Ephesians 2:7 Commentary and Bible Study

What will heaven be but a great unfolding, an exposition of the great love of Christ and his mercy toward his people. How astonishing, how amazing. In eternity I will be shown to a far greater degree than ever on earth the wonderful riches of the grace of God in his kindness toward me. I will grasp the full cost of Calvary. I will grasp the wonder of Christ’s love as never before. That is true but Paul speaks here to the Ephesians in the first century and he says, ‘in the ages to come’ and the term covers the age on earth and the eternal age. This applied, first of all, to the church at Ephesus. All those first-fruits; the people who were first saved; turned magnificently from enslavement to idolatry and brought to intellectual and spiritual liberty in Christ, that in the ages to come people would look back at the record of the book of Acts, at the epistles and see how God broke through into the Gentile nations and turned people from centuries of superstitious tradition – almost overnight – to Jesus Christ and to communion with himself. What grace; what mercy; what raising of the dead is here. And not only the Ephesians but down through church history, the wonderful things that Christ has done, the testimonies of millions and millions of people. That Christ will be glorified, that God will show us increasingly through our own Christian lives the depth and the wonder of his salvation and what Christ has done.