Title: Blessed Beyond Measure (1 of 14)
Series: Ephesians
Author: Tim Melton
Text: Ephesians 1:1-14
In June/July 2018 a boys' junior soccer team, aged 11 to 16, got trapped in an underground system of caves in northern Thailand. They had hiked in with their assistant coach after soccer practice. It was much like a place of labyrinths and mazes. While inside heavy rainfall suddenly flooded the caves blocking their way out.
Efforts to find and rescue the group were hampered by rising waters and strong currents. The soccer team was not heard from for more than a week. A massive rescue effort began and word went out around the world of the boys' need and desperate situation.
International rescue teams traveled to Thailand. They considered multiple solutions but none could work. Finally, they found a way for divers to enter into these dangerous caves, risking their lives, swimming 2.5 miles through muddy waters and complete darkness and rescuing one boy at time. The rescue effort involved over 10,000 people, including 100 divers, countless rescue workers, 2,000 soldiers, 800+ police officers, 100 governmental agencies, seven ambulances, ten helicopters, 700 diving cylinders and the pumping of over one billion litres of water from the caves. In the end all the boys were rescued. . . O, how great a salvation.
As we begin this series on the book of Ephesians the Apostle Paul is trying to do the same. He is writing about such a great salvation that He can barely control himself. He starts out with these words in Ephesians 1:1-2,
1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To God's holy people (saints) in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus: 2 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
These verses are found at the beginning of the part of the Bible that is known as the book of Ephesians. It is a letter from a man named Paul written to a group of believers in a city named Ephesus.
Amongst the Jews Paul was an ...
Series: Ephesians
Author: Tim Melton
Text: Ephesians 1:1-14
In June/July 2018 a boys' junior soccer team, aged 11 to 16, got trapped in an underground system of caves in northern Thailand. They had hiked in with their assistant coach after soccer practice. It was much like a place of labyrinths and mazes. While inside heavy rainfall suddenly flooded the caves blocking their way out.
Efforts to find and rescue the group were hampered by rising waters and strong currents. The soccer team was not heard from for more than a week. A massive rescue effort began and word went out around the world of the boys' need and desperate situation.
International rescue teams traveled to Thailand. They considered multiple solutions but none could work. Finally, they found a way for divers to enter into these dangerous caves, risking their lives, swimming 2.5 miles through muddy waters and complete darkness and rescuing one boy at time. The rescue effort involved over 10,000 people, including 100 divers, countless rescue workers, 2,000 soldiers, 800+ police officers, 100 governmental agencies, seven ambulances, ten helicopters, 700 diving cylinders and the pumping of over one billion litres of water from the caves. In the end all the boys were rescued. . . O, how great a salvation.
As we begin this series on the book of Ephesians the Apostle Paul is trying to do the same. He is writing about such a great salvation that He can barely control himself. He starts out with these words in Ephesians 1:1-2,
1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To God's holy people (saints) in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus: 2 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
These verses are found at the beginning of the part of the Bible that is known as the book of Ephesians. It is a letter from a man named Paul written to a group of believers in a city named Ephesus.
Amongst the Jews Paul was an ...
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