{"id":53404,"date":"2021-03-18T13:40:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T20:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=53404"},"modified":"2021-03-18T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T20:40:08","slug":"ephesians_1_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/ephesians_1_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is a saint? YOU are! (Ephesians 1:1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Who is a saint? YOU are! (Ephesians 1:1)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-03-18T13:40:08-07:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT45M59S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"I am returning to verse-by-verse studies through books of the Bible. We begin in this podcast episode with Ephesians 1:1. 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We begin in this podcast episode with Ephesians 1:1. The episode also contains a brief discussion of the humanitarian crisis at our southern border, and also a question from a reader about how to understand the violence of God in various biblical passages. Listen to the podcast for these two sections.<\/p>\n<h2>Here are some brief notes on what I explain from Ephesians 1:1<\/h2>\n<p>The text says this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus. (Ephesians 1:1)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The author of the letter, of course, is Paul.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-small wp-image-47369\" src=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Paul-writing-epistles-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Epistolary Diatribe in Letters of Paul\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Paul-writing-epistles-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Paul-writing-epistles-570x423.jpg 570w, https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Paul-writing-epistles.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>First, he is an apostle of Christ Jesus. An apostle is one who is sent by God with a message to those who have not yet heard the good news. It should be noted that there are no more apostles today. We have all probably heard of apostolic churches, and men or women claiming to be apostles of Christ. The Catholic Church claims that the authority of the Pope is based on apostolic succession.<\/p>\n<p>But all of these teaching are wrong. Let me show you why. One of the requirements to be an apostle is to have personally seen and heard Christ (1 John 1:1-3), and to have witnessed His resurrection (Matt 28; Luke 24; Acts 1:22; 10:41; 1 Cor 9:1; 15:4) and ascension (Acts 1:9-13). An apostle was one who was hand-picked by Jesus for this office. Paul was an apostle, but as one abnormally born (1 Cor 15:8-9). He was the last apostle chosen by Jesus for this office.<\/p>\n<p>Since all of these events are not repeatable\u2014someone alive today was not present when Jesus was alive, or saw Jesus after He rose from the dead, or watched Him rise into heaven\u2014then there are no apostles today. They are irreplaceable by any subsequent generation.<\/p>\n<p>Scripture bears this out as well. There are almost eighty references to apostles in Scripture, and nearly all of them refer to either the Twelve Apostles, or to Paul. All of the other leaders in Scripture are known as ministers and fellow laborers, but not apostles.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re going to see later in the book that there might still be the spiritual gift of apostleship, but this gift is not to be confused with the office of apostle. Those with the gift of apostleship today we most often know as missionaries to unreached people groups. To clear up confusion, we don\u2019t call them apostles. Instead, we call them missionaries. But more on that later.<\/p>\n<p>So Paul\u2019s first source of authority is that he was an apostle of Jesus Christ. He was set apart, chosen by God, to be sent with the message of the gospel to the Gentiles. This is what God called him to do. Secondly, he was an apostle by the will of God. This is not something he took upon himself. This is not something Paul earned. It is something God called him to be and do.<\/p>\n<p>Paul is writing to the church in Ephesus. And here we have two characteristics for the believers in Ephesus.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Global-Ephesians-570x318.jpg\" alt=\"Ephesians 1-3 sermon\" width=\"570\" height=\"318\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Global-Ephesians-570x318.jpg 570w, https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Global-Ephesians-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Global-Ephesians.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He first calls them saints. The word \u201csaints\u201d in the Greek is <em>hagios<\/em>. It literally means \u201choly ones.\u201d Saints, or holy ones, are those who are set apart for God\u2019s use. When we think of saints, we often picture statues in cathedrals, stained glass, miraculous appearances, and mystical encounters.<\/p>\n<p>We get most of these ideas from the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church has a practice of \u201csainting\u201d dead people who obtained a certain level of holiness during their life and who have at least two verifiable miracles to their credit. So in the Catholic Church, very few become saints.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/mother_theresa.jpg\" alt=\"Mother Theresa with armless baby\" width=\"407\" height=\"367\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/mother_theresa.jpg 407w, https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/mother_theresa-200x180.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/>A while back as they were considering sainting Mother Theresa, I read this about her:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All of India, and much of the Catholic world, has been buzzing about the presentation to the Vatican this week of the case of an Indian woman said to be the recipient of Mother Theresa\u2019s first miracle\u2014a significant step toward Theresa\u2019s canonization. Monica Besra, a mother of five, tells TIME that on September 5, 1998\u2014a year to the day after Theresa died\u2014she was writhing in pain from an abdominal tumor at a home, run by the Missionaries of Charity. \u2018There was no way any doctor would have operated on me at that hour,\u2019 she says. \u2018So the nuns just started praying and kept a Mother Theresa medallion on my stomach. The pain subsided, and the tumor vanished.