Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians From reading and researching about the Ephesians, Philippians, and the Colossians I found to be very interesting. Something a little different stood out about each group. From the readings I learned that Paul’s companion was the bearer of the epistles of Ephesians, Colossians, and the Philippians. Also I learned that the Ephesians and the Colossians are called “twin epistles” because they were so much alike and the Ephesians and the Colossians were on the same page. The three were often called the prison epistles because they were all written at the same time. Paul was imprisoned for two years, and while he was on house arrest he decided to write the letters to the Ephesians, Colossians, and Philippians
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From the lecture of the Christ Supremacies of Ephesians 1:3-14, they were glorious, lavish, and rich grace, they were chosen before creation to the blameless, predestined to be adopted children, and had redemption meaning they were brought back from Satan. The Ephesians had forgiveness, received an inheritance, and was sealed with the spirit. Christ’s supremacy of the Colossians 1:13-20, is that Christ was the visual image of God, Christ is fully God, and Christ is primary in everything, and Christ is a creator of all, with trinity, heaven and earth, visible and invisible, and kingdom and rulers. The Colossians were also considered blameless. Some of the standards with the Ephesians were clean language, no drunkenness, no stealing and no greed. In Ephesians 4:25 and Colossians 3:9 one of the standards were tell the truth, and in Ephesians 4:26 and 31 and Colossians 3:8 the standard was to stay calm. The last standards of Ephesians 4:28, Colossians 3:23, and Philippians 4:15-18 were work hard and share with poor Christians. In Ephesians 6:1 it says children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right. This statement in so true because I always used to hear and I still hear it until this day that if children disobey their parents that they are shortening their days, meaning we should not talk back, always …show more content…
It spoke about God loving us unconditionally. The main purposes of the letters were to help understand the grace of God. The main purposes of the letters were to understand the Gospel and having an impacting the relationship with the Lord. The Philippians were a beautiful letter Paul wrote to a church that he loved and admired. The church was discovered on Paul’s second journey. Paul had a lot of respect for the Philippians and the letter he wrote was more cheerful than the other ones he had written to the Ephesians and the Colossians. In Philippians 3:9, it states that I will be found not to have a righteousness of my own derived from the law, but righteousness through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith. The scripture in the bible shows how much respect that Paul had for the Philippians. It seemed like all of them had some in common but the Ephesians and the Colossians were on the same page and the Philippians had their own thing going on and followed what was right. Most of everything that took place was about the Ephesians and the Colossians, but the Philippians were the calm ones from my opinion. The purpose of the three were to get the fully understanding of all that God has done for us and all of his unconditional love that he has for all
From the lecture of the Christ Supremacies of Ephesians 1:3-14, they were glorious, lavish, and rich grace, they were chosen before creation to the blameless, predestined to be adopted children, and had redemption meaning they were brought back from Satan. The Ephesians had forgiveness, received an inheritance, and was sealed with the spirit. Christ’s supremacy of the Colossians 1:13-20, is that Christ was the visual image of God, Christ is fully God, and Christ is primary in everything, and Christ is a creator of all, with trinity, heaven and earth, visible and invisible, and kingdom and rulers. The Colossians were also considered blameless. Some of the standards with the Ephesians were clean language, no drunkenness, no stealing and no greed. In Ephesians 4:25 and Colossians 3:9 one of the standards were tell the truth, and in Ephesians 4:26 and 31 and Colossians 3:8 the standard was to stay calm. The last standards of Ephesians 4:28, Colossians 3:23, and Philippians 4:15-18 were work hard and share with poor Christians. In Ephesians 6:1 it says children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right. This statement in so true because I always used to hear and I still hear it until this day that if children disobey their parents that they are shortening their days, meaning we should not talk back, always …show more content…
It spoke about God loving us unconditionally. The main purposes of the letters were to help understand the grace of God. The main purposes of the letters were to understand the Gospel and having an impacting the relationship with the Lord. The Philippians were a beautiful letter Paul wrote to a church that he loved and admired. The church was discovered on Paul’s second journey. Paul had a lot of respect for the Philippians and the letter he wrote was more cheerful than the other ones he had written to the Ephesians and the Colossians. In Philippians 3:9, it states that I will be found not to have a righteousness of my own derived from the law, but righteousness through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith. The scripture in the bible shows how much respect that Paul had for the Philippians. It seemed like all of them had some in common but the Ephesians and the Colossians were on the same page and the Philippians had their own thing going on and followed what was right. Most of everything that took place was about the Ephesians and the Colossians, but the Philippians were the calm ones from my opinion. The purpose of the three were to get the fully understanding of all that God has done for us and all of his unconditional love that he has for all