Buried Pearls Bible Study

Paul moves on from submitting within a marriage to other examples of submission.

Paul describes the biblical duty that husbands and wives have to one another. Women are called to submit to the spiritual authority of their husbands.

Paul describes walking with wisdom and how it ultimately results in submitting to one another in t he fear of God.

Paul here encourages the Ephesians to not only walk in the light but to be a light in a world of darkness.

Paul here give the Ephesians an exhortation to walk as followers of God, not partaking in the ways of non-believers. 

Paul is describing sanctification in these verses. Believers put off the old man and walk by the Spirit as God strengthens the inner man.

Paul describes the unity of the Body of Christ which is a common thread throughout the entire Bible including the Old Testament.

Paul describes how we can be familiar with the love of Christ - that it can be seen and felt.

Paul describes the result of being adopted in the Body of Christ which is boldness and access to Him through faith.

Paul reminds the Ephesians that they were once gentiles in the flesh before being adopted into the Body of Christ.

These verses contain perhaps the most debated verses in the Bible. Here Paul articulates going from being spiritually dead to fully alive.

Paul describes prayers for spiritual wisdom which which ultimately ends in a description of the power of Jesus Christ.

Paul opens his letter with the gospel by describing the Father's many spiritual blessings in the heavenly places in Christ.

Here I give some background information about Paul and the city of Ephesus.

After reminding them of His prophecies, Jesus blessed them and disappeared into Heaven.

After Jesus appears among the apostles and the gospel of John says this night He breathed on them to bless them with the Holy Spirit for the first time. 

Two of the disciples of Jesus are walking on the road to Emmaus when Jesus suddenly appears among them. They don't don't realize it's Him until they have communion with Him.

Joseph of Arimathea provides Jesus a tomb but only for a few days. A group of women visit the tomb and discover that the stone entryway has been moved and the burial linen strewn about haphazardly.  

There is an unnatural darkness for hours and the veil of the temple separating the Holy of Holies is torn as Jesus dies on the cross.