\u2019 Episcopal Bishop Salvatore Lobo, head of the team that will deliver 35,000 pages of Theresa\u2019s good deeds to the Vatican, says, \u2018This miracle meets the requirements. It is organic, permanent, immediate and intercessory in nature.\u2019 A second miracle is still required for sainthood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is this the way it works? To become a saint, do you not only have to have an impressive list of good deeds\u201435,000 pages worth in this case\u2014but also at least two miracles to your name? No, Scripture everywhere tells us differently. And right here in verse one is one of these places. These saints in Ephesus were alive, not dead, and it is clear that they had never performed any miracles.<\/p>\n<p>Paul shows us here and elsewhere (Col 1:2; Php 4:21; 1 Cor 1:2) that all believers are saints. He is not writing to a few of the spiritual elite within the congregation. To Paul, a saint was anyone who had believed in Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>So he is writing to all Christians\u2014and here he calls them saints. In fact, this will be a favorite theme of his in Ephesians. He refers to \u201csaints\u201d nine times in this letter (NASB: 1:1, 15, 18; 2:19; 3:8, 18; 4:12; 5:3; 6:18). All Christians are saints\u2014even if we don\u2019t act like saints, even if we don\u2019t perform miracles.<\/p>\n<p>So when Paul shows that he writing to the saints in Ephesus, he is right away showing them one of the blessings they have in Jesus. Paul is writing to the saints of God in Ephesus. And I, in turn, am sharing this letter with all the saints that are here today. If you have believed in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life, you are saints!<\/p>\n<p>How do you think of yourself? We should see ourselves as sinners and in need of constant grace and mercy of God, but over and above this, we need to see ourselves as saints. When we all begin to see that in Jesus Christ, we are saints, I believe we will begin to act like it.<\/p>\n<p>Paul was an apostle, set apart, chosen by God for a task. Saints are also set apart, chosen by God for a task. What task? As we study through Ephesians, we will find out. So Paul is first of all writing to the saints in Ephesus.<\/p>\n<p>But also, Paul is writing to the faithful in Christ Jesus. This is the second characteristic of the believers in Ephesus. The church in Ephesus, as we have seen, was one of the strongest and most mature churches that existed at that time. So Paul is praising them here for that. He is saying, not only are you saints because you have believed in Jesus Christ, but even better, you are faithful saints. You have placed faith in Jesus, and you are standing firm in the faith.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/discipleship-for-mission.jpg\" alt=\"discipleship for mission\" width=\"495\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/discipleship-for-mission.jpg 495w, https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/discipleship-for-mission-200x120.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/>So, let me ask a question. Does this mean that there can be unfaithful saints? Can there be saints who do not act like saints? Can there be \u201csinning saints\u201d? Saints who fail to live in obedience to God\u2014but who are nevertheless still saints?<\/p>\n<p>Of course! The church is full of them, and so is Scripture. To find examples of unfaithful saints in Scripture, one just has to read some of Paul\u2019s other letters. Almost all the believers in Corinth were not living faithfully. In 1 Timothy, Paul mentions two unfaithful saints by name: Hymenaeus and Alexander (1:20). And in 2 Timothy 2:13, Paul tells us to be careful lest we become faithless.<\/p>\n<p>But the saints in Ephesus were not like this. There were faithful saints in Christ Jesus. How did they become this way? Not by accident. Becoming a faithful saint is not something that just happens to you. You will not become a faithful saint simply by attending church on Sunday. No, faithful saints are made by discipline and hard work. Discipline in knowing who you are in Christ and what you are to do. Discipline in reading, studying and applying God\u2019s Word to your live. Through discipline of prayer, of witnessing to others, and in living a holy life.<\/p>\n<p>Becoming a saint is easy\u2014all you have to do is believe in Jesus for eternal life. Becoming a faithful saint, however, is the most challenging but also the most rewarding, enjoyable and exciting thing you will ever do in life. There\u2019s never a dull moment for the man or woman who is trying to become a faithful saint.<\/p>\n<p>Notice also that Paul says they were faithful in Christ Jesus. This is a favorite term of Paul\u2019s. Paul uses this term or one similar (in Christ; in Him) 164 times in the New Testament\u2014and 36 of those (22%) are found in Ephesians. The term is rich with meaning and significance, and is a main theme in this letter.<\/p>\n<p>As we continue to study Paul&#8217;s letter to the Ephesians we will continue to learn what blessings and riches you have been given as a saint in Jesus Christ so that you can learn to live as\u00a0 faithful follower of Jesus in this world. You will learn of your riches in Christ so that you can better fulfil your responsibilities in Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Join us as we continue!<\/p>\n<p>See a more detailed explanation of this text in <a href=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/sermons\/ephesians\/ephesians-1_1-2\/\">the sermon on Ephesians 1:1-2 here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am returning to verse-by-verse studies through books of the Bible. We begin in this podcast episode with Ephesians 1:1. 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