The title of all Christians-not attributing any personal merit to them, but simply recalling their prerogatives and obligations. They are “the saints which are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus.”ġ. Paul’s description of those to whom he is writing. Our spiritual activity reaches its greatest intensity when we are so filled with the glory of the Divine righteousness, the Divine love, and the Divine power, that we are conscious only of God, and all thought of ourselves is lost in Him. And this is the secret of a strong and effective Christian life.

He believed that the Divine will is the root and origin of all Christian righteousness and blessedness. “An apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God.” He attributed nothing to the vigour of his faith, to the passion of his gratitude for the Divine goodness, to the completeness of his self-consecration to Christ’s service he was living and acting under the control of forces which had their origin above and beyond himself his apostolic work was the effect and expression of a Divine volition. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus.

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