This lesson covers the famous story of the fall of Jericho. A number of questions are explored. How do we feel about our God commanding a genocide? Does our faithfulness to God have an impact on how God treats our family members? 

Jesus Christ, through His blood, took away the wall between Jew and Gentile. He is the Lord of peace and He prayed for unity among His disciples. How could we identify when there are walls built between Christians? And, how can we go about creating unity between disciples of Jesus? 

We have free will. We are saved by grace. Salvation is a gift. Our works can never be good enough to satisfy God's wrath. The path to grace is faith. All of these are true and consistent with the text. 

In this text Paul is saying a prayer and revealing to the Ephesians what he is praying for them about. 

So often we give thanks to God for our physical blessings, but we don't fully comprehend our spiritual blessings and thank God for them. Perhaps it is because we do not fully grasp them? In our text for this message Paul outlines the beautiful spiritual blessings we have in Christ that was put into effect before the world began. 

The story of the Apostle Paul and the establishment of Christianity in Ephesus is an incredible story, a powerful story. God didn't do simple miracles through Paul in Ephesus, he did extraordinary miracles. Paul spent more time in Ephesus than any other city in Asia Minor and from there the Gospel spread until all of Asia Minor heard it.