STUDY QUESTIONS FOR Ephesians Lesson 1 (Chapter 1)

1. According to Ephesians 1:3, who gives Christians the spiritual blessings that they continually enjoy?

2. According to Ephesians 1:3, where are “all spiritual blessings” to be found?

3. What point was Jesus making when He said Matthew 5:45 that God “makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust”?

4. What does James 1:2 admonish Christians to do?

5. What important message is found in Romans 8:28 for Christians?

6. What spiritual blessing does 1 John 5:13 discuss?

7. What spiritual blessing does Revelation 21:4 discuss?

8. What spiritual blessing does Revelation 14:13 discuss?

9. What spiritual blessing does Matthew 10:32 discuss?

 10. What spiritual blessing does Hebrews 10:17 discuss?

 11. The text of 1 John 1:7-9 discusses something that every Christian must do in order to receive God’s continual spiritual blessings. What is it?

 12. According to 2 Thessalonians 2:14, how are people “called by God” today?

 13. In Proverbs 1:28-29, what caused the people discussed in that passage to miss out on God’s spiritual blessings?

 14. What, according to Matthew 10:33, will cause many people to miss out on the blessing of eternal life?

 15. According to Ephesians 1:4, how long had God planned to give certain people spiritual blessings?

 16. In 2 Peter 1:10, what did the apostle Peter urge Christians to do?

 17. According to Galatians 3:28 and Romans 1:16, who can become a Christian?

 18. This lesson discusses two different families that have two different fathers. Who are those two fathers?

 19. When Ephesians 1:6 says that God “has made us accepted in the Beloved,” who is “the Beloved”?

 20. What important message is contained in Romans 8:1?

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