Aim: To be prepared to receive the benefits of God.
Doctrine: The benefits of God are brought to us by our Lord Jesus Christ, and are everything we need in this world.
Exposition: The necessary preparations, then and now: listen to Jesus, our only instructor, through His called and faithful ministers (v. 1a); be holy by the grace of faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ (vv. 1b-2); express thankfulness to God for preparing everything for us on earth and in heaven (v. 3).
Application: Extra preparation for everyday life: behold God in His living image, beware of setting our minds on this world, and bless God for Christ's blood and your belief in the gospel.
Key phrase: v. 1b ''To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus.''
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This man, undoubtedly the greatest of Protestant divines, and perhaps, after St. Augustine, the most perseveringly followed by his disciples of any Western writer on theology, was born at Noyon in Picardy, France, 10 July, 1509, and died at Geneva, 27 May, 1564.
