Charles H. Welch Audio Library

An address based on 2 Tim. 2:15.

The Church of His Body — Mystery found in the O.T.? — Worthy walk — The will, the work, the witness.

Introduction. Three ministries before Acts 28. Paul's epistles and their relationship to the rest of the N.T. epistles.

Outline of Ephesians as a whole from the structure presented pictorially.

The will of the Father. The work of the Son. The witness of the Spirit.

Eph. 1:3-6. The foundation or overthrow of the world. The two main sections of Ephesians.

Predestination and adoption. Three spheres of adoption.

Holiness. O.T. types. The parallel teaching of Colossians. The Goal of the Choice.

Redemption — The Passover as a type. The Work of the Son.

The words 'mystery', 'inheritance' and 'dispensation' in Ephesians. The Work of the Son.

Adoption, inheritance and the prior hope. The confirmatory miraculous gifts of the Acts period.

Eph. 1:12-14. The witness of the Spirit. The book of Ruth and the Kinsman-Redeemer.

Eph. 1:17-19. The first prayer. Relation of prayer to the Revealed Truth.

The holiest of all. His inheritance in the saints.

The exceeding greatness of the power that raised Christ from the dead and His pre-eminent position.

Our condition before salvation and God's great reversal.

'Grace, by faith salvation', the gift of God.

The twain (Jew and Gentile) made one and access to the Father.

The Church — The Temple — the home of God in the future.

The parenthesis of ch. 3:1-13, the mystery (secret) of Christ and the dispensation of the mystery.

The second prayer and its overwhelming fulness.

Eph. 4:1-3. The worthy walk in connection with this high calling.

Eph. 4:4-6. The sevenfold Unity of the Spirit and its consideration.

The One Baptism — what it is and what it accomplishes for the member of the Body of Christ.

The one Lord — central to this calling and the whole purpose of God.

The gifts of the ascended Christ for ministry and edification of the Body of Christ.

The sevenfold unity of the Faith.

Putting off the 'old man' and putting on the 'new'; and what this involves.

The threefold walk of the fifth chapter and its outworking.

Eph. 6:11-18. The sixfold armour of God and its complete protection against Satan and all enemies.

The closing verses. Paul's prayer for a door of utterance; and his doxology.

2 Peter 3 — then, now, to come. PLEROMA — 'fulness'. Goal of God = fulness.

Beginning, God was all; ending, God All in All. In all things He has pre-eminence. Christ only has the 'fulness' Col 1:19.

Whole plan of Ages. God fills vessel, however weak. Emphasis on Redemption above all other subjects.

Work of 2nd day, firmament, expansion, tent, curtain, will pass.

1st and 2nd Adam related to angels — a little lower; Christ now higher. Purpose of Ages like chessboard.

Close study of Psa. 8. What is man? — clue to whole purpose. First move: put man in garden, replenish the earth.

Creation of man not haphazard — 'purpose' — 'Let us make'. Adam given dominion; replenish the earth = 'pleroma'.

Mysterious agency at work (see Rev. 4 to 6). Cherubim indicate dominion lost, preserved, restored.

Sheep return (1 Pet. 2:25), sows return (2 Pet. 2:22). Devil's seed in the earth, sons of God.

God shewed Abraham land after Lot left (v. 14). Evil one's move. God spared not — Satan checkmated.

Key word — I acknowledge. One theme through whole Bible, redeeming love. Lamb of God prepared before Adam fell.

Ascension of Christ (v.10), necessary for PLEROMA. Stage planned — coming of Christ in 'fulness of time'.