Robert Govett on Ephesians

Govett on Ephesians

Hardcover; 287 pages.

Robert Govett presents Ephesians as the complete revelation of the Church, from its beginning in the heart of God (ch. 1), all the way through its inheritance of the reward in the coming kingdom of Christ (ch. 5). All not without our need to be strengthened by the Holy Spirit in the inner man (ch. 3) and to stand against the attacks of the foe (ch. 6).

-From eternity the Father planned to glorify His Son and give Him the Church as an eternal companion.

-It is upon this long concealed secret that all of God’s purposes center.

-It is for this purpose that we may be “filled unto all the fullness of God”. What wonder!

“But the apostle speaks rather of the knowledge of the love of Christ, than of the glory. It is the love that lends its lustre and enjoyment even to the eternal glory of the saint.”

Yet the danger is real of not inheriting the kingdom of Christ (5:5).  “The gift of God is eternal life. The prize of God is the millennial kingdom. While the first is secure to us through the merits of Christ, the other is a reward to those only who are accounted worthy.”

Hence the importance of standing firm in spiritual warfare. “In the history of Christ’s Church we see, how by force and by wiles, the Church has for ages been led away from the ground on which Christ set her: truth after truth given up, error after error brought in!”