Exodus 32:9-10 Occasionally, God changed His mind, but when he cuts a covenant, He never changes His mind.

Isaiah 14:24, 27; 46:9-10; Psalm 33:11 He means what He says and says what He means, and we can be assured He will do what He promises to do.

God’s dream, His purpose for the ages, is a love relationship with you that is real, personal, and everlasting.

Ephesians is a brief, but full, view of Christianity. Our past, present, and future are laid out.

Ephesians 1:3-5 Predestined – He thought it through and planned it out. Our calling is not haphazard or a mistake; rather, it is according to the kind intention of His will.

9 according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him

11 having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will,

2:1 trespasses – crossing God’s line or boundaries. Dead – we had no spiritual consciousness, no connection with God, godliness, or spiritual awareness.

4-6 Our spiritual state today because God is rich in mercy and His great love

7 – Our future

8-10 God did for us what we could never do for ourselves.

11-12 – 1 separate from Christ; 2 excluded from the commonwealth; 3 strangers to the covenants; 4 no hope; 5 without God in the world

13-22 Our reality now – near, peace with God and man, reconciled, access to God, fellow citizens, God’s household, the habitation of God.

3:1-12 We are a part of God’s dream, the purpose of the ages.