himself,

General references

he that does all these things, is the Lord himself that has said it." for the works of God are all known to him from the beginning of the world.

in pursuance of that dispensation which he made to former ages by Christ Jesus our Lord: