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Morning Bliss: A Servant Of The Gospel_

Focal Scripture : Eph. 3:7; 📚✭of which I became a servant, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effectual working of his power.✭

                   

                 Read: Eph. 3:1-13

I was filled with thoughts of the possible feedback when I first told my my Parents that, I wanted to become a pastor. My family aren't priesthood oriented, you see military, police, public offices and Business icons are my family definition.

But instead of being disappointed by the news, my Dad and Mom was thrilled. “Oh, My Son, Nna!” (As they fondly calls me), my Mom beamed. “You would make a darling minister.”

Darling is not the word Paul uses in Ephesians 3. In verse 7 he refers to himself as a “servant.”

Although the Greek term Paul uses is one that is sometimes translated as “minister,” Paul seems to be using its more common sense, meaning someone who works or serves. Specifically, Paul sees himself as a servant of the gospel.

In verse 2, Paul describes his ministry as an “administration of God’s grace.”

The Greek word translated “administration” was often used to speak of a household manager or steward.

Paul exercised a stewardship of grace by preaching the gospel. By making Christ known, he became an agent of grace to those who received his message.

Paul was also a recipient of divine revelation. Specifically, this revelation was the news that “through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus” (v. 6).

This was new information (v. 9). It had been hinted at in God’s promise that all the nations would be blessed through Abraham (Gen. 18:18).

The new thing described in these verses is the church, through which, Paul also says, “the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms” (v. 10).

What is the nature of this wisdom? It is that in Christ and through faith in Christ, “we may approach God with freedom and confidence” (v. 12).

>> This confidence is the reason Paul does not want his readers to be discouraged about his imprisonment.

He is more than willing to suffer so they would know the freedom and assurance that comes through the gospel.



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