Christ the Firstfruits
We begin to be comfortable with our salvation and begin to think it is our due. But we were due nothing. We all deserve the lake of fire. Yet, we have a God who specializes in saving the seemingly unsaveable.
This short epistle deals with one specific problem: the reception and aid of the brethren who will be passing through as they perform their deeds of ministry. In short, this epistle is about the importance of hospitality.
Faith in Islam amounts to a slavelike submission to the power and will of God.
In this portion of Ephesians we begin to see God’s plan for us fulfilled as He broke down the wall of partition that would divide between Jew and Gentile.
