The Summation of All Things in Christ

Studies in Ephesians with a Local Church Emphasis

Lesson 66 : One Calling, One Lord  (4:4,5)

‘One hope of your calling’ an important phrase  –  ‘Calling’ is aorist passive, an important distinction  –  Hope was received when we were called  –  ‘in one hope’ is not a wish but a settled conviction, a certainty, an eager expectation  –  The Christian hope contrasted with the hope of pagans  –  Each church is the pledge of our future hope  –  This ‘one hope’ unites believers  –  ‘Lord’ applied to Jesus Christ in the New Testament  –  How the Jewish world would understood ‘one Lord’  –  How the Gentiles would understood ‘one Lord’  –  ‘One Lord’ in relation to today’s secular believers  –  The significance of the word ‘Lord’