JOY of Living bible study on Paul's letter to the Ephesians

6. Namely, the righteousness of God through the
faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe.
For there is no distinction, for all have sinned
and fall short of the glory of God. But they are
justified freely by his grace through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus. God
publicly displayed him at his death as the
mercy seat accessible through faith. This was
to demonstrate his righteousness, because
God in his forbearance had passed over the
sins previously committed.
Romans 3:22-25

7. yet we know that no one is justified by the
works of the law but by the faithfulness of
Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in
Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by
the faithfulness of Christ and not by the
works of the law, because by the works of
the law no one will be justified.
Galatians 2:16

8. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us
new birth into a living hope through the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
that is, into an inheritance imperishable,
undefiled, and unfading. It is reserved in
heaven for you, who by God’s power are
protected through faith for a salvation
ready to be revealed in the last time.
1 Peter 1:3-5

10. When someone gives you a gift, do you
say, “That’s very nice—now how much
do I owe you?” No, the appropriate
response to a gift is “Thank you.” Yet
how often Christians, even after they
have been given the gift of salvation, feel
obligated to try to work their way to
God. Because our salvation and even our
faith are gifts, we should respond with
gratitude, praise, and joy.
LIFE Application Bible

14. And although you were dead in your offenses
and sins, in which you formerly lived
according to this world’s present path,
according to the ruler of the domain of the air,
the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing
the sons of disobedience, among whom all of
us also formerly lived out our lives in the
cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of
the flesh and the mind, and were by nature
children of wrath even as the rest…
Ephesians 2:1-3

15. No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God
does both the making and saving. He creates
each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the
work he does, the good work he has gotten
ready for us to do, work we had better be
doing.
Ephesians 2:10
The Message

18. And God is able to make all grace overflow
to you so that because you have enough of
everything in every way at all times, you
will overflow in every good work. Just as it
is written, “He has scattered widely, he has
given to the poor; his righteousness
remains forever.” Now God who provides
seed for the sower and bread for food will
provide and multiply your supply of seed
and will cause the harvest of your
righteousness to grow.

19. You will be enriched in every way so that
you may be generous on every occasion,
which is producing through us
thanksgiving to God, because the service of
this ministry is not only providing for the
needs of the saints but is also overflowing
with many thanks to God.
2 Corinthians 9:8-12

21. 5 Errors of Prosperity Gospel Teaching:
1. The Abrahamic covenant is a means to
material entitlement.
2. Jesus’s atonement extends to the “sin” of
material poverty.
3. Christians give in order to gain material
compensation from God.
4. Faith is a self-generated spiritual force that
leads to prosperity.
5. Prayer is a tool to force God to grant
prosperity.

25. Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual
blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ. For
he chose us in Christ before the foundation of
the world that we should be holy and blameless
before him in love. He did this by predestining
us to adoption as his legal heirs through Jesus
Christ, according to the pleasure of his will— to
the praise of the glory of his grace that he has
freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.
Ephesians 1:3-6

28. The place where they serve is a sketch
and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary,
just as Moses was warned by God as he
was about to complete the tabernacle.
For he says, “See that you make
everything according to the design
shown to you on the mountain.”
Hebrews 8:5

30. “So I will assign him a portion with the
multitudes,
he will divide the spoils of victory with
the powerful,
because he willingly submitted to death
and was numbered with the
rebels,
when he lifted up the sin of many
and intervened on behalf of the
rebels.”
Isaiah 53:12