As we started the new Year -2021, I also started sending a one liner from the portion of scripture I read. I post it on Facebook and send in WhatsApp. It’s an insight / reflection / thought / quote from that passage
I have read Gospel of Mark, Apostle Paul’s Epistles to Galatians. This is the compilation of the insights from Apostle Paul’s Epistle to Ephesians.
| S.No | The Insight | Word of God |
| 1 | Christian Identity is to be Holy & Blameless பரிசுத்தமாகவும் மாசற்றும் விளங்குவதே கிறிஸ்தவ அடையாளம் | For *he chose us* in him before the creation of the world to be *holy and blameless* in his sight. In love he predestined us for *adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ*, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the *praise of his glorious grace*, which he has freely given us in the One he loves – Ephesians 1:4-6 |
| 2 | Salvation is God’s Gift that removes Man’s Nemesis மனிதனின் பழிவிளைவை நீக்கும், கடவுளின் ஈவே இரட்சிப்பு | For it is by *grace* you have been saved, *through faith* —and this is not from yourselves, it is the *gift of God*— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, *created in Christ* Jesus *to do good works*, which God prepared in advance for us to do – Ephesians 2:8-10 |
| 3 | Human-being to Christ-being transformation of our inner-being is the Glorious work of the Triune God நம் உள்ளான இயல்பை மனித இயல்பிலிருந்து கிறிஸ்து இயல்பாக உருமாற்றுவது திரியேக கடவுளின் உன்னத பணி. | (Paul) pray that out of his glorious riches he may *strengthen* you with power *through his Spirit* in your *inner being*, so that *Christ may dwell* in your hearts through *faith*. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this *love that surpasses knowledge* —that you may be filled to the measure of all the *fullness of God* – Ephesians 3:16-19 |
| 4 | God is one being; yet three persons who is above everything (God, the Father), with us (Jesus Christ) and in us (Holy Spirit) கடவுள் மூன்று நபராயினும்; ஒரே தன்மையுடைய ஒருவரே. அவர் அனைத்துதிற்கும் மேலானவர் (பிதா), நம்முடன் இருப்பவர் (இயேசு கிறிஸ்து), நம்முள் இருப்பவர் (பரிசுத்த ஆவி) | There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called ; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is *over all* and *through all* and *in all*. Ephesians 4:4-6 https://theaarons.in/2019/06/15/triune-god-trinity/ |
| 5 | Christlikeness ensures togetherness of a Husband & Wife கிறிஸ்துவ இயல்பு கணவன் மனைவி ஒன்றாயிருப்பதை உறுதிப்படுத்துக்கிறது | Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. Ephesians 5:21-33 |