The Summation of All Things in Christ

Studies in Ephesians with a Local Church Emphasis

Lesson 39 : Paul the Prisoner for the Gentiles  (3:1)

Form and Structure of 3:1-13  –  The most personal section of Ephesians  –  Relating Paul’s digression with the flow of the epistle  –  ‘for this reason’: backward reference  –  ‘Paul’ is emphatic  –  Paul as the author of Ephesians  –  Paul the prisoner: the importance of perspective  –  Which imprisonment: Caesarea, Ephesus or Rome?  –  A prisoner ‘on behalf of you Gentiles’  –  The providential transformation of Paul