CHAPTER ONE

THE ISSUE OF GOD'S IMPARTATION
AND TRANSMISSION IN HIS DIVINE TRINITY
INTO HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE, AS THE CHURCH,
THE FULLNESS OF THE ONE
WHO FILLS ALL IN ALL

Scripture Reading: Eph. 1:3-6, 7-12, 13-14, 18-23

OUTLINE

1. The issue of God the Father's impartation:
1. Of His holy nature into His chosen people that they may be separated from the world and sanctified wholly unto Him—Eph. 1:4.
2. Of His divine life into His predestinated people that they may become His many sons for His expression—v. 5.
3. To the praise of the glory (expression) of His grace—v. 6.
2. The issue of God the Son's impartation of the divine element into God the Father's chosen and predestinated people:
1. In the redemption through His blood—v. 7.
2. To bring them into Christ as their sphere and element, that they may be made God's inheritance, with the divine element in Christ, as a treasure to God—vv. 8-11.
3. To the praise of God the Father's glory (expression) in the believers who have first hoped in Christ—v. 12.
3. The issue of God the Spirit's impartation of the divine essence into God the Father's inheritance redeemed by God the Son:
1. By sealing it (God's inheritance) that it may be saturated with the divine essence as the impress to be a mark and the image of God to be His expression—v. 13.
2. By being a pledge of God as His redeemed people's inheritance for their foretaste of Him, guaranteeing their full taste of Him, unto the redemption of His acquired possession (redeemed inheritance)—v. 14a.
3. To the praise of God's glory (expression)—v. 14b.
4. The issue of the transmission of God in His divine trinity into His chosen and redeemed people:
1. As the great power toward the believers, which God caused to operate in Christ:
1. In raising Him from the dead.
2. In seating Him at the Father's right hand in the heavenlies, far above all.
3. In subjecting all things under His feet.
4. In giving Him to be the Head over all things.
2. As the transmission to the church, which is the Body of Christ, the One who fills all in all—vv. 19-23.