Chapter one

  • What made Paul an apostle?

 

 

  • How has God chosen us?

 

 

Who is predestined to the adoption of God’s children?

 

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Why?

 

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How are we acceptable?

 

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Where do we have redemption?

 

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Where is “mystery of his will” purposed?

 

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Where have we obtained an inheritance?

 

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Where are we sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise?

 

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What is the church?

 

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  • How are we sealed unto redemption?

 

 

Why are we sealed?

 

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  • What did Paul pray the Ephesians would receive?

 

 

  • That three things did Paul want them to know?

 

A. _____________________________________

 

B. _____________________________________

 

C. _____________________________________

 

  • Who is the head of the church?

 

Memory Work: I Corinthians 1:30-31 – But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption: that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

 

Chapter two

 

  • What does quickened mean?

 

 

Conversation?

 

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  • What does “and were by nature the children of wrath” mean?

 

 

 

 

  • What does grace mean?

 

 

Saved?

 

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Faith?

 

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  • Whose “workmanship”, “new creature” are we in Christ?

 

 

Why are we made over? Did God fail in his purpose for the new creature? Did he fail in his purpose for the old creature?

 

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  • How are we made close to God?

 

 

  • What difference is there today between the Jew and the Gentile?

 

 

  • What is the foundation of the apostles and the prophets?

 

 

  • How are we the temple of God?

 

Memory Work: Ephesians 2:8-10 – For by my grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

 

Chapter 3:1-4:6

  • What did Paul mean when he called himself “the prisoner of Jesus Christ”?

 

 

 

  • What is “the mystery” Paul spoke of?

 

 

 

  • Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians was that God would grant them:

 

A. _____________________________________

 

B. _____________________________________

 

C. _____________________________________

 

D. _____________________________________

 

  • Explain:

“Walk worthy on the vocation wherewith ye are called”

 

 

 

“Forebear one another in Love”

 

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  • Who is the one God?

 

 

 

  • How is the one God above all, and through all, and in you all?

 

 

Memory Work: Ephesians 3:20-21 – Now unto him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Jesus Christ throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

 

Chapter 4:7 – 4:32

  • What type of gifts are spoken of in 4:8?

 

 

  • Define:

A. Apostles

 

 

B. Prophets

 

 

C. Evangelists

 

 

D. Pastors

 

 

E. Teachers

 

 

  • How and why are the saints perfected?

 

 

 

  • Who is carried about by every wind of doctrine?

 

 

  • Discuss “speaking the truth of love”.

 

 

 

  • Describe:

“The old man”

 

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“The new man”

 

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  • Explain:

“Be ye angry and sin not”

 

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“Neither give place to the devil”

 

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  • How is the Holy Spirit grieved?

 

 

 

  • How are we sealed?

 

 

Memory Work: Ephesians 4:22-24 – That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind: And that ye put on the new man, which after God created in righteousness and true holiness.

Ephesians 4:29 – Let no corrupt communication proceed put of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

 

Chapter five

  • Explain verse 6

 

 

 

  • How can you prove what is acceptable unto the Lord?

 

 

 

  • In verse 14, what is the:

 

Sleep _______________________________________

 

Dead _______________________________________

 

Light _______________________________________

 

  • How can we “Redeem the time”?

 

 

 

  • Why be filled with the Spirit?

 

 

 

  • How are these three different?

 

Psalm ______________________________________

 

Hymn ______________________________________

 

Spiritual Song _________________________________

 

  • Should wives submit themselves unto their husbands as unto the Lord?

 

 

Is it sin if they don’t?

 

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Can a wife become reprobate by resisting this truth?

 

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  • If a man loves his wife as Christ loved the church, what will be his first concern for her?

 

 

 

  • When a man and a woman are joined together they become _________________ with one

 

______________________the ___________________________.

 

  • Explain verse 32

 

 

Memory Work: Ephesians 5:18-20 – And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord; giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

Chapter 6

  • Consider verse 1 as speaking of natural children and spiritual children.

 

 

 

  • Who might we consider “servants” and “masters” today?

 

 

 

  • How is the “armor of God” different from the “armor of Saul”?

 

 

 

  • Who are we fighting?

 

 

 

  • What does the armor of God consist of? Explain each. Are they not dependent upon each other?

 

A._____________________________________________

 

B._____________________________________________

 

C _____________________________________________

 

D._____________________________________________

 

E._____________________________________________

 

F._____________________________________________

 

  • What are the darts of the devil?

 

 

 

  • A butcher knife in the hand of a baby is like

 

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  • Discuss praying “in the spirit”.

 

 

 

 

Memory Work: Ephesians 6:12 – For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.