{"id":1082,"date":"2015-03-06T00:43:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T05:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2015-03-06T00:43:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T05:43:43","slug":"ephesians-1-3-an-overview-2-of-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/?p=1082","title":{"rendered":"Ephesians 1 &#8211; 3: An Overview (2 of 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Ephesians 1 to 3<\/p>\n<p>In Ephesians chapters 1 to 3, Paul explains that God is to be praised for all spiritual blessings he has given to believers through Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Although we might think of praising God as saying prayers, singing hymns or praise songs, and those are indeed forms of praising, Paul explains in chapters 4 to 6 that an important way of praising God is to live our lives as a direct response to\u00a0his grace.<!--more--><sup class='footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/?p=1082#fn-1082-1' id='fnref-1082-1' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(1082)'>1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>So the whole book of Ephesians is related to the main theme of living our life to praise \/ glorify God.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes this main theme is overlooked if we do not pay attention to the overall structure or line of thought of the author.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the video will help a little in bringing out the structure and line of thought of Paul in Ephesians.<sup class='footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/?p=1082#fn-1082-2' id='fnref-1082-2' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(1082)'>2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ephesians - Overview (2 of 2)\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6ukU2OPxdV8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Ephesians 1 to 3 In Ephesians chapters 1 to 3, Paul explains that God is to be praised for all spiritual blessings he has given to believers through Jesus Christ. Although we might think of praising God as saying prayers, singing hymns or praise songs, and those are indeed forms of praising, Paul explains in chapters 4 to 6 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/?p=1082\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[52,24,8,4,5,7],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ephesians","tag-bible","tag-bible-study","tag-blessed","tag-ephesians-2","tag-epistle","tag-praise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsoemarko.us\/christian\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}